Regional and area planning

This book offers comprehensive state-of-the-art knowledge of how ride-hailing applications (RHAs) are changing the landscape of urban mobility in developing Southeast Asia by examining the disruptions they cause, the impacts of RHAs on the transportation system, and public policy responses aimed at mitigating these impacts.

This book offers the comprehensive analysis of urban transportation systems in emerging countries across Asia, South America, and Africa.

These proceedings of the Smart and Sustainable Cities Conference (SSC) in Moscow from May 23 to 26, 2018 addresses important questions regarding the global trend of urbanization.

This engaging and practical guide is a much-needed new textbook that illustrates the power of geographic information systems (GIS) and spatial analysis.

Implementing Sustainable Development focuses on the challenge of turning international commitments and policy promises into action.

What can public art do for a community?

What is the magic formula for turning a place into a high-tech capital?

In this timely work, James Giermanski describes the advent and development of security operations in the global supply chain, outlining the respective contributions of governmental and nongovernmental stakeholders to this worldwide concern.

Marginalizing Access to the Sustainable Food System is a comprehensive analysis of the barriers and opportunities confronting minority communities' ability to access healthy, fresh foods.

When densely populated urban areas face severe crises-natural disasters, epidemics, sudden unemployment, massive immigration-they often find that established mechanisms cannot respond adequately to the problems.

By United Nations estimates, 60 percent of the world's population will be urban by 2030.

Market: architects; engineers; project managers; general contractors; cost estimators; property and real estate managers; facility managers; property developersInternational appeal: includes 25 project profiles from the US, Canada, United Kingdom, Australia, Spain, China, and IndiaThirty key players share their experiences and lessons learned from working on green building projects

The fight for the future of the city street between pedestrians, street railways, and promoters of the automobile between 1915 and 1930.

An urban history of modern Britain, and how the built environment shaped the nation's politicsFoundations is a history of twentieth-century Britain told through the rise, fall, and reinvention of six different types of urban space: the industrial estate, shopping precinct, council estate, private flats, shopping mall, and suburban office park.

How the science of urban planning can make our cities healthier, safer, and more livableThe design of every aspect of the urban landscape-from streets and sidewalks to green spaces, mass transit, and housing-fundamentally influences the health and safety of the communities who live there.

Cities have been missing from analyses of the global economic crisis and debates about how to generate a sustainable recovery.

The idea of community development grew, in large part, out of the activities of colonial administrators.

This essential book offers suggestions for how cities and spaces can be planned and designed to reduce the impact of stress, provide opportunities for recovery, and promote the resilience of individuals in urban communities.

The experience of suburban modernity looks at the history of the London suburbs in the interwar years.

The experience of suburban modernity looks at the history of the London suburbs in the interwar years.

This book explains devolution today in terms of the evolution of past structures of government in the component parts of the United Kingdom.

I have never been particularly interested in slavery, perhaps because it is such an obvious fact of my family's history.

Cities around the world are pursuing a smart cities agenda.

During modernity metropolitan ruralities have been regarded as land reserves for urban expansion.

Travel by car invariably involves the use of a car parking space at the start and end of the journey, the provision of which impacts on travel demand and travel behaviour.

Sustainable Mass Transit: Challenges and Opportunities in Urban Public Transportation examines the numerous types of mass transit systems, looking closely at all their key functions, including operations, maintenance, development, design, building and retrofitting.

A glance at a list of America's fastest growing "e;"e;cities"e;"e; reveals quite a surprise: most are really overgrown suburbs.

This publication reviews the practices and policies of Internet Plus agriculture business models in the People's Republic of China (PRC).

This tool kit presents an integrated approach to inclusive urban development and was prepared for ADB staff and their partners to engage in inclusive urban development programming and implementation as an integral component of ADB's lending programs.

Urban populations are projected to increase from 54% to 66% of the global population by 2050, with close to 90% of the increase concentrated in Asia and Africa.

This publication seeks to explain the nature of settlements termed "e;urban villages"e; as set within the context of growing levels of urbanization in contemporary Pacific towns and cities.

The term "e;Green City"e; has many different meanings to different people.

This book is about Africa south of the Sahara.

If we want to preserve what's still left of the natural world, we need to stop using so much of it.

designing networks cities presents a sophisticated, multi-disciplinary, and multi-dimensional approach to urban design.

Economic corridorsambitious infrastructural development projects that newly liberalizing countries in Asia and Africa are undertakingare dramatically redefining the shape of urbanization.

In developing countries, squatter developments that house more than one-third of the urban population are without infrastructure and built from materials at hand.

Almost fifty years ago, America's industrial citiesDetroit, Philadelphia, Cleveland, Baltimore, and othersbegan shedding people and jobs.

When the rivers run dry--water solutions for a thirsty planet.

Urbanization will become one of the defining trends of Asia's transformation in the coming decades.

This book provides an in-depth overview of graphic and visual communication styles for conveying climate change and climate action within the landscape architectural profession and in academia.

A wide-ranging cultural history centered around the concepts of real estate, the family home, and the American dream, and how they evolved over the years, Home Ownership in America: A Socio-Cultural History of Housing in the United States traces narratives around home ownership from the 1920s to today.

This book explores the transformative impact of artificial intelligence on material science and construction practices in the Industry 4.

This book is about the contribution of urban wetlands in livable cities.

Lo fundamental de la idea de la adaptabilidad y flexibilidad arquitectónica a partir de estructuras móviles o adaptables, estriba en la hipótesis de que el arquitecto es incapaz de determinar definitivamente el uso y el carácter de las edificaciones, y que corresponde al usuario de dichas construcciones decidir y rediseñar el uso y la forma que quiera asignarles.

This volume explores one of the most complex labour landscapes of India - the urban daily labour market.

This volume discusses the nuances of cultural phenomena in the transforming urban landscape of Indian cities.

Now in its second volume, Regreening the Built Environment provides an overview of physical and social environmental challenges that the planet is facing and presents solutions that restore ecological processes, reclaim open space, foster social equity, and facilitate a green economy.

Describes and analyses the environmental problems of Third World cities, showing how they affect human health and the local ecology.