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Agglomeration Economies in Rural Electrification
ISBN: 9783843364584 / Angielski / Miękka / 72 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Economies of Agglomeration refer to the benefits, savings or cost reductions resulting from the clustering of activities or settlements. The forces of agglomeration lead to the concentration of industrial and other activities at a particular location and can generate economies in the long run. Such economies can also accrue in case of provision of services and facilities when extended to compact settlements. This book attempts to reveal the potential benefits that agglomeration of settlements and activities can foster in rural electrification and examines what role the Compact ...
Economies of Agglomeration refer to the benefits, savings or cost reductions resulting from the clustering of activities or settlements. The forces ...
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New Approach to Urban Design
ISBN: 9783843360920 / Angielski / Miękka / 356 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. During the last decades search for a better design quality in architecture and urban planning has gained an increasing significance so much so that the importance of achieving high quality development through good and inclusive design is acknowledged as vital in delivering economic social and environmental benefits. But latest legislation and changes in approach will make delivery not merely an aspiration but an expectation and perhaps a reality, even during these economically challenging times. The planning Act 2008 and criteria for government-backed project funding aim to change the way...
During the last decades search for a better design quality in architecture and urban planning has gained an increasing significance so much so that th...
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Implications of LATS and Escalating Landfill Tax for Waste Management
ISBN: 9783838358895 / Angielski / Miękka / 64 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Under the LATS system, waste disposal authorities and unitary authorities can send fixed amount of biodegradable municipal waste (BMW) to landfill and have to pay landfill tax of 48 for per tonne of waste they send to landfill. This research sought to explore the impacts of both LATS and escalating landfill tax on the waste management practices and policies of local authorities and tried to understand the differences among these effects. As a multiple case study research it investigated various issues faced by four local authorities of South Yorkshire namely Sheffield, Barnsley, Doncaster,...
Under the LATS system, waste disposal authorities and unitary authorities can send fixed amount of biodegradable municipal waste (BMW) to landfill and...
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Development of Small Scale Property Entrepreneurs in South Africa
ISBN: 9783843375542 / Angielski / Miękka / 88 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Residential Quality in Central Zones of Podkarpackie Towns
ISBN: 9783843379700 / Angielski / Miękka / 276 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The book deals with the issues related to the role of small cities in the spatial structure of the country and increase of the awarness concerning significance of the city residential environment for the residents, who are more and more aware of their needs. Small cities within the"eastern wall" of the country have been given much attention, due to the necessity of conducting rehabilitation activities in their areas, aimed at improving residential environment quality.These examples include cities with high development capacity, yet lack of financial means. As a result, they are becoming more...
The book deals with the issues related to the role of small cities in the spatial structure of the country and increase of the awarness concerning sig...
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Residents Attitudes toward Situational Crime in North Tyneside
ISBN: 9783843369817 / Angielski / Miękka / 80 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Our experiences, perceptions and feelings regarding crime and safety affect our every day lives and shape our behaviour, whether this is where we choose to live, the paths we walk home or the people and places we avoid. This research topic chooses to investigate the differences in peoples experiences, their perceptions and feelings about crime and safety, examining how these are affected by situational factors in their locality. The investigation undertakes surveyed, quantitative analysis to establish initial trends across residents in two communities in North Tyneside, namely...
Our experiences, perceptions and feelings regarding crime and safety affect our every day lives and shape our behaviour, whether this is where we ch...
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18 Women 18 Stories
ISBN: 9783843381857 / Angielski / Miękka / 120 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 18 Women 18 Stories - stories of 18 women who live in squatter settlements in Kathmandu, Nepal; and who are the principal income earners of their families. Their stories not only focusing their lives and destinies but also giving a picture of the security, social and economic status of the low income people specially the women in Nepal. Together with the stories, this book focuses on the methodology and findings of the research; the pros and cons of different stakeholders who are working for the development of the squatter settlements and the lives of the residents living there. Last but not...
