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Book Synopsis Evolutionary Urban Development by : Katarzyna Sadowy
Download or read book Evolutionary Urban Development written by Katarzyna Sadowy and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Drawing on a range of disciplinary approaches, this monograph explores the drivers of urban development. Through an evolutionary lens, cities are shown to find a development path amidst an ever-changing landscape, sometimes facing extreme externalities such as wars and economic crises. Key themes covered include urban growth, decentralization, path dependence, institutional change, governance, entrepreneurship and culture. Detailed case studies of the history-rich metropolises of Berlin, Budapest and Warsaw allow the author to examine the adaptive abilities of cities in flux, and draw conclusions with broader international relevance. This monograph will be valuable reading for advanced students and researchers in urban economics, evolutionary economics, institutional economics and Central European studies"--
Book Synopsis Cities in Evolution by : Sir Patrick Geddes
Download or read book Cities in Evolution written by Sir Patrick Geddes and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Evolutionary Urban Development by : Katarzyna Sadowy
Download or read book Evolutionary Urban Development written by Katarzyna Sadowy and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-02-24 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on a range of disciplinary approaches, this text explores the drivers of urban development. Through an evolutionary lens, cities are shown to find a development path amidst an ever-changing landscape, sometimes facing extreme externalities such as wars and economic crises. Key themes covered include urban growth, decentralisation, path dependence, institutional change, governance, entrepreneurship and culture. Detailed case studies of the history-rich metropolises of Berlin, Budapest and Warsaw allow the author to examine the adaptive abilities of cities in flux and draw conclusions with broader international relevance. This text will be valuable reading for advanced students and researchers in urban economics, evolutionary economics, institutional economics and Central European studies.
Book Synopsis Ecology in Urban Design and Planning - the Evolution of an Idea by : Forster Ndubisi
Download or read book Ecology in Urban Design and Planning - the Evolution of an Idea written by Forster Ndubisi and published by . This book was released on 2021-03-15 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This lavishly illustrated book provides a comprehensive survey of the theoretical, literary, and historic connection between ecology and urban planning and design. Academics, students, and practitioners will see how ecological thinking has evolved and how practitioners have used it to create sustainable, resilient, and beautiful places.
Book Synopsis Cities in Evolution by : Patrick Geddes
Download or read book Cities in Evolution written by Patrick Geddes and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Early Urban Planning by : Patrick Geddes
Download or read book Early Urban Planning written by Patrick Geddes and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2004-11 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Urban Evolutionary Biology by : Marta Szulkin
Download or read book Urban Evolutionary Biology written by Marta Szulkin and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-05-05 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Urban Evolutionary Biology fills an important knowledge gap on wild organismal evolution in the urban environment, whilst offering a novel exploration of the fast-growing new field of evolutionary research. The growing rate of urbanization and the maturation of urban study systems worldwide means interest in the urban environment as an agent of evolutionary change is rapidly increasing. We are presently witnessing the emergence of a new field of research in evolutionary biology. Despite its rapid global expansion, the urban environment has until now been a largely neglected study site among evolutionary biologists. With its conspicuously altered ecological dynamics, it stands in stark contrast to the natural environments traditionally used as cornerstones for evolutionary ecology research. Urbanization can offer a great range of new opportunities to test for rapid evolutionary processes as a consequence of human activity, both because of replicate contexts for hypothesis testing, but also because cities are characterized by an array of easily quantifiable environmental axes of variation and thus testable agents of selection. Thanks to a wide possible breadth of inference (in terms of taxa) that may be studied, and a great variety of analytical methods, urban evolution has the potential to stand at a fascinating multi-disciplinary crossroad, enriching the field of evolutionary biology with emergent yet incredibly potent new research themes where the urban habitat is key. Urban Evolutionary Biology is an advanced textbook suitable for graduate level students as well as professional researchers studying the genetics, evolutionary biology, and ecology of urban environments. It is also highly relevant to urban ecologists and urban wildlife practitioners.
Book Synopsis Cities Design and Evolution by : Stephen Marshall
Download or read book Cities Design and Evolution written by Stephen Marshall and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-12 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why does modern planning sometimes create urban environments that are less attractive and functional than the organic urbanism of traditional cities? Cities Design and Evolution takes up the challenge of this question, investigating how cities are put together, both in the sense of how the parts are organized in relation to the whole, and how they are created or evolve over time. Cities Design and Evolution offers an engaging and original narrative that interprets planning philosophies from Modernism to New Urbanism, organic theories from Patrick Geddes to Le Corbusier, and evolutionary thinking from Charles Darwin to Richard Dawkins. The book develops a new evolutionary perspective that recognizes both the designed and organic nature of cities, and provides a rationale and impetus for fresh approaches to urban planning and design. In what is the first book to significantly apply modern evolutionary thinking to urbanism, Cities Design and Evolution promises to stimulate thought, debate and action concerning the nature of cities and future urban planning. The book should appeal to all who are interested in cities, in design and in evolution. "
Book Synopsis The Evolution of American Urban Society by : Howard P. Chudacoff
Download or read book The Evolution of American Urban Society written by Howard P. Chudacoff and published by Prentice Hall. This book was released on 2005 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In over three centuries of growth and change, American cities have exerted forces that have been both centrifugal--pulling people, resources, and interest toward them--and centripetal--sending out goods, services, and ideas. The story of how these forces evolved over time encompasses almost every aspect of American history. Always cognizant of change over time, this book explores the ways that urban development influenced people's lives and on the ways people shaped the urban environment. A city is simultaneously a social, economic, and political entity, and Howard P. Chudacoff and Judith E. Smith have taken care to examine each of these dimensions of urban life. Their focus is on urban society: its institutions, its activities, and, especially, its people. The authors address questions such as: Why do people go to the city? What do they find there? How do they cope? What do they contribute? How are they rewarded? In this, the Sixth Edition, Chudacoff and Smith pay particular attention to issues of race, ethnicity, gender, the built environment, regional differentials, and emerging cultural forms such as rock and rap music. New material has been added on the environmental impact of cities and suburbs and on the new racial and ethnic mix produced by the most recent immigration trends. In addition, the final chapter has been expanded to take into account issues relating to the presidential administration of George W. Bush and to the consequences of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.
