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Kentucky Heirloom Seeds
Growing, Eating, Saving
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
Saving seeds to plant for next year's crop has been key to survival around the globe for millennia. However, the twentieth century witnessed a grand takeover of seed producers by multinational companies aiming to select varieties ideal for mechanical harvest, long-distance transportation, and long...
Little Farm Homegrown
A Memoir of Food-Growing, Midlife and Self-Reliance on a Small Homestead
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2018
A new gardening book for anyone who's dreamed of going back to the land and living a simpler life...After a city-bred Boomer couple weathers their first, tumultuous year on their rural backyard farm, they foresee smooth sailing for the future…then they discover their homesteading journey has only...
A Moment of Equality for Latin America?
Challenges for Redistribution
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
Unlike other regions around the world, several Latin American countries have managed to reduce income inequality over the last decade. Higher growth rates and growing employment, but also innovative wage policies and social programs, have contributed to reducing poverty and narrow income disparities....
The Politics of Land Reform in Africa
From Communal Tenure to Free Markets
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
Across Africa land is being commodified: private ownership is replacing communal and customary tenure; Farms are turned into collateral for rural credit markets. Law reform is at the heart of this revolution. The Politics of Land Reform in Africa casts a critical spotlight on this profound change...
Church and Estate
Religion and Wealth in Industrial-Era Philadelphia
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2013
In Church and Estate, Thomas Rzeznik examines the lives and religious commitments of the Philadelphia elite during the period of industrial prosperity that extended from the late nineteenth century through the 1920s. The book demonstrates how their religious beliefs informed their actions and shaped...
by Angela Kuhnert
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2014
Seminar paper from the year 2012 in the subject Economics - Case Scenarios, grade: 85, The Open University, language: English, abstract: Indonesia offers an interesting case in order to study the bargaining power of women within households. The country of Indonesia was created due to the Dutch colonial...
by Michael Neuman
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Every 20 years since 1920, Madrid has undergone an urban planning cycle in which a city plan was prepared, adopted by law, and implemented by a new institution. This preparation-adoption-institutionalization sequence, along with the institution's structures and procedures, have persisted - with some...
Communicating Global to Local Resiliency
A Case Study of the Transition Movement
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2015
In light of impending global climate and financial crises, it is imperative to analyze models for positive social change that are focused on building community resiliency and sustainability. The Transition Movement, premised in participatory action and permaculture principles with a broad digital...
China Base
CountyLevel Economy and Society
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2015
This unique volume takes a very different approach to the county-level governance and the land system reform in China. Based on thorough–going interviews with — township and village cadres, the book analyzes the current major conflicts in rural areas: between urbanization and rural development,...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2012
"Offers an intense scholarly experience in its comprehensiveness, its variety of voices and its formal organization... the editors took a risk, experimented and have delivered a much-needed resource that upends the status-quo."
- Architectural Histories, journal of the European Architectural...
Research Design in Urban Planning
A Student's Guide
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2015
"This excellent book fills a significant gap in the literature supporting planning education by providing clear, succinct advice on the design and implementation of small-scale student research projects."
- Chris Couch, Professor of Geography and Planning, University of Liverpool
"A perfect...
by Rosemary Shirley
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Through the lens of the everyday, this book explores ’the countryside’ as an inhabited and practised realm with lived rhythms and routines. It relocates the topography of everyday life from its habitually urban focus, out into the English countryside. The rural is often portrayed as existing outside...
Small Change
About the Art of Practice and the Limits of Planning in Cities
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
What exactly is 'small change'? Build a bus stop in an urban slum and a vibrant community sprouts and grows around it - that is the power of small changes that have huge positive effects. This book is an argument for the wisdom of the street, the ingenuity of the improvisers and the long-term, large-scale...
A Grand Tour of Gardens
Traveling in Beauty through Western Europe and the United States
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2012
From Italy to Switzerland, Germany to Spain, and Philadelphia to New Orleans, Anne Sinkler Whaley LeClercq describes the beauty of different historic gardens in this collection of essays. A Grand Tour of Gardens: Traveling in Beauty through Western Europe and the United States showcases her excursions...