Urban Regions
Author: Richard T. T. Forman
Publisher:
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 408
ISBN-13: 9780521854467
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA pioneering book bulging with promising land patterns for students, planners, conservationists and policy makers.
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Creative Urban Regions: Harnessing Urban Technologies to Support Knowledge City Initiatives
Author: Yigitcanlar, Tan
Publisher: IGI Global
Published: 2008-02-28
Total Pages: 390
ISBN-13: 1599048418
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExplores the utilization of urban technology to support knowledge city initiatives, providing fundamental techniques and processes for the successful integration of information technologies and urban production. Presents research on a multitude of cutting-edge urban information communication technology issues.
Secondary Cities
Author: Pendras, Mark
Publisher: Policy Press
Published: 2021-06-03
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 1529212073
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book explores cities and intra-regional relational dynamics to challenge common representations of urban development ‘success’ and ‘failure’. It provides innovative alternative relations and development strategies that reimagine the subordinate status of secondary cities.
Mega Urban Regions of Southeast Asia
Author: Ira M. Robinson
Publisher: UBC Press
Published: 2011-11-01
Total Pages: 402
ISBN-13: 0774842644
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA distinguishing feature of recent urbanization in the ASEAN countries of Thailand, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, and Indonesia is the outward extension of their mega-cities (Bangkok, Jakarta, Manila, Singapore, and Kuala Lumpur) beyond the metropolitan borders, resulting in the establishment of new towns, industrial estates, and housing projects in previously rural areas. This process has both positive and negative effects. On one side, household incomes and employment opportunities are increasing, but on the other, the growth often causes serious problems in terms of environmental deterioration, conflicting land uses, and inadequate housing and service provisions. Mega Urban Regions of Southeast Asia is the first comprehensive work on the subject of ASEAN mega-urban regions. The contributors review T.G. McGee's original idea of desakota zones, and offer arguments both for and against this concept, making a significant contribution to our understanding of the true face of ASEAN cities. The book brings together authors from around the world and will be of interest to a wide audience, including demographers, urban planners, geographers, sociologists, economists, civil servants and development consultants.
Cities, Regions and Flows
Author: Peter V. Hall
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 290
ISBN-13: 0415682193
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCities, Regions and Flows presents a theoretical framework for understanding the changing relationship between places and physical movement, and thoughtfully prepared case studies from five continents on how cities relate to value chains, and how they ensure accessibility and urban liveability in an increasingly contested policy environment. Moreover, the book discusses how urban policies attempt to solve related conflicts in terms of infrastructure provision, land use, local labour markets and environmental sustainability. The two subsystems that are of major interest here - urban regions on the one hand, and logistics management and physical distribution on the other - develop in quite distinct, and often contradictory, ways. Whereas urban regions face disintegration due to the expansion of the built environment and the spatio-temporal fragmentation of life-worlds and regional systems, the logistics system itself demands integration in order to keep flows moving and to reduce costs. Physical flows, networks and chains thus have a fundamental impact on urban restructuring.
Beyond Metropolis
Author: Aprodicio A. Laquian
Publisher: Washington, D.C. : Woodrow Wilson Center Press
Published: 2005-05-05
Total Pages: 528
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBeyond Metropolis builds on studies conducted during the 1990s under the Centre for Human Settlements at the University of British Columbia.
Redefining "Urban" A New Way to Measure Metropolitan Areas
Author: OECD
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Published: 2012-04-19
Total Pages: 151
ISBN-13: 9264174109
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis report compares urbanisation trends in OECD countries on the basis of a newly defined OECD methodology which enables cross-country comparison of the socio-econimic and environmental performance of metropolitan areas in OECD countries.
OECD Urban Studies Cities in the World A New Perspective on Urbanisation
Author: OECD
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Published: 2020-06-16
Total Pages: 171
ISBN-13: 9264376666
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCities are not only home to around half of the global population but also major centers of economic activity and innovation. Yet, so far there has been no consensus of what a city really is. Substantial differences in the way cities, metropolitan, urban, and rural areas are defined across countries hinder robust international comparisons and an accurate monitoring of SDGs. The report Cities in the World: A New Perspective on Urbanisation addresses this void and provides new insights on urbanisation by applying for the first time two new definitions of human settlements to the entire globe: the Degree of Urbanisation and the Functional Urban Area.
Synergy in Polycentric Urban Regions
Author: Evert J. Meijers
Publisher: IOS Press
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 194
ISBN-13: 1586037242
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThanks to reality and the stubborn resistance of history to accommodate urban planning, often cities of about the same size wind up fairly close to each other and, although they do not merge or in other ways behave as one entity, they become co-dependent either formally or informally in terms of identity if not its services. Meijers presents here his doctoral dissertation, which was undertaken with the support of an urban research project in The Netherlands. He describes polycentric urban regions and their nearly universal quest for synergy, the division of labor of one set of cities in the Randstad, Flemish Diamond and RheinRuhr areas, moving from a "central places" theory too a network model, realizing the potential of a polycentric urban region, abandoning the idea that adding up small cities makes a metropolis, and synthesizing theoretical and case study information.
Urban Regions Now & Tomorrow
Author: Sonja Deppisch
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2017-04-19
Total Pages: 282
ISBN-13: 3658167599
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book points to three dominant concepts of how to deal with long-term or surprising and also sudden catastrophic changes, with a main focus on resilience. It is dealing with past, current and future change processes in European, Northern American as well as Australian cities and urban regions, and with the challenges they pose to a resilient urban development. Additionally, contributions deal with potential transformations of urban and regional development and related planning and governance approaches.
