Cities Countries

Author : Vishaan Chakrabarti
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781935202172
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Country of Cities written by Vishaan Chakrabarti and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In A Country of Cities, author Vishaan Chakrabarti argues that well-designed cities are the key to solving America's great national challenges: environmental degradation, unsustainable consumption, economic stagnation, rising public health costs and decreased social mobility. If we develop them wisely in the future, our cities can be the force leading us into a new era of progressive and prosperous stewardship of our nation. In compelling chapters, Chakrabarti brings us a wealth of information about cities, suburbs and exurbs, looking at how they developed across the 50 states and their roles in prosperity and globalization, sustainability and resilience, and heath and joy. Counter to what you might think, American cities today are growing faster than their suburban counterparts for the first time since the 1920s. If we can intelligently increase the density of our cities as they grow and build the transit systems, schools, parks and other infrastructure to support them, Chakrabarti shows us how both job opportunities and an improved, sustainable environment are truly within our means. In this call for an urban America, he illustrates his argument with numerous infographics illustrating provocative statistics on issues as disparate as rising childhood obesity rates, ever-lengthening automobile commutes and government subsidies that favor highways over mass transit. The book closes with an eloquent manifesto that rallies us to build "a Country of Cities," to turn a country of highways, houses and hedges into a country of trains, towers and trees. Vishaan Chakrabarti is an architect, scholar and founder of PAU. PAU designs architecture that builds the physical, cultural, and economic networks of cities, with an emphasis on beauty, function and user experience. PAU simultaneously advances strategic urbanism projects in the form of master planning, tactical project advice and advocacy.

Author : Jane Jacobs
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0525432876
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cities and the Wealth of Nations written by Jane Jacobs and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2016-08-17 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this eye-opening work of economic theory, Jane Jacobs argues that it is cities—not nations—that are the drivers of wealth. Challenging centuries of economic orthodoxy, in Cities and the Wealth of Nations the beloved author contends that healthy cities are constantly evolving to replace imported goods with locally-produced alternatives, spurring a cycle of vibrant economic growth. Intelligently argued and drawing on examples from around the world and across the ages, here Jacobs radically changes the way we view our cities—and our entire economy.

Author : Uday Chatterjee
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031259149
Total Pages : 598 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Urban Environment and Smart Cities in Asian Countries written by Uday Chatterjee and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-05-27 with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a thorough description of the challenges posed by increasing global urbanization. In addition, comprehensive perspectives are offered on how the contemporary urban challenges of our time are tackled by existing designers, architects, urban planners, and landscape architects thereby considering climate change, migration, resilience, politics, and environmental degradation. It includes insights from environmental design, geography, strategic planning, and engineering design. It goes beyond the jargon of technical innovation, and exposes the political, social and physical effects of digitalizing the world in smart cities. The book focuses on the application of geospatial technology of smart cities – including system design for basic services, real-time control and the Internet of Things. It highlights the planning of land use, strategic development, and ecosystem-based knowledge to enhance economic growth and healthy urban environment and smart city management. The book also shows the contradictory aspects of smart city studies, and provides useful insights into the creation and execution of policies to strengthen decision-making processes in smart cities. This book leads the reader to a greater understanding of smart city growth, both theoretical and realistic and as such it provides an interesting read for urban geographers, urban designers and planners, environmental specialists, practitioners, students.

Author : Cedric Pugh
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134191618
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sustainable Cities in Developing Countries written by Cedric Pugh and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-16 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text addresses the difficulties of balancing the imperatives of sustainability with the pressing challenges facing some of the world's most underdeveloped areas. Various perspectives are brought to bear on issues from economics and theories of health through to the foundations of sustainability. All the key contemporary developments are dealt with; the growth in international law and agreements on controlling greenhouse gases; the effect of reforms in finance, governance and methods of appraisal on the areas of waste management; and the theoretical advances in the community development aspects of health and the neighbourhood environment guided by the experiences of the World Bank, WHO and UNEP. The text is intended as a guidebook for those responsible for re-shaping cities in the 21st century.

