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“maf smith”

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  • Greening the Built Environment

    by Maf Smith, John Whitelegg, Nick J. Williams ...
    This work aims to provide a possible specification of the problems involved in greening the built environment and an articulation of the solutions. It begins with a discussion of sustainability as a concept and its applicability to contemporary towns and cities. The following chapters take up particular aspects of the built environment and sustainability in greater depth and include the ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

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  • Local and Global

    The Management of Cities in the Information Age

    by Jordi Borja, Manuel Castells ...
    This text challenges the belief that cities will eventually disappear as territorial forms of social organization as new information technologies permit the articulation of social processes without regard for distance, arguing that the specific role of cities will become more important, and proposing that a dynamic and creative relationship be built up between the local and the global. In this way ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Social Capital at the Community Level

    An Applied Interdisciplinary Perspective

    Edited by John M. Halstead, Steven C. Deller ...
    Series series Community Development Research and Practice Series
    In Social Capital at the Community Level, John Halstead and Steven Deller examine social capital formation beyond the individual level through a variety of disciplines: planning, economics, regional development, sociology, as well as non-traditional approaches like engineering and built environmental features. The notion of social capital in community and economic development has become a focus of ... Read more

    $87.99 USD

  • The Geography of Competition

    Firms, Prices, and Localization

    by John R. Miron ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This book provides a comprehensive, up-to-date, and expert synthesis of location theory. What are the impacts of a firm’s geographic location on the locations of customers, suppliers, and competitors in a market economy? How, when, and why does this result in the clustering of firms in space? When and how is society made better or worse off as a result? This book uses dozens of locational models ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • Managing Population Decline in Europe's Urban and Rural Areas

    by Gert-Jan Hospers, Nol Reverda ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book explores the challenges population decline presents for Europe’s urban and rural areas. It features recent demographic data and trends not only for Europe as a whole, but also for selected countries, and compares growth and shrinkage from a historical as well as a theoretical perspective. In addition, the book critically reviews relevant notions from geography, sociology, and public ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Multimedia Explorations in Urban Policy and Planning

    Beyond the Flatlands

    Edited by Leonie Sandercock, Giovanni Attili ...
    Series Book 7 - Urban and Landscape Perspectives
    The book is a collection of essays exploring the potential of multimedia to enrich and transform the planning field. By multimedia the authors refer to a broad range of new information and communication technologies (from film and video to digital ethnography and the internet), which are opening up new possibilities in planning practices, processes, pedagogy and research. The authors document the ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • The Purpose of Planning

    Creating sustainable towns and cities

    by Yvonne Rydin ...
    Planning is never far from the top of the policy or media agenda, whether this concerns 'garden-grabbing', the location of wind farms or protests about travellers' sites. The operation of the planning system raises strong views, even passions, and is highly political. Planners have to engage with developers working on multi-million pound schemes and the local communities that will be affected by ... Read more

    $24.69 USD

  • Landscape Balance and Landscape Assessment

    Edited by Rudolf Krönert, Uta Steinhardt, Martin Volk ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    During the last decades, landscape ecology has developed tremendously. It concerns both the theoretical basis and practical application. The authors follow a hierarchical approach that is inherent in landscape structures and processes as well as in planning practice. They show first approaches for the inclusion of factors of the landscape balance into planning procedures and new methods (GIS ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • Governance of Urban Sustainability Transitions

    European and Asian Experiences

    Edited by Derk Loorbach, Julia M. Wittmayer, Hideaki Shiroyama, Junichi Fujino, Satoru Mizuguchi ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    Reading this book will lead to new insights compelling to an international audience into how cities address the sustainability challenges they face. They do this by not repeating old patterns but by searching for new and innovative methods and instruments based on shared principles of a transitions approach. The book describes the quest of cities on two continents to accelerate and stimulate such ... Read more

    $116.09 USD

  • Lightweight Landscape

    Enhancing Design through Minimal Mass Structures

    Edited by Alessandra Zanelli, Luigi Spinelli, Carol Monticelli, Paolo Pedrali ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    This book explains how lightweight materials and structures can be deployed in buildings to meet high environmental and aesthetic standards and emphasizes how the concept of lightness in building technology and design dovetails with the desire to enhance landscape. The first part of the book, on lightweight construction, aims to foster the use of membranes within the specific climatic context and ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Policies and Practices in Italian Welfare Housing

    Turin, up to the Current Neo-Liberal Approach and Social Innovation Practices

    by Nadia Caruso ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book offers a European perspective on urban planning and spatial design by outlining housing policies in Southern Europe and their evolution. Through a unique case study on the city of Turin it explores social innovation and the relationship between the urban regeneration process and housing practices. The case study is a useful example in the debate about changing welfare arrangements in ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Climate Change Vulnerability in Southern African Cities

    Building Knowledge for Adaptation

    Edited by Silvia Macchi, Maurizio Tiepolo ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    In recent decades, extreme rains and drought have struck urban regions in Africa like never before. Nevertheless, limited information is available on which to base development of early warning systems, identification of high-risk zones and formulation of local action plans. This book is about how to build the knowledge necessary for planning adaptation to climate change in Sub-Saharan cities. It ... Read more

    $49.49 USD