Coastal Metropolis

Author : Carl A. Zimring,Steven H. Corey
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2021-03-23
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 0822946521

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Coastal Metropolis by Carl A. Zimring,Steven H. Corey Pdf

Built on an estuary, New York City is rich in population and economic activity but poor in available land to manage the needs of a modern city. Since consolidation of the five boroughs in 1898, New York has faced innumerable challenges, from complex water and waste management issues, to housing and feeding millions of residents in a concentrated area, to dealing with climate change in the wake of Superstorm Sandy, and everything in between. Any consideration of sustainable urbanism requires understanding how cities have developed the systems that support modern life and the challenges posed by such a concentrated population. As the largest city in the United States, New York City is an excellent site to investigate these concerns. Featuring an array of the most distinguished and innovative urban environmental historians in the field, Coastal Metropolis offers new insight into how the modern city transformed its air, land, and water as it grew.

Author : Carl A. Zimring,Steven H. Corey
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2021-03-23
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780822987987

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Coastal Metropolis by Carl A. Zimring,Steven H. Corey Pdf

Built on an estuary, New York City is rich in population and economic activity but poor in available land to manage the needs of a modern city. Since consolidation of the five boroughs in 1898, New York has faced innumerable challenges, from complex water and waste management issues, to housing and feeding millions of residents in a concentrated area, to dealing with climate change in the wake of Superstorm Sandy, and everything in between. Any consideration of sustainable urbanism requires understanding how cities have developed the systems that support modern life and the challenges posed by such a concentrated population. As the largest city in the United States, New York City is an excellent site to investigate these concerns. Featuring an array of the most distinguished and innovative urban environmental historians in the field, Coastal Metropolis offers new insight into how the modern city transformed its air, land, and water as it grew.

Author : James Brennan,Yus Burton
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2007-10-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9789987081073

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Dar es Salaam. Histories from an Emerging African Metropolis by James Brennan,Yus Burton Pdf

From its modest beginnings in the mid-19th century, Dar es Salaam has grown to become one of sub-Saharan Africa?s most important urban centres. A major political, economic and cultural hub, the city stood at the cutting edge of trends that transformed twentieth-century East Africa. Dar es Salaam has recently attracted the attention of a diverse, multi-disciplinary, range of scholars, making it currently one of the continent?s most studied urban centres. This collection from eleven scholars from Africa, Europe, North America and Japan, draws on some of the best of this scholarship and offers a comprehensive, and accessible, survey of the city?s development. The perspectives include history, musicology, ethnomusicology, culture including popular culture, land and urban economics. The opening chapter offers a comprehensive overview of the history of the city. Subsequent chapters examine Dar es Salaam?s twentieth century experience through the prism of social change and the administrative repercussions of rapid urbanisation; and through popular culture and shifting social relations. The book will be of interest not only to the specialist in urban studies but also to the general reader with an interest in Dar es Salaam?s environmental, social and cultural history.

Author : Inter American Development Bank,United Nations Human Settlements Programme,Development Bank of Latin America
Publisher : Inter-American Development Bank
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2017-10-24
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781597823111

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Steering the Metropolis by Inter American Development Bank,United Nations Human Settlements Programme,Development Bank of Latin America Pdf

A distinctive feature of urbanization in the last 50 years is the expansion of urban populations and built development well beyond what was earlier conceived as the city limit, resulting in metropolitan areas. This is challenging the relevance of traditional municipal boundaries, and by extension, traditional governing structures and institutions. "Steering the Metropolis: Metropolitan Governance for Sustainable Urban Development,” encompasses the reflections of thought and practice leaders on the underlying premises for governing metropolitan space, sectoral adaptations of those premises, and dynamic applications in a wide variety of contexts. Those reflections are structured into three sections. Section 1 discusses the conceptual underpinnings of metropolitan governance, analyzing why political, technical, and administrative arrangements at this level of government are needed. Section 2 deepens the discussion by addressing specific sectoral themes of mobility, land use planning, environmental management, and economic production, as well as crosscutting topics of metropolitan governance finance, and monitoring and evaluation. Section 3 tests the concepts and their sectoral adaptations against the practice, with cases from Africa, America, Asia, and Europe.

Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2014-12-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789264205277

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The Competitiveness of Global Port-Cities by OECD Pdf

Ports and cities are historically strongly linked, but the link between port and city growth has become weaker. This book examines how ports can regain their role as drivers of urban economic growth and how negative port impacts can be mitigated.

Author : Eustogio Wanderley Correia Dantas
Publisher : Springer
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783319309996

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Coastal Geography in Northeast Brazil by Eustogio Wanderley Correia Dantas Pdf

This book studies the transformation of modern maritimity practices in coastal areas (such as swimming, navigation and tourism) and their implications to the development of Brazilian coastal cities, with an emphasis on the Northeast part of the country. It is a reflection on coastal geography in the tropics and the contemporary valorization of coastal cities from a socioeconomic, technological and symbolical point of view. The book highlights local fluxes on a regional and local scale, showing the incorporation of beach zones to spaces which were previously associated with so called traditional coastal practices (fishing activities and as harboring points). This book is dedicated to geography researchers and students.

