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  • The Biopolitics of Lifestyle

    Foucault, Ethics and Healthy Choices

    di Christopher Mayes ...
    Serie series 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 ... Altre info

    63,31 €

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  • Street Smart

    The Rise of Cities and the Fall of Cars

    di Samuel I Schwartz ...
    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 ... Altre info

    11,99 €

  • Growing Urban Economies

    Innovation, Creativity, and Governance in Canadian City-Regions

    Rivisto da David A. Wolfe, Meric S. Gertler ...
    Serie series 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 ... Altre info

    35,77 €

  • Utopian England

    Community Experiments 1900-1945

    di Dennis Hardy ...
    Serie series 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 ... Altre info

    52,56 €

  • Assembling the Centre: Architecture for Indigenous Cultures

    Australia and Beyond

    di Janet McGaw, Anoma Pieris ...
    Serie series 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 ... Altre info

    70,48 €

  • Tower and Slab

    Histories of Global Mass Housing

    di 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 ... Altre info

    45,39 €

  • Climate Adaptation Santiago

    Rivisto da Kerstin Krellenberg, Bernd Hansjürgens ...
    Serie series 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 ... Altre info

    84,23 €

  • Labor Forces and Landscape Management

    Japanese Case Studies

    Rivisto da Hiroyuki Shimizu, Chika Takatori, Nobuko Kawaguchi ...
    Serie series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    The purpose of this book is to present a new proposal for landscape management labor accounts. Many matured countries are now confronting an aging society and a shrinking population. Land degradation in those countries is basically caused by a lack of local labor forces. It is very important, therefore, to consider and develop methods to provide appropriate labor forces for the sustainable ... Altre info

    131,03 €

  • Encountering Urban Places

    Visual and Material Performances in the City

    di Lars Frers ...
    The aesthetics of urban life offer a curious quality, one that is both highly visible and hidden, both openly influencing and subtly imprinting. These aesthetics participate in the production of places; to the way they are built, to their resisting materiality, to their image in people's minds, to advertising and to the way people respond to the place. Exploring the encounter with the aesthetics, ... Altre info

    60,92 €

  • Latino Placemaking and Planning

    Cultural Resilience and Strategies for Reurbanization

    di Jesus J. Lara ...
    Serie series Latinx Pop Culture
    Latinos are currently the second-largest ethnic group demographically within the United States. By the year 2050 they are projected to number nearly 133 million, or approximately one third of the country’s total population. As the urban component of this population increases, the need for resources to support it will generate new cultural and economic stresses.Latino Placemaking and Planning ... Altre info

    15,38 €

  • The Architecture of Edwin Maxwell Fry and Jane Drew

    Twentieth Century Architecture, Pioneer Modernism and the Tropics

    di Iain Jackson, Jessica Holland ...
    Serie series Ashgate Studies in Architecture
    Maxwell Fry and Jane Drew were pioneers of Modern Architecture in Britain and its former colonies from the late 1920s through to the early 1970s. As a barometer of twentieth century architecture, their work traces the major cultural developments of that century from the development of modernism, its spread into the late-colonial arena and finally, to its re-evaluation that resulted in a more ... Altre info

    65,70 €

  • Earthquake Hazard Impact and Urban Planning

    Rivisto da Maria Bostenaru Dan, Iuliana Armas, Agostino Goretti ...
    Serie series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    The classical field dealing with earthquakes is called “earthquake engineering” and considered to be a branch of structural engineering. In projects dealing with strategies for earthquake risk mitigation, urban planning approaches are often neglected. Today interventions are needed on a city, rather than a building, scale. This work deals with the impact of earthquakes, including also a broader ... Altre info

    84,23 €