Author: United States. Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Army (Civil Works)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Oakland Inner Harbor (Calif.)
Languages : en
Pages : 830
Book Description
Restoration Project for Oakland Harbor, California
Author: United States. Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Army (Civil Works)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Oakland Inner Harbor (Calif.)
Languages : en
Pages : 830
Book Description
Oakland Harbor Inner and Outer Deep Navigation (-50 Foot) Improvement Project
Author: Cities, Nature and Development
Author: Sarah DoolingPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317165977
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 229
Book Description
Bringing together an interdisciplinary team of scholars, this book illustrates how and why cities are comprised by a mosaic of vulnerable human and ecological communities. Case studies ranging across various international settings reveal how 'urban vulnerabilities' is an effective metaphor and analytic lens for advancing political ecological theories on the relationships between cities, nature and development. Contributions expand upon conceptions of vulnerability as a static condition and instead present vulnerability as a phenomenon that is produced through complex and contentious planning histories, and which may, in turn, be politicized, exploited and-in some instances-contested. Expanding upon snapshot vulnerability assessments, this volume articulates vulnerability as a process that is marked by the accumulation of risk over time and the transference of risk across space and populations. Moving beyond notions of vulnerability as a singular, case studies demonstrate that social and ecological vulnerabilities are deeply integrated and, as such, are irreducible to one or the other. This volume also highlights how the production of vulnerabilities is frequently achieved through integrated and mutually reinforcing economic development and environmentally driven agendas. This collection thus suggests that vulnerability-and also forms of resilience-are implicated in efforts to plan for and manage sustainable cities. This book provides timely and provocative perspectives on a wide range of urban issues including: park management, gentrification, suburban expansion, sustainability planning, local organic food systems, hazards management, climate change activism and north-south flows of urban environmental externalities. Collectively, these works reveal the complexities of urban vulnerabilities-related to scalar interactions, accumulation and transfer of risk, politicization and governance, and capacity for resistance-and in doing so, provide readers with coherent, robust and well-theorized analysis of the politics and production of urban vulnerabilities.
BART-Oakland International Airport Connector
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Environmental impact statements
Languages : en
Pages : 888
Book Description
Flame and Fortune in the American West
Author: Gregory SimonPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520292790
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
Flame and Fortune in the American West creatively and meticulously investigates the ongoing politics, folly, and avarice shaping the production of increasingly widespread yet dangerous suburban and exurban landscapes. The 1991 Oakland Hills Tunnel Fire is used as a starting point to better understand these complex social-environmental processes. The Tunnel Fire is the most destructive fire—in terms of structures lost—in California history. More than 3,000 residential structures burned and 25 lives were lost. Although this fire occurred in Oakland and Berkeley, others like it sear through landscapes in California and the American West that have experienced urban growth and development within areas historically prone to fire. Simon skillfully blends techniques from environmental history, political ecology, and science studies to closely examine the Tunnel Fire within a broader historical and spatial context of regional economic development and natural-resource management, such as the widespread planting of eucalyptus trees as an exotic lure for homeowners and the creation of hillside neighborhoods for tax revenue—decisions that produced communities with increased vulnerability to fire. Simon demonstrates how in Oakland a drive for affluence led to a state of vulnerability for rich and poor alike that has only been exacerbated by the rebuilding of neighborhoods after the fire. Despite these troubling trends, Flame and Fortune in the American West illustrates how many popular and scientific debates on fire limit the scope and efficacy of policy responses. These risky yet profitable developments (what the author refers to as the Incendiary), as well as proposed strategies for challenging them, are discussed in the context of urbanizing areas around the American West and hold global applicability within hazard-prone areas.
R + R
Author: Kathryn Woodward MollPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
Sanborn Park Master Plan
Author: Urban Adaptation
Author: Benjamin Victor FeldmannPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
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Author: Rachel Berney