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Questioning Cities eBook Series

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  • Reason in the City of Difference

    by Gary Bridge ...
    Series series Questioning Cities
    In the modernist city rationality ruled and subsumed difference in a logic of identity. In the postmodern city, reason is abandoned for an endless play of difference. Reason in the City of Difference poses an alternative to these extremes by drawing on classical American philosophical pragmatism (and its contemporary developments in feminism and the philosophy of communication) to explore the ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

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  • City in the Sky

    The Rise and Fall of the World Trade Center

    by James Glanz, Eric Lipton ...
    The definitive biography of the iconic skyscrapers and the ambitions that shaped them--from their dizzying rise to their unforgettable fallMore than a year after the nation began mourning the lives lost in the attacks on the World Trade Center, it became clear that something else was being mourned: the towers themselves. They were the biggest and brashest icons that New York, and possibly America, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Gentrification

    by Loretta Lees, Tom Slater, Elvin Wyly ...
    This first textbook on the topic of gentrification is written for upper-level undergraduates in geography, sociology, and planning. The gentrification of urban areas has accelerated across the globe to become a central engine of urban development, and it is a topic that has attracted a great deal of interest in both academia and the popular press. Gentrification presents major theoretical ideas ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Assembling the Centre: Architecture for Indigenous Cultures

    Australia and Beyond

    by Janet McGaw, Anoma Pieris ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Architecture
    Metropolitan Indigenous Cultural Centres have become a focal point for making Indigenous histories and contemporary cultures public in settler-colonial societies over the past three decades. While there are extraordinary success stories, there are equally stories that cause concern: award-winning architecturally designed Indigenous cultural centres that have been abandoned; centres that serve the ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Research Design in Urban Planning

    A Student′s Guide

    by Stuart Farthing ...
    "This excellent book fills a significant gap in the literature supporting planning education by providing clear, succinct advice on the design and implementation of small-scale student research projects."- Chris Couch, Professor of Geography and Planning, University of Liverpool"A perfect text for supervisors to give students so that they plan their research projects carefully rather than leap ... Read more

    $69.29 USD

  • Cities Interrupted

    Visual Culture and Urban Space

    Edited by Shirley Jordan, Christoph Lindner ...
    Cities Interrupted explores the potential of visual culture – in the form of photography, film, performance, architecture, urban design, and mixed media – to strategically interrupt processes of globalization in contemporary urban spaces.Looking at cities such as Amsterdam, Beijing, Doha, London, New York, and Paris, the book brings together original essays to reveal how the concept of ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • The Multilingual Dictionary of Real Estate

    A guide for the property professional in the Single European Market

    by Bernadette C Williams, R. Williams, B. Wood, L. van Breugel ...
    The Multilingual Dictionary of Real Estate" is not simply a word-for-word dictionary of specialist and technical terminology. It offers explanations of terms which cannot be translated exactly or are liable to cause confusion. A supplementary section of the dictionary provides detailed notes as well as translations of particularly tricky terms. There are also invaluable sections outlining the real ... Read more

    $305.00 USD

  • Urban Squares : spatio-temporal studies of design and everyday life in the Öresund region

    Edited by Mattias Kärrholm ...
    Urban Squares suggests a specific and fresh take on agorology – the study of urban squares. The approach is one of recording everyday life and focusing on different ways to describe and investigate the public life and space of urban squares. The book comprises four empirical case studies of squares focusing especially on the urban material culture and spatio-temporal changes of these squares. The ... Read more

    $17.10 USD

  • The New Urban Agenda

    The Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area

    by Bill Freeman ...
    2015 Speaker's Book Award — ShortlistedCity planning in the GTHA has been mired in political grandstanding for the past decade, The New Urban Agenda offers a plain language solution to the issues plaguing the GTHA.Politics in the Greater Toronto, Hamilton Area (GTHA) have become increasingly divisive over the past decade, and solutions to the city’s problems have become hot-topic issues debated in ... Read more

    $8.09 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Change and Continuity in Spatial Planning

    Metropolitan Planning in Cape Town Under Political Transition

    by Vanessa Watson ...
    Change and Continuity in Spatial Planning addresses a question of enduring interest to planners: can planning really bring about significant and positive change? In South Africa the process of political transition appeared to create the preconditions for planners to demonstrate how their traditional humanitarian and environmental concerns could find concrete expression in the reshaping of the ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Creative Regions

    Technology, Culture and Knowledge Entrepreneurship

    Edited by Philip Cooke, Dafna Schwartz ...
    Series series Regions and Cities
    This unique book focuses on regional creativity, analysing the different factors that can affect creativity and innovation process within regions in the knowledge economy. Approaching creativity from technological, organizational and regional viewpoints, it attempts to break down the influence of oppositional approaches and take account of multi-level interactions in economy and policy.The variety ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Graphic Design in Urban Environments

    by Dr Robert Harland ...
    Graphic Design in Urban Environmentsintroduces the idea of a category of designed graphic objects that significantly contribute to the functioning of urban systems. These elements, smaller than buildings, are generally understood by urban designers to comprise such phenomena as sculpture, clock towers, banners, signs, large screens, the portrayal of images on buildings through “smart screens,” and ... Read more

    $32.39 USD