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  • The Routledge Handbook of Urban Resilience

    Modifié par Michael A. Burayidi, Adriana Allen, John Twigg, Christine Wamsler ...
    Collections series Routledge International Handbooks
    This volume provides a comprehensive discussion and overview of urban resilience, including socio-ecological and economic hazard and disaster resilience. It provides a summary of state of the art thinking on resilience, the different approaches, tools and methodologies for understanding the subject in urban contexts, and brings together related reflections and initiatives.Throughout the different ... En savoir plus

    $97.55 CAD

  • Resilient Downtowns of Small Urban Communities

    A New Approach to Revitalizing Small- and Medium-City Downtowns

    par Michael A. Burayidi ...
    Resilient Downtowns provides a guide to communities in reviving and redeveloping their core districts into resilient, thriving neighborhoods. While the National Main Street program’s four-point approach of organization, promotion, economic restructuring, and design has been standard practice for cities seeking to rejuvenate their downtowns for decades there is disquiet among downtown managers and ... En savoir plus

    $90.99 CAD

  • Downtowns

    Revitalizing the Centers of Small Urban Communities

    par Michael A. Burayidi ...
    Collections series Contemporary Urban Affairs
    This collection evaluates the various strategies that different cities have used when attempting to economically revitalize downtown areas. ... En savoir plus

    $101.99 CAD

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    Perception, Reality, and Social Policy

    Modifié par Nicholas Dagen Bloom, Fritz Umbach, Lawrence J. Vale ...
    Popular opinion holds that public housing is a failure; so what more needs to be said about seventy-five years of dashed hopes and destructive policies? Over the past decade, however, historians and social scientists have quietly exploded the common wisdom about public housing. Public Housing Myths pulls together these fresh perspectives and unexpected findings into a single volume to provide an ... En savoir plus

    $25.99 CAD

  • Understanding Cairo

    The Logic of a City Out of Control

    par David Sims ...
    This book moves beyond superficial generalizations about Cairo as a chaotic metropolis in the developing world into an analysis of the ways the city's eighteen million inhabitants have, in the face of a largely neglectful government, built and shaped their own city. Using a wealth of recent studies on Greater Cairo and a deep reading of informal urban processes, the city and its recent history are ... En savoir plus

    $31.99 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Food and Urbanism

    The Convivial City and a Sustainable Future

    par Susan Parham ...
    Cities are home to over fifty percent of the world's population, a figure which is expected to increase enormously by 2050. Despite the growing demand on urban resources and infrastructure, food is still often overlooked as a key factor in planning and designing cities. Without incorporating food into the design process – how it is grown, transported, and bought, cooked, eaten and disposed of – it ... En savoir plus

    $45.99 CAD

  • Can a City Be Sustainable? (State of the World)

    par The Worldwatch Institute ...
    Collections series State of the World
    Cities are the world’s future. Today, more than half of the global population—3.7 billion people—are urban dwellers, and that number is expected to double by 2050. There is no question that cities are growing; the only debate is over how they will grow. Will we invest in the physical and social infrastructure necessary for livable, equitable, and sustainable cities? In the latest edition of State ... En savoir plus

    $51.69 CAD

  • The Human City

    Urbanism for the Rest of Us

    par Joel Kotkin ...
    The author of The Coming of Neo-Feudalism and The New Class Conflict challenges conventions of urban planning.Around the globe, most new urban development has adhered to similar tenets: tall structures, small units, and high density. In The Human City, Joel Kotkin―called "America's uber-geographer" by David Brooks of the New York Times―questions these nearly ubiquitous practices, suggesting that ... En savoir plus

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  • HTO

    Toronto's Water from Lake Iroquois to Lost Rivers and Low-flow Toilets

    Modifié par Wayne Reeves, Christina Palassio ...
    Collections series uTOpia
    Drained by a half-dozen major watersheds, cut by a network of deep ravines and fronting on a Great Lake, Toronto is dominated by water. Like most cities, though, Toronto has mismanaged its water, from the decades-long transformation of the citys creeks into sewersheds to the alteration of Torontos waterfront. Recently, the trend of fettering Torontos water and putting it underground has been ... En savoir plus

    $14.99 CAD

  • From Boom to Bubble

    How Finance Built the New Chicago

    par Rachel Weber ...
    An unprecedented historical, sociological, and geographic look at how property markets change and fail—and how that affects cities.In From Boom to Bubble, Rachel Weber debunks the idea that booms occur only when cities are growing and innovating. Instead, she argues, even in cities experiencing employment and population decline, developers rush to erect new office towers and apartment buildings ... En savoir plus

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  • The No-Growth Imperative

    Creating Sustainable Communities under Ecological Limits to Growth

    par Gabor Zovanyi ...
    More than two decades of mounting evidence confirms that the existing scale of the human enterprise has surpassed global ecological limits to growth. Based on such limits, The No-Growth Imperative discounts current efforts to maintain growth through eco-efficiency initiatives and smart-growth programs, and argues that growth is inherently unsustainable and that the true nature of the challenge ... En savoir plus

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  • Land Use Planning Made Plain

    par Hok-Lin Leung ...
    Collections series Heritage
    Land Use Planning Made Plain is a practical guide for planners, administrators, politicians, developers, property owners, and the general public on how to make and implement land use decisions. It seeks to develop a set of coherent planning principles by drawing out useful and generally applicable elements from various systems and approaches.Hok-Lin Leung's focus is on planning at the city level, ... En savoir plus

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