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Resources of the City

Author : Bill Luckin
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351903799
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (519 download)

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Download or read book Resources of the City written by Bill Luckin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-03-02 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The field of urban environmental history is a relatively new one, yet it is rapidly moving to the forefront of scholarly research and is the focus of much interdisciplinary work. Given the environmental problems facing the modern world it is perhaps unsurprising that historians, geographers, political, natural and social scientists should increasingly look at the environmental problems faced by previous generations, and how they were regarded and responded to. This volume reflects this growing concern, and reflects many of the key concerns and issues that are essential to our understanding of the problems faced by cities in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Addressing a variety of environmental issues, such as clean water supply, the provision/retention of green space, and noise pollution, that faced European and North American cities the essays in this volume highlight the common responses as well as the differences that characterised the reactions to these trans-national concerns.

Pathways to Urban Sustainability

Author : National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 030944456X
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (94 download)

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Download or read book Pathways to Urban Sustainability written by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2016-10-11 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cities have experienced an unprecedented rate of growth in the last decade. More than half the world's population lives in urban areas, with the U.S. percentage at 80 percent. Cities have captured more than 80 percent of the globe's economic activity and offered social mobility and economic prosperity to millions by clustering creative, innovative, and educated individuals and organizations. Clustering populations, however, can compound both positive and negative conditions, with many modern urban areas experiencing growing inequality, debility, and environmental degradation. The spread and continued growth of urban areas presents a number of concerns for a sustainable future, particularly if cities cannot adequately address the rise of poverty, hunger, resource consumption, and biodiversity loss in their borders. Intended as a comparative illustration of the types of urban sustainability pathways and subsequent lessons learned existing in urban areas, this study examines specific examples that cut across geographies and scales and that feature a range of urban sustainability challenges and opportunities for collaborative learning across metropolitan regions. It focuses on nine cities across the United States and Canada (Los Angeles, CA, New York City, NY, Philadelphia, PA, Pittsburgh, PA, Grand Rapids, MI, Flint, MI, Cedar Rapids, IA, Chattanooga, TN, and Vancouver, Canada), chosen to represent a variety of metropolitan regions, with consideration given to city size, proximity to coastal and other waterways, susceptibility to hazards, primary industry, and several other factors.

Our Cities; Their Role in the National Economy

Author : United States. National Resources Committee. Research Committee on Urbanism
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Our Cities; Their Role in the National Economy written by United States. National Resources Committee. Research Committee on Urbanism and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Soft City

Author : David Sim
Publisher : Island Press
ISBN 13 : 1642830186
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (428 download)

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Download or read book Soft City written by David Sim and published by Island Press. This book was released on 2019-08-20 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imagine waking up to the gentle noises of the city, and moving through your day with complete confidence that you will get where you need to go quickly and efficiently. Soft City is about ease and comfort, where density has a human dimension, adapting to our ever-changing needs, nurturing relationships, and accommodating the pleasures of everyday life. How do we move from the current reality in most cites—separated uses and lengthy commutes in single-occupancy vehicles that drain human, environmental, and community resources—to support a soft city approach? In Soft City David Sim, partner and creative director at Gehl, shows how this is possible, presenting ideas and graphic examples from around the globe. He draws from his vast design experience to make a case for a dense and diverse built environment at a human scale, which he presents through a series of observations of older and newer places, and a range of simple built phenomena, some traditional and some totally new inventions. Sim shows that increasing density is not enough. The soft city must consider the organization and layout of the built environment for more fluid movement and comfort, a diversity of building types, and thoughtful design to ensure a sustainable urban environment and society. Soft City begins with the big ideas of happiness and quality of life, and then shows how they are tied to the way we live. The heart of the book is highly visual and shows the building blocks for neighborhoods: building types and their organization and orientation; how we can get along as we get around a city; and living with the weather. As every citizen deals with the reality of a changing climate, Soft City explores how the built environment can adapt and respond. Soft City offers inspiration, ideas, and guidance for anyone interested in city building. Sim shows how to make any city more efficient, more livable, and better connected to the environment.

50 Ways to Mine the City

Author : Scott Burnham
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781945971129
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (711 download)

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Download or read book 50 Ways to Mine the City written by Scott Burnham and published by . This book was released on 2021-08-20 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why dig deeper into the earth when tons of metal lay dormant beneath the city? Why exploit distant countries for scarce resources when they can be recovered from the waste cities produce every day? 50 Ways to Mine the City is an exploration of ways in which the city's outputs, byproducts, and under-utilized assets can be recovered, reimagined, and used in new ways. It reveals how innovators are transforming the function of the city from a consumer of resources to a generator of them.Featuring a diverse range of projects from around the world, this book creates a global narrative of how the circular economy, urban mining, and resource recovery are coming together to create a more sustainable and resourceful future.

Ocean City and Vicinity Water Resources Study, Restoration of Assateague Island, Worcester County

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1060 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (555 download)

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Download or read book Ocean City and Vicinity Water Resources Study, Restoration of Assateague Island, Worcester County written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 1060 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Water Resources of the Kansas City Area, Missouri and Kansas

Author : Vinton Crews Fishel
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Water Resources of the Kansas City Area, Missouri and Kansas written by Vinton Crews Fishel and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Managing Capital Resources for Central City Revitalization

Author : Fritz W. Wagner
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317944488
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (179 download)

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Download or read book Managing Capital Resources for Central City Revitalization written by Fritz W. Wagner and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-10-16 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 2000. This book and its companion volume, Human Capital Investment fo r Central City Revitalization, are the products of a two-year endeavor by the National Center for the Revitalization of Central Cities. The National Center is a consortium of academic institutions that analyzes critical problems facing America’s central cities, evaluates strategies to address those problems, and recommends policy alternatives.

