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Adonis & Abbey Publishers Ltd Governing a Poor Country
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Adonis & Abbey Publishers Governing a Poor Country
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Cindy Plowman The Secret Life of PopUps
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The Blackburn Press Sport, Space and the City
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Pacific Research Institute Is There a War on Surburbia Calling a Truce in the Battle Over Land Use
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Bellevue Literary Press Places of the Heart: The Psychogeography of
Book SynopsisLibrary of Science Book Club selection Discover magazine What to Read” selection A really great book.” IRA FLATOW, Science Friday One of the finest science writers I’ve ever read.” Los Angeles Times Ellard has a knack for distilling obscure scientific theories into practical wisdom.” New York Times Book Review [Ellard] mak[es] even the most mundane entomological experiment or exegesis of psychological geekspeak feel fresh and fascinating.” NPR Colin Ellard is one of the world’s foremost thinkers on the neuroscience of urban design. Here he offers an entirely new way to understand our citiesand ourselves.” CHARLES MONTGOMERY, author of Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design Our surroundings can powerfully affect our thoughts, emotions, and physical responses, whether we’re awed by the Grand Canyon or Hagia Sophia, panicked in a crowded room, soothed by a walk in the park, or tempted in casinos and shopping malls. In Places of the Heart, Colin Ellard explores how our homes, workplaces, cities, and natureplaces we escape to and can’t escape fromhave influenced us throughout history, and how our brains and bodies respond to different types of real and virtual space. As he describes the insight he and other scientists have gained from new technologies, he assesses the influence these technologies will have on our evolving environment and asks what kind of world we are, and should be, creating. Colin Ellard is the author of You Are Here: Why We Can Find Our Way to the Moon, but Get Lost in the Mall. A cognitive neuroscientist at the University of Waterloo and director of its Urban Realities Laboratory, he lives in Kitchener, Ontario.Trade ReviewPraise for Places of the Heart Library of Science Book Club selection Discover magazine What to Read” selection Book Riot Small Press Book to Read” selection A really great book.” IRA FLATOW, Science Friday A great read.” RUDY MAXA, Rudy Maxa’s World From Neolithic monuments that awe to playground casinos’ that empty wallets, Ellard argues that a scientific understanding of how our surroundings affect us must be the foundation on which we build the cities and homes of tomorrow.” Discover Meshing recent findings with thoughtful appraisals of their implications, Ellard looks at spaces and the awe, lust, boredom, affection or anxiety that they trigger. He is richly insightful, particularly on digital encroachments into the experience of place.” Nature Wide-ranging and absorbing. . . . Powerfully and comprehensively written. . . . An exceptional introduction to a vital part of the human experience.” Colorado Review Ellard breaks down psychological and neurological information in an accessible way. . . . Highly recommended.” Book Riot Aren’t architects and urban planners trained to design buildings and cities? Why should a psychologist have a say in this? Because Ellard brings tools to the design board that should help ensure more positive responses to urban environment, from a mundane alleyway to an awe-inspiring cathedral or city hall. . . . Places of the Heart should stimulate debate about how our cities are shaped and how they shape us.” Waterloo Region Record Ellard shows that simple distinctions between nature and culture tend to collapse where many modern technologies are concerned. . . . Many of the trends with which Ellard engagessuch as virtual