Author : Livable Winter City Association
Publisher : Livable Winter City Association
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 25,1 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Architecture and climate
ISBN :
Collection of papers by Canadian experts concerning development policies, strategies, concepts and trends that will ameliorate important features of daily life in cities, with special emphasis on the winter season. Highlights critical issues related to cold climate urban environments.
Author : Norman Pressman
Publisher : Prince George, B.C. : Winter Cities Association
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 19,52 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Architecture
ISBN :
Author : Gary Gappert
Publisher : SAGE Publications, Incorporated
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 13,55 MB
Release : 1987-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN :
What does the future hold for winter cities? Will the migration of people and jobs to the sunbelt prove to be an irreversible trend? This volume assesses the prospects of snowbelt cities. The contributors suggest that the future of older cities in winter climates will be influenced by: the revitalization of older industrial cities; the annexation in the growth of southern cities; the concept of 'liveable winter cities'; the evolution of transactional cities as a significant sector of the economy; and new design initiatives such as multibuilding, multiblock pedestrian walkways, and mass production of glass at a low cost.
Author : Uday Chatterjee
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 20,27 MB
Release : 2022-04-21
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1000576558
While technology is developing at a fast pace, urban planners and cities are still behind in finding effective ways to use technology to address citizen’s needs. Multiple aspects of sustainable urbanism are brought together in this book, along with advanced technologies and their connections to urban planning and management. It integrates urban studies, smart cities, AI, IoT, remote sensing, and GIS. Highlights include land use planning, spatial planning, and ecosystem-based information to improve economic opportunities. Urban planners and engineers will understand the use of AI in disaster management and the use of GIS in finding suitable landfill sites for sustainable waste management. Features Explains the process of urban heritage conservation, including the process of urban renewal and its regeneration and the role of citizens in urban renewal, planning, and management. Includes several case studies highlighting urban environmental problems and challenges in developed and developing countries and the ways for converting urban areas into smart cities. Focuses on urban resources, the supply of energy in smart cities, and their proper management practices. Introduces the role of remote sensing, GIS, and IoT in making a smart city and meeting sustainable goals. Analyzes unique case studies, their challenges and obstacles, and proposes a set of factors to understanding smart city initiatives and projects.
Author : Daniel A. Alexandrov
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 511 pages
File Size : 48,76 MB
Release : 2021-01-08
Category : Computers
ISBN : 3030652181
This volume constitutes refereed proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Digital Transformation and Global Society, DTGS 2020, held in St. Petersburg, Russia, in June 2020. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic the conference was held online. The 30 revised full papers and 6 short papers presented in the volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 108 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on e-society: virtual communities and online activism; e-society: computational social science; e-polity: governance and politics on the Internet; e-city: smart cities and urban governance; e-economy: digital economy and consumer behavior; e-humanities: digital culture and education; e-health: international workshop "E-Health: 4P-medicine & Digital Transformation".
Author : Jorma Mänty
Publisher :
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 20,30 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Architecture and climate
ISBN :
Series of papers which describe approaches to cold climate habitability from various northern nations including examples from Canada, China, Finland, Greenland, Iceland, Japan, Mongolia, Norway, Soviet Union, Sweden and the United States.
Author : Michael Hough
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 43,35 MB
Release : 1990-01-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780300052237
Hough argues that the monotony of the modern landscape is a reflection of society's indifference to the diversity inherent in ecological systems and in human communities. He uses world-wide case studies to show how built areas work and how designers can maintain the identities of different places.
Author : Stephen Carr
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 49,38 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780521359603
The authors offer a perspective of how to integrate public space and public life. They contend that three critical human dimensions should guide the process of design and management of public space: the users' essential needs, their spatial rights, and the meanings they seek.
Author : John Czaplicka
Publisher : Woodrow Wilson Center Press
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 38,81 MB
Release : 2009-02-10
Category : Architecture
ISBN :
Cities after the Fall of Communism traces the cultural reorientation of East European cities since 1989. Analyzing the architecture, commemorative practices, and urban planning of cities such as Lviv, Vilnius, and Odessa, the contributors to this volume demonstrate how history may be selectively re-imagined in light of present political and cultural realities. These essays show that while East European cities gravitate nostalgically toward Habsburg, Baltic, Imperial Russian, and Germanic pasts, they are also embracing new urban identities grounded in ethnic-national, European, Western, and global contexts. Ultimately, the editors argue that one can see a "New Europe" taking shape in these cities, where a strained discourse between different versions of the past and variously envisioned futures is being set in stone, steel, and glass.
Author : Mack Travis
Publisher : Cornell Publishing
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 45,29 MB
Release : 2018-12-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1501730150
Picture your downtown vacant, boarded up, while the malls surrounding your city are thriving. What would you do? In 1974 the politicians, merchants, community leaders, and business and property owners, of Ithaca, New York, joined together to transform main street into a pedestrian mall. Cornell University began an Industrial Research Park to keep and attract jobs. Developers began renovating run-down housing. City Planners crafted a long-range plan utilizing State legislation permitting a Business Improvement District (BID), with taxing authority to raise up to 20 percent of the City tax rate focused on downtown redevelopment. Shaping a City is the behind-the-scenes story of one developer’s involvement, from first buying and renovating small houses, gradually expanding his thinking and projects to include a recognition of the interdependence of the entire city—jobs, infrastructure, retail, housing, industry, taxation, banking and City Planning. It is the story of how he, along with other local developers transformed a quiet, economically challenged upstate New York town into one that is recognized nationally as among the best small cities in the country. The lessons and principles of personal relationships, cooperation and collaboration, the importance of density, and the power of a Business Improvement District to catalyze change, are ones you can take home for the development and revitalization of your city.
