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af Aaron J. MacKinnon, Peter N. Duinker, Tony R. Walker ...

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af Aaron Passell ...

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af Arianna Guerrini ...

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Black Urban History at the Crossroads

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Redigeret af Leslie M. Harris, Clarence Lang, Rhonda Y. Williams, Joe William Trotter Jr. ...

Drawing on significant recent scholarship on African American urban life over three centuries, Black Urban History at the Crossroads bridges disparate chronological, regional, topical, and thematic perspectives on the Black urban experience beginning with the Atlantic slave trade. Across ten cutting-edge chapters, leading scholars explore the many ways that urban Black people across the United ... Læs mere

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Shantytown, USA

Forgotten Landscapes of the Working Poor

af Lisa Goff ...

The word “shantytown” conjures images of crowded slums in developing nations. Though their history is largely forgotten, shantytowns were a prominent feature of one developing nation in particular: the United States. Lisa Goff restores shantytowns to the central place they once occupied in America’s urban landscape, showing how the basic but resourcefully constructed dwellings of America’s working ... Læs mere

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The word “shantytown” conjures images of crowded slums in developing nations. Though their history is largely forgotten, shantytowns were a prominent feature of one developing nation in particular: the United States. Lisa Goff restores shantytowns to the central place they once occupied in America’s urban landscape, showing how the basic but resourcefully constructed dwellings of America’s working
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La Gestión Urbana en América Latina

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af Autores Varios ...

Pensar la gestión urbana ha sido un tema de interés para diferentes actores. Específicamente en nuestro país, la Universidad Piloto de Colombia ha liderado la preocupación por el tema, razón por la cual hace 26 años en el seno de la Facultad de Arquitectura y Artes crea la Maestría con dicho nombre. La Maestría al igual que la noción, ha ido transformándose con los años y acontecimientos ... Læs mere

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Geographic Information Science and Public Participation

af Laxmi Ramasubramanian ...

Serier serie Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
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Urban Design Futures

Site Planning, Volume 2

Site Planning, Volume 3

The Death and Life of Great American Cities

Site Planning, Volume 1

Confessions of a Recovering Engineer

Curbing Traffic

Single People and Mass Housing in Germany, 1850–1930

Ethical Design Intelligence

The Ludic City

New SubUrbanisms

Affordable and Social Housing

Unsettled Urban Space

Climate Change and Infrastructure, Urban Systems, and Vulnerabilities

Planning for Community Resilience

Sprawl Costs

Mitigation Banking

The Application of Science in Environmental Impact Assessment

Preserving Neighborhoods

Le opportunità della Rigenerazione Urbana tra l'interesse collettivo e l'abitare sociale

Black Urban History at the Crossroads

Shantytown, USA

La Gestión Urbana en América Latina

Geographic Information Science and Public Participation