Memories of Cities: Trips and Manifestoes
ISBN: 9781138269989 / Angielski / Miękka / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Memories of Cities is a collection of essays that explore different ways of writing about the political and economic history of the built environment. Drawing upon fiction and non-fiction, and illustrated by original photographs, the essays employ a variety of narrative forms including memoirs, letters, and diary entries. They take the reader on a journey to cities such as Glasgow, Paris, Moscow, St. Petersburg, and Marseille, laying bare the contradictions of capitalist architectural and urban development, whilst simultaneously revealing alternative visions of how buildings and cities...
Memories of Cities is a collection of essays that explore different ways of writing about the political and economic history of the built environment....
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246,78 zł |
The New Political Economy of Urban Education: Neoliberalism, Race, and the Right to the City
ISBN: 9780415802239 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Urban education and its contexts have changed in powerful ways. Old paradigms are being eclipsed by global forces of privatization and markets and new articulations of race, class, and urban space. These factors and more set the stage for Pauline Lipman's insightful analysis of the relationship between education policy and the neoliberal economic, political, and ideological processes that are reshaping cities in the United States and around the globe. Using Chicago as a case study of the interconnectedness of neoliberal urban policies on housing, economic development, race,... Urban education and its contexts have changed in powerful ways. Old paradigms are being eclipsed by global forces of privatization and markets and ... |
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730,42 zł |
Urban Traffic Pollution
ISBN: 9781138459533 / Angielski / Twarda / 262 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Noise and air pollution from motor vehicles have a major impact on the physical and mental well-being of urban residents worldwide. Although control measures have already been implemented in most developed countries, noise and air pollution have only recently become major problems in many developing countries, as rapid industrial growth, population increase and improved living standards have led to an increase in car ownership. If control measures are not implemented swiftly in developing countries, the effects on public health will be extremely serious.This book, which has been prepared by...
Noise and air pollution from motor vehicles have a major impact on the physical and mental well-being of urban residents worldwide. Although control m...
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881,54 zł |
The Social Impacts of Urban Containment
ISBN: 9781138262270 / Angielski / Miękka / 188 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. One of the policies that has been most widely used to try to limit urban sprawl has been that of urban containment. These policies are planning controls limiting the growth of cities in an attempt to preserve open rural uses, such as habitat, agriculture and forestry, in urban regions. While there has been a substantial amount of research into these urban containment policies, most have focused on issues of land use, consumption, transportation impacts or economic development issues. This book examines the effects of urban containment policies on key social issues, such as housing, wealth...
One of the policies that has been most widely used to try to limit urban sprawl has been that of urban containment. These policies are planning contro...
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246,78 zł |
The Profession of City Planning: Changes, Images, and Challenges: 1950-200
ISBN: 9780882851662 / Angielski / Twarda / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In thirty-four provocative and insightful chapters, the nation's leading planners present a definitive assessment of fifty years of city planning and establish a benchmark for the profession for the next fifty years. The book appraises what planners do and how well they do it, how and why their current activities differ from past practices, and how much and in what ways planners have or have not enhanced the quality of urban life and contributed to the intellectual capital of the field.How have the goals, values, and practices of planners changed? What do planners say about their roles and...
In thirty-four provocative and insightful chapters, the nation's leading planners present a definitive assessment of fifty years of city planning and ...
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503,69 zł |
The Student City: Strategic Planning for Student Communities in Eu Cities
ISBN: 9781138272491 / Angielski / Miękka / 345 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Student communities are without doubt a strategic resource for urban development and students are the citizens and the high-skilled working class of tomorrow. They are seen as an 'invisible population' with little say in local policy and decision-making. Co-operation between educational institutions and city planners is often missing and cities tend to neglect the universities' foreign relations. This volume argues that the importance of human capital in the competitiveness of cities demands pro-active, integral city policies targeting this community. Bringing together nine case studies of...
Student communities are without doubt a strategic resource for urban development and students are the citizens and the high-skilled working class of t...
