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Urban and Transit Planning
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 229

Urban and Transit Planning

This book represents a compilation of research in sustainable architecture and planning. Its main focus is offering strategies and solutions that help reducing of the negative impacts of buildings on the environment and emphasizing the suitable management of available resources. By tackling the topic of sustainability from a historical perspective and also as a vision for the future, the book in hands provides new horizons for engineers, urban planners and environmentalists interested in the optimization of resources, space development, and the ecosystem as a whole to address the complex unresolved problems our cities are facing. This book is a culmination of selected research papers from IEREK’s sixth edition of the International Conference on Urban Planning & Architectural Design for Sustainable Development (UPADSD) held online in collaboration with the University of Florence, Italy (2021) and the first edition of the International Conference on Circular Economy for Sustainable Development (CESD) held online in collaboration with the University of Salento, Lecce, Italy (2021).

The Social City
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 438

The Social City

In the post-war period, Berlin and Naples experienced a phase of profound changes, essentially influenced by external factors: the less rigid urban structure which had been ruined by World War II, resulting in severe changes in the social and economic structure, an uncritical reception and implementation of largely theoretical models of functionalism in urban planning, and in the design of the new public building interventions. On the one hand, between the 1940s and the 1980s, Berlin experienced a considerable loss in population, a political isolation and an urban splitting, as the urban planning institutions, deeply influenced by relevant politics, slowly and thoroughly changed the cityscap...

Urban Regions Now & Tomorrow
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 282

Urban Regions Now & Tomorrow

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2017-04-19
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  • Publisher: Springer

This book points to three dominant concepts of how to deal with long-term or surprising and also sudden catastrophic changes, with a main focus on resilience. It is dealing with past, current and future change processes in European, Northern American as well as Australian cities and urban regions, and with the challenges they pose to a resilient urban development. Additionally, contributions deal with potential transformations of urban and regional development and related planning and governance approaches.

Networks, Markets & People
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 482

Networks, Markets & People

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Disaster Risk Reduction for Resilience
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 467

Disaster Risk Reduction for Resilience

This book is part of a six-volume series on Disaster Risk Reduction and Resilience. The series aims to fill in gaps in theory and practice in the Sendai Framework and provides additional resources, methodologies, and communication strategies to enhance the plan for action and targets proposed by the Sendai Framework. The series will appeal to a broad range of researchers, academics, students, policy makers, and practitioners in engineering, environmental science, geography, geoscience, emergency management, finance, community adaptation, atmospheric science and information technology. This volume provides a holistic approach to developing disaster risk reduction strategies and policies, expl...

Proceedings of First National Conference on Sustainability in Built Environment
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 262

Proceedings of First National Conference on Sustainability in Built Environment

"Conference proceedings are a collection of technical papers presented at the First National Conference on Sustainability in Built Environment (NCSBE-2018) hosted by Aurora Group of Architecture Colleges Hyderabad, Telangana"

Community Welfare Schemes in Vikas Sheel Bharat [Vol. 2]
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 196

Community Welfare Schemes in Vikas Sheel Bharat [Vol. 2]

The Pradhan Mantri Welfare Schemes encapsulate a comprehensive set of initiatives introduced by the Government of India under the leadership of the Prime Minister. Designed to address multifaceted societal challenges, these schemes span diverse sectors, ranging from financial inclusion to healthcare, housing, and skill development. Among the prominent schemes are the Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana, fostering financial inclusion, and the Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana, ensuring access to clean cooking fuel for marginalized households. The Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana endeavors to provide affordable housing, while the Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana and Atal Pension Yojana offer crucial support ...

The Impact of COVID on Cities and Regions
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 237

The Impact of COVID on Cities and Regions

The recent COVID-19 pandemic has arguably caused some of the most noticeable and influential societal and economic changes since World War Two. This path-breaking book investigates these changes and the subsequent responses of urban policy makers.

Smart, Resilient and Transition Cities
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 322

Smart, Resilient and Transition Cities

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2018-07-17
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  • Publisher: Elsevier

Smart, Resilient and Transition Cities: Emerging Approaches and Tools for Climate-Sensitive Urban Development starts with a presentation of three widespread Urban Metaphors, which are gaining increasing attention from urban planners and decision-makers: Smart City, Resilient City and Transition Towns, being all of them focused on the need for enhancing cities' capacities to cope with the multiple and heterogeneous challenges threatening contemporary cities and their future development and, above all, with climate issues. Then, the Authors provide an overview of current large-scale and urban strategies to counterbalance climate change so far undertaken in different geographical contexts (Euro...

Smart Energy in the Smart City
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 344

Smart Energy in the Smart City

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2016-05-05
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  • Publisher: Springer

This book examines the energy dimension of the smart city from the perspective of urban planning, providing a complete overview that ranges from theoretical aspects to practical considerations and projects. In addition, it aims to illustrate how the concept of the smart city can enhance understanding of the urban system and foster new forms of management of the metropolis, including with respect to energy supply and use. Specifically, the book explores the different dimensions of the relationship between energy and the city, discusses methodological issues with a special focus on ontological approaches to sustainability, and describes practices, tools, and good examples of energy-related urban planning. The authors represent the main Italian research groups working in the field, Italy being an excellent example of a country exposed to energy problems due to, for example, vulnerability to climate change and lack of primary energy resources. This book will be valuable for students of urban planning, town planners, and researchers interested in understanding the changing nature of the city and the challenges posed by energy issues.