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Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2015
This book investigates critical urban issues related to socio-spatial segregation, housing, daily travel, mobility of the elderly, etc. from the perspective of wellbeing. This is a collection of the latest research works by frontline researchers working in the fields of geography, urban studies,...
The Waste Crisis
Landfills, Incinerators, and the Search for a Sustainable Future
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 1999
As populations continue to increase, society produces more and more waste. Yet it is becoming increasingly difficult to build new landfills, and the existing landfills are causing significant environmental damage. Finding solutions is not simple; the problem is enormous in size, vital in terms of...
Technology and World Politics
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2017
This edited volume provides a convenient entry point to the cutting-edge field of the international politics of technology, in an interesting and informative manner. Technology and World Politics introduces its readers to different approaches to technology in global politics through a survey of emerging...
Boundary Retracement
Processes and Procedures
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2017
The survey and the transference are the distinctive and operative acts in the transmission of real property and, where they differ from each other, one must of necessity control the other. This book addresses the aforementioned concepts by external explanations in order to understand the discrepancies...
Sustainable Communities and Urban Housing
A Comparative European Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2016
Since the start of the twenty-first century, urban communities have faced increasing challenges in housing affordability, with environmental issues causing additional concern. It is clear that changes to urban housing are needed to enhance the resilience of cities and improve the economic, social...
Shopping Choices with Public Transport Options
An Agenda for the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
In recent years, the environmental, social and economic concerns regarding laissez-faire retail decentralization policies have resulted in an emergence of a global trend towards the provision of wider choices of good quality public transport modes in suburban areas. Existing research on transport...
Transit-Oriented Displacement or Community Dividends?
Understanding the Effects of Smarter Growth on Communities
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2019
An examination of the neighborhood transformation, gentrification, and displacement that accompany more compact development around transit.
Cities and regions throughout the world are encouraging smarter growth patterns and expanding their transit systems to accommodate this growth, reduce...
Rich Pictures
Encouraging Resilient Communities
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2016
Rich Pictures focuses on the value of developing visual narratives – Rich Pictures – as an important component and starting point for community participation. A key device for the community to share ideas and perspectives on current and potential future situations, Rich Pictures provide a shared...
Computer Modelling for Sustainable Urban Design
Physical Principles, Methods and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
This is the first book to directly address the physics of urban sustainability and how urban sustainability may be modelled and optimised. Starting with an introduction to the importance and key aspects of the topic, it moves on to a detailed consideration of the urban climate and pedestrian comfort....
by David Tempelhoff
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2015
Republication of a Thesis published at SUNY Maritime College. Tackles the problem of Global Maritime Piracy by developing security management principles. .
Colonial Architecture and Urbanism in Africa
Intertwined and Contested Histories
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
Colonial architecture and urbanism carved its way through space: ordering and classifying the built environment, while projecting the authority of European powers across Africa in the name of science and progress. The built urban fabric left by colonial powers attests to its lingering impacts in shaping...
by Gaetano Savatteri
Language: Italian
Release Date: November 7, 2018
Language: Italian
Release Date: November 7, 2018
La Sicilia di oggi non è più quella degli stereotipi incrostatisi sulla Trinacria nel corso dei secoli. E di storie e di voci nuove che la raccontano, questo libro ne contiene davvero tantissime. Giuseppe Culicchia «Non ne posso più di Verga, di Pirandello, di Tomasi di Lampedusa, di Sciascia....
Madness in International Relations
Psychology, Security, and the Global Governance of Mental Health
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2011
Madness in International Relations provides an important and innovative account of the role of psychology and psychiatry in global politics, showing how mental health governance has become a means of securing various populations, often with questionable effects.
Through the analysis of three...
Nouveau Projet 10
Automne-hiver 2016
Language: French
Release Date: August 29, 2016
Des paradis fiscaux au jazz de Port-au-Prince, de la pertinence des cégeps au souci de vérité en littérature, Nouveau Projet 10 balaye de nombreux sujets. Le dossier central (plus de 50 pages) porte quant à lui sur Montréal. Dans le cadre du 375e anniversaire de sa fondation, nous avons eu envie...