Catálogo de libros: Planificación urbana y municipal

703 Catálogo de libros: Planificación urbana y municipal

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  • American Cities and the Politics of Party Conventions
    David Swindell / Eric S. Heberlig / Eric SHeberlig / Suzanne M. Leland / Suzanne MLeland
    Uncovers the politics involved when a city recruits and implements a presidential convention. ...
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    29,24 €

  • The Road to Inequality
    Clayton Nall
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    31,12 €

  • England's New Towns
    Thomas F Walker
    A photographic journey around the new towns of England at a time when many of them are going through significant changes that will forever alter their nature. This book attempts to capture many of the unique features that define the different characters of these distinctive towns and cities. It also includes a historical narrative through the history of new towns in England, fr...
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    10,60 €

  • The Road to Inequality
    Clayton Nall
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    120,87 €

  • Stronger Than Steel
    Jeffrey A Parks
    Stronger than Steel is the story of a company town, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, that used alternative economic development strategies, including arts, tourism, and a casino to propel its way out of devastation of deindustrialization. Bethlehem’s strategies have been rewarded with dramatic results.In 2016, among Pennsylvania cities with a population over 20,000, Bethlehem had the h...
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    14,66 €

  • No Straight Lines
    Terry Kading
    Small cities face intricate challenges. No Straight Lines provides the basis for a refined model of community-engaged leadership and research designed to realize equality of quality of life.With particular attention to the small city of Kamloops, BC, this book explores the impact of extended, short-term, and unique leadership collaborations and local responses to homelessness, ...
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    38,03 €

  • The Children of the Poor
    Jacob Riis
    Tenements, saloons, and streets — How did children survive the perils of New York City slums? When this book appeared in 1892, it shocked the privileged class. The evidence of misery and greed was undeniable.The author, Jacob Riis, was a muckraker and social documentary photographer. His exposé includes stories of survival, child abuse and neglect, orphans and outcasts. He wrot...
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    13,06 €

  • Spatial Justice and Informal Settlements
    Dr Eva Schwab
    Spatial Justice and Informal Settlements links the discourses of informal urbanism with spatial justice in the context of in situ governmental programmes oriented around public open space and designed to upgrade informal settlements in Latin America. ...
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    98,62 €

  • Fixing Your City
    George Crandall
    Tired of watching your city being degraded by new development that doesn’t fit? Paying for city plans that never get implemented? Wondering what your city can do to respond to climate change?In his groundbreaking book, Fixing Your City, Portland urban architect George Crandall reveals how to produce city plans that mitigate climate change and create healthy places to live, work...
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    29,49 €

  • George Washington’s Washington
    Adam Costanzo
    This book traces the history of the development, abandonment, and eventual revival of George Washington's original vision for a grand national capital on the Potomac. In 1791 Washington's ideas found form in architect Peter Charles L'Enfant's plans for the city. Yet the unprecedented scope of the plan; reliance on the sale of city lots to fund construction of th...
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    101,32 €

  • Smart Cities, Smart Mobility
    Lukas Neckermann
    No single book can ever seek to do justice to all of the incredible urban transformations and city initiatives taking place around the world – and I certainly don’t try to do so here. Instead, we will focus on the specific interconnection between smart mobility and smart cities, and how this results in a new (smarter) way of living and working.  ...
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    13,89 €

  • Race, Class, and Gentrification in Brooklyn
    Jerome Krase / Judith N. DeSena / Judith NDeSena
    Krase and DeSena offer a comprehensive view from the street of two iconic Brooklyn neighborhoods, Crown Heights-Prospect-Lefferts Gardens and Greenpoint-Williamsburg. They analyze the neighborhoods' precipitous decline and subsequent spectacular rise. ...
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    58,82 €

  • The Children of the Poor
    Jacob Riis
    Tenements, saloons, and streets - How did children survive the perils of poor New York City neighborhoods? When this book appeared in 1892, it shocked the privileged class. The evidence of misery and greed was undeniable.The author, Jacob Riis, was a muckraker and social documentary photographer. His book includes stories of survival, child abuse and neglect, orphans and outcas...
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    22,90 €

  • Designing Grid Cities for Optimized Urban Development and Planning
    With the growth of the global population, the expansion of metropolitan areas has become an essential aspect of land development. With the need for more space to accommodate the growing population, discussion on the best methods of expansion has arisen. Designing Grid Cities for Optimized Urban Development and Planning is a critical scholarly resource that explores the expansio...
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    286,79 €

  • Knowledge-Based Urban Development in the Middle East
    The knowledge economy has become an important part of contemporary development for cities in a time of globalization and expansion. Examining theories of knowledge transfer and urban advancement allows for better adaptation in a changing global society. Knowledge-Based Urban Development in the Middle East provides emerging research on the contemporary practices of architecture,...
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    242,85 €

  • Cross-Cultural Dialogues on Homelessness
    Cross-Cultural Dialogues on Homelessness Reveal New InsightsThis groundbreaking book presents compelling narratives and innovative approaches for addressing the psychological traumas that can underlie homelessness and is the first to explore in-depth what the US and UK can learn from one another.Authors focus on understanding and applying the precepts of Pretreatment and “Psych...
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    22,34 €