18 Women 18 Stories - stories of 18 women who live in squatter settlements in Kathmandu, Nepal; and who are the principal income earners of their fami...
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Integrating the Voices
ISBN: 9783843388832 / Angielski / Miękka / 56 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This work examines the impact of thinking and practice of community participation by a single firm, CS-Studio Architects & Planners, in Langa Township, Cape Town South Africa. It accepts the theory of Sanhoff, an international expert on community participation as theoretical framework of this investigation. CS- Studio has practiced extensively in social environment such as South African Townships and is well published for applying community participatory planning. This work investigated the firm's theoretical and practical approach in terms of the international, national and local discourse...
This work examines the impact of thinking and practice of community participation by a single firm, CS-Studio Architects & Planners, in Langa Township...
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Analysis of Travel Behavior in Dhaka City
ISBN: 9783838339337 / Angielski / Miękka / 244 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Analysis of travel pattern provides the background information necessary to better understand the complex relationship among urban structure, transportation system and peoples activity participation. This book analyzes how socioeconomic characteristics and urban form affect peoples travel behavior in a fast growing developing city like Dhaka, Bangladesh. Although Dhaka is one of the most populous cities of the world, few detailed transport-planning studies have been conducted; but none has effectively delivered the benefits of planning to the transportation system; which is ...
Analysis of travel pattern provides the background information necessary to better understand the complex relationship among urban structure, trans...
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Analysis of Illegal Physical Development in Metropolitan Cities
ISBN: 9783844305012 / Angielski / Miękka / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Illegal physical development is an urbanization problem, so to discover the reasons behind the uncontrolled and illegal development; social, economic and political determinants such as industrialization, migration and urbanization processes should be analyzed. Therefore, to understand the process of illegal physical development, background of the phenomenon is discussed. Informal building samples from third world cities, from Turkish cities and from Izmir are given to present different variations for comparison. Policies, laws, regulations, applications and institutions involved...
Illegal physical development is an urbanization problem, so to discover the reasons behind the uncontrolled and illegal development; social, econom...
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Economic and Political Impacts of Business Improvement District
ISBN: 9783844307702 / Angielski / Miękka / 76 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The effects of the Downtown Flushing Transit Hub Business District (BID) were analyzed in terms of its contribution to the overall economic growth in the area and the political implication of a BID in a minority community. The study reveals that the Downtown Flushing BID brought significant economic and political benefits into the community by increasing the value of affected properties, creating new jobs, leveraging the resources of the city and the community. However, such benefits were not equally distributed to the local community members.
The effects of the Downtown Flushing Transit Hub Business District (BID) were analyzed in terms of its contribution to the overall economic growth in ...
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The Political Unconscious of Architecture: Re-Opening Jameson's Narrative
ISBN: 9781409426394 / Angielski / Twarda / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Thirty years have passed since eminent cultural and literary critic Fredric Jameson wrote his classic work, The Political Unconscious: Narrative as a Socially Symbolic Act, in which he insisted that 'there is nothing that is not social and historical a indeed, that everything is "in the last analysis" political'. Bringing together a team of leading scholars including Slavoj A1/2iA3/4ek, Joan Ockman, Jane Rendell, and Kojin Karatani, this book critically examines the important contribution made by Jameson to the radical critique of architecture over this period, highlighting its continued...
Thirty years have passed since eminent cultural and literary critic Fredric Jameson wrote his classic work, The Political Unconscious: Narrative as a ...
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Understanding Decentralization
ISBN: 9783844314946 / Angielski / Miękka / 140 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book examines decentralization strategies applied in both developed and developing countries. It proposes a set of empirical measures to analyze decentralization by investigating the extent of local agency power over decision-making for comprehensive planning. The book shows findings of a Delphi study conducted to develop measures of dimensions of local agency power (agency legal authority, relative autonomy, control over planning actions, and capacity to make planning decisions), which were tested empirically in Florida (USA). The State of Florida has experienced changes in...
This book examines decentralization strategies applied in both developed and developing countries. It proposes a set of empirical measures to analyz...
