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Children and their Urban Environment
Claire Freeman and
'This book provides a powerful metaphor
for professionals involved in developing the built environment.'
Neil Savery, National President,
Planning Institute of
In our fast-changing urban world, the impacts of social
and environmental change on children are often overlooked. Children and their
Urban Environment examines these impacts in detail, looking at the key
activities, spaces and experiences children have and how these can be managed
to ensure that children benefit from change.
The authors highlight the importance of planners,
architects and housing professionals in creating positive environments for
children and involving them in the planning process. They argue that
children’s lives are becoming simultaneously both richer and more
deprived, and that, despite apparently increasing wealth, disparities between
children are increasing further.
Each chapter includes international examples of good
practice and policy innovations for redressing the balance in favour of child
supportive environments.
Hb 9781844078530 | March 2011
Computer Modelling for Sustainable
Urban Design
Edited by Darren Robinson
'Impressively detailed and well
researched, this should become an essential reference book for researchers and
planning professionals concerned with urban sustainability.'
Dr. Simos Yannas, Architectural
This is the first book to directly address the physics of
urban sustainability and how urban sustainability may be modelled and
optimised. Starting with an introduction to the importance and key aspects of
the topic, it moves on to a detailed consideration of the urban climate and
pedestrian comfort. Comprehensive techniques for the modelling and optimisation
of urban metabolism are then described, together with means for defining
sustainability as the fitness function to be optimised. It ends with an eye to
the future of sustainable urban design and the means available to urban
designers and governors to help them to secure a more sustainable urban future.
This book will be invaluable both in informing the next
generation of urban planners, architects and engineers, and as a tool to
current professionals that will directly contribute to the effectiveness of
their work by allowing them to more successfully measure and model urban
sustainability.
Hb 9781844076796 | March 2011
Cities and Climate Change: Global
Report on Human Settlements 2011
UN-HABITAT
Cities and Climate Change examines the links between
urbanization and climate change, the potentially devastating effects of climate
change on urban populations and the policy responses and practices that are
emerging in urban areas.
This new report from the United
Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-HABITAT), the world's
leading authority on urban issues, shows how cities can improve the way they
operate in order to respond to climate change and provides practical strategies
for strengthening their role as part of the solution. The Global Report on
Human Settlements 2011 is the most authoritative and up-to-date global assessment
of human settlements conditions and trends. Preceding issues of the report have
addressed such topics as Cities in a Globalizing World, The Challenge of Slums,
Financing Urban Shelter, Enhancing Urban Safety and Security and
Hb 9781849713702 | Pb 9781849713719 | March 2011
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