Enabling Urban Alternatives

Author : Jens Kaae Fisker,Letizia Chiappini,Lee Pugalis,Antonella Bruzzese
Publisher : Springer
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2018-12-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789811315312

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Enabling Urban Alternatives by Jens Kaae Fisker,Letizia Chiappini,Lee Pugalis,Antonella Bruzzese Pdf

This book asks how thinking, governing, performing, and producing the urban differently can assist in enabling the creation of alternative urban futures. It is a timely response to the ongoing crises and pressing challenges that inhabitants of cities, towns, and villages worldwide are faced with in the midst of what has been widely dubbed as ‘an urban age’. Starting from the premise that current urban development patterns are unsustainable in every sense of the word, the book explores how alternative patterns can be pursued by the wide variety of actors – from governments and international institutions to slum-dwellers and social movements – involved in the on-going production of our shared urban condition. The challenges addressed include exclusion and segregation; persisting poverty and increasing inequality; urban sprawl and changing land use patterns; and the spatial frames of urban policy. As such the book appeals to urban scholars, policy makers, activists, and others concerned with shaping the future of our cities and of urban life in general. Additionally, it is of interest to students in urban planning, architecture and design, human geography, urban sociology, and related fields.

Author : Jens Kaae Fisker,Letizia Chiappini,Lee Pugalis,Antonella Bruzzese
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2018-10-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781351596640

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The Production of Alternative Urban Spaces by Jens Kaae Fisker,Letizia Chiappini,Lee Pugalis,Antonella Bruzzese Pdf

Alternative urban spaces across civic, private, and public spheres emerge in response to the great challenges that urban actors are currently confronted with. Labour markets are changing rapidly, the availability of affordable housing is under intensifying pressure, and public spaces have become battlegrounds of urban politics. This edited collection brings together contributors in order to spark an international dialogue about the production of alternative urban spaces through a threefold exploration of alternative spaces of work, dwelling, and public life. Seeking out and examining existing alternative urban spaces, the authors identify the elements that provide opportunities to create radically different futures for the world’s urban spaces. This volume is the culmination of an international search for alternative practices to dominant modes of capitalist urbanisation, bringing together interdisciplinary, empirically grounded chapters from hot spots in disparate cities around the world. Offering a multidisciplinary perspective, The Production of Alternative Urban Spaces will be of great interest to academics working across the fields of urban sociology, human geography, anthropology, political science, and urban planning. It will also be indispensable to any postgraduate students engaged in urban and regional studies.

Author : Ashutosh Mishra
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783031585234

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Transforming Industry using Digital Twin Technology by Ashutosh Mishra Pdf

Author : U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Wildlife management
ISBN : UVA:35007000165492

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Refuges 2003 by U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Pdf

Author : Edward A. Wolff
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 119 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781483136882

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Urban Alternatives by Edward A. Wolff Pdf

Urban Alternatives contains the proceedings of the USERC Environmental Resources and Urban Development Workshop held at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Maryland in November 1975. The workshop aims to obtain information on the technical implications of various possible urban development decisions. This book details the descriptions of the workshop and the process used to arrive at the recommendations. The workshops are organized into topics of urban development, energy, communications, meteorology, water resources, public health, in-situ sensing, remote sensing, socio-economic problems, and science technology and government.

Author : Raquel Pinderhughes
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0742523675

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Alternative Urban Futures by Raquel Pinderhughes Pdf

Alternative Urban Futures challenges existing models of urban development and promotes alternative paradigms, processes, and technologies designed to fulfill human needs and limit the harmful impacts of human activities on the environment. The book focuses on how planners and policy makers can develop and manage essential urban infrastructures in ways that support sustainable development in the areas of waste management, water supply and management, energy production and use, building design and construction, land-use, transportation, and food systems. Each chapter features case studies that provide concrete examples of how ecologically and socially responsible urban and sustainable development planning and policy approaches have been successfully implemented in cities around the world. The book is especially effective in its emphasis on recently published statistics and writing supporting new planning and policy recommendations. Each chapter ends with a summary, accompanied by a list of questions that can be addressed with information provided in the text.

Author : Kulwant Rai Gupta
Publisher : Atlantic Publishers & Dist
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Cities and towns
ISBN : 8126904348

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Urban Development Debates in the New Millennium by Kulwant Rai Gupta Pdf

This Collection Of Essays By Academics And Practitioners From Around The World Underscores Issues And Concerns Of Sustainable Urban Development And Best Practices In Terms Of Theory As Well As Praxes. Contributors Have Made An Attempt To Critically Reconcile The Hypothetical With The Applied In Order To Arrive At Innovative Solutions For Urban Good Governance In The Context Of The Steady Proliferation Of Habitats And Conurbations All Over The World. Their Papers More Often Than Not Transcend Regional Specifics To Address The Common Agenda Of Urban Development Debates As Informed By Assorted Modernization Perspectives In The 21St Century. This Volume Brings Together Social Scientists, Development Consultants And Non-Profit Professionals So That The Multipositional Theories And Multicultural Praxes Might Be Reflected In Their Papers Based On Empirical Research And Field-Level Insights. It Is Expected That This Volume Will Provoke Fresh Debates And New Ideas That Will Facilitate Theory-Building As Well As Formulation Of Paradigms For Good Practices And Sustainable Urban Applications. The Book Would Be Found Highly Useful By Town Planners, Municipal Administrators, Ngos Working In The Field Of Urban Development, And Common Readers Interested In Urban Problems And Policies. It Will Be Equally Valuable For Policy Makers As Well As Students, Researchers And Teachers Of Urban Economics, Urban Sociology, Urban Geography And Public Administration.

