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  • Cities in Globalization

    Practices, Policies and Theories

    Rivisto da Peter Taylor, Ben Derudder, Pieter Saey, Frank Witlox ...
    Serie series Questioning Cities
    Despite traditionally being a strong research topic in urban studies, inter-city relations had become grossly neglected until recently, when it was placed back on the research agenda with the advent of studies of world/global cities. More recently the ‘external relations’ of cities have taken their place alongside ‘internal relations’ within cities to constitute the full nature of cities.This ... Altre info

    70,48 €

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  • Walkable City

    How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time

    di Jeff Speck ...
    Jeff Speck has dedicated his career to determining what makes cities thrive. And he has boiled it down to one key factor: walkability.The very idea of a modern metropolis evokes visions of bustling sidewalks, vital mass transit, and a vibrant, pedestrian-friendly urban core. But in the typical American city, the car is still king, and downtown is a place that's easy to drive to but often not worth ... Altre info

    10,60 €

  • The Year of Disappearances

    Political Killings in Cork 1921-1922

    di Gerard Murphy ...
    'Every spy who was shot in Cork was buried so that nothing was known about them. They just disappeared.' These are the words of an IRA commander recalling the War of Independence in Cork city. The Year of Disappearances examines this claim and others like it. It uncovers a web of suspicion and paranoia that led to scores of men and boys being abducted from their homes before being executed as ... Altre info

    6,54 € o Gratuito con Kobo Plus

  • The New Localism

    How Cities Can Thrive in the Age of Populism

    di Bruce Katz, Jeremy Nowak ...
    The New Localism provides a roadmap for change that starts in the communities where most people live and work.In their new book, The New Localism, urban experts Bruce Katz and Jeremy Nowak reveal where the real power to create change lies and how it can be used to address our most serious social, economic, and environmental challenges.Power is shifting in the world: downward from national ... Altre info

    Era 22,87 € Ora 19,85 €

  • Food and Urbanism

    The Convivial City and a Sustainable Future

    di Susan Parham ...
    Cities are home to over fifty percent of the world's population, a figure which is expected to increase enormously by 2050. Despite the growing demand on urban resources and infrastructure, food is still often overlooked as a key factor in planning and designing cities. Without incorporating food into the design process – how it is grown, transported, and bought, cooked, eaten and disposed of – it ... Altre info

    30,36 €

  • The Routledge Companion to Urban Regeneration

    Rivisto da Michael E. Leary, John McCarthy ...
    In the past decade, urban regeneration policy makers and practitioners have faced a number of difficult challenges, such as sustainability, budgetary constraints, demands for community involvement and rapid urbanization in the Global South. Urban regeneration remains a high profile and important field of government-led intervention, and policy and practice continue to adapt to the fresh challenges ... Altre info

    58,53 €

  • Urban Design Futures

    Rivisto da Malcolm Moor, Jon Rowland ...
    The last decade has seen the rise of urban design which has taken a central position in the new agendas for urban regeneration and renaissance. Urban design has moved from marginality to mainstream. The principles espoused by urban designers over the past thirty years are now accepted as key to a better urban environment and as we move towards greater sustainability, different ideas are emerging ... Altre info

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  • Mega-Events and Legacies in Post-Metropolitan Spaces

    Expos and Urban Agendas

    di Stefano Di Vita, Corinna Morandi ...
    Serie series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book offers new perspectives through which to observe and interpret mega-events. Using the specific case studies of World’s Fairs, Di Vita and Morandi present a report of the Milan Expo 2015 and its trans-scalar legacies. While the event and post-event have been affected by the world crisis, the locations of exhibition areas have greatly expanded, encompassing regional as well as post ... Altre info

    51,47 €

  • Landscape of Discontent

    Urban Sustainability in Immigrant Paris

    di Andrew Newman ...
    Serie series A Quadrant Book
    On a rainy day in May 2007, the mayor of Paris inaugurated the Jardins d’Éole, a park whose completion was hailed internationally as an exemplar of sustainable urbanism. The park was the result of a hard-fought, decadelong protest movement in a low-income Maghrebi and African immigrant district starved for infrastructure, but the Mayor’s vision of urban sustainability was met with jeers.Drawing ... Altre info

    21,00 €

  • Unsettling the City

    Urban Land and the Politics of Property

    di Nicholas Blomley ...
    Short and accessible, this book interweaves a discussion of the geography of property in one global city, Vancouver, with a more general analysis of property, politics, and the city. ... Altre info

    63,31 €

  • Gender in the Post-Fordist Urban

    The Gender Revolution in Planning and Public Policy

    di Marguerite van den Berg ...
    Serie series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book investigates the gender revolution in urban planning and public policy. Building on feminist urban studies, it introduces the concept of genderfication as a means of understanding the consequences of post-Fordist gender notions for the city. It traces the changes in western urban gender relations, arguing that in the post-Fordist urban landscape gender is used for urban planning and ... Altre info

    51,47 €

  • Routledge Revivals: Theories of Planning and Spatial Development (1983)

    Rivisto da Philip Cooke ...
    Serie series Routledge Revivals
    First published in 1983, this book attempts to unify two bodies of theory which had become severely disjointed. Theories of the planning process had become detached from those of the urban and regional processes which are the subject of planning intervention. The author argues that major weaknesses of planning intervention in cities and regions have resulted from this split, and shows how it is ... Altre info

    47,78 €