reality technology that would allow individuals to live in a curated, mediated, personalized, and highly commodified bubblesound as if they were pulled from the pages of Ray Bradburyesque science fiction.” Quill & Quire If you care about your city and your happiness, read every page of this fascinating book. Places of the Heart offers a thrilling journey through the pathways of our cities and the human mind. This is no flight of fancy. It’s an evidence-based exploration of how the places we inhabit change our minds and bodies. Colin Ellard is one of the world’s foremost thinkers on the neuroscience of urban design. Here he offers an entirely new way to understand our citiesand ourselves.” CHARLES MONTGOMERY, author of Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design This beautifully written book grabs the reader from the start, with personal stories from the author’s life interwoven with history, archaeology, technology, and design.” ESTHER M. STERNBERG, MD, author of Healing Spaces: The Science of Place and Well-Being Praise for Colin Ellard One of the finest science writers I’ve ever read.” Los Angeles Times Delightfully lucid. . . . Ellard has a knack for distilling obscure scientific theories into practical wisdom.” New York Times Book Review [Ellard] mak[es] even the most mundane entomological experiment or exegesis of psychological geekspeak feel fresh and fascinating.” NPR [Ellard] entertain[s] us with an explanation of the cold, hard science [and] artfully constructed exploration[s] of how our relationship to spaces plays a huge part in making us human.” Quill & Quire Fascinating.” Globe and Mail Smart.” Cleveland Plain Dealer Delightful.” Publishers Weekly Ellard writes with admirable clarity.” Kirkus Reviews As an architect . . . [Ellard] took me on a journey to places I’d never even considered before.” SARAH SUSANKA, author of The Not So Big HousePraise for Places of the Heart Library of Science Book Club selection Discover magazine “What to Read” selection Book Riot “Small Press Book to Read” selection “A really great book.” —IRA FLATOW, Science Friday “A great read.” —RUDY MAXA, Rudy Maxa’s World “From Neolithic monuments that awe to `playground casinos’ that empty wallets, Ellard argues that a scientific understanding of how our surroundings affect us must be the foundation on which we build the cities and homes of tomorrow.” —Discover “Meshing recent findings with thoughtful appraisals of their implications, Ellard looks at spaces and the awe, lust, boredom, affection or anxiety that they trigger. He is richly insightful, particularly on digital encroachments into the experience of place.” —Nature “Wide-ranging and absorbing. . . . Powerfully and comprehensively written. . . . An exceptional introduction to a vital part of the human experience.” —Colorado Review “Ellard breaks down psychological and neurological information in an accessible way. . . . Highly recommended.” —Book Riot “Aren’t architects and urban planners trained to design buildings and cities? Why should a psychologist have a say in this? Because Ellard brings tools to the design board that should help ensure more positive responses to urban environment, from a mundane alleyway to an awe-inspiring cathedral or city hall. . . . Places of the Heart should stimulate debate about how our cities are shaped and how they shape us.” —Waterloo Region Record “Ellard shows that simple distinctions between nature and culture tend to collapse where many modern technologies are concerned. . . . Many of the trends with which Ellard engages—such as virtual reality technology that would allow individuals to live in a curated, mediated, personalized, and highly commodified bubble—sound as if they were pulled from the pages of Ray Bradburyesque science fiction.” —Quill & Quire “If you care about your city and your happiness, read every page of this fascinating book. Places of the Heart offers a thrilling journey through the pathways of our cities and the human mind. This is no flight of fancy. It’s an