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Author : Babar Mumtaz
Publisher : UN-HABITAT
ISBN 13 : 9789064330308
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (33 download)
Download or read book Guiding cities written by Babar Mumtaz and published by UN-HABITAT. This book was released on 2001 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sadhu Aufochs Johnston
Publisher : Island Press
ISBN 13 : 9781610913799
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (137 download)
Download or read book The Guide to Greening Cities written by Sadhu Aufochs Johnston and published by Island Press. This book was released on 2013-10-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Superstorm Sandy sent a strong message that a new generation of urban development and infrastructure is desperately needed, and it must be designed with resilience in mind. As cities continue to face climate change impacts while growing in population, they find themselves at the center of resilience and green city solutions, yet political and budgetary obstacles threaten even the best-planned initiatives. In The Guide to Greening Cities, seasoned green city leaders Sadhu Johnston, Steven Nicholas, and Julia Parzen use success stories from across North America to show how to turn a green city agenda into reality. The Guide to Greening Cities is the first book written from the perspective of municipal leaders with successful, on-the-ground experience working to advance green city goals. Through personal reflections and interviews with leading municipal staff in cities from San Antonio to Minneapolis, the authors share lessons for cities to lead by example in their operations, create programs, implement high-priority initiatives, develop partnerships, measure progress, secure funding, and engage the community. Case studies and chapters highlight strategies for overcoming common challenges such as changes of leadership and fiscal austerity. The book is augmented by a companion website, launching with the publication of the book, which offers video interviews of municipal leaders, additional case studies, and other resources. Rich in tools, insights, and tricks of the trade, The Guide to Greening Cities helps professionals, policymakers, community leaders, and students understand which approaches have worked and why and demonstrates multidisciplinary solutions for creating healthy, just, and green communities.
Author : Andrew Tuck
Publisher : Die Gestalten Verlag-DGV
ISBN 13 : 9783899555035
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (55 download)
Download or read book The Monocle Guide to Building Better Cities written by Andrew Tuck and published by Die Gestalten Verlag-DGV. This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this joyful new book Monocle unpacks what makes a great city, whether you're looking for a new place to call home or need help fixing your own. How do we make better cities - places that work for people of all ages and backgrounds? How do we make cities that provide the obvious essentials - great transport, good places to work - as well as the softer elements that truly deliver quality of life, from urban swimming pools to rooftop clubs? Since its launch in 2007, Monocle has been passionate about making better places to live. Every year it publishes a Quality of Life Survey, which names the top 25 cities to call home. In addition, across the issues, it has interviewed the best mayors, looked at the metropolises putting pedestrians first and met the people creating the best parks, both pocket and grand. Discover how you too can have a High Line, create the most covetable housing or turn a dirty river into a summer asset. Packed with great images and intriguing reports, this is a book that takes the urbanism debate away from city hall and explains what's needed in ways that will inspire us all.
Author : Zhifeng Yang
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 143988322X
Total Pages : 623 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (398 download)
Download or read book Eco-Cities written by Zhifeng Yang and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2012-10-15 with total page 623 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As cities undergo vast changes due to industrialization, urbanization, and globalization, environmental considerations assume a growing importance in the urban planning processes of an increasing number of governments around the world. Several cities and regions around the world have already enacted policies that signal the emergence of a paradigm of sustainability in eco-cities planning. Providing an overview of urban ecosystem structure, function, and change, Eco-Cities: A Planning Guide addresses how to successfully accomplish eco-city planning that meets government requirements. It adds a new dimension to the understanding and application of the concept of urban sustainability, based on hypotheses about feedback between social and biogeophysical processes. Emphasizing integration, the first part of the book discusses various aspects of planning theory. It presents three innovative theories for socioeconomic models: a theory on the locational choices made by households and firms, an urban version of the stream continuum concept, and an application of metacommunity theory to the fragmented urban biota. These theories raise new urban planning questions and stimulate integrated modeling. The book also introduces urban planning modeling that uses existing social, vegetation, ecohydrological, and ecosystem service modules but is refined and operated for enhanced cross-disciplinary integration and prediction. The second part of the book consists of several case studies of Chinese eco-cities covering a majority of the urban development patterns that offer in-depth examples of planning practices currently in use. Drawing on experimentation, comparison, long-term measurement, and modeling, this fascinating guide helps readers better understand eco-cities and eco-landscapes as integrated, spatially extensive, complex adaptive systems. It lays a solid foundation for engagement between urban planners, researchers, educators, policy makers, and citizens as they work to adapt to changing environmental, social, and economic conditions.
