The Urban Transformation

Seeking Urban Transformation. Alternative Urban Futures in Zimbabwe tells the stories of ordinary people's struggles to remake urban centres. It in...

DescriptionUrban Grids: Handbook for Regular City Design is the result of an eight-year research project undertaken at the Harvard University Gradu...

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

At 1: 27 on the morning of August 4, 2005, Herbert Manes fatally stabbed Robert Monroe, known as Shorty, in a dispute over five dollars. It was a h...

Reducere. Transportation Transformation is an indispensable GPS for every automaker, transportation startup, investor, policymaker, or regulator who is plann...

A revised fifth edition, it explores the new geographical patterns forming within and between cities, and investigates the way geographers have sou...

Reducere. A critical exploration of the transformation of urban space through platform technologies such as Uber and AirbnbThis collection of essays explores...

The past decades have seen significant urban insurrections worldwide, and this volume analyzes some of them from an anthropological perspective; it...

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

Reducere. Description Since the 1970s, Aboriginal people have been more likely to live in Canadian cities than on reserves or in rural areas. Aboriginal rura...

Monotown: Urban Dreams Brutal Imperatives examines the post-industrial transformation and transnational legacy of planned single-industry towns tha...

9 papers consider landscape transformations from a diachronic perspective. The volume addresses the landscape as a complex and dynamic entity chara...

When an expatriate bureaucrat toured a devastated city, he saw more than ashes and ruins. He envisioned a thriving metropolis where God's people co...

Reducere. Austin, Texas, at the beginning of the twenty-first century, is experiencing one of the most dynamic periods in its history. Wedged between homogen...

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 ...

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...

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

Reducere. In A City on a Lake Matthew Vitz tracks the environmental and political history of Mexico City and explains its transformation from a forested, wat...

DescriptionAfter almost dying at the hands of her sister, Renee has made the dangerous decision to step down and give Carmen her empire to chase af...

Reducere. Ride with Brandie Davis again as she brings you back into the life of a ruthless New York queenpin longing for a way to escape the mayhem of the st...

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

Description"This superbly succinct and incisive book couldn't be more timely or urgent."--Michael Sorkin, author of All Over the Map Our cities are...

DescriptionHow photography and a modernizing Berlin informed an urban image--and one another--in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries ...

Reducere. Aesthetic sensibility rests on perceptual experience and characterizes not only our experience of the arts but our experience of the world. Sensibi...

Reducere. In the early years of the 20th century, Queens County underwent an enormous transformation. The Queensboro Bridge of 1909 forever changed the lands...

Reducere. This is it: the final chapter in MARCO B. BUCCI and JACOPO CAMAGNI'S urban-fantasy opus is here and it's as shocking and ruthless and as you would ...

As cities evolve and resources shift with time, spaces within those cities are often left fallow and abandoned. Cyclical City tells the stories beh...

Rockaway Beach was once a popular seaside resort in south Queens with a small permanent population. Shortly after World War II, large parts of this...

Reducere. Myron Magnet's The Dream and the Nightmare argues that the radical transformation of American culture that took place in the 1960s brought today's ...

Reducere. Heralded as America's quintessentially modern city, Chicago has attracted the gaze of journalists, novelists, essayists, and scholars. Yet few hist...

For the past thirty years, Japanese photographer Naoya Hatakeyama has undertaken a photographic examination of the life of cities and the built env...

DescriptionAn unprecedented history of Brooklyn, told through its places, buildings, and the people who made them, from the early seventeenth centu...

Reducere. A cautionary tale about the life of former kingpin Azie Faison, who has become the fabric of street legend Faison was a ninth grade dropout who ear...

Reducere. A lyrical Spanish edition of the acclaimed and inspiring picture book Maybe Something Beautiful, illustrated by Pura Belpre Medal winner Rafael Lop...

Reducere. DescriptionFifteen people--plus a class of first graders--tell how local food, farms, and gardens changed their lives and their community . . . and...

Reducere. For the fifteenth anniversary of its publication, this revised edition features a new introduction from the author on the state of the church and i...

Reducere. This exploration begins by tracing the concentration of IT in Greater Silicon Valley and the resulting growth in start-ups, jobs, and wealth. This ...

Reducere. Karen Armstrong, bestselling author of A History of God, skillfully narrates this history of the Crusades with a view toward their profound and con...