evidence-based exploration of how the places we inhabit change our minds and bodies. Colin Ellard is one of the world’s foremost thinkers on the neuroscience of urban design. Here he offers an entirely new way to understand our cities—and ourselves.” —CHARLES MONTGOMERY, author of Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design “This beautifully written book grabs the reader from the start, with personal stories from the author’s life interwoven with history, archaeology, technology, and design.” —ESTHER M. STERNBERG, MD, author of Healing Spaces: The Science of Place and Well-Being Praise for Colin Ellard “One of the finest science writers I’ve ever read.” —Los Angeles Times “Delightfully lucid. . . . Ellard has a knack for distilling obscure scientific theories into practical wisdom.” —New York Times Book Review “[Ellard] mak[es] even the most mundane entomological experiment or exegesis of psychological geekspeak feel fresh and fascinating.” —NPR “[Ellard] entertain[s] us with an explanation of the cold, hard science [and] artfully constructed exploration[s] of how our relationship to spaces plays a huge part in making us human.” —Quill & Quire “Fascinating.” —Globe and Mail “Smart.” —Cleveland Plain Dealer “Delightful.” —Publishers Weekly “Ellard writes with admirable clarity.” —Kirkus Reviews “As an architect . . . [Ellard] took me on a journey to places I’d never even considered before.” —SARAH SUSANKA, author of The Not So Big HouseTable of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1. The Nature in Space Chapter 2. Places of Affection Chapter 3. Places of Lust Chapter 4. Boring Places Chapter 5. Places of Anxiety Chapter 6. Places of Awe Chapter 7. Space and Technology I: The World in a Machine Chapter 8. Space and Technology II: The Machine in the World Conclusions: Coming Home Again Notes Acknowledgments Index
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Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp Draw a Bigger Circle
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Common Ground Research Networks The Urban Legacy of Olympic Villages
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Global Climate Solutions Urban Bioeconomy
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG iCity. Transformative Research for the Livable, Intelligent, and Sustainable City: Research Findings of University of Applied Sciences Stuttgart
Book SynopsisThis open access book presents the exciting research results of the BMBF funded project iCity carried out at University of Applied Science Stuttgart to help cities to become more liveable, intelligent and sustainable, to become a LIScity. The research has been pursued with industry partners and NGOs from 2017 to 2020. A LIScity is increasingly digitally networked, uses resources efficiently, and implements intelligent mobility concepts. It guarantees the supply of its grid-bound infrastructure with a high proportion of renewable energy. Intelligent cities are increasingly human-centered, integrative, and flexible, thus placing the well-being of the citizens at the center of developments to increase the quality of life. The articles in this book cover research aimed to meet these criteria. The book covers research in the fields of energy (i.e. algorithms for heating and energy storage systems, simulation programs for thermal local heating supply, runtime optimization of combined heat and power (CHP), natural ventilation), mobility (i.e. charging distribution and deep learning, innovative emission-friendly mobility, routing apps, zero-emission urban logistics, augmented reality, artificial intelligence for individual route planning, mobility behavior), information platforms (i.e. 3DCity models in city planning: sunny places visualization, augmented reality for windy cities, internet of things (IoT) monitoring to visualize device performance, storing and visualizing dynamic energy data of smart cities), and buildings and city planning (i.e. sound insulation of sustainable facades and balconies, multi-camera mobile systems for inspection of tunnels, building-integrated photovoltaics (BIPV) as active façade elements, common space, the building envelopes potential in smart sustainable cities).Table of ContentsEditorial24 articles from researchers at the HFT in the fields of energy, mobility, information platforms, and buildings and city planning.Appendix (i.a. including literature, abbreviations, source references etc.)
