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  • Development and Planning in Seven Major Coastal Cities in Southern and Eastern China

    by Gordon Kee, Jianfa Shen ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book analyzes the recent growth of Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Fuzhou, Shanghai, Hangzhou, Nanjing, and Hong Kong, seven major Chinese coastal cities. The authors detail theoretical mechanisms, spatial and non-spatial models of development, all while exploring possible directions to sustainability. They also look at how these cities have developed over the last 30 years, from the late 1970s to the ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

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  • The Sugar Girls - Gladys’s Story

    Tales of Hardship, Love and Happiness in Tate & Lyle’s East End

    by Duncan Barrett, Nuala Calvi ...
    This is Gladys’s story, one of four stories from The Sugar Girls. During the Blitz and the years of rationing, the Sugar Girls kept Britain sweet. The work was back-breakingly hard, but the Tate & Lyle factory was more than just a workplace – it was a community, a calling, a place of love and support and an uproarious, tribal part of East London.‘Gladys changed into her new uniform. The dungarees ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD

  • Green Metropolis

    Why Living Smaller, Living Closer, and Driving Less Are the Keys to Sustainability

    by David Owen ...
    Look out for David Owen's next book, Where the Water Goes.A challenging, controversial, and highly readable look at our lives, our world, and our future.Most Americans think of crowded cities as ecological nightmares, as wastelands of concrete and garbage and diesel fumes and traffic jams. Yet residents of compact urban centers, Owen shows, individually consume less oil, electricity, and water ... Read more

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  • Cities of Tomorrow

    An Intellectual History of Urban Planning and Design Since 1880

    by Peter Hall ...
    Peter Hall’s seminal Cities of Tomorrow remains an unrivalled account of the history of planning in theory and practice, as well as of the social and economic problems and opportunities that gave rise to it. Now comprehensively revised, the fourth edition offers a perceptive, critical, and global history of urban planning and design throughout the twentieth-century and beyond.A revised and updated ... Read more

    $71.99 CAD

  • El Alto, Rebel City

    Self and Citizenship in Andean Bolivia

    by Sian Lazar, Walter D. Mignolo, Irene Silverblatt, Sonia Saldívar-Hull ...
    Series series Latin America Otherwise
    Combining anthropological methods and theories with political philosophy, Sian Lazar analyzes everyday practices and experiences of citizenship in a satellite city to the Bolivian capital of La Paz: El Alto, where more than three-quarters of the population identify as indigenous Aymara. For several years, El Alto has been at the heart of resistance to neoliberal market reforms, such as the export ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD

  • The Durable Slum

    Dharavi and the Right to Stay Put in Globalizing Mumbai

    by Liza Weinstein ...
    Series series Globalization and Community
    In the center of Mumbai, next to the city’s newest and most expensive commercial developments, lies one of Asia’s largest slums, where as many as one million squatters live in makeshift housing on one square mile of government land. This is the notorious Dharavi district, best known from the movie Slumdog Millionaire. In recent years, cities from Delhi to Rio de Janeiro have demolished similar ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • Civil Unrest

    Rioting in Our Cities

    by Chris Elliott ...
    When British cities erupted into violence in August 2011, the world once again began to ask why and how such riots begin, and whether there will ever be a solution to civil unrest. This important ebook, a collection of writing by the Guardian's finest contributors, charts the causes and responses to riots and disaffection from Notting Hill in 1958 via Brixton, Toxteth, Detroit and LA, to the ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD

  • Creative Margins

    Cultural Production in Canadian Suburbs

    by Alison L. Bain ...
    Suburbs can be incubators of creativity: innovative and complex, but all too often underappreciated. In Creative Margins, Alison L. Bain documents the unique role of Canadian artists and cultural workers in suburban place-formation and dismantles mischaracterizations of suburbs as cultural wastelands.Creative Margins interweaves stories of the challenges and opportunities presented by the creation ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD

  • Planning for Retail Development

    A Critical View of the British Experience

    by Clifford Guy ...
    Written by a leading expert in the field, this is the first thorough critical review of retail planning policy in Britain (including Scotland and Wales). It covers recent changes in government policy and guidance, and examines retail policy within a broader economic and social context.Planning for Retail Development explains key events and debates in the evolution of retail planning policy, at ... Read more

    $105.99 CAD

  • Buyways

    Billboards, Automobiles, and the American Landscape

    by Catherine Gudis ...
    Series series Cultural Spaces
    The highway has become the buyway. Along the millions of miles the public travels, advertisers spend billions on images of cola, cars, vodka, fast food, and swimming pools that blur past us, catching our fleeting attention and turning the landscape into a corridor of commerce. A smart, succinct, and visually compelling history of the billboard in America, Buyways traces how the outdoor advertising ... Read more

    $97.55 CAD

  • Beyond the Kale

    Urban Agriculture and Social Justice Activism in New York City

    by Kristin Reynolds, Nevin Cohen ...
    Urban agriculture is increasingly considered an important part of creating just and sustainable cities. Yet the benefits that many people attribute to urban agriculture—fresh food, green space, educational opportunities—can mask structural inequities, thereby making political transformation harder to achieve. Realizing social and environmental justice requires moving beyond food production to ... Read more

    $40.99 CAD

  • Hydraulic City

    Water and the Infrastructures of Citizenship in Mumbai

    by Nikhil Anand ...
    In Hydraulic City Nikhil Anand explores the politics of Mumbai's water infrastructure to demonstrate how citizenship emerges through the continuous efforts to control, maintain, and manage the city's water. Through extensive ethnographic fieldwork in Mumbai's settlements, Anand found that Mumbai's water flows, not through a static collection of pipes and valves, but through a dynamic ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD