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Transport and Urban Development
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David Banister |
Today it is often stated that new transport infrastructure increases both the number of journeys and their length as well as the attractiveness of different locations for development. To understand t… |
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Suburban Nation
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Andres Duany,Jeff Speck,Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk |
Suburban Nation is a groundbreaking analysis of the detrimental ecological effects and societal costs of late 20th century automobile-based settlement patterns and policies |
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Smart Cities
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Anthony M. Townsend |
From Goodreads:
"An unflinching look at the aspiring city-builders of our smart, mobile, connected future.
We live in a world defined by urbanization and digital ubiquity, where mobile broadban… |
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Plan cartésien
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Jimmy Beaulieu |
Une anthologie qui regroupe quelque cinquante bédéistes québécois autour du thème de la ville. Malgré la diversité des styles et des manières, l'unité du recueil demeure tès forte. Mérite le détour. … |
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Associational life in African cities
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Arne Tostensen,Inge Tvedten,Mariken Vaa |
The 17 essays in this volume focus on the multitude of voluntary associations to have emerged in African cities in recent years. Recurrent themes include the contexts in which people have organised t… |
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The European urban charter
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Council of Europe |
Council of Europe. |
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L'invention de la ville occidentale
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Vittorio Franchetti Pardo |
Si la ville n'est pas l'habitat de prédilection de toutes les régions du monde, elle n'en constitue pas moins la manifestation la plus éclatante et tangible du foisonnement et de la grandeur du génie… |
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Those dam kids
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Shasta Lake Heritage & Historical Society |
This is a collection of stories written by children of the dam workers and other families who came to the Boomtown areas seeking work and a new place to live and thrive. What comes to mind is the pro… |
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La vida en la ciudad
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Margie Burton |
Tells what it's like to live in the city. |
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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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The City in Mind
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James Howard Kunstler |
"In the Geography of Nowhere, James Howard Kunstler declared suburbia "a tragic landscape of cartoon architecture, junked cities, and ravaged countryside" and put himself at the heart of a fierce deb… |
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Housing the urban poor
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Arthur P. Solomon |
Poverty, housing and public policy: Foundations of national policy: Economic growth and stability, A Decent home and residential environment: The Redistributive objective, Limitations of existing pro… |
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Guerrilla Gardening
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David Tracey |
The term "guerrilla" may bring to mind a small band of armed soldiers, moving in the dead of night on a stealth mission. In the case of guerrilla gardening, the soldiers are planters, the weapons are… |
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