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Drawing from empirical analyses, case studies, and a synthesis of best practices, this book explores how innovation manifests itself in rural places and how it contributes to entrepreneurial development and resilience. Innovation in rural places may come...

This book is designed to educate vulnerable communities, emergency practitioners, and disaster researchers to increase the social and physical capacity of communities to mitigate and adapt to disaster impacts. With climate change escalating the...

In recent decades, the development of advanced weaponry systems and the instant flow of information has redefined the notion of urban warfare as a local phenomenon with global effects. The annihilation of Aleppo and the broadcasted demolitions of Palmyra...

There is currently considerable concern with limiting the growth of transport demand, the use of resources and related pollution. This book makes a major contribution to the debate on transport and the environment and is likely to become a benchmark...

This book provides a detailed account of the processes of land supply, land exchange and land development for manufacturing industry.

Following on from Integrated Models Volume 1: Policy Analysis of Transportation and Lane Use (Routledge Library Editions, 2006), this book bridges the gap between the scholars and the practitioners of transportation and land-use modelling. First...

Planning Australia's Healthy Built Environments shines a quintessentially Australian light on the links between land use planning and human health. A burgeoning body of empirical research demonstrates the ways urban structure and governance...

This 50th anniversary publication provides a comprehensive history of community development. Beginning in 1970 with the advent of the Community Development Society and its journal shortly thereafter, Community Development, the editors have placed the...

This book was first published in 1939.      

The Encyclopedia of the City focuses on the key topics encountered by undergraduates and scholars in urban studies and allied fields. Contributors include major theoreticians and practitioners, and on other individuals, groups, and organizations which...

  This book was first published in 1977.

Resilient Downtowns provides a guide to communities in reviving and redeveloping their core districts into resilient, thriving neighborhoods. While the National Main Street program's four-point approach of organization, promotion, economic restructuring,...

Japanese cities are amongst the most intriguing and confounding anywhere. Their structures, patterns of building and broader visual characteristics defy conventional urban design theories, and the book explores why this is so.  Like its cities,...

Youth Politics in Urban Asia examines how young people's political actions in Asia are the product of their urban realities, and at the same time, appreciates that young people are striving to remake these urban spaces in a myriad of tangible and...

Various kinds of informal and extra-legal settlements-commonly called shantytowns, favelas, or barrios-are the prevailing type of urban land use in much of the developing world. United Nations estimates suggest that there are close to 900 million people...

While industrial and chemical innovations have contributed extensively to human advancement, the darker part of their legacy has been the hundreds of thousands of polluted sites left behind. Governments at all levels have rallied to support the...

The Power of Culture in City Planning focuses on human diversity, strengths, needs, and ways of living together in geographic communities. The book turns attention to the anthropological definition of culture, encouraging planners in both urban and...

Le Mausol�����e de la Toison d'Or est un livre anonyme publi����� en 1689. Il s'agit d'une description d�����taill�����e des tombeaux des chefs et des chevaliers du noble ordre de la Toison d'Or, une confr�����rie de chevaliers fond�����e au XVe...

""Istoria della citt������ di Pescia e della Valdinievole"" ����� un libro scritto da Baldasseroni, Prospero Omero nel 1784. Questo libro racconta la storia della citt������ di Pescia e della Valdinievole, una regione della Toscana, in Italia. L'autore...

Desiderii Spreti V1: Historici Ravennatis De Amplitudine, Eversione, Et Restauratione Urbis Ravennae (1793) est liber qui narrat historiam Ravennae, urbis Italiae, auctore Desiderio Spreti. In eo, Spretus describit amplitudinem urbis, eius eversio et...

The Transactions of the Apollo Association for the Promotion of the Fine Arts in the United States 1839-1844 is a historical book that documents the activities of the Apollo Association, a non-profit organization that was dedicated to promoting the arts...

""The Age"" is a book written by A Layman in 1850. It is a letter addressed to a society dedicated to the improvement of sacred architecture, in which the author discusses the object, principles, and practice of the department of science. The book...

The Northern Heights of London: Or Historical Associations of Hampstead, Highgate, Muswell Hill, Hornsey, and Islington is a book written by William Howitt and published in 1869. The book provides a detailed historical account of the northern suburbs of...

""The Monastic Ruins of Yorkshire"" is a book published in 1855 that provides a comprehensive look at the ruins of various monasteries in Yorkshire, England. The book is written by William Richardson, Edward Churton, and George Hawkins, and is...

The dynamics of globalization brought a radical change in megacities and tensions between the stakeholders and dwellers against top-down urban renewal policies. This unique book provides a worldview of multi-stakeholders in the urban housing market. With...

