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“nancy byrtus”

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  • East/West

    A Guide to Where People Live in Downtown Toronto

    Edited by Nancy Byrtus, Mark Fram, Michael McClelland ...
    Let's say you want to know which famous Canadian poet lived in the Waverley Hotel for seven years, constantly changing rooms in fear of RCMP bugs. Or you live at 44 Walmer and want to know what on earth they were thinking with those balconies. Or you want to know what's behind (or underneath!) that giant O hanging over Harbord at Spadina. These things were troubling us, too, so we assembled East ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

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    Stories of the Province's Unique People and Places

    by Terry Boyle ...
    An exploration of the unique and unusual places in Ontario that are steeped in history and folklore.Using updated and archival material from Discover Ontario, a popular radio show that ran from 1987 until 2004, author Terry Boyle invites you to explore the hidden, unusual, and unknown sites and stories from around Ontario.Revisit an era of mobsters and rum-runners during the years of prohibition. ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Body and the City

    Psychoanalysis, Space and Subjectivity

    by Steve Pile ...
    Over the last century, psychoanalysis has transformed the ways in which we think about our relationships with others. Psychoanalytic concepts and methods, such as the unconscious and dream analysis, have greatly impacted on social, cultural and political theory. Reinterpreting the ways in which Geography has explored people's mental maps and their deepest feelings about places, The Body and the ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Navigating the New Retail Landscape

    A Guide for Business Leaders

    by Alan Treadgold, Jonathan Reynolds ...
    The retail industry globally is in the early stages of an era of profound, perhaps unprecedented, change. This book is intended to serve as a robust and practical guide to leaders of enterprises tasked with both understanding and delivering success in the new landscape of retailing. The book firstly describes the major directions and drivers of change that define the new global landscape of ... Read more

    $43.19 USD

  • Sociable Cities

    The 21st-Century Reinvention of the Garden City

    by Peter Hall, Colin Ward ...
    Series series Planning, History and Environment Series
    Peter Hall and Colin Ward wrote Sociable Cities to celebrate the centenary of publication of Ebenezer Howard’s To-morrow: A Peaceful Path to Real Reform in 1998 – an event they then marked by co-editing (with Dennis Hardy) the magnificent annotated facsimile edition of Howard’s original, long lost and very scarce, in 2003. In this revised edition of Sociable Cities, sadly now without Colin Ward, ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Intimate Metropolis

    Urban Subjects in the Modern City

    Edited by Vittoria Di Palma, Diana Periton, Marina Lathouri ...
    Intimate Metropolis explores connections between the modern city, its architecture, and its citizens, by questioning traditional conceptualizations of public and private.Rather than focusing purely on public spaces—such as streets, cafés, gardens, or department stores—or on the domestic sphere, the book investigates those spaces and practices that engage both the urban and the domestic, the public ... Read more

    $79.99 USD

  • The Vulnerability of Cities

    Natural Disasters and Social Resilience

    by Mark Pelling ...
    When disaster strikes in cities the effects can be catastrophic compared to other environments. But what factors actually determine the vulnerability or resilience of cities? The Vulnerability of Cities fills a vital gap in disaster studies by examining the too-often overlooked impact of disasters on cities, the conditions leading to high losses from urban disasters and why some households and ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Grid/ Street/ Place

    Essential Elements of Sustainable Urban Districts

    by Nathan Cherry ...
    Today's urban resident is seeking a more flexible, sustainable environment-representing a unique, diverse, vibrant, and responsible way of living-as an alternative to the typical development patterns of suburban and semi-urban sprawl. Can urban design help create this type of sustainable urbanism? Grid Street Place presents a unique approach to understanding urban design through scientific, ... Read more

    $87.99 USD

  • War and the City

    by Gregory J. Ashworth ...
    Cities have evolved from small urban systems designed to withstand attack from without. The demands of the modern city have shifted the focus to the dangers of internal violence. War and the City analyses the role of cities in war and the effects of war on cities. ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • The Peckham Experiment

    A study of the living structure of society

    by Innes H. Pearse, Lucy H. Crocker ...
    First published in 2006. This volume looks at the Peckham Health Centre Experiment which over five years, the health-parenthood, the family and the home was the subject. The experiment needed time for the families to congregate and to function, and time for the scientist to understand what he saw. This book is evidence of how greatly time was needed and the observations made. ... Read more

    $280.00 USD

  • The Quito Papers and the New Urban Agenda

    by Un-Habitat ...
    The future is urban. Indeed, the battle for sustainable development will be won or lost in cities. Not a moment too soon, then, that urbanization is suddenly at the centre of global policy making. In 2015 the governments of the UN adopted the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and in 2016 they adopted the New Urban Agenda. However, the question of how these Agendas will be pursued concretely ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • What Happened to Planning? (Routledge Revivals)

    by Peter Ambrose ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    This title was first published in 1986 during a recession much like that faced in recent years, which placed immense pressure on the British planning system and led to social unrest in the inner cities and in many disadvantaged areas. Within this context, Peter Ambrose outlines the features of land development and explores the circumstances of post-war planning. The central section of the book ... Read more

    $57.99 USD