Búsqueda de LIBROS DEL AUTOR: simon marvin

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  • URBAN LIVING LABS
    SIMON MARVIN, HARRIET BULKELEY, LINDSAY MAI, KES MCCORMICK AND YULIYA VOYTENKO PALGAN
    All cities face a pressing challenge – how can they provide economic prosperity and social cohesion while achieving environmental sustainability? In response, new collaborations are emerging in the form of urban living labs – sites devised to design, test and learn from social and technical innovation in real time. The aim of this volume is to examine, inform and advance the go...

    $999.00

  • SMART URBANISM
    SIMON MARVIN, ANDRÉS LUQUE-AYALA AND COLIN MCFARLANE
    Smart Urbanism (SU) – the rebuilding of cities through the integration of digital technologies with buildings, neighbourhoods, networked infrastructures and people – is being represented as a unique emerging ‘solution’ to the majority of problems faced by cities today. SU discourses, enacted by technology companies, national governments and supranational agencies alike, claim a...

    $1,179.00

  • RETROFITTING CITIES
    MIKE HODSON AND SIMON MARVIN
    Developing an up-to-date critical framework for analysing urban retrofit, this is the first book to examine urban re-engineering for sustainability in a socio-technical context. Retrofitting Cities examines why retrofit is emerging as an important strategic issue for urban authorities and untangles the mix of economic, competitive, ecological and social drivers that influence a...

    $1,339.00

  • LOW CARBON NATION?
    MIKE HODSON / SIMON MARVIN
    What does the transition to a Low Carbon Britain mean for the future development of cities and regions across the country? Does it reinforce existing ‘business as usual’ or create new transformational opportunities? Low Carbon Nation? takes an interdisciplinary approach to tackle this critical question, by looking across the different dimensions of technological, scientific, so...

    $1,099.00

  • TELECOMMUNICATIONS AND THE CITY
    STEVE GRAHAM / SIMON MARVIN
    Telecommunications and the City provides the first critical and state-of-the-art review of the relations between telecommunications and all aspects of city development and management. Drawing on a range of theoretical approaches and a wide body of recent research, the book addresses key academic and policy debates about technological change and the future of cities with a fresh...

    $2,100.00

  • SPLINTERING URBANISM
    STEVE GRAHAM / SIMON MARVIN
    Splintering Urbanism makes an international and interdisciplinary analysis of the complex interactions between infrastructure networks and urban spaces. It delivers a new and powerful way of understanding contemporary urban change, bringing together discussions about: *globalization and the city *technology and society *urban space and urban networks *infrastructure and the bui...

    $1,399.00

  • URBAN INFRASTRUCTURE IN TRANSITION
    TIMOTHY MOSS / SIMON MARVIN
    Achieving sustainable energy and resource use is vital if cities are to thrive or even function in the long term. Focusing on cities in the United Kingdom, Germany and Denmark, this book examines the mounting pressures for changes in the management style of utility services in Europe, pressures that stem from a wide range of sources such as liberalization and privatization of m...

    $1,139.00