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Urban Policy in the Framework of the 2030 Agenda
The book provides comparative information about the materialization of the 2030 Agenda in urban policy in ten countries located in Europe and Latin America. The Declaration of Quito is the starting point for the implementation of SDGs into public policies in urban areas. However, there are fewer efforts to understand the impact that the 2030 Agenda and, specifically, the instruments developed for its application in cities. The information of each country is presented in relation to two aspects: the construction of a public policy style in each country and the results and impacts on urban public policies implemented in specific cities within the national frameworks. The first means the emerge...
Identifying Models of National Urban Agendas
This book utilises comparative diachronic and synchronic analyses to investigate models of national urban agendas. Encompassing cases from Europe, North America, South America and Asia, it examines the changing global geography of national urban agendas since the second post-war period. The book demonstrates that whilst some discontinuities and differences exist between countries, they each demonstrate a common systematic investment in urban policies, that are considered as programmes of intervention and funding schemes for cities. Furthermore, in such programmes a political vision is evident which recognizes an important role for cities and urbanization processes at a national level. The book will appeal to scholars and students of public policy, urban planning and public administration, as well as practitioners and policymakers at the national and local levels.
Spain
An investigation of the influences and evolution of modern Spain’s underappreciated, but foundational, architecture. Spain’s remarkable twentieth-century architecture evolved against a turbulent background of revolution, civil war, dictatorship, and transition to democracy. Architecture played a key role in Spain’s struggle out of poverty and isolation, and its search for identity in the modern world. This book examines Spanish architecture from the roots of Modernism in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries to the present, analyzing significant figures and their works in relation to their political, social, and cultural contexts, as well as their contributions to architecture as a whole. From the austere, local Modernism of the 1920s, the influence of international trends in the ’30s, the renewed, “Organicist” Modernism of the ’50s and ’60s, to the flourishing public architecture of the late twentieth century and beyond, Spain provides a penetrating account of the country’s rich and varied built environment.
Spain and Its Achilles' Heels
Why was Franco exhumed from the Valley of the Fallen in late 2019? How is it that he was there in the first place? Why did Catalonia erupt suddenly in October 2017? Why don’t you hear so much about the Basque Country anymore? How did Podemos gather momentum so quickly in 2014-15, and why did half of that support vanish five years later? Isn’t it counterintuitive that a Catholic-majority country also has the most LGBT-friendly society in the world? Understanding the most significant events in recent Spanish politics requires spelling out the unspoken but enduring foundations of the country’s deepest fears and weaknesses, its Achilles' heels. In Greek mythology, an Achilles' heel is a vulnerability that can lead to downfall despite the apparent general strength of the full body. Casla uses this term to define the underlying factors that, while by no means unique, are characteristic of a particular society, delimit what is possible and shape the political debate. They are the primary political frailties without which a country’s politics cannot be properly comprehended.
Supporting Better Decision-Making in Transport Infrastructure in Spain Infrastructure Governance Review
In Spain, as in most countries, the real obstacle to effective and efficient delivery of key infrastructure is not the availability of finance, but rather problems of governance. This review examines the transport infrastructure governance framework in Spain against OECD good practices. It identifies the main governance bottlenecks for the development of transport infrastructure projects and provides a comparison with what other countries have done to alleviate similar bottlenecks.
Smart and Sustainable Technology for Resilient Cities and Communities
This book is a collection of extended versions of papers presented at the KES Covid-19 Challenge international summit. The book focusses on technological, economic, and social developments to combat the effects of global and local disasters as well as the ways in which the recovery from Covid can be used to build more resilient and sustainable communities, industry, and improve the environment. It also discusses the global challenges of human-influenced climate change. There are chapters on making cities and communities more resilient through energy self-sufficiency, food production, resilient housing and buildings, human health and intelligent systems e.g. for forecasting and prediction.
Ciudades medias en España
En los últimos cuarenta años, las ciudades medias españolas, han experimentado profundas transformaciones urbanas que han incidido notablemente en su estructura y morfología. Sin embargo, estos cambios no son homogéneos y varían en función de la posición geográfica de cada ciudad, el dinamismo de los sistemas territoriales en los que se integran y las características de las políticas aplicadas a escala local. En el libro se interrelacionan las dinámicas de crecimiento urbano con las políticas urbanísticas desplegadas en ciudades medias en el período 1979-2019. Se presta especial atención a los procesos generales, que sirven de marco de referencia para el conjunto, se proponen metodologías de análisis específicas y se despliegan trece casos de estudio concretos. En cada uno de ellos se examinan las dinámicas de urbanización, el desarrollo y las características del planeamiento urbanístico aprobado, así como los principales proyectos materializados. La lectura conjunta ayuda a entender el avance y alcance de las transformaciones producidas desde el inicio de los ayuntamientos democráticos.
Metodología BIM
Esta es una guía para estudiantes y aquellas personas en general que hacen uso de la metodología BIM (Building Information Modelling), la cual está experimentando una adopción no solo en la industria sino en todos los sectores de la construcción. El uso de las herramientas colaborativas ha permitido mejorar significativamente el trabajo en innumerables proyectos de consultoría y de construcción de infraestructura, lo cual genera incidencias directas en las economías locales y globales, fomentando los beneficios y la productividad. Este documento tiene por objeto contextualizar, dar a conocer conceptos, actualizar y especializar a técnicos, tecnólogos, ingenieros, modeladores y a aq...