Temporary and Tactical Urbanism examines a key set of urban design strategies that have emerged in the twenty-first century. Such projects range from guerrilla gardens and bike lanes to more formalised temporary beaches and swimming pools, parklets,...

This book provides an introduction to spatial planning in the Netherlands. It explores the academic underpinnings of the discipline and its practical implications, making use of insights on planning practices from the Netherlands. As an academic book...

This book investigates co-housing as an alternative housing form in relation to sustainable urban development. Co-housing is often lauded as a more sustainable way of living. The primary aim of this book is to critically explore co-housing in the context...

This book examines urban planning and infrastructure development in Japanese cities after the second world war as a way to mitigate the risks of disasters while pursuing sustainable development. It looks at the benefits of social capital and how...

Well-designed infrastructure brings social value that far exceeds its initial construction expenditure, but competition for scarce government funds and a general public perception of infrastructure as mere efficiency, has often left design ill-considered...

This volume studies the urbanisation trends of medium-sized cities of India to develop a typology of urban resilience. It looks at historic second-tier cities like Nashik, Bhopal, Kolkata and Agra, which are laboratories of smart experiments and are...

This book addresses issues that waterfronts face in small Mediterranean port towns due to increases in the tourism industry. Integrating theory and pragmatic approaches, Waterfront Design in Small Port Towns proposes a design matrix which can go on to be...

The widespread adoption of smartphones has led to an explosion of mobile social media data, more than a billion messages per day that continuously track location, content, and time. Social Media in the Contemporary City focuses on the effects of social...

International Perspectives on the Belt and Road Initiative investigates the most significant global‐scale international trade expansion and capital investment programme since the Second World War.This book focusses on the multi-national perspectives of...

This book tackles the emerging smart urbanism to advance a new way of urban thinking and to explore a new design approach. It unravels several urban transformations in dualities: economic relationality and centrality, technological flattening and...

"An invaluable addition to the library of all who in any way are involved in court services or courthouse design and construction. It will be a definitive reference on current and future bridging between judicial administration and space management of...

""Our Home City"" is a book written by William Arthur and published in 1911. The book provides a detailed description of the author's hometown, highlighting its history, culture, and landmarks. The author takes the reader on a tour of the city, providing...

Shop Sketching is a book written by Joseph William Woolley and published in 1913. The book is a comprehensive guide to sketching in a commercial setting, specifically in shops and stores. Woolley covers a wide range of topics related to shop sketching,...

Rudimentary Architecture, For The Use Of Beginners: The Orders And Their Aesthetic Principles is a book written by William Henry Leeds and originally published in 1848. The book is a comprehensive guide to the basics of architecture, aimed at beginners...

Schone Gartenkunst (1907) is a book written by Joseph August Lux that explores the art of gardening. The book is written in German and was first published in 1907. It covers a wide range of topics related to gardening, including the history of garden...

""On The Nature Of Gothic Architecture: And Herein Of The True Functions Of The Workman In Art"" is a book written by John Ruskin in 1854. In this book, Ruskin discusses the essence of Gothic architecture and its significance in the art world. He argues...

Le Bulletin Historique Et Archeologique De Vaucluse (1879) est un livre publi����� par Seguin Freres Publisher. Ce livre est une compilation d'articles historiques et arch�����ologiques sur la r�����gion de Vaucluse, en France. Les articles couvrent une...

Das Buch ""Cassel in historischer und topographischer Hinsicht"" von David August von Apell wurde im Jahr 1805 ver������ffentlicht. Es handelt sich um eine umfassende Beschreibung der Stadt Kassel in Deutschland, die sowohl historische als auch...

Bibliographie De L'Archeologie Prehistorique De La Suede Pendant Le XIX Siecle (1875) �����r en bok skriven av Oscar Montelius. Boken �����r en bibliografi ������ver arkeologiska uppt�����ckter och forskning som gjorts i Sverige under 1800-talet...

Das Buch ""Bericht �����ber Die Untersuchungen Auf Der Akropolis Von Athen Im Fr�����hjahr 1862"" wurde von Carl Boetticher im Jahr 1863 ver������ffentlicht. Es handelt sich um einen Bericht �����ber die arch�����ologischen Untersuchungen, die im...

Le livre ""Archives G�����n�����alogiques et Historiques de la Noblesse de France V10 (1846)"" est �����crit par P. Louis Laine. Il s'agit d'une compilation d'archives g�����n�����alogiques et historiques de la noblesse fran�����aise. Le livre contient...

""Archives D'Anjou V2: Recueil De Documents Et Memoires Inedits Sur Cette Province (1853)"" von Marchegay, Paul ist eine Sammlung von unver������ffentlichten Dokumenten und Erinnerungen �����ber die franz������sische Provinz Anjou. Der zweite Band dieser...