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246,78 zł |
The Visual Turn: South Asia Across the Disciplines
ISBN: 9781138060487 / Angielski / Miękka / 150 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Visual Turn: South Asia Across the Disciplines explores new perspectives made possible by the evidence drawn from visual culture. This evidence is utilized by historians, literary analysts, anthropologists and, in a new way, art historians. Focusing on built environments within their urban contexts; the interactions of buildings, roads, and bodies; the meaning-making achieved through consumption of images (on their own or in concert with literary texts) all contribute to a much broader and deeper understanding of change in South Asia. Juxtaposed, these case... The Visual Turn: South Asia Across the Disciplines explores new perspectives made possible by the evidence drawn from visual culture.... |
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236,70 zł |
The Idea of the City in Nineteenth-Century Britain
ISBN: 9781138873940 / Angielski / Miękka Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In nineteenth-century Britain, ahead of the rest of the world in economic development, many towns and cities grew to a size that only London had attained before. This volume focuses on the intellectual and controversial response of the period's leading men and women to the key issues of urbanization and its surrounding social problems. The extracts selected date from 1785 to 1909, and are drawn from the writings, reports and speeches of admirers of city life and its most passionate critics, optimists and alarmists, advocates of back-to-the-land panaceas, and reformers who aspired... In nineteenth-century Britain, ahead of the rest of the world in economic development, many towns and cities grew to a size that only London had at... |
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216,55 zł |
Sport and Urban Space in Europe: Facilities, Industries, Identities
ISBN: 9781138085541 / Angielski / Miękka / 166 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Filling a gap in the literature on the history of sport in Europe, the book brings together complementary studies on diverse aspects of the interrelation between sport and urban space. Going from geography to political science, from sports history to urban and transport history, it suggests a three-fold approach. A first thematic group of researches ranges around "Sport Development and Urban Spaces", exploring the impact of the city on the rise of sport. A second focal point is related to "Sport Policies and Local Identities" with a special attention given to the making of sport venues and... Filling a gap in the literature on the history of sport in Europe, the book brings together complementary studies on diverse aspects of the interre... |
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236,70 zł |
Ausgrenzung Geflüchteter: Eine Empirische Untersuchung Am Beispiel Bautzen
ISBN: 9783658217983 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 294 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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181,80 zł |
Development and Planning in Seven Major Coastal Cities in Southern and Eastern China
ISBN: 9783319835174 / Angielski / Miękka / 261 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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194,52 zł |
Cities in Motion: Urban Life and Cosmopolitanism in Southeast Asia, 1920-1940
ISBN: 9781107519350 / Angielski / Miękka / 321 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A social history of cosmopolitanism in Southeast Asia's ethnically diverse port cities, seen within the global context of the interwar era.
A social history of cosmopolitanism in Southeast Asia's ethnically diverse port cities, seen within the global context of the interwar era.
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125,88 zł |
Common Worlds: Paths Toward Sustainable Urbanism
ISBN: 9781442271135 / Angielski / Twarda / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Common Worlds: Paths Toward Sustainable Urbanism explores how both expert and lay members of urban and suburban communities respond to the challenges of demographic and socioeconomic change in an environmentally-sustainable fashion.
Common Worlds: Paths Toward Sustainable Urbanism explores how both expert and lay members of urban and suburban communities respond to the challenges ...
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477,23 zł |
Common Worlds: Paths Toward Sustainable Urbanism
ISBN: 9781442271142 / Angielski / Miękka / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Common Worlds: Paths Toward Sustainable Urbanism explores how both expert and lay members of urban and suburban communities respond to the challenges of demographic and socioeconomic change in an environmentally-sustainable fashion.
Common Worlds: Paths Toward Sustainable Urbanism explores how both expert and lay members of urban and suburban communities respond to the challenges ...
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217,40 zł |
Cities in Crisis: Socio-Spatial Impacts of the Economic Crisis in Southern European Cities
ISBN: 9781138329119 / Angielski / Miękka / 334 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In recent years, European societies and territories have witnessed the spatial impacts of a severe financial and socio-economic crisis. This book builds on the current debate concerning how cities and urban regions and their citizens deal with the consequences of the recent financial and socio-economic crisis. Cities in Crisis examines the political and administrative implications of austerity measures applied in southern European cities. These include cuts in local public spending and the processes of privatization of local public assets, as well as issues related to the...
In recent years, European societies and territories have witnessed the spatial impacts of a severe financial and socio-economic crisis. This book buil...
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140,99 zł |
The Cambridge Urban History of Britain: Volume 2, 1540-1840
ISBN: 9781108740692 / Angielski / Miękka / 964 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume examines when, why, and how Britain became the first modern urban nation.
This volume examines when, why, and how Britain became the first modern urban nation.
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156,10 zł |
Downtown Revitalisation and Delta Blues in Clarksdale, Mississippi: Lessons for Small Cities and Towns
ISBN: 9789811321061 / Angielski / Twarda / 207 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is about Clarksdale, a small town in Mississippi, USA, and how the local community has revitalised the long-dilapidated downtown, with the renewal based on the town's intimate association with Blues music and the culture that flows through the Mississippi Delta.
This book is about Clarksdale, a small town in Mississippi, USA, and how the local community has revitalised the long-dilapidated downtown, with the r...
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252,89 zł |
The Cambridge Urban History of Britain: Volume 3, 1840-1950
ISBN: 9781107460041 / Angielski / Miękka / 1024 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The process of urbanisation and suburbanisation in Britain from the Victorians to the twentieth century.
The process of urbanisation and suburbanisation in Britain from the Victorians to the twentieth century.
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156,10 zł |
Deaths After Police Contact: Constructing Accountability in the 21st Century
ISBN: 9781349954780 / Angielski / Miękka / 233 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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108,92 zł |
Inequalities in Creative Cities: Issues, Approaches, Comparisons
ISBN: 9781349957323 / Angielski / Miękka / 270 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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505,83 zł |