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  • CAREC Road Safety Engineering Manual 4
    Asian Development Bank
    This manual focuses on the provision of safer pedestrian facilities in Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation (CAREC) countries, particularly on the physical road infrastructure.It also outlines proven facilities that have been shown to assist pedestrians including those in the high-risk groups. Aimed at engineers, project managers, planners, traffic police, and other decis...
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    41,77 €

  • African cities and collaborative futures
    This book brings together scholars from across the globe and a range of disciplines to discuss the nature of African cities today. This groundbreaking collection, spanning energy, housing, infrastructure, safety and sustainability, offers a fresh perspective on some of the most pressing issues confronting urban Africa in the twenty-first century. ...
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    170,00 €

  • Refractions of the National, the Popular and the Global in African Cities
    Case studies of metropolitan cities in nine African countries - from Egypt in the north to three in West and Central Africa, two in East Africa and three in Southern Africa - make up the empirical foundation of this publication. The interrelated themes addressed in these chapters - the national influence on urban development, the popular dynamics that shape urban development an...
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    60,01 €

  • Rajasthan Rising
    Manoj Sharma / Melissa Alipalo
    This publication showcases how ADB and the Government of Rajasthan have partnered together to bring sustainable development to the cities and towns of Rajasthan, in northwest India.Since 1998, the Rajasthan Urban Infrastructure Development Project (RUIDP), extensive work has been undertaken to address urban challenges such as widespread poverty, inadequate infrastructure, and a...
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    40,28 €

  • ICT Solutions for Improving Smart Communities in Asia
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    262,12 €

  • Roads, Runways and Resistance
    Steve Melia
    From the anti-roads protests of the 1990s to HS2 and Extinction Rebellion, conflict and protest have shaped the politics of transport. In 1989, Margaret Thatcher’s government announced ’the biggest road-building programme since the Romans.’ This is the inside story of the thirty tumultuous years that have followed. Roads, Runways and Resistance draws on over 50 interviews with ...
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    126,99 €

  • Gurgaon to Gurugram
    Suptendu P. Biswas / Suptendu P.Biswas / Suptendu PBiswas
    Gurgaon is a city of paradoxes, of extremes and of opportunities. The face of the city changedremarkably, so did the fate of its inhabitants. The story began with the transition of the land, fromthe agricultural field to the real estate dividend. A new set of people started settling in Gurgaon whohad the ambition of having their own house on a plot of land. A unique urban image...
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    17,78 €

  • How the Streets Were Made
    Yelena Bailey
    In this book, Yelena Bailey examines the creation of 'the streets' not just as a physical, racialized space produced by segregationist policies but also as a sociocultural entity that has influenced our understanding of blackness in America for decades. Drawing from fields such as media studies, literary studies, history, sociology, film studies, and music studies, this book en...
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    127,13 €

  • How the Streets Were Made
    Yelena Bailey
    In this book, Yelena Bailey examines the creation of 'the streets' not just as a physical, racialized space produced by segregationist policies but also as a sociocultural entity that has influenced our understanding of blackness in America for decades. Drawing from fields such as media studies, literary studies, history, sociology, film studies, and music studies, this book en...
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    35,72 €

  • Healthy and Age-Friendly Cities in the People’s Republic of China
    Najibullah Habib / Stefan Rau / Susann Roth
    This report discusses framework for a four-generation urban society in the People’s Republic of China to create positive health outcomes and improve urban livability, services, and public spaces for the elderly.Rapid urbanization and aging in many countries including the People’s Republic of China, along with lessons learned from the coronavirus disease pandemic, emphasize the ...
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    30,25 €

  • The Sustainable City XIV
    Urban areas result in a series of environmental challenges varying from the consumption of natural resources and the subsequent generation of waste and pollution, contributing to the development of social and economic imbalances. As cities continue to grow all over the world, these problems tend to become more acute and require the development of new solutions.The challenge of ...
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    308,82 €

  • Lessons from the British and French New Towns
    This book explores the evolution of New Towns in France and the UK in a number of areas (governance, planning and heritage) and assess whether their legacy can inspire current planned settlements. ...
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    152,45 €

  • Urban Mobility and Social Equity in Latin America
    This volume of Transport and Sustainability focuses on how spatial and social mobilities are intertwined in the reproduction of spatial and social inequities in Latin American cities. ...
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    182,78 €

  • Examining International Land Use Policies, Changes, and Conflicts, 1 volume
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    216,58 €

  • Environmental Problem-Solving
    Bruno Verdini / Jessica Gordon / Lawrence Susskind
    ’Environmental Problem-Solving’ offers a self-paced curriculum for college and university students who want to learn the basic techniques government agencies, citizen action groups, corporations and research institutions use to solve pressing environmental problems. ...
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    215,65 €

  • Developing and Monitoring Smart Environments for Intelligent Cities, 1 volume
    Zaigham Mahmood
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    242,50 €

  • Development, architecture, and the formation of heritage in late twentieth-century Iran
    Ali Mozaffari / Nigel Westbrook
    What is the relationship between development as a globalizing project and the production of cultural specificities in developmental contexts? Utilising an architectural lens, this book illustrates how development instigates interest in the past and in the process, creates heritage. It show multiple uses of the past and their contestation in highly fluid social contexts. ...
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    159,64 €

