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EcoPolis eBook Series

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  • Sustainable Urban Mobilities

    French Fieldworks in European Perspective

    Edited by Philippe Hamman ...
    Series Book 40 - EcoPolis
    Mobilities are an essential issue in contemporary societies, which have recently been reexamined as a result of calls for ecological transition, on the one hand, and the impact of the global Covid 19 pandemic, on the other. The original contribution of this book is that it starts from the polysemic meaning of mobility, paying attention to different scales of perception and action, the lived spaces ... Read more

    $59.69 CAD

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  • The Anatomy of Ethical Leadership

    To Lead Our Organizations in a Conscientious and Authentic Manner

    by Lyse Langlois ...
    Performance at all costs, productivity without regard to consequences, and a competitive work environment: these are the ethical factors discussed in The Anatomy of Ethical Leadership, which highlights issues in workplace culture while looking into a brighter future for labour ethics. Langlois maintains that an enhanced awareness of the process of ethical decision making in difficult situations ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Sustainability, Citizen Participation, and City Governance

    Multidisciplinary Perspectives

    Edited by Hoi L. Kong, Tanya Monforte ...
    The inaction of nation states and international bodies has posed significant risks to the environment. By contrast, cities are sites of action and innovation. In Sustainability, Citizen Participation, and City Governance, contributors researching in the areas of law, urban planning, geography, and philosophy identify approaches for tackling many of the most challenging environmental problems ... Read more

    $24.79 CAD

  • Museum Ethics

    Theory and Practice

    Edited by Gary Edson ...
    Series series Heritage: Care-Preservation-Management
    A number of developments in the museum movement during the last few years have forced museums to give greater attention to ethical issues. Members of a profession are increasingly regarded constituting an ethical community. Every person with such a community must have a sense of personal obligation as well as a responsibilty for others to assure ethical achievement. This volume firmly places ... Read more

    $88.21 CAD

  • Industrial Heritage Tourism

    by Dr. Philip Feifan Xie ...
    Series Book 43 - Tourism and Cultural Change
    This book examines the complex interplay between industrial heritage and tourism. It serves to stimulate meaningful dialogue about the socioeconomic values of industrial sites and the use of tourism for the growth of the creative economy, and to better understand how the collective social memory and local identity connected to these sites have been shaped by different social groups over time. The ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • The Making of Grand Paris

    Metropolitan Urbanism in the Twenty-First Century

    by Theresa Enright ...
    Series series Urban and Industrial Environments
    A critical examination of metropolitan planning in Paris—the “Grand Paris” initiative—and the building of today's networked global city.In 2007 the French government announced the “Grand Paris” initiative. This ambitious project reimagined the Paris region as integrated, balanced, global, sustainable, and prosperous. Metropolitan solidarity would unite divided populations; a new transportation ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • The Practice Turn in Architecture: Brussels after 1968

    by Isabelle Doucet ...
    Series series Ashgate Studies in Architecture
    What makes a city? What makes architecture? And, what is to be included in the discussions of architecture and the city? Attempting to answer such ambitious questions, this book starts from a city’s specificity and complexity. In response to recent debates in architectural theory around the agency and locus of critical action, this book tests the potential of criticality through-practice. Rather ... Read more

    $96.35 CAD

  • Transport, Mobility, and the Production of Urban Space

    Edited by Julie Cidell, David Prytherch ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Human Geography
    The contemporary urban experience is defined by flow and structured by circulating people, objects, and energy. Geographers have long provided key insights into transportation systems. But today, concerns for social justice and sustainability motivate new, critical approaches to mobilities. Reimagining the city prompts an important question: How best to rethink urban geographies of transport and ... Read more

    $92.28 CAD

  • Museums and the Past

    Constructing Historical Consciousness

    Edited by Viviane Gosselin, Phaedra Livingstone ...
    This vibrant new collection edited by Viviane Gosselin and Phaedra Livingstone explores the central role of museums as memory keepers and makers.The idea of historical consciousness – how our conception of the past informs our sense of the present and of the future – is of growing importance for cultural institutions in North America. Using case studies and observations that emerge from a Canadian ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • Cultural Analysis and Bourdieu’s Legacy

    Settling Accounts and Developing Alternatives

    Edited by Elizabeth Silva, Alan Warde ...
    Series series CRESC
    Cultural Analysis and Bourdieu’s Legacy explores the achievements and limitations of a Bourdieusian approach to cultural analysis through original contributions from distinguished international scholars.This edited collection offers sustained critical engagement, substantiated by new empirical work. It presents concrete evidence of different approaches to the interpretation of culture in Britain, ... Read more

    $105.85 CAD

  • Aesthetics of Gentrification

    Seductive Spaces and Exclusive Communities in the Neoliberal City

    Edited by Christoph Lindner, Gerard Sandoval ...
    Series series Cities and Cultures
    Gentrification is reshaping cities worldwide, resulting in seductive spaces and exclusive communities that aspire to innovation, creativity, sustainability, and technological sophistication. Gentrification is also contributing to growing social-spatial division and urban inequality and precarity. In a time of escalating housing crisis, unaffordable cities, and racial tension, scholars speak of eco ... Read more

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  • Our Bankrupt Elite

    General Neurolinguistics, #2

    by Andre Michaud ...
    Series Book 2 - General Neurolinguistics
    Under a thin layer of deceptive apparent normality, a tragic cultural suicide is under way by massive de-alphabetization of the population due to a severe lowering of the general knowledge base of the elite, caused by a decades long out of control degradation of the education system.****The failure through ignorance of proper pedagogy by Quebec's pedagogues to address the critical need for ... Read more

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