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  • Climate Adaptation and Flood Risk in Coastal Cities

    Edited by Jeroen Aerts, Wouter Botzen, Malcolm Bowman, Philip Ward, Piet Dircke ...
    Series series Earthscan Climate
    This book presents climate adaptation and flood risk problems and solutions in coastal cities � including an independent investigation of adaptation paths and problems in Rotterdam, New York and Jakarta. The comparison draws out lessons that each city can learn from the others.While the main focus is on coastal flooding, cities are also affected by climate change in other ways, including impacts ... Read more

    $200.00 USD

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  • Urban Ecology

    Science of Cities

    by Richard T. T. Forman ...
    How does nature work in our human-created city, suburb, and exurb/peri-urb? Indeed how is ecology - including its urban water, soil, air, plant, and animal foundations - spatially entwined with this great human enterprise? And how can we improve urban areas for both nature and people? Urban Ecology: Science of Cities explores the entire urban area: from streets, lawns, and parks to riversides, ... Read more

    $70.59 USD

  • Darwin Comes to Town

    How the Urban Jungle Drives Evolution

    by Menno Schilthuizen ...
    *Carrion crows in the Japanese city of Sendai have learned to use passing traffic to crack nuts.*Lizards in Puerto Rico are evolving feet that better grip surfaces like concrete.*Europe's urban blackbirds sing at a higher pitch than their rural cousins, to be heardover the din of traffic.How is this happening?Menno Schilthuizen is one of a growing number of "urban ecologists" studying how our ... Read more

    $17.29 USD

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  • Dubai: Behind an Urban Spectacle

    by Yasser Elsheshtawy ...
    Series series Planning, History and Environment Series
    Yasser Elsheshtawy explores Dubai’s history from its beginnings as a small fishing village to its place on the world stage today, using historical narratives, travel descriptions, novels and fictional accounts by local writers to bring colour to his history of the city’s urban development.With the help of case studies and surveys this book explores the economic and political forces driving Dubai’s ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Rethinking the American City

    An International Dialogue

    by Dolores Hayden ...
    Series series Architecture | Technology | Culture
    Whether struggling in the wake of postindustrial decay or reinventing themselves with new technologies and populations, cities have once again moved to the center of intellectual and political concern. Rethinking the American City brings together leading scholars from a range of disciplines to examine an array of topics that illuminate the past, present, and future of cities.Rethinking the ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Winning the Cost War

    Applying Battlefield Management Doctrine to the Management of Government

    by Dale R. Geiger ...
    Dr. Geigers research proposes innovative and practical responses to the cost war fought by government organizations struggling with lower budget levels. His sustained research contributions into the measurement and management of cost in government organizations promise to improve governments mission effectiveness by improving its mission efficiency.Association of Government AccountantsAs the ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • The Streets Were Paved with Gold

    by Ken Auletta ...
    How - and why - did one of the world's greatest cities come to be teetering on the edge of bankruptcy? Ken Auletta, writer for THE NEW YORKER and columnist for THE DAILY NEWS, shows how the decline of New York City was partly inevitable --- the result of shifting migration patterns and rapidl technological innovations --- and partly caused by anarchic political and economic factions, each angling ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • To Scale

    One Hundred Urban Plans

    by Eric Jenkins ...
    How big is Moscow‘s Red Square in comparison to Tiananmen Square? Why are there fewer public squares in Japan than in Italy? What lessons might be found in the plan of Savannah, Georgia‘s historic district? To Scale is a collection of plans of urban spaces drawn at the same scale to help answer these questions by providing a single and ac ... Read more

    $81.99 USD

  • A Quiet Evolution

    The Emergence of Indigenous-Local Intergovernmental Partnerships in Canada

    by Christopher Alcantara, Jen Nelles ...
    Series series IPAC Series in Public Management and Governance
    Much of the coverage surrounding the relationship between Indigenous communities and the Crown in Canada has focused on the federal, provincial, and territorial governments. Yet it is at the local level where some of the most important and significant partnerships are being made between Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples.In A Quiet Evolution, Christopher Alcantara and Jen Nelles look closely at ... Read more

    $31.69 USD

  • Planning and Urban Growth in Nordic Countries

    by Thomas Hall ...
    Series series Planning, History and Environment Series
    Planning and Urban Growth in Nordic Countries examines urban development and planning in Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden. Emphasis is on the period from the mid-nineteenth century to the present day, and the authors of each 'country-study' look at their own national developments against the background of those in other Nordic countries well as the rest of Europe and the USA. ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Potsdamer Platz

    The Reshaping of Berlin

    by Quazi Mahtab Zaman, Malgorzata Nowobilska ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    The redesign of Potsdamer Platz depicts the struggle to revive Berlin, Germany. This central and highly visible square has undergone a series of strategic revisions to restore its vitality and so to meet place-enhancing objectives. Specifically, the book critically addresses the challenging tasks of restoring Potsdamer Platz from a state of disintegration to a condition worthy of a world-class ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Terrain Vague

    Interstices at the Edge of the Pale

    Edited by PATRICK BARRON, Manuela Mariani ...
    As planners and designers have turned their attentions to the blighted, vacant areas of the city, the concept of "terrain vague," has become increasingly important. Terrain Vague seeks to explore the ambiguous spaces of the city -- the places that exist outside the cultural, social, and economic circuits of urban life. From vacant lots and railroad tracks, to more diverse interstitial spaces, this ... Read more

    $94.99 USD