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  • Grounding Berlin

    Ecologies of a Technopolis, 1871 to the Present

    Edited by Timothy Moss ...
    Series series History of the Urban Environment
    Grounding Berlin explores the city’s pioneering contributions to urban technology and urban ecology in Europe and around the world over the past 150 years. Following the 1871 unification of Germany, Berlin experienced rapid industrialization and urbanization. Providing the necessary energy, water, waste removal, and land required massive interventions in the city and its surrounding region. As ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • Remaking Berlin

    A History of the City through Infrastructure, 1920-2020

    by Timothy Moss ...
    Series series Infrastructures
    An examination of Berlin's turbulent history through the lens of its water and energy infrastructures.In Remaking Berlin, Timothy Moss takes a novel perspective on Berlin's turbulent twentieth-century history, examining it through the lens of its water and energy infrastructures. He shows that, through a century of changing regimes, geopolitical interventions, and socioeconomic volatility, Berlin ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • Infrastructural Times

    Temporality and the Making of Global Urban Worlds

    by Lauren Marino, Timothy Moss, Olivier Coutard, AbdouMaliq Simone, Peter Ekman, Seth Schindler, Juan Miguel Kanai, Dalia Wahdan, Tamer Elshayal, Simon Marvin, Jonathan Rutherford, Jessica DiCarlo, Samantha Biglieri, Roger Keil, Amelia Thorpe ...
    Whether waiting for the train or planning the future city, infrastructure orders—and depends on—multiple urban temporalities.This agenda-setting volume disrupts conventional notions of time through a robust examination of the relations between temporality, infrastructure, and urban society. Conceptually rich and empirically detailed, its interdisciplinary dialogue encompasses infrastructural ... Read more

    $37.79 USD

  • Urban Infrastructure in Transition

    Networks, Buildings and Plans

    by Timothy Moss, Simon Marvin ...
    Achieving sustainable energy and resource use is vital if cities are to thrive or even function in the long term. Focusing on cities in the United Kingdom, Germany and Denmark, this book examines the mounting pressures for changes in the management style of utility services in Europe, pressures that stem from a wide range of sources such as liberalization and privatization of markets, tighter ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • How Institutions Change

    Perspectives on Social Learning in Global and Local Environmental Contexts

    Edited by Heiko Breit, Anita Engels, Timothy Moss, Markus Troja ...
    In April 1997 a group of social scientists in Germany came together to form a task force on institutional dimensions of global environmental change. At the time they were all engaged in research projects funded by the German Re search Council (DFG) within its Priority Programme "Global Environmental Change - Social and Behavioural Dimensions". Coming initially from the fields of political science ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Conceptualizing Germany’s Energy Transition

    Institutions, Materiality, Power, Space

    Edited by Ludger Gailing, Timothy Moss ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This is the first book to explore ways of conceptualizing Germany’s ongoing energy transition. Although widely acclaimed in policy and research circles worldwide, the Energiewende is poorly understood in terms of social science scholarship. There is an urgent need to delve beyond descriptive accounts of policy implementation and contestation in order to unpack the deeper issues at play in what has ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • Shaping Urban Infrastructures

    Intermediaries and the Governance of Socio-Technical Networks

    Edited by Simon Guy, Simon Marvin, Will Medd, Timothy Moss ...
    Cities can only exist because of the highly developed systems which underlie them, ensuring that energy, clean water, etc. are moved efficiently from producer to user, and that waste is removed. The urgent need to make the way that these services are provided more environmentally, socially and economically sustainable means that these systems are in a state of transition; from centralized to ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

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    Confronting the Crisis of Urban Development

    by Doctor Edgar Pieterse ...
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  • The Wealth of the Commons: A World Beyond Market and State

    by David Bollier, Silke Helfrich ...
    We are poised between an old world that no longer works and a new one struggling to be born. Surrounded by centralized hierarchies on the one hand and predatory markets on the other, people around the world are searching for alternatives. The Wealth of the Commons explains how millions of commoners have organized to defend their forests and fisheries, reinvent local food systems, organize ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Age of Sustainability

    Just Transitions in a Complex World

    by Mark Swilling ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Sustainable Development
    With transitions to more sustainable ways of living already underway, this book examines how we understand the underlying dynamics of the transitions that are unfolding. Without this understanding, we enter the future in a state of informed bewilderment.Every day we are bombarded by reports about ecosystem breakdown, social conflict, economic stagnation and a crisis of identity. There is mounting ... Read more

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  • Key Concepts in Economic Geography

    by Yuko Aoyama, Susan Hanson, James T Murphy ...
    Series series Key Concepts in Human Geography
    "A comprehensive and highly readable review of the conceptual underpinnings of economic geography. Students and professional scholars alike will find it extremely useful both as a reference manual and as an authoritative guide to the numerous theoretical debates that characterize the field."- Allen J. Scott, University of California"Guides readers skilfully through the rapidly changing field of ... Read more

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  • The Return of Inequality

    Social Change and the Weight of the Past

    by Mike Savage ...
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    $30.39 USD