epub |eng | | Author:Ben Green

6 The Innovative City: The Relationship between Technical and Nontechnical Change in City Government One of the smart city’s most alluring features is its promise of innovation: it uses cutting-edge ...

azw3 |eng | 2015-06-22 | Author:Barnett, Jonathan & Beasley, Larry [Barnett, Jonathan]

Figure 4-25 A double row of trees along the sidewalk offers a visual barrier to adjacent tall buildings and creates a sense of protection from cars on the street. This ...

epub |eng | 2019-03-31 | Author:Gavin Parker

Developing policies (and projects) Neighbourhood Plan policies provide the basis for the determination of planning applications and they must relate to the development and use of land. There is no ...

epub |eng | | Author:Raquel Rolnik

Post-Disaster Reconstruction and Dispossession Mechanisms ‘Living in risk’ was how Lúcio Kowarick defined the socioeconomic, political and civil vulnerability of a huge number of poor people in cities in the ...

epub |eng | 1989-01-01 | Author:Jane Jacobs [Jacobs, Jane]

Part three FORCES OF DECLINE AND REGENERATION 13 The self-destruction of diversity My observations and conclusions thus far sum up to this: In our American cities, we need all kinds ...

epub |eng | 2007-12-01 | Author:Reader, John [Reader, John]

Havana's achievements in urban agriculture are impressive, showing how much a city can do to feed itself and how quickly the benefits accrue once the need is recognised and the ...

epub |eng | 2011-07-19 | Author:Joel Garreau [Garreau, Joel]

“My brother and I had that memorized. They’d bring us out and we’d sing it.” Nielsen loves neighborhoods that “seethe.” He loves places where you can walk to work and ...

epub |eng | | Author:Bliddal, Henrik.

14 Probing the institutional fabric of world politics: Hedley Bull's The Anarchical Society Andrew Hurrell Hedley Bull frequently used the term ‘classical’ in his own lectures and writings. The term, ...

epub |eng | 2013-02-23 | Author:Blue, Elly;

Bike Lanes on Main Street 9 Magnolia Street in Fort Worth, Texas’s newly hip Near Southside, is the sort of story that urban planners dream of. In 2008, this retail, ...

epub |eng | 2016-08-05 | Author:Michael Ableman

There is no place to sit down at our market stand. We like to stay on our feet and meet eye-to-eye with eager eaters. Our market display requires hours to ...

epub |eng | | Author:Peter Marcuse & Peter Marcuse

This is the richest and best developed country in the world. Who made it so? The rich? No. The Police Commissioner? No. The poor made it so. The only cure ...

epub |eng | 2016-08-12 | Author:Carlo Ratti & Matthew Claudel

Plan of Brasília by Oscar Niemeyer and Lúcio Costa Building a city entirely from scratch allows the planner to selectively use only the most advanced technology of the time. Recalling ...

epub |eng | 2013-11-01 | Author:Michael Batty [Batty, Michael]

Figure 8.1 Constructing a space-filling curve: The Koch snowflake curve. (a) Successive displacement of the central section of a line at ever-finer scales. (b) Application of the displacement rule to ...

epub |eng | 2016-04-11 | Author:Kotkin, Joel

WHY WE NEED BOTH GEOGRAPHIES Ultimately, urban policy should be about choices, and developers should respond to market signals and preferences rather than government edicts that suggest how people should ...

epub |eng | | Author:Paul Hardin Kapp

CHAPTER EIGHT Rethinking Storm Water A MODEL FOR SYNERGICITY JAMES H. WASLEY In farm country, the plover has only two real enemies: the gully and the drainage ditch. Perhaps we ...