  • Cross-Cultural Dialogues on Homelessness
    Cross-Cultural Dialogues on Homelessness Reveal New InsightsThis groundbreaking book presents compelling narratives and innovative approaches for addressing the psychological traumas that can underlie homelessness and is the first to explore in-depth what the US and UK can learn from one another.Authors focus on understanding and applying the precepts of Pretreatment and “Psych...
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    26,90 €

  • Sustainable
    Tom DeWeese
    Sustainable: The WAR on Free Enterprise, Private Property and Individuals describes in detail the process being used at every level of government to reorganize our society under the excuse of environmental protection. Author Tom DeWeese pulls back the curtain to reveal the policies and the powers behind them that are systematically changing our culture and system of government ...
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    14,73 €

  • Sustaining Russia’s Arctic Cities
    Robert W Orttung
    Urban areas in Arctic Russia are experiencing unprecedented social and ecological change. This collection outlines the key challenges that city managers will face in navigating this shifting political, economic, social, and environmental terrain. In particular, the volume examines how energy production drives a boom-bust cycle in the Arctic economy, explores how migrants from M...
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    44,42 €

  • Neighborhood Change and Neighborhood Action
    This book addresses important issues facing neighborhoods as they strive to meet the human needs of their residents. It examines neighborhood mobilization from multiple perspectives. ...
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    129,15 €

  • LIVING IN SMART CITIES
    SIEW NING KAN HANS-DIE THOMAS MENKHOFF
     Cities around the world are becoming increasingly popular as economic powerhouses and magnets for migrants from rural and suburban areas. All big cities in First and Third World countries as well as emerging markets such as New York, London, Tokyo, Paris, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Singapore, New Dehli, Jakarta etc. have to cope with high population density and serious challenges su...
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    229,84 €

  • LIVING IN SMART CITIES
    SIEW NING KAN HANS-DIE THOMAS MENKHOFF
    Cities around the world are becoming increasingly popular as economic powerhouses and magnets for migrants from rural and suburban areas. All big cities in First and Third World countries as well as emerging markets such as New York, London, Tokyo, Paris, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Singapore, New Delhi, Jakarta etc. have to cope with high population density and serious challenges suc...
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    81,18 €

  • LECTURE NOTES IN URBAN ECONOMICS AND URBAN POLICY
    JOHN YINGER
     Lecture Notes in Urban Economics and Urban Policy provides a wide-ranging introduction to urban economics and urban policy by Professor John Yinger, one of the world's leading scholars in urban economics. It draws on his extensive teaching and publication record to provide detailed lecture notes for both a PhD level course in urban economics and a master's level course...
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    110,42 €

  • LECTURE NOTES IN URBAN ECONOMICS AND URBAN POLICY
    JOHN YINGER
     Lecture Notes in Urban Economics and Urban Policy provides a wide-ranging introduction to urban economics and urban policy by Professor John Yinger, one of the world's leading scholars in urban economics. It draws on his extensive teaching and publication record to provide detailed lecture notes for both a PhD level course in urban economics and a master's level course...
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    195,14 €

  • HOUSING AND COMMUTING
    JOHN YINGER
     The field of urban economics is built on an analysis of housing prices, land rents, housing consumption, spatial form, and other aspects of urban residential structure. Drawing on the journal publications and teaching notes of Professor John Yinger of Syracuse University, Housing and Commuting: The Theory of Urban Residential Structure presents a simple model of urban resident...
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    245,69 €

  • Handbook of Research on Perception-Driven Approaches to Urban Assessment and Design
    The creation of metropolitan areas is influenced by a wide array of factors, both practical and ecological. They can also be influenced by immaterial characteristics of a given area. The Handbook of Research on Perception-Driven Approaches to Urban Assessment and Design is a scholarly resource that assesses metropolitan development and its relation to the ecological and sustain...
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    411,21 €

  • Fight City Hall and Win
    Connor Murphy
    How often have you seen a development built that no one wanted or needed -- ruining the neighborhood, harming the landscape, and wrecking property values -- despite grumbling and protests by the neighbors, and sometimes without anyone even knowing it was going to happen until it was too late?All across America, bad development is approved because ordinary people don't have ...
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    21,99 €

  • Realising the city
    This edited collection explores what happens when a city administration tries to bring their vision for a city into being. It provides ethnographic accounts that complicate the dominant narrative of Manchester’s renaissance. ...
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    169,69 €

  • Erice
    Matteo Tusa
    Il libro è un manuale per gli addetti ai lavori o a quanti si affacciano a questa scienza che è l’urbanistica, per redigere un Piano di Centro Storico;Esso è anche una guida per quanti si accingono o vogliono visitare la 'labirintica' Erice (TP), in quanto con fotografie a colori e testo, descrive tutte le emergenze architettoniche e monumentali, anche quelle appropriate nel co...
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    23,46 €

  • MAAATE!
    Bernie Dowling
    IN 2017 a man named Paul Pisasale is facing criminal charges including corruption in public office, extortion, assault, and attempting to pervert justice. In 2016 Mr. Pisasale was re-elected Mayor of the Queensland City of Ipswich with 83.45 per cent of the popular vote.Something is broken at councils in south-east Queensland. By 2017, it could not be ignored. The Crime and Cor...
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    20,90 €