Urban Ethics. Conflicts Over the Good and Proper Life in Cities, Hardback - ***

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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...

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...

Ethics in the Conflicts of Modernity: An Essay on Desire, Practical Reasoning, and Narrative - Alasdair MacIntyre

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

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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...

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Who makes our cities, and what part do everyday users have in the design of cities? This book powerfully shows that city-making is a social process...

Reducere. 1988 is the era, Detroit is the scene, and crack is the movement. It's a time when young black men can become self-made millionaires seemingly over...

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Contributor(s): Author: Alasdair MacIntyreAlasdair MacIntyre explores some central philosophical, political and moral claims of modernity and argue...

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Analyses the polysemy of recognition operative in the thought of two contemporary French thinkers, Emmanuel Levinas (1906-1995) and Paul Ricoeur (1...

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...

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

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

This book brings together scholars from across the globe and a range of disciplines to discuss the nature of African cities today. This groundbreak...

From a cup of classic builder's to a fragrant floral blend, this is a celebration of the ritual and joy of tea.

'Full of gems; a manifesto for green cities. Babbs will turn us all into urban rangers, an unquiet army of neighbourhood watchers.' Max Adams, auth...

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

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...

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

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

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Publisher: Oxford University Press IncAuthor(s): Alex John (Clara L West Professor of Ethics and Philosophy, Clara L West Professor of Ethics and P...

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The first book by Russian photographer and Instagram sensation Arseniy Kotov. The images showcase surviving Soviet Modernist architecture from acro...

The Urban Nature Map series reveals cities' wilder sides. Find all the parks and green open spaces, amazing walks, and loads of fun facts and detai...

The story of ancient cities from the end of the Bronze Age to the beginning of the Middle Ages: a tale of war and politics, pestilence and famine, ...