Cities in the Anthropocene. New Ecology and Urban Politics, Paperback - Ihnji Jon

From Australia to North America, we need to rethink how our cities resist environmental change in the age of climate catastropheIllustrations: 3 Ta...

Reducere. With climate change in the news, an urban core that has reached boiling point, and many children growing up without role models and with limited dr...

This Element explores human travel encounters with the environment over the centuries and asks, what is the future for travel writing in the age of...

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A pioneering and richly illustrated book, highlighting powerful nature working in cities, suburbs, exurbs/peri-urbs, and presenting spatial pattern...

Underground City explores how new ideas and technologies are transforming the ways we build and inhabit underground space and how these innovations...

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdAuthor(s): Michael (Dublin City University, Ireland) CroninNumber of pages: 178Collection: New Perspectives in Trans...

Winner of the Scientific & Medical Network Book Prize 2019 In Gaia, Psyche and Deep Ecology: Navigating Climate Change in the Anthropocene, Andrew ...

With contributions from an international range of established and emerging scholars drawing upon real world examples, this title is the first to us...

This accessible textbook provides an ideal point of entry into the field, providing basic information on the nature of soft-sediment ecosystems, ex...

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Reducere. What if divided neighborhoods were causing public health problems? What if a new approach to planning and design could tackle both the built enviro...

How have local economic conditions been affected by the emergence of a global economy? What changes, if any, have local political authorities made ...

DescriptionCities of the Arabian Peninsula reveal contradictions of contemporary urbanization The fast-growing cities of the Persian Gulf are, what...

An ethnographic examination of the history and social effects of conservation and development efforts in Papua New GuineaPublisher: Duke University...

This book delves into the ethical dimension of urban life: how should one live in the city? What constitutes a 'good' life under urban condition? W...

Reducere. Taking as its premise that the proposed epoch of the Anthropocene is necessarily an aesthetic event, this collection explores the relationship betw...

How to Read Towns & Cities is a pocket-sized primer to understanding the forces that have shaped the world's cities. It takes a practical, highly v...

This book critically engages with the contemporary challenges of planning wild cities in a climate of change and will be of particular interest to ...

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Reducere. DescriptionThis book is the result of two historic events that took place in Quito, Ecuador during October 2016. The first was the Gospel and the F...

Reducere. In an age of climate crisis and political confusion, ecology seems to offer clear answers to urgent questions about the current global predicament....

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Publisher: Lexington BooksNumber of pages: 370Collection: Comparative Urban StudiesPublication date: 2008Dimensions: 238 x 159 x 33Cover type: Hard...

As cities from Cape Town to La Paz face acute water shortages, citizens need to know how urban water systems evolved to understand their vulnerabil...

Reducere. DescriptionA provocative essay that imagines a truly ecological future based on political transformation rather than the superficialities of "susta...

Warfare in the twenty-first century goes well beyond conventional armies and nation-states. In a world of diffuse conflicts taking place across spr...

Reducere. This interdisciplinary introduction to urban theory explains how the concepts that help us understand the contemporary urban experience have develo...

Throughout the ages of sail and steam, migrants made vital contributions to the construction of the urban-maritime world in terms of the built envi...

This volume investigates how the structure and use of space developed and changed in cities, and examines the role of different societal groups in ...

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Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdAuthor(s): Cristina MaximIllustration(s): 27 Line drawings, black and white; 44 Halftones, black and white; 16 Table...

For all the wrong reasons, a national spotlight is shining on Chicago. The city has become known for its violence, police abuse, parent and teacher...

A groundbreaking new textbook that brings a highly topical, environmental perspective to the story of how humans have shaped the world.

In Four Lost Cities, acclaimed science journalist Annalee Newitz takes readers on an entertaining and mind-bending adventure into the deep history ...

The Politics of the Anthropocene is a sophisticated yet accessible treatment of how human institutions, practices, and principles need to be re-tho...

Publisher: New York University PressAuthor(s): Daanika GordonNumber of pages: 288Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 153 x 229 x 20Cover type: Paperb...

Focuses on the American city as a fantastic geography constrained neither by media nor rigid genre boundaries. The book builds on a mix of theoreti...

The last quarter of the twentieth century witnessed a burgeoning interest in ecological or naturally inspired use of vegetation in the designed lan...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Editor: Shareable"Sharing Cities: Activating the Urban Commons" showcases over a hundred sharing-related case studies and model pol...

Reducere. "This collection provides a powerful and sophisticated analysis of how environmental movements influence politics in Asia, and how politics influen...

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdAuthor(s): James R. MooreNumber of pages: 336Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 156 x 232 x 22Cover type: Paperback /...

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Reducere. DescriptionSegregation by Design draws on more than 100 years of quantitative and qualitative data from thousands of American cities to explore how...

Argues that the portrayal in poetry of the modern city as a disintegrated, ruined space is part of a critique of the visions of progress and the hi...

Reducere. This book surveys the cities of the Ancient Near East, Egypt, and the Greek and Roman worlds, with a focus on their physical appearance, on urban f...

This book explores cities and intra-regional relational dynamics to challenge common representations of urban development 'success' and 'failure'. ...

When Wade McNabb, publisher of the Georgetown Pilot, exposes high-level political corruption surrounding a chemical plant on the South Carolina coa...

An Artforum Best Book of the YearA Legal Theory Bookworm Book of the YearNature no longer exists apart from humanity. Henceforth, the world we will...