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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “heike oevermann”
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  • Industrial Heritage Sites in Transformation

    Clash of Discourses

    Edited by Harald A. Mieg, Heike Oevermann ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Heritage
    The management of industrial heritage sites requires rethinking in the context of urban change, and the issue of how to balance protection, preservation/conservation, and development becomes all the more crucial as industrial heritage sites grow in number. This brings into play new challenges—not only through the known conflicts between monument preservation and contemporary architecture, but also ... Read more

    $83.99 CAD

  • Securing Urban Heritage

    Agents, Access, and Securitization

    Edited by Heike Oevermann, Eszter Gantner ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Heritage
    Securing Urban Heritage considers the impact of securitization on access to urban heritage sites. Demonstrating that symbolic spaces such as these have increasingly become the location of choice for the practice and performance of contemporary politics in the last decade, the book shows how this has led to the securitization of urban public space. Highlighting specific changes that have been made, ... Read more

    $100.30 CAD

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    Green Fields and Urban Growth, 1820-2000

    by Dolores Hayden ...
    A lively and provocative history of the contested landscapes where the majority of Americans now live.From rustic cottages reached by steamboat to big box stores at the exit ramps of eight-lane highways, Dolores Hayden defines seven eras of suburban development since 1820. An urban historian and architect, she portrays housewives and politicians as well as designers and builders making the ... Read more

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  • The Culture of Cities

    by Lewis Mumford ...
    Series Book 19 - Forbidden Bookshelf
    A classic work advocating ecological urban planning—from a civic visionary and former architecture critic for the New Yorker.Considered among the greatest works of Lewis Mumford—a prolific historian, sociologist, philosopher of technology, and longtime architecture critic for the New Yorker—The Culture of Cities is a call for communal action to "rebuild the urban world on a sounder human ... Read more

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  • The Just City

    by Susan S. Fainstein ...
    "The just city is one in which equity, democracy, and diversity are important considerations. This is in contrast with the city as growth machine. Fainstein examines three cities: New York, London, and Amsterdam. She provides a history of post–World War II planning and then focuses on fairly recent cases of development in each. Her goals, though modest, are important if growing inequality in urban ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

  • SPACE, DIFFERENCE, EVERYDAY LIFE:

    Reading Henri Lefebvre

    Edited by Kanishka Goonewardena, Stefan Kipfer, Richard Milgrom, Christian Schmid ...
    In the past fifteen years, Henri Lefebvre’s reputation has catapulted into the stratosphere, and he is now considered an equal to some of the greats of European social theory (Bourdieu, Deleuze, Harvey). In particular, his work has revitalized urban studies, geography and planning via concepts like; the social production of space, the right to the city, everyday life, and global urbanization. ... Read more

    $114.99 CAD

  • Urban Design Futures

    Edited by 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 ... Read more

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  • Loose Space

    Possibility and Diversity in Urban Life

    Edited by Karen Franck, Quentin Stevens ...
    In cities around the world people use a variety of public spaces to relax, to protest, to buy and sell, to experiment and to celebrate. Loose Space explores the many ways that urban residents, with creativity and determination, appropriate public space to meet their own needs and desires. Familiar or unexpected, spontaneous or planned, momentary or long-lasting, the activities that make urban ... Read more

    $116.99 CAD

  • The Routledge Handbook of Urbanization and Global Environmental Change

    Edited by Karen Seto, William Solecki, Corrie Griffith ...
    Series series Routledge International Handbooks
    This volume provides a comprehensive overview of the interactions and feedbacks between urbanization and global environmental change. A key focus is the examination of how urbanization influences global environmental change, and how global environmental change in turn influences urbanization processes. It has four thematic foci: Theme 1 addresses the pathways through which urbanization drives ... Read more

    $94.99 CAD

  • Global Networks, Linked Cities

    Edited by Saskia Sassen ...
    In her pioneering book The Global City, Saskia Sassen argued that certain cities in the postindustrial world have become central nodes in the new service economy, strategic sites for the acceleration of capital and information flows as well as spaces of increasing socio-economic polarization. One effect has been that such cities have gained in importance and power relative to nation-states. In ... Read more

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  • Mega-Events and Legacies in Post-Metropolitan Spaces

    Expos and Urban Agendas

    by Stefano Di Vita, Corinna Morandi ...
    Series 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 ... Read more

    $70.99 CAD

  • Gender in the Post-Fordist Urban

    The Gender Revolution in Planning and Public Policy

    by Marguerite van den Berg ...
    Series 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 ... Read more

    $70.99 CAD