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  • Smart Evaluation and Integrated Design in Regional Development

    Territorial Scenarios in Trentino, Italy

    by Grazia Brunetta ...
    Smart Evaluation and Integrated Design in Regional Development puts forward an alternative approach to evaluation in spatial planning - one that focuses on ’territory’ and ’landscape’. The book introduces an innovative evaluation approach, namely Territorial Integrated Evaluation (TIE), a meta-evaluation methodology for designing regional development scenarios. A research team from the Politecnico ... Read more

    $88.99 CAD

  • Contractual Communities in the Self-Organising City

    Freedom, Creativity, Subsidiarity

    by Grazia Brunetta, Stefano Moroni ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    Both “land-use regulation” and “territorial collective services” have traditionally been accomplished in cities through coercive efforts of public administrations. Recently, land-use regulation and collective service provision regimes have emerged within “contractual communities:” territory-based organisations (usually, but not exclusively residential) such as homeowners’ associations.This book ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

  • Urban Resilience for Risk and Adaptation Governance

    Theory and Practice

    Edited by Grazia Brunetta, Ombretta Caldarice, Nicola Tollin, Marti Rosas-Casals, Jordi Morató ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book brings together a series of theory and practice essays on risk management and adaptation in urban contexts within a resilient and multidimensional perspective. The book proposes a transversal approach with regard to the role of spatial planning in promoting and fostering risk management as well as institutions’ challenges for governing risk, particularly in relation to new forms of multi ... Read more

    $218.99 CAD

  • Post Un-Lock

    From Territorial Vulnerabilities to Local Resilience

    Edited by Grazia Brunetta, Patrizia Lombardi, Angioletta Voghera ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This open access book builds a framework that holds together numerous open issues in territorial planning: from the understanding of territorial, landscape, environmental and climatic dynamics to the analysis of local vulnerabilities, to the use of modern survey techniques to support planning. What is the role of urban and regional planning in achieving the sustainable development goals of our ... Read more

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  • New Metropolitan Perspectives

    Knowledge Dynamics, Innovation-driven Policies Towards the Territories’ Attractiveness Volume 1

    Edited by Carmelina Bevilacqua, Francesco Calabrò, Lucia Della Spina ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
    This open access book presents the outcomes of the symposium “NEW METROPOLITAN PERSPECTIVES,” held at Mediterranea University, Reggio Calabria, Italy on May 26–28, 2020.Addressing the challenge of Knowledge Dynamics and Innovation-driven Policies Towards Urban and Regional Transition, the book presents a multi-disciplinary debate on the new frontiers of strategic and spatial planning, economic ... Read more

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  • Sustainable Urban Development Volume 3

    The Toolkit for Assessment

    Edited by Ron Vreeker, Mark Deakin, Stephen Curwell ...
    Series series Sustainable Urban Development Series
    The third volume of the Sustainable Urban Development Series outlines the BEQUEST toolkit that helps link protocol with the assessment methods currently available for evaluating the sustainability of urban development. It details the decision support mechanisms developed for users of the system to guide them in selecting the appropriate assessment methods for a variety of evaluations.This book ... Read more

    $129.99 CAD

  • Smart and Sustainable Planning for Cities and Regions

    Results of SSPCR 2019—Open Access Contributions

    Edited by Adriano Bisello, Daniele Vettorato, David Ludlow, Claudia Baranzelli ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
    This open access book offers a selection of research papers and case studies presented at the 3rd international conference “Smart and Sustainable Planning for Cities and Regions”, held in December 2019 in Bolzano, Italy, and explores the concept of smart and sustainable planning, including top contributions from academics, policy makers, consultants and other professionals.Innovation processes ... Read more

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  • Energy and Society

    Public Opinion, Policies and Sustainable Development

    Edited by Alfredo Agustoni, Mara Maretti ...
    This book deals with a pivotal issue often marginalized by sociological analysis: the relationship between energy and society, with different contributions from several European scholars. The articles cover a series of topics concerning energy policies, risk communication, and sustainable development. The increasingly complex social organization emerging from the energy shifts of the last two ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD

  • Regenerative Territories

    Dimensions of Circularity for Healthy Metabolisms

    Edited by Libera Amenta, Michelangelo Russo, Arjan van Timmeren ...
    Series Book 128 - GeoJournal Library
    This open access book provides new perspectives on circular economy and space, explored towards the definition of regenerative territories characterised by healthy metabolisms. Going beyond the mere reuse/recycle of material waste as resources, this work aims to understand how to apply circularity principles to, among others, the regeneration of wastescapes. The main focus is the development over ... Read more

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  • Cities Learning from a Pandemic

    Towards Preparedness

    Edited by Simonetta Armondi, Alessandro Balducci, Martina Bovo, Beatrice Galimberti ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Regional Economics, Science and Policy
    COVID-19 has stressed the condition of radical uncertainty that increasingly characterises our times and compels cities to learn new ways to cope with unexpected global urban challenges. The volume proposes preparedness as a key concept in urban geography, planning, and policy, inviting international scholars to discuss its pros and cons.Firstly, it builds a critical theoretical framework around ... Read more

    $85.99 CAD

  • 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

    $64.99 CAD

  • Milan: Productions, Spatial Patterns and Urban Change

    Edited by Simonetta Armondi, Stefano Di Vita ...
    Series series Built Environment City Studies
    As a main urban centre of one of the most dynamic European regions, Milan is a key location from which to study narratives of innovations and contemporary productions – old and new manufacturing, tertiary and consumptive sectors, creative and cultural economy – and investigate their influence both on spatial patterns and urban policy agenda.Accordingly, this book explores the contentious ... Read more

    $47.99 CAD