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  • Designing Public Space for an Ageing Population
    Charles B. A. Musselwhite
    Designing Public Space for an Ageing Population examines the barriers older people face by being a pedestrian in the built environment and how to overcome them. Drawing on research carried out across the globe these limitations are framed around Bourdieu’s theory of capitals. ...
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    88,03 €

  • Harnessing Uzbekistan’s Potential of Urbanization
    Asian Development Bank
    The National Urban Assessment for Uzbekistan examines the progress of urbanization and the current state of government policies and programs in the country. It recommends a shift toward sustainable urbanization and reforms in urban planning.In terms of sustainable urbanization, particular focus is given on economy, equity, environmental quality, and climate change as well as en...
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    34,11 €

  • Applied Data Analysis for Urban Planning and Management
    Alasdair Rae
    With contributions from academics across the globe, this book showcases how you can use data analysis for better and more effective urban planning and management. ...
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    172,40 €

  • Applied Data Analysis for Urban Planning and Management
    Alasdair Rae
    With contributions from academics across the globe, this book showcases how you can use data analysis for better and more effective urban planning and management. ...
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    60,62 €

  • Resurgent Africa
    Banji Oyelaran-Oyeyinka
    ’Resurgent Africa: Structural Transformation in Sustainable Development’ is a study of structural change dynamics in Africa and its effect on job creation, living standards and the efficiency of productive cities through manufacturing productivity growth that benefit the majority. It provides in-depth analysis and knowledge of Africa’s diversified economies by establishing rela...
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    57,70 €

  • Greening Markets
    Asian Development Bank
    This publication explains how market-based instruments can be utilized to improve air quality, water, and waste management in Asia.Asia has experienced massive economic growth, characterized by rapid urbanization and industrialization, changing demographics, and increasing consumption and demand for resource. This has contributed to significant environmental degradation. The ch...
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    45,05 €

  • Housing Security
    Carol Lamberg
    I believe that housing is a human right. In the United States, a very wealthy country, there is no excuse for homelessness. Section 8 of the housing act that established public housing was revised in 1974 to create an excellent new program. The new Section 8 program provided federal funds to help households afford the rent in existing housing. The program also gave developers a...
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    16,34 €

  • Housing Security
    Carol Lamberg
    I believe that housing is a human right. In the United States, a very wealthy country, there is no excuse for homelessness. Section 8 of the housing act that established public housing was revised in 1974 to create an excellent new program. The new Section 8 program provided federal funds to help households afford the rent in existing housing. The program also gave developers a...
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    9,85 €

  • Best Practices in Urban Solid Waste Management
    Claudio Marciano / Giulia Romano
    The book provides an overview of best practices in urban waste management in the zero waste framework, assuming a multidisciplinary perspective. By analysing exemplary cases of firms and local governments, significant ownership, governance, and performance issues are discussed, along with key drivers of sustainable urban waste management. ...
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    87,78 €

  • The Swamp Peddlers
    Jason Vuic
    Florida has long been a beacon for retirees, but for many, the American dream of owning a home there was a fantasy. That changed in the 1950s, when the so-called 'installment land sales industry' hawked billions of dollars of Florida residential property, sight unseen, to retiring northerners. For only $10 down and $10 a month, working-class pensioners could buy a piece of the ...
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    38,08 €

  • The Swamp Peddlers
    Jason Vuic
    Florida has long been a beacon for retirees, but for many, the American dream of owning a home there was a fantasy. That changed in the 1950s, when the so-called 'installment land sales industry' hawked billions of dollars of Florida residential property, sight unseen, to retiring northerners. For only $10 down and $10 a month, working-class pensioners could buy a piece of the ...
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    121,72 €

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

  • Moscow under Construction
    Robert Argenbright / Anastasia Rudakova
    Moscow under Construction explores the growth of place-based opposition to redevelopment practices in Moscow and consequent changes in city’s governance regime. Groups of citizens have struggled to defend homes, neighborhoods, heritage buildings, and historic districts. Although their aims typically have been specific and limited, an important consequence of their activism has ...
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    40,99 €

  • En terreno común
    La Vivienda representa más que un techo bajo el cual vivir. La vivienda digna es necesaria para el ejercicio de derechos fundamentales como la salud y la educación. Atado a la vivienda está el tema de la tenencia de la tierra. Millones de personas a la altura del siglo 21 viven en asentamientos informales y carecen de vivienda digna. Este libro explora el crecimiento global de ...
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    26,20 €

  • 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 €

  • 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 €

  • 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 €