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How a woman-led citizens' group beat a Southern political machine by enlisting federal bureaucrats and judges to protect their neighborhood from unchecked economic development This social history of local political activism tells the story of the decades-long fight to save Green Springs, Virginia, illuminating the economic tradeoffs of protecting the environment, the origins of NIMBYism, the changing nature of local control, and the surprising power of history to advance public policy. Rae Ely faced long odds when she launched a campaign in 1970 to stop a prison, then a strip mine, in Green Springs. The local political machine supported both projects, promising jobs for impoverished Louisa County, Virginia. But Ely and her allies prevailed by repurposing the same tactics used by the Civil Rights movement-the appeal to federal agencies and courts to circumvent local control-and by using new historical interpretations to create the first rural National Historic Landmark District. The Green Springs protesters fought to preserve the historic character of their neighborhood and the surrounding environment in a quest that epitomized the conflict in late twentieth-century America between unbridled economic development for all and protecting the quality of life for an economically privileged few. Ely's tactics are now used by neighborhood groups across the nation, even if they have been applied in ways she never intended: to resist any form of development.

Land use --- Planning --- Citizen participation.

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Earth Observation in Urban Monitoring: Techniques and Challenges presents the latest techniques of remote sensing in urban monitoring, along with methods for quantitative and qualitative assessment using state-of-the-art Earth observation technologies. The book details the advances of remote sensing technologies in urban environmental monitoring for a range of practical and research applications, Earth observation datasets, remote sensing of environmental considerations, geostatistical techniques and resilience perspectives. Chapters cover sensor applications, urban growth modelling, SAR applications, surveying techniques, satellite time series analysis and a variety of other remote sensing technologies for urban monitoring.

Engineering. --- Remote sensing. --- Urban geography --- Land use, Urban --- Environmental monitoring --- Geographic information systems.

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Die Wahrnehmung und das Verständnis von Landschaft sind auf der einen Seite erkenntnistheoretisch und politisch geprägt. Daher wird um das richtige Verständnis und die Interpretation in Diskursen zu Gerechtigkeit des Zugangs, Umgang mit Neophyten und Nachhaltigkeit im Klimawandel gerungen. Auf der anderen Seite ist Vegetation ein wesentliches Merkmal von Landschaft, das in seinen materiellen Eigenschaften nicht beliebig formbar oder politischen Vorstellungen und Absichten zu unterwerfen ist. Sie stellt gewohnte Wahrnehmungen und die Interessen an nachhaltiger Entwicklung bis hinein in die Herstellungsplanung von Vegetation vor Herausforderungen. Die Beiträger*innen dieser Festschrift für Stefan Körner machen die von ihm mitgeprägten Diskurse um Landschaft wie auch um die Erforschung der Vegetationsverwendung und -pflege zugänglich.

ARCHITECTURE / Urban & Land Use Planning. --- Architecture. --- City. --- Epistemology. --- Human Ecology. --- Nature. --- Perception. --- Urban Planning.

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Technische Anlagen zur Beförderung von Personen oder Gütern führen bislang ein Schattendasein in Wissenschaften und gesellschaftlicher Reflexion. Dabei ist der Bedarf an architektur-, technik- und kunstgeschichtlicher Forschung zum Thema enorm: Historische Aufzüge, Rolltreppen oder Schiffshebewerke geraten als technisches Erbe, aber auch aus Gründen der Nachhaltigkeit zunehmend in den Fokus von Denkmalschutz und Öffentlichkeit. Die Beiträger*innen nehmen deshalb die gestalterischen und funktionalen Schnittstellen zwischen Mobilem und Immobilem in den Blick. Die ästhetische und technische Untersuchung des Beweglichen zeigt so neue Wege zur Ertüchtigung und Erhaltung dieser historischen Anlagen auf.

ARCHITECTURE / Urban & Land Use Planning. --- Architecture. --- Industrial Architecture. --- Mobility. --- Technology. --- Transportation.

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Socio-ecological conflicts about land use in Latin America are complex: they involve various actors and flare up due to the dynamics of colonization, spatial appropriation, and the commodification of land. This volume of the Handbook »The Anthropocene as Multiple Crisis« focuses on land use in the main macro-regions of Latin America from the colonial regime to the contemporary era of the Anthropocene. The contributions touch upon numerous aspects, from the transformations of material to the social practices, their political and legal regulations as well as the imaginaries of virgin territories. Consequently, far from limiting themselves to a static cartography of land use, the contributors investigate the appropriations of borders and historic transformations in land use.

Land use --- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General. --- Social aspects --- History. --- Agriculture. --- Bielefeld University Press. --- Cultural Geography. --- Cultural History. --- Environment. --- Environmental History. --- Environmental Sociology. --- Human. --- Land Use. --- Latin America. --- Nature. --- Urbanization.