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Immigration and Development
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 159

Immigration and Development

This book deals with several issues linking immigration and social development. Following several approaches, from economic to sociological ones, it covers the many effects of the rising phenomenon of immigration. It deals with the effects of immigration on economic growth, on human capital accumulation, and on the government budget. Moreover, it also includes contributions on the social integration of immigrants and on the effects they have in some different cities. It covers studies in countries such as Norway, the USA, Romania, and South Africa. The book Immigration and Development is an essential reading for those who want to get a social sciences multidisciplinary approach to immigration as a social phenomenon.

Mimarlıkta Malzeme
  • Language: tr
  • Pages: 475

Mimarlıkta Malzeme

Mimarlıkta Malzeme

Mimarlıkta Malzeme 7
  • Language: tr

Mimarlıkta Malzeme 7

Mimarlıkta Malzeme 7. Sayı

Mimarlıkta Malzeme 12
  • Language: tr

Mimarlıkta Malzeme 12

Mimarlıkta Malzeme 12. Sayı

Immigration and Development
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 158

Immigration and Development

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2018
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  • Publisher: Unknown

This book deals with several issues linking immigration and social development. Following several approaches, from economic to sociological ones, it covers the many effects of the rising phenomenon of immigration. It deals with the effects of immigration on economic growth, on human capital accumulation, and on the government budget. Moreover, it also includes contributions on the social integration of immigrants and on the effects they have in some different cities. It covers studies in countries such as Norway, the USA, Romania, and South Africa. The book Immigration and Development is an essential reading for those who want to get a social sciences multidisciplinary approach to immigration as a social phenomenon.

Governance for Urban Sustainability and Resilience
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 245

Governance for Urban Sustainability and Resilience

Cities, and the built environment more broadly, are key in the global response to climate change. This groundbreaking book seeks to understand what governance tools are best suited for achieving cities that are less harmful to the natural environment,

Dimensions of the Sustainable City
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 288

Dimensions of the Sustainable City

The CityForm consortium’s latest book, Dimensions of the Sustainable City, is the first book to report on an empirical multi-disciplinary study specifically designed to address urban sustainability. Drawing together the various dimensions of sustainability – economic, social, transport, energy and ecological – the book examines their relationships both to each other and to urban form. The book investigates the sustainability dimensions of cities through a series of projects based on a common list of elements of urban form, and which draw on the consortium’s latest research to review the sustainability issues of each dimension. The elements of urban form include density, land use, loc...

Cities as Sustainable Ecosystems
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 296

Cities as Sustainable Ecosystems

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2012-09-26
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  • Publisher: Island Press

Modern city dwellers are largely detached from the environmental effects of their daily lives. The sources of the water they drink, the food they eat, and the energy they consume are all but invisible, often coming from other continents, and their waste ends up in places beyond their city boundaries. Cities as Sustainable Ecosystems shows how cities and their residents can begin to reintegrate into their bioregional environment, and how cities themselves can be planned with nature’s organizing principles in mind. Taking cues from living systems for sustainability strategies, Newman and Jennings reassess urban design by exploring flows of energy, materials, and information, along with the i...

Managing Historic Cities
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 300

Managing Historic Cities

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1993
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  • Publisher: Unknown

Attention is given to heritage management and planning; instruments of urban regeneration and land use control; and case studies of Krakøw, Lødz, Glasgow, Cardiff, and the London docklands.