Urban Development

Edited by Serafeim Polyzos, ISBN 978-953-51-0442-1, 308 pages, Publisher: InTech, Chapters published March 30, 2012 under CC BY 3.0 license
DOI: 10.5772/1413
Edited Volume

Cities are growing as never before and nowadays, it is estimated that at least 50% of the world's population lives in urban areas. This trend is expected to continue and simultaneously the problems in urban areas are anticipated to have an increase. Urbanization constitutes a complex process involving problems with social, economic, environmental and spatial dimensions that need appropriate solutions. This book highlights some of these problems and discusses possible solutions in terms of organisation, planning and management. The purpose of the book is to present selected chapters, of great importance for understanding the urban development issues, written by renowned authors in this scientific field. All the chapters have been thoroughly reviewed and they cover some basic aspects concerning urban sustainability, urban sprawl, urban planning, urban environment, housing and land uses. The editor gratefully acknowledges the assistance of Dr Marius Minea in reviewing two chapters.

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• Chapter 1  Reappraising Urban Planning and Urban Sustainability in East Africaby Shuaib Lwasa and Cecilia Kinuthia-Njenga
• Chapter 2  Leidsche Rijn: Balancing the Compact City with the Randstad Motorway Networkby Frank van der Hoeven
• Chapter 3  Digital Amenities of a Smart Cityby Uk Kim
• Chapter 4  Emerging Technologies for Urban Traffic Managementby Antonio Guerrero-Ibanez, Carlos Flores-Cortes, Pedro Damian-Reyes, M. Andrade-Arechiga and J. R. G. Pulido
• Chapter 5  A CA-Based Model for City Traffic Including Bicyclesby Jelena Vasić and Heather J. Ruskin
• Chapter 6  Bricolage Planning: Understanding Planning in a Fragmented Cityby Farah Jihad and Teller Jacques
• Chapter 7  Assessing Hydrological Elements as Key Issue for Urban Development in Arid Regionsby Mohamed Tahir Hussein and Faisal Kamal Zaidi
• Chapter 8  Rainwater Harvesting in Large Residential Buildings in Australiaby Ataur Rahman, Joseph Dbais, Sk Mazharul Islam, Erhan Eroksuz and Khaled Haddad
• Chapter 9  The Impact of Different Urban Housing Patterns on the Sustainable Urban Development of a Historic City, Bursa/Turkeyby Arzu Ispalar Cahantimur
• Chapter 10  Istanbul's Backbone - A Chain of Central Business Districts (CBDs)by Martin Seger
• Chapter 11  Two Ways of New Towns Development: A Tale of Two Citiesby Raquel Insa-Ciriza
• Chapter 12  An Evaluation of Distribution and Quantity of Parks in Istanbulby Yıldız Aksoy
• Chapter 13  Cooperative Development and Land Use Planning Dynamics in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Quest for Socio Solidarity Economy and Partnership in Sustainable Urban Developmentby W. Magigi, K. Faustine Bee and E. B. Danda
• Chapter 14  The Evolution and Spatial Dynamics of Coastal Cities in Greeceby Serafeim Polyzos and Dimitrios Tsiotas