Catálogo de libros: Planificación regional y zonal

3047 Catálogo de libros: Planificación regional y zonal

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  • The City is an Ecosystem
    This book maps an interdisciplinary, community-engaged response to the great ecological crises of our time-climate change, biodiversity loss, and social inequality-which pose particular challenges for cities, where more than half the world’s population currently live.    ...
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    240,77 €

  • Culture and Sustainable Development in the City
    Sacha Kagan
    This book exposes the potential to advance a cultural approach to sustainable urban development. It explores urban 'spaces of possibilities' and links them to the seized or missed opportunities for innovative forms of transversal partnerships throughout the city and of culturally sensitive urban policies. ...
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    240,90 €

  • Public Sector Reform in South Africa 1994-2021
    Robert Cameron
    Public Sector Reform in South Africa 1994-2021 is an examination of specific public sector reforms in three core Public Administration areas in the democratic South Africa: political-administrative relationships, the delegation of authority to senior managers and performance management. ...
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    136,04 €

  • The Routledge Companion to Twentieth and Early Twenty-First Century Urban Design
    Jon Lang
    The Routledge Companion to Twentieth and Early Twenty-First Century Urban Design is a fully illustrated descriptive and explanatory history of the development of urban design ideas and paradigms of the past 150 years. ...
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    84,83 €

  • Reframing the Urban Challenge in Africa
    This book explores the changing dynamics behind the rapid expanse of Africa’s urban population. Providing an important nuanced perspective on the heterogeneity of African cities and the challenges they face, this book will be an important resource for researchers across development studies, African studies, and urban studies. ...
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    73,27 €

  • Urban Secularism
    Julia Martínez-Ariño
    Drawing on rich empirical material, Urban Secularism demonstrates that urban actors draw and (re-)produce dichotomies of inclusion and exclusion and challenge static conceptions of laïcité and the nation. ...
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    73,69 €

  • As aventuras da velhice na invenção de si e do espaço
    Isabella Valino Teixeira de Bessa
    Enunciando de maneira singular, procuramos desenhar a estética como instrumento do pensamento, mapeando os agenciamentos das memórias na medida em que potencializam o corpo a reorganizar-se e a reorganizar o espaço ao seu redor, agenciamentos, esses, que constroem relações vinculativas entre os espaços habitados pela velhice e as memórias que se atualizam. O espaço de morar rea...
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    34,84 €

  • Coastal Architectures and Politics of Tourism
    The 21 chapters in this book analyze selected case studies of architectures and landscapes around the world, contextualizing them within economic geographies of national development, the geopolitics of the Cold War, the legacies of colonialism, and the international dynamics of decolonization. ...
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    65,73 €

  • Coastal Architectures and Politics of Tourism
    The 21 chapters in this book analyze selected case studies of architectures and landscapes around the world, contextualizing them within economic geographies of national development, the geopolitics of the Cold War, the legacies of colonialism, and the international dynamics of decolonization. ...
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    240,23 €

  • Design Capital
    AnnaLisa Meyboom / Sherry Mckay
    Design Capital offers strategies and tools for justifying public spending on design considerations in infrastructure projects. Beautifully designed infrastructure brings social value that far exceeds its initial construction expenditure. With this book, designers can make a stronger case for the value of design in public infrastructure. ...
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    240,83 €

  • Designing Sustainable and Resilient Cities
    This book explores the link between the food-water-energy nexus and sustainability, and the extraordinary value that small tweaks to this nexus can achieve for more resilient cities and communities. It provides a planning tool for decision making and concludes with policy recommendations, making it relevant to a range of audiences. ...
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    59,88 €

  • Designing Sustainable and Resilient Cities
    This book explores the link between the food-water-energy nexus and sustainability, and the extraordinary value that small tweaks to this nexus can achieve for more resilient cities and communities. It provides a planning tool for decision making and concludes with policy recommendations, making it relevant to a range of audiences. ...
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    241,14 €

  • Realizing India’s Potential for Transit-Oriented Development and Land Value Capture
    Asian Development Bank
    This study assesses how the implementation of transit-oriented development (TOD) can help address urban development issues in India.In the context of metro rail systems, TOD has much potential to promote inclusive and sustainable urban mobility. It can also enhance the livability and resilience of cities through better integration of land use policies and the development of the...
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    32,38 €

  • Applications of the Universal Thermal Climate Index UTCI in Biometeorology
    Eduardo L. Krüger
    This book introduces the UTCI (Universal Thermal Climate Index) and summarizes progress in this area. The UTCI was developed as part of the European COST Action Program and first announced to the scientific community in 2009. Since then, a decade has followed of applicability tests and research results, as well as knowledge gained from applying the UTCI in human adaptation and ...
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    172,99 €

  • Pandemic in the Metropolis
    This book brings together reports of original empirical studies which explore the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on urban mobility and transportation and the associated policy responses. Focusing on the California region, the book draws on this local experience to formulate general lessons for other regions and metropolitan areas.  The book examines how the COVID-19 pandemic ...
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    47,50 €

