Tous les livres numériques de la collection "The Urban Book Series" - Springer

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Télécharger le livre : Resilient Urban Futures
Resilient Urban Futures
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This open access book addresses the way in which urban and urbanizing regions profoundly impact and are impacted by climate change. The editors and authors show why cities must wage simultaneous battles to curb global climate change trends while adapting and...

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Parution : 2021-04-06
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Télécharger le livre : Persian Paradises at Peril
Persian Paradises at Peril
Fatemeh Farnaz Arefian , Farzin Fardanesh
This book offers a resourceful collection of essays examining recent efforts to respond to the challenges of planning, management and conserving landscapes in contemporary Iran, the home of Persian gardens. Drawing on selected recent studies, the chapters discuss the...

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Parution : 2021-03-30
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Télécharger le livre : The Life and Afterlife of Gay Neighborhoods
The Life and Afterlife of Gay Neighborhoods
Alex Bitterman , Daniel Baldwin Hess
This open access book examines the significance of gay neighborhoods (or ‘gayborhoods’) from critical periods of formation during the gay liberation and freedom movements of the 1960s and 1970s, to proven durability through the HIV/AIDS pandemic during the 1980s and...

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Parution : 2021-03-19
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Télécharger le livre : Wiring the Streets, Surfing the Square
Wiring the Streets, Surfing the Square
Timothy Jachna
This book investigates the production of public space in contemporary urban contexts as conditioned by the suffusion of urban life with digital technologies. A “social production of technology” approach is taken to frame the digitally-mediated city as a communal social...

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Parution : 2021-03-18
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Télécharger le livre : Morphological Research in Planning, Urban Design and Architecture
Morphological Research in Planning, Urban Design and Architecture
Vítor Oliveira
This book is about the relation between scientific research and professional practice on the built environment. The physical form of cities is structured in different elements of urban form. Each of these elements, and the way they are combined into distinct patterns,...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2021-02-25
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Télécharger le livre : Urban Informality in South Africa and Zimbabwe
Urban Informality in South Africa and Zimbabwe
Trynos Gumbo , Inocent Moyo
This book adds to the research of urban informality in the Global South with a specific focus on South Africa and Zimbabwe. It addresses the agency and the potential transformative capacity of the phenomenon of urban informality in connection with Southern African...

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Parution : 2021-01-09
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Télécharger le livre : Transforming Cities Through Temporary Urbanism
Transforming Cities Through Temporary Urbanism
Lauren Andres , Amy Y. Zhang
This book advances the reflexion into how temporary urbanism is shaping cities across the world. Temporary urbanism has become a core concept in urban development, and its application is increasingly crossing the borders of both the North and the Global South. There is...

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Parution : 2020-12-18
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Télécharger le livre : Spatial Conflicts and Divisions in Post-socialist Cities
Spatial Conflicts and Divisions in Post-socialist Cities
Valentin Mihaylov
This book presents cross-national insights into spatial fragmentation in post-socialist cities in Europe. Trying to rethink the heritage of the last 30 years of transformation and grasp current processes taking urban units of various categories as examples, the book...

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Parution : 2020-12-15
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Télécharger le livre : Immigrant Entrepreneurship in Cities
Immigrant Entrepreneurship in Cities
Cathy Yang Liu
This book draws on evidence from global cities around the world and explores various dimensions of immigrant entrepreneurship and urban development. It provides a substantive contribution to the existing literature in several ways. First of all, it pursues a comparative...

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Parution : 2020-08-01
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Télécharger le livre : Tall Buildings and the City
Tall Buildings and the City
Kheir Al-Kodmany
The chaotic proliferation of skyscrapers in many cities around the world is contributing to a decline in placemaking. This book examines the role of skyscrapers and open spaces in promoting placemaking in the city of Chicago. Chicago’s skyscrapers tell an epic story of...

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Parution : 2020-07-09
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Télécharger le livre : The Asian Megacity Region
The Asian Megacity Region
Debnath Mookherjee
This book argues that close and disciplined scrutiny of the Asian megacity regions is of critical importance to understanding Asian urbanization. However, any approach to studying these regions must adopt a multi-dimensional and trans-urban perspective; otherwise,...

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Parution : 2020-04-11
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Télécharger le livre : The Co-Housing Phenomenon
The Co-Housing Phenomenon
Emanuele Giorgi
This book presents 50 case studies of contemporary co-housing projects spread all over the world to show how communities of shared living have become a global phenomenon that can serve as a tool to promote social and urban sustainability. By presenting evidence that...

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Parution : 2020-01-28
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Télécharger le livre : Gastronomy and Urban Space
Gastronomy and Urban Space
Marta Derek , Andrzej Kowalczyk
This book focuses on the relationship between gastronomy and urban space. It highlights the intrinsic role of eating establishments and the gastronomy industry for cities by assessing their huge impacts on urban changes and discussing some of the challenges posed by new...

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Parution : 2020-01-20
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Télécharger le livre : Belgrade
Belgrade
Biljana Arandelovic , Milena Vukmirovic
This book highlights Belgrade, reviewing its recent and historical developments and emphasizing its major ongoing planning projects. The book is divided into eight chapters. The first, entitled The urban, political and socioeconomic rise and fall of Belgrade...

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Parution : 2020-01-01
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Télécharger le livre : High-Rise Urban Form and Microclimate
High-Rise Urban Form and Microclimate
Liang Chen , Feng Yang
The book comprehensively investigates the relationship between critical urban form and fabric parameters and urban microclimate in the high-rise urban environment that prevails in Asian megacities such as Shanghai. It helps readers gain a deeper understanding of...

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Parution : 2019-12-11
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Télécharger le livre : Participatory Research and Planning in Practice
Participatory Research and Planning in Practice
David Bole , Janez Nared
This open access book provides in-depth insights into participatory research and planning by presenting practical examples of its use. In particular, it describes theoretical and methodological aspects of participatory research and planning, as well as the...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2019-11-14
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Télécharger le livre : Inventing Berlin
Inventing Berlin
Mary Dellenbaugh-Losse
This book comprehensively examines post-1989 changes to the symbolic landscape of Berlin – specifically, street names, architecture, urban planning and monuments – and links these changes to concepts of contested cultural memory and national identity in Berlin and...

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Parution : 2019-11-09
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Télécharger le livre : Spatial Behavior in Haredi Jewish Communities in Great Britain
Spatial Behavior in Haredi Jewish Communities in Great Britain
Shlomit Flint Ashery
This book focuses on the strict orthodox Jewish (Haredi) community, which comprises many sects whose communal identity plays a central role in everyday life and spatial organization. The research reveals and analyses powerful mechanisms of residential segregation acting...

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Parution : 2019-09-25
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Télécharger le livre : Functional Urban Areas in Poland
Functional Urban Areas in Poland
Jadwiga Galka , Slawomir Kurek , Miroslaw Wójtowicz
This book explores demographic changes in Functional Urban Areas (FUAs) in Poland since 1990. Functional Urban Areas, introduced by ESPON, refer to functional territorial units that can be defined as travel-to-work-area, representing strong integration between...

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Parution : 2019-09-20
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Télécharger le livre : Housing Estates in the Baltic Countries
Housing Estates in the Baltic Countries
Daniel Baldwin Hess , Tiit Tammaru
This open access book focuses on the formation and later socio-spatial trajectories of large housing estates in the Baltic countries—Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. It also explores claims that a distinctly “westward-looking orientation” in their design produced housing...

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Parution : 2019-08-27
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