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Books > Earth & environment > Regional & area planning > Urban & municipal planning

Population Mobility, Urban Planning and Management in China (Hardcover, 2015 ed.): Tai-Chee Wong, Sun Sheng Han, Hongmei Zhang Population Mobility, Urban Planning and Management in China (Hardcover, 2015 ed.)
Tai-Chee Wong, Sun Sheng Han, Hongmei Zhang
R4,353 R3,553 Discovery Miles 35 530 Save R800 (18%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This volume contains essays that examine contemporary urban and regional planning and development in China. Through in-depth theoretical and empirical analysis, it provides insights into the urban policies and operational mechanisms of this colossal transitional economy which has presented unprecedented challenges and dynamics. Inside, readers will discover the causes and consequences of rapid urbanization that have led to a series of environmental, economic and social planning and management measures designed to achieve quality urban living. The essays also detail efforts in adopting the latest options in city building such as specific urban planning approaches in developing large city regions, building cities without slums, constructing new townships and green urbanism, including eco-city and sustainable transport. In addition, coverage explores financial management and support as a means to encourage urbanization and urban economic growth in less-developed regions. Overall, the volume offers a wealth of concrete, detailed information on conditions in different regions of China and features an extensive range of content, methods and theory. It provides readers with a comprehensive portrait of the chain relationship between rapid urbanization, spatial planning and management throughout the country. The book will serve as a useful reference for national and international consultancy services doing business or serving public interest in China. It will also be of interest to an international audience seeking a better understanding of urban development and planning in China, including university teachers, students, government agencies and general readers.

Go Slow and Curvy - Understanding the Philosophy of the Cittaslow slowcity Phenomenon (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2015): Dehyun Sohn,... Go Slow and Curvy - Understanding the Philosophy of the Cittaslow slowcity Phenomenon (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2015)
Dehyun Sohn, Hee-Jung Jang, Timothy Jung
R1,830 Discovery Miles 18 300 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book introduces readers to the concepts of sustainability and philosophy of slowness for the management of public entities such as cities or regions. While many urban communities face economic challenges that clearly show the limitations of growth and ever-increasing speed, this book explores an alternative, thought-provoking standpoint in five chapters. The first chapter explains the importance and essence of slowness, smallness and sustainability for public organizations, while the second addresses the concept of "slow life" in an emotional society. Chapter three examines the issue of "slow management" and presents arguments for the value of small businesses as the true foundation of the economy. Chapter four rounds out the coverage with a focus on agriculture. Finally, in chapter five, the authors discuss the overall benefits of a "slow and curvy" management style in order to provide happiness, economic and social sustainability.

Sustainable Retail Development - New Success Strategies (Hardcover, 2010 ed.): Jerry Yudelson Sustainable Retail Development - New Success Strategies (Hardcover, 2010 ed.)
Jerry Yudelson
R4,034 Discovery Miles 40 340 Ships in 10 - 17 working days

Sustainable Retail Development, addresses the emerging issue of green retail buildings and retail development that will grow significantly in importance over the next half-decade, a trend seen throughout the developed world. This volume is a practical and comprehensive guide to greening retail real estate, including green building and marketing strategies, corporate sustainability programs and features a 10-point action program for greening any retail real estate portfolio.

Sustainable Retail Development, should be essential reading for professionals in design, construction and operations of shopping centers and retail stores. Well illustrated, this volume features over 30 green retail developments from North America, Europe, South America, Asia and Australia, as well as interviews with 25 leading industry experts."

