1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910464794903321

Autore

Rowe Peter G.

Titolo

Urban intensities : contemporary housing types and territories / / Peter G. Rowe, Har Ye Kan

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Basel ; ; Boston : , : Birkhäuser, , [2014]

©2014

ISBN

3-03821-647-X

3-03821-101-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (240 p.)

Disciplina

711/.4

Soggetti

City planning

Urban density

Housing

Architecture and society

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Urban block shapers -- Housing and landscapes -- Superblock configurations -- Tall towers -- Big buildings -- Infrastructural engagements -- Indigenous reinterpretations -- Infill and puntal interventions -- Housing special populations -- A turning point.

Sommario/riassunto

This book combines the architectural and urban scales to demonstrate that urban intensity determines the success of housing. The authors provide a typology of housing according to the ways in which diversity and density are created. Comparisons with historical models and critical appraisals based on the authors' unique standing give information on the pros and cons of major types of housing, their pitfalls and successful examples.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910830099603321

Autore

Cooper David

Titolo

Leadership risk [[electronic resource] ] : a guide for private equity and strategic investors / / David Cooper

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chichester, U.K., : Wiley, 2010

ISBN

0-470-66193-3

1-119-20898-X

1-282-88349-6

9786612883491

0-470-66253-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (253 p.)

Disciplina

332.6

332.63/2042

332.632042

Soggetti

Corporations - Finance

Risk management

Risk assessment

Leadership

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

The landscape of leadership risk -- Overview of the leadership risk MAPPING framework -- Planning and preparation -- Deciding what to assess at an individual level -- Conducting assessments at an individual level -- What to assess at team level -- Assessing at a team level -- What to assess at an organisational level -- Conducting assessment at an organisational level -- The review phase -- The address phase -- Third party service providers and their approaches.

Sommario/riassunto

This book is a practical guide for private equity investors. It sets out a framework for understanding, assessing and managing the risks associated with senior management during the due diligence process of an acquisition. This provides an essential input into the wider due diligence review and a sound basis for managing the investment after the deal has been done so as to maximise the chances of a successful



exit. The book comes at a time of significant growth in the field of private equity. In the UK over 3 million people (around 18% of all private sector employees) now work for private eq