Building Equitable Cities

Building Equitable Cities

Author: Janis Bowdler

Publisher:

Published: 2017

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780874204117

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How can cities promote economic mobility, advance equity, and drive growth? Through an analysis of best practices, proven policies, and case study examples, you will get practical insights into how your community can expand opportunity for more citizens and boost economic expansion. The book provides real world examples of both place-based and people-based strategies that are being used successfully to provide more equitable outcomes.


Shifting Mobility

Shifting Mobility

Author: Dewan Masud Karim

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2023-12-01

Total Pages: 451

ISBN-13: 1003822797

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In the face of resource depletion, environmental changes, lifestyle changes, demographic and digital adaptation, old ideologies of city building and expensive and complex automobility solutions are in freefall. These changes are creating severe friction between the old and new paradigms. This book provides new perspectives through the process of ideological disassociation and concepts of human mobility code. The basic premise of the book, human mobility is an essential component of our creativity that comes from our unconscious desire to become a part of a community. Several new concepts in the book starts with the hallmark of new discovery of human mobility code and its implications of urban mobility boundary systems to stay within safe planetary zone. A new discovery of human mobility code from comprehensive research finding prove that each individual develops a unique mobility footprint and become our mobility identity. Beyond individual hallmarks, human develops collective mobility codes through interaction with the third space on which entire mobility systems lie and are created by the fundamentals of city planning and the design process. Readers are introduced to an innovative mobility planning process and reinvention of multimodal mobility approaches based on new mobility code while formulating new concepts, practical solutions and implementation techniques, tools, policies, and processes to reinforce low-carbon mobility options while addressing social equity, environmental, and health benefits. Finally, the book arms us with knowledge to prevent the disaster of full technological enlightenment against our natural human mobility code.


Construction Labour Market

Construction Labour Market

Author: Kalarickal Kumaran Subrahmanian

Publisher: Concept Publishing Company

Published: 1982

Total Pages: 192

ISBN-13:

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Report on a sample survey of the urban area labour market for construction workers in Ahmedabad, India - discusses the nature of contract labour, production factors and subcontracting; gives demographic aspects (age, sex, family, occupation, educational level, etc.); examines labour mobility, wage rates, working conditions, collective bargaining, standard of living, (household income, indebtedness, housing, etc.); proposes labour market restructuring and suitable labour legislation. Bibliography, statistical tables.


Building the Bronze Age

Building the Bronze Age

Author: Corien Wiersma

Publisher: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd

Published: 2014-06-27

Total Pages: 583

ISBN-13: 1905739893

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Wiersma analyses Early Helladic III, Middle Helladic and Late Helladic I domestic architecture with reference to social organization and social change. This book covers domestic architecture from the southern and central Greek mainland up to southern Thessaly.


Connecting the Dots

Connecting the Dots

Author: Fatima Arroyo-Arroyo

Publisher: World Bank Publications

Published: 2021-07-13

Total Pages: 127

ISBN-13: 146481676X

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This report analyzes constraints on accessing jobs and social services in three Ghanaian cities (Accra, Kumasi, and Tamale), with a strong focus on specific challenges encountered by vulnerable people. The report outlines practical interventions for achieving more inclusive and sustainable access.