Author : Roman Payne
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 0615137873
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cities & Countries written by Roman Payne and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2007-01-04 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "'Cities & Countries' is a book about travel, about searching and wandering, about finding greatness in the midst of the world." Strange adventures meet Alexis when he wanders far from his familiar home in a quest to become a man of the world. What begins as a search for the "Great City," leads to a wayward and whimsical, romantically poignant, and at times powerfully despairing, jaunt through various cities and countries, far and wide. Along the way, he meets soldiers and hunchbacks, criminals and revolutionaries, madmen and fishermen, goatherds and opium smokers, charlatans, fanatical holy men and beautiful noblemen's daughters. He encounters glory, suffers poverty and loss. Friends and lovers come and go, while youth gives way to wisdom and experience. Payne speaks to us in his unique timeless tone, mixing mythology, realism and allegory to create a stage for an extraordinary drama that blends comedy, tragedy, gritty prose and magical poetry in an exploration of joy and sorrow, hope and despair.

Author : George St. Clair
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Buried Cities and Bible Countries written by George St. Clair and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-06-03 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains a description of some of the most important modern discoveries bearing upon the Bible, with the selection of locations featured made to meet the wants of those who have no time to follow the course of exploration and no taste for technical details. Countries featured in the book include Israel, Palestine, and Egypt.

Author : V. Christianto
Publisher : Infinite Study
ISBN 13 : 159973060X
Total Pages : 63 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cultural Advantage for Cities.An Alternative for Developing Countries written by V. Christianto and published by Infinite Study. This book was released on 2008 with total page 63 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After more than a decade Michael Porter¿s book Competitive Advantage of Nations stays ahead of the other books, in particular as alternative framework from the comparative advantage idea inspired by Adam Smith.This small book is merely a small proposition, a postscript perhaps, to Porter¿s book, with basic idea that one cannot rely merely on industrial processes alone to keep stay ahead of market changes. Hence, for cities in developing countries the municipal shall find out their city¿s potential resources, and develop their city starting from there, instead of striving blindly in the conventional industrial path.We focus our discussions in this book on cities, because in our opinion a city is the smallest economic entity which has 'auto-poiesis¿ character. A city can grow by itself, and its administrators can only expect to affect its growth, rather than stop its natural grow path. What we would like to emphasize here is the word 'alternative¿ in this book title. What we mean is that the proposed strategy is not always true for all conditions. for instance, in Hawaii, where industrialization and resources are very few the best strategy is perhaps to foster its 'cultural approach'. Meanwhile for other cities where there is no extensive cultural potential, then industrialization approach seems still working.After all we do not pretend to have the last word on proper remedies to problems encountered by each developing country. It would need substantial study based on each particular country¿s problems, contexts and resources. We also introduce for the first time the Poly-Emporium Theory; which etymologically comes from poly = many, and emporium = trade center, store with a wide variety of selling things; therefore poly-emporium is the study of interactions among many (big and small) firms in the market.This book is now available in Indonesia in Gramedia bookstore, Jl Matraman Raya, Jakarta, Indonesia

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Publisher : Ardent Media
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 28 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Role of Cities in the Economic Growth of Underdeveloped Countries written by and published by Ardent Media. This book was released on with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Gregory K. Ingram
Publisher : World Bank Publications
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 44 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Motorization and the Provision of Roads in Countries and Cities written by Gregory K. Ingram and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1997 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Richard Rogers
Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 9780571206520
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cities for a Small Country written by Richard Rogers and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2000 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Britain is abandoning its cities and sprawling over green fields. Crime, congestion and inequality are getting worse. Is there an alternative?After two years' work for the Urban Task Force, architect Richard Rogers and Professor Anne Power set out the problems of cities and propose radical solutions. Suburban sprawl, over-use of energy, environmental damage, depleted inner cities and marginalised communities will force us to waste less and live more compactly. We need cites for a small country.This book follows the celebrated Cities for a Small Planet, weaving together architectural and social perspectives. Future generations will inherit our cities and land: we must make them work.