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Interventions eBook Series

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  • Madness in International Relations

    Psychology, Security, and the Global Governance of Mental Health

    by Alison Howell ...
    Series series Interventions
    Madness in International Relations provides an important and innovative account of the role of psychology and psychiatry in global politics, showing how mental health governance has become a means of securing various populations, often with questionable effects.Through the analysis of three key case studies Howell illustrates how such therapeutic interventions can at times be coercive and ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

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  • The Culture of Cities

    by Lewis Mumford ...
    Series Book 19 - Forbidden Bookshelf
    A classic work advocating ecological urban planning—from a civic visionary and former architecture critic for the New Yorker.Considered among the greatest works of Lewis Mumford—a prolific historian, sociologist, philosopher of technology, and longtime architecture critic for the New Yorker—The Culture of Cities is a call for communal action to "rebuild the urban world on a sounder human ... Read more

    $12.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Slow Burn City

    London in the Twenty-First Century

    by Rowan Moore ...
    With a new introduction for the paperback.London is a supreme achievement of civilization. It offers fulfilments of body and soul, encourages discovery and invention. It is a place of freedom, multiplicity and co-existence. It is a Liberal city, which means it stands for values now in peril.London has also become its own worst enemy, testing to destruction the idea that the free market alone can ... Read more

    $12.79 USD

  • Ecology Against Capitalism

    by John Bellamy Foster ...
    In recent years John Bellamy Foster has emerged as a leading theorist of the Marxist perspective on ecology. His seminal book Marx's Ecology (Monthly Review Press, 2000) discusses the place of ecological issues within the intellectual history of Marxism and on the philosophical foundations of a Marxist ecology, and has become a major point of reference in ecological debates. This historical and ... Read more

    $18.99 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

  • The Community Planning Event Manual

    How to use Collaborative Planning and Urban Design Events to Improve your Environment

    by Nick Wates, John Thompson ...
    Series series Earthscan Tools for Community Planning
    Want to improve your village? Your town? Your city? A community planning event may be just what you have been waiting for. All over the world people are organizing dynamic collaborative events to improve their surroundings. For a few intensive days, everyone concerned gets an opportunity to have their say and be involved - residents, businesses, professionals and politicians. It's effective and it ... Read more

    $48.99 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

  • Urban Microclimate

    Designing the Spaces Between Buildings

    by Evyatar Erell, David Pearlmutter, Terence Williamson ...
    The quality of life of millions of people living in cities could be improved if the form of the city were to evolve in a manner appropriate to its climatic context. Climatically responsive urban design is vital to any notion of sustainability: it enables individual buildings to make use of renewable energy sources for passive heating and cooling, it enhances pedestrian comfort and activity in ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • The Building of Cities

    Development and Conflict

    by Harvey H. Kaiser ...
    In this classic book that records a moment in the history of urban planning, the architect and city planner Harvey H. Kaiser examines the city-building process from the time when a proposal for urban development is first conceived to the early stages of construction. Lysander (near Syracuse) and Gananda and Riverton (both near Rochester). These were brand-new developments and municipalities, and ... Read more

    $24.69 USD

  • Sustainable Rural and Urban Ecosystems: Design, Implementation and Operation

    Manual for Practice and Study

    Edited by Gunther Geller, Detlef Glücklich ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    These days human beings have a profound influence on aspects of the planetary ecosystem, e.g. on climate change and biodiversity, to name only two. This manual is intended to help practitioners, who are dealing with human-based rural and urban settlement-ecosystems, in the key steps towards their realization (design, implementation, and operation) and helpful for all, who are concerned about ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • The Purpose of Planning

    Creating sustainable towns and cities

    by Yvonne Rydin ...
    Planning is never far from the top of the policy or media agenda, whether this concerns 'garden-grabbing', the location of wind farms or protests about travellers' sites. The operation of the planning system raises strong views, even passions, and is highly political. Planners have to engage with developers working on multi-million pound schemes and the local communities that will be affected by ... Read more

    $24.69 USD

  • From Poverty, Inequality to Smart City

    Proceedings of the National Conference on Sustainable Built Environment 2015

    Edited by Fumihiko Seta, Joy Sen, Arindam Biswas, Ajay Khare ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
    This book is a comprehensive document visualizing the future of built environment from a multidisciplinary dimension, with special emphasis on the Indian scenario. The multidisciplinary focus would be helpful for the readers to cross-refer and understand others' perspectives. The text also includes case studies substantiating theoretical research. This method of composition helps the book to ... Read more

    $143.09 USD