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  • Whose Tradition?

    Discourses on the Built Environment

    Edited by Nezar AlSayyad, Mark Gillem, David Moffat ...
    In seeking to answer the question Whose Tradition? this book pursues four themes: Place: Whose Nation, Whose City?; People: Whose Indigeneity?; Colonialism: Whose Architecture?; and Time: Whose Identity?Following Nezar AlSayyad’s Prologue, contributors addressing the first theme take examples from Indonesia, Myanmar and Brazil to explore how traditions rooted in a particular place can be claimed ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

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  • The Reflective Practitioner

    How Professionals Think In Action

    by Donald A. Schon ...
    A leading M.I.T. social scientist and consultant examines five professions -- engineering, architecture, management, psychotherapy, and town planning -- to show how professionals really go about solving problems. The best professionals, Donald Schon maintains, know more than they can put into words. To meet the challenges of their work, they rely less on formulas learned in graduate school than on ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

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  • Generation Rent

    Rethinking New Zealand’s Priorities

    by Shamubeel Eaqub, Selena Eaqub ...
    Series series BWB Texts
    House prices may boom or bust but the long-term trend is clear: for more New Zealanders than ever, home ownership is out of reach. Incomes simply have not kept pace with skyrocketing property prices. ‘Generation Rent’ calls into question priorities at the heart of New Zealand’s identity.In this BWB Text, Shamubeel and Selena Eaqub investigate how we ended up here, and what can be done to ensure ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • The Bicycle Reader: Number 1 | Summer 2012

    by Jack Thurston ...
    This is the first issue of the Bicycle Reader, a new collection of quality writing about cycling. Two thoughts inspired us to start this collection.The first is that there is a great deal of brilliant article and essay-length writing about cycling that remains inaccessible to most readers. Some of it languishes out of print. Other pieces appeared in publications read by only a tiny minority of ... Read more

    $2.49 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Are Trams Socialist?

    Why Britain Has No Transport Policy

    by Christian Wolmar ...
    Transport is key to our daily lives. The transport system is essential to ensure the movement of people and goods, and most of us will use the roads or public transport every day. Vast sums are tied up in it and are spent on trying to resolve the problems of congestion and delays. And yet it is a most neglected field of politics. Britain has never had a coherent transport policy. Transport ... Read more

    $14.29 USD

  • The Housing Bomb

    Why Our Addiction to Houses Is Destroying the Environment and Threatening Our Society

    by M. Nils Peterson, Tarla Peterson, Jianguo Liu ...
    How our thirst for more and larger houses is undermining society and what we can do about it.Have we built our way to ruin? Is your desire for that beach house or cabin in the woods part of the environmental crisis? Do you really need a bigger home? Why don’t multiple generations still live under one roof? In The Housing Bomb, leading environmental researchers M. Nils Peterson, Tarla Rai Peterson, ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • A Joosr Guide to... The Power Broker by Robert Caro: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York

    by Joosr ...
    In today's fast-paced world, it's tough to find the time to read. But with Joosr guides, you can get the key insights from bestselling non-fiction titles in less than 20 minutes. Whether you want to gain knowledge on the go or find the books you'll love, Joosr's brief and accessible eBook summaries fit into your life. Find out more at joosr.com.Robert Moses is America's most famous-and infamous ... Read more

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  • Kitchen Table Sustainability

    Practical Recipes for Community Engagement with Sustainability

    by Wendy Sarkissian, Yollana Shore, Steph Vajda, Cathy Wilkinson, Nancy Hofer ...
    Series series Earthscan Tools for Community Planning
    Kitchen Table Sustainability offers a unique view of sustainability through the lens of community engagement. It takes sustainability out of the ivory towers of universities, government departments and planners to the kitchen tables of the world.This practical guide distils decades of wisdom from community planning, engagement and sustainability practice internationally into a user-friendly and ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • Utopian England

    Community Experiments 1900-1945

    by Dennis Hardy ...
    Series series Planning, History and Environment Series
    England in the early part of the twentieth century was rich in utopian ventures - diverse and intriguing in their scope and aims. Two world wars, an economic depression, and the emergence of fascist states in Europe were all a spur to idealists to seek new limits - to escape from the here and now, and to create sanctuaries for new and better lives.Dennis Hardy explores this fascinating history of ... Read more

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  • Whose Detroit?

    Politics, Labor, and Race in a Modern American City

    by Heather Ann Thompson ...
    **"Thompson's engrossing book is essential for any collection on the history, politics, or society of post–World War II America."**â• Library JournalIn Whose Detroit?, Heather Ann Thompson focuses in detail on the African American struggles for full equality and equal justice under the law that shaped the Motor City during the 1960s and 1970s. Even after Great Society liberals committed themselves ... Read more

    $24.69 USD

  • Shaping the City

    Studies in History, Theory and Urban Design

    Edited by Rodolphe El-Khoury, Edwards Robbins ...
    Taking on the key issues in urban design, Shaping the City examines the critical ideas that have driven these themes and debates through a study of particular cities at important periods in their development. As well as retaining crucial discussions about cities such as Los Angeles, Atlanta, Chicago, Detroit, Philadelphia, and Brasilia at particular moments in their history that exemplified the ... Read more

    $87.99 USD

  • Climate Adaptation Santiago

    Edited by Kerstin Krellenberg, Bernd Hansjürgens ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book addresses the complexity of urbanization, impacts of climate change and climate change adaptation for the metropolitan region of Santiago de Chile, with a special focus on the most pressing issues of natural hazards, water and energy supply. The book exemplifies a conceptual approach for the development of adaptation measures, their evaluation and implementation in a decision support ... Read more

    $89.09 USD