Cities and Nature, Benton-Short, Lisa

Автор: Richards Greg, Palmer Robert
Название: Eventful Cities: Cultural Management and Urban Revitalisation
ISBN: 075066987X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780750669870
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Цена: 33580.00 T
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Описание: Processes of globalisation, economic restructuring and urban redevelopment have placed events at the centre of strategies for change in cities. This title analyses the process of cultural event development, management and marketing and links these processes to their wider cultural, social and economic context.

Автор: Mahmoud Israa H.
Название: Nature-Based Solutions for Sustainable Urban Planning
ISBN: 3030895246 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783030895242
Издательство: Springer
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Описание: Urban greening policies and measures have recently shown a high potential impact on the design and reshaping of the built environment, especially in urban regeneration processes.

Автор: Fu Albert S.
Название: Risky Cities: The Physical and Fiscal Nature of Disaster Capitalism
ISBN: 1978820305 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781978820302
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Цена: 27550.00 T
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Описание: Over half the world's population lives in urban regions, and increasingly disasters are of great concern to city dwellers, policymakers, and builders. However, disaster risk is also of great interest to corporations, financiers, and investors. Risky Cities is a critical examination of global urban development, capitalism, and its relationship with environmental hazards. It is about how cities live and profit from the threat of sinkholes, garbage, and fire. Risky Cities is not simply about post-catastrophe profiteering. This book focuses on the way in which disaster capitalism has figured out ways to commodify environmental bads and manage risks. Notably, capitalist city-building results in the physical transformation of nature. This necessitates risk management strategies –such as insurance, environmental assessments, and technocratic mitigation plans. As such capitalists redistribute risk relying on short-term fixes to disaster risk rather than address long-term vulnerabilities. 

Автор: Zingoni de Baro
Название: Regenerating Cities
ISBN: 3030905616 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783030905613
Издательство: Springer
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Цена: 121110.00 T
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Описание: This book sets out the discussion on how cities can contribute solutions to some of the challenges the urbanised world is facing, such as the pressure of growing populations, mitigation of effects of, and adaptation to globally changing environmental, climate and public health conditions. Presenting a detailed explanation of the causes behind the current state of modern cities, the book advocates for a paradigm shift to improve the quality of life of ever-increasing urban inhabitants whilst nourishing the natural systems that sustain human and non-human life in the planet. Recognising the precious role that nature plays in the functioning of cities, it delves into the study of biophilic design and regenerative development. The book argues that these social-ecological design approaches can act as catalysts to develop conditions in urban settings that are beneficial for natural and human systems to thrive and flourish, both in ecosystem services and social-cultural systems. This is particularly relevant for the design of new quality precincts or the regeneration of degraded urban spaces to promote health, wellbeing and urban resilience. A framework is proposed to guide the process of thinking about, designing and building healthier, more liveable and resilient urban environments that raise the quality of life in cities. The method can be used by researchers, practitioners -urban designers, urban planners, architects and landscape architects- interested in developing their work within a social-ecological perspective. It can also be used by local governments and agencies to underpin policy making, and by educational institutions to prepare graduates with necessary skills to respond to current and future built environment challenges.

Автор: Glatron
Название: The Urban Garden City
ISBN: 331972732X ISBN-13(EAN): 9783319727325
Издательство: Springer
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Цена: 111790.00 T
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Описание: Provides illustrative examples of the changing shape and uses of urban gardens in Europe throughout history Presents interdisciplinary approaches to gardens in cities Explores the historical evolution of the various views society has attached to this form (nature, food supply, biodiversity) in the cityscape

Автор: Filion
Название: Cities at Risk
ISBN: 1138547271 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138547278
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Цена: 48990.00 T
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Описание: As levels of urbanization increase around the world, the growing concentrations of population and economic activity increases vulnerability to natural disasters. Interdependencies among urban populations mean that damage to the built environment, including water, sewer and energy infrastructure, can affect millions. Even if there is no change in the rate of occurrence of natural disasters (an unlikely prospect in the face of ongoing climate change) the potential for human and economic loss will continue to increase, along with the time required to recover. How do cities prepare for and recover from natural disasters? In this book, the authors provide a broad overview of the issues related to the impacts of disasters on cities around the world, from assessing risks to accounting for damages. The comparative approach across different types of disasters in a range of urban locations is useful in identifying opportunities for policy transfer. While there is no ’one size fits all’ solution to hazard mitigation, valuable lessons can be learned from the experiences of others. The chapters emphasize different modes for assessing hazard risk, as well as strategies for increasing the resiliency of vulnerable populations.