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Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Bewertungen in Umweltschutz und Umweltrecht
Book SynopsisSchwierig bei der ganzheitlichen Bewertung von Auswirkungen des Menschen auf die Umwelt sind die Festlegung der relevanten Kriterien sowie die Abgrenzung der betroffenen Umwelt. Das vorliegende Buch bietet hier Hilfestellung. Der Autor hat außerdem die bisher untereinheitlich verwendete Terminologie in einen systematischen Zusammenhang gebracht und erläutert. Sowohl die Anwendung in der Praxis, als auch die weiterführende wissenschaftliche Diskussion werden damit auf eine solide Basis gestellt. Die Betrachtungen des Autors sind medienübergreifend und interdisziplinär angelegt. Naturwissenschaftliche Anforderungen an die Bewertung sind mit den für die Praxis entscheidenden rechtlichen Anforderungen abgeglichen. Spielräume und Defizite in den bestehenden rechtlichen Regelungen konnten so aufgezeigt werden.Table of Contents1 Ganzheitliche Bewertung im Umweltschutz: Hintergründe und Problemstellungen.- 1.1 Ganzheitliche Bewertung reduziert Fehlentscheidungen und verringert Konflikte unter den Beteiligten.- 1.2 Durch ganzheitliche Bewertung ist eine deutliche Verbesserung von Genehmigungsverfahren möglich.- 1.3 Vorgehensweise, Methodik und Rahmenbedingungen der Untersuchung.- 2 Bewertungen müssen systematisiert werden.- 2.1 Realebene und Wertebene sind die Grundstruktur einer Bewertung..- 2.2 Vergleichbare Bewertungen erfordern ein Bewertungssystem.- 2.3 Die gesetzliche Bewertung der Auswirkungen von Industriebetrieben auf die Umwelt weist eine Realebene und eine Wertebene auf..- 2.4 Die ganzheitliche Bewertung der Auswirkungen von Industriebetrieben auf die Umwelt in Genehmigungsverfahren für UVP-pflichtige BImSch-Vorhaben ist teilweise gesetzlich geregelt.- 3 Das Bewertungsobjekt sind die Auswirkungen von Industriebetrieben auf die Umwelt.- 3.1 Generelle Charakteristika des Bewertungsobjekts.- 3.1.1 Generelle Charakteristika der Umwelt.- 3.1.1.1 Es gibt unterschiedliche Umwelten.- 3.1.1.2 Im Deutschen Recht wird unter Umwelt die Gesamtheit der physischen Merkwelten der existierenden und zukünftigen Lebewesen verstanden.- 3.1.1.3 Die Umwelt hat für alle Lebewesen generelle Funktionen.- 3.1.1.4 Für Menschen hat die Umwelt besondere Funktionen.- 3.1.2 Generelle betriebliche Ursachen für Umweltauswirkungen.- 3.1.3 Generelle Auswirkungen von Industriebetrieben auf die Umwelt.- 3.1.4 Generelle Sachverhalte für die ganzheitliche Bewertung der Auswirkungen von Industriebetrieben auf die Umwelt.- 3.2 Stofflicher Bereich des Bewertungsobjekts.- 3.2.1 Stoffliche Charakteristika der Umwelt.- 3.2.2 Stoffliche betriebliche Ursachen für Umweltauswirkungen.- 3.2.3 Stoffliche Auswirkungen von Industriebetrieben auf die Umwelt.- 3.2.4 Stoffliche Sachverhalte für die ganzheitliche Bewertung der Auswirkungen von Industriebetrieben auf die Umwelt.- 3.3 Energetischer Bereich des Bewertungsobjekts.- 3.3.1 Energetische Charakteristika der Umwelt.- 3.3.2 Energetische betriebliche Ursachen für Umweltauswirkungen.- 3.3.3 Energetische Auswirkungen von Industriebetrieben auf die Umwelt.- 3.3.4 Energetische Sachverhalte für die ganzheitliche Bewertung der Auswirkungen von Industriebetrieben auf die Umwelt.- 3.4 Räumlicher Bereich des Bewertungsobjekts.- 3.4.1 Räumliche Charakteristika der Umwelt.- 3.4.2 Räumliche betriebliche Ursachen für Umweltauswirkungen.- 3.4.3 Räumliche Auswirkungen von Industriebetrieben auf die Umwelt.- 3.4.4 Räumliche Sachverhalte für die ganzheitliche Bewertung der Auswirkungen von Industriebetrieben auf die Umwelt.