Author: David WilkPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Environmental Planning in Mexico City
Sustaining Cities
Author: Josef LeitmannPublisher: McGraw-Hill Professional Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
Meet the "brown agenda" challenge of fast-growing cities. Planning and development professionals who need to cope with the problems of increasing urbanization will find practical tools in Joseph Leitmann's Sustaining Cities: Environmental Planning and Management in Urban Design. This unique reference explores the highest priority problems -sanitation and drainage, solid waste management, degradation of environmentally sensitive land, uncontrolled emissions, accidents linked to congestion, and improper disposal of hazardous waste, problems that result in poor health, lower productivity, reduced income and quality of life. It's the first book to give you realistic, innovative, in-depth options that you can use on a day-to-day basis, with examples from many parts of the world. You get a proven planning framework and strategic approach for addressing the environmental issues confronting and caused by cities, and resources you can turn to for more help, information, and training.
Integrated Environmental Plan for the Mexican-U.S. Border Area
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Environmental policy
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Mexico Environmental Technologies Export Market Plan
Author: Human Settlements and Planning for Ecological Sustainability
Author: Keith PezzoliPublisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 9780262661140
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
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.
Integrated Air Quality Management
Author: Nguyen Thi Kim OanhPublisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 1439862265
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 413
Book Description
The steady growth in the number of vehicles on the road, heavy reliance on coal, use of dirty fuels for residential combustion, and extensive open burning are some of the major factors leading to the progressive deterioration of air quality in developing countries in Asia. And despite efforts to establish and implement air quality measurement syste
Housing and Urban Development Planning in Mexico
Author: United States. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Office of International AffairsPublisher: Washington, D.C. : The Office
ISBN:
Category : City planning
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
Dreaming of Dry Land
Author: Vera S. CandianiPublisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 0804791074
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 409
Book Description
Not long after the conquest, the City of Mexico's rise to become the crown jewel in the Spanish empire was compromised by the lakes that surrounded it. Their increasing propensity to overflow destroyed wealth and alarmed urban elites, who responded with what would become the most transformative and protracted drainage project in the early modern America—the Desagüe de Huehuetoca. Hundreds of technicians, thousands of indigenous workers, and millions of pesos were marshaled to realize a complex system of canals, tunnels, dams, floodgates, and reservoirs. Vera S. Candiani's Dreaming of Dry Land weaves a narrative that describes what colonization was and looked like on the ground, and how it affected land, water, biota, humans, and the relationship among them, to explain the origins of our built and unbuilt landscapes. Connecting multiple historiographical traditions—history of science and technology, environmental history, social history, and Atlantic history—Candiani proposes that colonization was a class, not an ethnic or nation-based phenomenon, occurring simultaneously on both sides of an Atlantic, where state-building and empire-building were intertwined.
Environment and Development in Mexico
Author: Jan Gilbreath RichPublisher: CSIS
ISBN: 9780892064236
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
Housing and Urban Development Planning in Mexico
Author: United States. Dept. of Housing and Urban Development. Office of International AffairsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : City planning
Languages : en
Pages : 62
Book Description