"This book aims to bridge the gap in the current literature by addressing the overall problems present in major infrastructure in society, and the technologies that may be applied to overcome these problems"--Provided by publisher
"This book aims to bridge the gap in the current literature by addressing the overall problems present in major infrastructure in society, and the technologies that may be applied to overcome these problems"--Provided by publisher.
"Islamic Finance as a Complex System is a unique collection that provides theoretical, empirical, and policy insights into Islamic finance. The contributors are theorists and practitioners from prominent institutions, including the world's biggest Islamic and non-Islamic financi…
"In 1995, with the establishment of the Palestinian Authority, Israel transferred responsibility for waste management in the West Bank to the nascent Palestinian government. While electricity, water, roads, and telecommunications remained largely controlled by Israel building ne…
Introduction : Berlin's invisible infrastructures -- Trajectories of technological urbanism -- Unitary services for a greater Berlin -- Weimar's networked municipalism -- Subjugation to National Socialism -- Vulnerability and resilience during war and division -- In pursuit of t…
With 29 percent of all trips made by bicycle, Copenhagen is considered a model of green transport. This book considers the underlying political conditions that enabled cycling to appeal to such a wide range of citizens in Copenhagen and asks how this can be replicated elsewhere.…
Contemporary forms of infrastructural development herald alternative futures through their incorporation of digital technologies, mobile capital, international politics and the promises and fears of enhanced connectivity. In tandem with increasing concerns about climate change a…
Contemporary forms of infrastructural development herald alternative futures through their incorporation of digital technologies, mobile capital, international politics and the promises and fears of enhanced connectivity. In tandem with increasing concerns about climate change a…
Contemporary forms of infrastructural development herald alternative futures through their incorporation of digital technologies, mobile capital, international politics and the promises and fears of enhanced connectivity. In tandem with increasing concerns about climate change a…
Introduction: Infrastructure, resistance, literature -- Mapping humanitarianism: Flora Annie Steel and the contradictions of colonial capitalism -- Mapping segregation: literary geographies of South Africa -- Mapping frontiers: John Buchan and the topographies of imperial ideolo…
"Between 1880 and 1930, the British Empire's vast infrastructural developments facilitated the incorporation of large parts of the globe into not only its imperial rule, but also the capitalist world-system. Throughout this period, colonial literary fiction, in recording this va…
Better Public Transit Systems is a complete primer for performance and investment analysis of public transportation. Whether you're planning a major new public transit project, an extension or expansion of an existing system, or simply evaluating the needs of your current system…
Roads to Power tells the story of how Britain built the first nation connected by infrastructure, how a libertarian revolution destroyed a national economy, and how technology caused strangers to stop speaking. In early eighteenth-century Britain, nothing but dirt track ran betw…