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“thomas sieverts”

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  • 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

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  • Evaluation of Plan Implementation

    Peri-urban Development and the Shanghai Master Plan 1999-2020

    de Jinghuan He ...
    Shanghai, like the other big cities along China’s coastline, has witnessed extraordinary growth in its economy and population with industrial development and rural-to-urban migration generating extensive urban expansion. Shanghai’s GDP growth rate has been over 10 per cent for more than 15 years. Its population in 2013 was estimated at 23.47 million, which is double its size in 1979. The urban ... Leer más

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  • The Shackled Continent

    Power, Corruption, and African Lives

    de Robert Guest ...
    A former Africa editor for The Economist, Robert Guest addresses the troubled continent's thorniest problems: war, AIDS, and above all, poverty. Newly updated with a preface that considers political and economic developments of the past six years, The Shackled Continentis engrossing, highly readable, and as entertaining as it is tragic.Guest pulls the veil off the corruption and intrigue that ... Leer más

    $16.99 USD

  • 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

  • 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

  • Cities Under Siege

    The New Military Urbanism

    de Stephen Graham ...
    Cities are the new battleground of our increasingly urban world. From the slums of the global South to the wealthy financial centers of the West, Cities Under Siege traces the spread of political violence through the sites, spaces, infrastructure and symbols of the world’s rapidly expanding metropolitan areas.Drawing on a wealth of original research, Stephen Graham shows how Western militaries and ... Leer más

    $9.99 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 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

  • 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

  • Union Retreat and the Regions

    The Shrinking Landscape of Organised Labour

    de Ron Martin, Peter Sunley, Jane Wills ...
    Series series Regions and Cities
    Since the beginning of the 1980s, British trade unions have experienced a dramatic retreat, marked by rapidly falling membership and declining industrial power. The authors examine the regional dimensions of this retreat of organised labour, paying particular attention to: The resilience of the unions' historical heartland areas. The impact of economic restructuring on local union traditions. The ... Leer más

    $52.99 USD