- 3.5 Zeitlicher Bereich des Bewertungsobjekts.- 3.5.1 Zeitliche Charakteristika der Umwelt.- 3.5.2 Zeitliche betriebliche Ursachen für Umweltauswirkungen.- 3.5.3 Zeitliche Auswirkungen von Industriebetrieben auf die Umwelt.- 3.5.4 Zeitliche Sachverhalte für die ganzheitliche Bewertung der Auswirkungen von Industriebetrieben auf die Umwelt.- 4 Das Bewertungssubjekt sind die rechtlich-inhaltlichen Vorgaben für die ganzheitliche Bewertung der Auswirkungen von Industriebetrieben auf die Umwelt bei Genehmigungsverfahren für UVP-pflichtige BImSch-Vorhaben.- 4.1 Generelle rechtlich-inhaltliche Vorgaben.- 4.1.1 Generelle Vorgaben für die zu berücksichtigende Umwelt.- 4.1.2 Generelle Vorgaben für die zu berücksichtigenden vorhabenbedingten Ursachen für Umweltauswirkungen.- 4.1.3 Generelle Vorgaben für die zu berücksichtigenden Umweltauswirkungen.- 4.1.4 Generelle Vorgaben für die ganzheitliche Bewertung der Umweltauswirkungen von UVP-pflichtigen BImSch-Vorhaben.- 4.2 Rechtlich-inhaltliche Vorgaben zu stofflichen Sachverhalten.- 4.2.1 Vorgaben für die zu berücksichtigenden stofflichen Umweltcharakteristika.- 4.2.2 Vorgaben für die zu berücksichtigenden vorhabenbedingten stofflichen Ursachen für Umweltauswirkungen.- 4.2.3 Vorgaben für die zu berücksichtigenden stofflichen Umweltauswirkungen.- 4.2.4 Rechtlich-inhaltliche Vorgaben für den stofflichen Bereich der ganzheitlichen Bewertung der Umweltauswirkungen von UVP-pflichtigen BImSch-Vorhaben.- 4.3 Rechtlich-inhaltliche Vorgaben zu energetischen Sachverhalten.- 4.3.1 Vorgaben für die zu berücksichtigenden energetischen Umweltcharakteristika.- 4.3.2 Vorgaben für die zu berücksichtigenden vorhabenbedingten energetischen Ursachen für Umweltauswirkungen.- 4.3.3 Vorgaben für die zu berücksichtigenden energetischen Umweltauswirkungen.- 4.3.4 Rechtlich-inhaltliche Vorgaben für den energetischen Bereich der ganzheitlichen Bewertung der Umweltauswirkungen von UVP-pflichtigen BImSch-Vorhaben.- 4.4 Rechtlich-inhaltliche Vorgaben zu räumlichen Sachverhalten.- 4.4.1 Vorgaben für die zu berücksichtigenden räumlichen Umweltcharakteristika.- 4.4.2 Vorgaben für die zu berücksichtigenden vorhabenbedingten räumlichen Ursachen für Umweltauswirkungen.- 4.4.3 Vorgaben für die zu berücksichtigenden räumlichen Umweltauswirkungen.- 4.4.4 Rechtlich-inhaltliche Vorgaben für den räumlichen Bereich der ganzheitlichen Bewertung der Umweltauswirkungen von UVP-pflichtigen BImSch-Vorhaben.- 4.5 Rechtlich-inhaltliche Vorgaben zu zeitlichen Sachverhalten.- 4.5.1 Vorgaben für die zu berücksichtigenden zeitlichen Umweltcharakteristika.- 4.5.2 Vorgaben für die zu berücksichtigenden vorhabenbedingten zeitlichen Ursachen für Umweltauswirkungen.- 4.5.3 Vorgaben für die zu berücksichtigenden zeitiichen Umweltauswirkungen.- 4.5.4 Rechtlich-inhaltliche Vorgaben für den zeitlichen Bereich der ganzheitlichen Bewertung der Umweltauswirkungen von UVP-pflichtigen BImSch-Vorhaben.- 5 Die Auswirkungen von Industriebetrieben auf die Umwelt werden in den gesetzlichen Vorgaben unterschiedlich berücksichtigt.- 5.1 Die Sachverhalte lassen sich nach ihrer Berücksichtigung in den gesetzlichen Vorgaben in unterschiedliche Kategorien einordnen.- 5.2 Einige Sachverhalte sind hinreichend klar geregelt.- 5.3 Einige Sachverhalte sind mehrdeutig und / oder widersprüchlich geregelt.- 5.4 Einige Sachverhalte bestehen sowohl aus hinreichend klar als auch aus nicht geregelten Teilsachverhalten.- 5.5 Es gibt keine Sachverhalte die nur aus mehrdeutig und / oder widersprüchlich geregelten Teilsachverhalten und aus nicht geregelten Teilsachverhalten bestehen.- 5.6 Einige Sachverhalte bestehen sowohl aus hinreichend klar als auch aus mehrdeutig und / oder widersprüchlich geregelten Teilsachverhalten.- 5.7 Eine Reihe von Sachverhalten sind gesetzlich nicht geregelt.- 6 Die ganzheitliche Bewertung der Umweltauswirkungen bei Genehmigungsverfahren für UVP-pflichtige BlmSch-Vor-haben konnte verbessert werden.- 7 Zusammenfassung und Ausblick.- Literaturverzeichnisse.- Zitierte Literatur.- Weiterfahrende Literatur.
