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Delta Urbanism is a major new initiative that explores the growth,
development, and management of deltaic cities and regions, with the
aim of balancing various goals in a sustainable manner:
urbanization, port commerce, industrial development, flood defense,
public safety, ecological balance, tourism, and recreation. This
book is a detailed history and overview of how one low-lying
country has developed the policies, tools, technology, planning,
public outreach, and international cooperation needed to save their
populated deltas.
Delta Urbanism is a major new initiative that explores the growth,
development, and management of deltaic cities and regions, with the
aim of balancing various goals in a sustainable manner:
urbanization, port commerce, industrial development, flood defense,
public safety, ecological balance, tourism, and recreation. This
book is a detailed history and overview of how one low-lying
country has developed the policies, tools, technology, planning,
public outreach, and international cooperation needed to save their
populated deltas.
Today, our cities are an embodiment of the complex, historical
evolution of knowledge, desires and technology. Our planned and
designed activities co-evolve with our aspirations, mediated by the
existing technologies and social structures. The city represents
the accretion and accumulation of successive layers of collective
activity, structuring and being structured by other, increasingly
distant cities, reaching now right around the globe.
This historical and structural development cannot therefore be
understood or captured by any set of fixed quantitative relations.
Structural changes imply that the patterns of growth, and their
underlying reasons change over time, and therefore that any attempt
to control the morphology of cities and their patterns of flow by
means of planning and design, must be dynamical, based on the
mechanisms that drive the changes occurring at a given moment.
This carefully edited post-proceedings volume gathers a snapshot
view by leading researchers in field, of current complexity
theories of cities. In it, the achievements, criticisms and
potentials yet to be realized are reviewed and the implications to
planning and urban design are assessed."
Today, our cities are an embodiment of the complex, historical
evolution of knowledge, desires and technology. Our planned and
designed activities co-evolve with our aspirations, mediated by the
existing technologies and social structures. The city represents
the accretion and accumulation of successive layers of collective
activity, structuring and being structured by other, increasingly
distant cities, reaching now right around the globe.
This historical and structural development cannot therefore be
understood or captured by any set of fixed quantitative relations.
Structural changes imply that the patterns of growth, and their
underlying reasons change over time, and therefore that any attempt
to control the morphology of cities and their patterns of flow by
means of planning and design, must be dynamical, based on the
mechanisms that drive the changes occurring at a given moment.
This carefully edited post-proceedings volume gathers a snapshot
view by leading researchers in field, of current complexity
theories of cities. In it, the achievements, criticisms and
potentials yet to be realized are reviewed and the implications to
planning and urban design are assessed."
Containing over 30,000 wood names with their corresponding
commercial, common, and vernacular names, this book was originally
published in Germany in 1936 and has long been unavailable. It
includes the species, family, and area or country of origin for
each wood. But its greatest value lies in the quantity of common or
local names for various timbers, a topic of growing concern as the
export of native woods increases. Containing Spanish, French,
German, and English vernacular names, this book is useful for
commercial buyers as well as the hobbyist or wood collector.
The question of whether the German constitutional system is capable
of reform leads the author to an initial analysis of the German
Constitution in respect to its amendments. The author takes a more
precise look at the procedures of the Federalism Reform, specifies
the consequences of the procedures, and presents the key results of
the Reform in light of these observations. In conclusion,
perspectives on an acceptable form of the Constitution are
presented.
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