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Fred Trump: The Rational Comprehensive Builder After working construction in high school and studying engineering at the Pratt Institute, Fred Trump started developing properties in Queens. He began with single-family ...

epub |eng | | Author:Donald Shoup

The Relationship between Development, Parking, and Transport Amid Urban Decline In cities with declining populations, resources are strained and development is scarce. Mandated parking minimums add burdensome development costs and ...

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While the capacity of the best-performing BRT may overlap with that of the worst-performing subway line, no BRT can match the speed of a subway line. Hong Kong’s subway has ...

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7 THE ARECHIGA DISPOSSESSIONS The manner in which the evictions were carried out certainly influenced the ways in which they were interpreted, as did the nature of the media coverage ...

epub |eng | | Author:Paul Dobraszczyk

An enormous range of projects from this period envisaged new urban communities under protective canopies of one kind or another. These included the geodesic bio-domes developed by Buckminster Fuller and ...

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Transportation Planning and Land Use Land use and transportation planning are very much a chicken and egg situation. In the short term, land use shapes the demand for transportation. Many ...

epub |eng | | Author:Ben Green

6 The Innovative City: The Relationship between Technical and Nontechnical Change in City Government One of the smart city’s most alluring features is its promise of innovation: it uses cutting-edge ...

azw3 |eng | 2015-06-22 | Author:Barnett, Jonathan & Beasley, Larry [Barnett, Jonathan]

Figure 4-25 A double row of trees along the sidewalk offers a visual barrier to adjacent tall buildings and creates a sense of protection from cars on the street. This ...

epub |eng | 2019-03-31 | Author:Gavin Parker

Developing policies (and projects) Neighbourhood Plan policies provide the basis for the determination of planning applications and they must relate to the development and use of land. There is no ...

epub |eng | | Author:Raquel Rolnik

Post-Disaster Reconstruction and Dispossession Mechanisms ‘Living in risk’ was how Lúcio Kowarick defined the socioeconomic, political and civil vulnerability of a huge number of poor people in cities in the ...

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epub |eng | 2007-12-01 | Author:Reader, John [Reader, John]

Havana's achievements in urban agriculture are impressive, showing how much a city can do to feed itself and how quickly the benefits accrue once the need is recognised and the ...

epub |eng | 2011-07-19 | Author:Joel Garreau [Garreau, Joel]

“My brother and I had that memorized. They’d bring us out and we’d sing it.” Nielsen loves neighborhoods that “seethe.” He loves places where you can walk to work and ...

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14 Probing the institutional fabric of world politics: Hedley Bull's The Anarchical Society Andrew Hurrell Hedley Bull frequently used the term ‘classical’ in his own lectures and writings. The term, ...

epub |eng | 2013-02-23 | Author:Blue, Elly;

Bike Lanes on Main Street 9 Magnolia Street in Fort Worth, Texas’s newly hip Near Southside, is the sort of story that urban planners dream of. In 2008, this retail, ...