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  • Bicycle Justice and Urban Transformation

    Biking for all?

    Series series Routledge Equity, Justice and the Sustainable City series
    As bicycle commuting grows in the United States, the profile of the white, middle-class cyclist has emerged. This stereotype evolves just as investments in cycling play an increasingly important role in neighborhood transformations. However, despite stereotypes, the cycling public is actually quite diverse, with the greatest share falling into the lowest income categories.Bicycle Justice and Urban ... Leer más

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  • Retrofitting Sprawl

    Addressing Seventy Years of Failed Urban Form

    These twelve previously unpublished essays present innovative and practical ideas for addressing the harmful effects of sprawl. Sprawl is not only an ongoing focus of specialized magazines like Dwell; indeed, Time magazine has cited “recycling the suburbs” as the second of “Ten Ideas Changing the World Right Now.” While most conversations on sprawl tend to focus on its restriction, this book ... Leer más

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  • Sustainability in America's Cities

    Creating the Green Metropolis

    "Sustainability" is more than the latest "green" buzzword. It represents a new way of viewing the interactions of human society and the natural world. Sustainability in America's Cities highlights how America's largest cities are acting to develop sustainable solutions to conflicts between development and environment.As sustainability rises to the top of public policy agendas in American cities, ... Leer más

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  • Between Flexibility and Reliability

    Changing Planning Culture in China

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  • Hollow Land

    Israel's Architecture of Occupation

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  • Terra Nova

    The New World After Oil, Cars, and Suburbs

    A look at what the American lifestyle has done to the environment—and how to move toward a better future.In the last century, three powerful forces—oil, cars, and suburbs—buoyed the American dream. Yet now, the quality of life in the United States is declining due to these same three forces. Our dependence on oil is a root cause of wars, recessions, and natural disasters. Cars consume an outsize ... Leer más

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  • The Effects of Air Pollution on Cultural Heritage

    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 ... Leer más

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  • Cities Under Siege

    The New Military Urbanism

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