Urban Heat Stress and Mitigation Solutions: An Engineering Perspective, Costanzo Vincenzo, Evola Gianpiero, Marletta Luigi
Автор: Ed: Paul Watt/Ed: Peer Smets Название: Social Housing and Urban Renewal: A Cross-National Perspective ISBN: 178714125X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781787141254 Издательство: Emerald Рейтинг: Цена: 16464.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Contemporary urban renewal is the subject of intense academic and policy debate regarding whether it promotes social mixing and spatial justice, or instead enhances neoliberal privatization and state-led gentrification. This book offers a cross-national perspective on contemporary urban renewal in relation to social rental housing.
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 intense interest for policy makers, practitioners, and academics. The notion is that communities with higher levels of social capital (networks, trust, and norms) will prosper both economically and socially. In a practical sense, how do communities use the notion of social capital to build policies and strategies to move their community forward? Are all forms of social capital the same and do all have a positive influence on the community? To help gain insights into these fundamental questions Social Capital at the Community Level takes a holistic, interdisciplinary or systems approach to thinking about the community.
While those who study social capital will acknowledge the need for an interdisciplinary approach, most stay within their disciplinary silos. One could say there is strong bonding social capital within disciplines but little bridging social capital across disciplines. The contributors to Social Capital at the Community Level have made an attempt to build that bridging social capital. While disciplinary biases and research approaches are evident there is significant overlap about how people with different disciplinary perspectives think about social capital and how it can be applied at the community level. This can be from neighborhoods addressing a localized issue to a global response to a natural disaster. This book is an invaluable resource for scholars, researchers and policy makers of community and economic development, as well as rural sociologists and planners looking to understand the opaque process of social capital formation in communities.
In the last few decades, urban quality of life has received increasing interest from policy makers who aim to make cities better places to live. In addition to the aim of improving quality of life, sustainable and equitable development is also often included in the policy agendas of decision makers.
This book aims to link quality of life to related issues such as sustainability, equity, and subjective well-being. While less than one-third of the world's population lived in cities in 1950, about two thirds of humanity is expected to live in urban areas by 2030. This dramatic increase in the number of people living in urban areas serves as the backdrop for this book's analysis of cities.
This book will be useful to students and researchers in economics, architecture and urban planning, sociology and political sciences, as well as policy makers.
Описание: This book explores the ways in which cities, through their spatial development, contribute to greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and looks at the ways in which rapidly urbanizing cities in low- and middle-income countries can be planned to reduce overall GHG emissions. The book considers key questions such as what should be the appropriate economies
Описание: In the complex, cash-strapped, high pressure world of modern construction, what do you do when something goes wrong? This work looks beyond the best-case scenario to give project managers, contractors, architects and engineers the tools to prepare effectively for the unexpected.
Автор: Wayne K.D. Davies Название: Theme Cities: Solutions for Urban Problems ISBN: 9401796548 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789401796545 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 23757.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Theme Cities: Solutions for Urban Problems
Автор: Macrм Emanuela, Morea Valeria, Trimarchi Michele Название: Cultural Commons and Urban Dynamics: A Multidisciplinary Perspective ISBN: 3030544176 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783030544171 Издательство: Springer Цена: 13974.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Economists, architects, urban planners, sociologists, designers, political scientists, and artists explore the impact and implications of cultural commons on urban change.
Автор: Anna P Lane Название: Urban Environments for Healthy Ageing: A Global Perspective ISBN: 0367197553 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780367197551 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 22202.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Bringing together stakeholders from Europe, Asia, Australia, and North America, this book presents new evidence and critical reviews of current knowledge to promote ongoing discussions on the challenges and opportunities of aged and highly urbanised populations.
Автор: Mack Travis Название: Shaping a City: Ithaca, New York, a Developer`s Perspective ISBN: 1501730142 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781501730146 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 4132.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание:
Picture your downtown vacant, boarded up, while the malls surrounding your city are thriving. What would you do?
In 1974 the politicians, merchants, community leaders, and business and property owners, of Ithaca, New York, joined together to transform main street into a pedestrian mall. Cornell University began an Industrial Research Park to keep and attract jobs. Developers began renovating run-down housing. City Planners crafted a long-range plan utilizing State legislation permitting a Business Improvement District (BID), with taxing authority to raise up to 20 percent of the City tax rate focused on downtown redevelopment.
Shaping a City is the behind-the-scenes story of one developer’s involvement, from first buying and renovating small houses, gradually expanding his thinking and projects to include a recognition of the interdependence of the entire city—jobs, infrastructure, retail, housing, industry, taxation, banking and City Planning. It is the story of how he, along with other local developers transformed a quiet, economically challenged upstate New York town into one that is recognized nationally as among the best small cities in the country.
The lessons and principles of personal relationships, cooperation and collaboration, the importance of density, and the power of a Business Improvement District to catalyze change, are ones you can take home for the development and revitalization of your city.
Автор: Wayne K.D. Davies Название: Theme Cities: Solutions for Urban Problems ISBN: 9401778027 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789401778022 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 23757.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание:
Chapter 1: Introduction; Wayne K. D. Davies.- Chapter 2: New Urbanisms: From Neo-Traditional Neighbourhoods to New Regionalism; Wayne K. D. Davies and Ivan J. Townshend.- Chapter 3: Progress Towards Just Cities; Wayne K. D. Davies.- Chapter 4: Green Towns and Cities; Wayne K. D. Davies.- Chapter 5: Background to Sustainable Cities; Wayne K. D. Davies.- Chapter 6: Sustainable City Policies; Wayne K. D. Davies.- Chapter 7: Transition Towns and Ecodistricts: Local Sustainable Initiatives; Wayne K. D. Davies.- Chapter 8: Winter Cities; Wayne K. D. Davies.- Chapter 9: Resilient Cities: Coping with Natural Hazards; Wayne K. D. Davies.- Chapter 10: Creative Cities; Niamh Moore-Cherry.- Chapter 11: Developing Knowledge Cities; Wayne K. D. Davies.- Chapter 12: Safe Cities and Communities; Wayne K. D. Davies.- Chapter 13: Healthy Cities: Old and New Solutions; Wayne K.D. Davies.- Chapter 14: Festive Cities: Multi-Dimensional Perspectives; Wayne K. D. Davies.- Chapter 15: Slow Cities; Susan Ball.- Chapter 16: Conclusions: Creating More Liveable and Sustainable Urban Places; Wayne K. D. Davies.
Описание: This book examines the phenomenon of urban fear - the increasing anxiety over crime and violence in Western cities despite their high safety - with a view to developing a comprehensive, critical, exploratory theory of fear, space, and urban planning that unravels the paradoxes of their mutual relations.
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