The environment that we construct affects both humans and our natural world in myriad ways. There is a pressing need to create healthy places and to reduce the health threats inherent in places already built. However, there has been little awareness of the adverse effects of what we have constructed-or the positive benefits of well designed built environments.This book provides a far-reaching follow-up to the pathbreaking Urban Sprawl and Public Health, published in 2004. That book...

Mommy, I Need My Wheels is a children's picture book about learning to ride a bike like a big kid.Eddy wants to ride his bike, but the training wheels are gone! Daddy took them off so Eddy could learn to ride without them, but Eddy is used to riding with the training wheels, and he is upset.Who knew riding a bike could be so hard?When Eddy crashes his bike and falls off, he is ready to give up.Will ...

Are you ready to step into a joyful and liberating new adventure of life, leaving behind the feeling of being trapped within a small story? In this groundbreaking book, you will embark on a transformative inner journey, navigating the realms of your psyche with cutting-edge practices and advanced soul play, unlocking the stabilizing forces of your consciousness and shaping your reality with deep meaning.Join us on this captivating transformative inner journey and e...

Have you ever longed for a journey that could unlock the boundless realms of Joy and Freedom within you? Look no further than "The Seed: Journeys of Joy and Freedom, Volume 1." This groundbreaking playbook by Gwen Juvenal holds the key to a transformative experience that bridges ancient wisdom with modern insight.How can one embark on a voyage of self-discovery, echoing the practices of shamans and plant medicine, while developing skills for a truer connection to one's inner source...

From a complicated Haitian life to heart surgery to homelessness, Cynthia Josaphat’s struggles to survive her new life in the United States seem endless.After she’s taken from the only home she’s ever known by a domineering yet distant father, Cynthia’s life takes a sudden turn towards despair. Away from her mother for the first time, the Haitian teenager resolves to make the best of a difficult transition to America. Life in Haiti wasn’t perfect, but it was the on...

Looking for a way to approach the subject of adoption with your child?An adopted girl travels to Haiti to meet her biological family for the first time. Escorted by her adoptive parents, she is filled with many fears.Why didn’t her birth parents keep her?Was there something wrong with her?Was she so different that she could not stay with them in Haiti?Why does she live in a different country?What will h...

Clark always sleeps with the little dragon, but tonight the little dragon is nowhere to be found! There are so many places to look. Is he under the bed? In the closet? Maybe Clark will never find his friend. Where can Little Dragon be?

City-making is an art, not a formula. The skills required to re-enchant the city are far wider than the conventional ones like architecture, engineering and land-use planning. There is no simplistic, ten-point plan, but strong principles can help send good city-making on its way. The vision for 21st century cities must be to be the most imaginative cities for the world rather than in the world. This one change of word - from 'in' to 'for' - gives city-making an ethical foundation and value...

The much-praised Cultural Quarters returns in a revised edition, offering new case studies and new chapters on the economics of cultural quarters and the importance of historical buildings. This definitive text provides a conceptual context for cultural quarters through a detailed discussion of urban design and planning. Drawing on several case studies (from Bolton, Birmingham, Ireland and Vienna), Cultural Quarters positions the emergence of specific cultural areas withi...

The world is facing an age of scarcity which will challenge all cities to reduce their resource footprint, especially carbon, improve biodiversity and at the same time continue to create economic opportunities and liveable places. This is green urbanism. Asian urban growth is leading the world in the rapidity of its change but how is it doing on green urbanism? This book finds emerging innovations and first signs of green urbanism in Asia and suggests they may be the guiding light for the ...

The last decade has seen the rise of urban design which has taken a central position in the new agendas for urban regeneration and renaissance. Urban design has moved from marginality to mainstream. The principles espoused by urban designers over the past thirty years are now accepted as key to a better urban environment and as we move towards greater sustainability, different ideas are emerging that are challenging some of the accepted urban design norms; urban design is at a watershed.

Bringing together leading planning and urban scholars, and including fascinating international case studies, this unique book investigates urban planning across the world and in different cultures.