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  • Regional Development in the 1990s

    The British Isles in Transition

    Edición de Ron Martin, Peter Townroe ...
    Series series Regions and Cities
    This book documents the changing nature and challenge of regional development in Britain and Ireland in the final decade of this century. In the first half of this book, region-by-region profiles review the experience of the eighties and reflect on the present climate, assessing problems and opportunities. The second half provides 25 commentaries on changes influencing the development of regions ... Leer más

    $59.99 USD

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  • Planning and Design for Sustainable Urban Mobility

    Global Report on Human Settlements 2013

    de Un-Habitat ...
    Urban transport systems worldwide are faced by a multitude of challenges. Among the most visible of these are the traffic gridlocks experienced on city roads and highways all over the world. The prescribed solution to transport problems in most cities has thus been to build more infrastructures for cars, with a limited number of cities improving public transport systems in a sustainable manner. ... Leer más

    $82.99 USD

  • Sustainability Indicators

    Measuring the Immeasurable?

    de Simon Bell ...
    Praise for the first edition:'This book should be of interest to anyone interested in sustainable development, and especially sustainability indicators. Bell and Morse easily succeed in exposing the fundamental paradoxes of these concepts and, more importantly, they offer us a way forward. Readers ... will find their practical recommendations for those attempting to do sustainability analysis in ... Leer más

    $60.99 USD

  • Understanding Cairo

    The Logic of a City Out of Control

    de David Sims ...
    This book moves beyond superficial generalizations about Cairo as a chaotic metropolis in the developing world into an analysis of the ways the city's eighteen million inhabitants have, in the face of a largely neglectful government, built and shaped their own city. Using a wealth of recent studies on Greater Cairo and a deep reading of informal urban processes, the city and its recent history are ... Leer más

    $21.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The Invisible Houses

    Rethinking and designing low-cost housing in developing countries

    de Gonzalo Lizarralde ...
    Winner of the ACSA/AIA Housing Design Education Award!There is an increased interest among architects, urban specialists and design professionals to contribute to solve "the housing problem" in developing countries. The Invisible Houses takes us on a journey through the slums and informal settlements of South Africa, India, Colombia, Honduras, El Salvador, Cuba, Haiti and many other countries of ... Leer más

    $91.99 USD

  • State of the World's Cities 2012/2013

    Prosperity of Cities

    de Un Habitat ...
    The city is the home of prosperity. It is the place where human beings find satisfaction of basic needs and access to essential public goods. The city is also where ambitions, aspirations and other material and immaterial aspects of life are realized, providing contentment and happiness. It is a locus at which the prospects of prosperity and individual and collective well-being can be increased. ... Leer más

    $57.99 USD

  • Restructuring Industry and Territory

    The Experience of Europe's Regions

    Edición de Anna Giunta, Arnoud Lagendijk, Andy Pike ...
    Series series Regions and Cities
    Examining the current trends in regional economic development in Europe, Restructuring Industry and Territory explores ways in which the restructuring of industry and territorial development relate to each other, their emergent interdependency and role in economic development. The book argues that the structural and cultural features of regions play an important part in helping or hindering ... Leer más

    $45.99 USD

  • The Determinants of Small Firm Growth

    An Inter-Regional Study in the United Kingdom 1986-90

    de Richard Barkham, Graham Gudgin, Mark Hart ...
    Series series Regions and Cities
    One of the most striking trends in economic development since the 1970s has been the rising importance of the small firm. Focusing on the issues of enterprise development and the regional dimensions of small-firm growth, this book explores the literature of this area. Moving from an analysis of measures of growth to the effects of both internal and external variables - arguing that the owner ... Leer más

    $84.99 USD

  • The Regional Imperative

    Regional Planning and Governance in Britain, Europe and the United States

    de Urlan A. Wannop ...
    Series series Regions and Cities
    Based on cases and interviews in Britain, Europe and the United States, this book explains the recurrence of regional planning and of initiatives in regional governance, in a wide range of advanced industrial countries. Providing an analysis of the nature of regional planning and governance, the book traces the development of regional planning and the institutions associated with it. It also looks ... Leer más

    $91.99 USD

  • Cities Without Cities

    An Interpretation of the Zwischenstadt

    de Thomas Sieverts ...
    This book investigates the characteristics of today's built environment: no longer simply a city but increasingly large conurbations made up of a number of development clusters, linked by transport routes. The diffusion of the once compact city into a city web, the 'meta city' is mirrored by changes in society from communities with strong social cohesion and interest in their towns and cities to ... Leer más

    $76.99 USD

  • Inclusive Urbanization

    Rethinking Policy, Practice and Research in the Age of Climate Change

    Edición de Phil McManus, Anna Rubbo, Krishna Kumar Dhote, Krishna Shrestha, Hemant Ojha ...
    How do we include and represent all people in cities? As the world rapidly urbanizes, and climate change creates global winners and losers, understanding how to design cities that provide for all their citizens is of the utmost importance. Inclusive Urbanization attempts to not only provide meaningful, practical guidance to urban designers, managers, and local actors, but also create a definition ... Leer más

    $73.99 USD

  • The Design Charrette

    Ways to Envision Sustainable Futures

    Edición de Rob Roggema ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book was written to support community involvement in the design process, to help prevent negative outcomes that can result from a top-down design approach. The combination of community involvement and design is, at least in literature, not very extensive. Although much has been written about stakeholder involvement, this is often not directly related to design processes, which – most ... Leer más

    $89.99 USD