Search results for “[Subject: urban]”

• Author(s): Tali Hatuka • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Buildings - Public, Commercial & IndustrialSince the Industrial Revolution, cities and industry have grown together; towns and metropolitan reg...

• Author(s): Binti Singh • Publisher: Grin Verlag • Publisher Imprint: Grin Verlag • BISAC: Urban & Land Use PlanningResearch Paper (postgraduate) from the year 2006 in the subject Urban and Regional Planning, grade: A, language: English, abs...

• Author(s): Dorothee Brantz | Avi Sharma • Publisher: Transcript Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Transcript Publishing • BISAC: Sociology - UrbanUrban Resilience is seen by many as a tool to mitigate harm in times of extreme social, political, f...

• Author(s): Clemence Chee • Publisher: Grin Verlag • Publisher Imprint: Grin Verlag • BISAC: Aeronautics & AstronauticsBachelor Thesis from the year 2012 in the subject Engineering - Aerospace Technology, grade: 1,3, Technical University of ...

• Author(s): Jeong Hyesun • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Sociology - UrbanAs cities grapple with climate change and social inequality, a growing movement recognizes walking as fundamental to urban sustainability. C...

• Author(s): Eiichi Taniguchi • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: CRC Press • Subject: Economics • BISAC: Purchasing & BuyingCity Logistics: Mapping The Future examines the key concepts of city logistics along with the asso...

• Author(s): Alessandro Melis • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Urban & Land Use PlanningThis book explores the link between the Food-Water-Energy nexus and sustainability, and the extraordinary value t...

• Author(s): Max Böckel • Publisher: Our Knowledge Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Our Knowledge Publishing • BISAC: Earth Sciences - GeographySpace is becoming increasingly limited on Earth. With around 7.55 billion people, the world's populatio...

• Author(s): Vivian Bickford-Smith • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: Africa - South - Republic of South AfricaFocusing on South Africa's three main cities - Johannesburg, Cape Town, a...

• Author(s): Parfect Michael • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Taylor & Francis Ltd • BISAC: Public Policy - Regional PlanningRapid regeneration of city areas has placed the quality of urban design high on public and ...

• Author(s): Mark Sheppard • Publisher: CSIRO Publishing • Publisher Imprint: CSIRO Publishing • BISAC: Urban & Land Use PlanningEssentials of Urban Design explains the fundamental concepts of urban design, providing the understanding and too...

• Author(s): Arjan Zuiderhoek • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: Ancient - GreeceGreece and Rome were quintessentially urban societies. Ancient culture, politics and society arose and ...

• Author(s): Philip Black | Rachel Kerr | Taki Sonbli • Publisher: Riba Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Riba Publishing • BISAC: Urban & Land Use PlanningThe Urban Design Toolkit provides a comprehensive compendium of applied urban design met...

• Author(s): Kevin Lynch • Publisher: The MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: The MIT Press • BISAC: Buildings - Public, Commercial & IndustrialKevin Lynch's books are the classic underpinnings of modern urban planning and design, yet they are onl...

• Author(s): Bhatta | Basudeb • Publisher: Springer Verlag • Publisher Imprint: Springer • Subject: Earth-Science/Environment • BISAC: Earth Sciences - GeologyFrom the Back CoverThis book provides a comprehensive discussion on urban growth and sp...

• Author(s): K. Murat Guney | Roger Keil | Murat Ucoglu • Publisher: University of Toronto Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Toronto Press • BISAC: Sociology - UrbanProviding a systematic overview of large-scale housing projects, Massive S...

• Author(s): Ali Madanipour • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Buildings - Public, Commercial & IndustrialPublic spaces mirror the complexities of urban societies: as historic social bonds have weakened and cities ...

• Author(s): Ross Beveridge • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: Sociology - UrbanWe live in an urban age. It is well known that urbanization is changing landscapes, built environments, social infrastructures and e...

• Author(s): Iñaki Alday | Jover Margarita • Publisher: Actar • Publisher Imprint: Actar • BISAC: Individual Architects & Firms - MonographsA selection of architecture, landscape and urbanism works from aldayjover architecture and landscape, ...

• Author(s): Josiane Meier • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Public Policy - City Planning & Urban DevelopmentAfter decades "in the shadows", urban lighting is re-emerging as a matter of public debate. ...

• Author(s): Michele Acuto • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: International Relations - DiplomacyThis book illustrates the importance of global cities for world politics and highlights the diplomatic connect...

• Author(s): Luca Bertolini | Tejo Spit • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Urban & Land Use PlanningThe development of railway stations and their surroundings is an emerging feature in current urban projects. Based...

• Author(s): Mary Anne Alabanza Akers • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Design, Drafting, Drawing & PresentationUrban Environments and Health in the Philippines offers a retrospective view of women stre...

• Author(s): Benjamin Fraser • Publisher: University Press of Mississippi • Publisher Imprint: University Press of Mississippi • BISAC: Comics & Graphic NovelsMore and more people are noticing links between urban geography and the spaces with...

• Author(s): Tora Holmberg • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Earth Sciences - GeographyThe city includes opportunities as well as constraints for humans and other animals alike. Urban animals are often subj...

• Author(s): Alexander C. Diener | Joshua Hagen • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • BISAC: Human GeographyThis timely interdisciplinary book considers national identity throu...

• Author(s): Yasser Elsheshtawy • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Sociology - UrbanRiyadh has set its sights on becoming a world city befitting the twenty-first century. To that end it has embarked on a mas...

• Author(s): Molly Slavin • Publisher: University of Virginia Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Virginia Press • BISAC: Subjects & Themes - GeneralWhy does crime feature at the center of so many postcolonial novels set in major cities?...

• Author(s): K.R. Gupta | Intro. by Prasenjit Maiti • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Atlantic • Subject: EconomicsThis collection of essays by academics and practitioners from around the world underscores issues and concerns of sustaina...

• Author(s): Pickvance C.G. • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: ReferenceThis book applies the historical materialist, or Marxist view of urban sociology and collates some fundamental sources of this perspective availab...

• Author(s): James A. Clapp • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Taylor & Francis • BISAC: QuotationsThe City is the best, funniest, saddest, and most thought-provoking compilation ever assembled on the urban scene. James A....

• Author(s): Andrew Robichaud • Publisher: Harvard University Press • Publisher Imprint: Harvard University Press • BISAC: United States - 19th CenturyWhy do America's cities look the way they do? If we want to know the answer, we should start by...

• Author(s): Noël Merino • Publisher: Greenhaven Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Greenhaven Publishing • BISAC: Social Science - GeneralThis collection of essays explores current issues related to urban sprawl including, whether urban sprawl is a...

• Author(s): Richard V. Crume • Publisher: Greenwood • Publisher Imprint: Greenwood • BISAC: Public HealthLiving in an urban environment can have a major influence--both positive and negative--on one's physical health and mental well-being. This ...

• Author(s): Fabbri Kristian • Publisher: Elsevier • Publisher Imprint: Acad Pr • Subject: Earth-Science/Environment • BISAC: Human GeographyUrban Fuel Poverty describes key approaches to defining and alleviating fuel poverty in cities using a mu...

• Author(s): Jingmin Zhou | Ian Colquhoun • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Urban & Land Use PlanningOver three-quarters of the world's population live in cities where the need for affordable urban housing of good...