Catálogo de libros: Planificación regional y zonal

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  • Visibilities and Invisibilities in Smart Cities
    H. Patricia McKenna / HPatricia McKenna
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    216,06 €

  • Constructing Community
    Jeremy Levine
    A look at the benefits and consequences of the rise of community-based organizations in urban developmentWho makes decisions that shape the housing, policies, and social programs in urban neighborhoods? Who, in other words, governs? Constructing Community offers a rich ethnographic portrait of the individuals who implement community development projects in the Fairmount Corrido...
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    40,37 €

  • Constructing Community
    Jeremy Levine
    A look at the benefits and consequences of the rise of community-based organizations in urban developmentWho makes decisions that shape the housing, policies, and social programs in urban neighborhoods? Who, in other words, governs? Constructing Community offers a rich ethnographic portrait of the individuals who implement community development projects in the Fairmount Corrido...
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    135,84 €

  • China’s citizenship challenge
    Malgorzata Jakimów
    China’s Citizenship Challenge is a valuable contribution into the field of labour movement studies, framing labour NGOs’ activism as centred on contestation of migrant workers’ citizenship in China. It shows that while NGOs’ activism revolves around the broad areas of civic organising, labour and urban space, it ultimately rests upon engagement with the wider citizenship regime...
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    157,18 €

  • Addressing Urban Shrinkage in Small and Medium Sized Towns
    Hans Schlappa / Tatsuya Nishino
    The analytical tools and practical examples provided by Schlappa and Nishino are relevant for political and administrative decisionmakers, leaders of civil society and business organisations in developing locally appropriate, creative and robust strategies to shrink smart and re-grow smaller. ...
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    87,99 €

  • City Planning
    Connor Murphy
    The purpose of long-range urban planning is to set aside the most appropriate locations for future land uses. Unfortunately, power brokers use this planning process to position their own land holdings to become the most profitable locations. And planning professionals often come up with unimaginative, cookie-cutter solutions.But it doesn’t have to be this way. With a little kno...
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    20,99 €

  • Cities and Homelessness
    Homelessness in America’s cities remains a growing problem. The homeless today face the same challenges as in years past: poverty, tenuous or no ties to family and friends, physical and mental health issues, and substance abuse. Compared to the 1950s to 1970s, more homeless are now sleeping on city streets versus in shelters or single room hotels. Homelessness rates are affe...
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    58,85 €

  • Pacific Urban Development, Water, and Sanitation Sector Road Map 2021-2025
    Asian Development Bank
    This document lays out the vision and strategy of ADB for sustainable urban development programs, projects, and technical assistance in its Pacific developing member countries from 2021 to 2025.Urban development plays a key role in contributing to stronger, healthier, and more inclusive economies in the Pacific. This document provides an overview of the key constraints to susta...
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    24,61 €

  • Creating Livable Asian Cities
    This book explores how Asia’s fast-growing cities can fulfill their potential as engines of economic prosperity and provide a livable environment for all citizens.Major challenges faced by Asian cities include poor planning, a lack of affordable housing, inequalities, pollution, climate vulnerabilities, and urban infrastructure deficits. The book’s 19 articles unwrap these chal...
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    92,94 €

  • Contemporary Planning Practice
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    60,33 €

  • Contemporary Planning Practice
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    193,61 €

  • CAREC Road Safety Engineering Manual 4
    Asian Development Bank
    This manual focuses on the provision of safer pedestrian facilities in Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation (CAREC) countries, particularly on the physical road infrastructure.It also outlines proven facilities that have been shown to assist pedestrians including those in the high-risk groups. Aimed at engineers, project managers, planners, traffic police, and other decis...
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    41,77 €

  • African cities and collaborative futures
    This book brings together scholars from across the globe and a range of disciplines to discuss the nature of African cities today. This groundbreaking collection, spanning energy, housing, infrastructure, safety and sustainability, offers a fresh perspective on some of the most pressing issues confronting urban Africa in the twenty-first century. ...
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    170,00 €

  • Refractions of the National, the Popular and the Global in African Cities
    Case studies of metropolitan cities in nine African countries - from Egypt in the north to three in West and Central Africa, two in East Africa and three in Southern Africa - make up the empirical foundation of this publication. The interrelated themes addressed in these chapters - the national influence on urban development, the popular dynamics that shape urban development an...
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    60,01 €

  • Rajasthan Rising
    Manoj Sharma / Melissa Alipalo
    This publication showcases how ADB and the Government of Rajasthan have partnered together to bring sustainable development to the cities and towns of Rajasthan, in northwest India.Since 1998, the Rajasthan Urban Infrastructure Development Project (RUIDP), extensive work has been undertaken to address urban challenges such as widespread poverty, inadequate infrastructure, and a...
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    40,28 €

