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Cet ouvrage souhaite montrer la richesse d'une ouverture géographique et thématique des recherches urbaines actuelles en présentant celles qui prennent en considération les villes situées en dehors de l'aire occidentale. Il donne la voix à de jeunes chercheurs et praticiens originaires de six pays et de trois continents qui, par leurs réflexions engagées, proposent de corriger les perceptions souvent négatives, voire catastrophiques, de l'urbanisation...
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We are living in a critical moment, a reality marked by environmental and socio-economic limits that requires innovative and realistic forms of action and planning. This is what regenerative urbanism proposes, a new approach based on utopian pragmatism that seeks to restore balance to the urban territory by designing systems that allow it to adapt and transform. It is a methodology that defines models that do not consume available resources, but rather...
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Those who have a deep affection for Britain's countryside will be totally absorbed by this extraordinary history of environmentalists' efforts to conserve the glorious South Downs. After describing the special qualities of the area and earlier attempts to safeguard it, the story of a twenty-year campaign to secure National Park status for this special part of England is recounted. Strong forces opposed, but the South Downs Campaign, which eventually...
4) The Nine Principles of Agile Planning: Create Nimble and Dynamic Forecasting in Your Organization
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The Nine Principles of Agile Planning teaches CFOs, CAOs, CIOs, and Finance leaders the secret to building nimble and dynamic forecasts within their organizations. The Nine Principles blend real-world processes, people, and cloud tech to get your business forecasting the right way. By adopting the Nine Principles, you can create world-class forecasting that reacts to real-time changes in your business, reduces project risk, and makes you a forecasting...
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Irregular or illegal housing constitutes the ordinary condition of popular urban housing in the Middle East. Considering the conditions of daily practices related to land and tenure mobilization and of housing, neighborhood shaping, transactions, and conflict resolution, this book offers a new reading of government action in the cities of Amman, Beirut, Damascus, Istanbul, and Cairo, focusing on the participation of ordinary citizens and their interactions...
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Wall Street Journal "Love and Money" columnist Jeff D. Opdyke offers a compassionate and highly effective handbook designed to help elderly parents manage their money. Protecting Your Parents' Money is the essential guide to helping Mom and Dad navigate the finances of retirement, covering such topics as understanding Medicare, preventing elder fraud, and the hunt for a quality, affordable retirement home. Protecting Your Parents' Money is a book...
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En cinquante ans, le centre-ville de Montréal a vu s'implanter un réseau piétonnier protégé de près de 30 kilomètres, donnant accès à ce qu'on appelle maintenant la ville intérieure. Le « RÉSO », entièrement accessible au public, comprend des stations de métro et des gares, des halls d'immeubles, de bureaux et d'habitation, des galeries marchandes, des pavillons universitaires et bien d'autres structures. Toronto a connu avec le «...
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En la encrucijada de nuestras vidas, todos anhelamos un propósito más elevado: la prosperidad. Pero, ¿qué significa realmente prosperar? ¿Es simplemente acumular riqueza material, o va más allá, abrazando el amor y la armonía familiar?En "El Camino hacia la Prosperidad: Hábitos para una Vida Plena en Familia, Finanzas y Amor", exploraremos cómo pequeños actos diarios pueden transformar nuestra existencia en formas asombrosas. La prosperidad...
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The Best Finance Book For Crucial Conversations About Money
"Vanessa is a natural storyteller. Strong. Relatable. Purpose driven"-Business in Heels
For anyone who wants to create a financial legacy, this is the best finance book for sparking change in yours and your family's financial future. Share eye opening money moments and courageous conversations about money.
Have real conversations about money. Do your parents have a legacy plan or financial...
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Demonstrates how residents can play a leading role in the positive transformation of their communities in the face of economic and population decline.
Supporting Shrinkage describes a new approach to citizen-engaged, community-focused planning methods and technologies for cities and regions facing decline, disinvestment, shrinkage, and social and physical distress. The volume evaluates the benefits and costs of a wide range of analytic approaches...
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Bringing together a distinguished interdisciplinary group of scholars, this volume explores what happens when new forms of privatization meet collectivist pasts, public space is sold off to satisfy investor needs and tourist gazes, and the state plans for Egypt's future in desert cities while stigmatizing and neglecting Cairo's popular neighborhoods. These dynamics produce surprising contradictions and juxtapositions that are coming to define today's...
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A 150-year history of the planning, construction, and development of all forms of mass transportation in Brooklyn, New York.
How We Got to Coney Island is the definitive history of mass transportation in Brooklyn. Covering 150 years of extraordinary growth, Cudahy tells the complete story of the trolleys, streetcars, steamboats, and railways that helped create New York's largest borough-and the remarkable system that grew to connect the world's most...
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This personal history chronicles the triumph and loss of a 1960s initiative, to recruit minority students to Columbia University's School of Architecture.
At the intersection of US educational, architectural, and urban history, When Ivory Towers Were Black tells the story of how, an unparalleled cohort of ethnic minority students overcame institutional roadblocks to earn degrees in architecture from Columbia University. Its narrative begins with...
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