Resultaten (11)
Applied Data Analysis for Urban Planning and Management
2023 || Paperback || Rae || SAGE
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.
Light Rail Transit Systems
61 Lessons in Sustainable Urban Development
2018 || Paperback || Rob van Der Bijl e.a. || Elsevier
Light Rail Transit Systems: 61 Lessons in Sustainable Urban Development shows how to design and operate light rail to maximize its social benefits. Readers will learn how to understand the value of light rail and tactics on its effective integration into communities. It uses strong supporting evidence and theory drawn from the author's team and their extensive experience in developing new light rail systems.
The book uses numerous case studies to demonstrate how key concepts can bridge the ge...
Urban Regeneration / Druk 2
2023 || Paperback || Roberts || SAGE
In this new edition of the standard text on the theory and practice of urban regeneration, there are case studies and examples of best practice throughout, and a whole section devoted to international and comparative regeneration.
Constructing Landscape
Materials, Techniques, Structural Components
2021 || Paperback || Astrid Zimmermann || Birkhauser
Offers an introduction to technical and constructional open space planning, with all the relevant topics, from the most common materials and surfaces to the construction of open space elements and the use of plants.
Managing Urban America / Druk 8
2023 || Paperback || England || CQ Press
Guides students through the politics of urban management-doing less with more while managing conflict, delivering goods and services, responding to federal and state mandates, adapting to changing demographics, and coping with economic and budgetary challenges.
Philosophical Basics of Ecology and Economy
2011 || Paperback || Malte Faber e.a. || Taylor & Francis
In today's world - despite the dramatic anthropogenic environmental changes - a proper understanding of the relationship between humanity and nature requires a certain detachment. The pressing problems in their whole extent will only be fully understood and solved with comprehensive and patient analysis. Accordingly, this book develops new perspectives on fundamental questions of biology, ecology, and the economy, integrated within a framework of a terminology specially devised by the authors.
By illuminating the epistemological backgrounds of ecological-economic research, the authors lay foundations for interdisciplinary environmental research and offer guidelines for practical action. In close contact to the findings of present-day biology and economics, they demonstrate the fruitfulness as well as the shortcomings of modern science for the understanding of the proper place of humankind in nature.. Frequently, current problems in the fields of economics, ecology, politics, philosophy and biology are discussed in a kind of "dialogue" with thinkers and poets like Bacon, Quesnay, Kant, Goethe and Novalis...
Floodscapes
Contemporary Landscape Strategies in Times of Climate Change
2020 || Paperback || Frédéric Rossano || nai010 uitgevers publishers || met inkijkexemplaar
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Floodscapes vertelt het veelzijdige verhaal van de verhouding – soms een strijd, soms een symbiose – tussen de mens en het overstromende water. De moderne waterbouw heeft vlaktes en valleien in volledig bewoonbare milieus veranderd, maar die zijn soms star en zeer kwetsbaar voor klimaatverandering. In het kader van de baanbrekende inspanningen om overstromingen in de toekomst te voorkomen, herontdekken landen hun eerdere aanpassingsstrategieën. Er wordt ruimte gemaa...
Urban Issues: Selections from CQ Researcher / Druk 8
2023 || Paperback || CQ Researcher || CQ Press
This collection of nonpartisan and thoroughly researched reports looks at 12 hot-button issues focused on urban politics and policy written by award-winning CQ Researcher journalists
Urban Politics: A Reader
2023 || Paperback || McGovern || CQ Press
This book examines the evolving structure of political power in American cities revealing how changes in society relate to the global and national economy, immigration and internal migration, racial and ethnic transition, and how technological advances affect city politics.
Urban Politics
Critical Approaches
2022 || Paperback || Mark Davidson || SAGE
A critical exploration of global, contemporary urban politics in a geographical context.