Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Introduction
Prof. Doutor Arch. Miguel P. Amado
Chapter 1 – Place Promotion, Spatial Purification and the Spectre of Addiction/Treatment: Methadone Maintenance Treatment and the Gentrification Battleground (pp. 1-18)
Christopher Smith (Autonomous Academic)
Chapter 2 – Urban Planning for Cougar Presence in North America: Practices, Challenges and Benefits (pp. 19-32)
Michael O’Neal Campbell (Thompson Rivers University, BC, Canada)
Chapter 3 – Landscape and Urban Planning: A Systemic Approach (pp. 33-48)
Raquel Tardin (Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro)
Chapter 4 – Urban Planning: Practices, Challenges and Benefits for Immigrants (pp. 49-72)
Emília Malcata Rebelo (CITTA – Research Centre for Territory, Transports and Environment, Department of Civil Engineering, Territorial, Urban and Environment Planning Division, Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal)
Chapter 5 – The Post-Olympic Games’ Spatial Socio-Economic Vulnerability and Its Restructure Process: Case Study at Central Area of Olympic Games in Beijing, China (pp. 73-88)
Chi-Tung Hung, Hao-Che Wu and Ming-Jie Chao (Department of Urban Planning and Disaster Management, Ming Chuan University, Taiwan and others)
Chapter 6 – Urban Low-Income Housing Development in Ghana: Politics, Policy and Challenges (pp. 89-118)
Irene Appeaning Addo (Regional Institute of Population Studies (RIPS), University of Ghana, Legon)
Chapter 7 – Noise in an Urban Setting – Measurements, Noise Mapping, Citizens’ Response to Noise (pp. 119-172)
Elaine Carvalho da Paz and Paulo Henrique Trombetta Zannin (Laboratory of Environmental and Industrial Acoustics and Acoustical Comfort, Federal University of Parana, PR, Brazil)
Chapter 8 – Battling Urban Primacy: Changing Patterns of Internal Migration in Venezuela, 1950-2001 (pp. 173-190)
Evelyn D. Ravuri (Saginaw Valley State University, Michigan, US)
Chapter 9 – The Public Participation in Urban Planning – Portuguese Small Town Case (pp. 191-206)
Evelina B. Moura, Miguel P. Amado and João C. Freitas (GEOTPU – Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, UNL, Portugal and others)
Chapter 10 – Urban Sustainability Assessment System – The Portuguese Scheme, Lidera Approach and Two Urban Application Examples (pp. 207-272)
Manuel Duarte Pinheiro (Department of Civil Engineering, Architecture and Georesources, IST, Lisbon University, Lisbon, Portugal)
Index
