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Implementing the Habitat Agenda. In Search of Urban Sustainability
Implementing the Habitat Agenda. In Search of Urban Sustainability. 4 November 2011. The Habitat Agenda was adopted at the second United Nations conference on Human Settlements 'The City Summit' in Istanbul in 1996, when governments of the world…
Development Planning Unit
Spatial Planning for Urban Infrastructure Investment: A Guide to Training and Practice
Spatial Planning for Urban Infrastructure Investment: A Guide to Training and Practice. 4 November 2011. This manual takes the trainer and user through a set of actions to produce spatial urban plans and to use them for advising decision makers on…
Development Planning Unit
The Challenge of Environmental Management in Urban Areas
The Challenge of Environmental Management in Urban Areas. 4 November 2011. A collection of ground-breaking and thought-provoking papers written by some of the most distinguished, internationally known names in the field of urban sustainability. The…
Development Planning Unit
Guidelines for Strategic Environmental Planning and Management of the Peri-Urban Interface
Guidelines for Strategic Environmental Planning and Management of the Peri-Urban Interface. 4 November 2011. These guidelines comprise three short volumes, a flyer, and a poster. They seek to provide a basic understanding of the processes involved…
Development Planning Unit
Sustainable Urbanisation: Bridging the Green and Brown Agendas
Sustainable Urbanisation: Bridging the Green and Brown Agendas. 4 November 2011. The World’s development and environmental communities came together for the Earth Summit in Rio in 1992. This summit produced a comprehensive vision for the future…
Development Planning Unit
Weather Architecture
Weather Architecture. 4 October 2011. Jonathan Hill (London: Routledge, 2012). Further extending Jonathan Hill's investigation of authorship, this book recognizes the weather as a creative architectural force alongside the designer and user.…
The Bartlett School of Architecture
Virtual Geographic Environments
Virtual Geographic Environments. 4 October 2011. Virtual Geographic Environments, edited by Hui Lin and Michael Batty, collects key papers that define the current momentum in GIS and "virtual geographies.". Contributions by leading members of the…
Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis
Studies in Temporal Urbanism: The urbanTick Experiment
Studies in Temporal Urbanism: The urbanTick Experiment. 4 October 2011. The book brings together writings on temporal aspects of the city, covering aspects from time and space to embodiment and narratives. In addition to the main text it also…
Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis
Weather Architecture
Weather Architecture. 4 October 2011. Jonathan Hill (London: Routledge, 2012). Further extending Jonathan Hill's investigation of authorship, this book recognizes the weather as a creative architectural force alongside the designer and user.…
The Bartlett School of Architecture
Knowledge Power: Interdisciplinary education for a complex world
Knowledge Power: Interdisciplinary education for a complex world. 4 October 2011. Success in the twenty-first century demands knowledge power - for individuals, organizations, cities, regions and countries. This book offers a map showing the…
Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis