Cities For A Small Continent

Author : Power, Anne
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2016-05-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781447327561

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Cities for a small continent by Power, Anne Pdf

This original book builds on the author’s research in Phoenix cities to present a vivid story of Europe’s post-industrial cities pre- and post- financial crisis. Using varied case studies the book explores how policy responses to the economic crisis have played out in different European cities, with their contrasting conditions, history and performance generating contrasting reactions. The book compares changes between Northern and Southern European countries, bigger and smaller cities, over the past ten years. Across the continent social cohesion, community investment and social enterprise have gained momentum as Europe’s crowded, resource-constrained cities face up to environmental and social limits faster than other less densely urban countries, such as the US. The author presents a compelling framework to show that Europe’s cities are creating a new industrial economy to combat environmental and social unravelling.

Author : Anne Elizabeth Power,Richard George Rogers,Bruce J. Katz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1447327578

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Cities for a Small Continent by Anne Elizabeth Power,Richard George Rogers,Bruce J. Katz Pdf

Author : Power, Anne,Bruce Katz
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2016-05-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781447327530

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Cities for a Small Continent by Power, Anne,Bruce Katz Pdf

Through varied case studies this original book compares changes between Northern and Southern European countries, bigger and smaller cities over 10 years, to present a compelling framework showing how Europe’s post-industrial cities are striving to combat environmental and social unravelling.

Author : Ekaterina Mikhailova,John Garrard
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2021-11-29
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781000479119

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Twin Cities across Five Continents by Ekaterina Mikhailova,John Garrard Pdf

This international collection provides a comprehensive overview of twin cities in different circumstances – from the emergent to the recently amalgamated, on 'soft' and 'hard' borders, with post-colonial heritage, in post-conflict environments and under strain. With examples from Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Asia, South America, North America and the Caribbean, the volume sees twin cities as intense thermometers for developments in the wider urban world globally. It offers interdisciplinary perspectives that bridge history, politics, culture, economy, geography and other fields, applying these lenses to examples of twin cities in remote places. Providing a comparative approach and drawing on a range of methodologies, the book explores where and how twin cities arise; what twin cities can tell us about international borders; and the way in which some twin cities bear the spatial marks of their colonial past. The chapters explore the impact on twin-city relations of contemporary pressures, such as mass migration, the rise of populism, East-West tensions, international crime, surveillance, rebordering trends and epidemiological risks triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic. With case studies across the continents, this volume for the first time extends twin-city debates to fictional imaginings of twin cities. Twin Cities across Five Continents is a valuable resource for researchers in the fields of anthropology, history, geography, urban studies, border studies, international relations and global development as well as for students in these disciplines.

Author : Ban MuFangTang
Publisher : Funstory
Page : 841 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2021-07-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781637881910

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Asura Continent by Ban MuFangTang Pdf

Perhaps for Lu Yang, fate is unfair.He is the childe of the Lu family, but also the most humble illegitimate of the Lu family. The father and his principal wife lived in the exquisite courtyard, but Lu Yang and his mother who were abandoned by the family lived in the most deserted cottage. Lu Yang dod not understand literature, nor did he have the martial cultivation. Even if he is ridiculed as a waste by the people, there is no way.That year, Lu Yang was humiliated and lost his loved ones. Now, returning from the Asura world, Lu Yang wants to change all of this, and let Heaven and Earth submit to his feet.☆About the Author☆Banmu Pond is an excellent fantasy novel writer. He has written a total of eight novels, including Asura Continent, Piggy's School Years, Yin and Yang Ghost Emperor and so on. The pen name of Banmu Pond was taken from the poem of Zhu Xi, a poet of the Song Dynasty. The author expressed his attitude towards reading and the pursuit of new knowledge.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Parminder Sikka
Page : 139 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780957597600

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European Towns and Cities by Anonim Pdf

Author : Bill Bryson
Publisher : VNR AG
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0060161582

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The Lost Continent by Bill Bryson Pdf

"I come from Des Moines. Somebody had to." And, as soon as Bill Bryson was old enough, he left. Des Moines couldn't hold him, but it did lure him back. After ten years in England he returned to the land of his youth, and drove almost 14,000 miles in search of a mythical small town called Amalgam, the kind of smiling village where the movies from his youth were set. Instead he drove through a series of horrific burgs, which he renamed Smellville, Fartville, Coleslaw, Coma, and Doldrum. At best his search led him to Anywhere, USA, a lookalike strip of gas stations, motels and hamburger outlets populated by obese and slow-witted hicks with a partiality for synthetic fibres. He discovered a continent that was doubly lost: lost to itself because he found it blighted by greed, pollution, mobile homes and television; lost to him because he had become a foreigner in his own country.

