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  • Ethics As Foreign Policy

    Britain, The EU and the Other

    af Dan Bulley ...
    Serier serie Interventions
    Ethical foreign policy has often been considered utopian, unrealistic and potentially very dangerous. Dan Bulley argues for a reconceptualisation of ethics as foreign policy, as both look to how we can, and ought to, relate to others.Inspired by the deconstructive thought of Jacques Derrida, Bulley studies the ethical claims of British (1997-2007) and EU (1999-2004) foreign policy. These claims ... Læs mere

    343,22 kr.

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  • Science and the City

    The Mechanics Behind the Metropolis

    af Laurie Winkless ...
    Cities are a big deal. More people now live in them than don't, and with a growing world population, the urban jungle is only going to get busier in the coming decades. But how often do we stop to think about what makes our cities work?Cities are built using some of the most creative and revolutionary science and engineering ideas – from steel structures that scrape the sky to glass cables that ... Læs mere

    90,86 kr.

  • Public Housing Myths

    Perception, Reality, and Social Policy

    Redigeret af Nicholas Dagen Bloom, Fritz Umbach, Lawrence J. Vale ...
    Popular opinion holds that public housing is a failure; so what more needs to be said about seventy-five years of dashed hopes and destructive policies? Over the past decade, however, historians and social scientists have quietly exploded the common wisdom about public housing. Public Housing Myths pulls together these fresh perspectives and unexpected findings into a single volume to provide an ... Læs mere

    175,74 kr.

  • Bike Battles

    A History of Sharing the American Road

    af James Longhurst ...
    Americans have been riding bikes for more than a century now. So why are most American cities still so ill-prepared to handle cyclists? James Longhurst, a historian and avid cyclist, tackles that question by tracing the contentious debates between American bike riders, motorists, and pedestrians over the shared road.Bike Battles explores the different ways that Americans have thought about the ... Læs mere

    186,36 kr.

  • The Invention of Brownstone Brooklyn

    Gentrification and the Search for Authenticity in Postwar New York

    af Suleiman Osman ...
    Considered one of the city's most notorious industrial slums in the 1940s and 1950s, Brownstone Brooklyn by the 1980s had become a post-industrial landscape of hip bars, yoga studios, and beautifully renovated, wildly expensive townhouses. In The Invention of Brownstone Brooklyn, Suleiman Osman offers a groundbreaking history of this unexpected transformation. Challenging the conventional wisdom ... Læs mere

    306,47 kr.

  • Street Sex Work and Canadian Cities

    Resisting a Dangerous Order

    af Shawna Ferris ...
    “Our voices scrubbed out and forgotten. There are those who research and write about sex workers who often forget we are human.” —Amy Lebovitch Shawna Ferris gives a voice to sex workers who are often pushed to the background, even by those who fight for them. In the name of urban safety and orderliness, street sex workers face stigma, racism, and ignorance. Their human rights are ignored, and ... Læs mere

    187,11 kr.

  • Cities and the Politics of Difference

    Multiculturalism and Diversity in Urban Planning

    Redigeret af Michael Burayidi ...
    Demographic change and a growing sensitivity to the diversity of urban communities have increasingly led planners to recognize the necessity of planning for diversity. Edited by Michael A. Burayidi, Cities and the Politics of Difference offers a guide for making diversity a cornerstone of planning practice.The essays in this collection cover the practical and theoretical issues that surround this ... Læs mere

    288,74 kr.

  • New Orleans Under Reconstruction

    The Crisis of Planning

    Redigeret af Michael Sorkin, Carol McMichael Reese, Anthony Fontenot ...
    When the levee system protecting New Orleans failed and was overtopped in August 2005 following the arrival of Hurricane Katrina, 80 percent of the city was flooded, with a loss of 103,000 homes in the metropolitan area. At least 986 Louisiana residents died. The devastation hit vulnerable communities the hardest: the elderly, the poor, and African-Americans. The disaster exposed shocking ... Læs mere

    136,86 kr. eller Gratis med Kobo Plus

  • The Nature of Design

    Ecology, Culture, and Human Intention

    af David W. Orr ...
    The environmental movement has often been accused of being overly negative--trying to stop "progress." The Nature of Design, on the other hand, is about starting things, specifically an ecological design revolution that changes how we provide food, shelter, energy, materials, and livelihood, and how we deal with waste. Ecological design is an emerging field that aims to recalibrate what humans do ... Læs mere

    223,99 kr.

  • Rethinking Place Branding

    Comprehensive Brand Development for Cities and Regions

    Redigeret af Mihalis Kavaratzis, Gary Warnaby, Gregory J. Ashworth ...
    Serier serie Business and Management (R0)
    As Place Branding has become a widely established but contested practice, there is a dire need to rethink its theoretical foundations and its contribution to development and to re-assert its future. This important new book advances understanding of place branding through its holistic, critical and evidence-based approach. Contributions by world-leading specialists explore a series of crucially ... Læs mere

    1.400,85 kr.

  • Visualizing the Data City

    Social Media as a Source of Knowledge for Urban Planning and Management

    af Luca Simeone, Giorgia Lupi, Paolo Ciuccarelli ...
    Serier serie Computer Science (R0)
    This book investigates novel methods and technologies for the collection, analysis and representation of real-time user-generated data at the urban scale in order to explore potential scenarios for more participatory design, planning and management processes. For this purpose, the authors present a set of experiments conducted in collaboration with urban stakeholders at various levels (including ... Læs mere

    462,24 kr.

  • An Introduction to Political Geography

    af John Rennie Short ...
    Old powers are falling. New states are emerging. The gap between East and West is narrowing. What are the problems facing the emerging new world order? Can action at the community level affect global issues?An Introduction to Political Geography, in its first edition helped shape the study of the discipline. Entirely revised and updated, this new edition explores political and geographic change ... Læs mere

    568,53 kr.