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Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2015
This book aims to promote the synergistic usage of advanced computational methodologies in close relationship to geospatial information across cities of different scales. A rich collection of chapters subsumes current research frontiers originating from disciplines such as geography, urban planning,...
Resilience in Ecology and Urban Design
Linking Theory and Practice for Sustainable Cities
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2013
The contributors to this volume propose strategies of urgent and vital importance that aim to make today’s urban environments more resilient. Resilience, the ability of complex systems to adapt to changing conditions, is a key frontier in ecological research and is especially relevant in creative...
by
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2013
This book is the sixth in a series covering bet practices in community quality-of-life (QOL) indicators. The cases in this volume describe communities that have launched their own community indicators programs. Elements that are included in the descriptions are the history of the community indicators...
The Woodlands
The Inside Story of Creating a Better Hometown
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2004
Get a behind-the-scenes look into The Woodlands, an innovative new town that was built from the ground up near Houston, Texas. This is the story of the people who were instrumental in developing it and the experiences and challenges they had in creating a better, "new" hometown.
by Collective
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2010
OECD's Territorial Review of Toronto, Canada. It finds that the Toronto region is one of the chief economic powerhouses of Canada, generating almost one-fifth of national GDP and 45% of Ontario’s GDP. The region is home to 40% of Canada’s business headquarters and is a main manufacturing hub,...
The future of sustainable cities
Critical reflections
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2011
This book investigates how the meanings and politics of urban sustainability are being radically rethought in response to the economic downturn and the credit crunch. In this ground-breaking contribution, prominent scholars provide up to date coverage of the impacts of recent changes on key areas...
Local Cosmopolitanism
Imagining and (Re-)Making Privileged Places
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2015
This book offers a unique perspective on cosmopolitanism, examining the ways it is constructed and reconstructed on the small scale in an ongoing process of matching the local with the global, a process entailing mutual transformation. Based on a wide range of literatures and a series of case studies,...
Architectural System Structures
Integrating Design Complexity in Industrialised Construction
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2014
This book proposes a system structure in architectural design that conceptualises a systemic level in architecture and construction that lies between general construction techniques and specific architectural results. In order to make such a system structure operational, the elaboration of a model...
Remaking London
Decline and Regeneration in Urban Culture
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2013
Contemporary urban regeneration seeks to encourage diverse, creative new neighbourhoods that are rich in economic potential. Yet the end result frequently displaces precisely those qualities, activities and communities it claims to engender. Are people best served by a preoccupation with regeneration...
Silicon Alley
The Rise and Fall of a New Media District
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2004
First published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Da L'Aquila ad Acquilia sola andata.
Un viaggio tra realtà e fantasia
Language: Italian
Release Date: February 27, 2017
Questa è la storia di tre viaggi attraverso sempre lo stesso territorio.
Un racconto in bilico tra realtà e fantasia, dove fotografie e pensieri si
intrecciano, dove immaginazione e storia si incontrano, dove sognare è
ancora possibile.
Si narra di un territorio che ha visto compiersi in pochi...
by John Rennie Short
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2002
Old powers are falling. New states are emerging. The gap between East and West is narrowing. What are the problems facing the emerging new world order? Can action at the community level affect global issues?
An Introduction to Political Geography, in its first edition helped shape the study of the...
Designing the Urban Renaissance
Sustainable and competitive place making in England
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2013
This book is an academic essay about the urban regeneration policies which have been changing the physical - and partly social - outlook of many English cities during the last 10-15 years, eventually giving birth to a process which is also known as ‘Urban Renaissance’. The main focus is on urban...
Sustainable Rural and Urban Ecosystems: Design, Implementation and Operation
Manual for Practice and Study
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2012
These days human beings have a profound influence on aspects of the planetary ecosystem, e.g. on climate change and biodiversity, to name only two. This manual is intended to help practitioners, who are dealing with human-based rural and urban settlement-ecosystems, in the key steps towards their...