Urban Development

This book investigates the social, economic, environmental and formal characteristics of today's built environment, providing a better understanding of this new type of urban form and argues for a change in planning sytems...

This book investigates the social, economic, environmental and formal characteristics of today's built environment, providing a better understanding of this new type of urban form and argues for a change in planning sytems...

This title aims to use social science research to contribute towards solving policy problems raised by the rural to urban land conversion process and by high land prices in particular. Ultimately, this book aims to develop the information useful to public decisions on zoning, taxation, public invest..

Data and the City looks at the creation of real-time cities and data-driven urbanism and considers the relationships at play. By taking an ontological, political, practical and technical approach to urban data, the authors analyse the ways in which data are produced and framed within socio-technical..

Data and the City looks at the creation of real-time cities and data-driven urbanism and considers the relationships at play. By taking an ontological, political, practical and technical approach to urban data, the authors analyse the ways in which data are produced and framed within socio-technical..

Initially published in 1987, this work deals with crucial aspects of development, including disparities in global patterns of production and consumption. John Cole examines the exhaustion of non-renewable resources and the destruction of the natural environment and, on the potentially positive side,..

The collection captures the methodological and conceptual range of migration research in the discipline of Geography today. This volume also covers a lot of ground geographically and in subject expertise: the eighteen contributions investigate migration from, to, or within at least fifteen countries..

Introducing readers to the far-reaching global orientation that is now taking place in urban China, an international team of contributors examine the impact of globalization on Chinese cities, including the economic, cultural and political impact...

Introducing readers to the far-reaching global orientation that is now taking place in urban China, an international team of contributors examine the impact of globalization on Chinese cities, including the economic, cultural and political impact...

This book is the first comprehensive, in-depth systematic analysis of the meaning, nature, and effects of ‘urban governance’ in theory and in practice from the perspective of people in developing countries, This book provides a simple but novel taxonomy of urban governance and applies it to entire u..

Published in 1997, the authors have carried out investigations into eight European cities to increase the insight into the practice of organizing capacity. The analysis of the development and implementation of 15 revitalization projects in these cities shows that organizing capacity calls for a new ..

This is the first English-language survey of Pakistan's socio-economic evolution. Mohammad Qadeer gives an essential overview of social and cultural transformation in Pakistan since independence, which is crucial to understanding Pakistan's likely future direction...