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The Vulnerability of Cities
Natural Disasters and Social Resilience
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2012
When disaster strikes in cities the effects can be catastrophic compared to other environments. But what factors actually determine the vulnerability or resilience of cities? The Vulnerability of Cities fills a vital gap in disaster studies by examining the too-often overlooked impact of disasters...
Bird on Fire:Lessons from the World's Least Sustainable City
Lessons from the World's Least Sustainable City
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2011
Phoenix, Arizona is one of America's fastest growing metropolitan regions. It is also its least sustainable one, sprawling over a thousand square miles, with a population of four and a half million, minimal rainfall, scorching heat, and an insatiable appetite for unrestrained growth and unrestricted...
Civitas by Design
Building Better Communities, from the Garden City to the New Urbanism
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2011
Since the end of the nineteenth century, city planners have aspired not only to improve the physical living conditions of urban residents but also to strengthen civic ties through better design of built environments. From Ebenezer Howard and his vision for garden cities to today's New Urbanists, these...
Solving Sprawl
Models Of Smart Growth In Communities Across America
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2003
Solving Sprawl shines a spotlight on American communities applying smart growth principles in successfully addressing the problem of sprawl. It offers examples that illustrate key concepts and tells the story of how this new approach to developmhas caught hold across America. It reports the good news...
by R. H. Davies
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2010
The Birmingham canals truly got underway following an advertisement in Birmingham's Aris's Gazette of 26 January 1767. The plan was to take a waterway from Wolverhampton to Birmingham with a branch to Lord Dudley's coal mines near Wednesbury, and this canal network continued to grow extensively until...
by John Carlson, Joyce Carlson
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2009
Newcastle Through Time is a unique insight into the illustrious history of this part of the country. Reproduced in full colour, this is an exciting examination of Newcastle, the famous streets and the famous faces, and what they meant to the people of Newcastle throughout the 19th and into the 20th...
Buffalo Bird Woman's Garden
Agriculture of the Hidatsa Indians
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2009
Buffalo Bird Woman, a Hidatsa Indian born about 1839, was an expert gardener. Following centuries-old methods, she and the women of her family raised huge crops of corn, squash, beans, and sunflowers on the rich bottomlands of the Missouri River in what is now North Dakota. When she was young, her...
Assessing Impact
Handbook of EIA and SEA Follow-up
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2012
Written and edited by an authoritative team of internationally known experts in environmental impact assessment (EIA), this is the first book to present in a coherent manner the theory and practice of EIA and strategic environmental assessment (SEA) follow-up. Without some form of follow-up, the consequences...
Jens Jensen
Writings Inspired by Nature
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2012
Jens Jensen (1860–1951) was one of America's most distinguished landscape architects and a pioneering conservationist. During his long and productive career, this Danish-born visionary worked for and with some of the country's most prominent citizens and architects, including Henry Ford, Louis Sullivan,...
The Metropolitan Revolution
How Cities and Metros Are Fixing Our Broken Politics and Fragile Economy
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2013
Across the US, cities and metropolitan areas are facing huge economic and competitive challenges that Washington won't, or can't, solve. The good news is that networks of metropolitan leaders mayors, business and labor leaders, educators, and philanthropists are stepping up and powering the...
Garden Design for the Short Season Yard
Everything You Need to Know for the Chinook and Canadian Prairie Zones
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2015
Tired of advice for gorgeous yards that can only be created in climates like California, southern Ontario or Victoria? Author Lyndon Penner wrote Garden Design for the Short Season Yard for you, because he knows prairie gardeners face challenges no one faces in gentler climates.
Anyone can...
by Oleksandr Svyetlov
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2002
Essay from the year 2001 in the subject Economics - Case Scenarios, grade: B+, Lancaster University (Economics), 28 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: The present and the future of the Ukrainian economy 'We must have the power of law, not the law of power'. V. Yushchenko, Ukrainian...
The Origins of the American-Israeli Alliance
The Jordanian Factor
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2007
This book demonstrates that the origins of the US-Israeli alliance lay in the former's concern over Egyptian influence in Jordan, contrasting with the widely-held view of the significance of the Six Day War.
The American-Israeli Alliance will be of great interest to students of Middle East studies, history, and politics.
by Timur Karabiber
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2004
Seminar paper from the year 2004 in the subject Economics - Case Scenarios, grade: 1,0 (A), Stellenbosch Universitiy (Department of Economics), course: Modern Economic Systems and Global Capitalizm, 23 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: What has happened, that still has an influence...