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  • Second RILEM International Conference on Concrete and Digital Fabrication

    Digital Concrete 2020

    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
    This book gathers peer-reviewed contributions presented at the 2nd RILEM International Conference on Concrete and Digital Fabrication (Digital Concrete), held online and hosted by the Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands from 6-9 July 2020. Focusing on additive and automated manufacturing technologies for the fabrication of cementitious construction materials, such as 3D concrete ... Read more

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  • Metropolitan Governance and Spatial Planning

    Comparative Case Studies of European City-Regions

    Metropolitan Governance and Spatial Planning explores the relationship between metropolitan decision-making and strategies to co-ordinate spatial policy. This relationship is examined across 20 cities of Europe and the similarities and differences analysed.Cities are having to formulate their urban policies in a very complex and turbulent environment. They are faced with numerous new pressures and ... Read more

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  • Framing Strategic Urban Projects

    Learning from current experiences in European urban regions

    Edited by Willem Salet, Enrico Gualini ...
    Presenting the findings of extensive research into the development of planning tools and strategies since the early 1970s, this book addresses key issues in urban development/governance and brings together a range of different national experiences.Helpfully divided into three sections, Framing Strategic Urban Projects sets out the study framework, with its social, policy and institutional contexts ... Read more

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  • The Routledge Handbook of Institutions and Planning in Action

    Edited by Willem Salet ...
    The Routledge Handbook of Institutions and Planning in Action contains a selection of 25 chapters prepared by specialized international scholars of urban planning and urban studies focusing on the question of how institutional innovation occurs in practices of action. The contributors share expertise on institutional innovation and philosophical pragmatism. They discuss the different facets of ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Labor Relations in Globalized Food

    Series Book 20 - Research in Rural Sociology and Development
    In recent years labor relations have altered significantly and new and more serious forms of labor marginalization and control have emerged. This book looks at labor in agriculture and food in a global era by studying salient characteristics of the conditions and use of labor in global agri-food. Written by experienced and also emerging scholars, the chapters present a wealth of empirical data and ... Read more

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  • The Self-Build Experience

    Institutionalisation, Place-Making and City Building

    Series series Urban Policy, Planning and the Built Environment
    Using a broad international comparative perspective spanning multiple countries across South America, Europe and Africa, contributors explore resident-led self-building for low- and middle-income groups in urban areas. Although social, economic and urban prosperity differs across these contexts, there exists a recurring, cross-continental, tension between formal governance and self-regulation ... Read more

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  • Public Norms and Aspirations

    The Turn to Institutions in Action

    by Willem Salet ...
    Series series RTPI Library Series
    The aspirations of individuals, organizations, and states, and their perceptions of problems and possible solutions circulate fast in this instantaneous society. Yet, the deliberation of the underlying public norms seems to escape the attention of the public. Institutions enable people to have reliable expectations of one another even when they are unsure of each other's aspirations and purposes. ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • State Capitalism under Neoliberalism

    The Case of Agriculture and Food in Brazil

    State Capitalism under Neoliberalism analyzes State capitalism in agri-food under neoliberalism and investigates State-sponsored actions designed to counter the negative consequences of the implementation of free-market policies and strategies. In particular, it probes efforts of the Brazilian State to respond to the neoliberalization and corporatization of agriculture and food. Between 2003 and ... Read more

    $93.19 USD

  • Amsterdam Human Capital

    The familiar shape of western cities is changing dramatically. For long times the urban core was taken for granted as the focal point for international contacts and day-to-day activities in the region. Currently, the urban scope is transforming into multi centred forms at metropolitan scale. The transition is not just a matter of spatial form, it is reflecting social, economic and cultural ... Read more

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    Series series RTPI Library Series
    Reviewing the limitations of various planning options, this book addresses the debate on how to preserve open space in the context of a growing metropolis.The importance of open spaces for well-being in urban life is well-established. With case studies on internalization and valuation methods, this book critically examines the liberal discourse that urges the transfer of responsibility for open ... Read more

    $45.99 USD

  • The Fragmented Politics of Urban Preservation

    Beijing, Chicago, and Paris

    by Yue Zhang ...
    Series series Globalization and Community
    While urban preservation is almost as old as cities themselves, it has become increasingly controversial in modern cities. In this book, Yue Zhang presents a cross-national comparative analysis of the politics of urban preservation. Based on comprehensive archival research and more than two hundred in-depth interviews in Beijing, Chicago, and Paris, Zhang finds that urban preservation provides a ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Sustainability Assessment

    Criteria and Processes

    Sustainability assessment is now emerging as a more transparent, comprehensive, integrated and far-sighted approach to decision making. Its basic demand is that all significant undertakings must make a positive contribution to sustainability. To apply this test, decision makers need criteria based on the core requirements of sustainability and the particularities of the context. As well, they need ... Read more

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