City Planning & Urban Development
- Aleppo
- The Eighth Veronica Rudge Green Prize in Urban Design
- Edited by Joan Busquets
- In Aleppo: Rehabilitation of the Old City, Busquets describes the value of successful urban rehabilitation in this historic setting. The Syrian city of Aleppo won the prestigious Veronica Rudge Green Prize in Urban Design for its urban renewal efforts and Busquets offers an innovative take on how these rehabilitation projects are accomplished effectively.
- Paperback 2006
- City Economics
- Brendan O'Flaherty
- This introductory but innovative textbook on the economics of cities is aimed at students of urban and regional policy as well as of undergraduate economics. It deals with standard topics, including automobiles, mass transit, pollution, housing, and education but it also discusses non-standard topics such as segregation, water supply, sewers, garbage, fire prevention, housing codes, homelessness, crime, illicit drugs, and economic development.
- Hardcover 2005
- From the Puritans to the Projects
- Lawrence J. Vale
- From the almshouses of seventeenth-century Puritans to the massive housing projects of the mid-twentieth century, the struggle over housing assistance in the United States has exposed a deep-seated ambivalence about the place of the urban poor. Lawrence J. Vale's groundbreaking book is both a comprehensive institutional history of public housing in Boston and a broader examination of the nature and extent of public obligation to house socially and economically marginal Americans during the past 350 years.
- Hardcover 2000 / Paperback 2007
- The Making of Urban Europe, 1000-1994
- Paul Hohenberg
- Lynn Lees
- By tracing the large-scale processes of social, economic, and political change within cities, as well as the evolving relationships between town and country and between city and city, Hohenberg and Lees present an original synthesis of European urbanization within a global context. They bring this edition up to date with a new chapter entitled "Europe's Cities in the Twentieth Century."
- Paperback 1995
- Modernizing the Provincial City
- Rosemary Wakeman
- Toulouse is one of the most striking examples of urban modernization both in France and in the rest of Europe. In this book, Rosemary Wakeman examines the postwar transformation of Toulouse and shows how urban landscape and architecture, culture, and economic life were altered by public modernization programs designed to build "the new France."
- Hardcover 1998
- Paris Sewers and Sewermen
- Donald Reid
- Hardcover 1991 / Paperback
- Urban Growth and City-Systems in the United States, 1840-1860
- Allan R. Pred
- Hardcover 1980
- Urban Masses and Moral Order in America, 1820-1920
- Paul Boyer
- Boyer explores the links between the urban reforms of the Progressive era and the long efforts of prior generations to tame the cities. By the 1890s there had developed two sharply divergent trends in thinking about urban planning and social control: the bleak assessment that led to coercive strategies and the hopeful evaluation that emphasized the importance of environmental betterment as a means of urban moral control.
- Paperback 1992
- The Urban Origins of Suburban Autonomy
- Richardson Dilworth
- Using the urbanized area that spreads across northern New Jersey and around New York City as a case study, this book presents a convincing explanation of metropolitan fragmentation--the process by which suburban communities remain as is or break off and form separate political entities.
- Hardcover 2005
- Urban Planning and Civic Order in Germany, 1860-1914
- Brian Ladd
- Ladd describes the struggle of prosperous German bourgeois leaders to bring order to their rapidly growing cities during the tumultuous age of industrial expansion in the decades before World War I. He sets the emerging theory and practice of city planning in the context of debates about the nature of the modern city and the possibility of improving society by regulating its physical environment. In so doing, he reveals the extent to which modern city planning is a product of the aspirations, prejudices, and frustrations of the German burghers who created it.
- Hardcover 1990