City of Extremes. The Spatial Politics of Johannesburg, Paperback - Martin J. Murray

A powerful critique of urban development in greater Johannesburg since the end of apartheid in 1994.Publisher: Duke University PressAuthor(s): Mart...

Publisher: MIT Press LtdAuthor(s): Kian GohIllustration(s): 55 black and white illustrationsNumber of pages: 288Collection: Urban and Industrial En...

Focuses on not only the turn toward technological solutions to managing the risk of crime through digital (and software-based) surveillance and aut...

This book challenges the conventional (modernist-inspired) understanding of urbanization as a universal process tied to the ideal-typical model of ...

Martin J. Murray offers a groundbreaking guide to the multiplicity, heterogeneity, and complexity of contemporary global urbanism. He identifies an...

An insider capable of revealing his city's spirit and its reality, Ivan Vladisavic combines the eloquence of Jan Morris on Trieste with the precisi...

Reducere. DescriptionClash of Extremes takes on the reigning orthodoxy that the American Civil War was waged over high moral principles. Marc Egnal contends ...

DescriptionMobility justice is one of the crucial political and ethical issues of our dayWe are in the midst of a global climate crisis and experie...

This book explores 'spatial practices', a loose and expandable set of approaches that embrace the political and the activist, the performative and ...

Reducere. Dividing the century into the Age of Catastrophe, 1914 1950, the Golden Age, 1950 1973, and the Landslide, 1973 1991, Hobsbawm marshals a vast arra...

Reducere. Indisputably recognized as a classic in its field, "Statistics of Extremes" was the first book to exclusively evaluate the relevance of maximum and...

Urban reuse, creative production, consumerism and heritage protection have formed a productive alliance for the transformation of inner-city distri...

The story of Herbert Martin Massey CBE, DSO, MC, from his flying days in the First World War to life as a prisoner-of-war in the Second World War, ...

Reducere. In this prequel to the bestselling Murder in Samarkand, Craig Murray describes how he discovered the dark heart at the centre of Tony Blair's shiny...

Publisher: John Murray PressAuthor(s): David CutlerPublication date: 2021Dimensions: 223 x 233 x 39Cover type: PaperbackRedescopera farmecul lectur...

Reducere. While Washington, D.C., is still often referred to as "Chocolate City, " it has undergone significant demographic, political, and economic change i...

A powerful tale of destruction, heroism and survival by the bestselling author of NATHANIEL'S NUTMEG.Publisher: John Murray PressAuthor(s): Giles M...

A book in the field of political science.Publisher: University of Illinois PressAuthor(s): Murray EdelmanNumber of pages: 232Publication date: 1985...

Ireland presents more than 200 outstanding photographs celebrating the island's most evocative and beautiful places, whether in nature or man-made,...

Reducere. Indisputably recognized as a classic in its field, Statistics of Extremes was the first book to exclusively evaluate the relevance of maximum and m...

Publisher: Transcript VerlagAuthor(s): Martina HulzNumber of pages: 456Collection: Social and Cultural GeographyPublication date: 2022Dimensions: 1...

Publisher: John Murray PressAuthor(s): Martin FordPublication date: 2021Dimensions: 153 x 233 x 25Cover type: PaperbackRedescopera farmecul lecturi...

Where's the common sense? During the COVID-19 pandemic, the TSA is allowing passengers to board planes with unlimited amounts of hand sanitizer, wh...

Reducere. The Last Camelot: US Navy's "Secret City"By: J.C. MartinIn the 1940's, the U.S. Military acquired over a million acres of California desert for the...

Survival of the City is an essential guide to the past and future of our citiesPublisher: John Murray PressAuthor(s): David CutlerNumber of pages: ...

A radical history of squatting and the struggle for the right to remake the city The Autonomous City is the first popular history of squatting as p...

Reducere. In a small country town during one long, hot summer, the Bloom family is beginning to unravel. Martha is straining against the confines of her life...

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This book is about how a new form of social contract, which we call the spatial contract, can help revitalize the economies of the basic things tha...

A mordantly knowing modernisation of Sophocles's Trachiniae... the approach here manages to be at once lethally level and capable of surges of angu...

Martin Kemp, described by The Times as `the world's leading authority on Leonardo', relates his fifty-year relationship with the most famous artist...

Environmental sustainability is a major issue for us all. In this extensively updated edition, Martin and Margot Hodson consider eight of the key c...