Libros de URBANISMO

DISASTER MANAGEMENT. INTERNATIONAL LESSONS IN RISK REDUCTION, RESPONSE AND RECOVERY

There is a perennial gap between theory and practice, between academia and active professionals in the field of disaster management. This gap means that ...

DUBAI. BEHIND AN URBAN SPECTACLE

Yasser Elsheshtawy explores Dubai's history from its beginnings as a small fishing village to its place on the world stage today, using historical narratives, ...

ETHICAL PLANNING PRACTITIONER, THE

If a local college gives a city planner tickets to a sold-out football game, is it wrong to take them'even if the planner pays ...

THE STREET: A QUINTESSENTIAL SOCIAL PUBLIC SPACE

Good cities are places of social encounter. Creating public spaces that encourage social behavior in our cities and neighborhoods is an important goal of ...

MOTIVATING CHANGE. SUSTAINABLE DESIGN AND BEHAVIOUR IN THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT

Today's most pressing challenges require behaviour change at many levels, from the city to the individual. This book focuses on the collective influences that ...

THE REAL ESTATE SOLAR INVESTMENT HANDBOOK. A COMMERCIAL PROPERTY GUIDE TO MANAGING RISKS AND MAXIMIZING

HANDBOOK OF DISASTER POLICIES AND INSTITUTIONS. IMPROVING EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AND CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTA

Disasters both natural and human-induced are leading to spiralling costs in terms of human lives, lost livelihoods and damaged assets and businesses. Yet these ...

DISASTER, CONFLICT AND SOCIETY IN CRISES. EVERYDAY POLITICS CRISIS RESPONSE

Humanitarian crises - resulting from conflict, natural disaster or political collapse - are usually perceived as a complete break from normality, spurring special emergency ...

CITIES, DISASTER RISK AND ADAPTATION

Worldwide, disasters and climate change pose a serious risk to sustainable urban development, resulting in escalating human and economic costs. Consequently, city authorities and ...

PERSPECTIVES ON COMMUNITY PLANNING. GOVERNANCE AND EMPOWERMENT?

Focused on community planning, this book offers a clear and broad ranging discussion of the different approaches and practices for securing effective integration of ...

ETHNOGRAPHY AND THE CITY. READINGS ON DOING URBAN FIELDWORK

The only collection of its kind on the market, this reader gathers the work of some of the most esteemed urban ethnographers in sociology ...

URBAN POVERTY IN THE GLOBAL SOUTH. SCALE AND NATURE

One in seven of the world's population live in poverty in urban areas, and the vast majority of these live in the Global South ...

CATALYSTS FOR CHANGE.21ST CENTURY PHILANTROPY AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT

21st Century Philanthropy and Community fills a gap in the literature on philanthropic organizations and how they intertwine with community development. Drawing first on ...

RESILIENT DOWNTOWNS. A NEW APPROACH REVITALIZING SMALL- AND MEDIUM- CITY DOWNTOWNS

Resilient Downtowns provides a guide to communities in reviving and redeveloping their core districts into resilient, thriving neighborhoods. While the National Main Street program's ...

TRANSCULTURAL CITIES. BORDER- CROSSING AND PLACEMAKING

Transcultural Cities uses a framework of transcultural placemaking, cross-disciplinary inquiry and transnational focus to examine a collection of case studies around the world, presented ...

REAL STATE ECONOMICS. A POINT- TO- POINT HANDBOOK

Real Estate Economics: A point-to-point handbook introduces the main tools and concepts of real estate (RE) economics. It covers areas such as the relation ...

PLANNING, RISK AND PROPERTY DEVELOPMENT. URBAN REGENERATION IN ENGLAND, FRANCE AND THE NETHERLANDS

Urban regeneration schemes involving a wide range of actors and dependent on private investment are increasingly deployed in Europe's cities with the aim of ...

CRITICAL MOBILITIES

The field of mobility studies examines social phenomena through the lens of movement. In this perspective, societies are regarded as being constantly reconfigured as ...

STATE OF THE WORLD'S CITIES 2012/ 2013. PROSPERITY OF CITIES

The city is the home of prosperity. It is the place where human beings find satisfaction of basic needs and access to essential public ...

SINGAPORE WATER STORY. SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT IN AN URBAN CITY- STATE

Singapore's journey during the past 45 years is an outstanding example that, in spite of multiple hardships, pragmatic policies, clear visions, long-term planning, forward-looking ...