Planificación estratégica de ciudades
Planificación estratégica de ciudades

Author: José Miguel Fernández Güell

Publisher: Reverte

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 312

ISBN-13: 9788429121100

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Este libro persigue dos fines principales; por un lado, actualizar y ampliar un campo de conocimiento, el de la planificación estratégica, que crece paulatinamente y que atrae la atención de las nuevas generaciones de urbanistas; por otro lado, mantener vivo el debate sobre la crisis y validez de la planificación urbana contemporánea, para lo que se utiliza siempre un tono optimista sobre las posibilidades de la buena gobernabilidad para superar los desafíos del futuro. Esta nueva edición constituye una revisión profunda de la primera edición de este libro (1997). El resultado ha sido una transformación rigurosa y crítica de la estructura y los contenidos iniciales, entre cuyas nuevas aportaciones destacan: la explicación de la crisis que vive la planificación urbana contemporánea, así como de los factores agravantes, internos y externos, que minan su recuperación; la ampliación de las bases conceptuales de la planificación estratégica de ciudades, con los principios de sostenibilidad y gobernabilidad unidos a los de competitividad y habitabilidad; la profundización en la metodología, con mayor detalle en las fases que atraviesa un plan estratégico; y la introducción por primera vez de todo un abanico de instrumentos analíticos, como las técnicas de microsegmentación de la demanda urbana, el análisis de 'clusters', las matrices de posicionamiento, el diseño de escenarios de futuro y el 'marketing' urbano.

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Publisher: Erasmus Ediciones

Published:

Total Pages: 330

ISBN-13: 8415462158

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Research Tracks in Urbanism: Dynamics, Planning and Design in Contemporary Urban Territories
Research Tracks in Urbanism: Dynamics, Planning and Design in Contemporary Urban Territories

Author: Alessia Allegri

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2021-09-12

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13: 100046413X

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Maybe the Global Village metaphor has never been more accurate than it is today, where societies join forces in the fight against the COVID 19 pandemic, in a global coordinated effort, possibly never tested before in the known history of Humankind. Although we are sure that in the past some other shared demands have united the different peoples of the world, this has never been so strongly necessary, mainly in what the global scientific community is concerned. This is a fight for the survival of a society. However, we should not lose sight of what we are fighting for. We fight together for people. Not just for the abstract value of Human life, but for life in society as a whole, including its moral and ethical aspects. The topics of this book are based on this claim, on what makes it possible. We do not build our lives in a vacuum, or in distant Invisible Cities, but through a higher value, which represents physical life in society: the City, built by the discipline of Urbanism. This book is a spin-off of the International Research Seminar on Urbanism_SIIU2020. Inspired by the contents of twelve research seminars, a group of researchers from the universities of Barcelona, Lisbon and São Paulo discuss the contemporary agenda of research in Urbanism. Following the conference, a selection of 35 original double-blind peer-reviewed research papers were brought together with different perspectives about such an agenda.

State of the World's Cities 2010/11
State of the World's Cities 2010/11

Author: Un-Habitat

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2010-08-12

Total Pages: 242

ISBN-13: 1136543066

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The world's urban population now exceeds the world's rural population. What does this mean for the state of our cities, given the strain this global demographic shift is placing upon current urban infrastructures? Following on from previous State of the World's Cities reports, this edition uses the framework of 'The Urban Divide' to analyse the complex social, political, economic and cultural dynamics of urban environments. In particular, the book focuses on the concept of the 'right to the city' and ways in which many urban dwellers are excluded from the advantages of city life, using the framework to explore links among poverty, inequality, slum formation and economic growth. The volume will be essential reading for all professionals and policymakers in the field, as well as a valuable resource for researchers and students in all aspects of urban development. Published with UN-Habitat.