Stalinist City Planning - Professionals, Performance, and Power (Hardcover, 3 Rev Ed): Heather DeHaan Stalinist City Planning - Professionals, Performance, and Power (Hardcover, 3 Rev Ed)
Heather DeHaan
R2,119 Discovery Miles 21 190 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Based on research in previously closed Soviet archives, this book sheds light on the formative years of Soviet city planning and on state efforts to consolidate power through cityscape design. Stepping away from Moscow's central corridors of power, Heather D. DeHaan focuses her study on 1930s Nizhnii Novgorod, where planners struggled to accommodate the expectations of a Stalinizing state without sacrificing professional authority and power. Bridging institutional and cultural history, the book brings together a variety of elements of socialism as enacted by planners on a competitive urban stage, such as scientific debate, the crafting of symbolic landscapes, and state campaigns for the development of cultured cities and people. By examining how planners and other urban inhabitants experienced, lived, and struggled with socialism and Stalinism, DeHaan offers readers a much broader, more complex picture of planning and planners than has been revealed to date.

Ventilating Cities - Air-flow Criteria for Healthy and Comfortable Urban Living (Hardcover, 2012 ed.): Shinsuke Kato, Kyosuke... Ventilating Cities - Air-flow Criteria for Healthy and Comfortable Urban Living (Hardcover, 2012 ed.)
Shinsuke Kato, Kyosuke Hiyama
R4,017 Discovery Miles 40 170 Ships in 10 - 17 working days

The majority of the world's population live in environments with artificially weakened wind as buildings in urban areas form wind-breaks and reduce wind speeds. Anthropogenic heat is also generated and during the summer dense urban areas suffer from the urban heat island effect, a known urban climate problem. This book discusses how to evaluate the urban wind environment, including ventilation performance and thermal comfort. This book is organized in two parts; Wind Environment and the Urban Environment and Criteria for Assessing Breeze Environments. It includes chapters on sea breeze in urban areas; thermal adaptation and the effect of wind on thermal comfort; health risk of exposures; pollutant transport in dense urban areas; legal regulations for urban ventilation and new criteria for assessing the local wind environment. Keywords: urban wind environments, urban heat island, urban climate, land use change, thermal comfort, risk assessment, urban air pollution, urban ventilation

Brooklyn's Bushwick - Urban Renewal in New York, USA - Community, Planning and Sustainable Environments (Hardcover, 2014... Brooklyn's Bushwick - Urban Renewal in New York, USA - Community, Planning and Sustainable Environments (Hardcover, 2014 ed.)
Raymond Charles Rauscher, Salim Momtaz
R3,296 Discovery Miles 32 960 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book offers an extended case study of the urban community of Bushwick, located in the Brooklyn borough of New York City. The authors begin with a broad review of the history of Bushwick and Brooklyn, from before the earliest European settlements of the 1600s, through the 18th and 19th centuries and up the 1960s. Chapter Two begins by tracing the steep decline of the community, which culminated in catastrophic fires and looting in the wake of New York s electrical blackout of 1977 and goes on to describe the beginnings of urban planning and renewal efforts which launched the recovery of Bushwick in the 1980s to early 2000s. Chapter Three steps back from the immediacy of the community to discuss urban change from a theoretical perspective. The authors outline advances in sustainable urban planning and describe how these apply to Bushwick and the wider Brooklyn community.

Chapter Four offers a detailed examination of the intent and function of New York s community board planning system, known as the Charter 197-a program. In Chapter Five the authors examine the 197-a planning process and its application in the areas of Bushwick, Williamsburg and Greenpoint in Northeast Brooklyn; Brooklyn Downtown and in Southeast Brooklyn including Coney Island.The following chapter examines a number of innovative Bushwick high schools that offer practical experience in urban planning. Drawing the urban planning experiences together, the book concludes with a look at future directions in city renewal. Emphasis here is placed on sustainable urban planning and the lessons to be learned from the experience of Bushwick and Brooklyn.

The specifics of urban planning and renewal are illustrated with tables and figures. The details of planning are informed by an overarching sense of history, beginning with the dedication of the book to the memory of six Universalist writers associated with New York: Henry Thoreau, Helena Blavatsky, Henry George, Henry Miller, Arthur Miller and Walt Whitman. A rich trove of historical materials, ranging from family sketches to school rosters to rarely seen photographs, helps to keep the survey and analysis of urban planning grounded in the lives of Bushwick s residents, past, present and future."

