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  • Liquid City

    Megalopolis and the Contemporary Northeast

    by John Short ...
    Megalopolis was the name given to a Peloponnesian city that was founded around 371- 368 BCE. Though planned on a grand scale, the city failed to realize the dreams of the founders, and it declined by the late Roman period. In 1957, the renowned geographer Jean Gottman applied the term in his description of the densely populated area of the northeastern United States that includes the cities of ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Alabaster Cities

    Urban U.S. since 1950

    by John Short ...
    Series series Space, Place and Society
    With keen insight and exhaustive research John Rennie Short narrates the story of urban America from 1950 to the present, revealing a compelling portrait of urban transformation. Short chronicles the steady rise of urbanization, the increasing suburbanization, and the sweeping metropolitanization of the U.S., uncovering the forces behind these shifts and their consequences for American communities ... Read more

    $21.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Geopolitics

    Making Sense of a Changing World

    by John Rennie Short ...
    In this cogent introduction to the state of contemporary geopolitics, Short provides an understanding of the basic themes of geopolitics and an overview of geopolitical issues around the globe. His regional approach to the study of the power relations between states is framed by a discussion of critical and popular geopolitical analysis. ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

  • Those Ghosts: A Life in Poems

    by John Short ...
    A mesmerising summer welcomes the reader into this collection and holds them for a journey that spans several decades. There is music – languid and harmonious, a fresh youthfulness, and time is a metronome that strikes through lustrous landscapes and characters of varying personalities. A steady, companionable read on a journey of one's own or at home.– Victoria Ekpo ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Magic Lantern Empire

    Colonialism and Society in Germany

    by John Phillip Short ...
    Magic Lantern Empire examines German colonialism as a mass cultural and political phenomenon unfolding at the center of a nascent, conflicted German modernity. John Phillip Short draws together strands of propaganda and visual culture, science and fantasy to show how colonialism developed as a contested form of knowledge that both reproduced and blurred class difference in Germany, initiating the ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • Housing and Residential Structure

    Alternative Approaches

    by John Short, Keith Bassett ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    First published in 1980, Housing and Residential Structure was written to take stock of the many changes that had recently taken place in explanatory approaches to housing markets and residential structure.The book is divided into three parts. Part One focuses on the demand-orientated approaches of human ecology and neo-classical economics. Part Two discusses the institutional approaches with ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Cities and Suburbs

    New Metropolitan Realities in the US

    by Bernadette Hanlon, John Rennie Short, Thomas Vicino ...
    This book is a systematic examination of the historical and current roles that cities and suburbs play in US metropolitan areas. It explores the history of cities and suburbs, their changing dynamics with each other, their growing diversity, the environmental consequences of their development and finally the extent and nature of their decline and renewal.Cities and Suburbs: New Metropolitan ... Read more

    $84.99 USD

  • Alternative Geographies

    by John R. Short ...
    An accessible and groundbreaking text that takes a fresh view of contemporary geographical issues by looking at the geographies we have lost. Geography means writing about the world. Alternative ways of writing about the world are introduced and critically evaluated. The book discusses medieval cosmologies, Renaissance magic, feng shui, and the knowledge systems of indigenous people. Alternative ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Housebuilding, Planning and Community Action

    The Production and Negotiation of the Built Environment

    by John R. Short, Stephen Fleming, Stephen J. G. Witt ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    First published in 1986, Housebuilding, Planning and Community Action was written as an examination of the conflicts and tensions resulting from private sector housing growth in Central Berkshire, part of Britain’s ‘Silicon Valley’ along the M4 motorway.The book provides a detailed consideration of the various ‘actors’ and their interactions and explores the fight from Community groups and parish ... Read more

    $51.99 USD

  • Housing in Britain

    The Post-War Experience

    by John R. Short ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    First published in 1982 at a time when housing policy featured prominently in the press and in political debate, Housing in Britain was written to provide an authoritative review of housing in Britain.The book is a comprehensive introduction to the major policy shifts from 1945 to the year of publication. It explores the many aspects of ‘housing’ as a matter of state policy; as a commodity with a ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • An Introduction to Urban Geography

    by John R. Short ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Urban Studies
    This book, first published in 1984, is an attempt to make students aware of the variety in the urban condition and to introduce them to some of the relationships operating between space and society. From the broad aim of seeking to show the relationship between urbanism and society flows a number of sub-themes, including the importance of cross-cultural comparisons and contrasts, re-distributional ... Read more

    $51.99 USD

  • Age of Inference

    Cultivating a Scientific Mindset

    Edited by Philip C. Short, Harvey Henson, John R. McConnell ...
    In an age where we are inundated with information, the ability to discern verifiable information to make proper decisions and solve problems is ever more critical. Modern science, which espouses a systematic approach to making 'inferences,' requires a certain mindset that allows for a degree of comfort with uncertainty.This book offers inspirations and ideas for cultivating the proper mindset for ... Read more

    $54.99 USD