Urban & municipal planning books

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Smart Growth and Sustainable Development: Selected Papers from the 9th International Association for China Planning Conference, Chongqing, China, June 19 - 21, 2015

Smart Growth and Sustainable Development: Selected Papers...

Author: Qisheng Pan ,  Weifeng Li
ISBN: 9783319482958
Format: Hardback
$145.17

The work encompasses themes of environmental planning, community development, cultural heritage preservation, land...  Read More >>

Handbook of Biophilic City Planning & Design

Handbook of Biophilic City Planning & Design

Author: Timothy Beatley
ISBN: 9781610916202
Format: Paperback
$102.00

Practical advice and inspiration to ensure urbanists connect with nature in their cities.  Read More >>

Prevention Diaries: The Practice and Pursuit of Health for All

Prevention Diaries: The Practice and Pursuit of Health...

Author: Larry Cohen (Founder and Executive Director, Founder and Executive Director, Prevention Institute)
ISBN: 9780190623821
Format: Hardback
$67.95

Prevention Diaries offers a reintroduction to the simple principles of prevention and an illustration of how its...  Read More >>

Garden Cities and Colonial Planning: Transnationality and Urban Ideas in Africa and Palestine

Garden Cities and Colonial Planning: Transnationality...

Author: Liora Bigon ,  Yossi Katz
ISBN: 9781526106780
Format: Paperback
$54.99

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Visión integral de la zona conurbada del sur de Tamaulipas: Hacia una nueva política de planeación regional

Visión integral de la zona conurbada del sur de Tamaulipas:...

Author: Dr Jorge Alfredo Lera Mejía
ISBN: 9781506518015
Format: Paperback
$33.51

"Esta investigación se planteó al arranque de la maestría en Economía y Desarrollo Regional, como requisito de titulación...  Read More >>

The Muse of Urban Delirium: How the Performing Arts Paradoxically Transform Conflict-Ridden Cities into Centers of Cultural Innovation

The Muse of Urban Delirium: How the Performing Arts...

Author: Blair A Ruble (Georgetown University)
ISBN: 9780997496291
Format: Paperback
$77.63

This collection of essays seeks answers to the challenges of urban diversity, conflict, and creativity by examining...  Read More >>

Rights to Public Space: Law, Culture, and Gentrification in the American West

Rights to Public Space: Law, Culture, and Gentrification...

Author: Sig Langegger
ISBN: 9783319411767
Format: Hardback
$263.97

Considering both cultural norms of public behavior and the municipal regulation of behavior in public, it shows...  Read More >>

Unbuilt Environments: Tracing Postwar Development in Northwest British Columbia

Unbuilt Environments: Tracing Postwar Development in...

Author: Jonathan Peyton
ISBN: 9780774833042
Format: Hardback
$261.36

This book looks at the long-term social and environmental effects of imagined, abandoned, and failed resource-development...  Read More >>

Thought Forms

Thought Forms

Author: Annie Besant
ISBN: 9789351287414
Format: Hardback
$84.45

"Classic of the Theosophical tradition explores the concept of what thoughts ""look"" like. Topics include the meaning...  Read More >>

Demolition Means Progress: Flint, Michigan, and the Fate of the American Metropolis

Demolition Means Progress: Flint, Michigan, and the...

Author: Andrew R. Highsmith
ISBN: 9780226419558
Format: Paperback
$52.95

In 1997, after General Motors shuttered a massive complex of factories in the gritty industrial city of Flint, Michigan,...  Read More >>

Leveraging the Potential of Argentine Cities: A Framework for Policy Action

Leveraging the Potential of Argentine Cities: A Framework...

Author: Elisa Muzzini ,  Beatriz Eraso Puig
ISBN: 9781464808401
Format: Paperback
$131.87

Argentina is one of the most urbanized countries in Latin America. Its path to economic prosperity is through efficient,...  Read More >>

Governing Cities Through Regions: Canadian and European Perspectives

Governing Cities Through Regions: Canadian and European...

Author: Roger Keil ,  Pierre Hamel
ISBN: 9781771122771
Format: Paperback
$71.50

Broadens and deepens our understanding of metropolitan governance through an innovative comparative project that...  Read More >>

Technology & the Future of Cities: Opportunities & Recommendations

Technology & the Future of Cities: Opportunities & Recommendations...

Author: Diana l Washington
ISBN: 9781536104189
Format: Hardback
$390.69

""This is an edited, reformatted and augmented version of a report issued by the Executive Office [of the] President,...  Read More >>

Tourism Impacts West Maui

Tourism Impacts West Maui

Author: Lance D. Collins ,  Bianca K. Isaki
ISBN: 9780824872809
Format: Paperback
$52.80

West Maui has been the site of rapid, drastic changes to landscape, communities, governance, and economy. This collection...  Read More >>

Cities as Political Objects: Historical Evolution, Analytical Categorisations and Institutional Challenges of Metropolitanisation

Cities as Political Objects: Historical Evolution, Analytical...

Author: Alistair Cole ,  Renaud Payre
ISBN: 9781784719890
Format: Hardback
$294.50

Focusing on the city’s role as the nexus for new forms of relationships between politics, economics and society,...  Read More >>

Handbook of Social Capital and Regional Development

Handbook of Social Capital and Regional Development...

Author: Hans Westlund ,  Johan P. Larsson
ISBN: 9781783476824
Format: Hardback
$518.75

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Alternative Governance Structures in Megacities: Threats or Opportunities?

Alternative Governance Structures in Megacities: Threats...

Author: Diane E Chido ,  Strategic Studies Institute (U S )
ISBN: 9781584877400
Format: Paperback
$29.04

Print format not distributed to depository libraries.  Read More >>

Urban Regeneration & Sustainability

Urban Regeneration & Sustainability

Author: C. A. Brebbia ,  A. Galiano-Garrigos
ISBN: 9781784662394
Format: Hardback
$584.78

This book addresses the multidisciplinary aspects of urban planning; a result of the increasing size of cities,...  Read More >>

Starchitecture: Scenes, Actors, and Spectacles in Contemporary Cities

Starchitecture: Scenes, Actors, and Spectacles in Contemporary...

Author: Davide Ponzini ,  Michele Nastasi
ISBN: 9781580934688
Format: Hardback
$59.95

How and why do spectacular buildings get commissioned and procured? What are their visible urban effects? What can...  Read More >>

Understanding Built Environment: Proceedings of the National Conference on Sustainable Built Environment 2015

Understanding Built Environment: Proceedings of the...

Author: Fumihiko Seta ,  Arindam Biswas
ISBN: 9789811021367
Format: Hardback
$527.97

This book is a comprehensive document visualizing the future of built environment from a multidisciplinary dimension,...  Read More >>

The Robust City

The Robust City

Author: Tony Hall (Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia)
ISBN: 9781138631403
Format: Paperback
$62.99

The Robust City arrives at an original and controversial prescription for the future planning of cities by taking...  Read More >>

A City's Architecture: Aberdeen as 'Designed City'

A City's Architecture: Aberdeen as 'Designed City'

Author: William Alvis Brogden
ISBN: 9781138631182
Format: Paperback
$110.00

When considering the successful design of cities, the focus tends to be on famous examples such as Paris or Rome,...  Read More >>

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