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Author : Alcira Kreimer
Publisher : World Bank Publications
ISBN 13 : 9780821354971
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (549 download)
Download or read book Building safer cities written by Alcira Kreimer and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2003 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Alcira Kreimer
Publisher : World Bank Publications
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Building Safer Cities written by Alcira Kreimer and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2003 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In developing countries, disasters can cause major setbacks to economic and social development, inflict massive casualties, and cause the diversion of funds from development to emergency relief and recovery.
Author : Alcira; Arnold Kreimer (Margaret; Carlin, Anne)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (156 download)
Download or read book The Future of Disaster Risks : Building Safer Cities written by Alcira; Arnold Kreimer (Margaret; Carlin, Anne) and published by . This book was released on 2002* with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Gerda R. Wekerle
Publisher : New York ; Toronto : Van Nostrand Reinhold
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Safe Cities written by Gerda R. Wekerle and published by New York ; Toronto : Van Nostrand Reinhold. This book was released on 1995 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ordinary people are natural experts on safety in their own communities. The key to creating a city where people feel safe is to give citizens input into developing safer environments for themselves. This book offers a set of easy-to-follow guidelines - well illustrated with photos - that can be used to improve urban safety. It also includes success stories on the ways that ordinary people, working in partnership with local governments and agencies have taken the initiative to fight back against violent crime in public housing, transit, parks and open places, underground parking, schools, houses and neighbourhoods.
Author : Carolyn Whitzman
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0415628156
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (156 download)
Download or read book Building Inclusive Cities written by Carolyn Whitzman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Building on a growing movement within developing countries in Latin America, Africa, and Asia-Pacific, as well as Europe and North America, this book documents cutting edge practice and builds theory around a rights based approach to women's safety in the context of poverty reduction and social inclusion. Drawing upon two decades of research and grassroots action on safer cities for women and everyone, this book is about the right to an inclusive city. The first part of the book describes the challenges that women face regarding access to essential services, housing security, liveability and mobility. The second part of the book critically examines programs, projects and ideas that are working to make cities safer. Building Inclusive Cities takes a cross-cultural learning perspective from action research occurring throughout the world and translates this research into theoretical conceptualizations to inform the literature on planning and urban management in both developing and developed countries. This book is intended to inspire both thought and action.
Author : Urbano Fra Paleo
Publisher : IOS Press
ISBN 13 : 1607500469
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (75 download)
Download or read book Building Safer Communities written by Urbano Fra Paleo and published by IOS Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a collection of essays, bringing together seventeen contributions from different disciplines, with various, but complementary points of view, to discuss the directions and key components of risk governance. Some of the many issues of interest to risk scholars addressed in this work include the analysis of proactive approaches to the governance of risk from natural hazards; approaches to broaden the scope of public policies related to the management of risks from natural hazards, including emergency and environmental management, community development and spatial planning.
Author : Jeff Speck
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0865477728
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (654 download)
Download or read book Walkable City written by Jeff Speck and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2013-11-12 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a plan for American cities that focuses on making downtowns walkable and less attractive to drivers through smart growth and sustainable design
Author : NATIONAL ALLIANCE ON SHAPING SAFER CITIES.
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 18 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (829 download)
Download or read book Strategy for Shaping Safer Cities written by NATIONAL ALLIANCE ON SHAPING SAFER CITIES. and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Thomas Moullier
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781464806797
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (67 download)
Download or read book Building Regulation for Resilience written by Thomas Moullier and published by . This book was released on 2015-10-01 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Building codes and land use regulatory systems have been largely neglected, to date, in disaster risk reduction strategies for developing countries. Experience has demonstrated the inappropriate transposition of codes and standards from high-income, developed countries to developing countries. Successful mechanisms of risk reduction and hazard adaptation in the developed world have relied in large part on effective and efficient regulation. Regulations have dramatically reduced the incidence of urban conflagration and epidemic disease over the past two centuries. It is now necessary that this collective experience be better understood and appropriately adapted to local conditions and incorporated into sustainable regulatory implementation systems. In March 2015, at the 3rd World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction, the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030 made clear the renewed international consensus on the importance of building and land use regulation for disaster risk reduction. This report will provide an analysis of available evidence to increase international awareness and understanding for the role of effective building code implementation practices within broader disaster risk reduction strategies. Focusing primariliy on practices relevant to low and middle-income countries, it will call for a renewed and internationally coordinated effort in this area. The report will also outline a proposed programmatic approach consistent with the priorities set out in the post-2015 agenda for disaster risk reduction."
Author : Gregory Saville
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781977704559
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (45 download)
Download or read book SafeGrowth written by Gregory Saville and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-06-20 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SafeGrowth is a new model for building crime-resistant and vibrant neighborhoods in the 21st Century. This book chronicles how SafeGrowth and methods like CPTED - Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design - turn troubled places back from the brink of crime. This book compiles the results of recent SafeGrowth conferences and project work in high crime neighborhoods and it describes a new theory in city planning and crime prevention. The book includes chapters on urban planning, community development, crime prevention, and new policing strategies. Chapter authors include criminologists, community workers, urban planners, police specialists, and others directly involved in community work and urban design. Chapters also include summaries of recent SafeGrowth Summits, planning and visioning sessions for creating a new path forward. Chapters include: Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design; Smart Growth planning; livability academies; urban villages and the hub concept; SafeGrowth projects in Saskatoon and Red Deer in Canada and Hollygrove in New Orleans; and the 4 principles of SafeGrowth planning. While the original concept of SafeGrowth was developed by Gregory Saville, the book editor and primary author, other authors expand that original vision and describe a new way to plan and develop cities. The audience for this book includes community development practitioners, urban policy-makers, crime prevention specialists including police, students of urban development and crime prevention, planners, and anyone interested in a new way to create safer and livable neighborhoods.