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Rurban Territories: Cities feeding people
ISBN: 9783844320213 / Angielski / Miękka / 80 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Urban Agriculture and its role in sustainable development have primarily been regarded from its ecological, social and economical dimensions while spatial issues remain side-lined. However the question about space provisions for Urban Agriculture is crucial in cities like Harare in Zimbabwe which has undergone a large influx of urban agricultural activities. Like most African cities, Urban Agriculture in Harare has social and economical merits, but has many failings in its spatial context ranging from environmental degradation to land conflicts among other problems. This book looks at...
Urban Agriculture and its role in sustainable development have primarily been regarded from its ecological, social and economical dimensions while spa...
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Climate Change and Transportation
ISBN: 9783844323627 / Angielski / Miękka / 72 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Sustainable Urban Forms Planning and Design Strategies
ISBN: 9783844314632 / Angielski / Miękka / 324 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Majority of the cities across the world are facing over population, environmental degradation and other planning challenges that make their situation unsustainable. This book discusses the relationship between urban form and sustainable development, energy consumption for transportation, environmental and social sustainability and also the quality of life in the city. To identify the strategies for design and planning sustainable city form, this volume puts the two contradictory yet predominant theories in practice: "the Compact city" Idea from the European context, and "Urban...
Majority of the cities across the world are facing over population, environmental degradation and other planning challenges that make their situatio...
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Regional Pattern of Electricity Consumption in Nigeria
ISBN: 9783838380216 / Angielski / Miękka / 156 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Nigeria has witnessed perennial electricity crises over the years and these persistent electricity supply problems are attributable to the inability of energy and urban planners to accurately forecast the effect of the the various socio-economic and physical factors that influence the electricity consumption patterns across the regional spectrum of the country. The book explains the regional pattern of electricity consumption in Nigeria with a view to ensuring sustainable planning in the country.
Nigeria has witnessed perennial electricity crises over the years and these persistent electricity supply problems are attributable to the inability o...
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The Desirable Future of Innovative Cities
ISBN: 9783844307672 / Angielski / Miękka / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Cities already shelter more than half of humankind and appear, more than ever, as Janus-faced realities, the best and worst of places, vulnerable but still full of hope and will to advance towards sustainable development. The battle for sustainable development will be won or lost in (or because of) cities. The first reason is simply their sheer size, this extraordinary concentration of people and activities. Furthermore, cities are the only places where people and resources congregate at a point beyond which synergetic effects become more important than simply additive ones. Cities also...
Cities already shelter more than half of humankind and appear, more than ever, as Janus-faced realities, the best and worst of places, vulnerable but ...
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The Role of Public and Private Sector in Urban Development
ISBN: 9783843387071 / Angielski / Miękka / 80 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The urban development in most of the countries have been based on the classic technique of planning procedure, under the strong influence of land ownership or land subdivision, which has led into a fragmented development; plot to plot planning. The current challenge for many cities is to manage to transform previously developed areas or to develop new urban areas, overcoming the problems caused by the restrictions of land subdivision and property boundaries. For facing these problems some countries have tested the procedure of organizing land owners to cooperate each other,...
The urban development in most of the countries have been based on the classic technique of planning procedure, under the strong influence of land o...
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Integrative Paradigm for Mobility in a 3rd World Megacity - Bangalore
ISBN: 9783838379425 / Angielski / Miękka / 80 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The objective of the study is to analyze and assess the integrated paradigm for Mobility in the Strategic Master Plan of Bangalore for 2015. The scope of the study is limited to the spatial aspects of the urban structure and its interaction with public transport. The urgency of the study is because of the rising problems of Megacities in Developing countries where economy and demographic growth outstrip the infrastructure provisions. By embracing a paradigm shift from the conventional to an Integrated Planning approach, can Bangalore meet its aspiration of a World Class City? The...
The objective of the study is to analyze and assess the integrated paradigm for Mobility in the Strategic Master Plan of Bangalore for 2015. The sco...
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