Seventh Symposium on Systems Analysis in Forest Resources, Traverse City, Michigan, USA, May 28-31, 1997

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book Seventh Symposium on Systems Analysis in Forest Resources, Traverse City, Michigan, USA, May 28-31, 1997 written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Our Cities

Author : United States. National Resources Committee. Urbanism Committee
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Our Cities written by United States. National Resources Committee. Urbanism Committee and published by . This book was released on 1937 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Quality of the Urban Environment

Author : Harvey S. Perloff
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317397320
Total Pages : 349 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book The Quality of the Urban Environment written by Harvey S. Perloff and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-06-03 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The quality of the environment in which people live, work, and play influences to no small degree the quality of life itself. The environment can be satisfying and attractive and provide scope for individual development or it can be poisonous, irritating and stunting. The papers in this volume, first published in 1969, are concerned with the urban environment – in which the majority of Americans live – or, more accurately, with the environment of urbanites, for the concern extends to outlying areas where urban dwellers visit and play. The chapters aim to provide a better understanding of the natural resource elements in the urban environment, and will be of interest to students of environmental studies and human geography.

Introduction to the Resources of Tennessee

Author : Tennessee. Bureau of Agriculture
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 656 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Introduction to the Resources of Tennessee written by Tennessee. Bureau of Agriculture and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Our Cities

Author : United States. National Resources Committee
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 42 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Our Cities written by United States. National Resources Committee and published by . This book was released on 1937 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Integral City

Author : Marilyn Hamilton
Publisher : New Society Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1550923943
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (59 download)

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Download or read book Integral City written by Marilyn Hamilton and published by New Society Publishers. This book was released on 2008-11-01 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cities function unintelligently when their parts are disconnected. The integral city meshes or multiplies city intelligences by integrating capacities, functions and locations into a whole system, like a human hive. Everything counts. An integral city exists as a whole living system within the context of a specific natural environment, climate and ecology. The city, like a human hive, dances with a complex concentration of energies. As a natural system with intellectual, physical, cultural and social intelligences, it adapts to all the same issues, factors and challenges that affect the evolution of life anywhere: how to integrate information, matter and energy. Integral City applies an integral paradigm for appreciating the city. Numerous graphs and specific examples describe integral processes and tools for change. This is a global, whole, multi-perspective way of looking at the world. Chapters explore: Four-quadrant map of reality Cities as concentrators of complex wealth Mapping intelligence capacities Mapping infrastructure for resource allocation Designing appropriate governance systems Relating the exterior environment to interior city life "Meshworking" Integral vital signs monitors. Integral City will appeal to anyone interested in creating conditions in which our cities can evolve intelligently beyond the challenges of the 21st century.

Cities After Crisis

Author : Carlos Garcia Vazquez
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000440494
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Cities After Crisis written by Carlos Garcia Vazquez and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-09-30 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cities After Crisis shows how urbanism and urban design is redefining cities after the global health, economic, and environmental crises of the past decades. The book details how these crises have led to a new urban vision—from avantgarde modern design to an artisan aesthetic that calls for simplicity and the everyday, from the sustainable development paradigm to a resilient vision that defends de-growth and the re-wilding of cities, from a homogenizing globalism to a new localism that values what is distinctive and nearby, from the privatization of the public realm to the commoning and self-governance of urban resources, and from top-down to bottom-up processes based on the engagement and empowerment of communities. Through examples from cities around the world and a detailed look at the London neighbourhood of Dalston, the book shows designers and planners how to incorporate residents into the decision-making process, design inclusive public spaces that can be permanently reconfigured, reimagine obsolete spaces to accommodate radically contemporary uses, and build gardens designed and maintained by the community, among other projects.

Supplementary Report of the Urbanism Committee to the National Resources Committee: Urban planning and land policies

Author : United States. National Resources Committee. Research Committee on Urbanism
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Supplementary Report of the Urbanism Committee to the National Resources Committee: Urban planning and land policies written by United States. National Resources Committee. Research Committee on Urbanism and published by . This book was released on 1939 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "On August 9, 1937, the National Resources Committee submitted to the President its report on 'Our cities--their role in the national economy.' In the course of preparing this report a large volume of basic data and information was collected which could not then be included. The publication of these supplementary volumes has been undertaken to make such data and information available."--Vol. l, p. iii.

Urban Form and Accessibility

Author : Corinne Mulley
Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 0128198230
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (281 download)

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Download or read book Urban Form and Accessibility written by Corinne Mulley and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2020-12-02 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The growth of global urbanization places great strains on energy, transportation, housing and public spaces needs. As such, transport and land use are inextricably linked. Urban Form and Accessibility: Social, Economic, and Environment Impacts consolidates key insights from multidisciplinary perspectives on the relationship between urban form and transportation planning. Synthesizing the latest cutting-edge research, the book translates academic evidence into practice. Starting with an overview of the key concepts relevant to each discipline, the book covers critical elements such as governance, travel behavior, and technological disruption, showing how to move towards a more sustainable society for all city inhabitants. Draws on evidence-based success stories from countries around the globe Gathers global leading thinkers to provide the state-of-the-art on the topic Examines social, economic, and environmental impacts within each chapter Each chapter’s content will have the same structure for easier discoverability