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Urban Future 21
A Global Agenda for Twenty-First Century Cities
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
Prepared for the World Commission on Twenty-First Century Urbanization Conference in Berlin in July 2000. This book is an entirely new and comprehensive review of the state of world urban development at the millennium and a forecast of the main issues that will dominate urban debates in the next 25...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2004
Gentrification, a process of class neighbourhood upgrading, is being identified in a broader range of urban contexts throughout the world. This book throws new light and evidence to bear on a subject that deeply divides commentators on its worth and social costs given its ability to physically improve...
by Kim Burgsma
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2011
Almost Eden captures the absolute wonder of the earth and teaches us how we can create a little bit of this wonder in our own backyards. Readers will discover how their gardens can be in tune with God's original plan of earthly stewardship and be creative and well designed. Readers are encouraged to...
by Randy Maxwell
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2013
Installing lattice under a porch or deck on your house is a moderately easy, inexpensive way to greatly improve the appearance your house. All it takes is a few common tools, time and patience and some rudimentary math skills.....
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Battery Park City
Politics and Planning on the New York Waterfront
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Battery Park City in Manhattan has been hailed as a triumph of urban design, and is considered to be one of the success stories of American urban redevelopment planning. The flood of praise for its design, however, can obscure the many lessons from the long struggle to develop the project. Nothing...
by Charles Landry
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2012
City-making is an art, not a formula. The skills required to re-enchant the city are far wider than the conventional ones like architecture, engineering and land-use planning. There is no simplistic, ten-point plan, but strong principles can help send good city-making on its way. The vision for 21st...
The Vulnerability of Cities
Natural Disasters and Social Resilience
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2012
When disaster strikes in cities the effects can be catastrophic compared to other environments. But what factors actually determine the vulnerability or resilience of cities? The Vulnerability of Cities fills a vital gap in disaster studies by examining the too-often overlooked impact of disasters...
Enhancing Urban Safety and Security
Global Report on Human Settlements 2007
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
Enhancing Urban Safety and Security addresses three major threats to the safety and security of cities: crime and violence; insecurity of tenure and forced evictions; and natural and human-made disasters. It analyses worldwide trends with respect to each of these threats, paying particular attention...
Digital Infrastructures
Enabling Civil and Environmental Systems through Information Technology
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2004
An invisible network of digital technology systems underlies the highly visible networks of roads, waterways, satellites, and power-lines. Increasingly, these systems are becoming the "infrastructure's infrastructure," providing a crucial array of data on network demand, performance, reliability,...
European Valuation Practice
Theory and Techniques
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2013
The variability of valuation practice within Europe is perceived as a problem within the globalization of property. This edited textbook examines the practice of real estate valuation in selected countries in Europe. The focus is on countries with well developed real estate markets in which both international...
Delivering New Homes
Planning, Processes and Providers
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
This book examines the processes and relationships that underpin the delivery of new homes across the United Kingdom, focussing primarily on the land use planning system in England, the way that housing providers engage with that system, and how the processes of engagement are changing or might change...
Eden
Updated 15th Anniversary Edition
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2016
Updated, with stunning new photographs
At the beginning of the twenty-first century, the impossible was delivered. From the sterile depths of a disused china clay pit in Cornwall rose one of the most remarkable and ambitious ventures in recent memory. The Eden Project’s Biomes, the world’s...
by David Rudlin, Rob Thompson, Sarah Jarvis
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2016
The Academy of Urbanism was founded in 2006 with a mission to recognise, encourage and celebrate great places across the UK, Europe and beyond, and the people and organisations that create and sustain them. This book is a compendium of seventy five places that have been shortlisted as part of the...
Assessing Impact
Handbook of EIA and SEA Follow-up
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2012
Written and edited by an authoritative team of internationally known experts in environmental impact assessment (EIA), this is the first book to present in a coherent manner the theory and practice of EIA and strategic environmental assessment (SEA) follow-up. Without some form of follow-up, the consequences...