Author : Steffen Lehmann
Publisher : Springer
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2019-02-28
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783030047115

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Urban Regeneration by Steffen Lehmann Pdf

Urban Regeneration — A Manifesto for transforming UK Cities in the Age of Climate Change explores and offers guidance on the complex process of how to transform cities, continuing the unfinished project of the seminal 1999 text Towards an Urban Renaissance. It is a 21st-century manifesto of urban principles compiled by a prominent urbanist, for the regeneration of UK cities, focusing on the characteristics of a ‘good place’ and the strategies of sustainable urbanism. It asks readers to consider how we can best transform the derelict, abandoned and run-down parts of cities back into places where people want to live, work and play. The book frames an architecture of re-use that translates and combines the complex ‘science of cities’ and the art of urban and architectural design into actionable and practical guidance on how to regenerate cities. Fascinated by the typology and value of the compact UK and European city model, Lehmann introduces the concept of ‘high density without high buildings’ as a solution that will make our cities compact, walkable, mixed-use and vibrant again.

Author : P. Daponte,F. Paladi
Publisher : IOS Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2023-02-17
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781643683775

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Monitoring and Protection of Critical Infrastructure by Unmanned Systems by P. Daponte,F. Paladi Pdf

The attention of many developed countries has increasingly focused on the security and protection of critical infrastructure. The use of Unmanned Systems (USs) for this purpose has been growing rapidly in recent years, as advances in technology, increased versatility and smaller size, together with the reduced risks and costs associated with removing the need for a pilot or operator on board, have all made these systems more attractive. This book, Monitoring and Protection of Critical Infrastructure by Unmanned Systems, presents 15 papers delivered at the NATO Advanced Training Course (ATC) of the same name hosted in Chisinau, the Republic of Moldova, from 30 May to 5 June 2022. This event was held in a hybrid format, and was attended in-person by 12 of the 31 speakers and the majority of the 92 attendees. The aim of the ATC was to explore the monitoring and protection of critical infrastructure using USs. Various USs, including ground control stations (GCS), data communication links, and a range of unmanned aerial (UAV), ground (UGV) and underwater (UUV) vehicles are covered, and the papers included here also deal with topics such as the use of drones for buildings inspection and the new technologies which can help with the recognition and monitoring of anthropogenic threats and natural hazards. There is also a focus on data analysis and modeling. Providing an overview of the use of unmanned vehicle systems and sensor-network technology for monitoring and protection, the book will be of interest to all those working to protect critical infrastructure.

Author : Michael Majale
Publisher : UN
Page : 70 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Housing
ISBN : UCBK:C107730727

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Enabling Shelter Strategies by Michael Majale Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Banking and Currency
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1508 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105006285139

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Housing and Urban Development Legislation of 1958, Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Housing and Urban Affairs of ..., 90:2- by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Banking and Currency Pdf

Author : Francesca Ferguson
Publisher : Jovis Verlag
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 3868595678

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Make City by Francesca Ferguson Pdf

Contemporary cities are in thrall to rocketing real estate prices, climate change, and relentless growth. Make City brings together highly diverse positions on urban change: architects, urban planners, municipal decision makers, landscape designers, makers, and civic entrepreneurs. Key juxtapositions shed new light on the strategies and coalitions needed for city making: new social contracts are forged at every level of urban life. The circular economy begins in cities. Local production ' of food, materials, and spaces ' is at the heart of urban life cycles, overcoming the current patterns of planned obsolescence that govern our linear economic system. Make City lays out urban alternatives for new architecture, typologies, material flows, and integrative and community-based planning, all grounded in the notions of reusing, densifying, and optimising existing structures. By exploring projects and propositions for making city differently, the what if gives way to the how.

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Banking and Currency
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 738 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105045170938

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Mass Transportation--1969, Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Housing and Urban Affairs of ..., 91-1 on S. 676, S. 1032, S. 2656 ..., July 23 ... November 18, 1969 by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Banking and Currency Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on VA-HUD-Independent Agencies
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1058 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : United States
ISBN : STANFORD:36105119594641

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Departments of Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban Development and Independent Agencies Appropriations for Fiscal Year 1995 by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on VA-HUD-Independent Agencies Pdf

Author : Richard S Bolan
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2017-04-21
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781315309200

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Urban Planning’s Philosophical Entanglements by Richard S Bolan Pdf

Urban Planning’s Philosophical Entanglements explores the long-held idea that urban planning is the link in moving from knowledge to action. Observing that the knowledge domain of the planning profession is constantly expanding, the approach is a deep philosophical analysis of what is the quality and character of understanding that urban planners need for expert engagement in urban planning episodes. This book philosophically analyses the problems in understanding the nature of action — both individual and social action. Included in the analysis are the philosophical concerns regarding space/place and the institution of private property. The final chapter extensively explores the linkage between knowledge and action. This emerges as the process of design in seeking better urban communities — design processes that go beyond buildings, tools, or fashions but are focused on bettering human urban relationships. Urban Planning’s Philosophical Entanglements provides rich analysis and understanding of the theory and history of planning and what it means for planning practitioners on the ground.