Author : Timothy Beatley
Publisher : Island Press
ISBN 13 : 164283047X
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (428 download)
Download or read book The Bird-Friendly City written by Timothy Beatley and published by Island Press. This book was released on 2020-11-05 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How does a bird experience a city? A backyard? A park? As the world has become more urban, noisier from increased traffic, and brighter from streetlights and office buildings, it has also become more dangerous for countless species of birds. Warblers become disoriented by nighttime lights and collide with buildings. Ground-feeding sparrows fall prey to feral cats. Hawks and other birds-of-prey are sickened by rat poison. These name just a few of the myriad hazards. How do our cities need to change in order to reduce the threats, often created unintentionally, that have resulted in nearly three billion birds lost in North America alone since the 1970s? In The Bird-Friendly City, Timothy Beatley, a longtime advocate for intertwining the built and natural environments, takes readers on a global tour of cities that are reinventing the status quo with birds in mind. Efforts span a fascinating breadth of approaches: public education, urban planning and design, habitat restoration, architecture, art, civil disobedience, and more. Beatley shares empowering examples, including: advocates for “catios,” enclosed outdoor spaces that allow cats to enjoy backyards without being able to catch birds; a public relations campaign for vultures; and innovations in building design that balance aesthetics with preventing bird strikes. Through these changes and the others Beatley describes, it is possible to make our urban environments more welcoming to many bird species. Readers will come away motivated to implement and advocate for bird-friendly changes, with inspiring examples to draw from. Whether birds are migrating and need a temporary shelter or are taking up permanent residence in a backyard, when the environment is safer for birds, humans are happier as well.
Author : Edmonton (Alta.). Safer Cities Initiatives Office
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (67 download)
Download or read book Crime Prevention Safety Audit Guide written by Edmonton (Alta.). Safer Cities Initiatives Office and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Rajib Shaw
Publisher : Butterworth-Heinemann
ISBN 13 : 0128023775
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (28 download)
Download or read book Urban Disasters and Resilience in Asia written by Rajib Shaw and published by Butterworth-Heinemann. This book was released on 2016-01-06 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Urban Disasters and Resilience in Asia presents the latest information on the intensity and frequency of disasters. Specifically, the fact that, in urban areas, more than 50% of the world's population is living on just 2% of the land surface, with most of these cities located in Asia and developing countries that have high vulnerability and intensification. The book offers an in-depth and multidisciplinary approach to reducing the impact of disasters by examining specific evidence from events in these areas that can be used to develop best practices and increase urban resilience worldwide. As urban resilience is largely a function of resilient and resourceful citizens, building cities which are more resilient internally and externally can lead to more productive economic returns. In an era of rapid urbanization and increasing disaster risks and vulnerabilities in Asian cities, Urban Disasters and Resilience in Asia is an invaluable tool for policy makers, researchers, and practitioners working in both public and private sectors. Explores a broad range of aspects of disaster and urban resiliency, including environmental, economic, architectural, and engineering factors Bridges the gap between urban resilience and rural areas and community building Provides evidence-based data that can lead to improved disaster resiliency in urban Asia Focuses on Asian cities, some of the most densely populated areas on the planet, where disasters are particularly devastating
Author : Edmonton (Alta.). Safer Cities Initiatives Office
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (67 download)
Download or read book A Safer Cities Initiative-- written by Edmonton (Alta.). Safer Cities Initiatives Office and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Vania Ceccato
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000097943
Total Pages : 460 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)
Download or read book Crime and Fear in Public Places written by Vania Ceccato and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-07-15 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Open Access version of this book, available at https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9780429352775 has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license. No city environment reflects the meaning of urban life better than a public place. A public place, whatever its nature—a park, a mall, a train platform or a street corner—is where people pass by, meet each other and at times become a victim of crime. With this book, we submit that crime and safety in public places are not issues that can be easily dealt with within the boundaries of a single discipline. The book aims to illustrate the complexity of patterns of crime and fear in public places with examples of studies on these topics contextualized in different cities and countries around the world. This is achieved by tackling five cross-cutting themes: the nature of the city’s environment as a backdrop for crime and fear; the dynamics of individuals’ daily routines and their transit safety; the safety perceptions experienced by those who are most in fear in public places; the metrics of crime and fear; and, finally, examples of current practices in promoting safety. All these original chapters contribute to our quest for safer, more inclusive, resilient, equitable and sustainable cities and human settlements aligned to the Global 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
Author : Nick Tilley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780862527631
Total Pages : 41 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (276 download)
Download or read book Safer Cities and Community Safety Strategies written by Nick Tilley and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781926755144
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (551 download)
Download or read book Safer Cities of the Future written by and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
