Written by the chair of the LEED-Neighborhood Development (LEED-ND) initiative, Sustainable Urbanism: Urban Design with Nature is both an urgent call to action and a comprehensive introduction to "…
This book provides an up-to-date introduction to the important and growing field of urban anthropology. This is an increasingly critical area of study, as more than half of the world's population n…
This book provides an up-to-date introduction to the important and growing field of urban anthropology. This is an increasingly critical area of study, as more than half of the world's population n…
This year marks the thirtieth anniversary of market- oriented economic reform in China, which has resulted in urbanisation on a massive scale: the urbanisation rate rising from 20 per cent in 1980 …
For Siegfried Kracauer the urban ornament was not just an aspect of design; it was the medium through which city dwellers interpreted the metropolis itself. In Ornaments of the Metropolis, Henrik R…
Man-nature relationships in an urbanized society are complex, dynamic, and poorly understood. Yet we know enough about them to recognize that many major prob lems of conservation and environmental …
Juvenile Delinquency and Urban Areas-long out of print-has been extensively revised and updated. It now includes rates of delinquents and rates of commitments for the city of Chicago over a period …
Urban Social Segregation covers the frontier where the spatial aspects of sociology overlap the social aspects of geography. It collects, with a full-scale introduction, a series of papers on the s…
The study of urban reference models is a mere mental exercise unless the results obtained are of practical use. We have therefore tried to show that certain layouts we have studied are not just int…
The Centre for Urban Studies was entrusted in August, 1974 with the job of preparing a Survey Report on the Urban Squatters of Dacca, Chitta gong and Khulna. The Survey was sponsored by the Urban D…