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  • Fundamentals of Planning and Designing Sustainable Post-Disaster Shelters

    Series series Engineering (R0)
    The book explores essential principles and practices for planning and designing sustainable refugee shelters. With millions of people forced to flee their homes annually due to conflict, environmental disasters, or persecution, the urgency of this global crisis cannot be overstated. Since refugees often reside in temporary shelters for years after years, it is imperative to construct refugee camps ... Leer más

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  • Fundamentals of Sustainable Urban Design

    de Avi Friedman ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    This book begins with an introduction describing current societal transformations that merit new urban designs, including depletion of non-renewable natural resources, elevated levels of greenhouse gas emissions, large numbers of aging “Baby Boomers,” and climate change. Dr. Friedman then examines these challenges through thirty chapters of interest to urban designers, architects, civil and ... Leer más

    $1,632 MXN

  • Fundamentals of Sustainable Neighbourhoods

    de Avi Friedman ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    This timely book introduces architects, engineers, builders, and urban planners to a range of contemporary community design concepts and illustrates them with outstanding case studies from around the world. Drawing on successful projects from London, New Mexico, Austria, and the Netherlands, "Innovative Sustainable Communities" presents planning concepts that minimize developments' carbon ... Leer más

    $1,632 MXN

  • Fundamentals of Sustainable Urban Renewal in Small and Mid-Sized Towns

    de Avi Friedman ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    The book introduces challenges affecting smaller urban communities with fewer than 50,000 inhabitants and offers urban planning and building/architectural strategies to strengthen their city centers. It divides urban renewal of small towns into sub-components such as environmental challenges, demographic trends, economic changes and cultural aspects, and aging infrastructure. In each, context is ... Leer más

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    Best Practices Outside the United States

    Edición de Roger L. Kemp, Carl J. Stephani ...
    Series series Contributions in Public Planning
    This volume is based on an international literature search of the best urban planning practices being used in dozens of cities around the world. Such topics as green technology, conservation, infrastructure maintenance, alternative energy, downtown business districts, and recycling are covered, with many others. Additional information is provided for each community: population, location, website. ... Leer más

    $369 MXN

  • Coping with Water Scarcity: An Action Framework for Agriculture and Food Security

    de FAOoftheUN ...
    This report aims to provide a conceptual framework to address food security under conditions of water scarcity in agriculture. It has been prepared by a team of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in the framework of the project "Coping with water scarcity: the role of agriculture", and has been discussed at an Expert Consultation meeting organized in FAO, Rome in ... Leer más

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  • Walking Home

    The Life and Lessons of a City Builder

    de Ken Greenberg ...
    One of the world's foremost urban designers shares his passion and methods for rejuvenating neglected cities and argues passionately for the importance and possibilities of their renewal.From a youth spent in the boroughs of New York City and other great cities of the world, to his beginnings as an architect in Toronto, Ken Greenberg has long recognized that cities at their best provide much of ... Leer más

    $274 MXN

  • Happy City

    Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design

    Happy City is the story of how the solutions to this century's problems - from climate change to overpopulation - lie in unlocking the secrets to great city livingThis is going to be the century of the city. But what actually makes a good city? Why, really, are some cities a joy to live in? As writer and journalist Charles Montgomery reveals, it's not how much money your neighbours earn, or how ... Leer más

    $197 MXN

  • Curbing Traffic

    The Human Case for Fewer Cars in Our Lives

    In 2019, mobility experts Melissa and Chris Bruntlett began a new adventure in Delft in the Netherlands. They had packed up their family in Vancouver, BC, and moved to Delft to experience the biking city as residents rather than as visitors. A year earlier they had become unofficial ambassadors for Dutch cities with the publication of their first book Building the Cycling City: The Dutch Blueprint ... Leer más

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  • Retrofitting Suburbia, Updated Edition

    Urban Design Solutions for Redesigning Suburbs

    Updated with a new Introduction by the authors and a foreword by Richard Florida, this book is a comprehensive guide book for urban designers, planners, architects, developers, environmentalists, and community leaders that illustrates how existing suburban developments can be redesigned into more urban and more sustainable places. While there has been considerable attention by practitioners and ... Leer más

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  • Sustainable Energy Access for Communities

    Rethinking the Energy Agenda for Cities

    Edición de Aminata Fall, Reinhard Haas ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This open access book examines the transition to sustainable energy systems in emerging cities. Experts from around the world present case studies from different countries and discuss efforts were needed for achieving the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The authors look into the issue of environment vs. economics and discuss the question of whether the energy transition goal ... Leer más

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  • Dynamic Urban Design

    A Handbook for Creating Sustainable Communities Worldwide

    Advance Praise for Dynamic Urban Design“Finally, in one book a complete guide to the theory, practice, and potential of urban design by one of Canada’s preeminent urban designers.”—David R. Witty, former dean, School of Architecture, University of Manitoba, Canada“Michael von Hausen has given us a clear and hopeful path to the creation of a sustainable urbanism, one that will be inspiring and ... Leer más

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