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Delirious New Orleans: Manifesto for an Extraordinary American City (Roger Fullington Series in Architecture)

From iconic neighborhoods equivalent to the French sector and the backyard District to extra economically modest yet no much less culturally bright parts, structure is a key aspect that makes New Orleans a rare American urban. Delirious New Orleans started as a documentary venture to seize the idiosyncratic vernacular structure and artifacts—vintage mom-and-pop companies, roadside resorts, stay track golf equipment, neon indicators, wall work of art, fast-food joints, and so on—that helped supply the city's quite a few neighborhoods their detailed personality.

Science and Technology for Development (Development Matters)

How can technological know-how observe its power and support us take on worldwide inequality, environmental swap and crippling poverty? How can extra applicable applied sciences be built for these such a lot in desire? technological know-how has lengthy promised a lot -- new vegetation, new medicinal drugs, new resources of power, new technique of conversation -- however the strength of latest applied sciences has usually bypassed the poorest humans and the poorest international locations.

Can a City Be Sustainable? (State of the World)

Towns are the world’s destiny. at the present time, greater than half the worldwide population—3. 7 billion people—are city dwellers, and that quantity is anticipated to double through 2050. there's no query that towns are starting to be; the one debate is over how they are going to develop. do we put money into the actual and social infrastructure beneficial for livable, equitable, and sustainable towns?

Verkehr und Mobilität zwischen Alltagspraxis und Planungstheorie: Ökologische und soziale Perspektiven (Studien zur Mobilitäts- und Verkehrsforschung) (German Edition)

Der vorliegende Band geht den planungspraktischen Dimensionen der Mobilitätsforschung nach und setzt sie in Beziehung zu den Ergebnissen sozialwissenschaftlicher Erkenntnisse. Basierend auf einer im Jahr 2015 stattgefundenen Jahrestagung des Arbeitskreises Verkehr der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Geographie, geben die Beiträge einen Einblick in das Spannungsfeld der sozialwissenschaftlichen Mobilitätsforschung und ihrer Relevanz für die Verkehrsplanung.