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  • The Challenge of Slums

    Global Report on Human Settlements 2003

    de United Nations Human Settlements Programme ...
    The Challenge of Slums presents the first global assessment of slums, emphasizing their problems and prospects. Using a newly formulated operational definition of slums, it presents estimates of the number of urban slum dwellers and examines the factors at all level, from local to global, that underlie the formation of slums as well as their social, spatial and economic characteristics and ... Leer más

    $115.99 USD

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  • Are Trams Socialist?

    Why Britain Has No Transport Policy

    de Christian Wolmar ...
    Transport is key to our daily lives. The transport system is essential to ensure the movement of people and goods, and most of us will use the roads or public transport every day. Vast sums are tied up in it and are spent on trying to resolve the problems of congestion and delays. And yet it is a most neglected field of politics. Britain has never had a coherent transport policy. Transport ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD

  • Multicriteria Decision Analysis in Geographic Information Science

    de Jacek Malczewski, Claus Rinner ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book is intended for the GIS Science and Decision Science communities. It is primarily targeted at postgraduate students and practitioners in GIS and urban, regional and environmental planning as well as applied decision analysis. It is also suitable for those studying and working with spatial decision support systems. The main objectives of this book are to effectivley integrate ... Leer más

    $215.09 USD

  • More Urban Less Poor

    An Introduction to Urban Development and Management

    de Goran Tannerfeldt, Per Ljung ...
    A world more urban...The world is undergoing massive urbanization, and is projected to increase from three to over four billion city dwellers, mostly in the developing world, within 15 years. This historic shift is producing dramatic effects on human well-being and the environment....but less poorUnplanned shanty-towns without basic services are not an inevitable consequence of urbanization and ... Leer más

    $34.99 USD

  • Floods in a Megacity

    Geospatial Techniques in Assessing Hazards, Risk and Vulnerability

    de Ashraf Dewan ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    Flooding is one of the most devastating natural hazards in the world. Available records suggest that both flood frequency and severity are on the rise and this is likely to worsen in the context of climate change. As population, infrastructure and poverty grow rapidly in developing countries, particularly in urban agglomerations of 10 million people or more, floods could cause widespread ... Leer más

    $89.99 USD

  • City Futures

    Confronting the Crisis of Urban Development

    de Doctor Edgar Pieterse ...
    Cities are the future. In the past two decades, a global urban revolution has taken place, mainly in the South. The 'mega-cities' of the developing world are home to over 10 million people each and even smaller cities are experiencing unprecedented population surges. The problems surrounding this influx of people - slums, poverty, unemployment and lack of governance - have been well-documented ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

  • The Peri-Urban Interface

    Approaches to Sustainable Natural and Human Resource Use

    Edición de Duncan McGregor, David Simon ...
    Peri-urban interfaces - the zones where urban and rural areas meet - suffer from the greatest problems to humans caused by rapid urbanization, including intense pressures on resources, slum formation, lack of adequate services such as water and sanitation, poor planning and degradation of farmland. These areas, home to hundreds of millions of people, face unique problems and need distinctive and ... Leer más

    $65.99 USD

  • Risk Governance

    The Articulation of Hazard, Politics and Ecology

    Edición de Urbano Fra.Paleo ...
    This book explores the common language of politics, ecology and risk, and crosses their conceptual divides. It seeks to shed light on the underlying structural factors, processes, players and interactions in the risk scenario, all of which influence decision-making that both increases and reduces disaster risk.The first section explores risk governance under conditions of increasing complexity, ... Leer más

    $143.99 USD

  • The Interplay between Urban Development, Vulnerability, and Risk Management

    A Case Study of the Istanbul Metropolitan Area

    de Ebru A. Gencer ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    Natural disasters are increasingly affecting the world, taking lives unexpectedly and leaving many others injured and homeless. Moreover, disasters disrupt local, national and even global economies, instantly changing the direction of development. In the first half of 2011 alone, 108 natural disasters occurred, killing over 23 thousand people, affecting nearly 44 million others and causing more ... Leer más

    $49.99 USD

  • Plants and Habitats of European Cities

    Edición de John G. Kelcey, Norbert Müller ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    A collection of studies on the ecologies of European cities, including Paris, Zurich, and Amsterdam among others. Discussion includes the natural and historical development of each city, local flora, the environmental impact of city growth, and environmental planning, design, and management. ... Leer más

    $188.09 USD

  • Rural Planning from an Environmental Systems Perspective

    Edición de Frank B. Golley, Juan Bellot ...
    Series series Springer Series on Environmental Management
    Rural Planning from an Environmental Systems Perspective is directed toward graduate students and professionals, providing a source of information and concepts for those concerned with land and water policies and practice. It presents an integrated approach using practical and applicable models and methods. The book is based on almost twenty years of experience in teaching a course on rural ... Leer más

    $188.99 USD

  • Discrete Optimization in Architecture

    Architectural & Urban Layout

    de Machi Zawidzki ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    This book presents three projects that demonstrate the fundamental problems of architectural design and urban composition – the layout design, evaluation and optimization. Part I describes the functional layout design of a residential building, and an evaluation of the quality of a town square (plaza).The algorithm for the functional layout design is based on backtracking using a constraint ... Leer más

    $49.99 USD