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Arts, Culture and the Making of Global Cities
Creating New Urban Landscapes in Asia
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2015
While global cities have mostly been characterized as sites of intensive and extensive economic activity, the quest for global city status also increasingly rests on the creative production and consumption of culture and the arts. Arts, Culture and the Making of Global Cities examines such ambitions...
by Henri L.F. L.F. de Groot, Gerard Marlet, Coen Teulings
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2015
After a long period of suburbanisation, cities have been in vogue again since the 1980s. But why are people prepared to spend far more money on a small house in the city than on a large house in the countryside and why doesn't this apply to all cities? This book shows that the appeal of the city in...
by Helen Roby
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013
A Supplementary Dictionary of Renewable Energy and Sustainability consists of 600 A to Z entries relating to these subjects, including the terms associated with fossil- and nuclear-fuelled energy systems; renewable energy sources such as solar thermal, bioenergy, tidal power and wind power; and energy costings.
Building the Skyline
The Birth and Growth of Manhattan's Skyscrapers
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2016
The Manhattan skyline is one of the great wonders of the modern world. But how and why did it form? Much has been written about the city's architecture and its general history, but little work has explored the economic forces that created the skyline. In Building the Skyline, Jason Barr chronicles...
From the Ground Up
The Story of a First Garden
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2000
Amy Stewart had a simple dream. She yearned for a garden filled with colorful jumbles of vegetables and flowers. After she and her husband finished graduate school, they pulled up their Texas roots and headed west to Santa Cruz, California. With little money in their pockets, they rented a modest...
Bringing Nature Home
How You Can Sustain Wildlife with Native Plants, Updated and Expanded
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
“A fascinating study of the trees, shrubs, and vines that feed the insects, birds, and other animals in the suburban garden.” —The New York Times
As development and habitat destruction accelerate, there are increasing pressures on wildlife populations. In Bringing Nature Home, Douglas...
by Henry Owen
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2014
At Friendship Gardens, we believe everyone should have access to fresh, healthy food and the knowledge to grow it themselves. Friendship Gardens is a nonprofit project teaching gardening and growing food for Friendship Trays, Charlotte's meals on wheels program. This ebook is our 'Gardening 101' guide...
by Emily Whaley
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 1997
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 1997
In conversation with William Baldwin. Emily Whaley's garden on Church Street in Charleston, South Carolina, may be the most visited private garden in the country. And no wonder. It is the life's work of a vibrant, sociable, opinionated, determined, forceful woman who has spent the last eighty-five...
Texas Organic Vegetable Gardening
The Total Guide to Growing Vegetables, Fruits, Herbs, and Other Edible Plants the Natural Way
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 1998
This book shows you how to have healthy soil and recommends environmentally safe products and even some homemade remedies to control pests and diseases in your garden. It describes more than 100 food plants and gives specific information on the growth habits, culture, harvest, and storage of each.
Planting By the Signs: Mountain Gardening
The Foxfire Americana Library (10)
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2011
An Appalachian farmer’s almanac, “Planting by the Signs” is a valuable resource for the gardener looking for time-honored tips for clearing land and growing vegetables from the people who originally pioneered the art through hard work (and a little bit of luck). In the spirit of the Foxfire...
Reclaiming Our Food
How the Grassroots Food Movement Is Changing the Way We Eat
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2011
Reclaiming Our Food tells the stories of people across the United States who are finding new ways to grow, process, and distribute food for their own communities. Discover how abandoned urban lots have been turned into productive organic farms, how a family-run sustainable fish farm can stay local...
Ghost Cities of China
The Story of Cities without People in the World's Most Populated Country
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2015
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 population will leap to over one billion, as the central government kicks its urbanization initiative into...
Maker City
A Practical Guide for Reinventing American Cities
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2016
The Maker City Playbook is a comprehensive case studies and how-to information useful for city leaders, civic innovators, nonprofits, and others engaged in urban economic development. The Maker City Playbook is committed to going beyond stories to find patterns and discern promising practices to help...
DK Ess Mgs:Doing Bus in China
Culture, Travel, Negotiating, Etiquette, Relationships
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2008
Doing Business in China will tell you everything you need to know about brokering deals in the world’s fastest-growing economy. Part of the best-selling Essential Managers series, this book will carry the same livery on the jacket, but will have a completely modern, updated design. New books in...