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  • uTOpia

    Towards a New Toronto

    Bearbeitet von Alana Wilcox, Jason McBride
    Serien series uTOpia
    Since the election of Mayor David Miller in November 2003, Toronto has experienced a wave of civic pride and enthusiasm not felt in decades. At long last, Torontonians see their city as a place of possibility and potential. Visions of a truly workable, liveable and world-class city are once again dancing in citizens’ heads. In the past two years, this spirit has, directly or indirectly, manifested Lesen Sie mehr

    € 10,66

  • GreenTOpia

    Towards a Sustainable Toronto

    Bearbeitet von Alana Wilcox, Jonny Dovercourt
    Serien series uTOpia
    Gardening the Gardiner. Hydrogen-fuelled cabs. Rooftop Power. Rainwater harvesting. A new model of taxation. The art of salvage. Drinking less coffee. Composters for dog poo in city parks. Ravine City.What would make Toronto a greener place?This third book in the uTOpia series asked imaginative Torontonians to think both big and small about how we might make our city more environmentally wise and Lesen Sie mehr

    € 10,66

  • The State of the Arts

    Culture in Toronto

    Bearbeitet von Alana Wilcox, Christina Palassio
    Serien series uTOpia
    City Hall proclaimed 2006 the Year of Creativity. 'Live With Culture' banners flap over the city. And across the city, donors are ponying up millions for the ROM and the AGO. Culture's never had it so good. Right? The State of the Arts explores the Toronto arts scene from every angle, applauding, assailing and arguing about art in our fair burg. The essays consider the big-ticket and the ticket Lesen Sie mehr

    € 10,66

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  • Walkable City

    How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time

    von Jeff Speck
    Jeff Speck has dedicated his career to determining what makes cities thrive. And he has boiled it down to one key factor: walkability.The very idea of a modern metropolis evokes visions of bustling sidewalks, vital mass transit, and a vibrant, pedestrian-friendly urban core. But in the typical American city, the car is still king, and downtown is a place that's easy to drive to but often not worth Lesen Sie mehr

    € 10,55

  • Detroit City Is the Place to Be

    The Afterlife of an American Metropolis

    von Mark Binelli
    Once America's capitalist dream town, Detroit is our country's greatest urban failure, having fallen the longest and the farthest. But the city's worst crisis yet (and that's saying something) has managed to do the unthinkable: turn the end of days into a laboratory for the future. Urban planners, land speculators, neopastoral agriculturalists, and utopian environmentalists—all have been drawn to Lesen Sie mehr

    € 12,31

  • Subdivided

    City-Building in an Age of Hyper-Diversity

    How do we build cities where we aren't just living within the same urban space, but living together?Greater Toronto is now home to a larger proportion of foreign-born residents than any other major global metropolis. Not surprisingly, city officials rarely miss an opportunity to tout the region’s ethno-cultural neighbourhoods. Yet there’s strong evidence that the GTA is experiencing widening socio Lesen Sie mehr

    € 8,57

  • Some Great Idea

    Good Neighbourhoods, Crazy Politics and the Invention of Toronto

    von Edward Keenan
    Since 2010, Toronto's headlines have been consumed by the outrageous personal foibles and government-slashing, anti-urbanist policies of Mayor Rob Ford. But the heated debate at City Hall has obscured a bigger, decade-long narrative of Toronto's ascendance as a mature global city. Some Great Idea traces how post-amalgamation, and under three very different mayors, Toronto managed to so quickly Lesen Sie mehr

    € 7,58

  • Dorothy’s story (Individual stories from THE SWEETHEARTS, Book 4)

    Serien Buch 4 - Individual stories from THE SWEETHEARTS
    This is Dorothy’s story, one of five stories extracted from THE SWEETHEARTS.Whether in wartime or peace, tales of love, laughter and hardship from the girls in the Rowntrees factory in Yorkshire.“‘Every Friday when we got paid, they used to come round with your pay packet and a tin for charity and you’d put a penny in, and they’d go round all the machines for people to put money in. That was a Lesen Sie mehr

    € 0,99

  • Smart Cities: Big Data, Civic Hackers, and the Quest for a New Utopia

    Big Data, Civic Hackers, and the Quest for a New Utopia

    An unflinching look at the aspiring city-builders of our smart, mobile, connected future.We live in a world defined by urbanization and digital ubiquity, where mobile broadband connections outnumber fixed ones, machines dominate a new "internet of things," and more people live in cities than in the countryside.In Smart Cities, urbanist and technology expert Anthony Townsend takes a broad Lesen Sie mehr

    € 12,09

  • Creating Vibrant Communities

    How Individuals and Organizations from Diverse Sectors of Society Are Coming Together to Reduce Poverty in Canada

    Bearbeitet von Paul Born
    *Equal parts inspiration, perspiration, and information -- a book that is sure to take the Vibrant Communities story to new heights as it begins its next exciting phase.*In Canada, "poverty reduction" is no longer a "wouldn't it be nice" dream discussed after yet another failure to make a dent in an age-old problem. It's a living, breathing, exhilarating reality.Why?Because all across the country Lesen Sie mehr

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  • 935 Lies

    The Future of Truth and the Decline of America's Moral Integrity

    von Charles Lewis
    Facts are and must be the coin of the realm in a democracy, for government "of the people, by the people and for the people," requires and assumes to some extent an informed citizenry. Unfortunately, for citizens in the United States and throughout the world, distinguishing between fact and fiction has always been a formidable challenge, often with real life and death consequences. But now it is Lesen Sie mehr

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  • Divided Cities

    Belfast, Beirut, Jerusalem, Mostar, and Nicosia

    Serien series The City in the Twenty-First Century
    In Jerusalem, Israeli and Jordanian militias patrolled a fortified, impassable Green Line from 1948 until 1967. In Nicosia, two walls and a buffer zone have segregated Turkish and Greek Cypriots since 1963. In Belfast, "peaceline" barricades have separated working-class Catholics and Protestants since 1969. In Beirut, civil war from 1974 until 1990 turned a cosmopolitan city into a lethal Lesen Sie mehr

    € 32,44