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Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
There is overwhelming evidence that the climate is changing. It is the poorest countries and people who are the most vulnerable to this threat and who will suffer the most. This book shows how increasing urbanization and growing poverty levels mean that it is imperative to ask how climate change might...
Courtyard Housing and Cultural Sustainability
Theory, Practice, and Product
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2016
Cultural sustainability is a very important aspect of the overall sustainability framework and is regarded as the fourth pillar alongside the other three: environmental, economic, and social sustainability. However, the concept is neither fully explored, nor widely accepted or recognized. This book...
Cities in the Third Wave
The Technological Transformation of Urban America
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2006
This fully updated edition surveys the remarkable transformation that is taking place in urban America. Arguing that technology has both created and recast cities throughout history, Leonard I. Ruchelman explores how cities are being affected by new technology and how they will evolve in the future....
by Francesco Curci, Valeria Fedeli, Alessandro Balducci
Language: Italian
Release Date: May 5, 2017
Language: Italian
Release Date: May 5, 2017
Che fine ha fatto la città? Che cosa dobbiamo intendere quando diciamo ‘urbano’? La letteratura internazionale ci propone nuove definizioni e interpretazioni che rimandano a un superamento sostanziale del modello urbano del ventesimo secolo. È possibile immaginare una nuova concezione dello...
Countering Development
Indigenous Modernity and the Moral Imagination
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2008
Cauca, located in southwestern Colombia and home to the largest indigenous population in the country, is renowned as a site of indigenous mobilization. In 1994, following a destructive earthquake, many families in Cauca were forced to leave their communities of origin and relocate to other areas within...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2016
Urban Regeneration is widely discussed but less widely understood. Fully revised with important new policy, case studies and international analysis, the Second Edition of Urban Regeneration will correct that. The 16 chapters, written by leading experts, are organised into four sections:
The Context...
Normalizing Occupation
The Politics of Everyday Life in the West Bank Settlements
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2017
Controversy surrounds Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank, and the radical national and religious agendas at play there have come to define the area in the minds of many. This study, however, provides an alternative framework for understanding the process of "normalization" in the life of...
by Eloy Nuñez, Ernest G. Vendrell
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2016
2017 Award Winner of the ASIS Security Book of the Year
Nuñez and Vendrell aim to provide the most current and effective resources for managing special events and critical incidents. Their book relies heavily on case studies and after action reports that examine the lessons learned from a...
Lansing at the Crossroads
A Partisan History of the Village of Lansing, New York
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2001
The construction of a new four-lane highway on the outskirts of Ithaca, NY created a rapidly growing commercial center in the previously rural Town of Lansing. The clash between the newcomers and the old-timers over the direction and pace of this change led to the formation of a new local government...
by Mohammad Qadeer
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2006
This is the first English-language survey of Pakistan’s socio-economic evolution. Mohammad Qadeer gives an essential overview of social and cultural transformation in Pakistan since independence, which is crucial to understanding Pakistan’s likely future direction.
Pakistan examines how...
Analyzing Urban Poverty
GIS for the Developing World
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
In developing countries, squatter developments that house more than one-third of the urban population are without infrastructure and built from materials at hand. Analyzing Urban Poverty: GIS in the Developing World demonstrates how geographic information systems (GIS) can be used to improve quality...
Varieties of Civic Innovation
Deliberative, Collaborative, Network, and Narrative Approaches
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2014
In this collection of original essays, empirical analysts and theorists across disciplines turn a critical eye to a variety of recent institutional forms and styles of innovation. They examine lived reality and theoretical underpinning, promise and accomplishment, but also the pitfalls and capacity-building...
by Yoichi Kawamoto
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2010
Various environmental issues are related to urban activities. Through the growing recognition of the necessity to develop sustainable urban mana- ment, the University of Tokyo established the Center for Sustainable Urban Regeneration (cSUR) in July 2003. A research program at the cSUR was designed...
Landscape Ecology and Water Management
Proceedings of IGU Rohtak Conference, Vol. 2
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2014
The over-exploitation of important earth resources such as land and water has led to a number of environment-related problems the world over. At the same time, land-use change caused by various human activities has led to extinction of many plant and animal habitats and species. In this context, the...