  • ICT Solutions for Improving Smart Communities in Asia
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    262,12 €

  • Roads, Runways and Resistance
    Steve Melia
    From the anti-roads protests of the 1990s to HS2 and Extinction Rebellion, conflict and protest have shaped the politics of transport. In 1989, Margaret Thatcher’s government announced ’the biggest road-building programme since the Romans.’ This is the inside story of the thirty tumultuous years that have followed. Roads, Runways and Resistance draws on over 50 interviews with ...
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    126,99 €

  • ICT Solutions for Improving Smart Communities in Asia
    It is also essential to study the success of technology use in some of the advanced nations in the Asian region that promote a smarter and well-advanced community. A smarter community in these regions can only be materialized by adopting the latest trends in technology to improve quality of life. Some of these regions need a great emphasis on technology adoption for women empow...
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    341,04 €

  • Handbook of Research on Developing Smart Cities Based on Digital Twins
    The advent of connected, smart technologies for the built environment may promise a significant value that has to be reached to develop digital city models. At the international level, the role of digital twin is strictly related to massive amounts of data that need to be processed, which proposes several challenges in terms of digital technologies capability, computing, intero...
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    426,97 €

  • Gurgaon to Gurugram
    Suptendu P. Biswas / Suptendu P.Biswas / Suptendu PBiswas
    Gurgaon is a city of paradoxes, of extremes and of opportunities. The face of the city changedremarkably, so did the fate of its inhabitants. The story began with the transition of the land, fromthe agricultural field to the real estate dividend. A new set of people started settling in Gurgaon whohad the ambition of having their own house on a plot of land. A unique urban image...
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    17,78 €

  • How the Streets Were Made
    Yelena Bailey
    In this book, Yelena Bailey examines the creation of 'the streets' not just as a physical, racialized space produced by segregationist policies but also as a sociocultural entity that has influenced our understanding of blackness in America for decades. Drawing from fields such as media studies, literary studies, history, sociology, film studies, and music studies, this book en...
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    127,13 €

  • How the Streets Were Made
    Yelena Bailey
    In this book, Yelena Bailey examines the creation of 'the streets' not just as a physical, racialized space produced by segregationist policies but also as a sociocultural entity that has influenced our understanding of blackness in America for decades. Drawing from fields such as media studies, literary studies, history, sociology, film studies, and music studies, this book en...
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    35,72 €

  • Healthy and Age-Friendly Cities in the People’s Republic of China
    Najibullah Habib / Stefan Rau / Susann Roth
    This report discusses framework for a four-generation urban society in the People’s Republic of China to create positive health outcomes and improve urban livability, services, and public spaces for the elderly.Rapid urbanization and aging in many countries including the People’s Republic of China, along with lessons learned from the coronavirus disease pandemic, emphasize the ...
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    30,25 €

  • The Sustainable City XIV
    Urban areas result in a series of environmental challenges varying from the consumption of natural resources and the subsequent generation of waste and pollution, contributing to the development of social and economic imbalances. As cities continue to grow all over the world, these problems tend to become more acute and require the development of new solutions.The challenge of ...
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    308,82 €

  • Developing and Monitoring Smart Environments for Intelligent Cities
    Zaigham Mahmood
    In recent years, intelligent cities, also known as smart cities or cognitive cities, have become a perceived solution for improving the quality of life of citizens while boosting the efficiency of city services and processes. This new vision involves the integration of various sectors of society through the use of the internet of things. By continuing to enhance research for th...
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    314,88 €

  • Lessons from the British and French New Towns
    This book explores the evolution of New Towns in France and the UK in a number of areas (governance, planning and heritage) and assess whether their legacy can inspire current planned settlements. ...
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    152,45 €

  • Urban Mobility and Social Equity in Latin America
    This volume of Transport and Sustainability focuses on how spatial and social mobilities are intertwined in the reproduction of spatial and social inequities in Latin American cities. ...
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    182,78 €

  • Examining International Land Use Policies, Changes, and Conflicts
    Though conflicts continue to arise over land use and land cover changes, the conversion of forest land to cropland or other land uses such as housing and urban development have been on the rise in recent years. Decisions regarding land use and land cover influence climate change as well as various natural processes. While proper changes can minimize the effects and speed of cli...
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    282,43 €

  • Examining International Land Use Policies, Changes, and Conflicts, 1 volume
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    216,58 €

  • Environmental Problem-Solving
    Bruno Verdini / Jessica Gordon / Lawrence Susskind
    ’Environmental Problem-Solving’ offers a self-paced curriculum for college and university students who want to learn the basic techniques government agencies, citizen action groups, corporations and research institutions use to solve pressing environmental problems. ...
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    215,65 €