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  • The Biopolitics of Lifestyle

    Foucault, Ethics and Healthy Choices

    Serier serie Interventions
    A growing sense of urgency over obesity at the national and international level has led to a proliferation of medical and non-medical interventions into the daily lives of individuals and populations. This work focuses on the biopolitical use of lifestyle to govern individual choice and secure population health from the threat of obesity. The characterization of obesity as a threat to society ... Læs mere

    602,61 kr.

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  • Street Smart

    The Rise of Cities and the Fall of Cars

    On a Saturday morning in December 1973, a section of New York's West Side Highway collapsed under the weight of a truck full of asphalt. The road was closed, seemingly for good, and the 80,000 cars that traveled it each day had to find a new way to their destinations. It ought to have produced traffic chaos, but it didn't. The cars simply vanished. It was a moment of revelation: the highway had ... Læs mere

    100,22 kr.

  • Home Truths

    Confronting New Zealand’s Housing Crisis

    Serier Bog 37 - BWB Texts
    The poor standard of current housing, and the inability of too many people on low incomes to access decent housing, is causing a cascade of problems that are avoidable.Housing affordability. Unhealthy homes. Wealth inequality. Environmental sustainability. Social mobility. The state of New Zealand housing is central to many major issues confronting this country. In this wide-ranging BWB Text, ... Læs mere

    18,78 kr.

  • Growing Urban Economies

    Innovation, Creativity, and Governance in Canadian City-Regions

    Redigeret af David A. Wolfe, Meric S. Gertler ...
    Serier serie Innovation, Creativity, and Governance in Canadian City-Regions
    Even in a globalizing, knowledge-based economy, cities remain engines of growth, innovation, and diversity. Increasingly, they are also active participants in the creation of the social and political conditions necessary to create a thriving community. The Innovation, Creativity, and Governance in Canadian City-Regions series is a focused analysis of how developments at the local and regional ... Læs mere

    347,61 kr.

  • Utopian England

    Community Experiments 1900-1945

    af Dennis Hardy ...
    Serier serie Planning, History and Environment Series
    England in the early part of the twentieth century was rich in utopian ventures - diverse and intriguing in their scope and aims. Two world wars, an economic depression, and the emergence of fascist states in Europe were all a spur to idealists to seek new limits - to escape from the here and now, and to create sanctuaries for new and better lives.Dennis Hardy explores this fascinating history of ... Læs mere

    494,98 kr.

  • Assembling the Centre: Architecture for Indigenous Cultures

    Australia and Beyond

    Serier serie Routledge Research in Architecture
    Metropolitan Indigenous Cultural Centres have become a focal point for making Indigenous histories and contemporary cultures public in settler-colonial societies over the past three decades. While there are extraordinary success stories, there are equally stories that cause concern: award-winning architecturally designed Indigenous cultural centres that have been abandoned; centres that serve the ... Læs mere

    667,18 kr.

  • Designing the City

    Towards a More Sustainable Urban Form

    Designing the City looks at current urban problems in cities and demonstrates how effective urban design can address social, economic and environmental issues as well as the physical planning at local level. The book is highly visual and illustrates the topic with a variety of sketches, line drawings, axonometrics and models. The author draws upon the valuable experience gained by the City of ... Læs mere

    344,30 kr.

  • Tower and Slab

    Histories of Global Mass Housing

    af Florian Urban ...
    Tower and Slab looks at the contradictory history of the modernist mass housing block - home to millions of city dwellers around the world. Few urban forms have roused as much controversy. While in the United States decades-long criticism caused the demolition of most mass housing projects for the poor, in the booming metropolises of Shanghai and Mumbai remarkably similar developments are being ... Læs mere

    430,40 kr.

  • Ecological Vignettes

    af Eugene P Odum ...
    First Published in 2004. Written by one of the most highly regarded U.S. ecologists, this book presents basic ecological principles in a series of vignettes, illustrated by cartoons and simple diagrams, covering such subjects as growth, energy, ecological change, diversity, economics and technology, among others. Drawing upon essays written during a forty-year career as a teacher, research and ... Læs mere

    451,93 kr.

  • Event Policy

    From Theory to Strategy

    As the event management field expands, there has been an emergence of a distinctive ‘events’ policy field of study and a need for more advanced texts that look at this subject with a multidisciplinary research and theoretical orientation.Events Policy: From Theory to Strategy is the first text to embrace this new direction in the field of events management. Its main aim is to locate the phenomena ... Læs mere

    602,61 kr.

  • Urban Microclimate

    Designing the Spaces Between Buildings

    The quality of life of millions of people living in cities could be improved if the form of the city were to evolve in a manner appropriate to its climatic context. Climatically responsive urban design is vital to any notion of sustainability: it enables individual buildings to make use of renewable energy sources for passive heating and cooling, it enhances pedestrian comfort and activity in ... Læs mere

    581,08 kr.

  • Climate Adaptation Santiago

    Serier serie Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book addresses the complexity of urbanization, impacts of climate change and climate change adaptation for the metropolitan region of Santiago de Chile, with a special focus on the most pressing issues of natural hazards, water and energy supply. The book exemplifies a conceptual approach for the development of adaptation measures, their evaluation and implementation in a decision support ... Læs mere

    840,61 kr.