Human geography

This book explores the planning knowledge that can be gleaned from the experiences of the urban poor, a group frequently affected by floods.

In the context of urbanization and compact urban living, conventional experience-based planning and design often cannot adequately address the serious environmental issues, such as thermal comfort and air quality.

This book highlights aesthetics as pertaining to the structural component in architectural design.

This book focuses on the human and societal aspects of sustainable development.

This book asserts that the albatross was the reason for the advance of the Japanese into the isolated islands in the Pacific after the abolition of the Japanese "e;closed-door"e; policy that had been in effect from the seventeenth century to the latter part of the nineteenth century.

This book examines the impacts of China's urbanization on the country's economic development, clan culture, rural societies, minority resident areas, natural environment, women, and public policy reforms, drawing on official statistics, independent survey data, archives, and fieldwork research to do so.

This book considers refugee protection mandates and addresses how legal scholarship can articulate a comprehensive and humane response to the contemporary refugee problem.

This book considers the intersections of race, gender and class in multicultural Australia through the lens of migration to the country.

This book examines how property rights are linked to socio-economic progress and development.

This book offers an overview of recent scientific and professional literature on urban greening and urban ecology, focusing on diverse disciplines such as landscape architecture, geography, urban ecology, urban climatology, biodiversity conservation, urban governance, architecture and urban hydrology.

This book highlights the rightful role of citizens as per the constitution of the country for participation in Governance of a smart city using electronic means such as high speed fiber optic networks, the internet, and mobile computing as well as Internet of Things that have the ability to transform the dominant role of citizens and technology in smart cities.

This book examines international labour migrants in the context of South-South migration with a focus on Bangladeshi migration to Singapore.

In an age of migration, in a world deeply divided through cultural differences and in the context of ongoing efforts to preserve national and regional traditions and identities, the issues of language and translation are becoming absolutely vital.

This book analyses the metaphysical and poetical notions and the processes of 'rooting into a culture' and 'routing out of a culture' in the context of South Asian diaspora in Australia.

This book addresses up-to-date urban health issues from a systems perspective and provides an appealing integrated urban development strategy based on a 10-year global interdisciplinary research programme created by the International Council for Science (ICSU), and sponsored by the InterAcademy Partnership (IAP) and the United Nations University (UNU).

The economic liberalization of India, changes in global structures, and the rapid emergence of India on the global landscape have been accompanied by the dramatic rise in popular, public, and elite discourses that offer the promise to imagine India.

This book presents possible alternatives and interpretations to the well established notion in the mostly western discourse on public space.

The purpose of this book is to present a new proposal for landscape management labor accounts.

This book is a collection of work by scholars currently pursuing research on human security and insecurities in Southeast Asia.

This important and topical volume is composed around the debt and migration crisis in Europe in 2015 (known as the Greece crisis), and written almost concurrently as the two crises developed in quick succession.

This book is a comprehensive document visualizing the future of built environment from a multidisciplinary dimension, with special emphasis on the Indian scenario.

This book is a comprehensive document visualizing the future of built environment from a multidisciplinary dimension, with special emphasis on the Indian scenario.

The book compares different approaches to urban development in Singapore and Seoul over the past decades, by focusing on community participation in the transformation of neighbourhoods and its impact on the built environment and communal life.

This book highlights the long-term resettlement process of the Egyptian Nubian people along the Aswan High Dam.

In four chapters and an introduction, this book systematically helps readers understand the development of the Geographical Sciences both in China and in the world during the past 30 years.

This book is a valuable work of reference for the study of sea power, especially in China.

This book offers an understanding of the transient migration experience in the Asia-Pacific through the lens of communication and entertainment media.

The present book highlights studies that show how smart cities promote urban economic development.

This book explores the extremely modular systems that meet two criteria: they allow the creation of structurally sound free-form structures, and they are comprised of as few types of modules as possible.

This book is comprised of two parts, both of which exploremodular systems: Pipe-Z (PZ) and Truss-Z (TZ), respectively.

This book presents three projects that demonstrate thefundamental problems of architectural design and urban composition the layoutdesign, evaluation and optimization.

This book focuses on the transformation from colonial to global - the formation, mechanism, events, works and people related to urban architecture.

This book focuses on skilled labour migration from Malaysia to Singapore.

From the cross-disciplinary perspective of urban management and planning, geography and architecture, this book explores the theory and methods of urban memory, selecting Beijing's historic buildings, historic areas, central areas and city walls as research cases.

This is the first volume exclusively dedicated to planning education, with a focus on India and learning from global experiences for India.

This book approaches the concept of geo-architecture by analyzing the symbolic characters of architectures.

This book explores the concept of geo-architecture by analyzing the ways architectures are related to the local geography, including mingling or contrasting with surrounding landscape, adapting to mountainous or aquatic terrain, and selection of construction materials.

This book approaches the concept of geo-architecture from the perspective of functions of architectures by analyzing the cases of traditional Chinese houses and tombs as well as palaces and places of worship.

This book analyzes forms of architectures within the frame concept of geo-architecture, and looks into the interaction of architecture and its environment.

This volume brings together a range of contributions that provide contemporary regional science perspectives on population change and its socio-economic consequences in the Asia-Pacific region.

This book demonstrates the benefits of applying a new interdisciplinary approach that combines global change and human mobility.

This book focuses on urban morphology and its application to urban conservation and management.

Este libro los lectores encontrarán una guía de alto valor empírico y conceptual para emprender sus propios proyectos de investigación y discusión acerca de la planificación y ordenamiento territorial en Colombia.

La presente historiografia urbana de Bogota se desarrolla en una secuencia que va desde 1538 hasta la primera decada del 2000.

La movilidad humana es un proceso que involucra constantes transformaciones sociales y espaciales.

La desigualdad en América Latina tiene múltiples manifestaciones que se entrelazan y refuerzan mutuamente: grupos étnicos; mujeres y hombres; personas con y sin acceso a buena educación; quienes concentran los ingresos y la riqueza y quienes no tienen para comer; quienes realizan nuevos emprendimientos económicos porque cuentan con los recursos y redes para ello, y quienes sobreviven con un trabajo informal; los que participan en la vida pública y aquellos que son invisibles para el Estado, porque ni siquiera están registrados como ciudadanos; quienes tienen poder y quienes no lo tienen.

Durante el siglo XIX el fortalecimiento de los epicentros territoriales del Caribe permitió aumentar la oferta y la demanda por bienes y servicios, lo cual produjo la necesidad de mayores vínculos internos y externos.

Este libro pretende ser fuente de inspiración para diseñadores independientes, academias de diseño, fundaciones y oficinas de gobierno que buscan nuevas pautas para impactar a nivel social, en particular durante una emergencia en una crisis repentina y también en el comienzo de una iniciativa innovadora.

Este libro muestra la tensión existente entre los viejos paradigmas del conocimiento de lo social y las posibilidades que abre un nuevo paradigma que asume el espacio como categoría básica para la interpretación de la formación y transformación de las sociedades.

Este libro muestra la tensión existente entre los viejos paradigmas del conocimiento de lo social y las posibilidades que abre un nuevo paradigma que asume el espacio como categoría básica para la interpretación de la formación y transformación de las sociedades.