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Disappearing desert
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Janine Schipper |
"Phoenix, Arizona, is one of the fastest-growing metropolitan areas in the United States. The city's expansion - at the rate of one acre per hour - comes at the expense of its Sonoran Desert environm… |
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Planet of Slums
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Mike Davis,Mike Davis,José María Amoroto Salido |
Mike Davis charts the expected global urbanization explosion over the next 30 years and points out that outside China most of the rest of the world's urban growth will be without industrialization or… |
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Sustainable transportation planning
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Jeffrey Tumlin |
"As transportations-related disciplines of urban planning, architecture, landscape architecture, urban economics, and social policy have undergone major internal reform efforts in recent decades Writ… |
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Ontologies in urban development projects
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Gilles Falquet |
"Ontologies are increasingly recognized as essential tools in information science. Although the concepts are well understood theoretically , the practical implementation of ontologies remains challe… |
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Urban sprawl
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Noel Merino |
The Current Controversies series examines today's most important social and political issues; each volume presents a diverse selection of primary and secondary sources representing all sides of the d… |
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Compact cities
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Rod Burgess,M. Jenks |
This new book examines and evaluates the merits and defects of compact city approaches in the context of developing countries. Issues of theory, policy and practice relating to sustainability of urba… |
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Ghost cities of China
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Wade Shepard |
"Featuring everything from sports stadiums to shopping malls, hundreds of new cities in China stand empty, with hundreds more set to be built by 2030. Between now and then, the country's urban popula… |
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The well-tempered city
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Jonathan F. P. Rose |
In the vein of Jane Jacobs's The Death and Life of Great American Cities and Edward Glaeser's Triumph of the City, Jonathan F.P. Rose--a visionary in urban development and renewal--champions the role… |
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Architectural Design
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Wiley-Academy |
Published in Great Britain in 2003 by Wiley-Academy, a division of John Wiley & Sons Ltd Copyright 2003. |
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Don't Call It Sprawl
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William T. Bogart |
In Don't Call It Sprawl, the current policy debate over urban sprawl is put into a broader analytical and historical context. The book informs people about the causes and implications of the changing… |
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Sprawl
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Robert Bruegmann |
As anyone who has flown into Los Angeles at dusk or Houston at midday knows, urban areas today defy traditional notions of what a city is. Our old definitions of urban, suburban, and rural fail to ca… |
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