Cities of Tomorrow

Cities of Tomorrow

Author: Peter Hall

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Published: 1997-02-18

Total Pages: 502

ISBN-13: 9780631199434

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Cities of Tomorrow is a critical history of planning in theory and practice in the twentieth century, as well as of the social and economic problems and opportunities that gave rise to it. Trenchant, perceptive, global in coverage, this book is an unrivalled account of its crucial subject. The third edition of Cities of Tomorrow is comprehensively revised to take account of abundant new literature published since its original appearance, and to view the 1990s in historical perspective. This is the definitive edition, reviewing the development of the modern planning movement over the entire span of the twentieth century.


Environmentally Sustainable Buildings Challenges and Policies

Environmentally Sustainable Buildings Challenges and Policies

Author: OECD

Publisher: OECD Publishing

Published: 2003-04-07

Total Pages: 194

ISBN-13: 9264033866

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This book presents an analysis of the environmental impacts of the building sector and of current policies to mitigate these impacts, in particular with regard to reduction of CO2 emission, minimisation of construction and demolition waste and prevention of indoor air pollution.


The Andes

The Andes

Author: Onno Oncken

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2006-11-22

Total Pages: 574

ISBN-13: 3540486844

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This book provides the first comprehensive overview of a complete subduction orogen, the Andes. To date the results provide the densest and most highly resolved geophysical image of an active subduction orogen.


The Merck Manual of Geriatrics

The Merck Manual of Geriatrics

Author: Mark H. Beers

Publisher: Merck

Published: 2000-08-15

Total Pages: 1507

ISBN-13: 9780911910889

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A unique interdisciplinary guide that addresses the challenges of geriatric care, now with a two-color design, all-new illustrations, and many redesigned tables.


Social Innovation and Territorial Development

Social Innovation and Territorial Development

Author: Diana MacCallum

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-04-01

Total Pages: 182

ISBN-13: 1317053915

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The concept of social innovation offers an alternative perspective on development and territorial transformation, one which foregrounds innovation in social relations. This volume presents a broad-ranging and insightful exploration of social innovation and how it can affect life, society and economy, especially within local communities. It addresses key questions about the nature of social innovation as a process and a strategy and explores what opportunities may exist, or may be generated, for social innovation to nourish human development. It puts forward alternative development options which variously highlight solidarity, co-operation, cultural-artistic endeavour and diversity. In doing so, this book offers a provocative response to the predominant neoliberal economic vision of spatial, economic and social change.


Basic and Clinical Pharmacology

Basic and Clinical Pharmacology

Author: Bertram G. Katzung

Publisher:

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 1217

ISBN-13: 9780071179683

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This best selling book delivers the most current, complete, and authoritative pharmacology information to students and practitioners. All sections are updated with new drug information and references. New! Many new figures and diagrams, along with boxes of highlighted material explaining the "how and why" behind the facts.


Can Neighbourhoods Save the City?

Can Neighbourhoods Save the City?

Author: Frank Moulaert

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2010-07-12

Total Pages: 355

ISBN-13: 1136953221

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For decades, neighbourhoods been pivotal sites of social, economic and political exclusion processes, and civil society initiatives, attempting bottom-up strategies of re-development and regeneration. In many cases these efforts resulted in the creation of socially innovative organizations, seeking to satisfy the basic human needs of deprived population groups, to increase their political capabilities and to improve social interaction both internally and between the local communities, the wider urban society and political world. SINGOCOM - Social INnovation GOvernance and COMmunity building – is the acronym of the EU-funded project on which this book is based. Sixteen case studies of socially-innovative initiatives at the neighbourhood level were carried out in nine European cities, of which ten are analysed in depth and presented here. The book compares these efforts and their results, and shows how grass-roots initiatives, alternative local movements and self-organizing urban collectives are reshaping the urban scene in dynamic, creative, innovative and empowering ways. It argues that such grass-roots initiatives are vital for generating a socially cohesive urban condition that exists alongside the official state-organized forms of urban governance. The book is thus a major contribution to socio-political literature, as it seeks to overcome the duality between community-development studies and strategies, and the solidarity-based making of a diverse society based upon the recognising and maintaining of citizenship rights. It will be of particular interest to both students and researchers in the fields of urban studies, social geography and political science.


A life cycle approach to buildings

A life cycle approach to buildings

Author: Niklaus Kohler

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter

Published: 2012-12-10

Total Pages: 146

ISBN-13: 3955531708

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A building's entire life cycle aooOCU1/4oOe1/4o from construction through occupation, cycles of renovation and repairs, up to demolition and disposal, impacts the flow of materials thereby created. The decisive path of a building's environmental impact is however usually set early in the planning phase, at a time when planners often still lack knowledge about the sustainability characteristics of different building materials and constructions."


The Diet Delusion

The Diet Delusion

Author: Gary Taubes

Publisher: Random House

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 642

ISBN-13: 0091924286

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Whilst low-fat diets have been sold as the route to health, obesity has become epidemic, diabetes rates have soared and heart disease has not declined. This book examines this paradox and debunks the popular misconceptions on health, taking a hard look at the corporate world of the diet industry.


Democracy as Problem Solving

Democracy as Problem Solving

Author: Xavier De Souza Briggs

Publisher: MIT Press

Published: 2008-07-18

Total Pages: 389

ISBN-13: 0262262010

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Case studies from around the world and theoretical discussion show how the capacity to act collectively on local problems can be developed, strengthening democracy while changing social and economic outcomes. Complexity, division, mistrust, and “process paralysis” can thwart leaders and others when they tackle local challenges. In Democracy as Problem Solving, Xavier de Souza Briggs shows how civic capacity—the capacity to create and sustain smart collective action—can be developed and used. In an era of sharp debate over the conditions under which democracy can develop while broadening participation and building community, Briggs argues that understanding and building civic capacity is crucial for strengthening governance and changing the state of the world in the process. More than managing a contest among interest groups or spurring deliberation to reframe issues, democracy can be what the public most desires: a recipe for significant progress on important problems. Briggs examines efforts in six cities, in the United States, Brazil, India, and South Africa, that face the millennial challenges of rapid urban growth, economic restructuring, and investing in the next generation. These challenges demand the engagement of government, business, and nongovernmental sectors. And the keys to progress include the ability to combine learning and bargaining continuously, forge multiple forms of accountability, and find ways to leverage the capacity of the grassroots and what Briggs terms the “grasstops,” regardless of who initiates change or who participates over time. Civic capacity, Briggs shows, can—and must—be developed even in places that lack traditions of cooperative civic action.