Cities can only exist because of the highly developed systems which underlie them, ensuring that energy, clean water, etc. are moved efficiently from producer to user, and that waste is removed. The urgent need to make the way that these services are provided more environmentall…
This work focuses on the crucial role of intermediaries (between producers, users and regulators) in urban change. The book brings together the world's leading researchers in this field.
City and society in the Low Countries, 1100-1600
"The Low Countries was collectively one of the earliest and most heavily urbanised societies in European history. Present-day Belgium and the Netherlands still share important common features, such as comparatively low income inequalities, high levels of per capita income, a bal…
Aboriginal communities in northern Australia; administration; facilities; landownership; numbers and centres of population; skills.
Die Entwicklung von ostdeutschen Städten und Regionen ist seit 1990 von vielfältigen Umbrüchen geprägt. Ein Nebeneinander von Schrumpfung und Wachstum, Abriss und Neubau, Strukturproblemen und Entwicklungsimpulsen kennzeichnet die Regionalentwicklung in Ostdeutschland. Die Unter…
Infrastructure, as we know it, no longer belongs in the exclusive realm of engineers and transportation planners. In the context of rapidly changing cities and towns, infrastructure is experiencing a paradigm shift where multiple-use programming and the integration of latent eco…
Infrastructure, as we know it, no longer belongs in the exclusive realm of engineers and transportation planners. In the context of rapidly changing cities and towns, infrastructure is experiencing a paradigm shift where multiple-use programming and the integration of latent eco…