The Urban Transport Crisis in Emerging Economies (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017): Dorina Pojani, Dominic Stead The Urban Transport Crisis in Emerging Economies (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)
Dorina Pojani, Dominic Stead
R5,036 Discovery Miles 50 360 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This edited volume discuses urban transport issues, policies, and initiatives in twelve of the world's major emerging economies - Brazil, China, Colombia, India, Indonesia, Iran, Mexico, Nigeria, Russia, South Africa, Turkey, and Vietnam - countries with large populations that have recently experienced large changes in urban structure, motorization and all the associated social, economic, and environmental impacts in positive and negative senses. Contributions on each of these twelve countries focus on one or more major cities per country. This book aims to fill a gap in the transport literature that is crucial to understanding the needs of a large portion of the world's urban population, especially in view of the southward shift in economic power. Readers will develop a better understanding of urban transport problems and policies in nations where development levels are below those of richer countries (mainly in the northern hemisphere) but where the rate of economic growth is often increasing at a faster rate than the wealthiest nations.

Infrastructure and Safety in a Collaborative World - Road Traffic Safety (Hardcover, Edition.): Evangelos Bekiaris, Marion... Infrastructure and Safety in a Collaborative World - Road Traffic Safety (Hardcover, Edition.)
Evangelos Bekiaris, Marion Wiethoff, Evangelia Gaitanidou
R2,714 Discovery Miles 27 140 Ships in 10 - 17 working days

The book investigates how, and which, forgiving road environments (FOR) andself-explaining road measures (SER) will contribute to increasing road safety and also increase network efficiency on the road.

It presents both the general approach and the methodology for generating the possible FOR and SER measures. The book further discusses the prioritization and the testing methodologies, as well as the designing VMS methodology.

The next parts of the book present a few important examples: lane departure warning systems; intelligent speed adaptation systems and perception enhancement studies;designs of European pictorial signs, e.g. for VMS but also examples of designs of European road wordings; and finally how personalization can take place of VMS signs and wordings for the individual driver.

The last part shows the final evaluation of FOR and SER, anddetailed Multiple Criterion Analysis and Cost Benefit Analyses are performed on a number of FOR and SER measures. This results in the development of a set of guidelines, conclusions and recommendations for the future.

Smart City - How to Create Public and Economic Value with High Technology in Urban Space (Hardcover, 2014 ed.): Renata Paola... Smart City - How to Create Public and Economic Value with High Technology in Urban Space (Hardcover, 2014 ed.)
Renata Paola Dameri, Camille Rosenthal-Sabroux
R2,669 Discovery Miles 26 690 Ships in 10 - 17 working days

This book presents a comprehensive overview of the various aspects for the development of smart cities from a European perspective. It presents both theoretical concepts as well as empirical studies and cases of smart city programs and their capacity to create value for citizens. The contributions in this book are a result of an increasing interest for this topic, supported by both national governments and international institutions. The book offers a large panorama of the most important aspects of smart cities evolution and implementation. It compares European best practices and analyzes how smart projects and programs in cities could help to improve the quality of life in the urban space and to promote cultural and economic development.

Flood Proofing in Urban Areas (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2019): Daniele Fabrizio Bignami, Renzo Rosso, Umberto Sanfilippo Flood Proofing in Urban Areas (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2019)
Daniele Fabrizio Bignami, Renzo Rosso, Umberto Sanfilippo
R3,357 Discovery Miles 33 570 Ships in 10 - 17 working days

Flood control in urban areas can be feasibly and cost-effectively enhanced by implementing flood proofing approaches to risk reduction in the context of environmental and land-use planning and management. Indeed, flood proofing makes it possible to improve, integrate and in some cases even replace traditional measures for flood control, reducing the vulnerability and increasing the resilience of buildings and infrastructures. This book begins by reviewing the physics of stability and instability of both human beings and buildings under flood conditions, together with criteria and models (both conventional and innovative) for assessing flood strains. In turn, it presents a range of flood proofing concepts and techniques, together with a complete and updated classification of related methods and devices. This provides a user-friendly tool to help identify appropriate solutions to real-world problems for each specific risk scenario. In particular, the book focuses on temporary flood proofing techniques, given their ability to deliver effective performance at low costs. Lastly, it features an overview of norms, guidelines and laboratory recommendations that are currently being adopted in various countries with regard to flood proofing devices and testing procedures. The purpose of this book is essentially to encourage authorities, stakeholders, technicians and end users to successfully develop flood proofing solutions that can reduce flood risk in a pragmatic manner. In addition, the authors hope to inspire researchers, manufacturers and designers (engineers, architects, urban planners and urban managers) to pursue further advances in this key sector of public and private safety in urban areas.

Technologies and Innovations for Development - Scientific Cooperation for a Sustainable Future (Hardcover, 2012 ed.):... Technologies and Innovations for Development - Scientific Cooperation for a Sustainable Future (Hardcover, 2012 ed.)
Jean-Claude Bolay, Alexandre Schmid, Gabriela Tejada, Eileen Hazboun
R2,699 Discovery Miles 26 990 Ships in 10 - 17 working days

Technological innovation combined with scientific research has always constituted a driving force of transformation in our societies. At the same time, it is no longer simply possible to transfer technologies from the North to the South; it is also essential to consider technical innovations that are adapted to the social, environmental, cultural and economic conditions of receiving countries, and which can be appropriated by their potential users and as such prove to be real technologies for fostering development.

The first International Scientific Conference on the topic organized by the UNESCO Chair Technologies for Development at the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne in 2010 focused on its four priority sectors: Technologies for Sustainable Development of Habitat and Cities, ICTs for the Environment, Science and Technology for Disaster Risk Reduction, and Technologies for the Production of Sustainable Energy.

This volume reflects the main outcomes of the conference and provides some significant orientation and success criteria for the effective implementation and use of innovative technologies, their aims, their particular applications in the context of developing countries, their accessibility for users, and their appropriation by producers and stakeholders in the field of development both in the North and South, thus ensuring their sustainability. This kind of scientific cooperation also highlights the added values for northern researchers in sharing their knowledge and know-how, leading to a real win-win partnership.

The authors gathered within this book include representatives from academic and research institutions and other organizations from diverse countries and offer a significant synergy of competences, approaches and disciplines. "

The Geometry of Urban Layouts - A Global Comparative Study (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017): Mahbub Rashid The Geometry of Urban Layouts - A Global Comparative Study (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)
Mahbub Rashid
R4,113 R3,583 Discovery Miles 35 830 Save R530 (13%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book presents a compendium of the urban layout maps of 2-mile square downtown areas of more than one hundred cities in developed and developing countries-all drawn at the same scale using high-resolution satellite images of Google Maps. The book also presents analytic studies using metric geometrical, topological (or network), and fractal measures of these maps. These analytic studies identify ordinaries, extremes, similarities, and differences in these maps; investigate the scaling properties of these maps; and develop precise descriptive categories, types and indicators for multidimensional comparative studies of these maps. The findings of these studies indicate that many geometric relations of the urban layouts of downtown areas follow regular patterns; that despite social, economic, and cultural differences among cities, the geometric measures of downtown areas in cities of developed and developing countries do not show significant differences; and that the geometric possibilities of urban layouts are vastly greater than those that have been realized so far in our cities.

Essential Methods for Planning Practitioners - Skills and Techniques for Data Analysis, Visualization, and Communication... Essential Methods for Planning Practitioners - Skills and Techniques for Data Analysis, Visualization, and Communication (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018)
Laxmi Ramasubramanian, Jochen Albrecht
R3,731 Discovery Miles 37 310 Ships in 10 - 17 working days

This book assembles and organizes a selected range of methods and techniques that every planning practitioner should know to be successful in the contemporary global urban landscape. The book is unique because it links different aspects of the planning/policy-making enterprise with the appropriate methods and approaches, thus contextualizing the use of specific methods and techniques within a sociopolitical and ethical framework. This volume familiarizes readers with the diverse range of methods, techniques, and skills that must be applied at different scales in dynamic workplace environments where planning policies and programs are developed and implemented. This book is an invaluable resource in helping new entrants to the planning discourse and profession set aside their own disciplinary biases and empowering them to use their expert knowledge to address societal concerns.

