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“manuela marasi”

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  • Terrain Vague

    Interstices at the Edge of the Pale

    Edited by PATRICK BARRON, Manuela Mariani ...
    As planners and designers have turned their attentions to the blighted, vacant areas of the city, the concept of "terrain vague," has become increasingly important. Terrain Vague seeks to explore the ambiguous spaces of the city -- the places that exist outside the cultural, social, and economic circuits of urban life. From vacant lots and railroad tracks, to more diverse interstitial spaces, this ... Read more

    $94.99 USD

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  • Smart Cities: Big Data, Civic Hackers, and the Quest for a New Utopia

    Big Data, Civic Hackers, and the Quest for a New Utopia

    by Anthony M. Townsend ...
    An unflinching look at the aspiring city-builders of our smart, mobile, connected future.We live in a world defined by urbanization and digital ubiquity, where mobile broadband connections outnumber fixed ones, machines dominate a new "internet of things," and more people live in cities than in the countryside.In Smart Cities, urbanist and technology expert Anthony Townsend takes a broad ... Read more

    $12.29 USD

  • The New Urban Crisis

    How Our Cities Are Increasing Inequality, Deepening Segregation, and Failing the Middle Class-and What We Can Do About It

    by Richard Florida ...
    In recent years, the young, educated, and affluent have surged back into cities, reversing decades of suburban flight and urban decline. And yet all is not well, Richard Florida argues in The New Urban Crisis. Florida, one of the first scholars to anticipate this back-to-the-city movement in his groundbreaking The Rise of the Creative Class, demonstrates how the same forces that power the growth ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • The Metropolitan Revolution

    How Cities and Metros Are Fixing Our Broken Politics and Fragile Economy

    by Bruce Katz, Jennifer Bradley ...
    Across the US, cities and metropolitan areas are facing huge economic and competitive challenges that Washington won't, or can't, solve. The good news is that networks of metropolitan leaders mayors, business and labor leaders, educators, and philanthropists are stepping up and powering the nation forward. These state and local leaders are doing the hard work to grow more jobs and make their ... Read more

    $20.59 USD

  • Urban Sustainability

    Reconnecting Space and Place

    by Ann Dale, William Dushenko, Pamela J. Robinson ...
    Given ongoing concerns about global climate change and its impacts on cities, the need for sustainable planning has never been greater. This book explores concrete ways to achieve urban sustainability based on integrated planning, policy development, and decision-making.Urban Sustainability is the first book to provide an applied interdisciplinary perspective on the challenges and opportunities ... Read more

    $40.49 USD

  • City Futures

    Confronting the Crisis of Urban Development

    by Doctor Edgar Pieterse ...
    Cities are the future. In the past two decades, a global urban revolution has taken place, mainly in the South. The 'mega-cities' of the developing world are home to over 10 million people each and even smaller cities are experiencing unprecedented population surges. The problems surrounding this influx of people - slums, poverty, unemployment and lack of governance - have been well-documented ... Read more

    $28.39 USD

  • Public Space and the Challenges of Urban Transformation in Europe

    Edited by Ali Madanipour, Sabine Knierbein, Aglaée Degros ...
    European cities are changing rapidly in part due to the process of de-industrialization, European integration and economic globalization. Within those cities public spaces are the meeting place of politics and culture, social and individual territories, instrumental and expressive concerns. Public Space and the Challenges of Urban Transformation in Europe investigates how European city authorities ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Sustainable Future for Human Security

    Society, Cities and Governance

    Edited by Benjamin McLellan ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book focuses on the human and societal aspects of sustainable development. Three major perspectives are considered: governance and its influence on sustainable development; urban environments and their broader human and environmental impacts; and disaster management. Each of these elements is critical in considering the current and prospective development of societies towards a sustainable ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • Global Geographies of the Internet

    by Barney Warf ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    Today, roughly 2 billion people use the internet, and its applications have flourished in number and importance. This volume will examine the growth and geography of the internet from a political economy perspective. Its central motivation is to illustrate that cyberspace does not exist in some aspatial void, but is deeply rooted in national and local political and cultural contexts. Toward that ... Read more

    $40.49 USD

  • Architecture and Globalisation in the Persian Gulf Region

    by Nasser Golzari ...
    This is the first book ever to examine the architecture and urbanism of the Persian Gulf as a complete entity, dealing equally with conditions on the eastern Iranian shoreline as in Arabic countries on the western side. By inviting a range of architects and scholars to write about historical and contemporary influences on 14 cities along both Gulf coastlines, the book traces the changes in ... Read more

    $82.99 USD

  • OECD Rural Policy Reviews: England, United Kingdom 2011

    by Collective ...
    Rural England plays a significant role in the economy of the United Kingdom, but an even larger social and cultural role. And it is unique among OECD regions, in that it is geographically compact, with rural inhabitants generally no more than a half hour’s drive from an urban area. There is thus a vast amount of interaction between rural and urban populations in England.England’s rural population ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • We Shall Not Be Moved

    Rebuilding Home in the Wake of Katrina

    by Tom Wooten ...
    As floodwaters drained in the weeks following Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans residents came to a difficult realization. Their city was about to undertake the largest disaster recovery in American history, yet they faced a profound leadership vacuum: members of every tier of government, from the municipal to the federal level, had fallen down on the job. We Shall Not Be Moved tells the absorbing ... Read more

    $14.99 USD