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Advances in Modeling and Management of Urban Water Networks
This Editorial presents a representative collection of 15 papers, presented in the Special Issue on Advances in Modeling and Management of Urban Water Networks (UWNs), and frames them in the current research trends. The most analyzed systems in the Special Issue are the Water Distribution Systems (WDSs), with the following four topics explored: asset management, modelling of demand and hydr…
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- 9783039437894
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A Decent Place to Live: From Columbia Point to Harbor Point
When Boston's Columbia Point housing project was built in the early 1950s on the isolated edge of Dorchester Bay, it was hailed as a noble government experiment to provide temporary housing for working-class families who had fallen on hard times. By the mid-1970s, the model community had disintegrated and become a symbol of failure, decay, crime, and danger. Today, Columbia Point has been redev…
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- 9781418560027
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- 332 hlm
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African Markets and the Utu-buntu Business Model
The persistence of indigenous African markets in the context of a hostile or neglectful business and policy environment makes them worthy of analysis. An investigation of Afrocentric business ethics is long overdue. Attempting to understand the actions and efforts of informal traders and artisans from their own points of view, and analysing how they organise and get by, allows for viable approa…
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- 9781928331797; 9781928331803
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The Hard Edge of Soft Power = Mega-Events, Geopolitics, and Making Nations Gr…
This open access book explores the linkages between geopolitics and hosting mega-events. It encompasses and transcends the international and domestic dimensions of soft power to unpack how mega-events shape cities and societies through notions of unity and greatness, but also investigates local developments beneath the Potemkin surface of the global spectacle. Drawing on a global range of case …
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- 9789819635146
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- XVI, 153 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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Food Anxiety in Globalising Vietnam
This open access book approaches the anxieties inherent in food consumption and production in Vietnam. The country’s rapid and recent economic integration into global agro-food systems and consumer markets spurred a new quality of food safety concerns, health issues and distrust in food distribution networks that have become increasingly obscured. This edited volume further puts the eating bo…
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- 9789811307430
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Hochwasserminderung im ländlichen Raum = Ein Handbuch zur quantitativen Planung
Diese Open-Access-Publikation ist ein anwendungsorientiertes Lehr- und Handbuch zur Abflussminderung im ländlichen Raum. Meteorologische Extreme wie Dürren, Starkregen und Überschwemmungen häufen sich wegen des Klimawandels. Gleichzeitig steigt der Druck auf unsere Landschaft kontinuierlich, indem sie immer intensiver genutzt und effizienter erschlossen wird. Durch diese Entwicklungen erge…
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- 9783662610336
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- XI, 236 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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It’s My Party = Tat Ming Pair and the Postcolonial Politics of Popular Musi…
This book is unique in focusing on just one band from one city – but the story of Tat Ming Pair, in so many ways, is the story of Hong Kong's recent decades, from the Handover to the Umbrella Movement to 2019's standoff. A comprehensive, theoretically informed study of the sonic history and present of Hong Kong through the prism of Tat Ming Pair, this book will be of interest to cultural stu…
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- 9789819967100
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- XXIV, 230 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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Hot Property = The Housing Market in Major Cities
Dr. Rob Nijskens Rob is an economist in the Financial Stability Division of DNB since 2012, specializing in analyzing financial stability risks in commercial and residential real estate markets. Together with Melanie Lohuis and Willem Heeringa he authored the 2017 DNB Occasional Study “The housing market in major Dutch cities”. He has also written extensively on commercial real estate, bot…
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- 9783030116743
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- XVI, 221 ill; lamp
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Building the Inclusive City : Governance, Access, and the Urban Transformatio…
This Open Access book is an anthropological urban study of the Emirate of Dubai, its institutions, and their evolution. It provides a contemporary history of disability in city planning from a non-Western perspective and explores the cultural context for its positioning. Three insights inform the author’s approach. First, disability research, much like other urban or social issues, must be si…
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- 9783030329884
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- XVII, 169 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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Die Resiliente Stadt
Resilienz ist das Konzept der Stunde. Die Coronakrise, die Flutkatastrophe im Ahrtal und die Energieknappheit haben Resilienz an die Spitze der politischen Agenda gesetzt. Auch für die Stadtentwicklung gilt Resilienz als Ziel. Doch was steckt hinter diesem relativ neuen Begriff? In diesem Open-Access Band erfahren die Leser*innen wie Städte auf Krisen und Katastrophen besser vorbereitet we…
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- 978-3-662-66916-7
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- XXI, 296
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