Regional and area planning

Nach der Gründung der Volksrepublik China sollte das ganze Land aus einem "rückständigen Agrarland" in ein fortschrittliches, industrialisiertes Neues China verwandelt werden.

Dieses Übungsbuch, das als Ergänzung zu dem zweibändigen Lehrbuch Planungs- und Bauökonomie erscheint, wendet sich insbesondere an Studierende der Architektur, aber auch an Studierende der Stadt- und Regionalplanung.

Town and Country Planning in the UK provides one of the most authoritative and comprehensive accounts of British planning history, institutions, legislation, policies, processes and practices.

This book seeks to identify and to examine factors and mechanisms underlying the growth and development of smart cities.

This book addresses the future of urbanisation on the Galapagos Islands from a systems, governance and design perspective with the competing parameters of liveability, economic and ecological, using the Galapagos as a laboratory for the theoretical and postulative understanding of evolving settlement and habitation.

This volume explores how climate change impacts interact with poverty and vulnerability to increase the risk for urban residents in Southeast Asia.

This book aims to identify, present and discuss key driving forces and pressures on ecosystem services.

Here we report on a 25-year long-term sequence of measures to return a deteriorated recreational urban lake, Alte Donau in Vienna to acceptable water quality.

This unique book brings together high-quality research contributions on ecological aspects of urbanization, water quality concerns in an urban environment, and climate change issues with a strong Indian focus under one umbrella.

This proceedings volume focuses on different aspects of environmental assessment, monitoring, and management of urban and technogenic soils.

This unique book brings together high-quality research contributions on ecological aspects of urbanization, water quality concerns in an urban environment, and climate change issues with a strong Indian focus under one umbrella.

Amsterdamse Bos, Bois de Boulognes, Epping Forest, Hong Kong's country parks, Stanley Park: throughout history cities across the world have developed close relationships with nearby woodland areas.

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This interdisciplinary proceedings book addresses highly relevant topics in urbanization and its environmental impacts and presents case studies revealing the negative environmental consequences of the anthropogenic and technogenic pressures.

This book provides comprehensive information on the rapidly developing field of urban horticulture for sustainable use of land resources and creating a better environment.

This book highlights both the diversity of perspectives and approaches to Arctic research and the inherent interdisciplinary nature of studying and understanding this incomparable region.

This volume introduces an innovative tool for the development of sustainable cities and the promotion of the quality of life of city inhabitants.

This book gathers a representative sample of the relevant knowledge related to the ecology, behavior, and conservation of birds in urban Latin America.

The book aims to provide city administrators and planners with a tool to accompany them in experimenting with the regeneration of no longer used parts of the built heritage, called leftovers, by adopting an innovative approach.

This book collects ground-breaking works on the actual and potential impact of big data and data-integrated design for resilient urban environments, including human- and ecology-centred perspectives.

The book aims to capture, describe and convey the current significance, the values and potentials of urban biodiversity and ecosystem services to scientists and professionals in the context of sustainable urban development and ongoing urbanization processes.

This book guides architects, landscape designers, urban planners, agronomists and society on the implementation of sustainable rooftop farming projects.

This book consists of two parts.

The purpose of this book is to examine urban forests in cities around the world.

This reference work encompasses the current, accepted state of the art in the science of wildfires and wildfires that spread to communities, known as wildland-urban interface (WUI) fires.

This proceedings volume focuses on different aspects of environmental assessment, monitoring, and management of urban and technogenic soils.

This book explores the possibility to observe the lives of cities through ubiquitous information obtained through social networks, sensors and other sources of data and information, and the ways in which this possibility describes a new form of Public Space, which can be used to define new forms of citizenship and participated city governance.

This book provides syntheses of ecological theories and overarching patterns of urban bird ecology that have only recently become available.

Water is an essential element in the future of cities.

This collection of essays and design case studies explores a range of ideas and best practices for adapting to dynamic waterfront conditions while incorporating nature conservation in urbanized coastal areas.

The bibliography provides information about the presence and distribution of plants and animals in cities throughout Europe.

The list of challenges facing nonhuman primates in the 21st century is a long one.

This book is about politics and planning outside of cities, where urban political economy and planning theories do not account for the resilience of places that are no longer rural and where local communities work hard to keep from ever becoming urban.

This book elaborates how water, soil, and waste may be managed in a nexus and how this approach may help combat global change.

This book provides insight into the instances in which wildlife species can create problems.

This text formally appraises the innovative ways new media artists engage urban ecology.

This book provides an up-to-date coverage of green (vegetated) roof research, design, and management from an ecosystem perspective.

This book uses the metaphor "e;The economy is society's metabolism"e; as a springboard to develop a rigorous theoretical framework for a better system of national accounts which goes "e;Beyond GDP"e; and is relevant to the age of resource depletion.

The book results from research carried out by the authors since 1999 on urban gardening collectives in Russia, then from the extension of this research towards collective urban gardening in France, with some investigations in other European Union Member States and Brazil.

The book explores how unused and under-used urban spaces - from grass verges, roundabouts, green spaces - have been made more visually interesting and more productive, by informal (and usually illegal) groups known as "e;guerrilla gardeners"e;.

Ausuferndes Siedlungswachstum hat nicht nur negative ökologische, ökonomische und soziale Folgen, es steht auch im Widerspruch zum Prinzip der Nachhaltigkeit.

This book is aimed at covering all aspects of the evaluation, certification, and reduction of the energy and carbon footprint of the built environment from the scale of the city and its neighbourhoods, to the building level and finally to the level of single building materials and components.

This book explores the possibility to observe the lives of cities through ubiquitous information obtained through social networks, sensors and other sources of data and information, and the ways in which this possibility describes a new form of Public Space, which can be used to define new forms of citizenship and participated city governance.

This book is about the contribution of urban wetlands in livable cities.

This book examines how urban agriculture (UA) is valued in the sustainable city.