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  • Territorios funcionales rural-urbanos en Guatemala

    e identificación y caracterización socioeconómica de territorios funcionales urbano-rurales en El Salvador, Centroamérica

    Las investigaciones: Identificación y caracterización socioeconómica de territorios funcionales urbano-rurales en El Salvador, Centroamérica, elaborada por el equipo de la Universidad Centroamericana José Simeón Cañas (UCA) y Territorios funcionales rural-urbanos en Guatemala, por el equipo de la Universidad Rafael Landívar (URL); se abocaron al objetivo de entender y explicar por qué algunos ... Read more

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  • Oil Spaces

    Exploring the Global Petroleumscape

    Edited by Carola Hein ...
    Oil Spaces traces petroleum’s impact through a range of territories from across the world, showing how industrially drilled petroleum and its refined products have played a major role in transforming the built environment in ways that are often not visible or recognized. Over the past century and a half, industrially drilled petroleum has powered factories, built cities, and sustained nation ... Read more

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  • A Publishing Program 2017-2018

    The publishing program brings together new manuscripts (Teaching Land Use Planning as a Science, Landscapes, The Planner and the Small Planet) with the revision of two books published in 2004, “Città Tecnologie Ambiente (Cities Technologies Environment)” and in 2008, “Urbanistica. Fondamenti e Teoria (Land Use Planning. Fundamentals and Theory)” in a new logical sequence, starting from setting out ... Read more

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  • Care and the City

    Encounters with Urban Studies

    Care and the City is a cross-disciplinary collection of chapters examining urban social spaces, in which caring and uncaring practices intersect and shape people’s everyday lives. While asking how care and uncare are embedded in the urban condition, the book focuses on inequalities in caring relations and the ways they are acknowledged, reproduced, and overcome in various spaces, discourses, and ... Read more

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  • Construire des politiques alimentaires urbaines

    Concepts et démarches

    Series series Update Sciences & technologies
    Porté par les industries agroalimentaires, le système alimentaire dominant actuellement n’est pas durable. Les études et les expertises se multiplient pour en montrer les limites en termes d’usage des ressources, de distanciation, de santé, d’équité, d’emploi etc. Face à ces constats, des acteurs publics ou privés se mobilisent et l’on voit émerger des initiatives où les « gouvernements urbains » ... Read more

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  • Nature-Based Flood Risk Management on Private Land

    Disciplinary Perspectives on a Multidisciplinary Challenge

    This open access book addresses the various disciplinary aspects of nature-based solutions in flood risk management on private land. In recent decades, water management has been moving towards nature-based solutions. These are assumed to be much more multi-purpose than traditional “grey infrastructures” and seem to be regarded as a panacea for many environmental issues. At the same time, such ... Read more

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  • Sacred Civics

    Building Seven Generation Cities

    Sacred Civics argues that societal transformation requires that spirituality and sacred values are essential to reimagining patterns of how we live, organize and govern ourselves, determine and distribute wealth, inhabit and design cities, and construct relationships with others and with nature.The book brings together transdisciplinary and global academics, professionals, and activists from a ... Read more

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  • Finland’s Famous Education System

    Unvarnished Insights into Finnish Schooling

    This open access book provides academic insights and serves as a platform for research-informed discussion about education in Finland. Bringing together the work of more than 50 authors across 28 chapters, it presents a major collection of critical views of the Finnish education system and topics that cohere around social justice concerns. It questions rhetoric, myths, and commonly held ... Read more

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  • Smarter Planet?

    IBM's Climate Solutions

    by Sharon Nunes ...
    Series Book 3 - National Climate Seminar
    On October 19, 2011, Sharon Nunes participated in The National Climate Seminar, a series of webinars sponsored by Bard College’s Center for Environmental Policy. The online seminars provide a forum for leading scientists, writers, and other experts to talk about critical issues regarding climate change. The series also opens a public conversation, inviting participants to ask questions and ... Read more

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  • Regulating Coastal Zones

    International Perspectives on Land Management Instruments

    Regulating Coastal Zones addresses the knowledge gap concerning the legal and regulatory challenges of managing land in coastal zones across a broad range of political and socio-economic contexts.In recent years, coastal zone management has gained increasing attention from environmentalists, land use planners, and decision-makers across a broad spectrum of fields. Development pressures along ... Read more

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  • English Urban Commons

    The Past, Present and Future of Green Spaces

    provides a robust base for education initiatives and future public policy guidance on the protection and use of urban commons as invaluable urban green spacesoffers a unique and strongly interdisciplinary study of urban commonsexplores the complex social and political history of the urban common, as well as its legal and cultural status today, using four diverse case studies from within England as ... Read more

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  • The creation of City Districts under Local Governments in Pakistan

    Series series Local Government
    This study was written before the new Local Government system was introduced in Pakistan in 2001. It analyzes various components of a City District and proposes how three provincial capitals might be converted into City Districts. The geographical and other features of Quetta, Peshawar and Lahore were studied. (Karachi, the capital of Sindh province, was not covered in the study because it was ... Read more

