Urban and municipal planning and policy

The German-American architect, art critic, and urban planner Ludwig Hilberseimer was central to avant-garde art and architecture in the Weimar Republic, an important Bauhaus teacher, and long-standing collaborator of leading modern architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe.

First translated in English ten years after its original Dutch publication in 1962, this book has inspired practitioners for generations.

This book is a good reference book for city planners, architects and civil engineers involved in the conceptualisation, design and building of urban habitations, who aspire to increase the liveability of their cities.

While federal action on immigration faces an uncertain future, states, cities and suburban municipalities craft their own responses to immigration.

Climate Change and Cities bridges science-to-action for climate change adaptation and mitigation efforts in cities around the world.

The widespread adoption of smartphones has led to an explosion of mobile social media data, more than a billion messages per day that continuously track location, content, and time.

First published in 1994, this volume responds to a key debate in the European Community, extant since the signing of the Single European Act (SEA) in 1986, in exploring the role of transportation in the creation of a Common Market with free movement of goods, people, capital and services.

In a world where habitats are constantly changing and the impact of anthropization on the environment is increasingly intense, interactions between human and wildlife are becoming more and more complex.

This book provides a cross-urban account on murals, street art, and public art in cities around the globe.

People's relationship to nature is the greatest issue facing the world at the turn of the millennium, and all over the world young people have shown enormous enthusiasm for environmental action.

Cities are centres of exciting events, flows, movements and contradictions that produce both opportunities and challenges.

Waste management has become a great challenge for cities and urban areas, especially in countries with a high population density.

Smart cities rely on information and communication technologies to enhance the quality of life of their citizens.

This volume draws together original research related to conceptual and practical advances at the interface of urban safety and peacebuilding.

The development of post-socialist cities has become a major field of study among critical theorists from across the social sciences and humanities.

No es nuevo el interés del Estado al comprender la complejidad del crecimiento urbano en Colombia por generar el marco normativo y de organización territorial que permitiese a centros urbanos afrontar las nuevas y crecientes demandas de una sociedad metropolitana.

Can affordable housing make the American Dream an American reality?

Dick Peterson has written this book about the Eisenhower Fellows, and for the Fellows.

Learn key lessons on diversity and inclusion from front-line expert Marc Morial, CEO of the National Urban League and former mayor of New Orleans.

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In the months leading up to the birth of her first child, Hannah Palmer discovers that all three of her childhood houses have been wiped out by the expansion of Atlanta's Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport.

A lo largo del siglo XX, las ciudades latinoamericanas experimentaron un vertiginoso proceso de urbanización, acompañado por una débil institucionalidad pública.

En este libro conjugan miradas criticas y reflexivas acerca de diversos tipos de movilidad ciudadana.

'Cities cover just 2% of the world s surface, but consume 75% of the world s resources .

La obra surge de una búsqueda colectiva de herramientas y métodos de aproximación y comprensión de las dinámicas, patrones y acciones de ocupación y construcción de los asentamientos espontáneos, que se han sucedido en Colombia a través del tiempo y que en los últimos sesenta años, se han intensificado por razones de desplazamiento forzado, violencia y falta de oportunidades en el campo.

We all want cities, where more than half of the world's population currently live, to be just, successful, clean, fair, green, sustainable, safe, healthy and affordable.

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Esta investigación se concentra en profundizar el concepto de desarrollo sostenible y la viabilidad de orientar la ciudad hacia lineamientos de planeamiento urbano sostenible, que garanticen la adaptación al cambio climático para la prevención de desastres socio-naturales.

Abolish Rent takes aim at one of the foremost engines of inequality and injustice.

Learn key lessons on diversity and inclusion from front-line expert Marc Morial, CEO of the National Urban League and former mayor of New Orleans.

Housing is increasingly unattainable in successful global cities, and Toronto is no exception -- in part because of zoning that protects "e;stable"e; residential neighborhoods with high property values.

Housing is increasingly unattainable in successful global cities, and Toronto is no exception -- in part because of zoning that protects "e;stable"e; residential neighborhoods with high property values.

Ese libro está pensado inicialmente para apoyar la enseñanza del Derecho urbanístico en los planes de estudio de Derecho de la Universidad Autónoma de Madrid.

El Plan Estratégico de Turismo de la Mancomunidad de la Canal de Navarrés es una apuesta de ocho municipios para trazar las líneas de trabajo que permitan el diseño participativo de una comarca como territorio de interior de la Comunidad Valenciana.

Lo fundamental de la idea de la adaptabilidad y flexibilidad arquitectónica a partir de estructuras móviles o adaptables, estriba en la hipótesis de que el arquitecto es incapaz de determinar definitivamente el uso y el carácter de las edificaciones, y que corresponde al usuario de dichas construcciones decidir y rediseñar el uso y la forma que quiera asignarles.

As cities have gentrified, educated urbanites have come to prize what they regard as "e;authentic"e; urban life: aging buildings, art galleries, small boutiques, upscale food markets, neighborhood old-timers, funky ethnic restaurants, and old, family-owned shops.

As cities have gentrified, educated urbanites have come to prize what they regard as "e;authentic"e; urban life: aging buildings, art galleries, small boutiques, upscale food markets, neighborhood old-timers, funky ethnic restaurants, and old, family-owned shops.

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.

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How do we rein in the power of Big Tech?

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.

Since 2010, Toronto's headlines have been consumed by the outrageous personal foibles and government-slashing, anti-urbanist policies of Mayor Rob Ford.

Cities are a big deal.

Frecuentemente pensamos en la ciudad como algo estático, acabado, que siempre estuvo y siempre estará más o menos igual.

Desde 1940, la ciudad de Valencia ha cambiado de forma radical, mucho mas que en el siglo precedente.

Este libro analiza las relaciones entre niveles de gobierno; entre entidades territoriales locales y entre el sector público y privado en el proceso de gestión de tres Sistemas Integrados de Transporte Masivo en áreas metropolitanas o conturbaciones de Colombia.