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  • Megaregions

    Planning for Global Competitiveness

    by Adjo A. Amekudzi, Tridib Banerjee, Jason Barringer, Scott Cmapbell, Cheryl K. Contant, William Ankner, Norman Fainstein, Susan S. Fainstein, Richard Florida, Shirley Franklin, Robert E. Lang, Karen Leone de Nie, Thomas F. Luce, Michael D. Meye, Myron Orfield, Saskia Sassen, Jiawen Yang, Myungje Woo, Jessica L. Doyle, Andreas K. Faludi, Arthur C. Nelson, Dr. ...
    The concept of “the city” —as well as “the state” and “the nation state” —is passé, agree contributors to this insightful book. The new scale for considering economic strength and growth opportunities is “the megaregion,” a network of metropolitan centers and their surrounding areas that are spatially and functionally linked through environmental, economic, and infrastructure interactions.Recently ... Read more

    $33.19 USD

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  • Transformations of Urbanising Delta Landscape

    An Historic Examination of Dealing with the Impacts of Climate Change for the Kaoping River Delta in Taiwan

    by Chen Kun Chung ...
    This book argues that the floods following extreme precipitation result not only from very heavy rainfall but also from the significant impact of human activities on natural water systems. While most literature emphasises that the increasing magnitude of storm rainfall extends beyond the original protection standards of hydrologic facilities in highly populated delta cities. Based on the knowledge ... Read more

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  • Grand Avenues

    The Story of Pierre Charles L'Enfant, the French Visionary Who Designed Washington, D.C.

    by Scott W. Berg ...
    In 1791, shortly after the United States won its independence, George Washington personally asked Pierre Charles L’Enfant—a young French artisan turned American revolutionary soldier who gained many friends among the Founding Fathers—to design the new nation's capital. L’Enfant approached this task with unparalleled vigor and passion; however, his imperious and unyielding nature also made him many ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Experience of Place

    A New Way of Looking at and Dealing With our Radically Changing Cities and Countryside

    by Tony Hiss ...
    Why do some places--the concourse of Grand Central Terminal or a small farm or even the corner of a skyscraper--affect us so mysteriously and yet so forcefully? What tiny changes in our everyday environments can radically alter the quality of our daily lives? The Experience of Place offers an innovative and delightfully readable proposal for new ways of planning, building, and managing our most ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • A Joosr Guide to... The Power Broker by Robert Caro: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York

    by Joosr ...
    In today's fast-paced world, it's tough to find the time to read. But with Joosr guides, you can get the key insights from bestselling non-fiction titles in less than 20 minutes. Whether you want to gain knowledge on the go or find the books you'll love, Joosr's brief and accessible eBook summaries fit into your life. Find out more at joosr.com.Robert Moses is America's most famous-and infamous ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Transit Metropolis

    A Global Inquiry

    by Robert Cervero ...
    Around the world, mass transit is struggling to compete with the private automobile, and in many places, its market share is rapidly eroding. Yet a number of metropolitan areas have in recent decades managed to mount cost-effective and resource-conserving transit services that provide respectable alternatives to car travel. What sets these places apart?In this book, noted transportation expert ... Read more

    $45.39 USD

  • Planning for Sustainability

    Creating Livable, Equitable and Ecological Communities

    by Stephen Wheeler ...
    How can human communities sustain a long-term existence on a small planet? This challenge grows ever more urgent as the threat of global warming increases.Planning for Sustainability presents a wide-ranging, intellectually well-grounded and accessible introduction to the concept of planning for more sustainable and livable communities. The text explores topics such as how more compact and walkable ... Read more

    $115.99 USD

  • Shaping the City

    Studies in History, Theory and Urban Design

    Edited by Rodolphe El-Khoury, Edwards Robbins ...
    Taking on the key issues in urban design, Shaping the City examines the critical ideas that have driven these themes and debates through a study of particular cities at important periods in their development. As well as retaining crucial discussions about cities such as Los Angeles, Atlanta, Chicago, Detroit, Philadelphia, and Brasilia at particular moments in their history that exemplified the ... Read more

    $87.99 USD

  • The University and Urban Revival

    Out of the Ivory Tower and Into the Streets

    by Judith Rodin ...
    Series series The City in the Twenty-First Century
    In the last quarter of the twentieth century, urban colleges and universities found themselves enveloped by the poverty, crime, and physical decline that afflicted American cities. Some institutions turned inward, trying to insulate themselves rather than address the problems in their own backyards. Others attempted to develop better community relations, though changes were hard to sustain.Spurred ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • Urban Planning And The Development Process

    by David Adams ...
    This text is about the very essence of urban planning in a market economy. It is concerned with people - landowners, developers, investors, politicians and ordinary members of the public - who produce change in towns and cities as they relate to each other and react to development Pressure. Whether Such Change Occurs Slowly And Is Almost Unnoticed, Or happens rapidly and is highly disruptive, a ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • The Government of Space (Routledge Revivals)

    Town Planning in Modern Society

    by Alison Ravetz ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    Britain’s planning system began as ‘town and country planning’ to repair the ravages of unplanned industrialism and promote ideal environments for the future. Steering a course between left and right, public control and for-profit development, it survived successive booms and busts, broadening to include new concerns like ecology, conservation and community participation.By the 1986, when this ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • Baltimore: Reinventing an Industrial Legacy City

    by Klaus Philipsen ...
    Series series Built Environment City Studies
    Baltimore: Reinventing an Industrial Legacy City is an exploration into the reinvention, self-reflection and boosterism of US legacy cities, taking Baltimore as the case study model to reveal the larger narrative. Author Klaus Philipsen investigates the modern urban condition and the systemic problems involved with adapting metropolitan regions into equitable and sustainable communities, covering ... Read more

    $32.99 USD