Download or read book La Dynamique urbaine written by Claude Chaline and published by FeniXX. This book was released on 1980-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Qu'est-ce qui fait changer les villes ? Quelles forces sous-tendent leurs transformations de forme et de fonction ? L'ouvrage s'applique à analyser le vaste champ des modifications plus ou moins profondes qui, depuis une vingtaine d'années, caractérisent les villes dans leurs centres et leurs quartiers relativement anciens. Forces du marché, interventions de l'État, poids des techniques, rôle des comportements, pèsent plus ou moins selon les contextes socio-économiques. Il s'ensuit qu'aux aspects généraux succède une typologie géographique. Rejetant tout vocabulaire ou approche ésotériques, l'ouvrage veut plutôt sensibiliser et relativiser sur un thème fondamental de notre temps.
Download or read book Capital Cities Les Capitales written by John H. Taylor and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1993 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An unusual look at the nature and role of capital cities around the world - past, present and future. The 24 papers by scholars from many countries and disciplines present their thinking on capital cities, with contributions from Amos Rapoport, Claude Raffestin, Peter Hall and Anthony Sutcliffe. 16 papers in English, 8 in French.
Download or read book Brodbeck and Roulet written by Michel Nemec and published by Images Publishing. This book was released on 2008 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Swiss architectural firm Brodbeck & Roulet was established in 1978 and is now recognised as one of Europe's leading architectural ateliers. Brodbeck & Roulet projects range from administration and industry buildings to urban development and public transport, from housing developments and residentials to prominent public buildings and sites. The principal architects are Rino Brodbeck and Jacques Roulet."--Provided by publisher.
Download or read book Spatial Analytical written by Manfred M Fischer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-03-13 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ability to manipulate spatial data in different forms and to extract additional meaning from them is at the heart of GIS, yet genuine spatial analysis tools are rarely incorporated into commercial software, thus seriously limiting their usefulness. The future of GIS technology wil depend largely on the incorporation of more powerful analytical and modelling functions - and there is agreement within the GIS community of the urgent need to address these issues. This text attempts this task. It presents the latest information on incorporating spatial analysis tools into GIS, and includes concepts and applications from both the environmental and socio-econimc sciences.
Download or read book Terra 2008 written by Leslie Rainer and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2011-06-14 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Earthen architecture constitutes one of the most diverse forms of cultural heritage and one of the most challenging to preserve. It dates from all periods and is found on all continents but is particularly prevalent in Africa, where it has been a building tradition for centuries. Sites range from ancestral cities in Mali to the palaces of Abomey in Benin, from monuments and mosques in Iran and Buddhist temples on the Silk Road to Spanish missions in California. This volume's sixty-four papers address such themes as earthen architecture in Mali, the conservation of living sites, local knowledge systems and intangible aspects, seismic and other natural forces, the conservation and management of archaeological sites, research advances, and training.
Download or read book Time Process and Structured Transformation in Archaeology written by James McGlade and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-16 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a discipline which essentially studies how modern man came to be, it is remarkable that there are hardly any conceptual tools to describe change. This is due to the history of the western intellectual and scientific tradition, which for a long time favoured mechanics over dynamics, and the study of stability over that of change. Change was primarily deemed due to external events (in archaeology mainly climatic or 'environmental'). Revolutionary innovations in the natural and life sciences, often (erroneously) referred to as 'chaos theory', suggest that there are ways to overcome this problem. A wide range of processes can be described in terms of dynamic systems, and modern computing methods enable us to investigate many of their properties. This volume presents a cogent argument for the use of such approaches, and a discussion of a number of its aspects by a range of scientists from the humanities, social and natural sciences, and archaeology.
Download or read book Rural urban Dynamics in Francophone Africa written by Jonathan Baker and published by Nordic Africa Institute. This book was released on 1997 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents some examples of the richness and variety of contemporary research on rural-urban interactions by francophone researchers. Case studies are drawn from Burkina Faso, Ctte d'Ivoire, Congo, Benin, Senegal and Togo.
