Catálogo de libros: Planificación urbana y municipal

703 Catálogo de libros: Planificación urbana y municipal

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  • The Hackable City
    Martijn de Waal / Michiel de Lange
    This open access book presents a selection of the best contributions to the Digital Cities 9 Workshop held in Limerick in 2015, combining a number of the latest academic insights into new collaborative modes of city making that are firmly rooted in empirical findings about the actual practices of citizens, designers and policy makers. It explores the affordances of new media te...
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    86,54 €

  • African Markets and the Utu-buntu Business Model
    Mary Njeri Kinyanjui
    The persistence of indigenous African markets in the context of a hostile or neglectful business and policy environment makes them worthy of analysis. An investigation of Afrocentric business ethics is long overdue. Attempting to understand the actions and efforts of informal traders and artisans from their own points of view, and analysing how they organise and get by, allows ...
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    59,46 €

  • Re-Centring the City
    Jonathan Bach / Michał Murawski
    What is the role of monumentality, verticality and centrality in the twenty-first century? Are palaces, skyscrapers and grand urban ensembles obsolete relics of twentieth-century modernity, inexorably giving way to a more humble and sustainable de-centred urban age? Or do the aesthetics and politics of pomp and grandiosity rather linger and even prosper in the cities of today a...
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    68,71 €

  • Leading Cities
    Elizabeth Rapoport / Leonora Grcheva / Michele Acuto
    Leading Cities is a global review of the state of city leadership and urban governance today. Drawing on research into 202 cities in 100 countries, the book provides a broad, international evidence base grounded in the experiences of all types of cities. It offers a scholarly but also practical assessment of how cities are led, what challenges their leaders face, and the ways i...
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    39,36 €

  • Urban Claims and the Right to the City
    Ilinca Diaconescu / Julian Walker / Marcos Bau Carvalho
    Urban Claims and the Right to the City explores how contested processes of urban development, and the rights of city dwellers, are understood and interpreted from the perspective of women and men working, in different ways, at the grassroots in Salvador da Bahia, Brazil, and London, UK. In doing so, it represents the grounded voices of authors whose work and lives mean that the...
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    67,12 €

  • Re-Centring the City
    Jonathan Bach / Michał Murawski
    What is the role of monumentality, verticality and centrality in the twenty-first century? Are palaces, skyscrapers and grand urban ensembles obsolete relics of twentieth-century modernity, inexorably giving way to a more humble and sustainable de-centred urban age? Or do the aesthetics and politics of pomp and grandiosity rather linger and even prosper in the cities of today a...
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    54,35 €

  • African Markets and the Utu-buntu Business Model
    Mary Njeri Kinyanjui
    The persistence of indigenous African markets in the context of a hostile or neglectful business and policy environment makes them worthy of analysis. An investigation of Afrocentric business ethics is long overdue. Attempting to understand the actions and efforts of informal traders and artisans from their own points of view, and analysing how they organise and get by, allows ...
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    45,09 €

  • Leading Cities
    Elizabeth Rapoport / Leonora Grcheva / Michele Acuto
    Leading Cities is a global review of the state of city leadership and urban governance today. Drawing on research into 202 cities in 100 countries, the book provides a broad, international evidence base grounded in the experiences of all types of cities. It offers a scholarly but also practical assessment of how cities are led, what challenges their leaders face, and the ways i...
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    54,87 €

  • Handbook of Research on Creative Cities and Advanced Models for Knowledge-Based Urban Development
    Discussing global society entails discussing the predominant characteristics of knowledge-based activities in all walks of life. Its main characteristics are based on creativity, innovation, freedom, and networking. The emergence of such a society poses several challenges to all disciplines of social sciences. Within such a context, sociologists must have practical encounters t...
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    354,17 €

  • Urban Planning Against Poverty
    Jean-Claude Bolay
    This open access book revisits the theoretical foundations of urban planning and the application of these concepts and methods in the context of Southern countries by examining several case studies from different regions of the world. For instance, the case of Koudougou, a medium-sized city in one of the poorest countries in the world, Burkina Faso, with a population of 115.000...
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    77,36 €

  • Innovation Capacity and the City
    Grazia Concilio / Ilaria Tosoni
    This open access book represents one of the key milestones of DESIGNSCAPES, an H2020 CSA (Coordination and Support Action) research project funded by the European Commission under the Call 'User-driven innovation: value creation through design-enabled innovation'. The book demonstrates that adopting design allows us to embed innovation within the city so as to arrive at feasibl...
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    53,05 €

  • Innovation Capacity and the City
    Grazia Concilio / Ilaria Tosoni
    This open access book represents one of the key milestones of DESIGNSCAPES, an H2020 CSA (Coordination and Support Action) research project funded by the European Commission under the Call 'User-driven innovation: value creation through design-enabled innovation'. The book demonstrates that adopting design allows us to embed innovation within the city so as to arrive at feasibl...
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    67,41 €

  • Planning for Ecosystem Services in Cities
    Blal Adem Esmail / Chiara Cortinovis / Linda Zardo
    This open access book presents current knowledge about ecosystem services (ES) in urban planning, and discusses various urban ES topics such as spatial distribution of urban ecosystems, population distribution, and physical infrastructure properties. The book addresses all these issues by: i) investigating to what extent ecosystem services are currently included in urban plans,...
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    64,66 €

