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  • Ecomuseums and Living Heritage in China

    Reclaiming Memory and Identity

    by Meng Li, Gehan Selim ...
    Series series Architecture and Urbanism in the Global South
    Ecomuseums, founded on the radical principle of community-led heritage, have transformed preservation practices across the globe. But what happens when this bottom-up model encounters a millennia-old, top-down social system? Ecomuseums and Living Heritage in China moves beyond theoretical debate to present a groundbreaking, empirical study of this very clash.This book narrates the compelling story ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

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  • Unfinished Places: The Politics of (Re)making Cairo’s Old Quarters

    by Gehan Selim ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Planning and Urban Design
    The Emerging Politics of (Re) making Cairo's Old Quarters examines postcolonial planning practices that aimed to modernise Cairo’s urban spaces. The author examines the expanding field of postcolonial urbanism by linking the state’s political ideologies and systems of governance with methods of spatial representations that aimed to transform the urban realm in Cairo. Adopting an interdisciplinary ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Architecture, Space and Memory of Resurrection in Northern Ireland

    Shareness in a Divided Nation

    by Mohamed Gamal Abdelmonem, Gehan Selim ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Architecture
    Northern Ireland has a complex urbanism with multilayered socio-spatial politics. In this environment, issues of communication, self-representation and expression of identity are central to the experience of urban space and architecture where the dichotomy of division and shared living are spatially exercised in everyday life. Unlike other studies in the area, this book focuses on the everyday ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

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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

    $14.99 USD

  • Edible City, The

    Edited by Christina Palassio, Alana Wilcox ...
    Series series uTOpia
    If a city is its people, and its people are what they eat, then shouldn’t food play a larger role in our dialogue about how and where we live? The food of a metropolis is essential to its character. Native plants, proximity to farmland, the locations of supermarkets, immigration, the role chefs can and should play in society - how a city nourishes itself makes a statement about the kind of city it ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • Wrestling with Colonialism On Steroids

    Quebec Inuit Fight for Their Homeland

    by Zebedee Nungak ...
    Series series Dossier Québec
    For decades, the Inuit of northern Québec were among the most neglected people in Canada. It took The Battle of James Bay, 1971-1975, for the governments in Québec City and Ottawa to wake up to the disgrace.In this concise, lively account, Zebedee Nungak relates the inside story of how the young Inuit and Cree “Davids” took action when Québec began construction on the giant James Bay hydro project ... Read more

    $9.89 USD

  • Inhabitable Infrastructures

    Science fiction or urban future?

    by CJ Lim ...
    Inhabitable Infrastructures: Science fiction or urban future?, the follow up to Food City and Smartcities and Eco-Warriors, from one of the world’s leading urban design and architectural thinkers, explores the potential of climate change-related multi-use infrastructures that address the fundamental human requirements to protect, to provide and to participate. The stimulus for the infrastructures ... Read more

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  • Research Design in Urban Planning

    A Student′s Guide

    by Stuart Farthing ...
    "This excellent book fills a significant gap in the literature supporting planning education by providing clear, succinct advice on the design and implementation of small-scale student research projects."- Chris Couch, Professor of Geography and Planning, University of Liverpool"A perfect text for supervisors to give students so that they plan their research projects carefully rather than leap ... Read more

    $69.29 USD

  • Sociable Cities

    The 21st-Century Reinvention of the Garden City

    by Peter Hall, Colin Ward ...
    Series series Planning, History and Environment Series
    Peter Hall and Colin Ward wrote Sociable Cities to celebrate the centenary of publication of Ebenezer Howard’s To-morrow: A Peaceful Path to Real Reform in 1998 – an event they then marked by co-editing (with Dennis Hardy) the magnificent annotated facsimile edition of Howard’s original, long lost and very scarce, in 2003. In this revised edition of Sociable Cities, sadly now without Colin Ward, ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • The Sociology of Space

    Materiality, Social Structures, and Action

    by Martina Löw ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    In this book, the author develops a relational concept of space that encompasses social structure, the material world of objects and bodies, and the symbolic dimension of the social world. Löw’s guiding principle is the assumption that space emerges in the interplay between objects, structures and actions. Based on a critical discussion of classic theories of space, Löw develops a new dynamic ... Read more

    $125.09 USD

  • Messy Urbanism

    by Hong Kong University Press ...
    Seemingly messy and chaotic, the landscapes and urban life of cities in Asia possess an order and hierarchy that often challenges understanding and appreciation. With contributions by a cross-disciplinary group of authors, Messy Urbanism: Understanding the “Other” Cities of Asia examines a range of cases in Asia to explore the social and institutional politics of urban formality and the contexts ... Read more

    $27.39 USD

  • Abulecentrism

    Rapid Development of Society Catalyzed at the Local Community Level

    by Olurinde Lafe ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    The book describes a development concept called abulecentrism. The Yoruba word abule (pronounced: a-boo-lay) literarily means “the village”. abulecentrism seeks to achieve rapid and sustainable development of a given society by the strategic execution of projects and the provision of critical services at the local community level. The village has always been the traditional unit of communal living ... Read more

    $49.49 USD