City Planning category: 1330 books

Resolving a conflict is based on the art of helping people, with disparate points of view, find enough common ground to ease their fears, sheath their weapons, and listen to one another for their common good, which ultimately translates into social-environmental sustainability for all generations....

Books on green building theories, principles and strategies applicable to life cycles of all kinds of buildings and building types are already widely available. However, those specifically on greening affordable housing that guide various housing stakeholders at different life cycles are still very...

È un'impresa non facile raccontare Napoli anche per chi ne conosce le viscere. Francesco Barbagallo è riuscito a farlo con rigore, senza noia accademica, in un libro di grande contemporaneità. Corrado Stajano, "Corriere della Sera" Napoli, Belle Époqueè un lavoro storico, documentato,...

This book provides an up-to-date account of the many processes shaping and transforming rural space in various parts of the world. The various case studies focus on the multi-functionality of the rural world and the driving forces behind it. The book demonstrates that rural areas are no longer simply...

Planeta de ciudades, de Shlomo Angel, es un destacado estudio que combina una historia nueva y ambiciosa del crecimiento urbano mundial con un conjunto de recomendaciones de política sorprendentemente simple y convincente. El libro sugiere que algunas de las políticas de planeación que se aceptan...

Brasilía a incarné la ville moderne avant-gardiste et idéale des années 1950. Ce projet utopique, confié à un urbaniste, Lucio Costa, et un architecte, Oscar Niemeyer, résiste au temps car, près d’un demi-siècle après sa fondation, la ville jouit toujours d’une aura puissante. L’Unesco...

I terremoti, si dice, sono calamità naturali, sciagure inevitabili di cui possiamo incolpare solo la natura, oppure un dio malevolo e troppo distante dalle nostre pene. La terribile scossa che ha colpito L’Aquila alle 3 e 32 della notte tra il 5 e il 6 aprile del 2009 è certamente una calamità...

Nel corso del 2016, il Nord Est ha messo in evidenza segni di ripresa che, tuttavia, suggeriscono un ottimismo contenuto. Quanto emerge da un’analisi fine della dinamica economica e sociale parla di un territorio che conosce una crescente difficoltà nel mantenere competitività e coesione. Aumenta...

At the root of the housing crisis is the problematic relationship that individuals and economies share with residential property. Housing’s social purpose, as home, is too often relegated behind its economic function, as asset, able to offer a hedge against weakening pensions or source of investment...

This book develops a methodology for designing feedback control laws for dynamic traffic assignment (DTA) exploiting the introduction of new sensing and information-dissemination technologies to facilitate the introduction of real-time traffic management in intelligent transportation systems. Three...

Most new urban growth takes place in the suburbs; consequently, infrastructures are in a constant state of playing catch-up, creating repeated infrastructure crises in these peripheries. However, the push to address the tensions stemming from this rapid growth also allow the suburbs to be a major...

Los burócratas a nivel de calle son el universo variopinto de servidores públicos, los representantes directos del Estado ante los ciudadanos en el día a día, quienes con sus decisiones dan sentido real a las políticas públicas. Son los implementadores por excelencia. Pero también toman decisiones...

How are multiculturalism, inequality and belonging understood in the day-to-day thinking and practices of local government? Examining original empirical data, this book explores how local government officers and politicians negotiate 'difficult subjects' linked with community cohesion policy: diversity,...