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Interventions eBook Series

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  • Spatiality, Sovereignty and Carl Schmitt

    Geographies of the Nomos

    Edited by Stephen Legg ...
    Series series Interventions
    The writings of Carl Schmitt are now indissociable from both an historical period and a contemporary moment. He will forever be remembered for his association with the National Socialists of 1930s Germany, and as the figure whose writings on sovereignty, politics, and the law provided justification for authoritarian, decisional states. Yet at the same time, the post-September 11th 2001 world is ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

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  • Four Walls and a Roof

    The Complex Nature of a Simple Profession

    by Reinier de Graaf ...
    A Financial Times Best Book of the YearA Guardian Best Architecture Book of the Year“Sharp, revealing, funny.”—The Guardian“An original and even occasionally hilarious book about losing ideals and finding them again… [De Graaf] deftly shows that architecture cannot be better or more pure than the flawed humans who make it.”—The EconomistArchitecture, we like to believe, is an elevated art form... ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Planning Politics in Toronto

    The Ontario Municipal Board and Urban Development

    by Aaron Alexander Moore ...
    The Ontario Municipal Board is an independent provincial planning appeals body that has wielded major influence on Toronto’s urban development. In this book, Aaron A. Moore examines the effect that the OMB has had on the behavior and relationships of Toronto’s main political actors, including city planners, developers, neighbourhood associations, and local politicians.Moore’s findings draw on a ... Read more

    $37.79 USD

  • Learning Landscape Ecology

    A Practical Guide to Concepts and Techniques

    Edited by Sarah E. Gergel, Monica G. Turner ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    Landscape ecology continues to grow as an exciting, dynamic ecological d- cipline. With its broadscale emphasis and multidisciplinary approach, la- scape ecology lends itself both to basic research and to applications in land management, land-use planning, wildlife management, ecosystem mana- ment, and conservation biology. Landscape ecology makes a unique cont- bution to the scientific community ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • Street Sex Work and Canadian Cities

    Resisting a Dangerous Order

    by Shawna Ferris ...
    “Our voices scrubbed out and forgotten. There are those who research and write about sex workers who often forget we are human.” —Amy Lebovitch Shawna Ferris gives a voice to sex workers who are often pushed to the background, even by those who fight for them. In the name of urban safety and orderliness, street sex workers face stigma, racism, and ignorance. Their human rights are ignored, and ... Read more

    $20.19 USD

  • The Invisible Houses

    Rethinking and designing low-cost housing in developing countries

    by Gonzalo Lizarralde ...
    Winner of the ACSA/AIA Housing Design Education Award!There is an increased interest among architects, urban specialists and design professionals to contribute to solve "the housing problem" in developing countries. The Invisible Houses takes us on a journey through the slums and informal settlements of South Africa, India, Colombia, Honduras, El Salvador, Cuba, Haiti and many other countries of ... Read more

    $91.99 USD

  • Boundaries of the City

    The Architecture of Western Urbanism

    by Alan Waterhouse ...
    Series series Heritage
    In this study Alan Waterhouse draws on anthropological, social and cultural history, literature, and philosophy to reach an understanding of the roots of Western architecture and city building. He explores the illusion that cities are constructed to impose rational order, an order articulated through urban boundaries. These boundaries, he finds, are shaped around our instinctive fears and ... Read more

    $38.19 USD

  • Advanced Monitoring and Numerical Analysis of Coastal Water and Urban Air Environment

    by Yoichi Kawamoto ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    Various environmental issues are related to urban activities. Through the growing recognition of the necessity to develop sustainable urban mana- ment, the University of Tokyo established the Center for Sustainable Urban Regeneration (cSUR) in July 2003. A research program at the cSUR was designed to create an integrated approach and to provide knowledge for s- tainable urban regeneration with the ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Cities in the Pacific Rim

    Edited by James Berry, Stanley McGreal ...
    The cities of the Pacific Rim are in one of the most dynamic spheres of the global economy. In the twenty first century the focus of global affairs is destined to shift from the West to the East. These cities offer a wide range of different responses to the demands that rapid growth puts on planning and infrastructure : from the laxity that has lead to the urban sprawl of Bangkok to the regulation ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Squatter Citizen

    Life in the Urban Third World

    by Jorge E. Hardoy, David Satterthwaite ...
    'one of the best contemporary statements of what is occurring in the growth of urban places in the Third World'Environment and Planning'a book that should enjoy a wide appeal: as a plea for adoption of the 'popular approach'; as a text for student use; and as an accessible and stimulating guide to the urban problems of developing countries'Progress in Human Geography'a very readable book, ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Smart Rules for Smart Cities

    Managing Efficient Cities in Euro-Mediterranean Countries

    Edited by Eleonora Riva Sanseverino, Raffaella Riva Sanseverino, Valentina Vaccaro, Gaetano Zizzo ...
    Series series Energy (R0)
    This book explores the new rules and codes that are required in order to foster the implementation of smart city technologies with a view to meeting the environmental and energy challenges posed by dynamic contemporary cities with increasing populations. In particular, it proposes a methodological approach suitable for use when devising a smart urban/building code for local administrations, taking ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Architecture and Interaction

    Human Computer Interaction in Space and Place

    Edited by Nicholas S. Dalton, Holger Schnädelbach, Mikael Wiberg, Tasos Varoudis ...
    Series series Computer Science (R0)
    Ubiquitous computing has a vision of information and interaction being embedded in the world around us; this forms the basis of this book. Built environments are subjects of design and architects have seen digital elements incorporated into the fabric of buildings as a way of creating environments that meet the dynamic challenges of future habitation.Methods for prototyping interactive buildings ... Read more

    $89.09 USD