2017 PROSE Award Winner: Outstanding Scholarly Work by a Trade Publisher In the vein of Jane Jacobs's The Death and Life of Great American Cities and Edward Glaeser's Triumph of the City, Jonathan F. P. Rose-a visionary in urban development and renewal-champions the role of cities in addressing the environmental, economic, and social challenges of the twenty-first century. Cities are birthplaces of civilization; centers of culture, trade, and progress;...

An exploration of the Evolutionary City by simulating the challenges of urban growth, decline, and vitality.

Since its emergence in the mid-nineteenth century as the nation's "metropolis," New York has faced the most challenging housing problems of any American city, but it has also led the nation in innovation and reform. The horrors of the tenement were perfected in New York at the same time that the very rich were building palaces along Fifth Avenue; public housing for the poor originated in New York, as did government subsidies for middle-class housing....

In modern days it's a struggle to plan cities and states, particularly, the managers start to believe in the organization of cities as a means of good coexistence between those that occupy their spaces, visiting commerce or as the residential nucleus. According to Wikipedia, citing the researcher Monique Felix Borin and Journalist Valdir Sanches - Diary of Commerce in March of Two Thousand Fourteen (03-2014), we learn that the Municipal Code of Stances...

Que sera la pratique de l'urbanisme dans les prochaines années? Quelles seront les dynamiques en place? Les tensions et les conflits entre les acteurs? Les opportunités à saisir? Les 50 ans de l'Institut d'urbanisme de l'Université de Montréal sont une excellente occasion pour ses professeurs de regarder vers l'avenir. Ils présentent ici les enjeux de leur profession non seulement à leurs étudiants, mais aussi à l'ensemble des citoyens concernés...

Vancouver, located at the edge of a continent and the edge of national consciousness, has become the model for post-industrial urbanism. Does it deserve the attention? This provocative new book explores the links between the city's seductive natural setting, turbulent political history, planning and design culture, and the local and global forces that are reshaping Vancouver's urban environment at a ferocious pace. Filled with historical and contemporary...

This book explores the actual scenario of West Bengal's much discussed land reform movement 'Operation Barga'. Presenting a historical overview of landholding and cropping relations in both pre- and post-independent India, it traces the roots of the land reform movement and relates it to socio-historical and theoretical issues. Further discussing the expectations and achievements of land reform in revitalizing i the present agrarian system in the...

With an updated introduction by Fred Harrison, Shepheard Walwyn has now published this classic book as an eBook. Economists know that the optimum conditions for private enterprise are achieved when taxes on the earned incomes of labour and capital are reduced to zero but, because neoclassical economic theory insists on treating land as capital, they dismiss the obvious alternative to taxing labour and capital – the unearned income from land. Mason...

This publication presents the results of more than five consecutive years of focused research initiatives and designs from The University of Virginia School of Architecture towards the revitalization of New Delhi, India's water bodies. In collaboration with the Delhi Jal Board, The University of Virginia's Yamuna River Project is an inter-disciplinary research program, proposing to revitalize the ecology of the Yamuna River in Delhi and creating...

This dissertation is over 50 years old. Written painstakingly by hand at a time when there were no computers or the Internet, Carol Winteringham takes you through a thorough first-hand analysis of urban developments in north-western Leeds. She takes into consideration the housing, industry and shopping facilities, looking at their historical development from 1940 to 1961 as well as the future plans up to 1981.