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Innovation capacity and the city : the enabling role of design
This open access book represents one of the key milestones of DESIGNSCAPES, an H2020 CSA (Coordination and Support Action) research project funded by the European Commission under the Call “User-driven innovation: value creation through design-enabled innovation”. The book demonstrates that adopting design allows us to embed innovation within the city so as to arrive at feasible answers to …
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- 9783030001230
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- ix, 101p. : ill.
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- 307.1216 INN i
The places where community Is practiced : how store owners and their business…
In this open access publication, the social cohesion of urban neighborhoods and their residents is examined, which is often viewed as vulnerable since increased mobility, individualization, wider socio-economic and demographic changes have fundamentally altered the basis for everyday social interaction in urban neighborhoods. Anna Steigemann gives scholarly attention to the concrete places wher…
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- 9783658253936
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- xiii, 325p. : ill.
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- 307.33 STE p
Internal migration, urbanization and poverty in Asia : dynamics and interrela…
Asia’s recent demographic transitions and rural–urban structural transformations are extraordinary and involve complexities that require in-depth study. The chapters within this volume examine those complexities using a range of traditional and nontraditional measures—such as multidimensional poverty, gaps, and polarization—to arrive at the conclusion that poverty is now an urban iss…
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- 9789811315374
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- xii, 367p. : ill.
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- 307.260994 INT i
Science of societal safety : living at times of risks and disasters
This open access book covers comprehensive but fundamental principles and concepts of disaster and accident prevention and mitigation, countermeasures, and recovery from disasters or accidents including treatment and care of the victims. Safety and security problems in our society involve not only engineering but also social, legal, economic, cultural, and psychological issues. The enhancement …
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- 9789811327759
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- xv, 227p. : ill.
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- 363.348 SCI s
Planning for ecosystem services in cities
This open access book presents current knowledge about ecosystem services (ES) in urban planning, and discusses various urban ES topics such as spatial distribution of urban ecosystems, population distribution, and physical infrastructure properties. The book addresses all these issues by: i) investigating to what extent ecosystem services are currently included in urban plans, and discussing w…
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- 9783030200244
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- ix, 87p. : ill.
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- 333.7 PLA p
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