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Melvin Delgado

The Death Care Industry and Urban Gun Violence

This book provides a unique foundation upon which to view how the involvement of the death care sector offers a potential route to take in practice and research in reaching urban communities of color deal…

Bruno Sergio Portela, Paulo H. T Zannin

Whole Body Vibration in Urban Bus Drivers

Exposure to whole-body vibration in bus drivers is a risk factor for low back pain, and the level of physical fitness is seen as a protective factor for working in a seated position. Therefore, this study…

Clé Lesger

Power and Urban Space in Pre-Modern Holland

Cities and urban societies have many faces. In this study, the pre-modern cities of Holland are presented as arenas where power relations between social classes are expressed in a more or less permanent a…

Youth Language Practices and Urban Language Contact in Africa

An up-to-date, theoretically informed study of male, in-group, street-aligned, youth language practice in various urban centres in Africa.

The Cambridge Urban History of Europe 3 Volumes Hardback Set

Split into three volumes chronologically, The Cambridge Urban History of Europe comprehensively and methodically examines Europe's long urban history from its pre-historic roots through to today. Featurin…

Artificial Intelligence (Ai) for Smart and Sustainable Urban Transportation

Exploration of how cutting-edge digital technologies can power humanity's collective efforts towards urban transport environmental sustainabilityArtificial Intelligence (AI) for Smart and Sustainable Urba…

Mohammad Ali Chaichian

The Transformative Power of Architecture and Urban Design

Informed by urban political economy and critical social analysis, this book provides a critical comparative analysis of macro- and micro-level spatial design processes in architecture and urban planning. …

Local Climate Zone Application in Sustainable Urban Development

Chapter 1. Urbanization and urban climate in high-density cities.- Chapter 2. Origins and evolution of the Local Climate Zone classification system.- Chapter 3. Current popular methods for LCZ mapping.- C…

Maxwell

Maxwell's Urban Hang Suite (20th Anniversary Edition) (140g) (Limited Edition) (Metallic Gold Vinyl)

Ulrike Steffen

Colour in the city - Mein urbanes Ausmalbuch

Mal dich in deine Lieblingsstadt - ob Amsterdam, Berlin oder Paris!Das Buch liefert nicht nur wundervolle Ansichten von Shops, Wohnhäusern und Sehenswürdigkeiten , sondern gibt auch andere Einblicke in da…

Christophe Providence

Urban Solidarity, Local Governance and Territorial Resilience in Haiti

This book examines urbanization in Haiti as a laboratory of crisis and resilience, where the absence of state capacity collides with the creativity of grassroots actors. It reveals how communities, women,…

Nature-based Solutions for Circular Management of Urban Water

Despite the strong economic growth of the last decades, our modern global society is facing the existential threat of climate change. It is now realized that the linear economic model is not sustainable i…

Planning for Equitable Urban Agriculture in the United States

This open access book, building on the legacy of food systems scholar and advocate, Jerome Kaufman, examines the potential and pitfalls of planning for urban agriculture (UA) in the United States, especia…

Dennis Miklosch

Untersuchung von innovativen Gebäudebegrünungssystemen unter ökologischen Gesichtspunkten im urbanen Umfeld

Einleitung.- Innovative Gebäudebegrünungssysteme.- Stand der Technik und Forschung.- Entscheidungsbaum zur Vorgehensweise bei der Beurteilung von Gebäudebegrünungssystemen.- Praktische Anwendung der Entsc…

Darshini Mahadevia, Gian C. Delgado-Ramos, Janice Barnes

Learning from COVID-19 for Climate-Ready Urban Transformation

This Element focuses on understanding COVID-19's impact on city systems related to climate change mitigation and adaptation, and vice versa, in terms of warnings, lessons learned, and calls to action. Thi…

Jim Harris

Children's Health and Urban Ecology in England, 1885-1919

Analyzes public health efforts to reduce infant mortality and improve children's health in three large English cities: Birmingham, Liverpool and Manchester.While English public health efforts had reduced …

Contemporary Models for Pro-Poor Housing in Urban Sub-Saharan Africa

The proportion of the world's urban population is expected to increase to about 57% by 2050, and the share of Africa's urban population is project to increase to 60% by the same year. As a result of this …

Darshini Mahadevia, Gian C. Delgado-Ramos, Janice Barnes

Learning from COVID-19 for Climate-Ready Urban Transformation

This Element focuses on understanding COVID-19's impact on city systems related to climate change mitigation and adaptation, and vice versa, in terms of warnings, lessons learned, and calls to action. Thi…

Juli Zeh, Simon Urban

Zwischen Welten

>>Ein großer Gesellschaftsroman. Passt perfekt in unsere Zeit.<< Christhard Läpple, ZDF Heute JournalZwanzig Jahre sind vergangen: Als sich Stefan und Theresa zufällig in Hamburg über den Weg …