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Linking economic value to green spaces
ISBN: 9783639350135 / Angielski / Miękka / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Spatial planning is constantly faced with conflicts between pro-developmental approaches and pro-environmental approaches. Despite the vision of an integrated, holistic planning process, the environment and urban development are seen as opposing concepts with conflicting objectives. Current reality reveals that the environment is often sacrificed in order to benefit urban development, mainly because green spaces are seen as a luxury, a visual attribute to the city, and not a necessity. There is no monetary value connected to the green spaces, as it is hard to quantify and measure green...
Spatial planning is constantly faced with conflicts between pro-developmental approaches and pro-environmental approaches. Despite the vision of an i...
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263,29 |
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Poverty and Income Inequality
ISBN: 9783639353198 / Angielski / Miękka / 80 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In developing countries rural households rely heavily on goods and services freely provided by environmental resources. However, there have been very few adequate quantitative analyses due to a lack of appropriate household data sets encompassing economic and environmental data. Standard household budget surveys (HBSs) inevitably lack data on environmental income. In this study a 100 household data set from rural Lawchara National Park and its adjacent area to undertake a quantitative analysis of the impact of environmental income on household welfare. Environmental income, in this case...
In developing countries rural households rely heavily on goods and services freely provided by environmental resources. However, there have been very ...
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218,66 |
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The Urban Code of China
ISBN: 9783034605724 / Angielski / Twarda / 175 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Was ist das Chinesische an der chinesischen Stadt? Ihre Syntax? Ihr Code? Durch seine Entschlusselung vermag der Autor die Vielfalt der empirischen Eindrucke zu ordnen und auch aktuelle, von europaischen Architekten geplante Stadtgrundungen in China neu zu "lesen." Was ist das Chinesische an der chinesischen Stadt? Ihre Syntax? Ihr Code? Durch seine Entschlusselung vermag der Autor die Vielfalt der empirischen... |
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160,88 |
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Urban Development Strategy for a Newly Constituted State
ISBN: 9783639353488 / Angielski / Miękka / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A new state always looks forward to formulation of dynamic policy towards change. These new states are formed aiming to eradicate the bias in the sphere of economic distribution and capitalization of resources which plays a pivotal role in division of the mother state. The nascent state of Jharkhand,India the study area, was created as the 28th state of the Indian Union with effect from November 2000. The state has one of the lowest urbanization rates in India and the present urbanization trends of the state shows localized concentration in few identified resource rich areas which leads...
A new state always looks forward to formulation of dynamic policy towards change. These new states are formed aiming to eradicate the bias in the sphe...
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352,54 |
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Impact of Utilizing Solid Waste Management on Nuclear Pollution
ISBN: 9783639355239 / Angielski / Miękka / 76 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Replacing fossil fuel by nuclear fuel more clean power will be produced and greenhouse effect which is an environment threat is to be decreased the comparison between fossil fuel and nuclear fuel can reveal the clean power claim. Fuel packaging, preparation& designing must be completed. Final removals of high- level radioactive wastes are accomplished which require more time for continue and serious working, selecting the final site of burial is important. The obstacles in this area are Concerns about spread and production of nuclear waste and Threats of environment contamination due to...
Replacing fossil fuel by nuclear fuel more clean power will be produced and greenhouse effect which is an environment threat is to be decreased the co...
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218,66 |
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Arabic-Islamic Cities: Building and Planning Principles
ISBN: 9780968318423 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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107,72 |
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From Intelligent to Smart Cities
ISBN: 9781849713894 / Angielski / Twarda / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The concept of smart cities offers a revolutionary vision of urban design for sustainability. Utilising the intelligent application of new technologies, smart cities also incorporate considerations of social and environmental capital in order to transform the life and work of cities. This special issue brings together papers from leading international experts on the transition to smart cities. Drawing upon the experiences of cities in the USA, Canada and Europe, the authors describe the definitional components, critical insights and institutional means by which we can achieve truly smart...
The concept of smart cities offers a revolutionary vision of urban design for sustainability. Utilising the intelligent application of new technologie...
