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  • Reason in the City of Difference

    par Gary Bridge ...
    Collections series Questioning Cities
    In the modernist city rationality ruled and subsumed difference in a logic of identity. In the postmodern city, reason is abandoned for an endless play of difference. Reason in the City of Difference poses an alternative to these extremes by drawing on classical American philosophical pragmatism (and its contemporary developments in feminism and the philosophy of communication) to explore the ... En savoir plus

    $94.81 CAD

  • Ludlow’s Child

    par Gary Bridges ...
    Baby Tomas escapes from the Ludlow massacre and is raised by his adoptive parents, who flee to Austria-Hungary as WWI ends. Adult Tomas is recruited into Hitler’s army. Wounded and mistaken for a German, the US incarcerates him as a POW during WWII. US Army Intelligence recruits him to uncover a Russian spy at the Los Alamos project. The spy follows Tomas to Colorado and kidnaps Tomas’s son, Gacy, ... En savoir plus

    $5.99 CAD

  • Gentrification in a Global Context

    Modifié par Rowland Atkinson, Gary Bridge ...
    Collections series Housing and Society Series
    Gentrification, a process of class neighbourhood upgrading, is being identified in a broader range of urban contexts throughout the world. This book throws new light and evidence to bear on a subject that deeply divides commentators on its worth and social costs given its ability to physically improve areas but also to displace indigenous inhabitants.Gentrification in a Global Perspective brings ... En savoir plus

    $105.80 CAD

  • The New Blackwell Companion to The City

    Modifié par Gary Bridge, Sophie Watson ...
    Collections series Wiley Blackwell Companions to Geography
    This book considers the state of the city and contemporary urbanisation from a range of intellectual and international perspectives.The most interdisciplinary collection of its kindProvides a contemporary update on urban thinking that builds on well established debates in the fieldUses the city to explore economic, social, cultural, environmental and political issues more broadlyIncludes ... En savoir plus

    $59.99 CAD

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    How Cities Are Changing The World

    par Jeb Brugmann ...
    In Welcome to the Urban Revolution, internationally recognized urbanist Jeb Brugmann turns traditional thinking about globalization on its head to show that the city isn't a backdrop to global change; it is a central driver of change—political, economic, social, and environmental. This powerful reappraisal of the global role of cities brilliantly synthesizes urban studies, economics, and sociology ... En savoir plus

    $14.99 CAD

  • What's Wrong with the World

    par G. K. Chesterton ...
    Chesterton gives his remarkably perceptive analysis on social and moral issues more relevant today than even in his own time. In his light and humorous style, yet deadly serious and philosophical, he comments on feminism and true womanhood, errors in education, the importance of the child and other issues, using incisive arguments against the trendsetters' assaults against the family.Chesterton ... En savoir plus

    $19.99 CAD

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  • Walking Home

    The Life and Lessons of a City Builder

    par 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 ... En savoir plus

    $13.99 CAD

  • Makeshift Metropolis

    Ideas About Cities

    par Witold Rybczynski ...
    In this new work, prizewinning author, professor, and Slate architecture critic Witold Rybczynski returns to the territory he knows best: writing about the way people live, just as he did in the acclaimed bestsellers Home and A Clearing in the Distance. In Makeshift Metropolis, Rybczynski has drawn upon a lifetime of observing cities to craft a concise and insightful book that is at once an ... En savoir plus

    $16.99 CAD

  • Green Metropolis

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

    par 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 ... En savoir plus

    Prix courant $12.99 CAD Maintenant $9.99 CAD

  • Planet of Slums

    par Mike Davis ...
    Collections series Essential Mike Davis
    THE BEST-SELLING MODERN CLASSIC: The world’s leading urbanist offers a “profound . . . brilliant” account of the rise of the world’s slums and the failures of modern urbanization (Arundhati Roy, activist and Booker Prize–winning author).According to the United Nations, more than one billion people now live in the slums of the cities of the South. In this brilliant and ambitious book, Mike Davis ... En savoir plus

    $19.19 CAD

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  • The City Game

    Basketball from the Garden to the Playgrounds

    par Pete Axthelm ...
    "The master prose stylist portrays parallel basketball worlds in New York City: Madison Square Garden . . . and the playgrounds of Harlem" ( Sports Illustrated ).The New York Knickerbockers, one of the NBA's charter franchises, played professionally for twenty-four years before winning their first championship in 1970, defeating the Los Angeles Lakers in a thrilling seven-game series. Those Knicks ... En savoir plus

    $17.59 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • City in the Sky

    The Rise and Fall of the World Trade Center

    par James Glanz, Eric Lipton ...
    The definitive biography of the iconic skyscrapers and the ambitions that shaped them--from their dizzying rise to their unforgettable fallMore than a year after the nation began mourning the lives lost in the attacks on the World Trade Center, it became clear that something else was being mourned: the towers themselves. They were the biggest and brashest icons that New York, and possibly America, ... En savoir plus

    $17.59 CAD