Author : Ben Croxford
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789463662475
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (624 download)
Download or read book Foundries of the Future written by Ben Croxford and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the 1970s, cities world-wide have been witness to radical de-industrialisation. Manufacturing was considered incompatible with urban life and was actively pushed out. As economies have grown, public officials and developers have instinctively shifted their priorities to short-term, high-yielding land uses such as offices, retail space and housing. Inner-city growth from New York to London and even Seoul have generally come at the expense of land uses such as manufacturing or logistics. Despite the odds, manufacturing is not in terminal decay in western cities. On the contrary, it is at the opening of a new chapter. Urban manufacturing can help cities to be more innovative, circular, inclusive and resilient. Recently, with increasing interest in the circular economy, with cleaner and more compact technology, with more progressive building codes for mixed use, with increasing awareness of the impacts of social inequality and with a clearer understanding of the value chains between the trade of material and immaterial goods, cities across the world are realising that manufacturing has an important place in the 21st century urban economy. While both enthusiasm for making is increasing and the value of manufacturing is becoming increasingly evident in cities, the topic remains extremely complex and challenging to manage. This book attempts to shed light on the ways manufacturing can address urban challenges, it exposes constraints for the manufacturing sector and provides fifty patterns for working with urban manufacturing. This book has been written as a manual to help politicians, public authorities, planners, designers and community organisations to be able to plan, discuss and collaborate by developing more productive urban manufacturing. The book is split into two parts. "
Author : Global Designing Cities Initiative
Publisher : Island Press
ISBN 13 : 1610917014
Total Pages : 425 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (19 download)
Download or read book Global Street Design Guide written by Global Designing Cities Initiative and published by Island Press. This book was released on 2016-10-13 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Global Street Design Guide is a timely resource that sets a global baseline for designing streets and public spaces and redefines the role of streets in a rapidly urbanizing world. The guide will broaden how to measure the success of urban streets to include: access, safety, mobility for all users, environmental quality, economic benefit, public health, and overall quality of life. The first-ever worldwide standards for designing city streets and prioritizing safety, pedestrians, transit, and sustainable mobility are presented in the guide. Participating experts from global cities have helped to develop the principles that organize the guide. The Global Street Design Guide builds off the successful tools and tactics defined in NACTO's Urban Street Design Guide and Urban Bikeway Design Guide while addressing a variety of street typologies and design elements found in various contexts around the world.
Author : Ziggy Hanaor
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780956205322
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)
Download or read book Graphic USA written by Ziggy Hanaor and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Graphic USA is like having hip, insightful chaperones in multiple cities across the United States: graphic designers living in 25 metropolises (from capitals of cool like New York, Portland, Miami and L.A. to less predictable locales such as Anchorage or Charleston.
Author : National Association of City Transportation Officials
Publisher : Island Press
ISBN 13 : 9781610914949
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (149 download)
Download or read book Urban Street Design Guide written by National Association of City Transportation Officials and published by Island Press. This book was released on 2013-10-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The NACTO Urban Street Design Guide shows how streets of every size can be reimagined and reoriented to prioritize safe driving and transit, biking, walking, and public activity. Unlike older, more conservative engineering manuals, this design guide emphasizes the core principle that urban streets are public places and have a larger role to play in communities than solely being conduits for traffic. The well-illustrated guide offers blueprints of street design from multiple perspectives, from the bird’s eye view to granular details. Case studies from around the country clearly show how to implement best practices, as well as provide guidance for customizing design applications to a city’s unique needs. Urban Street Design Guide outlines five goals and tenets of world-class street design: • Streets are public spaces. Streets play a much larger role in the public life of cities and communities than just thoroughfares for traffic. • Great streets are great for business. Well-designed streets generate higher revenues for businesses and higher values for homeowners. • Design for safety. Traffic engineers can and should design streets where people walking, parking, shopping, bicycling, working, and driving can cross paths safely. • Streets can be changed. Transportation engineers can work flexibly within the building envelope of a street. Many city streets were created in a different era and need to be reconfigured to meet new needs. • Act now! Implement projects quickly using temporary materials to help inform public decision making. Elaborating on these fundamental principles, the guide offers substantive direction for cities seeking to improve street design to create more inclusive, multi-modal urban environments. It is an exceptional resource for redesigning streets to serve the needs of 21st century cities, whose residents and visitors demand a variety of transportation options, safer streets, and vibrant community life.
Author : Monocle
Publisher : Die Gestalten Verlag
ISBN 13 : 9783899554908
Total Pages : 409 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (549 download)
Download or read book The Monocle Guide to Better Living written by Monocle and published by Die Gestalten Verlag. This book was released on 2013 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Which cities offer the best quality of life? How do you build a good school? How do you run a city? Who makes the best coffee? And how do you start your own inspirational business? With chapters on the city, culture, travel, food, and work, the book also provides answers to some key questions. Works as a guide but also includes essays that explore what makes a great city, how to make a home and why culture is good for you
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Publisher : YouGuide Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1837061726
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (37 download)
Download or read book Kano (Nigeria) written by and published by YouGuide Ltd. This book was released on with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : YouGuide Ltd
Publisher : YouGuide Ltd
ISBN 13 : 183706900X
Total Pages : 91 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (37 download)
Download or read book The city guide for Islamabad (Pakistan) written by YouGuide Ltd and published by YouGuide Ltd. This book was released on with total page 91 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : YouGuide Ltd
Publisher : YouGuide Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1837140227
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (371 download)
Download or read book The city guide for Samarkand (Uzbekistan) written by YouGuide Ltd and published by YouGuide Ltd. This book was released on with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Kerstin Hemström
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781788531450
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (314 download)
Download or read book Transdisciplinary Knowledge Co-Production for Sustainable Cities written by Kerstin Hemström and published by . This book was released on 2021-03-15 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How can we create appropriate practices for research collaboration in the face of climate change, widening inequalities, decreasing biodiversity and untenable consumption levels? Transdisciplinary co-production focuses on real-world problems through collaborative processes that include a wide variety of knowledge and expertise.
Author : YouGuide Ltd
Publisher : YouGuide Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1837069220
Total Pages : 92 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (37 download)
Download or read book The city guide for Tabriz (Iran) written by YouGuide Ltd and published by YouGuide Ltd. This book was released on with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Publisher : YouGuide Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1837068038
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (37 download)
Download or read book The city trip guide for ACoruña(Spain) written by and published by YouGuide Ltd. This book was released on with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : YouGuide Ltd
Publisher : YouGuide Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1837140014
Total Pages : 79 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (371 download)
Download or read book The city guide for Naypyidaw (Myanmar) written by YouGuide Ltd and published by YouGuide Ltd. This book was released on with total page 79 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert South Barrett
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book Standard Guide to the City of Mexico and Vicinity written by Robert South Barrett and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