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678,70 |
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Urban Transportation: Sections at Minus
ISBN: 9783639352184 / Angielski / Miękka / 164 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book focuses on the underground transportation forms that began to emerge in city centers in the second half of the 20th century. Besides providing an illustration and evaluation of 19 selected case projects, the notions of speed and time are opened for discussion as significant concepts that interact to affect the physical formations both of cities and transport policies. The developments in urban transport technologies after the 1960s are also examined as leading factors in the development of today's multimodal and multilayered urban transportation hubs. The basic questions that are to...
This book focuses on the underground transportation forms that began to emerge in city centers in the second half of the 20th century. Besides providi...
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303,45 |
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Design with the Other 90%: Cities
ISBN: 9780910503839 / Angielski / Miękka / 234 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Half the world's population now resides in cities, which are expanding at an unprecedented rate. Close to one billion people live in crowded, unhealthy, informal settlements--commonly referred to as slums--many of which lack security of land tenure, adequate housing, sanitation, clean water and electricity. Experts estimate that by 2030, more than two billion people will be living in these slums. In 2007, Design for the Other 90% explored design that helps provide better access to food, water, shelter, health, education and energy to those who most need them. Design with the Other...
Half the world's population now resides in cities, which are expanding at an unprecedented rate. Close to one billion people live in crowded, unhealth...
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113,84 |
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Adaptive Measures to Reduce Climate Change Induced Urban Migration
ISBN: 9783639351286 / Angielski / Miękka / 80 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Due to climate change extreme environmental events such as floods, cyclones, tornados and droughts will occur frequently in Bangladesh. This will result in huge population displacement, including migrant from rural to urban areas. Such migration will put great pressure on Dhaka, the capital and most desired destination for migrants. Dhaka is already burdened with many problems including overcrowding, environmental degradation, lack of infrastructure and services, social tension, conflict, poor governance etc. Dhaka has limited physical and managerial capacity to cope with such...
Due to climate change extreme environmental events such as floods, cyclones, tornados and droughts will occur frequently in Bangladesh. This will ...
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218,66 |
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Accessibility to Public Services in Third World Cities
ISBN: 9783639357240 / Angielski / Miękka / 88 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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218,66 |
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Evaluation Of A Public Participatory GIS Tool
ISBN: 9783639359145 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The purpose of Public Participatory Geographic Information Systems (PPGIS) is to use the practices of GIS and mapping to promote knowledge production and efficient decision-making. This study evaluated the usefulness of a PPGIS tool compared with a traditional participatory method in an environmental planning case study within north-western British Columbia (BC), Canada. Attitudes of lay public and expert planners were surveyed on the usefulness of the PPGIS tool and paper PP (Public Participation) method. The results of this study suggest that the PPGIS tool has the ability to be used, in...
The purpose of Public Participatory Geographic Information Systems (PPGIS) is to use the practices of GIS and mapping to promote knowledge production ...
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303,45 |
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Assessment of Changes in Water Retention Areas in Eastern Dhaka
ISBN: 9783639360561 / Angielski / Miękka / 56 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Water retention areas are major natural elements of an urban area. These areas have different functions of the physical environment. In Dhaka, these retention areas are encroached by different land development activities. In the recent years, water logging, drainage congestion and different types of problems have been generated by unplanned urban development. This study was conducted to estimate the change in the retention area the in eastern part of Dhaka over a period of last 15 years based on satellite images. Three different satellites images (Landsat TM, Landsat ETM Plus and IKONOS) have...
Water retention areas are major natural elements of an urban area. These areas have different functions of the physical environment. In Dhaka, these r...