  • Caring for Place
    Patsy Healey
    This book draws on preeminent planning theorist Patsy Healey’s personal experiences as a resident of a small rural town in England, to explore what place and community mean in a particular context, and how different initiatives struggle to get a stake in the wider governance relations while maintaining their own focus and ways of working. ...
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    241,02 €

  • Caring for Place
    Patsy Healey
    This book draws on preeminent planning theorist Patsy Healey’s personal experiences as a resident of a small rural town in England, to explore what place and community mean in a particular context, and how different initiatives struggle to get a stake in the wider governance relations while maintaining their own focus and ways of working. ...
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    65,17 €

  • The Routledge Handbook of Urban Studies in Latin America and the Caribbean
    This handbook presents the great contemporary challenges facing cities and urban spaces in Latin America and the Caribbean. The book is designed to meet the interdisciplinary study and consultation needs of undergraduate and graduate students of architecture, urban design, urban planning, political science, and more. ...
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    380,93 €

  • Community Carsharing and the Social-Ecological Mobility Transition
    Luca Nitschke
    This book investigates how practices of community carsharing are influencing everyday mobility. It argues that hegemonic practices of automobility are reconfigured through practices of community carsharing, thereby challenging capitalist mobilities in the realm of everyday life. ...
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    241,02 €

  • City Politics
    Annika Marlen Hinze / Dennis R. Judd
    City Politics has received praise for the clarity of its writing, careful research, and distinctive theme - that urban politics in the United States has evolved as a dynamic interaction between governmental power, private actors, and a politics of identity. ...
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    379,17 €

  • Infrastructure
    Mariana Valverde
    This book provides an overview and assessment of infrastucture’s legal and governance underpinnings. ...
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    88,68 €

  • From the Ground Up
    Asian Development Bank
    The publication captures the knowledge and lessons from a water supply project in the coastal city of Khulna in Bangladesh in addressing the worsening salinity levels in the water sources.The transition from groundwater to surface water or conjunctive use can be costly and technically complex. The Khulna Water Supply Project, cofinanced by the Asian Development Bank and the Jap...
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    35,67 €

  • The Blinded City
    Matthew Wilhelm-Solomon
    ’One of the best works of narrative non-fiction to emerge from the country in years. Quite simply brilliant.’ - NIREN TOLSIAmid evictions, raids, killings, the drug trade, and fire, inner-city Johannesburg residents seek safety and a home. A grandmother struggles to keep her granddaughter as she is torn away from her. A mother seeks healing in the wake of her son’s murder. And ...
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    38,05 €

  • GOVERNMENT PROJECTS FOR POVERTY ALLEVIATION. SULU PROVINCE
    FROILYN SALLIM JAMAWADI
    This book presents an overview of government projects geared at poverty reduction in Sulu Province Philippines. Details are provided on projects that doing well and others that are not. It also discusses the awareness of the minority tribes of these projects and provides some insights into why most Filipinos choose to go abroad. ...
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    7,51 €

  • Smart Healthcare for Sustainable Urban Development
    With the development of information technology, the concept of smart healthcare has been evolving gradually. A new generation of information technologies, such as the internet of things, cloud computing, big data, and artificial intelligence, have transformed the old medical system and improved the efficiency, convenience, and personalization of healthcare. These changes are ne...
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    435,67 €

  • Future of Cities
    This book critically analyses the existing condition of cities in developing countries with special reference to planning and infrastructure networks in India. It provides an overview of the nature of opportunities presented by cities; major challenges that cities would face in future; and codifies the ways to transcend these challenges. ...
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    240,83 €

  • East Asian Architecture in Globalization
    This book collects a selected list of peer-reviewed papers presented at EAAC 2017, International Conference on East Asian Architectural Culture, the leading conference on architectural history and built heritage conservation in the East Asia region. While centered around the core issue of globalization and its complex effects on East Asian architectural cultures, the selected p...
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    407,94 €

  • How Smart are Cities without Adequate Finances?
    Aishna Sharma / Firdousi Naher / Simanti Bandyopadhyay
    This book compares urban finances in cities located in two different South Asian countries and assesses their fiscal health. It uses simulation to estimate the required augmentation in financial resources by the urban local bodies (ULBs) to reach a level of city development that is significantly better compared to existing levels. The book provides a systematic analysis of the ...
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    48,71 €

  • Methods in Urban Analysis
    Scott Baum
    This book highlights major quantitative and qualitative methods and approaches used in the field of urban analysis. The respective chapters cover the background and relevance of various approaches to urban studies and offer guidance on implementing specific methodologies. Each chapter also provides links to real-world examples. The book is unique in its focus on Australian exam...
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    68,39 €

  • Contesting Public Spaces
    Ed Wall
    This book explores concerns for spatial justice as streets, squares, and neighbourhoods are continuously made and remade through planning processes, political ambitions and everyday activities. This work is intended for readers interested in how the urban spaces of their cities are continually produced in competing ways. ...
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    66,84 €