Life After Carbon: The Next Global Transformation of Cities, Paperback - Peter Plastrik

DescriptionThe future of our cities is not what it used to be. The modern-city model that took hold globally in the twentieth century has outlived ...

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Publisher: Princeton University PressAuthor(s): Mark R. BeissingerIllustration(s): 77 b/w illus. 14 tables.Number of pages: 592Publication date: 20...

Publisher: MIT Press LtdAuthor(s): Catherine TumberNumber of pages: 256Collection: Urban and Industrial EnvironmentsPublication date: 2013Dimension...

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The Approaching Great Transformation is about the coming shift in how we act and think economically as the era of cheap oil comes to an end. It pro...

Jarvis was a typical, middle-aged man in the early summer of 2019. He didn't know what a transient ischemic attack (TIA) was until he had six of th...

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Examines the history of the mapping sciences in the twentieth century and their relationship to the history of territory

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Pitches the ideas and aspirations of people on the ground against the theory and assumptions often made by the international development and peace-...

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Case studies of metropolitan cities in nine African countries - from Egypt in the north to three in West and Central Africa, two in East Africa and...

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