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The Hackable City : Digital Media and Collaborative City-Making in the Networ…
This open access book presents a selection of the best contributions to the Digital Cities 9 Workshop held in Limerick in 2015, combining a number of the latest academic insights into new collaborative modes of city making that are firmly rooted in empirical findings about the actual practices of citizens, designers and policy makers. It explores the affordances of new media technologies for em…
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- 1
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- 9789811326943
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- XV, 302 hlm,: ill, lamp;
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Adaptive Strategies for Water Heritage: Past, Present and Future
This Open Access book, building on research initiated by scholars from the Leiden-Delft-Erasmus Centre for Global Heritage and Development (CHGD) and ICOMOS Netherlands, presents multidisciplinary research that connects water to heritage. Through twenty-one chapters it explores landscapes, cities, engineering structures and buildings from around the world. It describes how people have actively …
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- 1
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- 9783030002688
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- XIX, 435 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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Urban Planning Against Poverty : How to Think and Do Better Cities in the Glo…
This open access book revisits the theoretical foundations of urban planning and the application of these concepts and methods in the context of Southern countries by examining several case studies from different regions of the world. For instance, the case of Koudougou, a medium-sized city in one of the poorest countries in the world, Burkina Faso, with a population of 115.000 inhabitants, all…
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- 978-3-030-28419-0
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- VIII, 214
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- Future City (FUCI, volume 14)
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- 307 BOL u
Co-Cities: innovative transitions toward just and self-sustaining communities
"A new framework for experimental and innovative "city-making" for urban resources and services to be developed and governed in a collaborative, socially, and economically inclusive ways"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262369930
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- 1 online resource.
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The making of grand Paris :metropolitan urbanism in the twenty-first century
A critical examination of metropolitan planning in Paris -- the ""Grand Paris"" initiative -- and the building of today's networked global city.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262337014
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- 1 online resource (viii, 313 pages).
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Sequel to suburbia :glimpses of America's post-suburban future
How the decentralized, automobile-oriented, and fuel-consuming model of American suburban development might change.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262330749
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- 1 online resource (xii, 231 pages) :illustrations, maps.
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How Reform Worked in China: The Transition from Plan to Market
A noted Chinese economist examines the mechanisms behind China's economic reforms, arguing that universal principles and specific implementations are equally important.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262342728
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- 1 online resource
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Breakthrough Communities: Sustainability and Justice in the Next American Met…
Activists, analysts, and practitioners describe innovative strategies that promote healthy neighborhoods, fair housing, and accessible transportation throughout America's cities and suburbs.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262255479
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- 1 online resource (xli, 446 pages) :illustrations.
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Metabolism of the anthroposphere: Analysis, evaluation, design
Over the last several thousand years of human life on Earth, agricultural settlements became urban cores, and these regional settlements became tightly connected through infrastructures transporting people, materials, and information. This global network of urban systems, including ecosystems, is the anthroposphere; the physical flows and stocks of matter and energy within it form its metabolis…
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- 2nd ed.
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- 9780262301329
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- 1 online resource (x, 392 pages) :illustrations, maps
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The Nine Elements of a Sustainable Campus
A college campus offers an ideal setting for exploring and practicing sustainability. Colleges and universities offer our best hope for raising awareness about the climate crisis and the dire threat it poses to the planet. They provide opportunities for both research and implementation; they have the capacity to engage students, staff, and faculty in collaborative enterprises that inspire campu…
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- 9780262321570
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- 1 online resource
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