Catálogo de libros: Planificación urbana y municipal

703 Catálogo de libros: Planificación urbana y municipal

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  • Building Resilience of the Urban Poor
    Asian Development Bank
    This report explains how rising climate and disaster risk can increase the vulnerability of Asia and the Pacific region’s urban poor and how engendering systemic change can strengthen their resilience. It emphasizes the need to put them at the center of decision-making and for targeted actions to tackle the drivers of vulnerability. It shows why households and cities are key en...
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    29,26 €

  • Urban Life and the Ambient in Smart Cities, Learning Cities, and Future Cities
    H. Patricia McKenna
    The topic of urban life and the ambient in smart cities, learning cities, and future cities is a timely one, fitting as it does in the world today by responding in an interdisciplinary way across many areas of research and practice. It is essential for researchers to think about and engage with the notion of flourishing in increasingly challenging environments in smarter ways. ...
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    225,65 €

  • Urban Life and the Ambient in Smart Cities, Learning Cities, and Future Cities
    H. Patricia McKenna
    The topic of urban life and the ambient in smart cities, learning cities, and future cities is a timely one, fitting as it does in the world today by responding in an interdisciplinary way across many areas of research and practice. It is essential for researchers to think about and engage with the notion of flourishing in increasingly challenging environments in smarter ways. ...
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    291,50 €

  • Electrifying Mobility
    Electrifying Mobility: Realising a Sustainable Future for the Car considers the drivers, barriers to adoption and the current lived experience of electric vehicles, drawing upon this experience to inform planning for mass adoption and how regulation might change to reflect the specific needs and challenges raised. ...
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    178,61 €

  • Visual Pollution
    Khydija Wakil / Raheel Nawaz
    Visual Pollution: Concepts, Practices and Management Framework offers the first substantial cutting-edge exploration of visual pollution in urban settlements, uncovering the conceptualisation, geography-specific visual pollutants, methods of visual pollution assessment and management frameworks. ...
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    87,88 €

  • How the Other Half Lives
    Jacob A. Riis
    2022 Hardcover Reprint of the 1957 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. Originally published in 1890, this is the classic indictment of slum life, written by one of the most famous reformers of the nineteenth century. 'How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York' explained not only the living co...
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    25,07 €

  • Understanding Urban Warfare
    John Prof. Spencer / John Spencer / Liam Collins / Liam Dr. Collins
    No environment is more challenging for militaries than a city. No form of combat is more inherently destructive than urban warfare. And yet too often, militaries are both unprepared for the challenges of cities and unable to avoid being pulled into brutal urban fights. In an increasingly urban world, the future character of conflict will also be increasingly urban. This book se...
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    32,71 €

  • ECONOMIC AGGLOMERATION & THE DEVELOPMENT OF CITIES IN CHINA
    HONG GAO
    The book conducts a comprehensive study on urbanization and the development of cities in China. It provides detailed and systematic evidence on agglomeration effects on the urban labor market and industrial development. It studies the impact of economic agglomeration on the urban labor market and industrial development. It concludes that agglomeration will not only promote empl...
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    118,09 €

  • Planning for Water Security in Southeast Asia
    James Nguyen H Spencer / James Nguyen H. Spencer
    This book examines how four communities in the rapidly developing cities of Southeast Asia have creatively solved growing environmental problems. It’s description of how community-level collaboration in Vietnam, Cambodia and Indonesia provide new ways for thinking about how marginalized people can co-create their own equitable and efficient infrastructure. ...
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    180,30 €

  • Stop the Road
    E. Evans Paull
    Stop the Road is an up-close-and-personal account of Baltimore’s 40-year battle over expressway plans. Meet the unsung heroes, a ragtag band of neighborhood activists, preservationists, and environmentalists who saved Baltimore from its own leadership, thereby protecting Baltimore’s historic waterfront communities of Federal Hill, Fell’s Point, and Canton. But that glorious and...
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    24,52 €

  • Stop the Road
    E. Evans Paull
    Stop the Road is an up-close-and-personal account of Baltimore’s 40-year battle over expressway plans. Meet the unsung heroes, a ragtag band of neighborhood activists, preservationists, and environmentalists who saved Baltimore from its own leadership, thereby protecting Baltimore’s historic waterfront communities of Federal Hill, Fell’s Point, and Canton. But that glorious and...
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    36,23 €

