Télécharger le livre :  Transforming Biocities
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This edited volume centers around the concept of BioCities, which aim to unify nature and urban spaces in order to reverse the effects of global climate change and inequity. Following this principle, the authors propose multiple approaches for sustainable city growth....

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2023-07-06
Collection : Future City
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Télécharger le livre :  Urban Design and Planning for Age-Friendly Environments Across Europe: North and South
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This book represents a multidisciplinary and international vision across different countries in Europe that are facing similar challenges about ageing and quality of life in present cities. It is divided in three main topics from the global context of health in cities...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2022-09-29
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Télécharger le livre :  Connecting Trees with People
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Written from the perspective of an urban forester and certified arborist, the reader will have a basic understanding of what makes a tree a tree in context to the philosophical and cultural underpinnings of Urban and Community Forestry, and learn how...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2022-05-18
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Télécharger le livre :  Holistic Approach for Decision Making Towards Designing Smart Cities
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This edited volume examines strategies to make future cities more sustainable. The aim of these and other initiatives of the recent past, is to transform our cities into smarter cities. Thereby, these solutions are determined to boost clean electricity and pollution...

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Parution : 2022-01-01
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Télécharger le livre :  Urban Services to Ecosystems
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The aim of this book is to bring together multidisciplinary research in the field of green infrastructure design, construction and ecology.The main core of the volume is constituted by contributions dealing with green infrastructure, vegetation science, nature-based...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2021-09-15
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Télécharger le livre :  Rethinking Sustainability Towards a Regenerative Economy
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This open access book is based on work from the COST Action “RESTORE - REthinking Sustainability TOwards a Regenerative Economy'', and highlights how sustainability in buildings, facilities and urban governance is crucial for a future that is socially just, ecologically...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2021-06-24
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Télécharger le livre :  Urban Planning Against Poverty
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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...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2019-11-12
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Télécharger le livre :  Social Urbanism in Latin America
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This book highlights current concepts of Social Urbanism, the contemporary set of multiple and interdisciplinary urban studies that have emerged mainly from the complex realities of Latin American cities. The discussion that follows places special emphasis on public...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2019-10-11
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Télécharger le livre :  Urban Water Management for Future Cities
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This book features expert contributions on key sustainability aspects of urban water management in Chinese agglomerations. Both technical and institutional pathways to sustainable urban water management are developed on the basis of a broad, interdisciplinary problem...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2019-01-21
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Télécharger le livre :  The Forest and the City
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Amsterdamse Bos, Bois de Boulognes, Epping Forest, Hong Kong’s country parks, Stanley Park: throughout history cities across the world have developed close relationships with nearby woodland areas. In some cases, cities have even developed – and in some cases are...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2018-03-12
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Télécharger le livre :  Co-­creating Sustainable Urban Futures
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This is a unique book that provides rich knowledge on how to understand and actively contribute to urban sustainability transitions. The book combines theoretical frameworks and tools with practical experiences on transition management as a framework that supports urban...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2018-01-09
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Télécharger le livre :  Urban Transformations
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The book addresses urban transformations towards sustainability in light of challenges of global urbanization processes and the consequences of global environmental change.The aim is to show that urban transformations only succeed if both innovative scientific solutions...

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Parution : 2018-01-08
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Télécharger le livre :  The Urban Forest
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This book focuses on urban "green infrastructure" – the interconnected web of vegetated spaces like street trees, parks and peri-urban forests that provide essential ecosystem services in cities. The green infrastructure approach embodies the idea that these services,...

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Parution : 2017-02-27
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Télécharger le livre :  The World's Urban Forests
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The purpose of this book is to examine urban forests in cities around the world. It will ask questions about the history, composition, structure, and management of trees in urban areas. Data for this book was collected in 33 cities across broad geographical areas known...

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Parution : 2017-02-07
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Télécharger le livre :  Urban Water Trajectories
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Water is an essential element in the future of cities. It shapes cities’ locations, form, ecology, prosperity and health. The changing nature of urbanisation, climate change, water scarcity, environmental values, globalisation and social justice mean that the models of...

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Parution : 2016-10-22
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Télécharger le livre :  Urban Vulnerability and Climate Change in Africa
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Urbanisation and climate change are among the major challenges for sustainable development in Africa. The overall aim of this book is to present innovative approaches to vulnerability analysis and for enhancing the resilience of African cities against climate...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2015-04-13
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Télécharger le livre :  Media Art and the Urban Environment
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This text formally appraises the innovative ways new media artists engage urban ecology. Highlighting the role of artists as agents of technological change, the work reviews new modes of seeing, representing and connecting within the urban setting. The book describes...

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Parution : 2015-04-01
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Télécharger le livre :  Resilience in Ecology and Urban Design
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The contributors to this volume propose strategies of urgent and vital importance that aim to make today’s urban environments more resilient. Resilience, the ability of complex systems to adapt to changing conditions, is a key frontier in ecological research and is...

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Parution : 2013-01-13
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Télécharger le livre :  Dimensions of the Sustainable City
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The CityForm consortium’s latest book, Dimensions of the Sustainable City, is the first book to report on an empirical multi-disciplinary study specifically designed to address urban sustainability. Drawing together the various dimensions of sustainability – economic,...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2009-12-17
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