Political Ecologies of Landscape. Governing Urban Transformations in Penang, Hardback - ***

Connolly draws on the recent changes in the Malaysian state of Penang to open up new perspectives on urban development, governance and the politics...

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Reducere. Kongjian Yu: China's foremost landscape designer Kongjian Yu and his office Turenscape are beyond doubt the foremost landscape architecture firm in...

Case studies from cities on five continents demonstrate the advantages of thinking comparatively about urban environments.

An illustrated collection of the most recent examples of public space planning and development for parks, squares and gardens by thirty internation...

Excavations chart the transformation of an inner city neighbourhood in late antique Carthage, with the development of a significant basilica that w...

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DescriptionUrban Transformations is a theoretical and empirical account of the changing nature of urbanization in Germany. Where city planners and ...

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Examines the ipact of Roman rule on the city of Lattara, Gaul 500-200 BCE, the development of new social and economic relationships and identity.

Studies how the Chinese Communist Party uses and reforms its taxation institution to promote economic growth and governance quality while limits th...

Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action - Elinor Ostrom

Publisher: University of California PressAuthor(s): Kristian Karlo SaguinIllustration(s): 14 b-w illustrations, 4 maps, 2 tablesNumber of pages: 21...

This accessible but theoretically sophisticated volume reveals how neoliberalism - as both an economic project and a broader political approach - h...

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This year, London's elected mayor and assembly turn twenty. But has London's mayoralty lived up to the expectations that were set for it? Have its ...

This book takes a new look at the 'spatial turn' in French cultural and critical theory since 1968. It examines how key thinkers (inc. Henri Lefebv...

Take a Journey with the Master of the Urban Landscape John Salminen is one of the most accomplished watercolor artists working today, earning award...

Drawing on ethnographic research with policy makers, politicians, activists, scholars, and the public in Manchester, England, Hannah Knox confronts...

DescriptionOnce considered a kind of delinquent activity, skateboarding is on track to join soccer, baseball, and basketball as an approved way for...

Amit S. Rai shows how urban South Asians employ low-cost technological workarounds and hacks known as jugaad to solve problems, navigate, and resis...

Publisher: Beacon PressAuthor(s): Lisa CouturierNumber of pages: 176Publication date: 2006Dimensions: 139 x 214 x 17Cover type: Paperback / softbac...

In Botswana's struggle to access international economies, few resources are as fundamental and fraught as control over land. Land, Power, and the G...

This book provides a complete description of role of heterogeneous catalysis in organic transformations and offers a review of the current and near...

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

Gateway communities are those located adjacent to protected areas and are often the communities most impacted by tourism visitation and are depende...

Richard Haag is best known for his rehabilitation of Gas Works Park in Seattle and for a series of remarkable gardens at the Bloedel Reserve on Bai...

DescriptionWhat is green infrastructure? Why should we develop it? Who uses it? And what socioeconomic and ecological value does it provide? This u...

During the pivotal 19th-century 'decade of reform', British politicians wrestled over the best ways to address Irish agrarian violence - branded as...

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Reducere. Sixteen-year-old Jasmine Barrington hates everything about living in Kenya and longs to return to the island of Penang in British colonial Malaya w...

This book acknowledges the severe problems with effective and significant collective action, but arrives at a more optimistic diagnosis of our time...

This book takes forward the existing state of academic understanding where security and technology intersect. It assesses the challenges posed by e...

A new, politically timely and engaging text that puts feminist political ecology back on the map.

Chris Parker began his study of meditation and martial arts in the 1970s. He has been the custodian of Epiah Khan's writing for over 25 years. In t...

Publisher: Edinburgh University PressAuthor(s): Andrej RadmanIllustration(s): 6 B/W illustrations 9 B/W tablesNumber of pages: 232Publication date:...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCIllustration(s): 10 bw illusNumber of pages: 264Collection: Performance and Science: Interdisciplinary Dialogue...

Khawaja Sira of Pakistan are a heterogeneous group of gender nonconforming individuals who defy traditional notions of gender and sexuality. Based ...

This work problematizes the AKP-led radical re-makingof the Turkish state by taking into consideration the constitutive role of crisis-riddenglobal...

Jews and Arabs in Israel Encountering Their Identities reveals the powerful potential of intergroup dialogues to transform both identities and mutu...

This edited collection, with contributions from literary scholars and art historians, maps how satire became a less genre-driven and increasingly v...