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Author : New York Academy of Sciences
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780415281218
This book explores all the issues behind the creation of new infrastructures and examines the effects they will have on the shape of the cities in the twenty-first century.
Author : Richard E. Hanley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Infrastructure (Economics)
ISBN : 0415281202
Author : Richard Hanley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2004-08-02
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781134461684
Globalisation and technological innovation have changed the way people, goods, and information move through and about cities. To remain, or become, economically and environmentally sustainable, cities and their regions must adapt to these changes by creating cutting-edge infrastructures that integrate advanced technologies, communications, and multiple modes of transportation. The book defines cutting-edge infrastructures, details their importance to cities and their regions, and addresses the obstacles to creating those infrastructures.
Author : Richard E. Hanley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Infrastructure (Economics)
ISBN : 0415281210
Author : National Research Council,Division on Earth and Life Studies,Board on Earth Sciences and Resources,Committee on Strategic Directions for the Geographical Sciences in the Next Decade
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2010-07-23
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780309150750
From the oceans to continental heartlands, human activities have altered the physical characteristics of Earth's surface. With Earth's population projected to peak at 8 to 12 billion people by 2050 and the additional stress of climate change, it is more important than ever to understand how and where these changes are happening. Innovation in the geographical sciences has the potential to advance knowledge of place-based environmental change, sustainability, and the impacts of a rapidly changing economy and society. Understanding the Changing Planet outlines eleven strategic directions to focus research and leverage new technologies to harness the potential that the geographical sciences offer.
Author : Sam Staley,Adrian Thomas Moore
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Roads
ISBN : NWU:35556038324497
Traffic congestion is a growing problem and unless policy makers and transportation officials make some dramatic changes, it will rise to unacceptable levels by 2030. In, Sam Staley and Adrian Moore explain the inefficient systems and politics that cause this escalating epidemic, presenting commonsense, high-tech solutions that will ease congestion and its troubling consequences. The book considers transportation policy through the intersection of four crucial and timely elements: global, economic, and cultural competitiveness; urban development trends; demographics; and transportation engineering and design. It sets goals for congestion reduction, outlines performance standards that increase transparency, calls for the redesign of the regional transportation network, and describes sufficient investment in technology.
Author : Theodore Balaker,Sam Staley
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Traffic congestion
ISBN : NWU:35556036795342
Staley and Balaker shine new light on the problem of traffic congestion in this easily accessible book. Though often dismissed as a minor if irritating nuisance, congestion constrains our personal and professional lives, making it harder to find a good job, spend time with our family, and maintain profitable businesses. The Road More Traveled both demonstrates these insidious effects and offers new policy solutions for bringing our roads up to speed.
Author : Richard Gilbert,Anthony Perl
Publisher : Earthscan
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781849773454
Transport Revolutions: Moving People and Freight without Oil sets out the challenges to our growing dependence on transport fuelled by low-priced oil. These challenges include an early peak in world oil production and profound climate change resulting in part from oil use. It proposes responses to ensure effective, secure movement of people and goods in ways that make the best use of renewable sources of energy while minimizing environmental impacts.Transport Revolutions synthesizes engineering, economics, environment, organization, policy and technology, and draws extensively on current data to present important conclusions. The authors argue that land transport in the first half of the 21st century will feature at least two revolutions. One will involve the use of electric drives rather than internal combustion engines. Another will involve powering many of these drives directly from the electric grid - as trains and trolley buses are powered today - rather than from on-board fuel. They go on to discuss marine transport, whose future is less clear, and aviation, which could see the most dramatic breaks from current practice.With its expert analysis of the politics and business of transport, Transport Revolutions is essential reading for professionals and students in transport, energy, town planning and public policy.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Institute of Behavioral Science Natu Applications Informatio
Page : 634 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : WISC:89085782373
Author : Monika Büscher,John Urry,Katian Witchger
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2010-09-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134007103
In the twenty-first century, more than ever, everything and everybody seems to be on the move. Global flows of people, goods, food, money, information, services and media images are forming an intensely mobile background to everyday life. Social scientists, too, are on the move, seeking new analytical purchase on these important aspects of the social world by trying to move with, and to be moved by, the fleeting, distributed, multiple, non-causal, sensory, emotional and kinaesthetic. Mobile Methods addresses the challenges and opportunities of researching mobile phenomena. Drawing on extensive interdisciplinary discussion, the book brings together a collection of cutting-edge methodological innovations and original research reports to examine some important implications of the mobilities turn for the processes of ‘research’, and the realm of the empirical. Through analysis that addresses questions such as ‘how are social relationships and social institutions made in and through mobility?’, and ‘how do people experience mobility in twenty-first century world cities?', the authors mobilize sociological analysis, bringing new insights and opening up new opportunities for engagement with contemporary challenges. This book is a key text for undergraduate and postgraduate students of disciplines including Human Geography, Social Policy, Sociology and Research Methods.
Author : Indrajit Banerjee,Madanmohan Rao
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Social Science
ISBN : UOM:39015080695235
This collection of papers from the AMIC Conference in Bangkok, 2004, provides a wealth of case studies as well as breaking new ground in highlighting emerging frontiers of media development discourse in Asia. The three main themes are: media and development; new narratives and political discourse and media impacts and capacity building.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 882 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Buses
ISBN : UOM:39015023129649
Author : Bob Dickinson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 660 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Hospitality industry
ISBN : CORNELL:31924099271656
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Harbors
ISBN : NWU:35556023580798
Author : V. T. Patil,Priya Ranjan Trivedi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Emigration and immigration
ISBN : STANFORD:36105025211256