Sustainable Cities Programme, 1990-2000
| Author | : Sustainable Cities Programme |
| Publisher | : UN-HABITAT |
| Total Pages | : 52 |
| Release | : 2002 |
| Genre | : City planning |
| ISBN | : 9211316324 |
Sustainable Cities Programme 1990 2000
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The Sustainable Cities Programme in Tanzania, 1992-2003
| Author | : Tumsifu Jonas Nnkya |
| Publisher | : UN-HABITAT |
| Total Pages | : 27 |
| Release | : 2005 |
| Genre | : City planning |
| ISBN | : 9211317436 |
Planning Sustainable Cities
| Author | : United Nations Human Settlements Programme |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 306 |
| Release | : 2009 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 9781844078998 |
This publication reviews recent urban planning practices and approaches, discusses constraints and conflicts therein, and identifies innovative approaches that are more responsive to current challenges of urbanization. It notes that traditional approaches to urban planning (particularly in developing countries) have largely failed to promote equitable, efficient and sustainable human settlements and to address twenty-first century challenges, including rapid urbanization, shrinking cities and aging, climate change and related disasters, urban sprawl and unplanned peri-urbanization, as well as urbanization of poverty and informality. It concludes that new approaches to planning can only be meaningful, and have a greater chance of succeeding, if they effectively address all of these challenges, are participatory and inclusive, as well as linked to contextual socio-political processes.--Publisher's description
Low Carbon Cities
| Author | : Steffen Lehmann |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 534 |
| Release | : 2014-09-15 |
| Genre | : Architecture |
| ISBN | : 1317659139 |
Low Carbon Cities is a book for practitioners, students and scholars in architecture, urban planning and design. It features essays on ecologically sustainable cities by leading exponents of urban sustainability, case studies of the new directions low carbon cities might take and investigations of how we can mitigate urban heat stress in our cities’ microclimates. The book explores the underlying dimensions of how existing cities can be transformed into low carbon urban systems and describes the design of low carbon cities in theory and practice. It considers the connections between low carbon cities and sustainable design, social and individual values, public space, housing affordability, public transport and urban microclimates. Given the rapid urbanisation underway globally, and the need for all our cities to operate more sustainably, we need to think about how spatial planning and design can help transform urban systems to create low carbon cities, and this book provides key insights.
Slums
| Author | : Alan Mayne |
| Publisher | : Reaktion Books |
| Total Pages | : 463 |
| Release | : 2017-08-15 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1780238878 |
More than half of the world’s population now lives in urban areas, and a billion of these urban dwellers reside in neighborhoods of entrenched disadvantage—neighborhoods that are characterized as slums. Slums are often seen as a debilitating and even subversive presence within society. In reality, though, it is public policies that are often at fault, not the people who live in these neighborhoods. In this comprehensive global history, Alan Mayne explores the evolution and meaning of the word “slum,” from its origins in London in the early nineteenth century to its use as a slur against the favela communities in the lead-up to the Rio Olympics in 2016. Mayne shows how the word slum has been extensively used for two hundred years to condemn and disparage poor communities, with the result that these agendas are now indivisible from the word’s essence. He probes beyond the stereotypes of deviance, social disorganization, inertia, and degraded environments to explore the spatial coherence, collective sense of community, and effective social organization of poor and marginalized neighborhoods over the last two centuries. In mounting a case for the word’s elimination from the language of progressive urban social reform, Slums is a must-read book for all those interested in social history and the importance of the world’s vibrant and vital neighborhoods.
