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  • European and International Experiences of Strategic Environmental Assessment

    Recent progress and future prospects

    Edición de Barry Sadler, Jiří Dusík ...
    This book brings together the latest thinking in Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) and considers the key question of whether the processes are having a positive impact on strategic decision making, both in Europe and worldwide.As governments move to develop green agendas, the book explores the challenges of working within national systems, as well as the strengths and weaknesses of sector ... Leer más

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  • Handbook of Strategic Environmental Assessment

    This authoritative handbook surveys the full breadth and depth of SEA, bringing together a range of international perspectives and insights on the theoretical, methodological and institutional dimensions and practical issues of the field. It then subjects this conventional wisdom to a critical reappraisal, looks at the vast lessons of experience and offers new ideas and interpretations as to where ... Leer más

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    Volume 1: Sustainable solutions for UK cities

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    The UK population will reach 70 million by 2027. How will all these people get around? Is building more, wider roads really the solution?If you've ever studied, worked in or used transport, there's a good chance you'll have stopped one day and asked yourself 'why?'. With population numbers rising and more than three-quarters of the British population living in urban areas, cities are becoming ... Leer más

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  • Landscape Ecology in Theory and Practice

    Pattern and Process

    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    This work provides in-depth analysis of the origins of landscape ecology and its close alignment with the understanding of scale, the causes of landscape pattern, and the interactions of spatial pattern with a variety of ecological processes. The text covers the quantitative approaches that are applied widely in landscape studies, with emphasis on their appropriate use and interpretation.The field ... Leer más

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  • Radical Solutions to the Housing Supply Crisis

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  • The New Transit Town

    Best Practices In Transit-Oriented Development

    Edición de Hank Dittmar, Gloria Ohland ...
    Transit-oriented development (TOD) seeks to maximize access to mass transit and nonmotorized transportation with centrally located rail or bus stations surrounded by relatively high-density commercial and residential development. New Urbanists and smart growth proponents have embraced the concept and interest in TOD is growing, both in the United States and around the world.New Transit Town brings ... Leer más

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  • Bike Boom

    The Unexpected Resurgence of Cycling

    de Carlton Reid ...
    Bicycling advocates envision a future in which bikes are a widespread daily form of transportation. While many global cities are seeing the number of bike commuters increase, this future is still far away; at times, urban cycling seems to be fighting for its very survival. Will we ever witness a true “bike boom” in cities? What can we learn from past successes and failures to make cycling safer, ... Leer más

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  • Governing Sustainable Cities

    Urban governance and sustainability are rapidly becoming key issues around the world. Currently three billion people - half the population of the planet - live in cities, and by 2050 a full two-thirds of the world's population will be housed in ever larger and increasingly densely populated urban areas. The economic, social and environmental challenges posed by urbanization on such a large scale ... Leer más

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  • Understanding Urban Ecosystems

    A New Frontier for Science and Education

    Nowhere on Earth is the challenge for ecological understanding greater, and yet more urgent, than in those parts of the globe where human activity is most intense - cities. People need to understand how cities work as ecological systems so they can take control of the vital links between human actions and environmental quality, and work for an ecologically and economically sustainable future. An ... Leer más

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  • Urban Regeneration and Social Sustainability

    Best Practice from European Cities

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    Urban regeneration is a key focus for public policy throughout Europe. This book examines social sustainability and analyses its meaning. The authors offer a comprehensive European perspective to identify best practices in sustainable urban regeneration in five major cities in Spain, Italy, Netherlands, Germany, and the UK. This authoritative overview of the scholarly literature makes the book ... Leer más

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  • Rebuilding the American City

    Design and Strategy for the 21st Century Urban Core

    Urban redevelopment in American cities is neither easy nor quick. It takes a delicate alignment of goals, power, leadership and sustained advocacy on the part of many. Rebuilding the American City highlights 15 urban design and planning projects in the U.S. that have been catalysts for their downtowns—yet were implemented during the tumultuous start of the 21st century. The book presents five ... Leer más

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  • Global Perspectives on Critical Architecture

    Praxis Reloaded

    Judging from the debates taking place in both education and practice, it appears that architecture is deeply in crisis. New design and production techniques, together with the globalization of capital and even skilled-labour, have reduced architecture to a commodified object, its aesthetic qualities tapping into the current pervasive desire for the spectacular. These developments have changed the ... Leer más

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