The Urban Connection - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Urban Connection write by Luuk Boelens. This book was released on 2009. The Urban Connection available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "The urban connection" develops a promising actor-relational approach to urban planning. With respect to the usual governmental planning, it is focused outside in, instead of inside out. It derives its leitmotif from the actual debate about state controlled versus neo-liberal planning and reflects on innovative post structuralist scholars in the field of planning, economics, social geography and governance. It then takes its own position in that debate, reflecting on actor-oriented experiments in planning practices. These experiments deal with the daily planning practice with a pro-active and operational attitude, contrary to the usual retrospective case studies. Therefore it results in concrete suggestions on how to develop a more robust planning-approach in an ongoing globalising and fragmenting world.
Urban Connections in the Contemporary Pedestrian Landscape
Urban Connections in the Contemporary Pedestrian Landscape - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Urban Connections in the Contemporary Pedestrian Landscape write by Philip Pregill. This book was released on 2019-09-17. Urban Connections in the Contemporary Pedestrian Landscape available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Urban Connections in the Contemporary Pedestrian Landscape explores the significant physical and cultural changes in our urban areas following the implementation of design strategies and increased pedestrian activity. Beginning with a history of the urban grid, the book then discusses experiential factors of pedestrianized urban landscapes in three scales, arterials, collectors and locals, with an emphasis on inductive and deductive design alternatives. It closely examines elements derived from current urban pedestrian experiences including form, scale, surfaces and identity and provides alternative design solutions for the future. Uniquely focusing on a hierarchical discussion of the quality of contemporary landscape design applications within the urban grid, and with illustrated examples throughout the text, this will be useful recommended reading for academics, researchers and postgraduate students on urban landscape and design courses.
Urban Connections in the Contemporary Pedestrian Landscape
Urban Connections in the Contemporary Pedestrian Landscape - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Urban Connections in the Contemporary Pedestrian Landscape write by Philip Pregill. This book was released on 2020. Urban Connections in the Contemporary Pedestrian Landscape available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book explores the significant physical and cultural changes in our urban areas following the implementation of design strategies and increased pedestrian activity. It focuses on a hierarchical discussion of the quality of contemporary landscape design applications within the urban grid, and has illustrated examples throughout the text.
Cleavage, Connection and Conflict in Rural, Urban and Contemporary Asia
Cleavage, Connection and Conflict in Rural, Urban and Contemporary Asia - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Cleavage, Connection and Conflict in Rural, Urban and Contemporary Asia write by Tim Bunnell. This book was released on 2012-12-11. Cleavage, Connection and Conflict in Rural, Urban and Contemporary Asia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Asia, the location of the world’s fastest-growing economies, is also home to some of the fastest rates of urbanization humanity has ever seen, a process whose speed renders long-term outcomes highly unpredictable. This volume contrasts with much published work on the rural/urban divide, which has tended to focus on single case studies. It provides empirical perspectives from four Asian countries: India, Indonesia, Malaysia, and Thailand, and includes a wealth of insights that both critique and expand popular notions of the rural-urban divide. The volume is relevant not just to Asian contexts but to social scientific research on population dynamics more generally. Rather than deploying a single study to chart national trends, three chapters on each country make possible much more complex perspectives. As a result, this volume does more than extend our understanding of the interplay between cities and hinterlands within Asia. It enhances our notions of rural/urban cleavages, connections and conflicts more generally, with data and analysis ready for application to other contexts. Of interest to diverse scholars across the social sciences and Asian studies, this work includes accounts ranging from rural youth real estate entrepreneurs in Hyderabad, India, to social development in Aceh province in Indonesia, devastated by the 2004 tsunami, to the relationship between urban space and commonly held notions of the supernatural in Thailand’s northern city of Chiang Mai.
The Global Urban Competitiveness Report - 2011
The Global Urban Competitiveness Report - 2011 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Global Urban Competitiveness Report - 2011 write by Pengfei Ni. This book was released on 2012-01-01. The Global Urban Competitiveness Report - 2011 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 'This Report – 2011 gives an overwhelming amount of comprehensive information for city managers trying to cope with the ever-increasing competition between cities in attracting investments, talent, firms, knowledge, events etc. Apart from an update of the ranking of 500 cities this new publication offers a lot of additional information, such as a selection of the best examples of competitive cities. The book is recommended for everybody interested in the strengths and weaknesses of the major cities in the world.' – Leo van den Berg, Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands 'Ni Pengfei's GUCRs are distinctive for their methodology and the comprehensiveness of coverage. In this edition Ni offers us three new insights. In three chapters he analyses aspects of the competitiveness of five functional categories of cities as centers, such as finance, technology, politics, manufacturing and port/logistics. The determinants of the elements in his Global Urban Competitiveness Report, give us an indication of the importance of each of the elements. The Report also provides eleven examples of best city practices. A must-read book.' – Peter Karl Kresl, Bucknell University, US The Global Urban Competitiveness Report – 2011 is an empirical study of the competitiveness of 500 cities around the world. This one-of-a-kind annual resource draws on a wealth of data sources, all of which are described and assessed. Using a sophisticated methodology and a team of 100 researchers from the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, the book not only ranks these cities but also presents a treasury of information with regard to the strengths and weaknesses of each city in relation to each other. The book includes a full discussion of the factors that create urban competitiveness and what sorts or categories of cities are most competitive, and comments on the policies and initiatives that are adopted by the most competitive cities. Scholars and researchers in the areas of urban economics, planning, geography and regional economics will find the information invaluable, as will local authorities, decision-makers and economic planners in cities throughout the world.
