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The Complex City: Social and Built Approaches and Methods
'The Complex City: Social and Built Approaches and Methods' explores different ways of understanding the city. The social city approach proceeds from the ground-up, it focuses on human interactions shaped by economic and environmental processes. The built city method looks through a top-down lens, examining policy and planning for buildings and infrastructure, including utilities and energy networks. This volume is different from other city anthologies in that it explores them through their differences, by presenting each chapter in one of the two categories. While there is invariably an overlap between the two areas, they are distinct positions. In doing so the book identifies how, despite ...
Order and Disorder
As Middle Eastern cities weather the second decade of the twenty-first century, they face a number of challenges to their economic resilience, competitiveness, and internal stability. In this uniquely tense realm for the urban public, an understanding of the dynamics of decision-making processes, citizen power, and the rule of law is critical to the direction of policy in the future. In Order and Disorder, Luna Khirfan weaves a cross-national comparison of Amman and Cairo that dissects the many layers and complexities of urban governance. Through case studies on a diverse array of development projects and their associated challenges, the contributors demonstrate how three actors – the stat...
Understanding Cairo
This book moves beyond superficial generalizations about Cairo as a chaotic metropolis in the developing world into an analysis of the ways the city's eighteen million inhabitants have, in the face of a largely neglectful government, built and shaped their own city. Using a wealth of recent studies on Greater Cairo and a deep reading of informal urban processes, the city and its recent history are portrayed and mapped: the huge, spontaneous neighborhoods; housing; traffic and transport; city government; and its people and their enterprises. The book argues that understanding a city such as Cairo is not a daunting task as long as pre-conceived notions are discarded and care is taken to apprehend available information and to assess it with a critical eye. In the case of Cairo, this approach leads to a conclusion that the city can be considered a kind of success story, in spite of everything.
The Urbanism of Exception
This book argues that understanding global urbanism in the twenty-first century requires us to cast our gaze upon vast city-regions without an urban core.
Medio Oriente
Dai tentativi riformistici dell'Impero ottomano alla fine dell'Ottocento al moltiplicarsi dei conflitti nel Novecento, primo fra tutti quello arabo-israeliano-palestinese; dall'imporsi di ideologie laiche del riscatto alla deriva islamista radicale; dalla rincorsa di uno sviluppo ritagliato sul modello occidentale all'evidente povertà e alle diseguaglianze diffuse: Marcella Emiliani ripercorre le tappe fondamentali della storia di una delle regioni più importanti per gli equilibri internazionali del pianeta, ricca della maggior parte delle riserve mondiali di greggio e di gas. Quanto basta per minare la stabilità dell'area e farla oggetto di desideri e vittima di interferenze delle potenze di ieri e di oggi.
Revitalizing City Districts
This book explores the consequences of change in the urban form, the amalgam of the urban space and buildings and on the processes leading to planning and design. Urban form and its fabric result from a multitude of individual interests, ideas and decisions which in turn result in specific and locally diverse spatial arrangements. These processes which are shaping our built environment are embedded in and determined by different contexts of political, cultural and social-economic norms and values. Urban development and the transformation of urban structures are triggered by technological innovations, laws and taxes, new behaviors or the impact of environmental conditions as well as other factors. Based on case studies from Egypt and the Middle East, together with some cases from Germany and Turkey, this book covers a wide range of change processes focused on historic and inner city districts.
La vittoria di Hamas
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Apprendimento naturale. Homeschooling e unschooling
Il libro rappresenta i fenomeni legati all’homeschooling e all’apprendimento naturale in un articolato sistema di riferimenti teorici e concettuali. Esso si compone di tre parti distinte: • la prima, di carattere divulgativo, presenta in un linguaggio piano e immediato alcune recenti scoperte neuro-scientifiche sui meccanismi biologici che regolano l’apprendimento, con citazioni di testi di studiosi e ricercatori, con brevi aperture anche alla dimensione storica, sociologica, antropologica, e alla realtà italiana; assumendo questi dati come presupposti da cui muovere, si presentano alcune delle caratteristiche fondamentali di quello che si definisce “apprendimento naturale”; •...
「轉型中的阿拉伯國家-經濟與文化面面觀」論文集
本論文集彙整專題研討會中，與會者所發表的演講、討論之重要論述，內容對轉型中的阿拉伯國家經濟與文化之變遷深入之剖析，彌足珍貴，也充分展現本協會扮演我國政府與阿拉伯地區、國家、民間部門間聯繫的橋樑，展現過去44 年以來，以國民外交民間團體之姿，持續推動我國與阿拉伯世界的經貿文化交流與合作的一個具體例證。
Urban and Transit Planning
A volume of five parts, this book is a culmination of selected research papers from the second version of the international conferences on Urban Planning & Architectural Design for sustainable Development (UPADSD) and Urban Transit and Sustainable Networks (UTSN) of 2017 in Palermo and the first of the Resilient and Responsible Architecture and Urbanism Conference (RRAU) of 2018 in the Netherlands. This book, not only discusses environmental challenges of the world today, but also informs the reader of the new technologies, tools, and approaches used today for successful planning and development as well as new and upcoming ones. Chapters of this book provide in-depth debates on fields of env...
