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• Publisher : Island Press
• File Size : 44,7 Mb
• Release Date : 01 June 2017

Drawing from research and examples about resilient cities, this book looks at new initiatives and innovations cities can implement.

• Publisher : Oxford University Press
• File Size : 44,9 Mb
• Release Date : 20 January 2005

In 1871, the city of Chicago was almost entirely destroyed by what became known as The Great Fire. Thirty-five years later, San Francisco lay in smoldering ruins after the catastrophic earthquake

• Publisher : Routledge
• File Size : 47,6 Mb
• Release Date : 03 July 2020

Cities are under increased pressure to be resilient and resistant to the effects of climate change and rapid urbanisation. However, this idea has still not been fully integrated in to

• Publisher : Birkhäuser
• File Size : 27,8 Mb
• Release Date : 22 November 2021

Climate change is one of the major challenges facing cities in the future. Landscape architecture is particularly in demand here because it offers solutions that are characterized by complexity and

• Publisher : Island Press
• File Size : 42,6 Mb
• Release Date : 09 January 2009

Half of the world’s inhabitants now live in cities. In the next twenty years, the number of urban dwellers will swell to an estimated five billion people. With their

• Publisher : Russell Sage Foundation
• File Size : 43,6 Mb
• Release Date : 25 August 2005

The strike against the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, was a violent blow against the United States and a symbolic attack on capitalism and commerce. It shut down one of

• Publisher : Routledge
• File Size : 40,5 Mb
• Release Date : 11 July 2021

Drawing on evidence from urban resilience initiatives around the globe, the authors make a compelling argument for a "resilience reset", a pause and stocktake that critically examines the concepts, practices

• Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
• File Size : 28,9 Mb
• Release Date : 21 August 2017

The process of modernization, especially during the twentieth century, has brought about dramatic changes in most cities situated on a body of water. The search for efficiency and functionality has

• Publisher : Springer
• File Size : 40,6 Mb
• Release Date : 02 August 2018

This book brings together a series of theory and practice essays on risk management and adaptation in urban contexts within a resilient and multidimensional perspective. The book proposes a transversal

• Publisher : Routledge
• File Size : 40,9 Mb
• Release Date : 10 January 2014

Urbanization is occurring at an unprecedented rate; by 2050 three quarters of the world’s people will live in urban environments. The cars we drive, products we consume, houses we live