Author : Dayo Olopade
Publisher : HMH
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2014-03-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780547678337

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The Bright Continent by Dayo Olopade Pdf

“For anyone who wants to understand how the African economy really works, The Bright Continent is a good place to start” (Reuters). Dayo Olopade knew from personal experience that Western news reports on conflict, disease, and poverty obscure the true story of modern Africa. And so she crossed sub-Saharan Africa to document how ordinary people deal with their daily challenges. She found what cable news ignores: a continent of ambitious reformers and young social entrepreneurs driven by kanju—creativity born of African difficulty. It’s a trait found in pioneers like Kenneth Nnebue, who turned cheap VHS tapes into the multimillion-dollar film industry Nollywood. Or Ushahidi, a technology collective that crowdsources citizen activism and disaster relief. A shining counterpoint to conventional wisdom, The Bright Continent rewrites Africa’s challenges as opportunities to innovate, and celebrates a history of doing more with less as a powerful model for the rest of the world. “[An] upbeat study of development in Africa . . . The book is written more in wonder at African ingenuity than in anger at foreign incomprehension.” —The New Yorker “A hopeful narrative about a continent on the rise.” —The New York Times Book Review

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1820
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0026756117

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The Picture of Dublin; Being a Description of the City, and a Correct Guide ... Fourth Edition, Etc by Anonim Pdf

Author : United States. Civil Aeronautics Board
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1176 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1957
Category : Aeronautics
ISBN : UOM:39015023950119

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Economic Decisions of the Civil Aeronautics Board by United States. Civil Aeronautics Board Pdf

Author : Richard Rogers
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2008-08-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780786722907

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Cities For A Small Planet by Richard Rogers Pdf

Nothing else damages the earth's environment more than our cities. As the world's population has grown, our cities have burgeoned, and their impact on the environment worsened. Meanwhile, from the isolated, gated communities within Houston and Los Angeles, to the millions of residents of Bombay living in squalor, the city has failed to serve its ideal function—as the cradle of civilization, the engine of culture, and the inspiration for community and citizenship. In Cities for a Small Planet, Sir Richard Rogers, one of the world's leading architects and the designer of the Pompidou Center in Paris, demonstrates how future cities could provide the springboard for restoring humanity's harmony with its environment. Rogers outlines the disastrous impact cities have had and will continue to have on our world, from waste-saturated Tokyo Bay, to the massive plumes of pollution caused by London's traffic, to the depleted water resources of Mexico City. He traces these problems to the underlying social and cultural values that create them—unchecked commercial zeal, selfish individualism, and a lack of community. Bringing to bear concepts such as that of “open-minded” space—places within cities that serve multiple functions such as markets, parks, and sidewalk cafes—he explains how urban design can be used to give citizens a sense of shared experience. The city built with comfortable and safe public space can bring diverse groups together and breed a sense of tolerance, awareness, identity, and mutual respect. He calls for a new theoretical shift in the way cities do business and interact with the environment, arguing that many products come to market and are sold without figuring their social or environmental cost. Rogers goes on to describe the city of the future: one that is sustainable within its own environment; that can make a positive impact on its surroundings; that encourages communication among its citizens; that is compact and focused around neighborhoods; and that is beautiful, a city whose buildings and spaces spark the creative potential of its inhabitants.As our population grows larger, our planet grows smaller. Cities for a Small Planet is a passionate and eloquent blueprint for the cities we must create in response, cities that provide for the needs of both their residents and the earth on which they live.

Author : Ted White
Publisher : Gateway
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2011-09-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780575117853

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Phoenix Prime by Ted White Pdf

The dream of being a superman came true for Max Quest - and immediately turned into a nightmare. He was not alone. There were Others with extraordinary powers, and the last thing they wanted was another superman on Earth - especially one working for good instead of evil. They couldn't kill him. But they could send him . . . elsewhere. Elsewhere was the viciously hostile world of Qanar, where Max's powers didn't work and sorcery was a more potent weapon than science, where shadows were as menacing as steel. Max Quest still had to save Earth from the corrupt threat of the Others - but he found his destiny intricately linked with that of Qanar as well. And somewhere in space-time was his lost love . . .

Author : Madison Grant
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 421 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2019-11-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:4057664115041

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The Conquest of a Continent; or, The Expansion of Races in America by Madison Grant Pdf

"The Conquest of a Continent; or, The Expansion of Races in America" by Madison Grant. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

Author : Max Podemski
Publisher : Beacon Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2024-03-26
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780807007785

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A Paradise of Small Houses by Max Podemski Pdf

From the Haitian-style “shotgun” houses of the 19th century to the lavish high-rises of the 21st century, a walk through the streets of America’s neighborhoods that reveals the rich history—and future—of urban housing The Philadelphia row house. The New York tenement. The Boston triple-decker. Every American city has its own iconic housing style, structures that have been home to generations of families and are symbols of identity and pride. Max Podemski, an urban planner for the city of Los Angeles and lifelong architecture buff, has spent his career in and around these buildings. Deftly combining his years of experience with extensive research, Podemski walks the reader through the history of our dwelling spaces—and offers a blueprint for how time-tested urban planning models can help us build the homes the United States so desperately needs. In A Paradise of Small Houses, Podemski charts how these dwellings have evolved over the centuries according to the geography, climate, population, and culture of each city. He introduces the reader to styles like Chicago’s prefabricated workers cottages and LA’s car-friendly dingbats, illuminating the human stories behind each city’s iconic housing type. Through it all, Podemski interrogates the American values that have equated home ownership with success and led to the US housing crisis, asking, “How can we look to the past to build the homes, neighborhoods, and cities of the future that our communities deserve?”

Author : George Bancroft
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1861
Category : United States
ISBN : ONB:+Z226326609

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History of the United States, from the Discovery of the American Continent by George Bancroft Pdf