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Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Natur, Kultur und Komplexität: Adaptives
Book Synopsis1 Einleitung.- 2 Prolegomena.- 2.1 Umwelt.- 2.2 Ressourcen.- 2.3 Nachhaltigkeit.- 2.4 Management.- 3 Theorie.- 3.1 Komplexitätstheorie.- 3.2 Human-und Kulturökologie.- 4 Fallstudie.- 4.1 Ontario Felsen, die am Wasser stehen.- 4.2 Niagara Escarpment Allegheny Mountains.- 4.3 Bruce und Grey County The Georgian Triangle.- 4.4 Antworten auf die Forschungsfragen.- 5 Schlußfolgerungen.- 5.1 Konsequenzen für das Umweltmanagement.- 5.2 Aufgaben einer Geographie der Umweltressourcen.- Literatur.- Anhang 1 Chronologie der Geschichte Kanadas.- Anhang 2 Chronologie des Niagara Escarpment Plans.- Anhang 3a Fragebogen.- Anhang 3b Räumliche Verteilung der Interviews.- Anhang 3c Ergebnisse der Befragung vom Sommer 1997 in Grey und Bruce County.Table of Contents1 Einleitung.- 2 Prolegomena.- 2.1 Umwelt.- 2.2 Ressourcen.- 2.3 Nachhaltigkeit.- 2.4 Management.- 3 Theorie.- 3.1 Komplexitätstheorie.- 3.1.1 Der Gegenstand der Komplexitätstheorie.- 3.1.2 Systemtheorien.- 3.1.3 Komplexitätstheorie als Antwort auf Gleichgewichtsvorstellungen.- 3.1.4 Zur humangeographischen und planerischen Relevanz komplexitätstheoretischer Metaphern.- 3.1.5 Forschungsfragen für die Fallstudie.- 3.2 Human-und Kulturökologie.- 3.2.1 Humanökologische Forschungsansätze.- 3.2.2 Kulturökologische Forschungsansätze.- 3.2.3 Vom Nutzen der Systembegriffe für die Kulturökologie.- 3.2.4 Der Forschungsansatz der „Ecohistory“.- 3.2.5 Zur kultur-geographischen Relevanz der Human- und Kulturökologie.- 3.2.6 Forschungsfragen für die Fallstudie.- 4 Fallstudie.- 4.1 Ontario — „Felsen, die am Wasser stehen“.- 4.1.1 Der Naturraum von Ontario.- 4.1.2 Der Kulturraum von Ontario.- 4.1.3 Ontarios Raumlage.- 4.1.4 Die Raumperzeption in Ontario.- 4.2 Niagara Escarpment — Allegheny Mountains.- 4.2.1 Systemgrenzen des Niagara Escarpments.- 4.2.2 Die Teilsysteme des Niagara Escarpments.- 4.2.3 Das komplexe Mensch/Natur-System in Aktion.- 4.3 Bruce und Grey County — The Georgian Triangle.- 4.3.1 Europäische Besiedlung der Huron Uplands.- 4.3.2 Schlüsselereignisse der Entwicklung.- 4.3.3 Strukturelle Unterschiede zwischen Bruce und Grey County.- 4.3.4 Planung und Umgang mit Raumressourcen in Grey und Bruce County.- 4.4 Antworten auf die Forschungsfragen.- 5 Schlußfolgerungen.- 5.1 Konsequenzen für das Umweltmanagement.- 5.1.1 Mensch/Natur: Von der Abgrenzung zum Ineinander.- 5.1.2 Bisherige Ansätze des Umweltmanagements.- 5.1.3 Erweiterung: Adaptives Ressourcenmanagement.- 5.2 Aufgaben einer Geographie der Umweltressourcen.- Literatur.- Anhang 1 Chronologie der Geschichte Kanadas.- Anhang 2 Chronologie des Niagara Escarpment Plans.- Anhang 3a Fragebogen.- Anhang 3b Räumliche Verteilung der Interviews.- Anhang 3c Ergebnisse der Befragung vom Sommer 1997 in Grey und Bruce County.