Author : R.B. Abel,S. Connell,N. Della Croce
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 678 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2002-11-01
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781482271669

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Coastal Ocean Space Utilization 3 by R.B. Abel,S. Connell,N. Della Croce Pdf

Arising out of The Third International Symposium held in New Jersey, this book represents the state-of-the-art in ocean management. From the Baltic to the Caribbean, from the Adriatic to the Atlantic, the problems of ocean management are fully discussed, and proposals made to meet the challenges of the next decade. This book will be of immense inte

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2022-10-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004523340

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Coastal Urbanities by Anonim Pdf

This volume explores how the city and the sea converse and converge in creating new forms of everyday urbanity in archipelagic and island Southeast Asia. As such, it rethinks the place of the sea in coastal cities through a mobility-inspired understanding of urbanity itself.

Author : Katherine Gillman,Council on Environmental Quality (U.S.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Continental shelf
ISBN : PURD:32754075988000

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Oil and Gas in Coastal Lands and Waters by Katherine Gillman,Council on Environmental Quality (U.S.) Pdf

Author : S. Anand Babu
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2023-04-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000889680

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Fifth World Congress on Disaster Management: Volume V by S. Anand Babu Pdf

World Congress on Disaster Management (WCDM) brings researchers, policy makers and practitioners from around the world in the same platform to discuss various challenging issues of disaster risk management, enhance understanding of risks and advance actions for reducing risks and building resilience to disasters. The fifth WCDM deliberates on three critical issues that pose the most serious challenges as well as hold the best possible promise of building resilience to disasters. These are Technology, Finance, and Capacity. WCDM has emerged as the largest global conference on disaster management outside the UN system. The fifth WCDM was attended by more than 2500 scientists, professionals, policy makers, practitioners all around the world despite the prevalence of pandemic.

Author : Alexandre Queiroz Pereira
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2020-04-25
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783030465933

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Coastal Resorts and Urbanization in Northeast Brazil by Alexandre Queiroz Pereira Pdf

This book intends to present the development of socio-spatial practices in the metropolitan coast of the Northeast of Brazil, highlighting the main urban, spa and tourist agglomerations: Salvador-BA, Recife-PE, Fortaleza-CE, and Natal-RN. The objective is to study the processes of urbanization associated with maritime leisure. In the first chapter, the reader will find a historical and conceptual presentation highlighting the relevance of leisure practices, their forms-flows and their role in the formation of maritime resorts. The second chapter analyses the context of the northeastern region of Brazil and demonstrates the process of modernization and formation of the seaside function within the cities, and later, in the maritime metropolises of the region. The relationship between urbanization and touristic real estate ventures is the central theme of the third chapter, which proposes a specific methodology for studies of this nature. The final chapter presents the seaside resorts in the metropolitan area of Fortaleza, a case study similar to others in the Northeast, examining the urbanistic effects and the key ideas of the planners.

Author : United States-Japan Cooperative Program in Natural Resources. Panel on Marine Facilities. Meeting
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 616 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Ocean engineering
ISBN : UCSD:31822009772070

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Meeting United States-Japan Marine Facilities Panel by United States-Japan Cooperative Program in Natural Resources. Panel on Marine Facilities. Meeting Pdf

Author : Wolf H. Berger
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 533 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2009-05-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780520942547

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Ocean by Wolf H. Berger Pdf

The past one hundred years of ocean science have been distinguished by dramatic milestones, remarkable discoveries, and major revelations. This book is a clear and lively survey of many of these amazing findings. Beginning with a brief review of the elements that define what the ocean is and how it works—from plate tectonics to the thermocline and the life within it—Wolf H. Berger places current understanding in the context of history. Essays treat such topics as beach processes and coral reefs, the great ocean currents off the East and West Coasts, the productivity of the sea, and the geologic revolution that changed all knowledge of the earth in the twentieth century.

Author : Barry A. Vann
Publisher : Prometheus Books
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2012-03-20
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781616146023

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Forces of Nature by Barry A. Vann Pdf

As long as the human species has existed, men and women have had to contend with the unpredictable forces of nature. Geographer Barry A. Vann brings a unique perspective to this age-old struggle in this illuminating overview of human population shifts and their precarious relationship with climate change and geography. Vann takes us on a journey along the migration routes of the earliest modern humans and tells why our ancestors chose to settle down in places that can be best described as natural utopias. In the religiously oriented worldview of ancient peoples, such places took on a sacred aura of divine favor. Similarly, destructive events such as volcanic eruptions and earthquakes were interpreted as expressions of divine wrath. Vann shows how the ancient texts of the Bible and the Qur’an offer glimpses of past climates that were distinctly different from the climate of our time. He also discusses the rise of technology as a means of controlling the threatening features of the natural world. Though technology has enabled humanity to cope with hostile climates, it has also created a false sense of security. Vann notes that population clusters are increasing in dangerous areas and that no technology can protect vulnerable groups from major-category hurricanes, tornadoes, or earthquakes. Finally, he considers our current anxieties regarding global warming, pointing out that this focus has obscured a good deal of historical and geological evidence for a return of another ice age. The Forces of Nature offers a challenging perspective on the precarious balance between fragile human communities and their often-threatening environments.

Author : I. H. Burnley,Peter Murphy
Publisher : UNSW Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 0868407720

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Sea Change by I. H. Burnley,Peter Murphy Pdf

Sea Change is about population 'turnaround'. It describes the very significant migration of nearly 1 million people from metropolitan to non-metropolitan Australia over the last 30 years. These movements have occurred in all states and most have been to coastal locations - hence the title.