Urban communities

This book develops a morphodynamical approach of spatial networks with a particular emphasis on infrastructure networks such as streets, roads and transportation networks (subway, train).

In the age of urban geopolitics, in cooperation with the major city networks and initiatives, interconnected coastal cities lead towards a more resilient sustainable future.

This book contains a selection of papers from the 16th International Symposium on Spatial Data Handling (SDH), the premier long-running forum in geographical information science.

This book shows how social impact assessment (SIA), which emerged barely five decades ago, as a way to anticipate and manage potentially negative social impacts of building dams, power stations, urban infrastructure, highways, industries, mining and other development projects, is now widely in use as a planning tool, especially in developed countries.

This book is a selection of the best and peer-reviewed articles presented at the CUPUM (Computers in Urban Planning and Urban Management) conference, held in the second week of July 2015 at MIT in Boston, USA.

This book examines the planning and implementation of policies to create sustainable neighborhoods, using as a case study the City of Sydney.

This book offers a fascinating exploration of the relationship between information and communication technologies (ICTs) and spatial planning, expanding the concept of "e;urban smartness"e; from the usual scale of buildings or urban projects to the regional dimension.

This book celebrates Milan's hosting of the World Exposition (Expo) in 2015 by providing fascinating insights into the city and its history that will appeal to all those visitors to Expo 2015 who wish to understand fully what Milan has to offer and what they are to see there.

This book explores the dynamics of the interaction between the development of creative industries and urban land use in Nanjing, a metropolis and a growth pole in the Yangtze River Delta.

This book covers the main aspects of regional and urban economics and presents state-of-the-art theories in a comprehensive and concise way.

This volume contains essays that examine contemporary urban and regional planning and development in China.

This book explains the potential value of using mobile phone data to monitor urban practices and identify rhythms of use in today's cities.

The great migration of farmers leaving rural China to work and live in big cities as 'floaters' has been an on-going debate in China for the past three decades.

This book contains all refereed papers that were accepted to the first edition of the Asia-Pacificconference on Complex Systems Design & Management (CSD&M Asia 2014) that took place inSingapore from December 10 to December 12, 2014 (Website: http://www.

This book investigates the link between institutions and public policies with specific reference to transport.

This book focuses on the creation of space as an activity.

This book is one out of 8 IAEG XII Congress volumes, and deals with the theme of urban geology.

This book presents a history of roundabouts, an introduction to their design, calculations of their capacity and traffic-safety features.

This book deals with the formation of the post-Second World War reconstruction and planning machinery in Great Britain, the re-planning efforts undertaken in post-war London, and in particular the redevelopment programme regarding its central area in the form of the comprehensive development projects.

The ability to adapt to a changing environment has ensured the continued survival of the human race into the 21st century.

This work discusses the impact of the life of buildings on sustainable development methods.

This book aims to contribute to the current debate on how to integrate rural development policies and landscape planning in rural areas.

This book offers an extended case study of the urban community of Bushwick, located in the Brooklyn borough of New York City.

The book focuses on the relationship between nature conservation policies and landscape policies.

As climate change and urban development are closely interlinked and often interact negatively, this edited volume takes Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC), Vietnam's first mega-urban region as a case study to analyse its vulnerability to climate change and to suggest measures towards a more sustainable urban development.

The number of megacities worldwide is rapidly increasing and contemporary cities are also expanding fast.

In a series of essays, the process of urbanisation - a human mega-trend acquiring unprecedented scale and speed as globalisation proceeds - is examined in the most diverse contexts and stages of development.

The redesign of Potsdamer Platz depicts the struggle to revive Berlin, Germany.

The book describes a development concept called abulecentrism.

This book describes and analyzes the phenomenon of spontaneous transformation in self-built houses in the context of developing countries.

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 volume provides a comprehensive catalog of how various ethnic groups in the United States of America have differently shaped their cultural landscape.

This book fills a major gap in research into smoking and tobacco control in China.

This book challenges current views that public life is in decline and that contemporary urban design trends reliant on privatisation, control, events, and thematic designs are to be blamed.

This book documents the state of the art and the emerging operational perspectives in the field of the appraisal discipline.

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Die Kenntnisse des Vertrags- und Honorarrechts sind für Innenarchitekten von existenzieller Bedeutung.

Through a synthesis of a broader inter-disciplinary literature in the field of disaster studies, organisation theory and management, and an in-depth case study this book provides an analytical framework for organising post-disaster reconstruction programmes which aim to reduce future disaster risks and achieve other objectives.

This book studies the application of green roofs in ecoregions of the western United States and Canada.

The book interprets and recombines, within a subjective trajectory, some roots, pathways and conceptual frames of the planning thought that worked either as dissenting imaginations or generative source to critically question the modernist epistemologies.

This book is about understanding, contextualizing and carrying out critical analyzes of the policies intended and/or implemented by the various public and private actors in urban public spaces, as well as the daily, or eventual, politics exercised by the organized civil society and by citizens.

This volume discusses how different geographical spaces can enhance or hinder the capacity of a variety of organizational settings to achieve economic value creation in the pursuit of sustainable regional development.

This edited volume offers a critical reflection on the failed experiment to redevelop the city of Rio de Janeiro according to the neoliberal strategy of entrepreneurial urban governance and mercantile regulatory transformations, which were leveraged by mega-sporting events.

This book investigates the gender revolution in urban planning and public policy.

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 focuses on territorial policies as instruments for local development in Europe's periphery.

The research category of the landscape ecology, which researches the structure, functions, and the spatio-temporal changes of the ecological landscapes, has now been contributing to the human life and the shifts of the socio-economic paradigm.

This book derives from observations of the contemporary built environment and its contradictions.