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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “angus mcintosh”
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  • Towns and Cities

    Competing for survival

    by Angus McIntosh, Dr Angus Mcintosh ...
    The last fifty years have seen dramatic changes in towns and cities. People have moved out of central urban areas, retailing has moved out of towns and jobs have also declined in city centres, particularly with the growth of business and science parks.With the continuing decline of the manufacturing sector and the re-shaping of employment in the service sector, a new force will increasingly ... Read more

    $120.99 USD

  • The Ian Willock Collection on Law and Justice in the Twenty-First Century

    by Eamon P. H. Keane, Peter Robson, Sarah Craig, Maria Fletcher, Patrick Ford, Fiona Leverick, Hector MacQueen, Angus McIntosh, Seonaid Stevenson-McCabe0, Paul Watchman1, Robin White2, James P Chalmers3 ...
    Series series The Fairleigh Dickinson University Press Series in Law, Culture, and the Humanities
    The essays presented in The Ian Willock Collection on Law and Justice in the Twenty-First Century by those who knew Ian Willock, as well as those who have been inspired by his concerns, represent the wide compass of Ian’s interests. These range from a concern with the development of legal regulation to the relationship between social change and the justice system, as well as his particular ... Read more

    $105.99 USD

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    Designing the Spaces Between Buildings

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    The quality of life of millions of people living in cities could be improved if the form of the city were to evolve in a manner appropriate to its climatic context. Climatically responsive urban design is vital to any notion of sustainability: it enables individual buildings to make use of renewable energy sources for passive heating and cooling, it enhances pedestrian comfort and activity in ... Read more

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  • Smart Cities in the Mediterranean

    Coping with Sustainability Objectives in Small and Medium-sized Cities and Island Communities

    Edited by Anastasia Stratigea, Elias Kyriakides, Chrysses Nicolaides ...
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    This book sheds new light on the current and future challenges faced by cities, and presents approaches, options and solutions enabled by Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in the smart city context. By focusing on sustainability objectives within a rapidly changing social, economic, environmental and technological setting, it explores a variety of planning challenges faced by ... Read more

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  • Potsdamer Platz

    The Reshaping of Berlin

    by Quazi Mahtab Zaman, Malgorzata Nowobilska ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    The redesign of Potsdamer Platz depicts the struggle to revive Berlin, Germany. This central and highly visible square has undergone a series of strategic revisions to restore its vitality and so to meet place-enhancing objectives. Specifically, the book critically addresses the challenging tasks of restoring Potsdamer Platz from a state of disintegration to a condition worthy of a world-class ... Read more

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  • Place Identity, Participation and Planning

    Edited by Cliff Hague, Paul Jenkins ...
    Series series RTPI Library Series
    The central concern of this book is place identity, and its representation and manipulation through planning. Place identity is of growing international concern, both in planning practice and in academic work. The issue is important to practitioners because of the impact of globalisation on notions of place. This book includes comparisons between Norway, the Netherlands, Sweden and Scotland, ... Read more

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  • The Peri-Urban Interface

    Approaches to Sustainable Natural and Human Resource Use

    Edited by Duncan McGregor, David Simon, Donald Thompson ...
    Peri-urban interfaces - the zones where urban and rural areas meet - suffer from the greatest problems to humans caused by rapid urbanization, including intense pressures on resources, slum formation, lack of adequate services such as water and sanitation, poor planning and degradation of farmland. These areas, home to hundreds of millions of people, face unique problems and need distinctive and ... Read more

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  • Designing the City

    Towards a More Sustainable Urban Form

    by Hildebrand Frey ...
    Designing the City looks at current urban problems in cities and demonstrates how effective urban design can address social, economic and environmental issues as well as the physical planning at local level. The book is highly visual and illustrates the topic with a variety of sketches, line drawings, axonometrics and models. The author draws upon the valuable experience gained by the City of ... Read more

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  • Sustainable Urban Design

    An Environmental Approach

    Edited by Adam Ritchie, Randall Thomas ...
    By the end of the twenty-first century it is thought that three-quarters of the world’s population will be urban; our future is in cities. Making these cities healthy, vibrant and sustainable is an exceptional challenge which this book addresses. It sets out some of the basic principles of the design of our future cities and, through a series of carefully-selected case studies from leading ... Read more

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  • Global Research of Cities

    A Case of Chengdu

    by Peter Taylor, Kai Liu, Pengfei Ni ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This book, written by the national think tank of China, presents a comprehensive analysis of the key elements and unique characteristics in Chengdu’s development into a global city. To do so, it adopts both external and internal perspectives: externally, it highlights Chengdu’s agglomeration and linkage so as to identify the differences in its overall development in comparison with other world ... Read more

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    A Survey of Cities in Globalization

    by Peter J Taylor, Pengfei Ni, Ben Derudder, Michael Hoyler, Jin Huang, Frank Witlox ...
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  • Gender in the Post-Fordist Urban

    The Gender Revolution in Planning and Public Policy

    by Marguerite van den Berg ...
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    This book investigates the gender revolution in urban planning and public policy. Building on feminist urban studies, it introduces the concept of genderfication as a means of understanding the consequences of post-Fordist gender notions for the city. It traces the changes in western urban gender relations, arguing that in the post-Fordist urban landscape gender is used for urban planning and ... Read more

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