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  • Global City Regions

    Their Emerging Forms

    Edited by Gary Hack, Roger Simmonds ...
    A unique comparative study based on funded research, of eleven city regions across three continents looking at changes over the last 30 years. Detailed changes in land use are presented here with series of maps prepared especially for the study. The socio-economic and physical forms of city regions have been examined for comparative study and the findings will be of interest to all those concerned ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

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  • Estates

    An Intimate History

    by Lynsey Hanley ...
    Lynsey Hanley was born and raised just outside of Birmingham on what was then the largest council estate in Europe, and she has lived for years on an estate in London's East End. Writing with passion, humour and a sense of history, she recounts the rise of social housing a century ago, its adoption as a fundamental right by leaders of the social welfare state in the mid-century and its decline - ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Sharing Cities

    A Case for Truly Smart and Sustainable Cities

    by Duncan McLaren, Julian Agyeman ...
    Series series Urban and Industrial Environments
    How cities can build on the “sharing economy” and smart technology to deliver a “sharing paradigm” that supports justice, solidarity, and sustainability.The future of humanity is urban, and the nature of urban space enables, and necessitates, sharing—of resources, goods and services, experiences. Yet traditional forms of sharing have been undermined in modern cities by social fragmentation and ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Planning Australia

    An Overview of Urban and Regional Planning

    by Susan Thompson, Paul Maginn ...
    Planning Australia provides a comprehensive introduction to the major issues and activities that constitute urban and regional planning in Australia today. Incorporating contemporary theory and practice, it contextualises planning in terms of its theoretical, ideological and professional foundations. The book adopts an interdisciplinary approach to the subject, underpinned by the principles of ... Read more

    $97.59 USD

  • Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design

    by Timothy Crowe, Lawrence J. Fennelly ...
    Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design, 3e is a vital book for anyone involved in architectural design, space management, and urban planning. The concepts presented in this book explain the link between design and human behavior. Understanding this link can enable a planner to use natural environmental factors to minimize loss and crime and to maximize productivity. This practical guide ... Read more

    $85.49 USD

  • In Pursuit of Sustainable Development

    New governance practices at the sub-national level in Europe

    Edited by Susan Baker, Katarina Eckerberg ...
    Series series Routledge/ECPR Studies in European Political Science
    The book explores how implementation strategies engage sub-national, regional and local actors in the promotion of sustainable development.Following the obligations incurred at the Rio Earth Summit and the related UNCED process, European states began to produce sustainable development strategies in the 1990s. Implementation efforts are increasingly using ‘new’ governance arrangements, including ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Designing High-Density Cities

    For Social and Environmental Sustainability

    Edited by Edward Ng ...
    Compact living is sustainable living. High-density cities can support closer amenities, encourage reduced trip lengths and the use of public transport and therefore reduce transport energy costs and carbon emissions. High-density planning also helps to control the spread of urban suburbs into open lands, improves efficiency in urban infrastructure and services, and results in environmental ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • 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

  • Gentrification of the City

    Edited by Neil Smith, Peter Williams ...
    The author and contributors of this book seek to present alternatives to the mainstream discussions of gentrification. It does not present a single coherent vision of the causes, effects and experiences of gentrification, but a number of different views that do not always coincide. What the authors have in common is the attempt to escape a naive empiricism which has dominated much mainstream ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • Flight Path

    A Search for Roots beneath the World's Busiest Airport

    by Hannah Palmer ...
    In the months leading up to the birth of her first child, Hannah Palmer discovers that all three of her childhood houses have been wiped out by the expansion of Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport. Having uprooted herself from a promising career in publishing in her adopted Brooklyn, Palmer embarks on a quest to determine the fate of her lost homes—and of a community that has been ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • M25

    A Circular Tour of the London Orbital

    by Ray Hamilton ...
    Have you ever wanted to know…Which junction to take for Gibraltar?How to save £35,040 a year on Dartford Crossing tolls?How many assassins were buried within the concrete of the M25? (at least one)Why it’s important that North Ockendon declares itself independent from Greater London at the earliest opportunity?This indispensable biography of a road profiles the 117 miles of Britain’s most infamous ... Read more

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  • The Urban Climate

    by Helmut E. Landsberg ...
    Series Book 28 - International Geophysics
    The Urban Climate aims to summarize analytical studies directed toward physical understanding of the rural-urban differences in the atmospheric boundary layer. Attempts to quantify conditions have met with some success. There is certainly a clear understanding of the physical relations that create the climatic differences of urbanized areas. Although some of the earlier classical studies are cited ... Read more

    $65.69 USD