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“julia leis”

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  • Urban Disaster Resilience

    New Dimensions from International Practice in the Built Environment

    Edited by David Sanderson, Julia Leis, Jerold Kayden ...
    Accelerating urbanization worldwide means more urban-centered disasters. Floods, earthquakes, storms and conflicts affecting densely populated areas produce significant losses in lives, livelihoods and the built environment, especially in comparison to rural areas. Poor urban dwellers, almost always the most vulnerable, too often bear the brunt. Aid agencies and urban professionals have been ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

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  • Stedenbouwkundige waardestelling van industrieel erfgoed

    by Kees Geevers ...
    Dit proefschrift is de weerslag van het onderzoek naar stedenbouwkundige structuren van historische industriële complexen. Doel van het onderzoek was om herkenning en erkenning van deze structuren te bevorderen als dragers van cultuurhistorische waarden in ruimtelijke transformatie.Industrieel erfgoed heeft naast objectwaarde ook ensemblewaarde. Het vakgebied van de Industriële Archeologie biedt ... Read more

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  • Radical Cities

    Across Latin America in Search of a New Architecture

    by Justin McGuirk ...
    What makes the city of the future? How do you heal a divided city?In Radical Cities, Justin McGuirk travels across Latin America in search of the activist architects, maverick politicians and alternative communities already answering these questions. From Brazil to Venezuela, and from Mexico to Argentina, McGuirk discovers the people and ideas shaping the way cities are evolving.Ever since the mid ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • City Design

    Modernist, Traditional, Green and Systems Perspectives

    by Jonathan Barnett ...
    City Design describes the history and current practice of the four most widely accepted approaches to city design: the Modernist city of towers and highways that, beginning in the 1920s, has come to dominate urban development worldwide but is criticized as mechanical and soul-less; the Traditional organization of cities as streets and public places, scorned by the modernists, but being revived ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Wrestling with Colonialism On Steroids

    Quebec Inuit Fight for Their Homeland

    by Zebedee Nungak ...
    Series series Dossier Québec
    For decades, the Inuit of northern Québec were among the most neglected people in Canada. It took The Battle of James Bay, 1971-1975, for the governments in Québec City and Ottawa to wake up to the disgrace.In this concise, lively account, Zebedee Nungak relates the inside story of how the young Inuit and Cree “Davids” took action when Québec began construction on the giant James Bay hydro project ... Read more

    $9.89 USD

  • Towards a Territorial Multi-Disaster Buildings’ Resistance Certification

    by Daniele Fabrizio Bignami ...
    Series series Energy (R0)
    Disaster risk is increasing, not only in number of events, but also in incurred losses. Such increases are being driven also by the growing exposure of assets, due to the rapid urban growth, because vulnerability decreases as countries develop, but not enough to compensate. The situation will be more and more critical, due to the growth of the amount of the building stock. Thus we need new ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Research Design in Urban Planning

    A Student′s Guide

    by Stuart Farthing ...
    "This excellent book fills a significant gap in the literature supporting planning education by providing clear, succinct advice on the design and implementation of small-scale student research projects."- Chris Couch, Professor of Geography and Planning, University of Liverpool"A perfect text for supervisors to give students so that they plan their research projects carefully rather than leap ... Read more

    $69.29 USD

  • Resilience and Sustainability in Relation to Natural Disasters: A Challenge for Future Cities

    Edited by Gaetano Manfredi, Domenico Asprone, Paolo Gasparini ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    The number of megacities worldwide is rapidly increasing and contemporary cities are also expanding fast. As a result, cities and their inhabitants are becoming increasingly vulnerable to the effects of catastrophic natural events such as extreme weather events (recently more frequent and intense as a result of the ongoing climate changes), earthquakes, tsunamis or man-induced events such as ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Urban Vulnerability and Climate Change in Africa

    A Multidisciplinary Approach

    Edited by Sandra Fohlmeister, Gertrud Jørgensen, Kumelachew Yeshitela, Wilbard J. Kombe, Adrien Coly, Stephan Pauleit, Sigrun Kabisch, Ingo Simonis, Paolo Gasparini, Sarah Lindley ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    Urbanisation and climate change are among the major challenges for sustainable development in Africa. The overall aim of this book is to present innovative approaches to vulnerability analysis and for enhancing the resilience of African cities against climate change-induced risks. Locally adapted IPCC climate change scenarios, which also consider possible changes in urban population, have been ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • A Comparative Geography of China and the U.S.

    Edited by Tao Ye, Rudi Hartmann, Jing'ai Wang ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    The book is the outcome of a unique venture: a team of Chinese geographers and a team of American geographers collaborated on a new Comparative Geography of China and the United States. The book meets a high demand for comparative information about China and the United States, as the home of the two leading economies in a globalizing world. Comparisons of the two countries include the similarities ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Architectural Body

    by Madeline Gins, Shusaku Arakawa ...
    Series series Modern and Contemporary Poetics
    A verbal articulation of the authors' visionary theory of how the human body, architecture, and creativity define and sustain one anotherThis revolutionary work by artist-architects Arakawa and Madeline Gins demonstrates the inter-connectedness of innovative architectural design, the poetic process, and philosophical inquiry. Together, they have created an experimental and widely admired body of ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Minority Politics at the Millennium

    Edited by Richard A. Keiser, Katherine Underwood ...
    Series series Contemporary Urban Affairs
    First published in 2000. This edited collection reviews the developments in theoretical understanding of minority political incorporation. The chapters focus on minority groups throughout the US: Three Decades of Changing Minority**Group Opportunities - Richard A. Keiser * Electoral**Arrangements and Minority Political Incorporation - Richard L. Engstrom * Life After Districts - Amy B. Bridges & ... Read more

    $70.99 USD