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“mike dade”

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  • Complete Planning Permission

    How to get it, stop it or alter it

    by Roy Speer, Mike Dade ...
    The UK Planning Regulations are a minefield for anyone looking to build a new home - and for those who are worried about the impact of a new planning application near their home. Avoid being one of the thousands whose application is turned down - and whose dreams are crushed - by using this book to familiaries yourself with the system and beat it. With a step-by-step guide to every part of the ... Read more

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  • If Venice Dies

    by Salvatore Settis ...
    Translated by André Naffis-Sahely ...
    "This powerful book of cultural criticism" by the renowned art historian "shines a harsh light on" a historic city's destruction in the name of profit ( The Washington Post).What is Venice worth? To whom do its irreplaceable treasures belong? This eloquent book by art historian Salvatore Settis urgently poses these questions, igniting a new debate about urban stewardship and cultural patrimony at ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Darwin Comes to Town

    How the Urban Jungle Drives Evolution

    by Menno Schilthuizen ...
    *Carrion crows in the Japanese city of Sendai have learned to use passing traffic to crack nuts.*Lizards in Puerto Rico are evolving feet that better grip surfaces like concrete.*Europe's urban blackbirds sing at a higher pitch than their rural cousins, to be heardover the din of traffic.How is this happening?Menno Schilthuizen is one of a growing number of "urban ecologists" studying how our ... Read more

    $17.29 USD

  • The Urban Sociology Reader

    Edited by Jan Lin, Christopher Mele ...
    Series series Routledge Urban Reader Series
    The urban world is an exciting terrain for investigating the central institutions, structures and problems of the social world and how they have transformed through the last 200 years. This Reader comprises sections on urban social theory, racial and social difference in the city, culture in everyday life, culture and the urban economy, globalization and transnational social relations and the ... Read more

    $82.99 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

  • Resilient Sustainable Cities

    A Future

    Edited by Leonie Pearson, Peter Newton, Peter Roberts ...
    Urbanization is occurring at an unprecedented rate; by 2050 three quarters of the world’s people will live in urban environments. The cars we drive, products we consume, houses we live in and technology we use will all determine how sustainable our cities will be. Bridging the increasing divide between cross-disciplinary academic insights and the latest practical innovations, Resilient Sustainable ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • Sustainable Communities

    Creating a Durable Local Economy

    by Rhonda Phillips, Bruce Seifer, Ed Antczak ...
    Series series Earthscan Tools for Community Planning
    With a foreword written by Senator Bernie SandersWhat is a durable economy? It is one that not only survives but thrives. How is it created, and what does it take to sustain over time? Sustainable Communities provides insight and answers to these questions.Citing Burlington, Vermont's remarkable rise to award-winning status, this book explores the balance of community planning, social enterprise ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • The Fragmented Politics of Urban Preservation

    Beijing, Chicago, and Paris

    by Yue Zhang ...
    Series series Globalization and Community
    While urban preservation is almost as old as cities themselves, it has become increasingly controversial in modern cities. In this book, Yue Zhang presents a cross-national comparative analysis of the politics of urban preservation. Based on comprehensive archival research and more than two hundred in-depth interviews in Beijing, Chicago, and Paris, Zhang finds that urban preservation provides a ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Modern Solid Waste Management in Practice

    The City of Malmö Experience

    by Anna Bernstad Saraiva Schott, Henrik Aspegren, Mimmi Bissmont, Jes la Cour Jansen ...
    Series series Energy (R0)
    This book focuses on sustainable solid waste management in an urban context and gives an example of how a modern city can work with waste management for increased sustainability in close cooperation with the academy. The book describes challenges which the city is facing and presents a case on how these can be tackled based on several research and development projects performed in the City of ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Low Car(bon) Communities

    Inspiring car-free and car-lite urban futures

    by Nicole Foletta ...
    With increasing awareness of the urgent need to respond to global warming by reducing carbon emissions and recognition of the social benefits of car-free and car-lite living, more and more city planners, advocates, and everyday urban dwellers are demanding new ways of building cities. In Low Car(bon) Communities, authors Nicole Foletta and Jason Henderson examine seven case studies in Europe and ... Read more

    $91.99 USD

  • Berlin, Alexanderplatz

    Transforming Place in a Unified Germany

    by Gisa Weszkalnys ...
    Series Book 1 - Space and Place
    A benchmark study in the changing field of urban anthropology, Berlin, Alexanderplatz is an ethnographic examination of the rapid transformation of the unified Berlin. Through a captivating account of the controversy around this symbolic public square in East Berlin, the book raises acute questions about expertise, citizenship, government and belonging. Based on ethnographic fieldwork in the city ... Read more

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  • The Peri-Urban Interface

    Approaches to Sustainable Natural and Human Resource Use

    Edited by Duncan McGregor, David Simon ...
    Peri-urban interfaces - the zones where urban and rural areas meet - suffer from the greatest problems to humans caused by rapid urbanization, including intense pressures on resources, slum formation, lack of adequate services such as water and sanitation, poor planning and degradation of farmland. These areas, home to hundreds of millions of people, face unique problems and need distinctive and ... Read more

    $65.99 USD