Economics, Planning and Housing (Hardcover, Clean): Michael Oxley Economics, Planning and Housing (Hardcover, Clean)
Michael Oxley
R4,634 Discovery Miles 46 340 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This broad-ranging new text applies economics analysis to the aims, instruments and outcomes of land use planning and housing policies. The core focus is on providing students with a substantive and sophisticated understanding of the relation of the state and market and such key current issues as sustainable development, urban renaissance, affordable housing and the relationships between planning, housebuilding and house prices. Drawing examples from Britain, the rest of Europe and the US, it emphasizes the role of economics in promoting a theoretically-informed and evidence-based approach to policy formation and implementation.

Digital Twin Technologies and Smart Cities (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020): Maryam Farsi, Alireza Daneshkhah, Amin Hosseinian-Far,... Digital Twin Technologies and Smart Cities (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020)
Maryam Farsi, Alireza Daneshkhah, Amin Hosseinian-Far, Hamid Jahankhani
R3,987 Discovery Miles 39 870 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book provides a holistic perspective on Digital Twin (DT) technologies, and presents cutting-edge research in the field. It assesses the opportunities that DT can offer for smart cities, and covers the requirements for ensuring secure, safe and sustainable smart cities. Further, the book demonstrates that DT and its benefits with regard to: data visualisation, real-time data analytics, and learning leading to improved confidence in decision making; reasoning, monitoring and warning to support accurate diagnostics and prognostics; acting using edge control and what-if analysis; and connection with back-end business applications hold significant potential for applications in smart cities, by employing a wide range of sensory and data-acquisition systems in various parts of the urban infrastructure. The contributing authors reveal how and why DT technologies that are used for monitoring, visualising, diagnosing and predicting in real-time are vital to cities' sustainability and efficiency. The concepts outlined in the book represents a city together with all of its infrastructure elements, which communicate with each other in a complex manner. Moreover, securing Internet of Things (IoT) which is one of the key enablers of DT's is discussed in details and from various perspectives. The book offers an outstanding reference guide for practitioners and researchers in manufacturing, operations research and communications, who are considering digitising some of their assets and related services. It is also a valuable asset for graduate students and academics who are looking to identify research gaps and develop their own proposals for further research.

Urban Design, Space and Society (Hardcover): Ali Madanipour Urban Design, Space and Society (Hardcover)
Ali Madanipour
R4,634 Discovery Miles 46 340 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Placing the practice of urban design in its political, economic and cultural context, this book sets out a clear and positive vision of the potential of urban design, and in particular its capacity to bring imagined futures into being for the benefit of the many. Urban Design, Space and Society shows how urban design is concerned not only with the aesthetics and practicalities of designing urban spaces, but also with the pursuit of social inclusiveness, participatory democracy, cultural meaning and ecological sustainability. It covers a broad range of interrelated themes and demostrates how social and political theories shed light on an understanding of urban design. Drawing on these theories, as well as the author's own research, the book guides the reader through the complex challenges that design practitioners must navigate in meeting the diverse needs of urban society in the twenty-first century. Providing a clear guide to the role and potential of urban design, this is an invaluable text for students and professionals for urban design as well as those from related disciplines such as planning, architecture and geography.

