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1. City Tech

   20 Apps, Ideas, and Innovators Changing the Urban Landscape
   Livros
   Junho 2024
   By Rob Walker

   This book is currently available for pre-order. It will be published in June 2024. The world is rapidly urbanizing, and experts predict that up to 80 percent of the population will live in cities by...

2. Megaregions and America's Future

   Livros
   Março 2022
   Robert D. Yaro, Ming Zhang, and Frederick R. Steiner

   “[This] visionary book provides a high-level map that charts a path through a set of daunting challenges, imagining step-by-step the choreography of reconfiguring, and thereby renewing, the...

3. Infrastructure Economics and Policy

   International Perspectives
   Livros
   Dezembro 2021
   Edited by José A. Gómez-Ibáñez and Zhi Liu

   “The content is highly relevant right now. As countries worldwide are designing economic recovery and stimulus programs from the COVID-19 pandemic, the question of infrastructure has come...

4. Land and the City

   Livros
   Janeiro 2016
   Edited by George W. McCarthy, Gregory K. Ingram, and Samuel A. Moody

   This book from the Lincoln Institute's 2014 Land Policy Conference examines issues of land use policies and their impact on sustainable urbanization. By 1960, one-third of the world’s...

5. Planeta de ciudades

   Livros
   Junho 2015
   Shlomo Angel

   This book develops a science of global cities to prepare for the coming expansion of the planet's population and questions the main tenets of the Containment Paradigm. It provides planners and...

6. Planning for States and Nation-States in the U.S. and Europe

   Livros
   Abril 2015
   Edited by Gerrit-Jan Knaap, Zorica Nedović-Budić, and Armando Carbonell

   “This timely transatlantic dialogue between planning researchers and policy makers provides a wealth of information and insights into the planning frameworks and institutions in changing...

7. Infrastructure and Land Policies

   Livros
   Maio 2013
   Edited by Gregory K. Ingram and Karin L. Brandt

   More than 50 percent of the global population resides in urban areas where land policy and infrastructure interactions facilitate economic opportunities, affect the quality of life, and influence...

8. Financing Metropolitan Governments in Developing Countries

   Livros
   Abril 2013
   Edited by Roy W. Bahl, Johannes F. Linn, and Deborah L. Wetzel

   This work uses case studies of urban financing mechanisms in China, India, and Brazil to help decision makers in developing countries address the challenges of rapid metropolitan growth. The report...

9. China’s Environmental Policy and Urban Development

   Livros
   Fevereiro 2013
   Edited by Joyce Yanyun Man

   “It is well known that rapid urbanization and industrialization in China have had serious consequences for China's environment. Far less recognized are the wide ranging efforts undertaken...

10. Planet of Cities

    Livros
    Setembro 2012
    Shlomo Angel

    “Students and others looking for a place to start often ask, ‘If I could read just one book about xxxx, which would you suggest?’ When it comes to cities, I have a new favorite. It...