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Regional Development in Rural Areas
Analytical Tools and Public Policies
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2016
This book intends to provide analytical and policy tools for investigating the question of the development of rural and peri-urban areas. The aim is to shed some light on this topic and in particular to contribute to a better understanding of the link between issues of regional or territorial development...
Collective Terms
Race, Culture, and Community in a State-Planned City in France
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
The banlieue, the mostly poor and working-class suburbs located on the outskirts of major cities in France, gained international media attention in late 2005 when riots broke out in some 250 such towns across the country. Pitting first- and second-generation immigrant teenagers against the police,...
by Asian Development Bank
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
Asia shares a vision of making all its cities livable one day. The knowledge and financial resources needed to realize that vision exists. But if the challenges of climate change and pollution are to be met, we must reduce energy demand in cities and the undesirable environmental impact associated...
The Towers of New Capital
Mega Townships in India
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2015
Based on the study of a number of large mega township projects under development on the urban fringes of Delhi and Ahmedabad, The Towers of New Capital is an enquiry into how these 'global fixes' are leading to territorial reorganization. What are the social and economic impacts of large mega projects?...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2015
Vertebrates and Invertebrates of European Cities: Selected Non-Avian Fauna is the first known account of the vertebrate and invertebrate fauna of several cities in Europe and throughout the rest of the world. It excludes birds, which are described in a companion volume. The book contains eleven chapters...
Labor Forces and Landscape Management
Japanese Case Studies
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2016
The purpose of this book is to present a new proposal for landscape management labor accounts. Many matured countries are now confronting an aging society and a shrinking population. Land degradation in those countries is basically caused by a lack of local labor forces. It is very important, therefore,...
Creative Approaches to Planning and Local Development
Insights from Small and Medium-Sized Towns in Europe
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2016
This book project highlights creative approaches to planning and local development. The dynamic complexity, diversity and fluidity which characterize contemporary society represent challenges for planning and development endeavours. While research and policy work has extensively focused on large cities...
Miami Transformed
Rebuilding America One Neighborhood, One City at a Time
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2012
Six-year-old Manuel Diaz and his mother first arrived at Miami's airport in 1961 with little more than a dime for a phone call to their relatives in the Little Havana neighborhood. Forty years after his flight from Castro's Cuba, attorney Manny Diaz became mayor of the City of Miami. Toward the end...
by Yuzuru Miyata, Hiroyuki Shibusawa, Indrawan Permana
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
This study aims at analyzing the resilience of Indonesia from two aspects: one is was natural disaster and the other is environmental protection. Therefore the study comprises two parts. The first aims at analyzing Palangkaraya City in Central Kalimantan Province by constructing apartial and a general...
Smart Rules for Smart Cities
Managing Efficient Cities in Euro-Mediterranean Countries
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2014
This book explores the new rules and codes that are required in order to foster the implementation of smart city technologies with a view to meeting the environmental and energy challenges posed by dynamic contemporary cities with increasing populations. In particular, it proposes a methodological...
Last Project Standing
Civics and Sympathy in Post-Welfare Chicago
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2015
In 1995 a half-vacant public housing project on Chicago’s Near West Side fell to the wrecking ball. The demolition and reconstruction of the Henry Horner housing complex ushered in the most ambitious urban housing experiment of its kind: smaller, mixed-income, and partially privatized developments...
Faith on the Avenue
Religion on a City Street
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2013
In a richly illustrated, revelatory study of Philadelphia's Germantown Avenue, home to a diverse array of more than 90 Christian and Muslim congregations, Katie Day explores the formative and multifaceted role of religious congregations within an urban environment. Germantown Avenue cuts through Philadelphia...
Urban Ports and Harbor Management
Responding to Change along U.S. Waterfronts
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2017
The essays in this book, first published in 1988, explore the changes that have occurred in the modern harbour in the 1970s and 1980s and the many roles of the public port in stimulating or responding to these changes. The goal of this study is to understand the modern harbour and public port and...
Design Review
Challenging Urban Aesthetic Control
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
That the topic ofdesign review is somehow trou My biases are clearfrom the start: I am among blesome is probably one thing all readers can those who believe that, despite all signals to the contrary, the physical structure of our environ agree on. Beyond this, however, I suspect pros pects of...