Tag: Urban

January 7, 2025

Scottish Urban Myths and Ancient Legends

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Free Download Grace Banks, "Scottish Urban Myths and Ancient Legends "
English | ISBN: 0750956224 | 2015 | 192 pages | EPUB | 404 KB
Monsters, lunatics, vampires, werewolves, evil dolls, and suicide dogs, stones entombing bodies, faces appearing in walls, curses, and meetings with the devil-all this and more are contained within this book of Scottish urban legends. Now, for the first time, folklorists and storytellers Grace Banks and Sheena Blackhall explore these intriguing tales. Folklore embeds itself into a local community, often to the extent that some people believe all manner of mysteries and take them as fact. Whether they’re stories passed around the school playground, through the internet, or ’round a flickering campfire, urban legends are everywhere. Scottish Urban Legends is a quirky and downright spooky ride into the heart of Celtic folklore.

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January 5, 2025

Urban Dynamics, Environment and Health An International Perspective

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Free Download Urban Dynamics, Environment and Health: An International Perspective by Braj Raj Kumar Sinha
English | EPUB (True) | 2024 | 763 Pages | ISBN : 9819957435 | 96.8 MB
The comprehensive volume focuses on spatial, temporal, conceptual and empirical approaches to various elements of urban dynamics, environment and urban health. It demonstrates a multidisciplinary account of the significant dimensions of urbanization and urban life. Chapters by leading international experts are presented in sections on urban dynamics, Urban Environmental Issues, Urban Health Problems and Urban Development, Planning and Policies. Each chapter provides a breadth of information on conceptual and empirical studies of urban issues. It enables the readers to understand the interconnections of various vital elements of each urban-related topical issue locally, regionally and globally. Extensive maps, charts, diagrams and tables as cartographic tools facilitate the reader’s understanding. It also outlines an action plan for policy program change in both the developed and less developed countries toward sustainable urban development and environment for better health, prosperityand quality of life of the present and future urban population. It is an indispensable reference for students, research scholars of geography and environmental, medical, and social sciences at undergraduate and postgraduate levels.

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January 3, 2025

Sub-Urban Self Sufficiency Growing Your Own Food For a Sustainable Lifestyle on 14 Acre or Less

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Free Download Sub-Urban Self Sufficiency: Growing Your Own Food For a Sustainable Lifestyle on 1/4 Acre or Less by Clover Thorne
English | December 18, 2024 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0DQY5BBRR | 152 pages | EPUB | 2.41 Mb
Sustainable living in Sub-Urban Self-Sufficiency, where Clover Thorne guides you through the process of transforming your small space into a thriving ecosystem. With a well-crafted gardening plan tailored for a family of four, you’ll discover how to grow much of your own food on your sub-urban lot.

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January 2, 2025

Land Subsidence Analysis in Urban Areas The Bangkok Metropolitan Area Case Study

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Free Download Land Subsidence Analysis in Urban Areas: The Bangkok Metropolitan Area Case Study By David G. Zeitoun, Eliyahu Wakshal (auth.)
2013 | 307 Pages | ISBN: 9400755058 | PDF | 10 MB
Cities built on unconsolidated sediments consisting of clays, silt, peat, and sand, are particularly susceptible to subsidence. Such regions are common in delta areas, where rivers empty into the oceans, along flood plains adjacent to rivers, and in coastal marsh lands. Building cities in such areas aggravates the problem for several reasons:1. Construction of buildings and streets adds weight to the region causing additional soil deformations. 2. Often the regions have to be drained in order to be occupied. This results in lowering of the water table and leads to hydro-compaction.3. Often the groundwater is used as a source of water for both human consumption and industrial use. 4. Levees and dams are often built to prevent or control flooding.Earth fissures caused by ground failure in areas of uneven or differential compaction have damaged buildings, roads and highways, railroads, flood-control structures and sewer lines. As emphasized by Barends , "in order to develop a legal framework to claims and litigation, it is essential that direct and indirect causes of land subsidence effects can be quantified with sufficient accuracy from a technical and scientific point of view." Most existing methods and software applications treat the subsidence problem by analyzing one of the causes. This is due to the fact that the causes appear at different spatial scales. For example, over-pumping creates large scale subsidence, while building loading creates local subsidence/consolidation only. Then, maximum permissible land subsidence (or consolidation) is a constraint in different management problems such as: groundwater management, planning of town and/or laws on building construction. It is, therefore, necessary to quantify the contribution of each cause to soil subsidence of the ground surface in cities urban area. In this text book, we present an engineering approach based on the Biot system of equations to predict the soil settlement due to subsidence, resulting from different causes. Also we present a case study of The Bangkok Metropolitan Area (BMA).

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January 2, 2025

Urban Origins of American Judaism

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Free Download Urban Origins of American Judaism (George H. Shriver Lecture Series in Religion in American History) by Deborah Dash Moore
English | October 15, 2014 | ISBN: 0820346829, 0820350575 | True EPUB | 208 pages | 7.6 MB
The urban origins of American Judaism began with daily experiences of Jews, their responses to opportunities for social and physical mobility as well as constraints of discrimination and prejudice. Deborah Dash Moore explores Jewish participation in American cities and considers the implications of urban living for American Jews across three centuries. Looking at synagogues, streets, and snapshots, she contends that key features of American Judaism can be understood as an imaginative product grounded in urban potentials.

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January 2, 2025

Transport Systems and Urban Logistics

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English | 2024 | ISBN: 3031817761 | 379 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 40 MB
This book contains an abundance of numerical analyses based on significant data sets, illustrating the close affiliation between mobility and quality of life. What types of solutions can transform an urban zone into a Smart City? What parameters are important in the problem of optimizing supply strategies, especially at last-mile stage? How to use multi-criteria analysis when selecting parking locations? How to examine the condition of infrastructure and what impact it may have on delays in tram traffic? How to combine activities related to the suburbanization process with the integration of tariffs in public transport? This book provides you with answers to these and many other questions.

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