Emergent Phenomena in Housing Markets - Gentrification, Housing Search, Polarization (Hardcover, 2013 ed.): Lidia Diappi Emergent Phenomena in Housing Markets - Gentrification, Housing Search, Polarization (Hardcover, 2013 ed.)
Lidia Diappi
R2,656 Discovery Miles 26 560 Ships in 10 - 17 working days

The housing market, like every market, is the product of thousands of interacting buyers and sellers driven by different interests. But unlike other markets, the housing market is able to profoundly transform the socioeconomic structure and the image of a city. Very often, changes in urban space are the result of the imperceptible operation of a multitude of micro-transformations which act with such great energy and decisiveness that they can transform the 'DNA' of entire urban neighborhoods. These qualitative novelties, unpredictable and non-deducible on the basis of the previous properties, are defined emergences. Namely emergence means a 'pattern formation' characterized by a self-organizing process driven by non-linear dynamics. This book explores housing market emergence in light of three different phenomena: search for housing, social polarization, and gentrification. The book is divided into two parts. The first part presents contributions on modelling emergence of different phenomena, formalised in multi-agent systems. The second part gathers empirical research and analyses aimed at supporting the findings of the models.

Implementing Environmental and Resource Management (Hardcover, 2011 ed.): Michael Schmidt, Vincent Onyango, Dmytro Palekhov Implementing Environmental and Resource Management (Hardcover, 2011 ed.)
Michael Schmidt, Vincent Onyango, Dmytro Palekhov
R4,052 Discovery Miles 40 520 Ships in 10 - 17 working days

This book represents the collected works of Environmental and Resource Management (ERM) Alumni as well as young professionals and researches who are involved in the field of ERM. The connecting theme of these works is the successful implementation of ERM in a wide range of issues including: energy innovation and management, climate change response and sustainable development aspects of resource management in developing countries. This book aims to expose some of the research outputs of ERM Alumni and present perspectives and critical questions of ERM application. The research results can provide empirical bases on which ERM study programmes and/or working environments can be problematised in order to more effectively meet the objectives of ERM. The intended audience of this volume is wide including potential and current ERM students who want to understand how ERM is being applied; and teachers and researchers who want to understand the roles and interactions of ERM Alumni and their workplace.

Making Delhi a Better Place (Electronic book text): B G Fernandes Making Delhi a Better Place (Electronic book text)
B G Fernandes
R789 Discovery Miles 7 890 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Urban Galapagos - Transition to Sustainability in Complex Adaptive Systems (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2019): Thomas Kvan, Justyna... Urban Galapagos - Transition to Sustainability in Complex Adaptive Systems (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2019)
Thomas Kvan, Justyna Karakiewicz
R2,653 Discovery Miles 26 530 Ships in 10 - 17 working days

This book addresses the future of urbanisation on the Galapagos Islands from a systems, governance and design perspective with the competing parameters of liveability, economic and ecological, using the Galapagos as a laboratory for the theoretical and postulative understanding of evolving settlement and habitation. The Galapagos islands are one of the world's most examined and reported examples of a series of naturally evolving ecosystems. The biodiversity of these island ecosystems are the focus of tourism and the image across the world yet human settlement are part of the local ecology. While human intervention is limited, the islands are a distinctive context in which to consider the impact of human habitation as a part of our ecosystems. In this book, authors take the framework of complex adaptive systems (CAS) in which to model systems that grow and evolve, the relations between these various sectors change; systems that get more complex as they evolve. Tested and applied discretely in the two realms of natural and urban, for the first time this text will bring the two together in understanding options for the future of urban settlements on the Galapagos Islands and, by extension, consider how the approach can be used globally in other contexts.

FACING THE SLUM CHALLENGE (Book): FACING THE SLUM CHALLENGE (Book)
R2,404 Discovery Miles 24 040 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

* The most authoritative and up-to-date review of the development of the world's cities and other human settlements* The first global assessment of urban slums, the challenges they present and the ways to improve the lives of slum dwellers* Statistical annexes provide essential information on demographic, spatial & economic, housing, and environment & infrastructural indicatorsThis is the only reliable and comprehensive assessment of the world's cities, and an essential tool and reference for academics, researchers, planners, public authorities and civil society organizations around the world. The 2003 report addresses the growing problems presented by slums in an increasingly globalized world. Using extensive case studies, it analyzes the factors behind the creation of slums and reviews the policies taken towards them. It demonstrates that to meet the UN's Millennium Goals of significantly improving the lives of over 100 million slum dwellers by 2020, policies must go beyond traditional infrastructural approaches to create livelihoods, and hope, for the urban poor.

