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  • The Challenge of Slums

    Global Report on Human Settlements 2003

    par United Nations Human Settlements Programme ...
    The Challenge of Slums presents the first global assessment of slums, emphasizing their problems and prospects. Using a newly formulated operational definition of slums, it presents estimates of the number of urban slum dwellers and examines the factors at all level, from local to global, that underlie the formation of slums as well as their social, spatial and economic characteristics and ... En savoir plus

    $159.99 CAD

  • State of the World's Cities 2010/11

    Cities for All: Bridging the Urban Divide

    par United Nations Human Settlements Programme (Un-Habitat) ...
    The world's urban population now exceeds the world's rural population. What does this mean for the state of our cities, given the strain this global demographic shift is placing upon current urban infrastructures?Following on from previous State of the World's Cities reports, this edition uses the framework of 'The Urban Divide' to analyse the complex social, political, economic and cultural ... En savoir plus

    $94.81 CAD

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  • The Culture of Cities

    par Lewis Mumford ...
    Collections Livre 19 - Forbidden Bookshelf
    A classic work advocating ecological urban planning—from a civic visionary and former architecture critic for the New Yorker.Considered among the greatest works of Lewis Mumford—a prolific historian, sociologist, philosopher of technology, and longtime architecture critic for the New Yorker—The Culture of Cities is a call for communal action to "rebuild the urban world on a sounder human ... En savoir plus

    $15.19 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Are Trams Socialist?

    Why Britain Has No Transport Policy

    par Christian Wolmar ...
    Transport is key to our daily lives. The transport system is essential to ensure the movement of people and goods, and most of us will use the roads or public transport every day. Vast sums are tied up in it and are spent on trying to resolve the problems of congestion and delays. And yet it is a most neglected field of politics. Britain has never had a coherent transport policy. Transport ... En savoir plus

    $16.99 CAD

  • Multicriteria Decision Analysis in Geographic Information Science

    par Jacek Malczewski, Claus Rinner ...
    Collections series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book is intended for the GIS Science and Decision Science communities. It is primarily targeted at postgraduate students and practitioners in GIS and urban, regional and environmental planning as well as applied decision analysis. It is also suitable for those studying and working with spatial decision support systems. The main objectives of this book are to effectivley integrate ... En savoir plus

    $267.69 CAD

  • More Urban Less Poor

    An Introduction to Urban Development and Management

    par Goran Tannerfeldt, Per Ljung ...
    A world more urban...The world is undergoing massive urbanization, and is projected to increase from three to over four billion city dwellers, mostly in the developing world, within 15 years. This historic shift is producing dramatic effects on human well-being and the environment....but less poorUnplanned shanty-towns without basic services are not an inevitable consequence of urbanization and ... En savoir plus

    $53.58 CAD

  • Floods in a Megacity

    Geospatial Techniques in Assessing Hazards, Risk and Vulnerability

    par Ashraf Dewan ...
    Collections series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    Flooding is one of the most devastating natural hazards in the world. Available records suggest that both flood frequency and severity are on the rise and this is likely to worsen in the context of climate change. As population, infrastructure and poverty grow rapidly in developing countries, particularly in urban agglomerations of 10 million people or more, floods could cause widespread ... En savoir plus

    $115.29 CAD

  • City Futures

    Confronting the Crisis of Urban Development

    par Doctor Edgar Pieterse ...
    Cities are the future. In the past two decades, a global urban revolution has taken place, mainly in the South. The 'mega-cities' of the developing world are home to over 10 million people each and even smaller cities are experiencing unprecedented population surges. The problems surrounding this influx of people - slums, poverty, unemployment and lack of governance - have been well-documented ... En savoir plus

    $37.99 CAD

  • The Peri-Urban Interface

    Approaches to Sustainable Natural and Human Resource Use

    Modifié par Duncan McGregor, David Simon, Donald Thompson ...
    Peri-urban interfaces - the zones where urban and rural areas meet - suffer from the greatest problems to humans caused by rapid urbanization, including intense pressures on resources, slum formation, lack of adequate services such as water and sanitation, poor planning and degradation of farmland. These areas, home to hundreds of millions of people, face unique problems and need distinctive and ... En savoir plus

    $94.81 CAD

  • Assembling the Centre: Architecture for Indigenous Cultures

    Australia and Beyond

    par Janet McGaw, Anoma Pieris ...
    Collections series Routledge Research in Architecture
    Metropolitan Indigenous Cultural Centres have become a focal point for making Indigenous histories and contemporary cultures public in settler-colonial societies over the past three decades. While there are extraordinary success stories, there are equally stories that cause concern: award-winning architecturally designed Indigenous cultural centres that have been abandoned; centres that serve the ... En savoir plus

    $114.99 CAD

  • Risk Governance

    The Articulation of Hazard, Politics and Ecology

    Modifié par Urbano Fra.Paleo ...
    Collections series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book explores the common language of politics, ecology and risk, and crosses their conceptual divides. It seeks to shed light on the underlying structural factors, processes, players and interactions in the risk scenario, all of which influence decision-making that both increases and reduces disaster risk.The first section explores risk governance under conditions of increasing complexity, ... En savoir plus

    $179.39 CAD

  • Sociable Cities

    The 21st-Century Reinvention of the Garden City

    par Peter Hall, Colin Ward ...
    Collections series Planning, History and Environment Series
    Peter Hall and Colin Ward wrote Sociable Cities to celebrate the centenary of publication of Ebenezer Howard’s To-morrow: A Peaceful Path to Real Reform in 1998 – an event they then marked by co-editing (with Dennis Hardy) the magnificent annotated facsimile edition of Howard’s original, long lost and very scarce, in 2003. In this revised edition of Sociable Cities, sadly now without Colin Ward, ... En savoir plus

    $114.04 CAD