Download or read book The City written by Jacques Lévy and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-05-15 with total page 705 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The spread of urbanization has transformed the concept of the city, but the way urban planners, urban scientists and, above all, urban dwellers address it has also changed, probably even more so. The city is thus a new topic for geography, a discipline that has experienced an ambiguous relationship to cities in the past. What kind of geography is required in order to bring fresh insight to this renewed field? Drawing together a wide range of texts from philosophers, sociologists and economist as well as geographers and urban planners, this volume provides a theoretical framework within which this question can begin to be explored.
Download or read book Democracy in Senegal written by S. Gellar and published by Springer. This book was released on 2005-09-16 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Providing an in-depth comparative study of democracy formation, Gellar traces Senegal's movement from a pre-colonial aristocratic order towards a modern democratic political order. Inspired by Tocqueville's methodology, he identifies social equality, ethnic and religious tolerance, popular participation in local affairs, and freedom of association and the press as vital components of any democratic system. He shows how centralized state structures and monopoly of political power stifled local initiative and perpetuated neo-patrimonial modes of governance.
Download or read book Research on Transport Economics 1998 written by European Conference of Ministers of Transport and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 1998-11-03 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This annual information bulletin presents a survey of research in hand on the social and economic aspects of transport in over 400 specialised agencies which are mainly European (West and East) but in some cases American, Canadian or Australian.
Download or read book Integrating Climate Change Actions into Local Development written by Livia Bizikova and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-02-13 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To date, climate change adaptation and mitigation have been treated separately both in research and in the climate negotiations. However, a growing body of literature is now being developed that points to actual and potential synergies and trade-offs between responses to climate change and sustainability. This literature has evolved in a spontaneous way with diverse approaches and no common methodology to help practitioners explicitly plan for these synergies. This special issue of the Climate Policy journal addresses this gap between scientific knowledge and practitioners' needs by focussing on linkages between climate change and sustainable development at the level of conceptual framework and methods. In particular, the papers address in an integrated way local development options involving both adaptation and mitigation in order to promote resilience to climate change in human and natural systems. The special issue provides policy and methodological guidelines for linking local deveopment pathways with responses to climate change, based on collaboration between local practitioners, the public and scientists.
Download or read book R seaux Urbains en Europe written by Denise Pumain and published by John Libbey Eurotext. This book was released on 1996 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the emergence of European urban networks and their consequences for the new position that each city has acquired through the internationalization of trade. Describes the networking process from the point of view of transport infrastructure, accesibility, and the new economic and political links that are growing up between cities. Covers mainly the period from 1970 to 1990.
Download or read book Intermediaries Interpreters and Clerks written by Benjamin N. Lawrance and published by University of Wisconsin Pres. This book was released on 2006 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher description
Download or read book Simulation of Complex Systems in GIS written by Patrice Langlois and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-02-04 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a comprehensive view of the field of geographical modeling by dividing the topic into three parts. The first part of the work establishes the foundations of geographical modeling through the use of more general concepts, including: structure, organization, system, geometries, topologies, metrics, material, and object. Finally, introduction of the concept of time leads to the theories of process and spatial interaction, which are fundamental in geography. The second part of the book tackles the use of computer tools for dynamic model building, which are the geographic cellular automata (GCA), and presents several models applied to various themes, such as urban growth, natural risks by flood simulations, as well as more political themes, such as the use of European funds, or the development of voting patterns in France. Finally, a general model of the geographic agents system (GAS) which can be used as a basis for the construction of a model-building platform for dynamic spatial models is presented.
Download or read book World malaria report 2022 written by World Health Organization and published by World Health Organization. This book was released on 2022-12-08 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Each year, WHO’s World malaria report offers in-depth information on the latest trends in malaria control and elimination at global, regional and country levels. The report highlights progress towards global targets and describes opportunities and challenges for curbing and eliminating the disease. This year’s report includes three new sections on: (1) global and regional initiatives launched in 2021 and 2022; (2) global malaria surveillance and country-level case studies on surveillance systems assessments; and (3) research and development. The report also includes an expanded section on threats to malaria control, with a focus on the declining effectiveness of insecticide-treated mosquito nets.
Download or read book Consultancy and Innovation written by Peter Wood and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-09-02 with total page 501 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Consultancy and Innovation links two important aspects of European economic development in the past thirty years: the pace of technical and management innovation, and the growing significance of technical and business consultancy. This book includes detailed studies of consultancy activities or 'knowledge intensive services' (KIS) in eight EU countries, written by national experts in the field.