  • Community Participation and Civic Engagement in the Digital Era
    Mudit Kumar Singh
    Understanding the challenges in research and practice of participation in the digital era, and the important role of local governance in achieving the sustainable development goals, Singh explores the complex relationship of community participation, social capital and social networks. ...
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    88,00 €

  • The Right to the Smart City
    Globally, Smart Cities initiatives are pursued which reproduce the interests of capital and neoliberal government, rather than wider public good. This book explores smart urbanism and ’the right to the city’, examining citizenship, social justice, commoning, civic participation, and co-creation to imagine a different kind of Smart City. ...
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    39,06 €

  • 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 €

  • 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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    40,36 €

  • 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 €

  • Advances in Deep Learning Applications for Smart Cities
    Within the past decade, technology has grown exponentially, and governments have promoted smart cities. Emerging smart cities have become both crucibles and showrooms for the practical application of the internet of things (IoT), cloud computing, and the integration of big data into everyday life. This complex concoction requires new thinking of the synergistic utilization of d...
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    248,89 €

  • Advances in Deep Learning Applications for Smart Cities
    Within the past decade, technology has grown exponentially, and governments have promoted smart cities. Emerging smart cities have become both crucibles and showrooms for the practical application of the internet of things (IoT), cloud computing, and the integration of big data into everyday life. This complex concoction requires new thinking of the synergistic utilization of d...
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    327,81 €

  • 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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    56,31 €

  • Urban Sustainability and Energy Management of Cities for Improved Health and Well-Being
    Roberto Alonso González-Lezcano
    Global environmental challenges such as climate change, rapid urbanization, and human influence on the environment continue to grow. Many of these resulting risks lead to diseases and negative impacts on health and quality of life. It is now essential to develop more sustainable and healthy environments with greater focus on prevention by targeting the root causes of disease. U...
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    248,71 €

  • Urban Sustainability and Energy Management of Cities for Improved Health and Well-Being
    Roberto Alonso González-Lezcano
    Global environmental challenges such as climate change, rapid urbanization, and human influence on the environment continue to grow. Many of these resulting risks lead to diseases and negative impacts on health and quality of life. It is now essential to develop more sustainable and healthy environments with greater focus on prevention by targeting the root causes of disease. U...
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    327,62 €

  • Hard Times
    Charles Dickens
    Hard times is a 1854 novel by English creator Charles Dickens. Occurring in three sections named after a Biblical stanza, 'Planting,' 'Procuring,' and 'Accumulating,' it parodies English society by dismantling the social and financial incongruities of its contemporary life. The clever happens in an imaginary modern town in Northern England called Coketown, demonstrated somewhat...
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    29,97 €

  • Rural Communities in Late Byzantium
    Fotini Kondyli
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    122,67 €

  • The Life and Death of the Shopping City
    Alistair Kefford
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    144,59 €

  • Inclusive Cities-Urban Area Guidelines
    Asian Development Bank
    The guidelines provide universal design solutions, accessibility standards, and case studies on inclusive urban development that accommodate the needs of the marginalized, especially persons with disabilities and the elderly.The guidelines aim to support designers and decision-makers responsible for new infrastructure developments in Georgia to ensure they contribute toward the...
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    44,47 €

  • Trends and Innovations in Urban E-Planning
    Carlos Nunes Silva
    The digital transformation of the 21st century has affected all facets of society and has been highly advantageous in many industries, including urban planning and regional development. The practices, strategies, and developments surrounding urban e-planning in particular have been constantly shifting and adapting to new innovations as they arrive. Trends and Innovations in Urb...
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    281,98 €

  • Trends and Innovations in Urban E-Planning
    Carlos Nunes Silva
    The digital transformation of the 21st century has affected all facets of society and has been highly advantageous in many industries, including urban planning and regional development. The practices, strategies, and developments surrounding urban e-planning in particular have been constantly shifting and adapting to new innovations as they arrive. Trends and Innovations in Urb...
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    216,13 €

  • Blockchain Technologies for Sustainable Development in Smart Cities
    Blockchain technology has great potential to radically change our socio-economic systems by guaranteeing secure transactions between untrusted entities, reducing costs, and simplifying many processes. However, employing blockchain techniques in sustainable applications development for smart cities still has some technical challenges and limitations. Blockchain Technologies for ...
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    242,18 €