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Understanding Emergent Urbanism
The ideas presented in this book are a conceptual leverage to correct the rigidity of top-down practices and bring the real city, or the city of everyday life, closer to the city of conventional planning. Considering self-organization as the starting point at the base of complex systems, this book tries to understand how specific qualities emerge and evolve from this behavior. For this, the boo…
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- 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-3-030-82731-1
- Collation
- IX, 262p.:ill
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 307.76 Dha u
Advances in Utopian Studies and Sacred Architecture
At a time dominated by the disappearance of Future, as claimed by the French anthropologist Marc Augé, Utopia and Religion seem to be two different ways of giving back an inner horizon to mankind. Therefore this book, on the one hand, considers the importance of utopia as a tool and how it offers an economic and social resource to improve cities’ wealth, future and livability. On the oth…
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- 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-3-030-50765-7
- Collation
- xvii, 368p.:ill
- Series Title
- Advances in Science, Technology & Innovation
- Call Number
- 577.56 Adv
Urban Regionalisation Processes
This book explores the issues of transformation phenomena of the urban dimension (regionalization processes) that traditional scientific literature fails to describe appropriately. So far, scholars have adopted a widespread dominant perspective that proved unable to grasp the essence of post-modern complexities that urban spaces imply. The book provides a taxonomy, in order to describe the rule…
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- 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-3-030-64469-7
- Collation
- xi, 233p.:ill
- Series Title
- UNIPA Springer Series
- Call Number
- 577.56 Urb
Social Movements and Public Policies in Southern European Cities
The book analyzes the impact of urban movements on government and public policies in a context of rapid urban transformations, public policy crises and increasing social inequalities. The essays show how the impact of the movements is increasing and has effects both in the orientation of the policies, as in their form of management and its effects. The authors are leading scholars from universi…
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- 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-3-030-52754-9
- Collation
- vi, 179p.:ill
- Series Title
- Urban and Landscape Perspectives
- Call Number
- 577.56 Soc
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