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Springer VS Integrierte Innenentwicklung als ganzheitliche Nachhaltigkeitsstrategie der Stadtplanung im Spannungsfeld zwischen Public Value und Partikularinteressen
Book SynopsisEinleitung.- Konzeptionelle Ausgangslage zur Innenentwicklung.- Forschungsfragen und Forschungsdesign.- Entwicklung einer ganzheitlichen Nachhaltigkeitsstrategie im Sinne eines integrierten Ansatzes.- Portfolio einer nachhaltigen Innenentwicklung mit Diskussion möglicher Spannungsfelder.- Implementation einer integrierten Innenentwicklung.- Diskussion und kritische Würdigung.- Fazit und Forschungsausblick.
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Clube de Autores História Geral Do Córrego Do Jenipapo
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Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp The Future of Cities
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Brill African Cities and the Development Conundrum
Book SynopsisThis 10th thematic volume of International Development Policy presents a collection of articles exploring some of the complex development challenges associated with Africa’s recent but extremely rapid pace of urbanisation that challenges still predominant but misleading images of Africa as a rural continent. Analysing urban settings through the diverse experiences and perspectives of inhabitants and stakeholders in cities across the continent, the authors consider the evolution of international development policy responses amidst the unique historical, social, economic and political contexts of Africa’s urban development. Contributors include: Carole Ammann, Claudia Baez Camargo, Claire Bénit-Gbaffou, Karen Büscher, Aba Obrumah Crentsil, Sascha Delz, Ton Dietz, Till Förster, Lucy Koechlin, Lalli Metsola, Garth Myers, George Owusu, Edgar Pieterse, Sebastian Prothmann, Warren Smit, and Florian Stoll.Table of ContentsForeword Preface List of Illustrations Acronyms and Abbreviations Notes on Contributors Part 1: Introduction 1 African Cities and the Development Conundrum Actors and Agency in the Urban Grey Zone Till Förster and Carole Ammann 2 The Politics of Governing African Urban Spaces Edgar Pieterse Part 2: Urban Governance 3 Urban Governance in Africa: An Overview Warren Smit 4 Informal Governance: Comparative Perspectives on Co-optation, Control and Camouflage in Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda Claudia Baez Camargo and Lucy Koechlin 5 Why is Co-management of Parks Not Working in Johannesburg? The Difficult Reframing of State Mandates and Practices in the Post-apartheid Era Claire Bénit-Gbaffou Part 3: Planning, Politics and the Urban Grey Zone 6 Online Representation of Sustainable City Initiatives in Africa: How Inclusive? Ton Dietz 7 Incremental Dependencies: Politics and Ethics of Claim-making at the Fringes of Windhoek, Namibia Lalli Metsola 8 Towards an Integrative Approach to Spatial Transformation Addressing Contextual and Spatial Indifference in Design, Urban Planning and International Cooperation: A Case Study from Addis Ababa Sascha Delz 9 Accra’s Decongestion Policy: Another Face of Urban Clearance or Bulldozing Approach? Aba O. Crentsil and George Owusu Part 4: The Rural-Urban Continuum 10 The Africa Problem of Global Urban Theory: Re-conceptualising Planetary Urbanisation Garth Myers 11 Urban Identities and Belonging: Young Men’s Discourses about Pikine (Senegal) Sebastian Prothmann 12 The City and Its Ways of Life: Local Influences on Middle-Income Milieus in Nairobi Florian Stoll 13 Urbanisation and the Political Geographies of Violent Struggle for Power and Control: Mining Boomtowns in Eastern Congo Karen Büscher Index
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Brill Prometheus Tamed : Fire, Security, and Modernities, 1400 to 1900
