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Enhancing Urban Safety and Security: Global Report on Human Settlements 2007
by Un-HabitatEnhancing Urban Safety and Security addresses three major threats to the safety and security of cities: crime and violence; insecurity of tenure and forced evictions; and natural and human-made disasters. It analyses worldwide trends with respect to each of these threats, paying particular attention to their underlying causes and impacts, as well as to the good policies and best practices that have been adopted at the city, national and international levels in order to address these threats. The report adopts a human security perspective, concerned with the safety and security of people rather than of states, and highlights issues that can be addressed through appropriate urban policy, planning, design and governance.
The Enterprising City Centre: Manchester's Development Challenge
by Gwyndaf WilliamsThe Enterprising City Centre reveals exemplars of local partnership working, the development and delivery of realistic implementation plans, and the range of instruments available to create both an improved quality to the urban environment and enhanced commercial and cultural competitiveness of our major city centres. That this was largely delivered in Manchester within a five year period of intensive development and renewal activity amply demonstrates the value of such experience for wider dissemination.
Entertaining by Design: A Guide to Creating Meaningful Gatherings
by Lorna GrossDiscover the art of effortless entertaining with 17 seasonal gatherings made simple, stylish, and soulful, complete with 18 recipes and fabulous decor tips. "In this breezy debut, interior designer Gross shares ideas on how to host sophisticated events for a variety of occasions. . . This will spark hosts&’ imaginations." —Publishers Weekly "Full of great color photographs of party environments and place settings that readers will want to copy next time they host an event." —Booklist &“Lorna brings style and joy to everything she does, whether designing a room or setting the table. Now, we can delight in her magical world!&” —Steele Marcoux, Editor-in-Chief Veranda Magazine From interior designer and style maven Lorna Gross, Entertaining by Design is a collection of accessible gatherings, organized by season, from a small dinner to post-Christmas breakfast celebration. Each gathering is designed to be instructional, inspirational, and doable for anyone by using tableware and decorations you may already have along with carefully chosen decorative items like place cards or serving platters that can cost as little or as much as your budget allows. Each gathering includes suggestions for the best way to invite your guests—sometimes, that's just a well-thought-out email—types of tableware, music suggestions to set the mood, and a color scheme to tie everything together. Lorna has shared a few of her favorite recipes that are satisfying, delicious, and certain to get the party started. In a world where we're constantly busy, it's easy to think there is no time to plan a party, but Lorna proves that with her simple instructions, streamlined tips, and a little planning, any of these gatherings can be accomplished. Whether you believe you don't know how to create a gathering or you just think you don't have the time, gorgeous photos throughout the book encourage readers by showing how easy it can all be.
Entertaining With The Sopranos
by Carmela SopranoFans of a certain multi-award-winning HBO dramatic series will enjoy this ultimate guide to making every event the perfect occasion, served up by the Garden State's most gracious hostess, Carmela Soprano. From graduation parties to holiday gatherings to pool-side barbecues, Carmela gives you everything you need to keep your personal crew as happy as a clam in red sauce: over 75 delicious new Neapolitan-based recipes created by Michele Scicolone as well as scores of Soprano-approved tips on picking the ideal location, choosing tasteful decorations, whipping up the best drinks, and selecting the right music.
Entrenamiento de perros: La guía definitiva para adiestrar a tu perro con educación obediente
by Sharon LetishaEste libro está escrito para proporcionarte conocimientos y consejos sobre cómo criar y entrenar la obediencia de tu perro, cómo educar tu cachorro, trucos y juegos. También aprenderás sobre problemas comunes con las razas de perros y cómo cuidarlos con métodos comprobados paso a paso. No lo dejes todo al azar o al ensayo y error. Si no tienes ni idea de cómo críar adecuadament a tu perro, es probable que termines frustrado y tu amigo se sienta no deseado. ¡Has de tu viaje juntos una aventura significativa!
Entrepreneurial Vernacular: Developers' Subdivisions in the 1920s (Creating the North American Landscape)
by Carolyn S. LoebDuring the 1920s, enterprising realtors, housing professionals, and builders developed the models that became the inspiration for the subdivision tract housing now commonplace in the U.S.Originally published in 2001. Suburban subdivisions of individual family homes are so familiar a part of the American landscape that it is hard to imagine a time when they were not common in the U. S. The shift to large-scale speculative subdivisions is usually attributed to the period after World War II. In Entrepreneurial Vernacular: Developers' Subdivisions in the 1920s, Carolyn S. Loeb shows that the precedents for this change in single-family home design were the result of concerted efforts by entrepreneurial realtors and other housing professionals during the 1920s. In her discussion of the historical and structural forces that propelled this change, Loeb focuses on three typical speculative subdivisions of the 1920s and on the realtors, architects, and building-craftsmen who designed and constructed them. These examples highlight the "shared set of planning and design concerns" that animated realtors (whom Loeb sees as having played the "key role" in this process) and the network of housing experts with whom they associated. Decentralized and loosely coordinated, this network promoted home ownership through flexible strategies of design, planning, financing, and construction which the author describes as a new and "entrepreneurial" vernacular.
Entrümpeln und Ausmisten für Dummies (Für Dummies)
by Jennifer FredewessWir alle kennen das - hier eine Kleinigkeit als mögliches Mitbringsel eingekauft, dort das günstige Sonderangebot für einen neuen Küchenhelfer mitgenommen und an den preisreduzierten Schuhen vorbeizugehen, hat auch nicht geklappt. Und schon häufen sich Dinge an, die man nicht unbedingt braucht und die zu Gerümpel werden. Jennifer Fredeweß schärft Ihren Blick für die Dinge um Sie herum, die Sie nicht mehr benötigen. Und dann heißt es ausmisten. Die Autorin zeigt die Vor- und Nachteile beim Ausmisten mit Freunden, der Familie, einem Aufräumcoach oder eine Facebook-Gruppe und gibt Tipps, wie Sie planvoll ausmisten, ohne schlechtes Gewissen, sich von Geschenk oder einem einmal liebgewonnenen Gegenstand zu trennen. Sie erfahren, welche Methode am besten zu Ihnen passt, wie Sie Raum für Raum Ihre Wohnung ausmisten und wie Sie die aussortierten Dinge loswerden. Und auf einmal fällt es ganz leicht Entscheidungen zu treffen und sich von überflüssigen Dingen zu trennen.
Environment-Behavior Studies for Healthcare Design
by Suining DingEnvironment-Behavior Studies for Healthcare Design explains how environment-behavior (EB) studies can contribute to healthcare design research and explores how evidence-based theories can be applied and integrated into the healthcare design practice. Drawing on EB theories and the latest research in environment-behavior studies, this book shows how the healthcare environment can positively impact patients' and caregivers' well-being and healthcare organization's efficiency by modifying environmental attributes, such as space configuration, color, lighting, signage, acoustics, and artwork. It addresses a range of healthcare facilities including children's hospitals, long-term care, acute care and outpatient care facilities, and uses a range of evidence-based design research methods, such as interviews, focus groups, observations, surveys and space syntax. The author also explains how research evidence and evidence-based design can be integrated into healthcare design more cohesively in a redefined design process. This book provides a solid conceptual structure that informs a clear map for understanding the EB theories and their applications in healthcare design. This research guide for healthcare design helps students, academics, designers and architects reconsider how to create environments that support patients’ healing and well-being whilst considering efficiency and safety.
Environmental and Health Impact Assessment of Development Projects: A handbook for practitioners
by The World Health OrganizationThis handbook for practitioners in environmental and public health, environmental management, toxicology and ecotoxicology has been prepared by an international group of experts from both developing and developed countries and covers a wide range of topics in both environmental impact assessment and environmental health impact assessment.
The Environmental Imagination: Technics and Poetics of the Architectural Environment
by Dean HawkesThe Environmental Imagination explores the relationship between tectonics and poetics in environmental design in architecture. Working thematically and chronologically from the eighteenth century to the present day, this book redefines the historiography of environmental design by looking beyond conventional histories to argue that the environments within buildings are a collaboration between poetic intentions and technical means. In a sequence of essays, the book traces a line through works by leading architects of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries that illustrate the impact of new technologies on the conception and realisation of environments in buildings. In this, a consideration of the qualitative dimension of environment is added to the primarily technological narratives of other accounts. In this second edition, the book has been substantially rewritten and restructured to include further research conducted in the decade since the first edition. A number of important buildings have been revisited, in order to extend the descriptions of their environments, and studies have been made of a number of newly studied, significant buildings. A completely new essay offers an environmental interpretation of Luis Barragán’s magical own house in Mexico City and the earlier studies of buildings by Peter Zumthor have been gathered into a single, extended essay that includes a body of new research. On the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of Reyner Banham’s, The Architecture of the Well-tempered Environment, the book concludes with a critical tribute to that seminal text. The Environmental Imagination will appeal to academics and practitioners with interests in the history, theory and technology of architecture.
Environmental Planning for Site Development: A Manual for Sustainable Local Planning and Design
by Anne Beer Cathy HigginsEnvironmental planning forms the basis of all site development decisions and deals with the factors that must be considered before a site plan can be drawn up. Environmental Planning for Site Development emphasizes the man/nature interface and explains how nature limits and controls what can happen on every piece of land. The text is clearly set out and will help the reader understand exactly what information is needed for a site planning proposal. The book includes a live case study to demonstrate how GIS systems are now assisting in the design and decision process as communities increasingly participate in local decisions. (Local Agenda 21)
Environmental Problems of the Greeks and Romans: Ecology in the Ancient Mediterranean (Ancient Society and History)
by J. Donald HughesHow did ancient societies change the environment and how do their actions continue to affect us today?In this dramatically revised and expanded second edition of the work entitled Pan’s Travail, J. Donald Hughes examines the environmental history of the classical period and argues that the decline of ancient civilizations resulted in part from their exploitation of the natural world. Focusing on Greece and Rome, as well as areas subject to their influences, Hughes offers a detailed look at the impact of humans and their technologies on the ecology of the Mediterranean basin. Evidence of deforestation in ancient Greece, the remains of Roman aqueducts and mines, and paintings on centuries-old pottery that depict agricultural activities document ancient actions that resulted in detrimental consequences to the environment. Hughes compares the ancient world's environmental problems to other persistent social problems and discusses attitudes toward nature expressed in Greek and Latin literature. In addition to extensive revisions based on the latest research, this new edition includes photographs from Hughes's worldwide excursions, a new chapter on warfare and the environment, and an updated bibliography.
The Environmental Stewardship Toolkit
by Anthony L. WilliamsA comprehensive, one-stop guide to environmental stewardship for golf courses and grounds This highly practical guide covers the full complement of tools green industry professionals need to create a successful environmental program on golf courses and grounds. Written by a leading golf course superintendent and grounds manager, The Environmental Stewardship Toolkit offers a comprehensive analysis of all relevant issues, including environmental management, resource management, community engagement, and document management. The emphasis throughout is on the development of programs that are both sustainable and practical, combining the protection and renewal of environmental systems with a workable business plan. Regulatory issues as well as concerns of owners, customers, and the community at large are also addressed. Clear, pragmatic, up-to-the-minute coverage includes: Numerous illustrations, photos, and customizable templates and checklists that readers can use in their own projects A system for sorting projects into green, greener, and greenest in order to tailor implementation for different budgets and project complexity An in-depth look at site assessment, water quality and conservation, integrated pest management, and wildlife habitat management Guidance for developing green public relations and communications skills to promote the project in the community Field-tested procedures for building a state-of-the art documentation system for capturing, organizing, and disseminating information A must-read for golf course superintendents, irrigation specialists, turfgrass specialists, and grounds managers, The Environmental Stewardship Toolkit is also useful for landscape architects and designers, grounds owners, developers, builders, contractors, and anyone wishing to be on the cutting edge of sustainability in the green industry.
Envisioning Better Communities: Seeing More Options, Making Wiser Choices
by Randall ArendtThe author's work has shaped a generation of planners, designers, and landscape architects. In this book, the author brings his insights to a broader public, with a profusely illustrated demonstration of how local officials, planning commissioners, and everyday citizens can work to make their communities more attractive, more habitable, and more sustainable. Despite the widespread acceptance of good design and planning principles throughout the professions, too many of our towns and rural areas remain needlessly ugly and inefficient. In side by side comparisons of similar places and kinds of buildings, the author shows that we need not live amid sprawling, characterless visual blight. Simple design choices and effective municipal decisions can have tremendous impacts on the quality of our communities. Written in the author's well-known clear, accessible, nontechnical style, this book creates a sense of hope for those who face the everyday challenges of working with developers and landowners to create places that make economic, environmental, and aesthetic sense. The author shows us that with diligence, thoughtfulness, and care, we can make our communities better in countless ways.
Envisioning Networked Urban Mobilities: Art, Performances, Impacts (Networked Urban Mobilities Series)
by Kevin Hannam Sven Kesselring Aslak Aamot Kjaerulff Peter PetersEnvisioning Networked Urban Mobilities brings together scientific reflections on the relations of art and urban mobilities and artistic research on the topic. The editors open the book by setting out the concept grounded in the exhibition curated by Aslak Aamot Kjærulff and refers to earlier work on mobilities and art generated by the Cosmobilities Network. This third volume has two sections, both consisting of short papers and illustrations. The first section is based on artists who were part of the conferences' art exhibition, and the second part is based on theoretical reflections on art and artists.
Epic Eggs: The Poultry Enthusiast's Complete and Essential Guide to the Most Perfect Food
by Jennifer SartellThis isn't a typical egg cookbook or guide to raising chickens, Epic Eggs takes a deep dive on the eggs themselves and tells you how to raise birds that will produce the best eggs you've ever seen. It may be true that most poultry found on small homesteads or in backyards especially are viewed as pets, but they are inarguably pets with benefits--namely eggs. In Epic Eggs, homesteader and writer Jennifer Sartell looks at the eggs of the most common types of poultry you’d find in your backyard: chickens, ducks, geese, turkeys, guineas, and quail. Don’t jump to conclusions! This isn’t an egg cookbook or a guide to raising poultry. Jennifer delves into the eggs themselves and explains reproductive systems, egg anatomy, and how and why different colors are distributed to egg shells. Jennifer will show you a variety breeds of birds, and what sizes, shapes, and even colors of egg they produce; from white to blue, brown, chocolate, olive, and speckled, plus heritage breeds and how to breed for specific colors. Illustrated with fantastic color photography of eggs and their birds, Epic Eggs goes on to address how to optimize living conditionsand diet for the healthiest and most-flavorful eggs, the process of grading and storing eggs, and the eternal washing debate. There’s also discussion of nutrition, baking, cooking, preserving, pickling, and dehydrating. The book ends with advice for homesteaders looking to create business plans and a section on troubleshooting.
Epic Tomatoes: How to Select and Grow the Best Varieties of All Time
by Craig LeHoullierSavor your best tomato harvest ever! Craig LeHoullier provides everything a tomato enthusiast needs to know about growing more than 200 varieties of tomatoes, from planting to cultivating and collecting seeds at the end of the season. He also offers a comprehensive guide to various pests and tomato diseases, explaining how best to avoid them. With beautiful photographs and intriguing tomato profiles throughout, Epic Tomatoes celebrates one of the most versatile and delicious crops in your garden.
Epitaph for a Peach
by David M. MasumotoA lyrical, sensuous and thoroughly engrossing memoir of one critical year in the life of an organic peach farmer, Epitaph for a Peach is "a delightful narrative . . . with poetic flair and a sense of humor" (Library Journal). Line drawings.
Erfassung, Bewertung und Sicherung der Stadtgestalt: Schnelleinstieg für Architekten und Planer (essentials)
by Christa ReicherChrista Reicher gibt einen Überblick über die Inhalte der Stadtgestalt und wie diese im planerischen Kontext im Sinne der Stadtgestaltung beeinflusst werden können. Neben einer Begriffsdefinition werden die unterschiedlichen Dimensionen der Stadtgestalt anschaulich beschrieben. In den vergangenen Jahrzehnten haben sich verschiedene Städtebauer und Stadtforscher mit der Stadtgestalt auseinandergesetzt. Hierzu werden die wichtigsten Theorien vorgestellt sowie ein Einblick in Methoden zur Erfassung und Bewertung der Stadtgestalt gewährt.Die Autorin Christa Reicher ist seit 2002 Professorin und Leiterin des Fachgebiets Städtebau, Stadtgestaltung und Bauleitplanung an der Fakultät Raumplanung der Technischen Universität Dortmund und ist Gründerin eines Planungsbüros mit Sitz in Aachen.
Ergonomic Living: How to Create a User-friendly Home and Office
by Gordon Inkeles Iris SchenckeYou work indoors. You're not on your feet all day and you do not do heavy lifting, and yet you feel exhausted at the end of every day. Maybe you're being attacked by your possessions. Perhaps you have an old worn out mattress, an old office chair that won't let you sit straight, a computer screen that you struggle to read. This book will show you how to find the perfect furniture to allow you to work or live in the safest, most effective, and most comfortable manner.
Erik Gunnar Asplund: Landscapes and Buildings
by Malcolm WoollenTaking an interdisciplinary approach, weaving together art, philosophy, history, and literature, this book investigates the landscapes and buildings of Swedish architect Erik Gunnar Asplund. Through critical essays and beautiful illustrations focusing on four projects, the Woodland Cemetery, the Stockholm Public Library, the Stockholm Exhibition and Asplund’s own house at Stennäs, it addresses the topic of buildings accompanied by landscapes. It proposes that themes related to landscape are central to Asplund’s distinctive work, with these particular sites forming a collection that documents an evolution in his design thinking from 1915 to 1940. The architect himself wrote comparatively little about his design intentions. However, through close reading and analysis of the selected projects as landscapes with architecture, author Malcolm Woollen argues that reflections of the history of Swedish landscape architecture and the intellectual climate in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries are evident in his work and help to explain the architect’s intentions. This book is a must-have for academics, advanced students and researchers in landscape architecture and design who are interested in Nordic Classicism and the works of Erik Gunnar Asplund.
Ervas Medicinais: O Guia Definitivo para uma Saúde Extraordinária
by Tarcísio Melo Nicole EvansCONHEÇA MANEIRAS NATURAIS PARA TRATAR E CURAR SEUS PROBLEMAS DE SAÚDE UTILIZANDO APENAS ERVAS MEDICINAIS! Se você quer acabar o estresse, tratar resfriados, ou rejuvenescer sua pele, Ervas Medicinais pode te ajudar. Aqui está uma prévia de alguns dos problemas de saúde que você será capaz de tratar e curar: ANSIEDADE DEPRESSÃO ESTRESSE DORES CONTROLE DO PESO DOENÇAS COMUNS PROBLEMAS DE PELE E MUITO, MUITO, MUITO MAIS! E já adianto o que você irá aprender: COMO CULTIVAR SUAS PRÓPRIAS PLANTAS 30 ERVAS MAIS COMUNS PARA FINS MEDICINAIS ERVAS MEDICINAIS PARA ANSIEDADE, DEPRESSÃO E ESTRESSE ERVAS MEDICINAIS PARA ALÍVIO DE DORES ERVAS MEDICINAIS PARA PERDA DE PESO ERVAS MEDICINAIS PARA PROBLEMAS DE PELE E MUITO, MUITO, MUITO MAIS!
Essay on Gardens
by Claude-Henri Watelet Samuel Danon Joseph DisponzioPublished in 1774, Essay on Gardens is one of the earliest texts showing the progressive shift in French taste from the classical model of the gardens at Versailles to the picturesque or natural style of garden design in the late eighteenth century. In this formulation of his ideas concerning landscape, Claude-Henri Watelet describes an ideal farm and also his own very real garden, Moulin Joli, near Paris. He advances the theory that the useful and the pleasurable must be combined in the planning, preservation, and decoration of the land by offering a relatively novel design that uses experimental methods to create a comfortable estate. The result is a horticultural and ecological laboratory that includes a residence, a farm, stables, a dairy, an apiary, a mill, walks, vistas, flower beds, an area reserved for medicinal plants, decorative statues, a medical laboratory, and even a small infirmary for ailing members of the community.Given the wide scholarly interest in the field of garden design and its history, this first English edition of Watelet's small but influential book will interest historians of landscape design as well as students of the history of architecture. Joseph Disponzio's informative introduction to Samuel Danon's masterful translation situates the Essay on Gardens within the framework of other landscape and garden treatises of the late eighteenth century. Although the original text was not illustrated, this edition includes a selection of charming drawings and etchings of Moulin Joli by Watelet himself, Hubert Robert, and others.
