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Pflanzenverwendlung und Pflanzenbestand in den Wohnsiedlungen der 1920er und 1930er Jahre in Berlin : Ein Beitrag zur historischen Pflanzenverwendung
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ISBN: 3443642659 Year: 2002 Publisher: Berlin J. Cramer

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Berlin --- Germany --- urban ecology --- urban flora

唐宋开封生态环境研究
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ISBN: 750043653X Year: 2002 Publisher: 北京 中国社会科学出版社

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Concrete and clay : reworking nature in New York City
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ISBN: 0262072246 Year: 2002 Publisher: Cambridge (Mass.) : MIT press,

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Sustainable cities programme 1990-2000 : a decade of United Nations support for broad-based participatory management of urban development.
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ISBN: 9211316324 Year: 2002 Publisher: Nairobi UN-HABITAT (United Nations Human Settlements Programme)


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Sustainable Cities Programme, 1990-2000 : a decade of United Nations support for broad-based participatory management of urban development.

Dead cities : and other tales
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ISBN: 1565847652 Year: 2002 Publisher: New York The New Press

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A riveting exploration of the tensions between nature and the built environment. The storm is here, crushed dams no longer hold, the savage seas come inland with a hop.Jacob van Hoddis As Mike Davis shows, prophecies of urban doom too often come true. Beginning with a trip to New York's Ground Zero, Davis pairs the horror of lower Manhattan's falling skyscrapers with Las Vegas' delirious delight in blowing up its landmark hotels, where environmental terrorism is practiced in the name of urban development. We stop at "German Village," the Utah wasteland where Allied scientists once perfected their plans to destroy Berlin, then move on to Los Angeles, the frontline of a "Second Civil War" that lies waiting to be ignited in cities across the country. The title essay is an autopsy of the metropolis dead on a slab, with reflections on "bomber ecology" and "ghetto geomorphology." The final chapter, with accounts of Montreal and Auckland brought to their knees by ice storms and heat, warns that our urban infrastructures are as little prepared to deal with climate change as with car bombs and hijacked airliners.

Building the ecological city.
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ISBN: 0849313791 1855735318 9781855735316 9786610372423 1280372427 1855738686 9781855738683 Year: 2002 Publisher: Cambridge Woodhead

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Building the Ecological City puts forward solutions to the question - how can we build cities that provide an acceptable standard of living for their inhabitants without depleting the ecosystems and bio-geochemical cycles on which they depend? The book suggests and examines the concept of urban metabolism which characterizes the city as a set of interlinked systems of physical flows linking air, land, and water. A series of chapters looks at the production and management of waste, energy use and air emissions, water supply and management, urban land use, and air quality issues. Within the broader context of climate change, the book then considers a range of practical strategies for restoring the health of urban ecosystems from the remediation of 'brownfield' land to improving air quality and making better use of water resources.

L'écologie urbaine et l'urbanisme : aux fondements des enjeux actuels
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ISSN: 12584002 ISBN: 270713886X 9782707138866 Year: 2002 Publisher: Paris : La Découverte,

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L'"écologie urbaine" exprime la demande sociale et politique en faveur d'une ville qui serait plus écologique et qui répondrait mieux à l'insatisfaction profonde de la société pour son cadre de vie. Or, l'urbanisme contemporain éprouve de grandes difficultés pour répondre à cette demande. L'objet de ce livre est de comprendre les raisons de cette incapacité, pour pouvoir les dépasser. En partant de l'histoire récente de l'écologie urbaine, les auteurs soulignent la nécessité de retrouver dans l'histoire de l'urbanisme les éléments porteurs d'une pensée écologique. Ils montrent que, dès le début du xxe siècle, toute une configuration de penseurs et d'acteurs de l'urbanisme cherchaient à rendre compatibles science de l'action et connaissance du milieu, analyse scientifique et prospective. Cette " école française de l'écologie urbaine " renvoyait délibérément à l'environnement, à la connaissance scientifique et à l'élaboration de modèles d'action plaçant le milieu au centre de leurs préoccupations. Les auteurs expliquent pourquoi cette école n'a pas réussi à se perpétuer, la compétition entre disciplines se terminant par l'élimination des idées porteuses de l'approche écologique en urbanisme. Ainsi, bien des difficultés pour rapprocher écologie et urbanisme remontent au début du xxe siècle. C'est au prix de ce détour et de ce diagnostic que s'ouvre la voie d'une démarche prospective dans ce domaine si important pour l'avenir.

Urban Visions : Experiencing and Envisioning the City
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ISBN: 184631433X 9781846314339 085323664X 9780853236641 Year: 2002 Publisher: Liverpool : Liverpool University Press,

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The question of what kind of city we are trying to have is an urgent one as the world continues its dramatic urbanisation. Urban Visions presumes that an understanding of our urban experience is a prerequisite for envisioning what the city could be. In assembling work by distinguished authors from different disciplines and countries, Urban Visions offers a patient examination of what urban experience is and of the city's necessity, with explicit and implicit propositions about what it could be. The book is illustrated in full colour.

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