Books

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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
Healthy Cities and Urban Policy Research Healthy Cities and Urban Policy Research Takehito Takano Half the world's population lives in Urban areas. The United Nations estimates that the urban population of 1995 will have doubled by 2025. By 2015, it is expected that there will be 33 megacities, 2… OL15185142W
Immigrants, integration and cities Immigrants, integration and cities Contains a selection of papers prepared for an experts' meeting held in Paris, March 18-19, 1996, for the purpose of providing a better understanding of the relationship between immigration and urban… OL18298574W
Compact cities Compact cities Rod Burgess,M. Jenks This new book examines and evaluates the merits and defects of compact city approaches in the context of developing countries. Issues of theory, policy and practice relating to sustainability of urba… OL19123058W
When city and country collide When city and country collide Thomas L. Daniels "As traditional rural industries give way to residential and commercial development, the land at the edges of developed areas - the rural-urban fringe - is becoming the middle landscape between city … OL1971016W
Steden in groei en bloei Steden in groei en bloei Mark Girouard Geschiedenis en ontwikkeling van steden in de westerse wereld van de tiende tot in de twintigste eeuw. OL24623123W
Edge of empire Edge of empire Jane Jacobs Edge of Empire examines struggles over urban space in four contemporary first world cities: two sites in London and two sites in the Australian cities of Perth and Brisbane. Through these examples th… OL3231284W
European cities and towns European cities and towns Peter Clark "This study of European cities and towns from the fall of the Roman Empire to the present day looks both at regional trends from across Europe and also at the widely differing fortunes of individual … OL5908700W