Reducere. Official Texas Ranger Bicentennial(TM) Publication Newly rich in oil money, and all the trouble it could buy, Texas in the years following World Wa...

Puer tea has been grown for centuries in the "Six Great Tea Mountains" of Yunnan Province, and in imperial China it was a prized commodity, traded ...

Reducere. Award-winning author Ben Burgess, Jr. explores the man behind the player in this Urban novel about a man trying to find the love he lacks for himse...

DescriptionGreek Colonization in Local Context takes a fresh look at Greek colonies around Europe and the Black Sea. The emphasis is on cultural in...

Reducere. San Francisco's Chinatown--the oldest, largest, and most famous Chinese enclave outside of Asia--is more than a tourist attraction. Since its birth...

Considered by many to be the state's oldest permanent English settlement, Wethersfield is referred to in the Connecticut Code of 1650 as "ye most A...

Reducere. From the rural backwater of Hartland, Connecticut, Asher Benjamin would rise to become one of the most important yet overlooked figures of American...

Reducere. From the rural backwater of Hartland, Connecticut, Asher Benjamin would rise to become one of the most important yet overlooked figures of American...

Description Based on ethnographic research conducted during several years, Market Frictions examines the tensions and frictions that emerge from th...

DescriptionIn this innovative study, Tyler Whitney demonstrates how a transformation and militarization of the civilian soundscape in the late nine...

Reducere. The most gritty and real illustration of the black ghetto ever told, from the only man capable of telling it, Iceberg Slim, bestselling author of P...

Reducere. Threats to biodiversity, food shortages, urban sprawl . . . lessons for environmental problems that confront us today may well be found in the past...

Reducere. The thrilling final installment of Chloe Neill's New York Times bestselling urban fantasy series sees sinister sorcery advancing across Chicago, an...

Reducere. A study of three controversies that illuminate the changing cultural role of art exhibition in the nineteenth centuryFrom the antebellum era throug...

Reducere. DescriptionFor over two hundred years, the Catskill Mountains have been repeatedly and dramatically transformed by New York City. In Making Mountai...

Reducere. Heralded as America's most quintessentially modern city, Chicago has attracted the gaze of journalists, novelists, essayists, and scholars as much ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Andreas HuyssenMemory of historical trauma has a unique power to generate works of art. This book analyzes the relation of ...

DescriptionFeatured in The New York Times Book Review Only a few decades ago, the Brooklyn stereotype well known to Americans was typified by telev...

Reducere. This is the first new introduction to Anglo-Saxon art in twenty-five years and the first book to take account of the 2009 discovery of the Stafford...

Reducere. Every commentary on the Book of Psalms has had to face the issue that many of these prayers commemorate and celebrate wrath and vengeance. What is ...

A must-read for anyone interested in the future of the automobile industry, our cities, and the way we live. This book coins the term 'Mobility Rev...

Pioneer ministry happens among the 88% of the population that the Church does not reach. Even if the best practices of growing churches were rolled...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Suleiman OsmanConsidered one of the city's most notorious industrial slums in the 1940s and 1950s, Brownstone Brooklyn by t...

Reducere. This innovative study of racial upheaval and urban transformation in Baltimore, Maryland investigates the impact of "blockbusting" -- a practice in...

Reducere. DescriptionOver the decades of the twentieth century, Arlington experienced a dramatic transformation from a simple, rural community known as Alexa...

Reducere. It is 1971. The fictional city of Bellport, Massachusetts, is in decline with an urban redevelopment project on the horizon expected to transform t...

Reducere. DescriptionBy 2020, experts forecast that up to 28 billion devices will be connected to the Internet with only one third of them being computers, s...

DescriptionThe deeply personal story of how award-winning personal finance blogger Elizabeth Willard Thames abandoned a successful career in the ci...

Reducere. As a suburb of the nation's capital in the late 1800s, Rockville was proclaimed a "peerless" place to live; its subsequent transformation into a ci...

Reducere. We are at a critical point in human history and that of the planet. In this book, a world leader in agricultural research, Professor Sayed Azam-Ali...

Reducere. A memorable and mouthwatering cook's tour of today's China As a freelance journalist and food writer living in Beijing, Jen Lin-Liu already had a r...

Two years of confinement in Leesworth Women's Federal Corrections Facility have taken their toll on Jay King. Her incarceration has given her lots ...