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  • Suburbs

    A Very Short Introduction

    de Carl Abbott ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    We live in the suburban era. Well over half of all Americans and two-thirds of Canadians live in suburbs. Tracts of suburban bungalows ring Sydney and Melbourne. Suburban apartments rise on the outskirts of Paris, Prague, Singapore, and Beijing. Nearly everyone has a strong opinion about suburbs. Folks who love dense cities scorn "suburbia," while people who like big yards dislike bustling ... Leer más

    $7.99 USD

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

  • City Planning

    A Very Short Introduction

    de Carl Abbott ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    City planning is a practice and a profession. It is also a set of goals and--sometimes utopian--aspirations. Formal thought about the shaping of cities as physical spaces and social environments calls on the same range of disciplines and approaches that we use for understanding cities themselves, from art and literature through the social and natural sciences. Surrounding the core profession of ... Leer más

    Antes $8.99 USD Ahora $7.99 USD

  • Imagining Urban Futures

    Cities in Science Fiction and What We Might Learn from Them

    de Carl Abbott ...
    What science fiction can teach us about urban planningCarl Abbott, who has taught urban studies and urban planning in five decades, brings together urban studies and literary studies to examine how fictional cities in work by authors as different as E. M. Forster, Isaac Asimov, Kim Stanley Robinson, and China Miéville might help us to envision an urban future that is viable and resilient. ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Political Terrain

    Washington, D.C., from Tidewater Town to Global Metropolis

    de Carl Abbott ...
    Washington, D.C., President John F. Kennedy once remarked, is a city of “southern efficiency and northern charm.” Kennedy’s quip was close to the mark. Since its creation two centuries ago, Washington has been a community with multiple personalities. Located on the regional divide between North and South, it has been a tidewater town, a southern city, a coveted prize in fighting between the states ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

  • How Cities Won the West

    Four Centuries of Urban Change in Western North America

    de Carl Abbott ...
    Series series Histories of the American Frontier Series
    Cities rather than individual pioneers have been the driving force in the settlement and economic development of the western half of North America. Throughout the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries, western urban centers served as starting points for conquest and settlement. As these frontier cities matured into metropolitan centers, they grew from imitators of eastern culture and ... Leer más

    $23.99 USD

  • Greater Portland

    Urban Life and Landscape in the Pacific Northwest

    de Carl Abbott ...
    Series series Metropolitan Portraits
    Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic TitleIt has been called one of the nation's most livable regions, ranked among the best managed cities in America, hailed as a top spot to work, and favored as a great place to do business, enjoy the arts, pursue outdoor recreation, and make one's home. Indeed, years of cooperative urban planning between developers and those interested in ... Leer más

    $25.99 USD

  • Imagined Frontiers

    Contemporary America and Beyond

    de Carl Abbott ...
    We live near the edge—whether in a settlement at the core of the Rockies, a gated community tucked into the wilds of the Santa Monica Mountains, a silicon culture emerging in the suburbs, or, in the future, homesteading on a terraformed Mars. In Imagined Frontiers, urban historian and popular culture scholar Carl Abbott looks at the work of American artists who have used novels, film, television, ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD

  • Greater Portland

    Urban Life and Landscape in the Pacific Northwest

    de Carl Abbott ...
    Series series Metropolitan Portraits
    Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic TitleIt has been called one of the nation's most livable regions, ranked among the best managed cities in America, hailed as a top spot to work, and favored as a great place to do business, enjoy the arts, pursue outdoor recreation, and make one's home. Indeed, years of cooperative urban planning between developers and those interested in ... Leer más

    $31.99 USD

  • Audiolibro

    Suburbs

    A Very Short Introduction

    de Carl Abbott ...
    Narrado por Mike Lenz ...

    Completo

    4 hora 14 minutos

    We live in the suburban era. Well over half of all Americans and two-thirds of Canadians live in suburbs. Tracts of suburban bungalows ring Sydney and Melbourne. Suburban apartments rise on the outskirts of Paris, Prague, Singapore, and Beijing. Nearly everyone has a strong opinion about suburbs. Folks who love dense cities scorn "suburbia," while people who like big yards dislike bustling ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

    Disponible también en: eBook

    Disponible también en: eBook

  • The Metropolitan Frontier

    Cities in the Modern American West

    de Carl Abbott ...
    Series series The Modern American West
    When the American West represented the country’s frontier, many of its cities may have seemed little more than trading centers to serve the outlying populace. Now the nation’s most open and empty region is also its most heavily urbanized, with eighty percent of Westerners living in its metropolitan areas. The process of urbanization that had already transformed the United States from a rural to an ... Leer más

    $19.99 USD

  • Mourning de Pachmann

    The Quest for the Spirit of Chopin

    de Carl Abbott ...
    In January 1933, widowed Canadian psychiatrist Charles Flemming traveled to Rome to deliver a paper at an international psychiatric meeting and to further research the career of the eccentric Ukranian pianist, Vladimir de Pachmann, for a biography he has always wanted to write. En route, he learns of a young, virtually blind Polish pianist, Agnieszka Lipska, who will be giving several recitals in ... Leer más

    $46.99 USD

  • Imagining Urban Futures

    Cities in Science Fiction and What We Might Learn from Them

    de Carl Abbott ...
    Carl Abbott, who has taught urban studies and urban planning in five decades, brings together urban studies and literary studies to examine how fictional cities in work by authors as different as E. M. Forster, Isaac Asimov, Kim Stanley Robinson, and China Miéville might help us to envision an urban future that is viable and resilient. Imagining Urban Futures is a remarkable treatise on what is ... Leer más

    $17.99 USD