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Blue Urbanism
Exploring Connections Between Cities and Oceans
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
What would it mean to live in cities designed to foster feelings of connectedness to the ocean? As coastal cities begin planning for climate change and rising sea levels, author Timothy Beatley sees opportunities for rethinking the relationship between urban development and the ocean. Modern society...
Scenari alternativi per l'area metropolitana di Cagliari
Future Mac 09 Alternative Futures for the Metropolitan Area of Cagliari
Language: Italian
Release Date: January 3, 2016
La pianificazione non è più un'attività ad una sola dimensione che include in sequenza l'analisi dello stato di fatto, la previsione e le proposte di piano, secondo un approccio metodologico di tipo deduttivo. Essa è diventata un'attività a molte dimensioni finalizzata alla costruzione di strategie....
by Walter Slocum
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2017
Professor Slocum uses the concept of career as the central integrating idea for a wide range of information about contemporary work and occupations from current social science research, from historical sources, and from his own considerable personal experience and that of his students.This second...
Megaregions
Planning for Global Competitiveness
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2012
The concept of “the city” —as well as “the state” and “the nation state” —is passé, agree contributors to this insightful book. The new scale for considering economic strength and growth opportunities is “the megaregion,” a network of metropolitan centers and their surrounding...
by Herbert Girardet
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2014
Large, modern cities have effectively declared their independence from nature. But while they take up only three percent of the world’s land surface, their ecological footprints actually cover the entire globe. Humanity is building an urban future, yet urban resource use is threatening the future...
Coming Home after Disaster
Multiple Dimensions of Housing Recovery
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2016
Post-disaster housing concerns and dilemmas are complex, global in nature, and are inextricably intertwined with social, economic, and political considerations. The multi-faceted nature of housing recovery requires a holistic approach that accounts for its numerous dimensions and contours that...
Remaking Chinese Urban Form
Modernity, Scarcity and Space, 1949-2005
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2006
In this pioneering study of contemporary Chinese urban form, Duanfang Lu provides an analysis of how Chinese society constructed itself through the making and remaking of its built environment. She shows that as China’s quest for modernity created a perpetual scarcity as both a social reality and...
by Cui Liu
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2017
The past few decades have seen universities take on a leading role in urban development, actively providing public services beyond teaching and research. The relationship between the university and the city has great influence on the space of university, which is vividly reflected in the process of...
Faculty Retirement
Best Practices for Navigating the Transition
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2014
This book addresses the critical and looming issue of retirement in higher education as the cohort of boomer generation faculty come to the close of their careers. On the one hand institutions need to replenish themselves, and so need older employees to retire. On the other, mass retirements can decimate...
by Gregory T. Haugan PhD, PMP
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2008
Become an Expert on the Work Breakdown Structure!
The basic concept and use of the work breakdown structure (WBS) are fundamental in project management. In Work Breakdown Structures for Projects, Programs, and Enterprises, author Gregory T. Haugan, originator of the widely accepted 100 percent rule,...
Enabling Eco-Cities
Defining, Planning, and Creating a Thriving Future
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2018
Cities are striving to become more resilient, adaptive and sustainable; this requires new ways of governing and developing the city. This book features chapters by researchers using regenerative development and transitions theories to envisage how Eco-Cities could be planned, designed and created,...
Reclaiming Backlanes
Design Vision for Increasing Building Performance and Reprogramming Common Spaces
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2015
Take a shortcut! Explore the pop-up market! Breathe the fresh scents of flowers in a secret garden! What if backlanes were far from the state they are in today — lively chatter and laughter replacing the heat and noise of air-conditioning condensers and foul smells from trash bins?
Reclaiming...
ReNew Town
Adaptive Urbanism and the Low Carbon Community
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
ReNew Town puts forth an innovative vision of performative design and planning for low-carbon sustainable development, and illustrates practicable strategies for balancing environmental systems with urban infrastructure and new housing prototypes.
To date, much of the discourse on the design...
Planning by Consent
The Origins and Nature of British Development Control
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
**Please note this is an unedited paperback reprint of the hardback, originally published in 2003**
The British system of universal development control celebrated its 50th anniversary in 1997. Remarkably, the system has survived more or less intact but the experience of the 1980s has left large...