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Interventions 電子書系列

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  • Insuring Life

    Value, Security and Risk

    Luis Lobo-Guerrero ……
    系列 series Interventions
    This book is a contribution to the scholarly engagement with the wider problem of governing through risk and the politics of uncertainty. It takes life insurance as an empirical site from which to ask: what is the kind of governance created through insurance an instance of, and how does it contribute to the transcendence of liberalism? By making a distinction between capable life as object of …… 閱讀更多內容

    NT$2,175 TWD

  • Insuring War

    Sovereignty, Security and Risk

    Luis Lobo-Guerrero ……
    系列 series Interventions
    Insurance is a central, if until now ignored, instrument of war in the modern period. Ever since the eighteenth century, interaction between governments and insurers in Western countries has materialised in the form of war risk schemes that have contributed to the waging of war and the preservation of peace. The operation of those schemes has given rise to a curious, if not innocent, association …… 閱讀更多內容

    NT$2,569 TWD

  • Insuring Security

    Biopolitics, security and risk

    Luis Lobo-Guerrero ……
    系列 series Interventions
    Insurance is the world’s largest economic industry, providing a form of security that more than triples global defence expenditure. However, little is know about the form of security insurance provides. This book offers a genealogical interrogation of the relationship between security and risk through its materialisation in insurance.This work seeks to argue that insurance practices ascribe value …… 閱讀更多內容

    NT$2,569 TWD

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  • Planning for Wicked Problems

    A Planner's Guide to Land Use Law

    Efforts to teach students pursuing graduate degrees in urban and regional planning are often frustrated by the "case books" that have been prepared for use by law professors teaching similar courses. Dawn Jourdan and Eric J. Strauss have attempted to take their concerns to heart in the design of this Planning for Wicked Problems: A Planner's Guide to Land Use Law.Each chapter begins with a …… 閱讀更多內容

    NT$2,899 TWD

  • Walking Home

    The Life and Lessons of a City Builder

    Ken Greenberg ……
    One of the world's foremost urban designers shares his passion and methods for rejuvenating neglected cities and argues passionately for the importance and possibilities of their renewal.From a youth spent in the boroughs of New York City and other great cities of the world, to his beginnings as an architect in Toronto, Ken Greenberg has long recognized that cities at their best provide much of …… 閱讀更多內容

    NT$522 TWD

  • Leaky Governance

    Alternative Service Delivery and the Myth of Water Utility Independence

    Kathryn Furlong ……
    Municipalities around the world face important water supply challenges. One response has been alternative service delivery (ASD). For its proponents, ASD is a way to have independence from municipal government without relinquishing control over the utility; for its detractors, it is privatization under another name. Yet the organizational barriers offered by ASD are at best leaky. Deeply …… 閱讀更多內容

    NT$704 TWD

  • The Resilience Dividend

    Being Strong in a World Where Things Go Wrong

    Judith Rodin ……
    Building resilience -- the ability to bounce back more quickly and effectively -- is an urgent social and economic issue. Our interconnected world is susceptible to sudden and dramatic shocks and stresses: a cyber-attack, a new strain of virus, a structural failure, a violent storm, a civil disturbance, an economic blow.Through an astonishing range of stories, Judith Rodin shows how people, …… 閱讀更多內容

    NT$420 TWD

  • Cities of Farmers

    Urban Agricultural Practices and Processes

    編輯者: Julie C. Dawson, Alfonso Morales ……
    Full-scale food production in cities: is it an impossibility? Or is it a panacea for all that ails urban communities? Today, it’s a reality, but many people still don’t know how much of an impact this emerging food system is having on cities and their residents. This book showcases the work of the farmers, activists, urban planners, and city officials in the United States and Canada who are …… 閱讀更多內容

    NT$1,305 TWD

  • My Backyard Jungle

    The Adventures of an Urban Wildlife Lover Who Turned His Yard into Habitat and Learned to Live with It

    James Barilla ……
    For James Barilla and his family, the dream of transforming their Columbia, South Carolina, backyard into a haven for wildlife evoked images of kids catching grasshoppers by day and fireflies at night, of digging up potatoes and picking strawberries. When they signed up with the National Wildlife Federation to certify their yard as a wildlife habitat, it felt like pushing back, in however small a …… 閱讀更多內容

    NT$665 TWD

  • The Fragmented Politics of Urban Preservation

    Beijing, Chicago, and Paris

    Yue Zhang ……
    系列 series Globalization and Community
    While urban preservation is almost as old as cities themselves, it has become increasingly controversial in modern cities. In this book, Yue Zhang presents a cross-national comparative analysis of the politics of urban preservation. Based on comprehensive archival research and more than two hundred in-depth interviews in Beijing, Chicago, and Paris, Zhang finds that urban preservation provides a …… 閱讀更多內容

    NT$592 TWD

  • Darwin Comes to Town

    See your city through fresh eyesWe are marching towards a future in which three-quarters of humans live in cities, and a large portion of the planet's landmass is urbanized. With much of the rest covered by human-shaped farms, pasture, and plantations, where can nature still go? To the cities -- is Menno Schilthuizen's answer in this remarkable book. And with more and more wildlife carving out new …… 閱讀更多內容

    NT$448 TWD

  • Unions and the City

    Negotiating Urban Change

    編輯者: Ian Thomas MacDonald ……
    Labor unions remain the largest membership-based organizations in major North American cities, even after years of decline. Labor continues to play a vital role in mobilizing urban residents, shaping urban conflict, and crafting the policies and regulations that are transforming our urban spaces. As unions become more involved in the daily life of the city, they find themselves confronting the …… 閱讀更多內容

    NT$907 TWD