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  • Learning from Bogotá

    Pedagogical Urbanism and the Reshaping of Public Space

    de Rachel Berney ...
    Once known as a “drug capital” and associated with kidnappings, violence, and excess, Bogotá, Colombia, has undergone a transformation that some have termed “the miracle of Bogotá.” Beginning in the late 1980s, the city emerged from a long period of political and social instability to become an unexpected model of urban development through the redesign and revitalization of the public realm—parks, ... Leer más

    $35.99 USD

  • Bicycle Urbanism

    Reimagining Bicycle Friendly Cities

    Edición de Rachel Berney ...
    Series series Urban Planning and Environment
    Over recent decades, bicycling has received renewed interest as a means of improving transportation through crowded cities, improving personal health, and reducing environmental impacts associated with travel. Much of the discussion surrounding cycling has focused on bicycle facility design—how to best repurpose road infrastructure to accommodate bicycling. While part of the discussion has touched ... Leer más

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    Planning Australia provides a comprehensive introduction to the major issues and activities that constitute urban and regional planning in Australia today. Incorporating contemporary theory and practice, it contextualises planning in terms of its theoretical, ideological and professional foundations. The book adopts an interdisciplinary approach to the subject, underpinned by the principles of ... Leer más

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  • Conquistadors

    Searching for El Dorado: The Terrifying Spanish Conquest of the Aztec and Inca Empires

    In the sixteenth century the King of Spain issued his soldiers with a three-pronged mission: to find gold, spread the word of Christianity and claim new territories for Spain. The Conquistadors, as they became known, set off into the world to do just that, and nothing was to stand in their way. Some say that the discovery of the New World is the greatest event in history. Others, that it amounted ... Leer más

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  • Small Change

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    de Nabeel Hamdi ...
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  • Pretty Modern

    Beauty, Sex, and Plastic Surgery in Brazil

    Pretty Modern is a riveting account of Brazil’s emergence as a global leader in plastic surgery. Intrigued by a Carnaval parade that mysteriously paid homage to a Rio de Janeiro plastic surgeon, anthropologist Alexander Edmonds conducted research that took him from Ipanema socialite circles to glitzy telenovela studios to the packed waiting rooms of public hospitals offering free cosmetic surgery. ... Leer más

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  • Floods in a Megacity

    Geospatial Techniques in Assessing Hazards, Risk and Vulnerability

    de Ashraf Dewan ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    Flooding is one of the most devastating natural hazards in the world. Available records suggest that both flood frequency and severity are on the rise and this is likely to worsen in the context of climate change. As population, infrastructure and poverty grow rapidly in developing countries, particularly in urban agglomerations of 10 million people or more, floods could cause widespread ... Leer más

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  • Reclaiming the Land

    The Resurgence of Rural Movements in Africa, Asia and Latin America

    Edición de Sam Moyo, Paris Yeros ...
    Rural movements have recently emerged to become some of the most important social forces in opposition to neoliberalism. From Brazil and Mexico to Zimbabwe and the Philippines, rural movements of diverse political character, but all sharing the same social basis of dispossessed peasants and unemployed workers, have used land occupations and other tactics to confront the neoliberal state. This ... Leer más

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  • Key Concepts in Planning

    Series series Key Concepts in Human Geography
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  • Multimedia Explorations in Urban Policy and Planning

    Beyond the Flatlands

    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    The book is a collection of essays exploring the potential of multimedia to enrich and transform the planning field. By multimedia the authors refer to a broad range of new information and communication technologies (from film and video to digital ethnography and the internet), which are opening up new possibilities in planning practices, processes, pedagogy and research. The authors document the ... Leer más

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  • Territory, Identity and Spatial Planning

    Spatial Governance in a Fragmented Nation

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