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Urban Land Use Policy: the Central City

Author : Richard Bruce Andrews

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Page : 312 pages

File Size : 43,8 MB

Release : 1972

Category : Political Science

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Collection of readings on the urban area land utilization control system and policy in the USA - examines the sociological aspects, economic implications and social implications of formal control devices such as zoning, building (construction industry) and housing codes, property taxation, etc., describes new urban planning and development experiments, including public ownership, the role of local level public administration, and comments on relevant government policy and legislation. References.



PAIS Bulletin

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Page : 360 pages

File Size : 18,53 MB

Release : 1915

Category : Policy sciences

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Land and the City

Author : Philip Kivell

Publisher : Routledge

Page : 238 pages

File Size : 48,7 MB

Release : 2002-11-01

Category : Science

ISBN : 1134882033

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First Published in 2004. Presents a broad analysis of land use patterns and processes in urban areas. Land has the greatest significance for the spatial patterning and functioning of modern urban settlements and societies - providing the basic morphological elements of the city, it is a source of social and economic power, is intimately bound up with environmental issues and lies at the heart of planning. This book examines the way in which land is allocated and used in both theoretical and practical senses. The author examines the empirical data to reveal the sources and nature of land, how land is used and how those uses are changing in the contemporary city. Particular attention is paid to the misuse of land through vacancy or dereliction. He also explores the importance of land ownership and the principles of land policy using case studies. Finally, he assesses the land use implications of major urban change - deindustrialization, counter-urbanization and new technology. For the first time the overall significance of land use and ownership are examined in an urban geographical and planning context.



Handbook of Regional and Urban Economics

Author : V. Henderson

Publisher : Elsevier

Page : 1081 pages

File Size : 50,24 MB

Release : 2004-07-21

Category : Business & Economics

ISBN : 0080495125

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The new Handbook of Regional and Urban Economics: Cities and Geography reviews, synthesizes and extends the key developments in urban and regional economics and their strong connection to other recent developments in modern economics. Of particular interest is the development of the new economic geography and its incorporation along with innovations in industrial organization, endogenous growth, network theory and applied econometrics into urban and regional economics. The chapters cover theoretical developments concerning the forces of agglomeration, the nature of neighborhoods and human capital externalities, the foundations of systems of cities, the development of local political institutions, regional agglomerations and regional growth. Such massive progress in understanding the theory behind urban and regional phenomenon is consistent with on-going progress in the field since the late 1960's. What is unprecedented are the developments on the empirical side: the development of a wide body of knowledge concerning the nature of urban externalities, city size distributions, urban sprawl, urban and regional trade, and regional convergence, as well as a body of knowledge on specific regions of the world—Europe, Asia and North America, both current and historical. The Handbook is a key reference piece for anyone wishing to understand the developments in the field.



Zoning Rules!

Author : William A. Fischel

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Page : 416 pages

File Size : 48,5 MB

Release : 2015

Category : Electronic books

ISBN : 9781558442887

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"Zoning has for a century enabled cities to chart their own course. It is a useful and popular institution, enabling homeowners to protect their main investment and provide safe neighborhoods. As home values have soared in recent years, however, this protection has accelerated to the degree that new housing development has become unreasonably difficult and costly. The widespread Not In My Backyard (NIMBY) syndrome is driven by voters’ excessive concern about their home values and creates barriers to growth that reach beyond individual communities. The barriers contribute to suburban sprawl, entrench income and racial segregation, retard regional immigration to the most productive cities, add to national wealth inequality, and slow the growth of the American economy. Some state, federal, and judicial interventions to control local zoning have done more harm than good. More effective approaches would moderate voters’ demand for local-land use regulation—by, for example, curtailing federal tax subsidies to owner-occupied housing"--Publisher's description.







Transforming Cities with Transit

Author : Hiroaki Suzuki

Publisher : World Bank Publications

Page : 233 pages

File Size : 39,61 MB

Release : 2013-01-22

Category : Business & Economics

ISBN : 0821397508

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'Transforming Cities with Transit' explores the complex process of transit and land-use integration and provides policy recommendations and implementation strategies for effective integration in rapidly growing cities in developing countries.



Urban Planning for City Leaders

Author : Pablo Vaggione

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Page : 190 pages

File Size : 11,42 MB

Release : 2012

Category : City planning

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This guide is the result of a UN-Habitat initiative to provide local leaders and decision makers with the tools to support urban planning good practice. It includes several "how to" sections on all aspects of urban planning, including how to build resilience and reduce climate risks, with an example from Sorsogon, Philippines. It outlines practical ways to create and implement a vision for a city that will better prepare it to cope with growth and change. The overall guide offers insights from real experiences on what it takes to have an impact and to transform an urban reality through urban planning. It clearly links planning and financing and presents many successful practices that emphasize strategies to address real issues. It aims to inform leaders about the value that urban planning could bring to their cities and to facili.



Eco-Cities and Green Transport

Author : Huapu Lu

Publisher : Elsevier

Page : 408 pages

File Size : 40,84 MB

Release : 2020-04-07

Category : Transportation

ISBN : 012821516X

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Eco-cities and Green Transport presents a systematic, uniform, and structured way to examine different cities at different scales in order to suggest unique solutions appropriate to each scale. The book examines city infrastructure and the built environment, transport system supply and demand, and transport behavior to offer innovative policy solutions for various transport modes. With end of chapter experiences and lessons summarized, the book provides an in-depth analysis of the advantages and disadvantages for transforming cities and their transport systems to meet residents current and future needs. The increasingly rapid growth of global urbanization requires cities to be built in an ecologically sustainable, energy efficient, and livable way. A critical component in achieving these goals is an urban transportation system that uses natural resources as reasonably as possible. The outcome of a ten-year data collection research effort by the author and his team, the book sheds new insights into these challenges using a thorough investigation of traffic systems in 20 cities from 13 countries throughout Asia, Europe, and the United States.