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Sustainable Development for Central and Eastern Europe
Spatial Development in the European Context
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Central and Eastern European Countries are undergoing a difficult transition process with consequences for spatial development. Europe needs a more bal anced, polycentric system of cities, a new urban-rural relationship, parity of ac cess to infrastructure and knowledge as well as prudent management...
Natural Disaster Management in the Asia-Pacific
Policy and Governance
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2014
The Asia-Pacific region is one of the most vulnerable to a variety of natural and manmade hazards. This edited book productively brings together scholars and senior public officials having direct experience in dealing with or researching on recent major natural disasters in the Asia-Pacific. The chapters...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2013
This volume gathers distinguished researchers on travel behavior from a variety of disciplines, to offer state-of-the-art research and analysis encompassing environmental, traffic and transport psychology; transport planning and engineering; transport geography; transport economics; consumer services...
Kitchen Table Sustainability
Practical Recipes for Community Engagement with Sustainability
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2012
Kitchen Table Sustainability offers a unique view of sustainability through the lens of community engagement. It takes sustainability out of the ivory towers of universities, government departments and planners to the kitchen tables of the world. This practical guide distils decades of wisdom from...
Saving Our Cities
A Progressive Plan to Transform Urban America
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2016
In Saving Our Cities, William W. Goldsmith shows how cities can be places of opportunity rather than places with problems. With strongly revived cities and suburbs, working as places that serve all their residents, metropolitan areas will thrive, thus making the national economy more productive, the...
Urban Regeneration in the UK
Boom, Bust and Recovery
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
"A thorough update of what was already an excellently written, accessible and well-used book. Coverage of the key issues to impact on regeneration in the UK since the 2008 financial crisis is comprehensive, and ensures that this latest edition will remain a key reference work for students and...
Creeping Conformity
How Canada Became Suburban, 1900-1960
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2004
Creeping Conformity, the first history of suburbanization in Canada, provides a geographical perspective – both physical and social – on Canada's suburban past. Shaped by internal and external migration, decentralization of employment, and increased use of the streetcar and then the automobile,...
Ventilating Cities
Air-flow Criteria for Healthy and Comfortable Urban Living
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2012
The majority of the world’s population live in environments with artificially weakened wind as buildings in urban areas form wind-breaks and reduce wind speeds. Anthropogenic heat is also generated and during the summer dense urban areas suffer from the urban heat island effect, a known urban climate...
Rebuilding Urban Places After Disaster
Lessons from Hurricane Katrina
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2013
Disasters—natural ones, such as hurricanes, floods, or earthquakes, and unnatural ones such as terrorist attacks—are part of the American experience in the twenty-first century. The challenges of preparing for these events, withstanding their impact, and rebuilding communities afterward require...
by Gert-Jan Hospers, Nol Reverda
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2014
This book explores the challenges population decline presents for Europe’s urban and rural areas. It features recent demographic data and trends not only for Europe as a whole, but also for selected countries, and compares growth and shrinkage from a historical as well as a theoretical perspective....
Dealing with Deindustrialization
Adaptive Resilience in American Midwestern Regions
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2014
The late 1970s and 1980s saw a process of mass factory closures in cities and regions across the Midwest of the United States. What happened next as leaders reacted to the news of each plant closure and to the broader deindustrialization trend that emerged during this time period is the main subject...
State-led Privatisation and the Demise of the Democratic State
Welfare Reform and Localism in an Era of Regulatory Capitalism
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
For decades now we have been told that we are living through a governance revolution. Gone are the days when government agencies and bureaucrats told us what to do and how to do it. We are no longer clients of the state but empowered citizens who are able to take greater control over our own lives...
Governing Urban Regions Through Collaboration
A View from North America
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
With the demise of the Old Regionalist project of achieving good regional governance through amalgamation, voluntary collaboration has become the modus operandi of a large number of North American metropolitan regions. Although many researchers have become interested in regional collaboration and...
by Olaf Kühne
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2018
This book examines the power definiteness of landscape from a social constructivist perspective with a particular focus on the importance of aesthetic concepts of landscape in development. It seeks to answer the question of how societal notions of landscape emerge, how they are individually updated...