Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Housing
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
HUD Challenge
Author: Global Planning Innovations for Urban Sustainability
Author: Sébastien DarchenPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 135112420X
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
As the world becomes more urbanised, solutions are required to solve current challenges for three arenas of sustainability: social sustainability, environmental sustainability and urban economic sustainability. This edited volume interrogates innovative solutions for sustainability in cities around the world. The book draws on a group of 12 international case studies, including Vancouver and Calgary in Canada, San Francisco and Los Angeles in the US (North America), Yogyakarta in Indonesia, Seoul in Korea (South-East Asia), Medellin in Colombia (South America), Helsinki in Finland, Freiburg in Germany and Seville in Spain (Europe). Each case study provides key facts about the city, presents the particular urban sustainability challenge and the planning innovation process and examines what trade-offs were made between social, environmental and economic sustainability. Importantly, the book analyses to what extent these planning innovations can be translated from one context to another. This book will be essential reading to students, academics and practitioners of urban planning, urban sustainability, urban geography, architecture, urban design, environmental sciences, urban studies and politics.
Challenge
Author: Compendium of Research Reports
Author: United States. Dept. of Housing and Urban Development. Office of Policy Development and ResearchPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Housing
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Compendium of Research Reports
Author: United States. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Office of Policy Development and ResearchPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Housing
Languages : en
Pages : 1026
Book Description
How Cities Will Save the World
Author: Ray BresciaPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317120884
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
Cities are frequently viewed as passive participants to state and national efforts to solve the toughest urban problems. But the evidence suggests otherwise. Cities are actively devising innovative policy solutions and they have the potential to do even more. In this volume, the authors examine current threats to communities across the U.S. and the globe. They draw on first-hand experience with, and accounts of, the crises already precipitated by climate change, population shifts, and economic inequality. This volume is distinguished, however, by its central objective of traveling beyond a description of problems and a discussion of their serious implications. Each of the thirteen chapters frame specific recommendations and guidance on the range of core capacities and interventions that 21st Century cities would be prudent to consider in mapping their immediate and future responses to these critical problems. How Cities Will Save the World brings together authors with frontline experience in the fields of city redevelopment, urban infrastructure, healthcare, planning, immigration, historic preservation, and local government administration. They not only offer their ground level view of threats caused by climate change, population shifts, and economic inequality, but they provide solution-driven narratives identifying promising innovations to help cities tackle this century’s greatest adversities.
Urban Management
Author: G. Shabbir CheemaPublisher: Praeger
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
The relentless growth of cities is inevitable--and irreversible. Developing countries' share of the world's urban population will rise to 71% by the year 2000 and 80% by 2025. By the end of the 1990s, it is estimated that 18 cities in developing countries will have a population of 10 million or more. Although those cities are centers of production, employment, and innovation, rapid urbanization has had many negative consequences: an alarming increase in the incidence of urban poverty, the concentration of modern productive activities in major metropolitan areas, inadequate access to housing and basic urban services, and the degradation of the urban environment. Urban Management reviews the state of the art in innovative urban management, discusses the latest findings on key issues of urban management, and identifies policy-relevant research needs and priorities. Chapters are contributed by urban specialists from Asia, Latin America, Europe, Africa, Oceania, and North America, who identify urbanization processes and strategies, provide comparative analyses of urban management issues throughout the world, and present original country case studies. Recommended for urban development planners and administrators in developing countries, persons from donor countries working on projects in developing countries, students of urban management, and others interested in developmental issues at the global, regional, national, and municipal levels.
Education, Innovation and Economic Society Development
Author: Norbert GrünwaldPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3945021197
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
The ICEBE conference held in Shijiazhuang is the seventh in a series of annual conferences on engineering and business education and ICIE is the 5th international conference that runs every two years on innovation and entrepreneurship. It is the fourth joint conference organised by the Robert-Schmidt-Institute (University Wismar), hosted by Shijiazhuang University of Economics and co- organized by La Consolacion College Manila. The theme of the conference is “Education Innovation and Economic Society Development” which describes the emphasis that is laid on always combining education with the need of the society, not only to consider one in isolation from the others. Therefore the primary target of the conference is to provide the delegates with cross-disciplinary interests related to the subjects above in engineering and business education.
Smart Cities Blueprint: Innovations in Urban Planning and Management
Author: Michael RobertsPublisher: Richards Education
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
As urbanization accelerates, cities around the globe face unprecedented challenges and opportunities. "Smart Cities Blueprint: Innovations in Urban Planning and Management" provides a comprehensive guide to designing, implementing, and managing smart cities that leverage technology and innovation for sustainable and efficient urban living. This book covers a wide range of topics, from smart infrastructure and IoT integration to data-driven governance and citizen engagement. Through in-depth analysis, practical insights, and real-world case studies, this guide offers valuable knowledge for urban planners, policymakers, architects, engineers, and anyone interested in the future of urban development. Transform your city with cutting-edge strategies and make it a model of smart urban planning and management.
The Role of Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Economic Growth
Author: Michael J AndrewsPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022681078X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 633
Book Description
"Innovation and entrepreneurship are ubiquitous today, both as fields of study and as starting points for conversations among experts in government and economic development. But while these areas on continue to attract public and private investments, many measurements of their resulting economic growth-including productivity growth and business dynamism-have remained modest. Why this difference? Because not all business sectors are the same, and the transformative gains of some industries have been offset by stagnation or contraction in others. Accordingly, a nuanced understanding of the economy requires a nuanced understanding of where innovation and entrepreneurship occur and where they matter. Answering these questions allows for strategic public investment and the infrastructure for economic growth.The Role of Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Economic Growth, the latest entry in the NBER conference series, seeks to codify these answers. The editors leverage industry studies to identify specific examples of productivity improvements enabled by innovation and entrepreneurship, including those from new production technologies, increased competition, new organizational forms, and other means. Taken together, the volume illuminates whether the contribution of innovation and entrepreneurship to economic growth is likely to be concentrated, be it selected sectors or more broadly"--