Book Synopsis Learning, Innovation and Urban Evolution by : David F. Batten
Download or read book Learning, Innovation and Urban Evolution written by David F. Batten and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the global information society, innovation is a highly pervasive process that influences all facets of human life: cultural, economic, political, and institutional. A desire to comprehend the impacts of innovative change on so many areas of urban life prompted the research project that has resulted in the publication of this volume. Our research confirms that we are presently in the midst of an era of rapid and explosive change. The primary engine driving this latest transformation of the post-industrial society is generally thought to be technological. But such an explanation is too narrow. Broadly speaking, the age in which we find ourselves could be more aptly described as a global, knowledge-intensive age. Many of today's knowledge-intensive activities, like research and development (R&D) programs, are being conducted with relative ease on a multinational scale. As well as science having an increasing impact on processes of innovation, R&D activities also have become more complex. We can observe a growing sophistication of learning-by-doing among creative economic agents. This more sophisticated era of global knowledge exchange is facilitated by major advances in our infrastructure networks. In this highly interactive world, many innovations are by-products of collective exchanges between cities far apart, simplified by the ease of transport and communication. Thus, there is a need for us to look more closely at various collective sequences of learning, knowledge exchange and innovation in a spatial setting. This is the primary purpose of this book.
Book Synopsis Cities in Evolution by : Patrick Geddes
Download or read book Cities in Evolution written by Patrick Geddes and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-08-10 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: FROM opening chapter to concluding summary it will be plain that this book is neither a technical treatise for the town-planner or city councillor, nor a manual of civics for the sociologist or teacher, but is of frankly introductory character. Yet it is not solely an attempt at the popularisation of the reviving art of town planning, of the renewing science of civics, to the general reader. What it seeks is to express in various ways the essential harmony of all these interests and aims; and to emphasise the possibilities of readier touch and fuller cooperation among them. All this is no mere general ethical or economic appeal, but an attempt to show, with concrete arguments and local instances, that these too long separated aspects of our conduct of life and of affairs may be reunited in constructive citizenship. Despite our contemporary difficulties - industrial, social, and political, -there are available around us the elements of a civic uplift, and with this, of general advance to a higher plane of industrial civilisation...
Book Synopsis Sustainability of Urban Systems by : Peter Nijkamp
Download or read book Sustainability of Urban Systems written by Peter Nijkamp and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Darwin in der Stadt Die rasante Evolution der Tiere im Großstadtdschungel by : Menno Schilthuizen
Download or read book Darwin in der Stadt Die rasante Evolution der Tiere im Großstadtdschungel written by Menno Schilthuizen and published by Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag. This book was released on 2018-11-30 with total page 1062 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Echtzeitevolution: ein neuer Blick auf das geheime Leben der Städte Amseln sind größer, dicker und lauter als ihre Artgenossen draußen im Wald und haben jede Scheu vor Menschen, Hunden und Katzen verloren. Regenwürmer kommen bestens zurecht in verdreckter Innenstadterde. Motten fliegen nicht mehr ins Licht. Gras gedeiht prächtig auf zinkdurchsetztem Boden. Und Kojoten warten an Ampeln. Tiere legen ererbte Verhaltensweisen ab. Man kann Evolution in Echtzeit beobachten, und das mitten in der Stadt. Das ist das große Wunder, das in diesem Buch gewürdigt wird.
Book Synopsis City and Country by : Alexander R. Thomas
Download or read book City and Country written by Alexander R. Thomas and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2023-03-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: City and Country traces the evolution of urban-rural systems 7,000 years ago into the modern global order and argues that at the heart of the logic of capitalism is an even deeper logic: urbanization is based on urban dependency.
Book Synopsis Complex Evolutionary Dynamics in Urban-Regional and Ecologic-Economic Systems by : J. Barkley Rosser
Download or read book Complex Evolutionary Dynamics in Urban-Regional and Ecologic-Economic Systems written by J. Barkley Rosser and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-06-22 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on the middle chapters from the first edition of J. Barkley Rosser's seminal work, From Catastrophe to Chaos, this book presents an unusual perspective on economics and economic analysis. Current economic theory largely depends upon assuming that the world is fundamentally continuous. However, an increasing amount of economic research has been done using approaches that allow for discontinuities such as catastrophe theory, chaos theory, synergetics, and fractal geometry. The spread of such approaches across a variety of disciplines of thought has constituted a virtual intellectual revolution in recent years. This book reviews the applications of these approaches in various subdisciplines of economics and draws upon past economic thinkers to develop an integrated view of economics as a whole from the perspective of inherent discontinuity.
Book Synopsis Cities in Evolution by : Patrick Geddes
Download or read book Cities in Evolution written by Patrick Geddes and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-09-16 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Cities in Evolution: An Introduction to the Town Planning Movement and to the Study of Civics Nor is this merely utopian, though frankly Eutopian. In matters civic, as in simpler fields of science, it is from facts surveyed and interpreted that we gain our general ideas of the direction of Evolution, and even see how to further this; since from the best growths selected we may rear yet better ones. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Book Synopsis Early Urban Planning by : Richard LeGates
Download or read book Early Urban Planning written by Richard LeGates and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: