摘要: Gated communities : social sustainability in contemporary and historical gated developments edited by Samer Bagaeen and Ola Uduku Earthscan, 2010 : hardcover关键词: Regional economic difference Monetary policy Housing market Region-specific portfolio ...
This paper is written with the aim of finding ways to increase sustainability in contemporary mainstream society. This aim is based on the assumption that economic growth and market-economic values in mainstream society, such as profit maximization, consumerism and competition, are prioritized over env...
We aim for simplicity, wholeness, and practicality in our approach, taking a qualitative rather than quantitative perspective on complex systems. Using several contemporary case examples, the article describes the important qualities of complex systems and develops them into a working framework that ...
Sustainability of the pension system of the Slovak Republic in the changed socio-economic conditions Pension systems are a standard part of the macroeconomic and microeconomic environment of developed countries. Pension schemes, particularly developed after World War II and based on continuous funding syst...
This paper elaborates on how policies and strategies for sustainable urban development can be understood and shows how development programs can be strategically important and flexible tools in the creation of the modern city. We examine two typical contemporary cases for urban development, inner city/...
In contemporary architecture and on the housing market in general, the building envelope is no longer seen as a simple means of separating the outside from the outside, but has taken on multiple functions and purposes thanks to developments in the construction and building materials world, and ...
we argue that change in the world must occur (in part) from the inside-out. Yet change must also occur from the outside-in: our inner lives must be shaped by the reality of the social and environmental injustices that are occurring in the world today. In this way, taking our inner li...
Confucianism provides a specific view on the world held by many people living in several Asian societies. It offers views on humans and nature that general
points out that we live in cities because we like to have someone to talk to, while Paulo Mendes da Rocha classifies the city as “the supreme work of architecture.” The city is the world that man builds for himself. These are immense collective constructions, palimpsests, and collages of...
In the following, we provide a short overview how the topics of migration and sustainability, as well as sustainability and justice, have been addressed in contemporary debates. Migration and sustainability debates The affirmation of sustainable development registered on the international political agenda ...