Advances in Electrical Engineering and Electrical Machines
| Author | : Dehuai Zheng |
| Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
| Total Pages | : 741 |
| Release | : 2012-02-01 |
| Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
| ISBN | : 3642259057 |
With success of ICEEE 2010 in Wuhan, China, and December 4 to 5, 2010, the second International Conference of Electrical and Electronics Engineering (ICEEE 2011) will be held in Macau, China, and December 1 to 2, 2011. ICEEE is an annual conference to call together researchers, engineers, academicians as well as industrial professionals from all over the world to present their research results and development activities in Electrical and Electronics Engineering along with Computer Science and Technology, Communication Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, etc. This year ICEEE is sponsored by International Industrial Electronics Center, Hong Kong. And based on the deserved reputation, more than 750 papers have been submitted to ICEEE 2011, from which about 98 high quality original papers have been selected for the conference presentation and inclusion in the “Electrical and Electronics Engineering” book based on the referees’ comments from peer-refereed. We expect that the Electrical and Electronics Engineering book will be a trigger for further related research and technology improvements in the importance subject including Power Engineering, Telecommunication, Integrated Circuit, Electronic amplifier , Nano-technologies, Circuits and networks, Microelectronics, Analog circuits, Digital circuits, Circuits design, Silicon devices, Thin film technologies, VLSI, Sensors, CAD tools, Molecular computing, Superconductivity circuits, Antennas technology, System architectures, etc.
The Elgar Companion to the Built Environment and the Sustainable Development Goals
| Author | : Alex Opoku |
| Publisher | : Edward Elgar Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 601 |
| Release | : 2024-02-12 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 1035300036 |
Exploring the link between Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the built environment, this erudite Companion provides a comprehensive overview and critical examination of key topics and complex research issues. Structured around the 5Ps of the SDGs - people, planet, prosperity, peace, and partnerships - the Companion suggests potential routes for the future direction of research within this multidisciplinary field of study.
The Human Sustainable City
| Author | : Bruno Forte |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 573 |
| Release | : 2019-06-04 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 1351773380 |
This title was first published in 2003. Seven years after Habitat II culminated with the Istanbul agreement on Sustainable Urban Development, this book brings together many of the world's leading experts from the fields of architecture, urban planning, economics, sociology, politics, environment and geography to assess the successes and failures in fulfilling the objectives decided upon at this historic meeting. Illustrated with a wide range of case studies, this volume is divided into three main sections; firstly examining the challenges, secondly, the approaches, and finally, the practices. The book represents a critical appraisal not only of the issues related to urban development but also of the modalities to face these issues from real examples, these in return can be used as starting points to construct new 'real utopias' or at least, to future 'best practices'.
Land Use Law for Sustainable Development
| Author | : Nathalie J. Chalifour |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 606 |
| Release | : 2006-11-20 |
| Genre | : Law |
| ISBN | : 1139460587 |
This 2007 book surveys the global experience to date in implementing land-use policies that move us further along the sustainable development continuum. The international community has long recognized the need to ensure ongoing and future development is conducted sustainably. While high-level commitments towards sustainable development such as those included in the Rio and Johannesburg Declarations are politically important, they are irrelevant if they are not translated into reality on the ground. This book includes chapters that discuss the challenges of implementing sustainable land-use policies in different regions of the world, revealing problems that are common to all jurisdictions and highlighting others that are unique to particular regions. It also includes chapters documenting new approaches to sustainable land use, such as reforms to property rights regimes and environmental laws. Other chapters offer comparisons of approaches in different jurisdictions that can present insights which might not be apparent from a single-jurisdiction analysis.
Sustainable Urban Energy Policy
| Author | : David Hawkey |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 228 |
| Release | : 2015-12-14 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 131757706X |
Minimising the most severe risks of climate change means ending societal dependence on fossil fuels, and radically improving the efficiency with which we use all energy sources. Such deliberate transformative change is, however, without precedent. Sustainable Urban Energy Policy debates the major public issue of developing a sustainable, clean and affordable energy system by adopting a distinctive focus on heating in cities. In this way, the book constructs an original account of clean energy policy, politics and provision, grounded in new empirical data derived from case studies of urban and multi-level governance of sustainable heat and energy saving in the UK and Europe. Offering an original conceptual framework, this study builds on socio-technical studies, economic and urban sociology, human geography, applied economics and policy studies in order to understand energy governance and systemic change in energy provisions. This book is a valuable resource for students and academics in the areas of Science and Technology Studies, Sociology, Geography (Urban Studies) and Political Economy as well as energy policy makers, social housing providers and energy practitioners.