Автор: J?rgen Breuste; Martina Artmann; Cristian Ioja; Sa
Название: Making Green Cities
ISBN: 3030377156 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783030377151
Издательство: Springer
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Цена: 121110.00 T
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Описание: This book shows what role nature can play in a city and how this can make it a better place for people to live. The reader will learn which role nature can play in green cities and what the basic requirements are in terms of culture, pre-existing nature conditions, existing urban surroundings, history, design and planning.

Автор: Maan Barua
Название: Lively Cities: Reconfiguring Urban Ecology
ISBN: 1517912555 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781517912550
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Цена: 100320.00 T
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Описание:

A journey through unexplored spaces that foreground new ways of inhabiting the urban

 

One of the fundamental dimensions of urbanization is its radical transformation of nature. Today domestic animals make up more than twice the biomass of people on the planet, and cities are replete with nonhuman life. Yet current accounts of the urban remain resolutely anthropocentric. Lively Cities departs from conventions of urban studies to argue that cities are lived achievements forged by a multitude of entities, drawing attention to a suite of beings—human and nonhuman—that make up the material politics of city making.

From macaques and cattle in Delhi to the invasive parakeet colonies in London, Maan Barua examines the rhythms, paths, and agency of nonhumans across the city. He reconceptualizes several key themes in urban thought, including infrastructure, the built environment, design, habitation, and everyday practices of dwelling and provides a critical intervention in animal and urban studies. Generating fresh conversations between posthumanism, postcolonialism, and political economy, Barua reveals how human and nonhuman actors shape, integrate, subsume, and relate to urban space in fascinating ways.

Through novel combinations of ethnography and ethology, and focusing on interlocutors that are not the usual suspects animating urban theory, Barua’s work considers nonhuman lifeworlds and the differences they make in understanding urbanicity. Lively Cities is an agenda-setting intervention, ultimately proposing a new grammar of urban life.

Автор: Bell, Sarah (university College London, Uk)
Название: Urban water sustainability
ISBN: 1138929905 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138929906
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Описание: This book investigates the implications of different developments in water technology and infrastructure for urban sustainability and the relationship between cities and nature.

Автор: Dempsey Nicola, Dobson Julian
Название: Naturally Challenged: Contested Perceptions and Practices in Urban Green Spaces
ISBN: 3030444791 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783030444792
Издательство: Springer
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Цена: 158380.00 T
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Описание: This book aims to understand how the wellbeing benefits of urban green space (UGS) are analysed and valued and why they are interpreted and translated into action or inaction, into `success` and/or `failure`.

Автор: McDonald Robert, Beatley Timothy
Название: Biophilic Cities for an Urban Century: Why nature is essential for the success of cities
ISBN: 3030516679 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783030516673
Издательство: Springer
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Цена: 60550.00 T
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Описание: Cities are quintessentially human, the perfect forum for interaction, and we are entering what could justly be called the urban century, the fastest period of urban growth in human history.

Автор: Albert Fu
Название: Risky Cities: The Physical and Fiscal Nature of Disaster Capitalism
ISBN: 1978820313 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781978820319
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Цена: 125400.00 T
Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
Описание: Over half the world's population lives in urban regions, and increasingly disasters are of great concern to city dwellers, policymakers, and builders. However, disaster risk is also of great interest to corporations, financiers, and investors. Risky Cities is a critical examination of global urban development, capitalism, and its relationship with environmental hazards. It is about how cities live and profit from the threat of sinkholes, garbage, and fire. Risky Cities is not simply about post-catastrophe profiteering. This book focuses on the way in which disaster capitalism has figured out ways to commodify environmental bads and manage risks. Notably, capitalist city-building results in the physical transformation of nature. This necessitates risk management strategies –such as insurance, environmental assessments, and technocratic mitigation plans. As such capitalists redistribute risk relying on short-term fixes to disaster risk rather than address long-term vulnerabilities.