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  • Políticas de vivienda en ciudades latinoamericanas

    Una nueva generación de estrategias y enfoques para 2016

    par Peter M Ward ...
    Collections series Textos de Ciencia Política y Gobierno y de Relaciones Internacionales
    Hacia la década de 1960, la rápida urbanización en las regiones en desarrollo en América Latina, África y Asia, fue marcada por la expansión de asentamientos con población de bajos ingresos y que se desarrollaron informalmente. Para los años 2000 estos asentamientos constituyen usualmente entre el 20 y el 60 por ciento del área ocupada de las áreas metropolitanas y grandes ciudades. Además de las ... En savoir plus

    $13.99 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Urban Informality

    Transnational Perspectives from the Middle East, Latin America, and South Asia

    par Asef Bayat, Ray Bromley, Alan Gilbert, Arif Hasan, Janice E. Perlman, Ahmed M. Soliman, Peter M. Ward, Haim Yakobi, Oren Yiftachel ...
    Collections series Transnational Perspectives on Space and Place
    The turn of the century has been a moment of rapid urbanization. Much of this urban growth is taking place in the cities of the developing world and much of it in informal settlements. This book presents cutting-edge research from various world regions to demonstrate these trends. The contributions reveal that informal housing is no longer the domain of the urban poor; rather it is a significant ... En savoir plus

    $61.99 CAD

  • Colonias and Public Policy in Texas and Mexico

    Urbanization by Stealth

    par Peter M. Ward ...
    Today in Texas, over 1500 colonias in the counties along the Mexican border are home to some 400,000 people. Often lacking basic services, such as electricity, water and sewerage, fire protection, policing, schools, and health care, these "irregular" subdivisions offer the only low-cost housing available to the mostly Hispanic working poor.This book presents the results of a major study of ... En savoir plus

    $29.99 CAD

  • Housing Policy in Latin American Cities

    A New Generation of Strategies and Approaches for 2016 UN-HABITAT III

    par Peter M. Ward, Edith R. Jiménez Huerta, María Mercedes Di Virgilio ...
    After the 1960s, rapid urbanization in developing regions in Latin America, Africa, and Asia was marked by the expansion of low-income "irregular" settlements that developed informally and which, by the 2000s, often constituted between 20-60 percent of the built-up area of metropolitan areas and other large cities. There has been a variety of research directed at the housing policies involved with ... En savoir plus

    $97.99 CAD

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    The Dramatic History of the Bay Area Rapid Transit System

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    An insider's "indispensible" behind-the-scenes history of the transit system of San Francisco and surrounding counties ( Houston Chronicle).In the first-ever history book about BART, longtime agency spokesman Michael C. Healy gives an insider's account of the rapid transit system's inception, hard-won approval, construction, and operations, warts and all.With a master storyteller's wit and sharp ... En savoir plus

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  • Tom Gilmartin

    The Man Who Brought Down a Taoiseach and Exposed the Greed and Corruption at the Heart of Irish Politics

    par Frank Connolly ...
    A successful property developer in England, the Sligo-born Tom Gilmartin had ambitious plans for major retail developments in Dublin in the late 1980s. Little did he know that in order to do business in the city, senior politicians and public officials would want a slice of the action … in the form of large amounts of cash. Gilmartin blew the whistle on corruption at the heart of government and ... En savoir plus

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  • How We Changed Toronto

    The inside story of twelve creative, tumultuous years in civic life, 1969-1980

    par John Sewell ...
    By the mid-1960s Toronto was well on its way to becoming Canada's largest and most powerful city. One real estate firm aptly labelled it Boomtown. Expressways, subways, shopping centres, high-rise apartments, and skyscraping downtown office towers were transforming the city. City officials were cheerleaders for unrestricted growth.All this "progress" had a price. Heritage buildings were ... En savoir plus

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  • EcoCities

    Rebuilding Cities in Balance with Nature (Revised Edition)

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    Most of the world's population now lives in cities. So if we are to address the problems of environmental deterioration and peak oil adequately, the city has to be a major focus of attention.EcoCities is about re-building cities and towns based on ecological principles for the long term sustainability, cultural vitality and health of the Earth's biosphere. Unique in the literature is the book's ... En savoir plus

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  • The Human City

    Urbanism for the Rest of Us

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  • The Spacemaker's Guide to Big Change

    Design and Improvisation in Development Practice

    par Nabeel Hamdi ...
    Collections series Earthscan Tools for Community Planning
    This book gives definition to participatory practice as a necessary form of activism in development planning for cities. It gives guidance on how practice can make space for big and lasting change and for new opportunities to be discovered. It points to ways of building synergy and negotiating our way in the social and political spaces ‘in between’ conventional and often competing ideals – public ... En savoir plus

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  • Slow Burn City

    London in the Twenty-First Century

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    An infrastructure-based approach

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    Planning Sustainable Cities: An infrastructure-based approach provides an analytical framework for urban sustainability, focusing on the services and performance of infrastructure systems.The book approaches infrastructure as a series of systems that function in synergy and are directly linked with urban planning. This method streamlines and guides the planning process, while still highlighting ... En savoir plus

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