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Wetboek landmeter-expert.
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ISBN: 9789460350429 9789460352423 9789460353932 Year: 2010 Publisher: Herentals mijnWetboek.be

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Contaminated urban soils
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ISBN: 9789048193288 9789048193271 9789400732919 9789048193295 9400732910 Year: 2010 Publisher: Dordrecht Springer

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This book gives a current overview of all facets of urban soils. Different urban land-use types in a number of examples worldwide are introduced. Many examples in different countries are provided in order to illustrate the situation in detail. The contaminant sources of urban soils (e.g., dust deposition, contamination along roadsides, contamination of floodplains, application of wastewater, anthropogenic deposits) are comprehensively presented. For practical application purposes a key with which to identify technogenic materials during field work is presented. Features like reductomorphic conditions in landfill soils, acidification of coal mining heaps and the impact of physical characteristics such as sealing are taken into consideration in the context of the contamination problem. The mobility of contaminants in the soils under consideration is introduced and discussed. The content of the book, however, is not limited to the description of contaminated urban soils. Different methods of assessment (classification, functional assessment, assessment focused on pathways with reference to standardized exposure scenarios) are introduced. Finally, quality standards for contaminated land in a number of countries are listed, compared and discussed. The book links up the contamination problem of urban soils with geographical aspects such as the historical development of city growth, the process of urbanization and the urban-to-rural gradients. Accordingly, the reader will be able to understand the specific problems of contaminated urban soils and will find sensible approaches to assessment.

Livestock in a changing landscape.
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ISBN: 1610911091 1597269263 1417539488 9781417539482 9781559639163 1559639164 9781610911092 9781597269261 9781597266710 9781597266703 Year: 2010 Publisher: Washington, D.C. Island Press


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Seven rules for sustainable communities : design strategies for the post-carbon world
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ISBN: 1597268208 9781597268202 9781597266505 1597266507 9781597266659 1597266655 Year: 2010 Publisher: Washington, D.C. : Island Press,


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Insurgent public space : guerrilla urbanism and the remaking of contemporary cities
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ISBN: 9780203093009 0203093003 1136988017 1136988025 1282586106 9786612586101 9781136987977 9781136988011 9781136988028 9780415779654 9780415779661 0415779669 Year: 2010 Publisher: New York : Routledge,

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Winner of the EDRA book prize for 2012.In cities around the world, individuals and groups are reclaiming and creating urban sites, temporary spaces and informal gathering places. These 'insurgent public spaces' challenge conventional views of how urban areas are defined and used, and how they can transform the city environment. No longer confined to traditional public areas like neighbourhood parks and public plazas, these guerrilla spaces express the alternative social and spatial relationships in our changing cities. With nearly twenty illustrated case studi


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Human cities : celebrating public space
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ISBN: 9789058563453 9058563456 Year: 2010 Publisher: Oostkamp Stichting Kunstboek

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Human Cities: Celebrating Public Space combines theoretical, practical and artistic approaches related to public space. The first part - Public for place - concentrates on networks and actions people are involved in when creating social environments in cities. This part elucidates public space through the interactions and networks the place brings about among people. The second part - Place for public - is more practically oriented and shows methodologies and tools to address current issues in contemporary urban planning and to achieve better public space design. Part three - Public in place - shows actual cases of what has been/is being done in the field, how several actions have been implemented and how users were engaged with actual places themselves. The fourth part - Public space as a common good - is the most artistic part of the book. It shows contemporary actions from around the globe by means of graphical materials, gathered during the competition "Human Cities: Places to be".


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Sprawl repair manual
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ISBN: 9781597267311 9781597267328 1597267325 1597267317 1597269859 9781597269858 Year: 2010 Publisher: Washington, DC : Island Press,

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The just city
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ISBN: 9780801446559 9780801476907 0801462185 0801460484 0801446554 9780801460487 9780801462184 0801476909 Year: 2010 Publisher: Ithaca : Cornell University Press,

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For much of the twentieth century improvement in the situation of disadvantaged communities was a focus for urban planning and policy. Yet over the past three decades the ideological triumph of neoliberalism has caused the allocation of spatial, political, economic, and financial resources to favor economic growth at the expense of wider social benefits. Susan Fainstein's concept of the "just city" encourages planners and policymakers to embrace a different approach to urban development. Her objective is to combine progressive city planners' earlier focus on equity and material well-being with considerations of diversity and participation so as to foster a better quality of urban life within the context of a global capitalist political economy.Fainstein applies theoretical concepts about justice developed by contemporary philosophers to the concrete problems faced by urban planners and policymakers and argues that, despite structural obstacles, meaningful reform can be achieved at the local level. In the first half of The Just City, Fainstein draws on the work of John Rawls, Martha Nussbaum, Iris Marion Young, Nancy Fraser, and others to develop an approach to justice relevant to twenty-first-century cities, one that incorporates three central concepts: diversity, democracy, and equity. In the book's second half, Fainstein tests her ideas through case studies of New York, London, and Amsterdam by evaluating their postwar programs for housing and development in relation to the three norms. She concludes by identifying a set of specific criteria for urban planners and policymakers to consider when developing programs to assure greater justice in both the process of their formulation and their effects.