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  • Post Un-Lock

    From Territorial Vulnerabilities to Local Resilience

    Series series The Urban Book Series
    This open access book builds a framework that holds together numerous open issues in territorial planning: from the understanding of territorial, landscape, environmental and climatic dynamics to the analysis of local vulnerabilities, to the use of modern survey techniques to support planning. What is the role of urban and regional planning in achieving the sustainable development goals of our ... Read more

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  • The Data Shake

    Opportunities and Obstacles for Urban Policy Making

    Series series SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology
    This open access book represents one of the key milestones of PoliVisu, an H2020 research and innovation project funded by the European Commission under the call “Policy-development in the age of big data: data-driven policy-making, policy-modelling and policy-implementation”.It investigates the operative and organizational implications related to the use of the growing amount of available data on ... Read more

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  • Critical Landscape Planning during the Belt and Road Initiative

    This open access book traces the development of landscapes along the 414-kilometer China–Laos Railway, one of the first infrastructure projects implemented under China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) and which is due for completion at the end of 2021. Written from the perspective of landscape architecture and intended for planners and related professionals engaged in the development and ... Read more

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  • Crime and Fear in Public Places

    Towards Safe, Inclusive and Sustainable Cities

    Series series Routledge Studies in Crime and Society
    The Open Access version of this book, available at https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9780429352775 has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.No city environment reflects the meaning of urban life better than a public place. A public place, whatever its nature—a park, a mall, a train platform or a street corner—is where people pass by, ... Read more

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  • Indigenous Invisibility in the City

    Successful Resurgence and Community Development Hidden in Plain Sight

    Series series Routledge Advances in Sociology
    Indigenous Invisibility in the City contextualises the significant social change in Indigenous life circumstances and resurgence that came out of social movements in cities. It is about Indigenous resurgence and community development by First Nations people for First Nations people in cities.Seventy-five years ago, First Nations peoples began a significant post-war period of relocation to cities ... Read more

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  • Plant Selection for Bioretention Systems and Stormwater Treatment Practices

    Series series SpringerBriefs in Water Science and Technology
    As cities develop, more land is converted into impervious surfaces, which do not allow water to infiltrate. Careful urban planning is needed to ensure that the hydrologic cycle and water quality of the catchment areas are not affected. There are techniques that can attenuate peak flow during rain events and reduce the amount of metals, nutrients, and bacteria that enter the urban water cycle. This ... Read more

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  • Políticas públicas & desenvolvimento regional

    Esta coletânea começou a ser organizada em meados e final do ano de 2006 e tem como propósito a busca de um olhar multidisciplinar sobre políticas públicas, levando-se em consideração o contexto regional e local, sem perder de horizonte as questões nacionais, latinas e mundiais. Tudo diante das tendências globais e suas conseqüências. (Trecho retirado da apresentação do livro) ... Read more

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  • Rende Avanti!

    Magazine di politica locale

    E' un magazine periodico della Federazione Riformista di Rende che si occupa di politica locale ... Read more

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  • Zwischenstadtland Schweiz

    Zur politischen Steuerung der suburbanen Entwicklung in Schweizer Gemeinden

    Series Book 35 - Edition Politik
    Die Schweiz unterliegt seit zwei Jahrzehnten starken Urbanisierungstendenzen, die sich vor allem zwischen den großen Kernstädten abspielen. Um Herausforderungen des gesteigerten Flächenverbrauchs wie der Zersiedelung zu begegnen, ist eine Analyse der heutigen kommunalen Entscheidungsprozesse und -logiken überfällig. Lineo Umberto Devecchi thematisiert Fragen hinsichtlich der kommunalen Steuerung ... Read more

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  • Território, Cultura e (Des)envolvimento no Baixo Sul da Bahia

    O livro Território, Cultura e (Des)envolvimento no Baixo Sul da Bahia aglutina a primeira experiência sistematizada do grupo de pesquisa do Observatório de Pesquisas e Saberes Socioterritoriais do Baixo Sul da Bahia (OBSUL/IF Baiano), em articulação com professores, educadores populares, movimentos sociais e demais parceiros da região. A obra reúne um conjunto de análises e estudos ... Read more

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  • Europa, França e Bahia

    difusão e adaptação de modelos urbanos – Paris, Rio e Salvador

    Nesta obra, a autora discute o processo de modernização e a constituição de um pensamento de prática urbanística no Brasil, analisando a influência europeia nas criações urbanas. O ponto de partida são as relações entre a reforma de Paris realizada em meados do século XIX pelo Barão Haussmann, a reforma capitaneada por Pereira Passos no Rio de Janeiro no início do século XX e a reforma ocorrida em ... Read more

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  • Resumed in Protest: the Human Cost of Roads

    This story is a blueprint – a written documentary and tangible map of a grassroots activist community initiative of people versus the machine. In their own words, residents of a historical inner city suburb in Queensland describe their protracted and bitter battle with the Brisbane City Council, the hierarchy of the Anglican Church and two Queensland State Governments over the “Hale Street Ring ... Read more

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