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Vulnerable Cities: Realities, Innovations and Strategies /

All cities are vulnerable. They have economically, socially, institutionally vulnerable urban space. In developing countries, vulnerable urban space can be observed typically as substandard informal settlements such as slums or areas occupied by squatters. At present, slum dwellers comprise one-thir...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (Online service)
Otros Autores: Kidokoro, Tetsuo (Editor ), Okata, Junichiro (Editor ), Matsumura, Shuichi (Editor ), Shima, Norihisa (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Tokyo : Springer Japan : Imprint: Springer, 2008.
Edición:1st ed. 2008.
Colección:cSUR-UT Series: Library for Sustainable Urban Regeneration, 8
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Acceso en línea:Texto Completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
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  • The Vulnerable City: Coping with Disasters
  • Promotion of Seismic Retrofitting for Existing Low Earthquake Resistant Structures: The Most Important Issue for Earthquake Disaster Reduction
  • Improvement of Urban Vulnerability
  • Growing Vulnerability Crisis "Will Slums Ever Reduce or Improve?": A Case from India
  • Identifying Housing Conditions in Bogota, Colombia: A Strategy to Deal with Risks
  • Methodology for Intervention in Vulnerable Settlements in Medellin, Colombia: Urban Destructuralization in Relation to the Topography of the Territory
  • From Wood Huts to Buildings of Seven Floors: An Analysis of the Process of Housing Production in the Slum of Rocinha in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, over a Fifty-Year Period
  • The Incremental Improvement of the Area Densely Built-up with Old Wooden Houses in Tokyo
  • Thailand Urban Environmental Management: Case of Environmental infrastructure and housing provision in Bangkok Metropolitan Region
  • Management of Natural Disasters
  • Seismic Vulnerability of Peruvian Houses: Current Issues and Solution Attempts
  • Improving vulnerable urban space in post-disaster in yogyakarta and central java, indonesia: participatory and comprehensive approach
  • Community Empowerment Program on the Revitalization of Kotagede Heritage District, Indonesia Post Earthquake
  • A review of the 921 post-earthquake community rehabilitation of the urban disaster area in taiwan
  • Earthquake as a Fact of Istanbul: Risk-based Strategy and an Action Plan for the Vulnerable Zeytinburnu Area
  • Structural Viewpoint
  • Vulnerability to Earthquake Disaster and Countermeasures in Tokyo.