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Environmental planning --- Social stratification --- Sociology of environment --- City planning --- Urban policy --- Municipal government --- Social justice --- Moral and ethical aspects --- Urbanisme --- Politique urbaine --- Administration communale --- Justice sociale --- Aspect moral --- 316.334.5 --- 711.4 --- 911.3:30 --- Equality --- Justice --- Cities and towns --- City government --- Municipal administration --- Municipal reform --- Municipalities --- Urban politics --- Local government --- Metropolitan government --- Municipal corporations --- Cities and state --- Urban problems --- City and town life --- Economic policy --- Social policy --- Sociology, Urban --- Urban renewal --- Civic planning --- Land use, Urban --- Model cities --- Redevelopment, Urban --- Slum clearance --- Town planning --- Urban design --- Urban development --- Urban planning --- Land use --- Planning --- Art, Municipal --- Civic improvement --- Regional planning --- Moral and ethical aspects. --- Sociologie van het wonen, van de woonomgeving. Sociale ecologie. --- Gemeentelijke planologie. Stadsplanning. Stedenbouw --- Social geography --- Government --- Government policy --- Management --- Stedelijke gebieden --- Stadsvernieuwing --- Stadsvernieuwing. --- 711.4 Gemeentelijke planologie. Stadsplanning. Stedenbouw --- 316.334.5 Sociologie van het wonen, van de woonomgeving. Sociale ecologie. --- Social justice. --- Sociologie van het wonen, van de woonomgeving. Sociale ecologie --- Justice sociale. --- Aspect moral. --- City planning - Moral and ethical aspects --- Urban policy - Moral and ethical aspects --- Municipal government - Moral and ethical aspects


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Urbanism in the age of climate change
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ISBN: 1610910052 9781597267205 9781597267212 9781610910057 9781597264198 1597267201 159726721X 1597264199 Year: 2010 Publisher: Washington, DC Island Press

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“Cities are green” is becoming a common refrain.  But Calthorpe argues that a more comprehensive understanding of urbanism at the regional scale provides a better platform to address climate change.  In this groundbreaking new work, he shows how such regionally scaled urbanism can be combined with green technology to achieve not only needed reductions in carbon emissions but other critical economies and lifestyle benefits.  Rather than just providing another checklist of new energy sources or one dimensional land use alternatives, he combines them into comprehensive national growth scenarios for 2050 and documents their potential impacts.  In so doing he powerfully demonstrates that it will take an integrated approach of land use transformation, policy changes, and innovative technology to transition to a low carbon economy. To accomplish this Calthorpe synthesizes thirty years of experience, starting with his ground breaking work in sustainable community design in the 1980's following through to his current leadership in transit-oriented design, regional planning, and land use policy. Peter Calthorpe shows us what is possible using real world examples of innovative design strategies and forward-thinking policies that are already changing the way we live. This provocative and engaging work emerges from Calthorpe’s belief that, just as the last fifty years produced massive changes in our culture, economy and environment, the next fifty will generate changes of an even more profound nature. The book, enhanced by its superb four-color graphics, is a call to action and a road map for moving forward.

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City planning --- Community development, Urban --- Sustainable development --- Urban ecology (Sociology) --- Environmental aspects --- Community programs, Urban --- Neighborhood improvement programs --- Urban community development --- Urban economic development --- Cities and towns --- Civic planning --- Land use, Urban --- Model cities --- Redevelopment, Urban --- Slum clearance --- Town planning --- Urban design --- Urban development --- Urban planning --- Citizen participation --- Government policy --- Social aspects --- Planning --- Management --- comprehensive plans [reports] --- Urban Ecology --- urbanism --- Énergie renouvelable --- renewable energy --- USA --- City planning -- Environmental aspects -- United States. --- Community development, Urban -- Environmental aspects -- United States. --- Sustainable development -- United States. --- Urban ecology (Sociology) -- United States. --- Environment. --- Architecture. --- Urban planning. --- City planning. --- Urban ecology (Biology). --- Climate change. --- Climate Change. --- Cities, Countries, Regions. --- Urbanism. --- Urban Ecology. --- Changes, Climatic --- Climate change --- Climate changes --- Climate variations --- Climatic change --- Climatic changes --- Climatic fluctuations --- Climatic variations --- Global climate changes --- Global climatic changes --- Climatology --- Climate change mitigation --- Teleconnections (Climatology) --- City ecology (Biology) --- Ecology --- Land use --- Art, Municipal --- Civic improvement --- Regional planning --- Urban policy --- Urban renewal --- Architecture, Western (Western countries) --- Building design --- Buildings --- Construction --- Western architecture (Western countries) --- Art --- Building --- Design and construction --- Environmental planning --- ruimtelijke ordening --- United States --- Sociology, Urban --- Towns --- Transport --- transport --- Environmental sciences --- Architecture --- Sciences de l'environnement --- Climat --- Changements --- EPUB-LIV-FT LIVECOLO LIVTERRE SPRINGER-B --- Climatic changes. --- Urban ecology --- Urban environment --- Social ecology --- Changes in climate --- Climate change science --- transport. --- United States of America

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