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  • Geografia umana 5/ed

    de Mark Bjelland, Daniel R. Montello, Arthur Getis ...
    Il manuale, giunto alla quarta edizione, propone i principali temi studiati dalla geografia umana in modo aggiornato, semplice e chiaro per favorire negli studenti l'apprendimento di concetti e strumenti che stimolino l'analisi critica della contemporaneità nazionale e internazionale in prospettiva geografica. Grazie a un aggiornato apparato iconografico, il volume si focalizza in particolare sul ... Leer más

    $20.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Good Places for All

    de Mark D. Bjelland ...
    This short book invites readers into a deeper understanding of cities and suburbs and the challenges they face. Because places play such an important role in human well-being, loving our neighbors includes caring for and cultivating good places for all. Despite their great prosperity, North American communities are beset with challenges: fiscal crises, concentrated poverty, fragmentation and ... Leer más

    $5.99 USD

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    How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier, and Happier

    de Edward Glaeser ...
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  • Walking Home

    The Life and Lessons of a City Builder

    de Ken Greenberg ...
    One of the world's foremost urban designers shares his passion and methods for rejuvenating neglected cities and argues passionately for the importance and possibilities of their renewal.From a youth spent in the boroughs of New York City and other great cities of the world, to his beginnings as an architect in Toronto, Ken Greenberg has long recognized that cities at their best provide much of ... Leer más

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  • The Undercover Economist:Exposing Why the Rich Are Rich, the Poor Are Poor--and Why You Can Never Buy a Decent Used Car!

    Exposing Why the Rich Are Rich, the Poor Are Poor--and Why You Can Never Buy a Decent Used Car!

    de Tim Harford ...
    An economist's version of The Way Things Work, this engaging volume is part field guide to economics and part expose of the economic principles lurking behind daily events, explaining everything from traffic jams to high coffee prices. The Undercover Economist is for anyone who's wondered why the gap between rich and poor nations is so great, or why they can't seem to find a decent second-hand car ... Leer más

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  • Urban Planning For Dummies

    de Jordan Yin ...
    How to create the world's new urban futureWith the majority of the world's population shifting to urban centres, urban planning—the practice of land-use and transportation planning to help shape cities structurally, economically, and socially—has become an increasingly vital profession. In Urban Planning For Dummies, readers will get a practical overview of this fascinating field, including ... Leer más

    $16.00 USD

  • The Great Reset

    How the Post-Crash Economy Will Change the Way We Live and Work

    de Richard Florida ...
    From Richard Florida, author of the bestselling books The Rise of the Creative Class and Who’s Your City?, comes a book that frames the economic meltdown of 2008–09 not as a crisis but as an opportunity to “reset.” In doing so, he paints a fascinating picture of what our economy, society, and geography will look like—of how we will work and live—in the future.This economic crisis doesn’t represent ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

  • Suburban Nation

    The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream

    de Andres Duany, Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, Jeff Speck ...
    The essential handbook for ending suburban sprawl and automobile-based settlement patternsFor a decade, Suburban Nation has given voice to a growing movement in North America to put an end to suburban sprawl and replace the last century's automobile-based settlement patterns with a return to more traditional planning. Founders of the Congress for the New Urbanism, Andres Duany and Elizabeth Plater ... Leer más

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  • Retrofitting Suburbia, Updated Edition

    Urban Design Solutions for Redesigning Suburbs

    de Ellen Dunham-Jones, June Williamson ...
    Updated with a new Introduction by the authors and a foreword by Richard Florida, this book is a comprehensive guide book for urban designers, planners, architects, developers, environmentalists, and community leaders that illustrates how existing suburban developments can be redesigned into more urban and more sustainable places. While there has been considerable attention by practitioners and ... Leer más

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  • The End of the Suburbs

    Where the American Dream Is Moving

    de Leigh Gallagher ...
    “The government in the past created one American Dream at the expense of almost all others: the dream of a house, a lawn, a picket fence, two children, and a car. But there is no single American Dream anymore.”For nearly 70 years, the suburbs were as American as apple pie. As the middle class ballooned and single-family homes and cars became more affordable, we flocked to pre-fabricated ... Leer más

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  • The Rent Is Too Damn High

    What To Do About It, And Why It Matters More Than You Think

    de Matthew Yglesias ...
    From prominent political thinker and widely followed Slate columnist, a polemic on high rents and housing costs—and how these costs are hollowing out communities, thwarting economic development, and rendering personal success and fulfillment increasingly difficult to achieve.Rent is an issue that affects nearly everyone. High rent is a problem for all of us, extending beyond personal financial ... Leer más

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  • House Divided

    Edición de Alex Bozikovic, Cheryll Case, John Lorinc, Annabel Vaughan ...
    A citizen's guide to making the big city a place where we can afford to live. Housing is increasingly unattainable in successful global cities, and Toronto is no exception - in part because of zoning that protects "stable" residential neighborhoods with high property values. House Divided is a citizen's guide for changing the way housing can work in big cities. Using Toronto as a case study, this ... Leer más

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