Human Settlements And Planning For Ecological Sustainability

Author : Keith Pezzoli
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262661140
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Human Settlements and Planning for Ecological Sustainability written by Keith Pezzoli and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In many areas of the world, environmental degradation in and around human settlements is undermining prospects for both socioeconomic justice and ecological sustainability. To explore the issues involved in this worldwide problem, Keith Pezzoli focuses on a dramatic instance of conflict that grew out of the unauthorized penetration of human settlements into the Ajusco greenbelt zone, a vital part of Mexico City's ecological reserve. The heart of the book is the story of what happened when residents of the Ajusco settlements fought relocation by proposing that the areas be transformed into productive ecology settlements. Pezzoli draws upon urban and regional planning theory and practice to examine biophysical as well as ethical and social sides of the story, and he uses the Mexican experience to identify planning strategies to link economy, ecology, and community in sustainable development. -- Publisher description.

Author : S. Tsenkova
Publisher : New York : United Nations
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Guidelines on Sustainable Human Settlements Planning and Management written by S. Tsenkova and published by New York : United Nations. This book was released on 1996 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : United Nations Centre for Human Settlements
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 76 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Human Settlements and Sustainable Development written by United Nations Centre for Human Settlements and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Mani Monto
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 9780761933854
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sustainability and Human Settlements written by Mani Monto and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2005-08-29 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book--an outcome of the authors' ongoing research on the complex relationships between humans and water in an urban context--presents an integrated model for assessing and forecasting the sustainability of human settlements, particularly urban communities. After introducing the conceptual and contextual dimensions of sustainability through an extensive review of the literature on the subject, the authors go on to explain their model. They then elaborate on the methodology for its formulation, development and implementation. This model has also been used to analyse changes in the availability of water and open spaces, and variations in lifestyles, community attitudes and living conditions including sanitation practices, and waste generation and its disposal.

Author : Miguel Ruano
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ecourbanism, sustainable human settlements written by Miguel Ruano and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Suitable for those involved in the field of urban design and planning, this book presents the state of the art in sustainable development master-planning, setting out, mostly in a graphic format and by means of 60 illustrated case-studies, what is considered best-practice in the field.

Author : Roderick J. Lawrence
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 438 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sustaining Human Settlement written by Roderick J. Lawrence and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : United Nations Human Settlements Programme
Publisher : UN-HABITAT
ISBN 13 : 9211320038
Total Pages : 98 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Planning Sustainable Cities written by United Nations Human Settlements Programme and published by UN-HABITAT. This book was released on 2009 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This publication assesses the effectiveness of urban planning as a tool for dealing with the unprecedented challenges facing 21st-century cities and for enhancing sustainable urbanization. There is now a realization that, in many parts of the world, urban planning systems have changed very little and are often contributors to urban problems rather than functioning as tools for human and environmental improvement. Against this background, the global report's central argument is that, in most parts of the world, current approaches to planning must change and that a new role for urban planning in sustainable urban development has to be found.--Publisher's description.

Author : Un-Habitat
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134900716
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Planning Sustainable Cities written by Un-Habitat and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-05-13 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Current urban planning systems are not equipped to deal with the major urban challenges of the twenty-first century, including effects of climate change, resource depletion and economic instability, plus continued rapid urbanization with its negative consequences such as poverty, slums and urban informality. These planning systems have also, to a large extent, failed to meaningfully involve and accommodate the ways of life of communities and other stakeholders in the planning of urban areas, thus contributing to the problems of spatial marginalization and exclusion. It is clear that urban planning needs to be reconsidered and revitalized for a sustainable urban future. Planning Sustainable Cities reviews the major challenges currently facing cities and towns all over the world, the emergence and spread of modern urban planning and the effectiveness of current approaches. More importantly, it identifies innovative urban planning approaches and practices that are more responsive to current and future challenges of urbanization. The Global Report on Human Settlements is the most authoritative and up-to-date global assessment of human settlements conditions and trends. It is an essential reference for researchers, academics, public authorities and civil society organizations all over the world. Preceding issues of the report have addressed such topics as Cities in a Globalizing World, The Challenge of Slums, Financing Urban Shelter and Enhancing Urban Safety and Security.

Author : United Nations Human Settlements Programme
Publisher : Earthscan
ISBN 13 : 1844078981
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Planning Sustainable Cities written by United Nations Human Settlements Programme and published by Earthscan. This book was released on 2009 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 2009. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Bruno Forte
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351773372
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Human Sustainable City written by Bruno Forte and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-06-04 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title was first published in 2003. Seven years after Habitat II culminated with the Istanbul agreement on Sustainable Urban Development, this book brings together many of the world's leading experts from the fields of architecture, urban planning, economics, sociology, politics, environment and geography to assess the successes and failures in fulfilling the objectives decided upon at this historic meeting. Illustrated with a wide range of case studies, this volume is divided into three main sections; firstly examining the challenges, secondly, the approaches, and finally, the practices. The book represents a critical appraisal not only of the issues related to urban development but also of the modalities to face these issues from real examples, these in return can be used as starting points to construct new 'real utopias' or at least, to future 'best practices'.