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218,66 |
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Two Degrees: The Built Environment and Our Changing Climate
ISBN: 9780415692991 / Angielski / Twarda / 262 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Earth's temperature has been rising at exponential rates over the twentieth century. The IPCC has given a grave, but difficult goal to avert catastrophe: reduce greenhouse emissions until warming is no more than two degrees Celsius. How do we get there? Two Degrees reviews the current science and predictions for global warming and looks at what steps can be taken to design the built environment to mitigate the extent of global warming and to adapt to inevitable changes in climate. The book positions sustainable design as an approach to a low carbon future that considers the economic... The Earth's temperature has been rising at exponential rates over the twentieth century. The IPCC has given a grave, but difficult goal to avert ca... |
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872,61 |
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Zero-carbon Homes : A Road Map
ISBN: 9781849712484 / Angielski / Twarda / 424 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Housing is a major contributor to CO2 emissions in Europe and America today and the construction of new homes offers an opportunity to address this issue. Providing homes that achieve "zero carbon", "carbon neutral", "zero-net energy" or "energy-plus" standard is becoming the goal of more innovative house-builders globally, whilst energy providers seek to decarbonise the energy supply to new and existing development. Various new technical systems for achieving these goals are beginning to emerge. For example the passive house whose energy requirement for space heating and cooling is almost...
Housing is a major contributor to CO2 emissions in Europe and America today and the construction of new homes offers an opportunity to address this is...
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921,09 |
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Compact Township as the Conceptual Planning Approach
ISBN: 9783639358964 / Angielski / Miękka / 100 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Bangladesh is a developing country which is incorporated with numerous resources like land, water, people also. Here majority of people live in rural areas and their life is dependent on some valuable agricultural land which is their main earning source. But this land area is being decreasing and population is increasing day by day. The new pressure is being created on agricultural land area. In this study, Compact township approach has been taken as a study topic aiming to incorporate all the rural settlement in one place where all the urban facilities and service like water supply,...
Bangladesh is a developing country which is incorporated with numerous resources like land, water, people also. Here majority of people live in rural ...
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Planning and Decision Models for an Integrated Public Transportation
ISBN: 9783639360455 / Angielski / Miękka / 188 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is based on a research on public transportation planning and decision in developing countries, taking Addis Ababa city as a case. The research included spatial and network analysis, mode choice, service quality assessment, efficiency evaluation etc. Empirical analysis was conducted on bus users perceptions towards public bus attributes (such as fare, convenience and frequency) and satisfaction with the service quality. Based on the analysis results, the study offered public transportation service improvement strategies with planning and decision-making models. For this,...
This book is based on a research on public transportation planning and decision in developing countries, taking Addis Ababa city as a case. The res...
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303,45 |
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Investigating Quality of Urban Life: Theory, Methods, and Empirical Research
ISBN: 9789400717411 / Angielski / Twarda / 456 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The work synthesizes past and current research on the quality of urban life that has been done internationally. It emphasizes the contributions of the urban environment to the overall well-being of residents living in urban areas ranging in scale from small cities and their hinterlands to metropolitan regions. By urban environment, we mean the socio-physical aspects of urban living ranging from individual dwellings and neighbourhoods to public services (i.e. transportation, rubbish collection, etc.) to neighbours and community organizations. The work emphasizes not only perceptions of and... The work synthesizes past and current research on the quality of urban life that has been done internationally. It emphasizes the contributions of ... |
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602,40 |
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Designing for Zero Waste: Consumption, Technologies and the Built Environment
ISBN: 9781849714358 / Angielski / Miękka / 418 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Designing for Zero Waste is a timely, topical and necessary publication. Materials and resources are being depleted at an accelerating speed and rising consumption trends across the globe have placed material efficiency, waste reduction and recycling at the centre of many government policy agendas, giving them an unprecedented urgency. While there has been a considerable literature addressing consumption and waste reduction from different disciplinary perspectives, the complex nature of the problem requires an increasing degree of interdisciplinarity. Resource recovery and the... Designing for Zero Waste is a timely, topical and necessary publication. Materials and resources are being depleted at an accelerating spe... |
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300,52 |
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Green Infrastructure for Sustainable Urban Development in Africa
ISBN: 9781849714723 / Angielski / Twarda / 512 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book shows for the first time how green infrastructure can work in an African urban context. On one level it provides a major rethinking of the role of infrastructure in urban society since the creation of networked infrastructure in the early twentieth century. On another, it explores the changing paradigms of urban development through the fundamental question of how decisions are made. With a focus on Africa's fast-growing secondary towns, where 70 per cent of the urban population live, the book explains how urban infrastructure provides the key to the relationship between economic...
This book shows for the first time how green infrastructure can work in an African urban context. On one level it provides a major rethinking of the r...
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702,94 |
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