Book SynopsisOver 8,200 large city fires broke out between 1000 and 1939 CE in Central Europe. Prometheus Tamed inquires into the long-term history of that fire ecology, its local and regional frequencies, its relationship to climate history. It asks for the visual and narrative representation of that threat in every-day life. Institutional forms of fire insurance emerged in the form of private joint stock companies (the British model, starting in 1681) or in the form of cameralist fire insurances (the German model, starting in 1676). They contributed to shape and change society, transforming old communities of charitable solidarity into risk communities, finally supplemented by networks of cosmopolite aid. After 1830, insurance agencies expanded tremendously quickly all over the globe: Cultural clashes of Western and native perceptions of fire risk and of what is insurance can be studied as part of a critical archaeology of world risk society and the plurality of modernities.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Figures and Tables 1 Introduction 2 Spaces, Value, Presentism: Premodern Insurance 1 The Commercial Communication System around 1400 2 Insurance as an Accounting Trick between the World of Nature and the World of Values 3 Premiums of Presentism: Hidden Forces within the History of Law 4 International Trade Law and Insurance as an Achievement of the Moderni 5 Summary 3 The Danger between Nature and Culture: The Quotidian Threat of Urban Fires in the Premodern Era 1 The “Reality” of the Danger: Fire Cycles, Fire Frequencies 1.1 The “Fire Gap” 1.2 8,200 Fires in Germany and Austria 1.3 Trends in Fire Frequencies According to Fire Insurance Statistics 1.4 War and Fire Trends 1.5 Climate and Fire Trends 1.6 The Fire Ecology of Hamburg 1.7 Summary 2 The Perception of Danger 2.1 The Theology of Divine Punishment and the Fire Events of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries: Security Losses, Security Gains 2.2 Visualization and Affect 2.2.1 The Modernity of City Fire Images and Their Dutch Provenance 2.2.2 A Discrepancy: Mythological/Biblical City Fire Paintings vs. the Low Number/Quality of Paintings of “Real” City Fires 2.2.3 Early Modern Image Theory and Disaster Images 2.2.4 Temporalization, Eventfulness and Affect Control 2.2.5 Threat Perception, Security Requirements, and Emotionalization 2.3 Ground Zeros: Visualization and Time Horizons 3 Developmental Trends of “Real-Assecuration”: Fire Policey, Construction 3.1 The Security Regimes between the Late Middle Ages and the Enlightenment and between the City and the Territories 3.1.1 Cologne: An Important Medieval Imperial City 3.1.2 The German Center of Security Innovations: Hamburg 3.1.3 The State’s “Images” of the City Collective: An Approach to Disaster Memory and to Learning from Disaster (e.g., Prussia) 3.2 Panaceas: from “Local Knowledge” to Science and Back Again to Popular Enlightenment 4 Summary 4 The Epochal Threshold of the Security Regimes 1680–1700 1 Laboratories of Innovation: Hamburg and Berlin---1680–1700 1.1 London: Nicholas Barbon 1.1.1 Protostatistics, Protoprobabilistic Reasoning, and the Conflict between State and Private Economies 1.1.2 Nicholas Barbon: Building Speculator and Growth Theorist 1.1.3 Insurance Innovation and the “Financial Revolution” 1.2 Hamburg and Leibniz 1.2.1 The Hamburg General Fire Fund: Innovation without an Inventor 1.2.2 Transformation into an Element of Economic Provisioning: Leibniz 1.2.2.1 Before Leibniz: The Rulership Contract and Disaster Insurance around 1600 1.2.2.2 Leibniz and the Territorial Institutionalization of Insurance 1.2.2.3 “Real-Assecuration”: The Founding of the Berlin Academy and Fire Association 1.3 Summary: The Power of Analogies 2 Religious Culture and “Insurance” 2.1 Max Weber, the Protestant Ethic, Calvin(ism), and Economics 2.2 A Historiographical Gap: Insuring and Religious Denominations 2.3 Insurance History and Protestantism: The Search for Evidence 5 The Emergence of the Normal Secure Society 1 Insurance and Social Structures 1.1 Collective Solidarity: from Risk Communities to Cosmopolitical Aid in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries 1.2 Insurance as Emerging from Notions of Social Contract and Moral Duty 2 State and Society in the Code of Numbers 3 Time Instead of Space: Sustainability and Insurance 6 The Globalization of Safety Regimes: The Return of Space 1 Hamburg 2 Istanbul 3 Bombay/Calcutta 4 China 5 USA/New York 6 Comparative Analysis 7 Conclusion Appendix 1 Academic Legal Treatises and Dissertations on the Assecuratio (in Chronological Order) Appendix 2 Chronological List of Cameralist Fire Insurance Foundations in Germany Appendix 3 Cameralist Treatises of Brandkassen and Insurances Sources and Literature Index Locorum Index Nominum Index Rerum
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