Cali, Expanded City-Region: A Metropolitan Territory
Cali, Expanded City-Region: A Metropolitan Territory

Author: Varios Autores

Publisher: Universidad del Valle

Published: 2023-05-09

Total Pages: 477

ISBN-13: 9585144816

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The analytical approaches to studying the region are diverse and evolve as research products appear, as a result of modern systems for collecting, processing and integrating information from the various disciplines. Studies based on political and administrative boundaries, very common in the nineteenth century, move towards the positivist approaches of the twentieth century based on the distribution and organization of demographic and economic factors. Afterwards, the population and its social conditions in terms of infrastructure, economic level and social status are the main object of studies on the regions. The conceptualization of these approaches to study the region enters into crisis with the most recent trends of globalization on industrial and urban geographies (Veltz, 1996; 2008), more visible since the eighties in the last century. The city expands until it overflows into areas without political administrative jurisdiction, giving rise to an urban-rural territorial continuum due to population flows seeking residence, employment, or flows of goods and services. In addition, new territorial identities are built because of ethnic-racial and cultural diversity, and companies are offered new territories to relocate in the midst of this territorial continuum. The rural space is transformed into a new structure and dynamic of economic, social and urban occupation, without necessarily disappearing territories of peasant character in the margins of the region, though they are more articulated to the urban dynamics of the region.

Handbook of Research on Business Models in Modern Competitive Scenarios
Handbook of Research on Business Models in Modern Competitive Scenarios

Author: Jamil, George Leal

Publisher: IGI Global

Published: 2018-12-21

Total Pages: 565

ISBN-13: 152257266X

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Business models are regarded as a main emerging topic in the management area for opportune science-driven practical conceptions and applications. They represent how organizations are proposed and planned, as well as how they establish a market and social relations, manage strategic resources, and make decisions. However, companies must produce new solutions for strategic sustainability, performance measurement, and overall managerial conditions for these business models to be implemented effectively. The Handbook of Research on Business Models in Modern Competitive Scenarios depicts how business models contribute to strategic competition in this new era of technological and social changes as well as how they are conceptualized, studied, designed, implemented, and in the end, how they can be improved. Featuring research on topics such as creating shared value, global scenarios, and organizational intelligence, this book provides pivotal information for scientific researchers, business decision makers, strategic planners, consultants, managers, and academicians.

Bridging the Urban Divide
Bridging the Urban Divide

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Publisher: UN-HABITAT

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13: 9211322111

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This title analyzes the complex social, political, economic and cultural dynamics of urban environments. In particular, the book focuses on the concept of the 'right to the city' and ways in which many urban dwellers are excluded from the advantages of city life, exploring links among poverty, inequality, slum formation and economic growth.

Cali, expanded city-region
Cali, expanded city-region

Author: Fernando Urrea Giraldo

Publisher: Universidad del Valle

Published: 2020-09-29

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13: 9585144808

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Is the outcome of interdisciplinary and interinstitutional collaborative research carried out by the Alliance of Universities for Regional Urban Development with Equity, constituted by the Universidad Autónoma de Occidente, Universidad ICESI, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana-Cali, Universidad de San Buenaventura-Cali, and Universidad del Valle. The Ford Foundation endorsed this alliance between the universities of the region to provide scientific and technical support to social inclusion projects aimed at generating equity. The financial resources provided by the Ford Foundation and the time allocated by the professors and researchers of the Universidad Autónoma, Universidad ICESI, Universidad de San Buenaventura-Cali and Universidad del Valle made this research and its publication in a book possible. This book discusses different theoretical guidelines used in the definition of a region, considered useful as analytical references for the empirical proposal in this book about the 28 municipalities in northern Cauca and southern Valle. Its six chapters describe the patterns of territory occupation, the socio-demographic characterization of the municipalities of the extended city-region, the region's economic structure components, the labor market imbalances, the analysis of the political-electoral heterogeneity of the urban agglomeration of Cali, and some conclusions and policy recommendations. Hence, based on a conceptual and methodological model, the empirical analysis furthered in this book indicates that Cali, as the main urban center, should include in its development plans and territorial planning more effective measures to know, assess, and plan—together with the neighboring municipalities, not only those of the department of Valle itself but those of the urban-rural periphery or hinterland of the southwest, which includes the municipalities of southern Valle and northern Cauca—, albeit through less asymmetrical relations and more shared associations to face a set of common problems that affect the entire region whose epicenter is Cali.

State of the World's Cities 2010/2011
State of the World's Cities 2010/2011

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Publisher: Earthscan

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13: 1849711755

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One billion people worldwide live in slums and that figure is predicted to reach 2 billion by 2030. This new volume from UN-HABITAT unpacks the complex social and economic issues using the novel conceptual framework of the urban divide.