Cities & Infrastructure Books

New and Published Books

1. State of the World's Cities 2012/2013

   Prosperity of Cities

   By Un Habitat

   The city is the home of prosperity. It is the place where human beings find satisfaction of basic needs and access to essential public goods. The city is also where ambitions, aspirations and other material and immaterial aspects of life are realized, providing contentment and happiness. It is a&...

   Published March 17th 2013 by Routledge
2. Urban Energy Systems

   An Integrated Approach

   Edited by James Keirstead, Nilay Shah

   Energy demands of cities need to be met more sustainably. This book analyses the technical and social systems that satisfy these needs and asks how methods can be put into practice to achieve this. Drawing on analytical tools and case studies developed at Imperial College London, the book presents...

   Published February 27th 2013 by Routledge
3. Handbook of SCADA/Control Systems Security

   Edited by Robert Radvanovsky, Jacob Brodsky

   The availability and security of many services we rely upon—including water treatment, electricity, healthcare, transportation, and financial transactions—are routinely put at risk by cyber threats. The Handbook of SCADA/Control Systems Security is a fundamental outline of security concepts,...

   Published February 18th 2013 by CRC Press
4. The Shanghai Alleyway House

   A Vanishing Urban Vernacular

   By Gregory Bracken

   Series: Routledge Contemporary China Series

   As a nineteenth-century commercial development, the alleyway house was a hybrid of the traditional Chinese courtyard house and the Western terraced one. Unique to Shanghai, the alleyway house was a space where the blurring of the boundaries of public and private life created a vibrant social...

   Published February 13th 2013 by Routledge
5. Transforming Urban Transport

   The Ethics, Politics and Practices of Sustainable Mobility

   Edited by Nicholas Low

   Transforming Urban Transport confronts head-on the dilemma faced by a world addicted to automobility. It highlights the danger of continuing along the fossil-fuel path and gives viable technological alternatives which can be deployed to find a solution. Changes in urban mobility and transport...

   Published November 22nd 2012 by Routledge
6. Creative Industries and Urban Development

   Creative Cities in the 21st Century

   Edited by Terry Flew

   The concept of creative industries has developed considerable academic and policy momentum in the 21st century. There has been a connection identified between the rise of creative industries and the urbanisation of the world’s population, particularly in relation to the significance of cities as...

   Published October 21st 2012 by Routledge
7. The Emerging Asian City

   Concomitant Urbanities & Urbanisms

   Edited by Vinayak Bharne

   The Asian urban landscape contains nearly half of the planet’s inhabitants and more than half of its slum population living in some of its oldest and densest cities. It encompasses some of the world’s oldest civilizations and colonizations, and today contains some of the world’s fastest growing...

   Published September 24th 2012 by Routledge
8. Managing Transboundary Waters of Latin America

   Edited by Asit Biswas

   Series: Routledge Special Issues on Water Policy and Governance

   Definitive analyses of transboundary water management in Latin America are conspicuous by their absence. The situation is a little better for rivers compared to groundwater resources. Transboundary water management in Latin America has been evolving in a somewhat different manner compared to other...

   Published August 12th 2012 by Routledge
9. Routledge Library Editions: Retailing and Distribution

   By Various

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Retailing and Distribution

   Routledge Library Editions: Retailing and Distribution brings together as one set, or individual volumes, groundbreaking retail studies from the field of human geography. Encompassing town and retail planning, marketing geography, the development of shopping centres and the rise of consumerism...

   Published August 8th 2012 by Routledge
10. Lean Design Management

    Edited by Stephen Emmitt

    Series: Architectural Engineering and Design Management

    The fields of design management and lean construction appear to be developing independently. This volume brings together authors from four continents to argue that lean thinking should be integral to design management in the fields of architecture, engineering and construction (AEC). The...

    Published May 27th 2012 by Routledge