Planing the Modern City
The economic distress of America's inner cities may be the most pressing issue facing the nation. ... disadvantaged urban areas fuels not only a crushing cycle of poverty but also crippling social problems, such as drug abuse and crime.
... Colleen Josephine Sheehy, Fred E.H. Schroeder, and John Chase, Glitter Stucco and Dumpster Diving: Reflections on Building Production in the Vernacular City (London: Verso, 1998), Henri Glassie, Vernacular Architecture (Bloomington, ...
The seventh edition of the highly successful The City Reader juxtaposes the very best classic and contemporary writings on the city.
The sixth edition of the highly successful The City Reader juxtaposes the very best classic and contemporary writings on the city to provide the comprehensive mapping of the terrain of Urban Studies and Planning old and new.
GNC is expressed as percentage of largest score (London«s) Table 1 only shows nodes in the world city network but these alone cannot describe the network adequately: it is the links between nodes that constitute a network.
This book provides an overview of the theory and practice of city and regional planning.
Community Development: James DeFilippis & Susan Saegert (eds), The community development reader, 2nd ed (2012). ... Alvin Goodman & Makaran Hastak, Infrastructure planning, engineering and economics, 2nd ed (2015).
The seventh edition of the highly successful The City Reader juxtaposes the very best classic and contemporary writings on the city.
This third edition juxtaposes the very best publications on the city. It reflects the latest thinking on globalization, information technology and urban theory. It is a comprehensive mapping of the terrain of urban studies: old and new.
Sixty generous selections are included: forty-four from the fifth edition, and sixteen new selections, including three newly written exclusively for The City Reader.
This edition of The City Reader has been extensively updated and expanded to reflect the latest thinking in each of the disciplinary areas included and in topical areas such as sustainable urban development, climate change, globalization, ...
With material on the globalization and the world city system and provides examples from other countries, the book has been written with the needs of readers worldwide who seek an overview of city and regional planning.