  • The Hackable City
    Martijn de Waal / Michiel de Lange
    This open access book presents a selection of the best contributions to the Digital Cities 9 Workshop held in Limerick in 2015, combining a number of the latest academic insights into new collaborative modes of city making that are firmly rooted in empirical findings about the actual practices of citizens, designers and policy makers. It explores the affordances of new media te...
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    86,54 €

  • African Markets and the Utu-buntu Business Model
    Mary Njeri Kinyanjui
    The persistence of indigenous African markets in the context of a hostile or neglectful business and policy environment makes them worthy of analysis. An investigation of Afrocentric business ethics is long overdue. Attempting to understand the actions and efforts of informal traders and artisans from their own points of view, and analysing how they organise and get by, allows ...
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    59,46 €

  • The Hackable City
    Martijn de Waal / Michiel de Lange
    This open access book presents a selection of the best contributions to the Digital Cities 9 Workshop held in Limerick in 2015, combining a number of the latest academic insights into new collaborative modes of city making that are firmly rooted in empirical findings about the actual practices of citizens, designers and policy makers. It explores the affordances of new media te...
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    72,18 €

  • Re-Centring the City
    Jonathan Bach / Michał Murawski
    What is the role of monumentality, verticality and centrality in the twenty-first century? Are palaces, skyscrapers and grand urban ensembles obsolete relics of twentieth-century modernity, inexorably giving way to a more humble and sustainable de-centred urban age? Or do the aesthetics and politics of pomp and grandiosity rather linger and even prosper in the cities of today a...
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    68,71 €

  • Leading Cities
    Elizabeth Rapoport / Leonora Grcheva / Michele Acuto
    Leading Cities is a global review of the state of city leadership and urban governance today. Drawing on research into 202 cities in 100 countries, the book provides a broad, international evidence base grounded in the experiences of all types of cities. It offers a scholarly but also practical assessment of how cities are led, what challenges their leaders face, and the ways i...
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    39,36 €

  • Urban Claims and the Right to the City
    Ilinca Diaconescu / Julian Walker / Marcos Bau Carvalho
    Urban Claims and the Right to the City explores how contested processes of urban development, and the rights of city dwellers, are understood and interpreted from the perspective of women and men working, in different ways, at the grassroots in Salvador da Bahia, Brazil, and London, UK. In doing so, it represents the grounded voices of authors whose work and lives mean that the...
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    67,12 €

  • Re-Centring the City
    Jonathan Bach / Michał Murawski
    What is the role of monumentality, verticality and centrality in the twenty-first century? Are palaces, skyscrapers and grand urban ensembles obsolete relics of twentieth-century modernity, inexorably giving way to a more humble and sustainable de-centred urban age? Or do the aesthetics and politics of pomp and grandiosity rather linger and even prosper in the cities of today a...
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    54,35 €

  • African Markets and the Utu-buntu Business Model
    Mary Njeri Kinyanjui
    The persistence of indigenous African markets in the context of a hostile or neglectful business and policy environment makes them worthy of analysis. An investigation of Afrocentric business ethics is long overdue. Attempting to understand the actions and efforts of informal traders and artisans from their own points of view, and analysing how they organise and get by, allows ...
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    45,09 €

  • Leading Cities
    Elizabeth Rapoport / Leonora Grcheva / Michele Acuto
    Leading Cities is a global review of the state of city leadership and urban governance today. Drawing on research into 202 cities in 100 countries, the book provides a broad, international evidence base grounded in the experiences of all types of cities. It offers a scholarly but also practical assessment of how cities are led, what challenges their leaders face, and the ways i...
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    54,87 €

  • Urban Claims and the Right to the City
    Ilinca Diaconescu / Julian Walker / Marcos Bau Carvalho
    Urban Claims and the Right to the City explores how contested processes of urban development, and the rights of city dwellers, are understood and interpreted from the perspective of women and men working, in different ways, at the grassroots in Salvador da Bahia, Brazil, and London, UK. In doing so, it represents the grounded voices of authors whose work and lives mean that the...
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    52,76 €

  • Urban Planning Against Poverty
    Jean-Claude Bolay
    This open access book revisits the theoretical foundations of urban planning and the application of these concepts and methods in the context of Southern countries by examining several case studies from different regions of the world. For instance, the case of Koudougou, a medium-sized city in one of the poorest countries in the world, Burkina Faso, with a population of 115.000...
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    77,36 €

  • Innovation Capacity and the City
    Grazia Concilio / Ilaria Tosoni
    This open access book represents one of the key milestones of DESIGNSCAPES, an H2020 CSA (Coordination and Support Action) research project funded by the European Commission under the Call 'User-driven innovation: value creation through design-enabled innovation'. The book demonstrates that adopting design allows us to embed innovation within the city so as to arrive at feasibl...
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    53,05 €

  • Innovation Capacity and the City
    Grazia Concilio / Ilaria Tosoni
    This open access book represents one of the key milestones of DESIGNSCAPES, an H2020 CSA (Coordination and Support Action) research project funded by the European Commission under the Call 'User-driven innovation: value creation through design-enabled innovation'. The book demonstrates that adopting design allows us to embed innovation within the city so as to arrive at feasibl...
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    67,41 €