Originally published in 1993, as part of the Ethnoscapes: Current Challenges in the Environmental Social Sciences series, reissued now with a new series introduction, Placemaking: Production of Built Environment in Two Cultures is a book about the context of placemaking - the production of vernacular architecture and settlement.
Mobilizing Food Vending investigates the gourmet food truck movement in the United States and provides a clearer understanding of the social and economic factors that shape vendor autonomy and industry growth.
Building information modelling (BIM) uses a combination of technologies and resources to capture, manage, analyse, and display a digital representation of the physical and functional characteristics of a facility.
This study outlines actions Cambodia can take to diversify its economy and shows how cutting business costs, tackling human capital deficits, and reducing vulnerability to external shocks can help drive sustainable, inclusive growth.
Originally published in 1993, as part of the Ethnoscapes: Current Challenges in the Environmental Social Sciences series, reissued now with a new series introduction, The Meaning and Use of Housing presents a re-evaluation of the use and meaning of residential environments.
This book reveals the interaction between the livelihood of people and the surrounding natural environment in rural and urban areas of Vietnam and discusses actions to be taken towards sustainable development, which provide some useful insights into several SDGs.
In the last decade, the international development sector has been re-examining its ways of thinking, being, and doing, and we have seen a growing consensus around the need to centre communities in development.
The new edition of this well-established introductory cartography textbook is updated to respond to the demand for critical engagement with new technologies, the passion for inclusive design, and for preparing students to build competence in fundamental skills.
Interdisciplinary in approach, this book employs the key concepts of fragmentation and reconfiguration to consider the ways in which human experience and artistic practice can engage with and respond to the disintegration that characterises modern cities.
Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are goals set by the United Nations to address the global challenges and foster sustainable development and harmony.
Kochen und Essen sind medial omnipräsent und es gibt kaum noch einen Ort, an dem nichts gegessen oder getrunken wird - dabei bleibt die Küche im Zuhause zunehmend kalt.
Modern waste disposal systems in mega-cities of the global South are embedded in socio-cultural belief systems, colonial histories and neoliberal logics which operate by reproducing existing social hierarchies.
This book explores inequities in the urban built environment across a diverse range of places and considers practical solutions and strategies aimed at building more just, inclusive, and sustainable cities.
Este libro propone regular el mercado del suelo urbano y la especulación inmobiliaria mediante un impuesto a bienes urbanos ociosos, que contribuiría a una intervención más eficaz para facilitar el acceso a la tierra y la vivienda.
El presente volumen de la colección Complexus es producto de una investigación conformada por estudios comparativos interdisciplinares realizados en Europa y Latinoamérica y cuyos objetivos son el análisis, desde diversas perspectivas, de las transformaciones en las dinámicas sociales obligadas por el surgimiento del covid–19, así como la identificación de las vulnerabilidades y las repercusiones sobre el territorio y los procesos de adaptación y resiliencia resultantes de la pandemia.
This book aims to provide evidence of the impact of climate change and urbanization on cities' urban environments thus on human health and wellbeing; and principles and methods for the improvement of the resilience of a city to extreme weather and long-term climatic changes through case studies.
Sistemas urbanos: entre lo contextual y lo autorreferencial está centrado en el análisis, la interpretación, la argumentación y la intervención en los sistemas urbanos específicos de un territorio, a partir de una metodología de trabajo que permite tanto el cruce como el decantamiento de información, con el fin de obtener propuestas concertadas acordes con las deficiencias o necesidades del lugar o sitio específico de estudio.
The Book deals with the key issues evolved in India During the last five decades pertaining to Human Resource Development, its ethical and spiritual dimensions, its management in the era of liberalisation, its training, HRD for workers, Indian education policy, Evaluation of HRD, counseling and monitoring, implementation and other related issues.
The Book deals with the key issues evolved in India During the last five decades pertaining to Human Resource Development, its ethical and spiritual dimensions, its management in the era of liberalisation, its training, HRD for workers, Indian education policy, Evaluation of HRD, counseling and monitoring, implementation and other related issues.
This book aims to provide evidence of the impact of climate change and urbanization on cities' urban environments thus on human health and wellbeing; and principles and methods for the improvement of the resilience of a city to extreme weather and long-term climatic changes through case studies.
Kaum ein Architekturphänomen ist dermaßen mit Diskredit behaftet wie der Späthistorismus, dessen künstlerische Gelingensbedingungen durch den Kulturumbruch des Fin de Siècle delegitimiert scheinen.
A lo largo del siglo XX, las ciudades latinoamericanas experimentaron un vertiginoso proceso de urbanización, acompañado por una débil institucionalidad pública.
In this volume, the author analyzes the problems of urban America and presents economically sound alternatives to guide the growth and development of metropolitan areas without increasing traffic congestion and air pollution; endlessly raising taxes, or sacrificing the availability of affordable housing.
Over the past two decades Americans have become increasingly skeptical about the benefits of community growth and hostile to new taxes--while continuing to demand improvements in local services.
This book unravels China's new megaregional structure, new megaregional planning and development, new megaregional governance, and new regional planning system.
This book unravels China's new megaregional structure, new megaregional planning and development, new megaregional governance, and new regional planning system.
In recent years, concerned governments, businesses, and civic groups have launched ambitious programs of community development designed to halt, and even reverse, decades of urban decline.
Gemeinsam mit Expertinnen und Experten haben wir, Abgeordnete der CDU-Landtagsfraktion in Rheinland-Pfalz, auch im Jahr 2023 wieder 20 Plädoyers für einen nachhaltigen und sozialen Markt zusammengestellt.
