Urban Policy in America

Urban Policy in America
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Governmental Affairs. Subcommittee on Intergovernmental Relations
Publisher:
Total Pages: 730
Release: 1978
Genre: City planning
ISBN:

The Crisis of Democracy in the Age of Cities

The Crisis of Democracy in the Age of Cities
Author: Juval Portugali
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 301
Release: 2023-10-06
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1803923059

Providing a succinct overview of historical, present and future perspectives of cities and urbanism, this discerning book examines how the 21st century, regarded as the age of cities, is associated with the current crisis of democracy.

Cities and Regions in Crisis

Cities and Regions in Crisis
Author: Martin Jones
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 311
Release: 2019
Genre: Cities and towns
ISBN: 178811745X

This book offers a new geographical political economy approach to our understanding of regional and local economic development in Western Europe over the last twenty years. It suggests that governance failure is occurring at a variety of spatial scales and an ‘impedimenta state’ is emerging. This is derived from the state responding to state intervention and economic development that has become irrational, ambivalent and disoriented. The book blends theoretical approaches to crisis and contradiction theory with empirical examples from cities and regions.

Directions of Development of Transport Networks and Traffic Engineering

Directions of Development of Transport Networks and Traffic Engineering
Author: Elżbieta Macioszek
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 201
Release: 2018-07-30
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 3319986155

This book offers a collection of valuable guidelines for making decisions concerning the future development of transport networks and traffic engineering. The decision-making support systems described here will certainly attract the interest of those who face the challenge of finding solutions to problems concerning modern transport systems on a daily basis. Consequently, the book is chiefly intended for local authorities involved in planning and preparing development strategies for specific transport-related areas (in both urban and regional contexts), as well as for representatives of business and industry who are directly engaged in the implementation of traffic engineering solutions. The guidelines provided in the respective chapters help to address the given problem soundly, and to simplify the selection of an appropriate strategy. The topics covered include increasing the competitiveness of public transport, the status quo of electric vehicle infrastructures worldwide, methods for calming urban traffic as an element of sustainable transport development, speed traffic zones and electric buses, car-sharing systems in Poland, a method for deconstructing the regional travel demand model, monitoring urban traffic using floating car data, problems of deliveries in urban agglomeration distribution systems, estimating the number of threatened people in case of fire in road tunnels, and road pavement evaluation using advanced tools. Since the book also considers new approaches to theoretical models (including traffic flow surveys and measurements, transport behaviors, human factors in traffic engineering, and road condition modeling), it will also appeal to researchers and scientists studying these problems. The book gathers selected papers presented at the 15th Scientific and Technical Conference “Transport Systems. Theory and Practice”, organized by the Department of Transport Systems and Traffic Engineering, Silesian University of Technology in Katowice, Poland on September 17–19, 2018.

Cities in Transition

Cities in Transition
Author: Michigan. Governor's Urban Action Group
Publisher:
Total Pages: 76
Release: 1977
Genre: Cities and towns
ISBN:

In Search of New York

In Search of New York
Author: Jim Sleeper
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
Total Pages: 246
Release:
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9781412826129