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“michael conzen”

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  • Shapers of Urban Form

    Explorations in Morphological Agency

    Edited by Peter Larkham, Michael Conzen ...
    People have designed cities long before there were urban designers. In Shapers of Urban Form, Peter Larkham and Michael Conzen have commissioned new scholarship on the forces, people, and institutions that have shaped cities from the Middle Ages to the present day.Larkham and Conzen collect new essays in "urban morphology," the people-centered predecessor to contemporary theories of top-down urban ... Read more

    $79.99 USD

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  • Unruly Places

    Lost Spaces, Secret Cities, and Other Inscrutable Geographies

    by Alastair Bonnett ...
    This "guide to weird, ruined, and wonderful spots" across the globe explores disappearing islands, forbidden deserts, and much more—a "terrific book" ( Los Angeles Times).At a time when Google Maps Street View can take you on a virtual tour of Yosemite's remotest trails, it's hard to imagine there's any uncharted ground left on the planet. But in Unruly Places, Alastair Bonnett rekindles our ... Read more

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  • The End of the Suburbs

    Where the American Dream Is Moving

    by Leigh Gallagher ...
    “The government in the past created one American Dream at the expense of almost all others: the dream of a house, a lawn, a picket fence, two children, and a car. But there is no single American Dream anymore.”For nearly 70 years, the suburbs were as American as apple pie. As the middle class ballooned and single-family homes and cars became more affordable, we flocked to pre-fabricated ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • The City

    A World History

    by Andrew Lees ...
    Series series New Oxford World History
    The City: A World History tells the story of the rise and development of urban centers from ancient times to the twenty-first century. It begins with the establishment of the first cities in the Near East in the fourth millennium BCE, and goes on to examine urban growth in the Indus River Valley in India, as well as Egypt and areas that bordered the Mediterranean Sea. Athens, Alexandria, and Rome ... Read more

    $24.69 USD

  • Small Cities

    Urban Experience Beyond the Metropolis

    by David Bell, Mark Jayne ...
    Series series Questioning Cities
    Until now, much research in the field of urban planning and change has focused on the economic, political, social, cultural and spatial transformations of global cities and larger metropolitan areas. In this topical new volume, David Bell and Mark Jayne redress this balance, focusing on urban change within small cities around the world.Drawing together research from a strong international team of ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • The New Brooklyn

    What It Takes to Bring a City Back

    by Kay S. Hymowitz ...
    Featured in The New York Times Book ReviewOnly a few decades ago, the Brooklyn stereotype well known to Americans was typified by television programs such as “The Honeymooners” and “Welcome Back, Kotter”—comedies about working-class sensibilities, deprivation, and struggles. Today, the borough across the East River from Manhattan is home to trendsetters, celebrities, and enough “1 percenters” to ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Children and their Urban Environment

    Changing Worlds

    by Claire Freeman, Paul Tranter ...
    In our fast-changing urban world, the impacts of social and environmental change on children are often overlooked. Children and their Urban Environment examines these impacts in detail, looking at the key activities, spaces and experiences children have and how these can be managed to ensure that children benefit from change.The authors highlight the importance of planners, architects and housing ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

  • Moroccan Dreams

    Oriental Myth, Colonial Legacy

    by Claudio Minca, Lauren Wagner ...
    Morocco has long been a mythic land, firmly rooted in the European colonial imagination. For more than a century it has been appropriated by travellers, explorers, writers and artists. It is just these images and imaginings that are now being reconstructed for nostalgic consumption. In Moroccan Dreams, Claudio Minca examines this aestheticised re-enactment of the colonial, exploring the ways in ... Read more

    $153.99 USD

  • Frontier and Metropolis

    Regions, Cities, and Identities in Canada before 1914

    by J.M.S. Careless ...
    Series series Heritage
    The regional character of Canada and the crucial role of metropolitan development in its history have been recurring themes in the work of J.M.S. Careless. In these essays he returns to those themes, discussing how national and regional identity in Canada show vital links with metropolitan-hinterland relationship across time and space.The first essay presents an overall appraisal of the historic ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Historical Farmland in China During 1661-1980

    Reconstruction and Spatiotemporal Characteristics

    by Xiaobin Jin, Yinkang Zhou, Xuhong Yang, Yinong Cheng ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book explores various approaches to reconstruct the spatial and temporal distribution of historical farmland in China. The book contains background information about political regimes, economic and social development, population changes and land resource utilization in the past 300 years in China. A literature review focuses on the assumptions, methodologies and models of reconstructing ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Islamabad and the Politics of International Development in Pakistan

    by Markus Daechsel ...
    This is a highly original account of the design and development of Pakistan's capital city; one of the most iconic and ambitious urban reconstruction projects of the twentieth century. Balancing archival research with fresh, theoretical insights, Markus Daechsel surveys the successes and failures of Greek urbanist Constantinos A. Doxiadis's most ambitious endeavour, Islamabad, analysing how the ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • Pre-Colombian Cities

    by Jorge Enrique Hardoy ...
    What visitor to Mexico City, unaware of its pre-Hispanic history, could imagine that right under a Christian Church may still lie the remains of the sinister tzompantli, the Aztecs' altar of skulls? Professor Jorge Hardoy poses this question and many more in his comprehensive summary of the ancient cities where Latin America's peoples lived before the Spaniards arrived in the sixteenth century ... Read more

    $68.99 USD