Regional, Rural And Urban Development – all Bücher, Page 2

José Aparicio Da Silva
The Countryside in the City

...is about the expropriation of a group of peasants from the region of Itaiacoca, a rural district of Ponta Grossa in Paraná. These farmers swapped their family farms for factory work in the city, but co…

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Heiner Wieseler, Christian Teuchert, Susanne Zajonz
Landesbauordnung Rheinland-Pfalz

Kommunale Schriften für Rheinland-Pfalz

Diese Ausgabe enthält neben der Entwicklungsgeschichte den aktuellen Text der LBauO unter Berücksichtigung der jüngeren Veränderungen auch in benachbarten Bereichen wie dem Landessolargesetz und dem ergän…

lieferbar ab 30.6.2026.

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Hans R a Koster, Stef Proost, Jacques-François Thisse
Spatial Economics

An authoritative and cutting-edge exploration of how land, transportation, and economic forces shape cities, regions, and the distribution of economic activities from a local to a global scale. Land, by i…

lieferbar ab 29.5.2026.

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Henry Cisneros, Robert Rivard, David Hendricks
The Austin-San Antonio Megaregion

A cascade of recent reports has described unprecedented growth in every category measured---population, employment, new business starts, manufacturing indices, traffic counts, in-migration, school attenda…

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Tropentag 2025-International Research on Food Security, Natural Resource Management and Rural Development. Reconciling land system changes with planetary health

Tropentag 2025 in Bonn, themed "Reconciling Land System Changes with Planetary Health," brings together researchers, practitioners, policymakers, and students to advance sustainable agriculture,…

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Katie J Wells, Kafui Attoh, Declan Cullen
Disrupting D.C.

A panoramic account of the urban politics and deep social divisions that gave rise to UberThe first city to fight back against Uber, Washington, D.C., was also the first city where such resistance was def…

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Peter F Burns, Matthew O Thomas, Max R Bieganski
Disneyland Politics

When Walt Disney decided to build Disneyland in Anaheim, CA in the 1950s, the move presented a puzzle for Anaheim's government: How would the city balance the interests of private investors against those …

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Peter F Burns, Matthew O Thomas, Max R Bieganski
Disneyland Politics

When Walt Disney decided to build Disneyland in Anaheim, CA in the 1950s, the move presented a puzzle for Anaheim's government: How would the city balance the interests of private investors against those …

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Pe Moskowitz
How to Kill a City

"An exacting look at gentrification" (New York Times Book Review)---and the lives devastated in the processThe term gentrification has become a buzzword to describe the changes in urban neighbor…

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Andrew C Willford
Modernity and Malevolence in the Psychiatric Clinic

Modernity and Malevolence in the Psychiatric Clinic is a richly detailed ethnographic study of clinical care at NIMHANS, India's leading mental health institution, offering rich observations of patient-ph…

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Chandan Deuskar, Sally Murray, Juan Sebastian Leiva Molano, Ibrahim Ali Khan
Banking on Cities

This report estimates the costs of key resilient and low-carbon urban investments in all low- and middle-income countries up to 2050. It discusses how cities can reduce the cost of these investments throu…

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James Dougherty, Charles C Bohl
The Art of the New Urbanism, Volume 1

The New Urbanism has dramatically transformed the way illustrations are used to advance the dialogue of community planning and place making. New Urbanists have revived and advanced techniques of visual co…

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Growth of a Megacity

Jakarta, one of the largest metropolitan areas in Southeast Asia, has grown from 150,000 residents in the first half of the twentieth century to more than 31 million residents in 2024. This tremendous pop…

lieferbar ab 31.3.2026.

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Chukwuemeka Osuigwe
Economic Development of Rural Areas

This book explores the potential for economic development within rural areas. With a particular focus on African economies, it examines the challenges facing rural areas, including inadequate infrastructu…

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Bruno Carvalho
The Invention of the Future

A kaleidoscopic and original new history of urbanization---from Lisbon to New York, Paris to Rio de Janeiro, and Buenos Aires to LagosFor the past three centuries, urban dwellers and planners have imagine…

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Tanzil Shafique
City of Desire

In this major open access contribution to Global South urban studies, Tanzil Shafique offers a new way of knowing and engaging with the most common urban environment in the Global South - informal settlem…

lieferbar ab 25.6.2026.

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Jennifer Baum
Just City

WINNER, 2025 ASSOCIATION OF UNIVERSITY PRESSES BOOK, JACKET, AND JOURNAL SHOW IN THE JACKETS & COVERS CATEGORYA captivating memoir of New York's Historic Upper West Side at a time when community and u…

lieferbar ab 5.5.2026.

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Michael Pollack
Sidewalk Nation

An illuminating ramble along the American sidewalk: routinely unnoticed, yet central to daily life, neighborhood vitality, and significant legal controversies.Public infrastructure is as essential to our …

lieferbar ab 26.6.2026.

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Ryan Short
The Civic Brand

The Civic Brand: The Power & Responsibility of Place is a bold and practical book that challenges conventional thinking about city-building, tourism, economic development, and community engagement. Au…

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Howard A Husock
The Projects

How housing policy failed the people it was designed to help --- and how to fix it As the US struggles to provide affordable housing, millions of Americans live in deteriorating public housing projects, e…

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