Urban and municipal planning and policy Books

The third volume of the Sustainable Urban Development Series outlines the BEQUEST toolkit that helps link protocol with the assessment methods currently available for evaluating the sustainability of urban development. It details the decision...

Sustainable Urbanism in China explores the notion of "Sustainable Urbanism" by considering the role sustainable neighborhood planning plays in the larger picture of sustainable urbanism and suggests innovations and best practices that are either...

Urban Resettlements in the Global South provides new perspectives on resettlement through an urban studies lens. To date, resettlement has been theorised through development studies and refugee studies, but urban resettlement is also a major dimension of...

This book analyses community-owned businesses in countries around the world to show successful approaches and important strategies to improve access to essential services in vastly different economic contexts.Through eleven chapters, authors from various...

Through illustrated case studies and conceptual re-framings, this volume showcases ongoing transformations in public space, and its relationship to the public realm more broadly in the world's most populous urban megaregion-the Greater Bay Area of...

Transition Engineering: Building a Sustainable Future examines new strategies emerging in response to the mega-issues of global climate change, decline in world oil supply, scarcity of key industrial minerals, and local environmental constraints...

The Urban Water Budget.- Groundwater in the Urban Environment.- Urban Infrastructure and Use of Mass Balance Models for Water and Salt.- New Concepts for Managing Urban Pollution.- Streams and Urbanization.- Urban Water Recreation: Experiences, Place...

This book crtitically examines the reciprocal relationship between creativity and the built environment and features leading voices from across the world.

Roads to Prosperity: Economic Development Lessons from Midsize Canadian Cities explores the relative prosperity of midsize Canadian urban areas (population 50,000 to 400,000) over the past two decades. Communities throughout North America have strived...

Colonial architecture and urbanism carved its way through space: ordering and classifying the built environment, while projecting the authority of European powers across Africa in the name of science and progress. The built urban fabric left by colonial...

The promise of an ever-closer union that has guided Europe from the Treaty of Rome to the present time rests on the evolution of democratic governance to meet the many challenges that European communities face. Now after years of managing the financial...

Dit boek, geschreven door Willem Bernard R. van Welderen Rengers, behandelt de artikelen 24 en 26 van de Gemeentewet uit 1889. Deze wet regelt de taken en bevoegdheden van gemeenten in Nederland. Artikel 24 gaat over de begroting en rekening van...

Das Buch ""Das Volk und Reich der Osmanen: In besonderer Darstellung ihrer Kriegsverfassung und Kriegswesens"" wurde im Jahr 1829 von Ernst von Skork verfasst. Es ist ein Werk, das sich mit dem osmanischen Reich und seiner milit�����rischen Struktur und...

The last decade has seen a growing body of research about globalization and climate change in the Caribbean. This collection is a significant addition to the literature on a topic that is of critical importance to the region. It explores research from a...

Medellín, Colombia, used to be the most violent city on earth, but in recent years, allegedly thanks to its 'social urbanism' approach to regeneration, it has experienced a sharp decline in violence. The author explores the politics behind this decline...

Community land trusts (CLTs) are distinguished from many other nonprofit housing developers by the degree to which residents of the places served by a CLT are woven into the culture, structure, and operation of the organization itself. This participatory...

Research Paper (postgraduate) from the year 2016 in the subject Urban and Regional Planning, , language: English, abstract: This term paper deals with the sustainable redevelopment of brownfields in the case of Joda Barbil. The concept of redevelopment...

Land represents an important resource for the economic life of a majority of people in the world. The way people handle and use land resources impacts their social and economic well-being as well as the sustained quality of land resources. Land use...

As smart cities are rapidly developing, it is vital that they are built on a combination of support and active participation of self-decisive, independent, and aware citizens by ensuring strong human capital, social capital, and information and...

The topic of urban life and the ambient in smart cities, learning cities, and future cities is a timely one, fitting as it does in the world today by responding in an interdisciplinary way across many areas of research and practice. It is essential for...

Global environmental challenges such as climate change, rapid urbanization, and human influence on the environment continue to grow. Many of these resulting risks lead to diseases and negative impacts on health and quality of life. It is now essential to...

With the development of information technology, the concept of smart healthcare has been evolving gradually. A new generation of information technologies, such as the internet of things, cloud computing, big data, and artificial intelligence, have...

This book elucidates the concepts and innovative models around prospective developments with respect to urban studies and related transformation. It strives to provide a fair idea about this discipline and to help develop a better understanding of the...

The objective of this book is to give a general view of the different areas of urban development and its applications. It includes some of the vital pieces of work being conducted across the world on various topics related to this field. Urban...

Cities are becoming the wealth producing centers of national economies. Increasing the operational efficiency of the city will bring a competitive edge to the whole system. Yet, many city subsystems cannot work together, creating significant problems and...

Selected Articles On Municipal Ownership is a book written by Julia Emily Johnsen and published in 1918. The book is a collection of articles that discuss the concept of municipal ownership, which refers to the ownership and operation of public utilities...

This book summarizes China's ten-year experience of cultural heritage protection by providing case analysis of both successful and unsatisfying practices. It is written with an academic perspective and based on the author's real practice. The first part...

Il libro ""Atti Del Consiglio Comunale Di Bologna: Dal 25 Novembre 1890 Al 28 Febbraio 1891 (1891)"" pubblicato dalla Regia Tipografia ����� una raccolta di documenti ufficiali del Consiglio Comunale di Bologna, che coprono il periodo dal 25 novembre...

The crisis of too much or too little water is a social issue and its resolution must involve society. At the watershed level, the involvement of society in planning, management, and governance is imperative. This thesis explores the extent to which...

For several decades, a political discourse, which incites exclusion and hatred againt those who are perceived as different, has been gaining ground, most notably in affluent and developed countries. Focusing on the growth of racism in large cities and...

Urban studies and development is an interdisciplinary field. A primary aspect of this field is the development and protection of infrastructure for public welfare. This book elucidates the concepts and innovative models around prospective developments...

Urban studies and planning deals with the allocation and management of land as a public resource and the regulation of infrastructure in an urban environment. This book on urban studies and planning talks about urban design, urban problems and management...

Recent global shifts in population have led to the fast urbanization of Africa. For Africa and the developing world, choosing the right policy strategies, processes, and tools are essential to turning urban centers into engines of industry and economic...

Recent advances in information and communication technologies have enhanced the standards of metropolitan planning and development. With the increase in mobile communication, this will help to deliver innovative new services and apps in the field of...

Effective governance is vital for all nations and can be made easier with advanced technology and communication. Through various collaborative efforts and processes, developing nations can enhance their economies with multi-level governance. Multi-Level...

Assisted by globalization and the rapid application of advanced technologies, the transformative power of urbanization is being felt around the world. The scale and the speed of existing and projected urbanization poses several challenges to researchers...

The knowledge economy has become an important part of contemporary development for cities in a time of globalization and expansion. Examining theories of knowledge transfer and urban advancement allows for better adaptation in a changing global society...

The effects of recent economic and financial crises have reached an international scale. A number of different nations have experienced the fallout of these events, calling into question issues of accountability and reform in public management. The...

The creation of metropolitan areas is influenced by a wide array of factors, both practical and ecological. They can also be influenced by immaterial characteristics of a given area. The Handbook of Research on Perception-Driven Approaches to Urban...

With the growth of the global population, the expansion of metropolitan areas has become an essential aspect of land development. With the need for more space to accommodate the growing population, discussion on the best methods of expansion has arisen...