| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 330 pages) : illustrations, maps |
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CSUR-UT series, 1865-8504 ; v. 8 |
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cSUR-UT series ; v. 8. 1865-8504
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| Contents |
Community-based Approach for Improving Vulnerable Urban Space; The Vulnerable City: Coping with Disasters; Promotion of Seismic Retrofitting for Existing Low Earthquake Resistant Structures: The Most Important Issue for Earthquake Disaster Reduction; 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 |
| Summary |
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-third of the world's urban population of 3 billion, and it has been estimated that the number of slum dwellers will double in the next 30 years if no effective action is taken. Improvement of vulnerable urban areas, which is one of the targets of Millennium Development Goals, is thus an urgent worldwide |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| In |
Springer eBooks |
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Urban renewal -- Asia -- Congresses
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Urban renewal -- Latin America -- Congresses
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Disaster relief -- Asia -- Congresses
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Disaster relief -- Latin America -- Congresses
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Emergency management -- Asia -- Congresses
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Emergency management -- Latin America -- Congresses
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Regional planning.
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regional planning.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Essays.
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Environnement.
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Sciences de la terre.
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Disaster relief
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Emergency management
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Urban renewal
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Asia
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Latin America
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proceedings (reports)
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Conference papers and proceedings
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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Actes de congrès.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Kidokoro, Tetsuo.
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International Workshop on Vulnerable Urban Space: Making Community Work (2007 : Center for Sustainable Urban Regeneration)
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| LC no. |
2008923166 |
| ISBN |
9784431781486 |
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443178148X |
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9784431781493 |
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4431781498 |
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9784431781493 |
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