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  • The Baltimore School of Urban Ecology

    Space, Scale, and Time for the Study of Cities

    The first “urban century” in history has arrived: a majority of the world’s population now resides in cities and their surrounding suburbs. Urban expansion marches on, and the planning and design of future cities requires attention to such diverse issues as human migration, public health, economic restructuring, water supply, climate and sea-level change, and much more.This important book draws on ... En savoir plus

    $43.99 CAD

  • The Structure and Dynamics of Human Ecosystems

    Toward a Model for Understanding and Action

    A landmark book that strives to provide both grand theory and practical application, innovatively describing the structure and dynamics of human ecosystemsAs the world faces ever more complex and demanding environmental and social challenges, the need for interdisciplinary models and practical guidance becomes acute. The Human Ecosystem Model described in this landmark book provides an innovative ... En savoir plus

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  • Our Better Nature

    Environment and the Making of San Francisco

    Few cities are so dramatically identified with their environment as San Francisco—the landscape of hills, the expansive bay, the engulfing fog, and even the deadly fault line shifting below. Yet most residents think of the city itself as separate from the natural environment on which it depends. In Our Better Nature, Philip J. Dreyfus recounts the history of San Francisco from Indian village to ... En savoir plus

    $21.99 CAD

  • Ecotopia 2121

    A Vision for Our Future Green Utopia?in 100 Cities

    par Alan Marshall ...
    **A 2016 Green Book Festival "Future Forecasts" WinnerA stunningly original, lushly illustrated vision for a Green Utopia, published on the 500th anniversary of the original Big Idea.**Five hundred years ago a powerful new word was unleashed upon the world when Thomas More published his book Utopia, about an island paradise far away from his troubled land. It was an instant hit, and the literati ... En savoir plus

    $22.99 CAD

  • Urban Green

    Nature, Recreation, and the Working Class in Industrial Chicago

    par Colin Fisher ...
    In early twentieth-century America, affluent city-dwellers made a habit of venturing out of doors and vacationing in resorts and national parks. Yet the rich and the privileged were not the only ones who sought respite in nature. In this pathbreaking book, historian Colin Fisher demonstrates that working-class white immigrants and African Americans in rapidly industrializing Chicago also fled the ... En savoir plus

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  • Building Resilient Urban Communities

    Collections Livre 15 - Community, Environment and Disaster Risk Management
    "How do urban communities in Asian cities experience the impacts of urbanisation and climate change? This book throws light on the ongoing processes of rapid urban transformation in many cities in developing countries, with particular reference to cities such as Chennai in India. Due to increasing demands on infrastructures and urban services, cities in developing countries are often pushed to the ... En savoir plus

    $182.99 CAD

  • Walkable City

    How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time

    par 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 ... En savoir plus

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  • The Just City

    "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 ... En savoir plus

    $22.99 CAD

  • Bird on Fire:Lessons from the World's Least Sustainable City

    Lessons from the World's Least Sustainable City

    par Andrew Ross ...
    Phoenix, Arizona is one of America's fastest growing metropolitan regions. It is also its least sustainable one, sprawling over a thousand square miles, with a population of four and a half million, minimal rainfall, scorching heat, and an insatiable appetite for unrestrained growth and unrestricted property rights. In Bird on Fire, eminent social and cultural analyst Andrew Ross focuses on the ... En savoir plus

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  • Ecocinema in the City

    Collections series Routledge Advances in Film Studies
    In Ecocinema in the City, Murray and Heumann argue that urban ecocinema both reveals and critiques visions of urban environmentalism. The book emphasizes the increasingly transformative power of nature in urban settings, explored in both documentaries and fictional films such as Children Underground, White Dog, Hatari! and Lives Worth Living. The first two sections—"Evolutionary Myths Under the ... En savoir plus

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  • Tales of Two Cities

    Stories of Inequality in a Divided New York

    Modifié par John Freeman ...
    Thirty major contemporary writers examine life in a deeply divided New YorkIn a city where the top one percent earns more than a half-million dollars per year while twenty-five thousand children are homeless, public discourse about our entrenched and worsening wealth gap has never been more sorely needed. This remarkable anthology is the literary world’s response, with leading lights including ... En savoir plus

    $13.99 CAD

  • The Battle for North Carolina's Coast

    Evolutionary History, Present Crisis, and Vision for the Future

    The North Carolina barrier islands, a 325-mile-long string of narrow sand islands that forms the coast of North Carolina, are one of the most beloved areas to live and visit in the United States. However, extensive barrier island segments and their associated wetlands are in jeopardy. In The Battle for North Carolina’s Coast, four experts on coastal dynamics examine issues that threaten this ... En savoir plus

    $20.99 CAD