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  • Strategic Rebuilding and Affordable Housing in the Muslim World

    by Akel Ismail Kahera, Sultan Barakat, Suzanne Ghadanfar, Ahmed Qadir Ahmed, Aymen Aiblu, Munazzah Akhtar, Fatma Al Habsi, Asser Al Hamoud0, Moza Al Obaidan1, Mostafa Alani2, Howayda Al-Harithy3, Dhirgham Alobaydi4, Yusra Alvi5, Shama Anbrine6, Aamna Azad7, Rasem Badran8, Daria Bobarykina9, Mohamad El Chamaa0, Kokan Grchev1, Abbas M. Hassan2, Huzam Kaddoura3, Mohd Faris Khamidi4, Emine Filiz Kölmek5, Muhammed Madandola6, Mark David Major7, Lamiaa Mostafa8, Rabia Ahmed Qureshi9, Chawan Osman M. Rasheed0, Mohamed Eskandar Shah1, Masoumeh Shafiee2, Ali Akbar Tajmazinani3, Heba O. Tannous4 ...
    Series series Environment and Society
    To tackle the paucity of adequate housing in the Muslim World, Strategic Rebuilding and Affordable Housing in the Muslim World brings together a cohort of essays that deal with the the latest approaches, policy discussions, attendant research methodologies and recommendations. The volume's multidisciplinary contributors- academics, practitioners, architects, planners, researchers, urbanists, ... Read more

    $105.29 USD

  • The Syntax of City Space

    American Urban Grids

    by Mark David Major ...
    Many people see American cities as a radical departure in the history of town planning because of their planned nature based on the geometrical division of the land. However, other cities of the world also began as planned towns with geometric layouts so American cities are not unique. Why did the regular grid come to so pervasively characterize American urbanism? Are American cities really so ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

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  • A City is Not a Tree

    by Christopher Alexander ...
    In 1965, the architect and design theorist Christopher Alexander published a landmark theoretical critique of modern urban design, and by extension, modern design in general. His critique was different from others of the day in that it was not based on a social or political argument, but on a structural analysis, rooted in then-emerging insights from the fields of mathematics and cognition. Here, ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Qatar

    Small State, Big Politics

    by Mehran Kamrava ...
    The Persian Gulf state of Qatar has fewer than 2 million inhabitants, virtually no potable water, and has been an independent nation only since 1971. Yet its enormous oil and gas wealth has permitted the ruling al Thani family to exert a disproportionately large influence on regional and even international politics. Qatar is, as Mehran Kamrava explains in this knowledgeable and incisive account of ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • After Art

    by David Joselit ...
    Series series POINT: Essays on Architecture
    Art as we know it is dramatically changing, but popular and critical responses lag behind. In this trenchant illustrated essay, David Joselit describes how art and architecture are being transformed in the age of Google. Under the dual pressures of digital technology, which allows images to be reformatted and disseminated effortlessly, and the exponential acceleration of cultural exchange enabled ... Read more

    $24.49 USD

  • Understanding Cairo

    The Logic of a City Out of Control

    by David Sims ...
    This book moves beyond superficial generalizations about Cairo as a chaotic metropolis in the developing world into an analysis of the ways the city's eighteen million inhabitants have, in the face of a largely neglectful government, built and shaped their own city. Using a wealth of recent studies on Greater Cairo and a deep reading of informal urban processes, the city and its recent history are ... Read more

    $21.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Stack

    On Software and Sovereignty

    by Benjamin H. Bratton ...
    Series series Software Studies
    A comprehensive political and design theory of planetary-scale computation proposing that The Stack—an accidental megastructure—is both a technological apparatus and a model for a new geopolitical architecture.What has planetary-scale computation done to our geopolitical realities? It takes different forms at different scales—from energy and mineral sourcing and subterranean cloud infrastructure ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Missions Impossible

    Higher Education and Policymaking in the Arab World

    by John Waterbury ...
    A rigorous examination of higher education policymaking in the Arab worldNone of the momentous challenges Arab universities face is unique either in kind or degree. Other societies exhibit some of the same pathologies—insufficient resources, high drop-out rates, feeble contributions to research and development, inappropriate skill formation for existing job markets, weak research incentive ... Read more

    $50.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • MP3

    The Meaning of a Format

    by Jonathan Sterne ...
    Series series Sign, Storage, Transmission
    MP3: The Meaning of a Format recounts the hundred-year history of the world's most common format for recorded audio. Understanding the historical meaning of the MP3 format entails rethinking the place of digital technologies in the larger universe of twentieth-century communication history, from hearing research conducted by the telephone industry in the 1910s, through the mid-century development ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Abu Dhabi's Vision 2030: An Ongoing Journey Of Economic Development

    by Linda Low ...
    This book aims to tell the Abu Dhabi story in economic development, from its past dominance in oil to its economic vision for the future. More than being an exemplar of industrial restructuring and diversification from a resource-based to a 21st century knowledge-based economy and society, Abu Dhabi emphasises its cultural legacy and tradition as an environmental advocate for green and sustainable ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Looking Back

    How Pakistan Became an Asian Tiger by 2050

    by Nadeem Ul Haque ...
    By 2050, Pakistan had achieved a miracle. It had transformed itself from a poverty-ridden, malnourished, corrupt and aid dependent country in 2015 to qualifying for High Income category by the World Bank and the top decile in both the Competitiveness index and Social Progress Index by 2050. Where once travel advisories warned people from visiting, it is now key destination for foreign investors, ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • GIS and Spatial Analysis for the Social Sciences

    Coding, Mapping, and Modeling

    by Robert Nash Parker, Emily K. Asencio ...
    Series series Sociology Re-Wired
    This is the first book to provide sociologists, criminologists, political scientists, and other social scientists with the methodological logic and techniques for doing spatial analysis in their chosen fields of inquiry.The book contains a wealth of examples as to why these techniques are worth doing, over and above conventional statistical techniques using SPSS or other statistical packages.GIS ... Read more

    $126.99 USD