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  • Methods for Stakeholder Analysis

    Exploring actor constellations in transition and change processes towards sustainable resource use and the case of Hyderabad, India

    by Christian Kimmich, Hannah Janetschek, Lutz Meyer-Ohlendorf, Jennifer Meyer-Ueding, Julian Sagebiel, Fritz Reusswig, Kai Rommel, Markus Hanisch ...
    Series Book 1/2009 - Emerging megacities
    Currently 23 cities exceed the 10 million inhabitants’ threshold. The number of world’s megacities is expected to grow to 39 in 2025 with 32 of these in emerging economies. While today cities cater for over half of the world’s population, they are facing ever increasing environmental problems. Whether or not an emerging megacity will be able to cope with expected climate change impacts and ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Energy Management for the Emerging Megacity Hyderabad

    Studying demand, supply and gaps and exploring technical, social and institutional factors

    by Kaushik Deb, Anjali Garg, Kai Rommel ...
    Series Book 3/2009 - Emerging megacities
    The background study represents the first part of the deliverables of the Work Package 3.2. A for milestone one. It reflects the status of the power sector of Andhra Pradesh with specific consideration of Greater Hyderabad. Beside transport, electricity is the main application of energy sources in the areas of generation, transmission, generation and consumption. The study places particular attention ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

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    by Lewis Mumford ...
    Series Book 19 - Forbidden Bookshelf
    A classic work advocating ecological urban planning—from a civic visionary and former architecture critic for the New Yorker.Considered among the greatest works of Lewis Mumford—a prolific historian, sociologist, philosopher of technology, and longtime architecture critic for the New Yorker—The Culture of Cities is a call for communal action to "rebuild the urban world on a sounder human ... Read more

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  • Local Governments and Climate Change

    Sustainable Energy Planning and Implementation in Small and Medium Sized Communities

    Edited by Maryke van Staden, Francesco Musco ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    Global warming is changing the world as we know it. Climate change can have catastrophic impacts in numerous cities across the world. It is time for us to react – quickly and effectively. The European Community (EC) has been leading the fight against climate change, making it one of its top priorities. We have introduced the most ambitious targets of their kind, known as the “20/20/20 by 2020” ... Read more

    $188.09 USD

  • Gentrification

    by Loretta Lees, Tom Slater, Elvin Wyly ...
    This first textbook on the topic of gentrification is written for upper-level undergraduates in geography, sociology, and planning. The gentrification of urban areas has accelerated across the globe to become a central engine of urban development, and it is a topic that has attracted a great deal of interest in both academia and the popular press. Gentrification presents major theoretical ideas ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Gentrification in a Global Context

    Edited by Rowland Atkinson, Gary Bridge ...
    Series series Housing and Society Series
    Gentrification, a process of class neighbourhood upgrading, is being identified in a broader range of urban contexts throughout the world. This book throws new light and evidence to bear on a subject that deeply divides commentators on its worth and social costs given its ability to physically improve areas but also to displace indigenous inhabitants.Gentrification in a Global Perspective brings ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • Assembling the Centre: Architecture for Indigenous Cultures

    Australia and Beyond

    by Janet McGaw, Anoma Pieris ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Architecture
    Metropolitan Indigenous Cultural Centres have become a focal point for making Indigenous histories and contemporary cultures public in settler-colonial societies over the past three decades. While there are extraordinary success stories, there are equally stories that cause concern: award-winning architecturally designed Indigenous cultural centres that have been abandoned; centres that serve the ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • The 'One Planet' Life

    A Blueprint for Low Impact Development

    by David Thorpe ...
    The One Planet Life demonstrates a path for everyone towards a way of life in which we don’t act as if we had more than one planet Earth. The difference between this approach and others is that it uses ecological footprint analysis to help to determine how effective our efforts are. Much of the book is a manual – with examples – on how to live the 'good life' and supply over 65% of your livelihood ... Read more

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  • Messy Urbanism

    by Hong Kong University Press ...
    Seemingly messy and chaotic, the landscapes and urban life of cities in Asia possess an order and hierarchy that often challenges understanding and appreciation. With contributions by a cross-disciplinary group of authors, Messy Urbanism: Understanding the “Other” Cities of Asia examines a range of cases in Asia to explore the social and institutional politics of urban formality and the contexts ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • Lost in the Transit Desert

    Race, Transit Access, and Suburban Form

    by Diane Jones Allen ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Planning and Urban Design
    Increased redevelopment, the dismantling of public housing, and increasing housing costs are forcing a shift in migration of lower income and transit dependent populations to the suburbs. These suburbs are often missing basic transportation, and strategies to address this are lacking. This absence of public transit creates barriers to viable employment and accessibility to cultural networks, and ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • The Charrette Handbook

    by Bill Lennertz, Aarin Lutzenhiser ...
    The Charrette Handbook is a step-by-step guide to successful charrettes -- those extended exercises that help citizens envision new possibilities for their communities. Based on a program developed by the National Charrette Institute, the book offers a three-phase approach to project management, describing how to organize for a charrette, how to conduct one, and how to put the resulting ideas into ... Read more

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  • Stories of Cosmopolitan Belonging

    Emotion and Location

    Edited by Hannah Jones, Emma Jackson ...
    What does it mean to belong in a place, or more than one place? This exciting new volume brings together work from cutting-edge interdisciplinary scholars researching home, migration and belonging, using their original research to argue for greater attention to how feeling and emotion is deeply embedded in social structures and power relations.Stories of Cosmopolitan Belonging argues for a ... Read more

    $87.99 USD