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  • Ventilating Cities

    Air-flow Criteria for Healthy and Comfortable Urban Living

    de Shinsuke Kato, Kyosuke Hiyama ...
    Series series Springer Geography
    The majority of the world’s population live in environments with artificially weakened wind as buildings in urban areas form wind-breaks and reduce wind speeds. Anthropogenic heat is also generated and during the summer dense urban areas suffer from the urban heat island effect, a known urban climate problem. This book discusses how to evaluate the urban wind environment, including ventilation ... Leer más

    $143.99 USD

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  • Sustainability Assessment

    Criteria and Processes

    de Bob Gibson, Selma Hassan, James Tansey ...
    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 ... Leer más

    $73.99 USD

  • The Intercultural City

    Planning for Diversity Advantage

    de Charles Landry, Phil Wood ...
    In a world of increasing mobility, how people of different cultures live together is a key issue of our age, especially for those responsible for planning and running cities. New thinking is needed on how diverse communities can cooperate in productive harmony instead of leading parallel or antagonistic lives. Policy is often dominated by mitigating the perceived negative effects of diversity, and ... Leer más

    $65.99 USD

  • The Art of City Making

    de Charles Landry ...
    City-making is an art, not a formula. The skills required to re-enchant the city are far wider than the conventional ones like architecture, engineering and land-use planning. There is no simplistic, ten-point plan, but strong principles can help send good city-making on its way. The vision for 21st century cities must be to be the most imaginative cities for the world rather than in the world. ... Leer más

    $65.99 USD

  • Strategic Environmental Assessment and Land Use Planning

    An International Evaluation

    de Michael Short, Mark Baker, Jeremy Carter, Stephen Jay, Carys Jones ...
    'A wonderfully international and up-to-date perspective on strategic environmental assessment of land use plans by leading experts in the field. Strategic Environmental Assessment and Land Use Planning covers not only how much such SEAs are carried out and in what context, but whether they are effective and why. It provides invaluable insights for practitioners and researchers in this rapidy ... Leer más

    $73.99 USD

  • Land Use Planning Made Plain

    de Hok-Lin Leung ...
    Series series Heritage
    Land Use Planning Made Plain is a practical guide for planners, administrators, politicians, developers, property owners, and the general public on how to make and implement land use decisions. It seeks to develop a set of coherent planning principles by drawing out useful and generally applicable elements from various systems and approaches.Hok-Lin Leung's focus is on planning at the city level, ... Leer más

    $40.99 USD

  • Smart Cities in the Mediterranean

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

    Edición de Anastasia Stratigea, Elias Kyriakides, Chrysses Nicolaides ...
    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    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 ... Leer más

    $89.99 USD

  • Resilience Thinking in Urban Planning

    Edición de Ayda Eraydin, Tuna Taşan-Kok ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    There is consensus in literature that urban areas have become increasingly vulnerable to the outcomes of economic restructuring under the neoliberal political economic ideology. The increased frequency and widening diversity of problems offer evidence that the socio-economic and spatial policies, planning and practices introduced under the neoliberal agenda can no longer be sustained. As this ... Leer más

    $89.99 USD

  • Infrastructures of Consumption

    Environmental Innovation in the Utility Industries

    de Elizabeth Shove, Heather Chappells, Bas Van Vliet ...
    For many years, a uniform and uncontested picture of utility system organization has endured across Europe. Provider and consumer roles have been largely taken for granted, and consumers have had little choice but to use the infrastructure of the only network provider available. Recent transformations have challenged this model. This book examines the ongoing environmental restructuring of ... Leer más

    $82.99 USD

  • The Vulnerability of Cities

    Natural Disasters and Social Resilience

    de Mark Pelling ...
    When disaster strikes in cities the effects can be catastrophic compared to other environments. But what factors actually determine the vulnerability or resilience of cities? The Vulnerability of Cities fills a vital gap in disaster studies by examining the too-often overlooked impact of disasters on cities, the conditions leading to high losses from urban disasters and why some households and ... Leer más

    $77.99 USD

  • Urban Water Trajectories

    Edición de Sarah Bell, Adriana Allen, Pascale Hofmann, Tse-Hui Teh ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    Water is an essential element in the future of cities. It shapes cities’ locations, form, ecology, prosperity and health. The changing nature of urbanisation, climate change, water scarcity, environmental values, globalisation and social justice mean that the models of provision of water services and infrastructure that have dominated for the past two centuries are increasingly infeasible. ... Leer más

    $89.99 USD

  • Design and Management of Sustainable Built Environments

    Edición de Runming Yao ...
    Climate change is believed to be a great challenge to built environment professionals in design and management. An integrated approach in delivering a sustainable built environment is desired by the built environment professional institutions. The aim of this book is to provide an advanced understanding of the key subjects required for the design and management of modern built environments to meet ... Leer más

    $188.99 USD