Urban Press

A foundational analysis of the current science on climate change in cities across the U.S.Publisher: Island PressAuthor(s): Cynthia RosenzweigNumbe...

Publisher: Princeton University PressAuthor(s): Des FitzgeraldNumber of pages: 280Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 234 x 154 x 21Cover type: Paper...

Publisher: UCL PressAuthor(s): Marilia DuqueIllustration(s): 61 Illustrations, colorCollection: Ageing with SmartphonesPublication date: 2022Dimens...

Reducere. Diners were born in New England (Rhode Island, to be exact), and they have a long and colorful history as local eateries of distinction because of ...

Discover where faeries and other mythical creatures are hiding in our modern, urban environment with this beautifully illustrated guide to uncoveri...

Reducere. Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Reducere. DescriptionExamines the critical role of urban taverns in the social and political life of colonial and revolutionary America From exclusive "city ...

Focusing on colonial and postcolonial Lagos, Stephanie Newell traces the ways in which urban spaces come to be regarded as dirty by showing how col...

A call to reconnect the fields of urban planning and public health that offers a new decision-making framework for healthy city planning.

Streets make up more than 80 percent of all public space in cities, yet street space is often underutilized or disproportionately allocated to the ...

DescriptionFrom the bachelor pad that Jack Lemmon's C. C. Baxter loans out to his superiors in Billy Wilder's The Apartment (1960) to the crumbling...

Reducere. Poverty in America too often goes unnoticed, and disregarded. This perhaps results from America's general level of prosperity along with a fairly w...

Through social movements that are both grassroots and global, young leaders in San Jos?, Costa Rica, have sought to create positive social change i...

Reducere. The bone-chilling breeze off Lake Michigan carries unnerving whispers of days gone by. Sinister Chicago chronicles the unknown, unusual, or otherwi...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Bowling for Communism illuminates how civic life functioned in Leipzig, East Germany's second-largest city, on the eve of the 1989 revolution by ex...

Publisher: Urban Institute Press, U.S.Author(s): J. Mark EddyNumber of pages: 364Collection: Urban Institute PressPublication date: 2010Dimensions:...

Hatim El-Hibri explores how the creation and circulation of images has shaped the urban spaces and cultural imaginaries of Beirut, showing how imag...

A look at the benefits and consequences of the rise of community-based organizations in urban development Who makes decisions that shape the housin...

Publisher: Cool Springs PressAuthor(s): Teri SpeightIllustration(s): 125+ color photosNumber of pages: 208Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 209 x 2...

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Robin BartramIllustration(s): 8 halftones, 2 tablesNumber of pages: 224Publication date: 2022D...

Focuses on the American city as a fantastic geography constrained neither by media nor rigid genre boundaries. The book builds on a mix of theoreti...

Reducere. Open The Urban Tree Book and discover the joys of forest trekking--right in your city or town. This first-of-a-kind field guide introduces readers ...

Open Design refers to a stakeholder-oriented approach in Architecture, Urban Planning, and Project Management, as developed by the Chair of Compute...

Reducere. Whether your garden consists of large raised beds or a few pots on the patio, Kathryn K. Fontenot's The Louisiana Urban Gardener offers easy guidel...

Contributor(s): Author: Mustafa DikecA timely and incisive examination of contemporary urban unrest that explains why riots will continue until cit...

This book offers a unique account of life in nineteenth-century Dublin, told through human-animal relationships. It argues that the exploitation of...

Publisher: MIT Press LtdAuthor(s): Ricardo AlvarezIllustration(s): 39 black and white illustrationsNumber of pages: 224Publication date: 2021Dimens...

This study offers a critical interpretation of literary representations of urban poverty and the sustained trauma associated with exploitation, hom...

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 ...

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

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

Reducere. DescriptionSurvived physical abuse. Witnessed community violence. Conquered the streets.Saved by education.This is Dr. Maysa Akbar's story. A story...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

2010 Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship Book Award from the American Sociological Association; Race, Gender, and Class Section2008 Finalist,...

Reducere. Educators often invoke the term care to describe why they entered the field and what compels them to continue. This book argues that care, as typic...

Why technology is not an end in itself, and how cities can be "smart enough, " using technology to promote democracy and equity.Smart cities, where...

This detailed study is the first ever book on English bussing, an integrationist policy introduced in places like Southall and Bradford in the 1960...

Explains how jazz was shaped by urbanization, the 'great migration' of southern blacks northward, and the 'jazz image' - dress code, jargon, and us...

Reducere. What did nineteenth-century cities smell like? And how did odors matter in the formation of a modern environmental consciousness? Smell Detectives ...

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...

Reducere. Long Island's history is well known, but often overlooked are the island's unique and bizarre stories and treasures--the most interesting locations...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Tracing the first two decades of state-funded African American schools, Educational Reconstruction addresses the ways in which black Richmonders, b...

Melinda Hinkson follows the experiences of Nungarrayi, a Warlpiri woman from the central Australian desert, as she struggles to establish a new lif...

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This study follows the development of Lancashire's unique network of art institutions throughout the nineteenth century, exploring the motivations ...

Reducere. During the 1930s, the Greek architect and writer Panos Tzelepis (1894-1976) recorded the memories and tales of Stavris, an older relative, who as a...

Reducere. Between 1963 and 1972 America experienced over 750 urban revolts. Considered collectively, they comprise what Peter Levy terms a 'Great Uprising'. ...

An internationally renowned architect, urban planner, and scholar describes the major technological forces driving the future of cities Since citie...

Reducere. Since its initial publication, Loft Living has become the classic analysis of the emergence of artists as a force of gentrification and the related...

Reducere. DescriptionFirst published in 1999, this celebrated history of San Francisco traces the exploitation of both local and distant regions by prominent...

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...

When the Rogers Place arena opened in downtown Edmonton in September 2016, no amount of buzz could drown out the rumours of manipulation, secret de...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

The number of bicyclists is increasing in the United States, especially among the working class and people of color. In contrast to the demographic...

Racialization and the Production of Space in Relation to Urban Development and the National ImaginaryIllustrations: 37 b&w

The integration of immigrants into a larger society begins at the local level. "Turkish Berlin "reveals how integration has been experienced by sec...

The history of the women who travelled through Liverpool in search of work and adventure, and the women who tried to stop them. Save the Womanhood ...

Reducere. Watching the revolution of January 2011, the world saw Egyptians, men and women, come together to fight for freedom and social justice. These event...

A counter-touristic guide to one of the world's fastest developing megacities, this book intervenes in global contemporary art discourse by explori...

In the early 1980s, China undertook a massive reform that dismantled its socialist rural collectives and divided the land among millions of small p...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

"This book is cultural responsive teaching in action." -Dr. Tyronne Tanner, Former Professor, Mentor & Diversity Expert "As my Spanish 1, 2, and 3 ...

"This book is cultural responsive teaching in action." -Dr. Tyronne Tanner, Former Professor, Mentor & Diversity Expert "As my Spanish 1, 2, and 3 ...

The study of teenagers' interaction in the classroom can tell us a great deal about late-modern society. In this revealing account, Ben Rampton pre...

Shows how Lefebvre's theory of space developed out of direct engagement with architecture, urbanism, and urban sociology.Publisher: University of M...

Reducere. A major new urban history of the design and development of postwar San FranciscoDesigning San Francisco is the untold story of the formative postwa...