Fundamental Trends in City Development (Hardcover, 2008 ed.): Giovanni Maciocco Fundamental Trends in City Development (Hardcover, 2008 ed.)
Giovanni Maciocco
R4,130 Discovery Miles 41 300 Ships in 10 - 17 working days

The Reinvented City reflects on externity, the principal feature of a reinvented city. Three basic trends of the city are investigated; "discomposed," "generic" and "segregated" phenomena with the loss of the city as a space of social interaction and communication. Important questions are posed: What is the true public sphere in contemporary societies? What is the contemporary public space corresponding to it? In what way can the city project construct contemporary public space?

Citizen Responsive Government (Hardcover): Terry Nichols Clark, Keith Hoggart, Fred W. Becker, Milan J. Dluhy Citizen Responsive Government (Hardcover)
Terry Nichols Clark, Keith Hoggart, Fred W. Becker, Milan J. Dluhy
R4,297 Discovery Miles 42 970 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

How can government stay linked to its citizens? Across the world, governments' basic principles are turned on their heads as global markets, weakened national states, and active citizens emerge. Governments increasingly act not alone, but many governments and private groups make policy jointly - labeled 'governance'. But this raises new concerns for adequate citizen responsiveness. Leaders and parties previously considered left or right make unexpected choices - as leaders explore Third Ways, New Political Cultures, and more. As policy choices grow more complicated, they are harder to present to citizens - which undermines citizen legitimacy of parties and elected officials.

How can government maintain democratic accountability? This volume explores new answers by probing citizen involvement in specific cities and countries the world over. There is no single problem, hence no single remedy. But by contrasting key elements of national and local contexts, this volume offers lessons about how citizens are variously activated; about what works, where, and why. From specific results emerge insights about how citizens may drive policy, or be ignored, in a time of turbulence and rapid cultural change for government policy making.

Fault Lines - Earthquakes and Urbanism in Modern Italy (Hardcover): Giacomo Parrinello Fault Lines - Earthquakes and Urbanism in Modern Italy (Hardcover)
Giacomo Parrinello
R2,845 Discovery Miles 28 450 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Earth's fractured geology is visible in its fault lines. It is along these lines that earthquakes occur, sometimes with disastrous effects. These disturbances can significantly influence urban development, as seen in the aftermath of two earthquakes in Messina, Italy, in 1908 and in the Belice Valley, Sicily, in 1968. Following the history of these places before and after their destruction, this book explores plans and developments that preceded the disasters and the urbanism that emerged from the ruins. These stories explore fault lines between "rural" and "urban," "backwardness" and "development," and "before" and "after," shedding light on the role of environmental forces in the history of human habitats.

Climate Change and Sustainable Urban Development in Africa and Asia (Hardcover, 2011 Ed.): Belinda Yuen, Asfaw Kumssa Climate Change and Sustainable Urban Development in Africa and Asia (Hardcover, 2011 Ed.)
Belinda Yuen, Asfaw Kumssa
R2,802 Discovery Miles 28 020 Ships in 10 - 17 working days

This book is about African and Asian cities. Illustrated through selected case cities, the book brings together a rich collection of papers by leading scholars and practitioners in Africa and Asia to offer empirical analysis and up-to-date discussions and assessments of the urban challenges and solutions for their cities. A number of key topics concerning housing, sustainable urban development and climate change in Africa and Asia are explored along with how policy interventions and partnerships deliver specific forms of urban development. It is intended for all who are interested in the state of the cities and urban development in Africa and Asia. Africa and Asia present, in many ways, useful lessons in dealing with the burgeoning urban population, and the problems surrounding this influx of people and climate change in the developing word.

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