  • Planning for Ecosystem Services in Cities
    Blal Adem Esmail / Chiara Cortinovis / Linda Zardo
    This open access book presents current knowledge about ecosystem services (ES) in urban planning, and discusses various urban ES topics such as spatial distribution of urban ecosystems, population distribution, and physical infrastructure properties. The book addresses all these issues by: i) investigating to what extent ecosystem services are currently included in urban plans,...
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    49,14 €

  • Urban Planning Against Poverty
    Jean-Claude Bolay
    This open access book revisits the theoretical foundations of urban planning and the application of these concepts and methods in the context of Southern countries by examining several case studies from different regions of the world. For instance, the case of Koudougou, a medium-sized city in one of the poorest countries in the world, Burkina Faso, with a population of 115.000...
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    62,99 €

  • Realising the city
    Camilla Lewis
    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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    36,95 €

  • Dystopia
    Archimedes Muzenda
    A revelation of the spatial atrocities committed by specialists in development of African cities.For more than fifty centuries, cities were planned and developed by generalists. The town planners were Jacks of all trades yet masters of none. In the last fifty years however, this all changed. Town planning dismantled into various specialists – masters of a single trade. Traffic ...
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    13,43 €

  • Urban transformations and public health in the emergent city
    This book is a collection of essays exploring different aspects of health and wellbeing in cities today. With contributions on Brazil, China, South Africa and the United Kingdom, the volume covers a range of fields including mental health, migration, mobility, sanitation, gendered violence and structural racism from a multidisciplinary perspective. ...
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    157,60 €

  • New Towns
    New Towns is an anthology of poetry edited by R. M. Francis.The collection offers a diverse range of perspectives and forms from established and upcoming writers.How does place impact individual and communal identity?This anthology is a glimpse at sites that all share similar histories, social and cultural make-up, and founding principles.The writers in this collection are Hele...
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    14,57 €

  • Governing the Urban in China and India
    Xuefei Ren
    An in-depth look at the distinctly different ways that China and India govern their cities and how this impacts their residentsUrbanization is rapidly overtaking China and India, the two most populous countries in the world. One-sixth of humanity now lives in either a Chinese or Indian city. This transformation has unleashed enormous pressures on land use, housing, and the envi...
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    47,63 €

  • Governing the Urban in China and India
    Xuefei Ren
    An in-depth look at the distinctly different ways that China and India govern their cities and how this impacts their residentsUrbanization is rapidly overtaking China and India, the two most populous countries in the world. One-sixth of humanity now lives in either a Chinese or Indian city. This transformation has unleashed enormous pressures on land use, housing, and the envi...
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    163,86 €

  • Dialogues in Climate and Environmental Research, Policy and Planning
    Innocent Chirisa
    Climate change is the topic of the century. It is a subject of discussion by sceptics, heretics and those that have immersed in it as a serious debate for engagement. In this volume, the matter is localised to the plateau bordered by the great rivers of Limpopo to the south and Zambezi to the north. Evidence has it that climate change is inducing immense environmental change hi...
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    61,73 €

  • Adventures in Sustainable Urbanism
    Opens up new ways of thinking about and debating the consequences of sustainable urbanism as it moves from planning to practice. ...
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    41,98 €

  • Walkable Cities
    Carlos J. L. Balsas / Carlos JLBalsas
    Examines how cities of various sizes on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean are making walkability improvements a part of their overall urban revitalization strategy. ...
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    42,05 €

  • On Common Ground
    Fifty years ago, African-American activists in Albany, Georgia extended their political fight for civil rights into the economic realm by creating New Communities Inc. They had come to believe that owning land was essential to securing greater independence for their people. But landownership was out-of-reach for most African-Americans in the Deep South of the 1960s and too easi...
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    26,09 €

  • Political Economy of Public Education Finance
    Nandan K Jha / Nandan K. Jha
    Political Economy of Public Education Finance clarifies organizational, political, and socioeconomic contexts in equity in public education spending, arguing that through appropriate policy and reorganization of school finance, policymakers can reform the organizational and political set-up of school districts for more effective public education. ...
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    115,70 €

  • City of Children
    Francesco Tonucci
    The city, born to be a place of meeting and exchange, has for several decades taken as a default model the strong citizen, man, adult and worker, thereby transforming it into a hostile space for the weakest: the elderly, the disabled, the poor and the children. The automobile, the toy of choice for the privileged citizen, is also taken to be the principal 'citizen' of t...
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    34,81 €

  • Cooperatives in New Orleans
    Anne Gessler
    Cooperatives have been central to the development of New Orleans. Anne Gessler asserts that local cooperatives have reshaped its built environment by changing where people interact and with whom, helping them collapse social hierarchies and envision new political systems.Gessler tracks many neighborhood cooperatives, spanning from the 1890s to the present, whose alliances with ...
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    49,94 €

  • Cooperatives in New Orleans
    Anne Gessler
    Cooperatives have been central to the development of New Orleans. Anne Gessler asserts that local cooperatives have reshaped its built environment by changing where people interact and with whom, helping them collapse social hierarchies and envision new political systems.Gessler tracks many neighborhood cooperatives, spanning from the 1890s to the present, whose alliances with ...
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    158,10 €

  • Citizen-Responsive Urban E-Planning
    Carlos Nunes Silva
    Among the many ways the world has changed in recent decades, using technology for city planning has become one of the most innovative. Using new, pioneering methods that are reshaping the world into a more efficient and effective society has become the new reality. Citizen-Responsive Urban E-Planning: Recent Developments and Critical Perspectives is a collection of innovative r...
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    297,42 €


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