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From Understanding to Action
Hans van Ginkel Rector, United Nations University The challenges of the world's future are linked to the growing share of the global population that will reside in urban areas. UN projections indicate that by 2030 the world's urban population share will rise to 60 percent. Of the two billion added to the global population, 99 percent will be added to the urban areas of the world. Of this number, 95 percent will be in countries of the developing world. As most people will live in urban areas we had better work to build and organize them as both attractive and less resource consuming places. That is, to promote sustainable urban development is to promote the creation of dense human settlements...
Sustainable Urban Development Reader
Building on the success of its second edition, the third edition of the Sustainable Urban Development Reader provides a generous selection of classic and contemporary readings giving a broad introduction to this topic. It begins by tracing the roots of the sustainable development concept in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, before presenting readings on a number of dimensions of the sustainability concept. Topics covered include land use and urban design, transportation, ecological planning and restoration, energy and materials use, economic development, social and environmental justice, and green architecture and building. All sections have a concise editorial introduction that places...
China's Urban Transition
A timely and thorough analysis of the rapid urban growth in China.
The Kunming Project: Urban Development in China
For some 20 years, Kunming, a provincial capital city in China - 3.2 million inhabitants - has been the twin city of the European metropolis Zurich. As a direct result of this partnership, Kunming now has the first inner-city bus line in China, the first large-scale conservation of a historical part of the town, and new concepts for urban development at a regional level. This pioneering collaboration between western and Chinese planning teams, and the experience acquired in managing urban development projects, are not only significant for Kunming, but of importance for all countries interested in sharing the expertise and knowledge of professionals, whether from East or West, North or South. The challenge lies in reconciling the traditional and historical background of large Asian cities with their zeal for progress, so they may benefit from western technology and practice but avoid repeating the same mistakes on an even larger scale.
Handbook on Transport and Urban Transformation in China
Since 1978, when China embarked on a new period of economic reforms and introduced open door policies, it has experienced a great urban transformation. The role of transport has proved indispensable in this unprecedented rapid urbanisation and economic growth. As the first research-focused book dedicated to this important topic, the Handbook on Transport and Urban Transformation in China offers new insight into the various opportunities and challenges brought by fast-paced motorization and urban development, and explores them in broad spatial-economic, environmental, social, and institutional dimensions.
The Expulsion of the Jews from Spain
Beinart's detailed magnum opus focuses on the practicalities of the expulsion and its consequences, both for those expelled and those remaining behind. Analysis of hundreds of archival documents enables him to take history out of the realm of abstraction and give it concrete reality, and in so doing he also sheds much light on Jewish life in Spain before the expulsion.
Diego Laínez und Alfonso Salmerón auf dem Konzil von Trient
Das Konzil von Trient (1545-1563) war für die Katholische Kirche das zentrale Ereignis des konfessionellen Zeitalters. Die beiden Jesuiten Diego Laínez und Alfonso Salmerón waren die einzigen Theologen, die an allen drei Sitzungsperioden des Konzils teilnahmen. Ihre Beiträge zur Eucharistie- und Messopferthematik stehen, gemeinsam mit den zentralen Themen Schrift und Tradition sowie Rechtfertigung, im Zentrum der Auseinandersetzung des Konzils mit den neu entstehenden Kirchen der Reformation. Der vorliegende Band arbeitet minutiös die Arbeitsweise der beiden Jesuitentheologen und ihren Anteil an den Trienter Dekreten zum Eucharistiesakrament und zum Messopfer heraus und leistet so einen wichtigen Beitrag zur Erforschung des Konzils.
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Bayesian Statistics 8
The Valencia International Meetings on Bayesian Statistics provide the main forum for researchers in Bayesian Statistics. This eighth proceedings offers the reader a wide perspective of the developments in Bayesian statistics over the last four years.
