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“timothy crowe”

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  • 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

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  • How Cycling Can Save the World

    by Peter Walker ...
    Peter Walker—reporter at the Guardian and curator of its popular bike blog—shows how the future of humanity depends on the bicycle.Car culture has ensnared much of the world—and it's no wonder. Convenience and comfort (as well as some clever lobbying) have made the car the transportation method of choice for generations. But as the world evolves, the high cost of the automobile is made clearer ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • The Spacemaker's Guide to Big Change

    Design and Improvisation in Development Practice

    by Nabeel Hamdi ...
    Series series Earthscan Tools for Community Planning
    This book gives definition to participatory practice as a necessary form of activism in development planning for cities. It gives guidance on how practice can make space for big and lasting change and for new opportunities to be discovered. It points to ways of building synergy and negotiating our way in the social and political spaces ‘in between’ conventional and often competing ideals – public ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • Biofuels. An Overview.

    by Ian J Miller ...
    During the 1970s oil crisis, Dr Miller was a Section Head at New Zealand's national chemistry laboratory, and during this period he surveyed the technology available to make biofuels, and embarked on his own program. Now, with a further resurgence of interest in biofuels, he has repeated the exercise. This ebook summarizes the biomass resources that might be used to make biofuels, it considers the ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • China and Orientalism

    Western Knowledge Production and the PRC

    by Daniel Vukovich ...
    Series series Postcolonial Politics
    This book argues that there is a new, Sinological form of orientalism at work in the world. It has shifted from a logic of ‘essential difference’ to one of ‘sameness’ or general equivalence. "China" is now in a halting but inevitable process of becoming-the-same as the USA and the West. Orientalism is now closer to the cultural logic of capitalism, even as it shows the afterlives of colonial ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • An Anatomy of Sprawl

    Planning and Politics in Britain

    by Nicholas A. Phelps ...
    Series series RTPI Library Series
    Despite the combined efforts of British planners, politicians, the public and interest groups, the ‘Solent City’ stands as one of a number of instances of a peculiar instance of urban sprawl – muted, and slow to emerge – yet produced paradoxically by very strong interests in promoting conservation and restraint.This unique and valuable case study, while focusing on the planning and development of ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • The Emergence of Pacific Urban Villages

    Urbanization Trends in the Pacific Islands

    by Asian Development Bank ...
    Series series Pacific Studies
    This publication seeks to explain the nature of settlements termed “urban villages” as set within the context of growing levels of urbanization in contemporary Pacific towns and cities. It investigates the meaning and conceptualization of myriad forms of urban villages by examining the evolution of different types of settlement commonly known as native or traditional villages, and more recently ... Read more

    $5.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Housing Policy in Latin American Cities

    A New Generation of Strategies and Approaches for 2016 UN-HABITAT III

    by Peter M. Ward, Edith R. Jiménez Huerta, María Mercedes Di Virgilio ...
    After the 1960s, rapid urbanization in developing regions in Latin America, Africa, and Asia was marked by the expansion of low-income "irregular" settlements that developed informally and which, by the 2000s, often constituted between 20-60 percent of the built-up area of metropolitan areas and other large cities. There has been a variety of research directed at the housing policies involved with ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • My Storm

    Managing the Recovery of New Orleans in the Wake of Katrina

    by Edward J. Blakely, Henry Cisneros ...
    Series series The City in the Twenty-First Century
    Edward J. Blakely has been called upon to help rebuild after some of the worst disasters in recent American history, from the San Francisco Bay Area's 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake to the September 11 attacks in New York. Yet none of these jobs compared to the challenges he faced in his appointment by New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin as Director of the Office of Recovery and Development Administration ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Toronto, No Mean City

    Third Edition, Revised

    by Eric Arthur, Stephen Otto ...
    Series series Heritage
    Eric Arthur fell in love with Toronto the first time he saw it. The year was 1923; he was twenty-five years old, newly arrived to teach architecture at the University of Toronto. For the next sixty years he dedicated himself to saving the great buildings of Toronto's past. Toronto, No Mean City sounded a clarion call in his crusade. First published in 1964, it sparked the preservation movement of ... Read more

    $42.49 USD

  • Urban Development Challenges, Risks and Resilience in Asian Mega Cities

    Edited by R.B. Singh ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    In this book, an interdisciplinary research group of faculty members, researchers, professionals, and planners contributed to an understanding of the dynamics and dimensions of emerging challenges and risks in megacities in the rapidly changing urban environments in Asia and examined emerging resilience themes from the point of view of sustainability and public policy. The world’s urban population ... Read more

    $170.99 USD

  • The Effects of Air Pollution on Cultural Heritage

    Edited by Johan Tidblad, Ron Hamilton, John Watt, Vladimir Kucera ...
    This book reviews the sources of the air pollutants responsible for building damage and the mechanisms involved. Studies investigating the relationships between pollution concentration (dose) and the resulting damage (response) are described and the latest research findings for dose-response functions are presented.Trends in pollutant emissions, ambient concentrations and building damage over time ... Read more

    $143.09 USD