German Annual of Spatial Research and Policy 2010

By Bernhard Müller

Book Overview

Urban Resilience and New Institutional Theory - A Happy Couple for Urban and Regional Studies?.- Given the Complexity of Large Cities, Can urban resilience be Attained at all?.- Rebuild the City! Towards Resource-efficient Urban Structures through the Use of Energy concepts, Adaptation to Climate Change, and Land Use Management.- Urban Restructuring - Making "More" from "Less".- Resilience and Resistance of Buildings and Built Structures to Flood Impacts - Approaches to Analysis and Evaluation.- Accommodating Creative Knowledge Workers? Empirical Evidence from Metropoles in Central and Eastern Europe.- Path Dependency and Resilience. The Example of Landscape Regions.- Vulnerability and Resilience: A Topic for Spatial Research from a Social Science Perspective.- A Strategy for Dealing with Change: Regional Development in Switzerland in a Context of Social Capital.- Planning for Risk Reduction and Organizing for Resilience in the Context of Natural Hazards

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3642266398
• ISBN13: 9783642266393
• Release Date: January 2013
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 166 Pages
• Weight: 0.57 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"