Regional category: 1377 books
by Stephen L. Elkin
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2015
Stephen L. Elkin deftly combines the empirical and normative strands of political science to make a powerfully original statement about what cities are, can, and should be. Rejecting the idea that two goals of city politics—equality and efficiency—are opposed to one another, Elkin argues that...
Discourse Dynamics in Participatory Planning
Opening the Bureaucracy to Strangers
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2016
This book introduces the methodology of critical discourse analysis (CDA) to the study of participatory planning. CDA uses linguistic analysis to elucidate social issues and processes and is particularly suited to institutional practices and how they are changing in response to changing social conditions....
by
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2017
This book focuses on urbanization as an attendant consequence of industrialization and sheds light on urban problems such as housing shortages and poverty of jobless people, and the housing and social policies implemented by central and local governments to deal with these problems. Through this book,...
Best Plants for New Mexico Gardens and Landscapes
Keyed to Cities and Regions in New Mexico and Adjacent Areas. Revised and Expanded Edition.
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
First published in 1995, this invaluable guide to the trees, shrubs, ground covers, and smaller plants that thrive in New Mexico’s many life zones and growing areas is now available in a long-awaited new edition. Landscape architect Baker H. Morrow considers the significant factors that impact planting...
Development and Disaster Management
A Study of the Northeastern States of India
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2018
This book highlights the relationship between disasters and development through a socio-cultural study of human geography and governance institutions. It studies the cause, context and consequences of disasters in one of the most fragile Himalayan regions in India. The book establishes the fact that...
Stop the Violence in Latin America
A Look at Prevention from Cradle to Adulthood
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2017
The Latin America and Caribbean (LAC) region has the undesirable distinction of being the world's most violent region, with 24.7 homicides per 100,000 inhabitants. The magnitude of the problem is staggering and persistent. Of the top 50 most violent cities in the world, 42 are in LAC. In 2010 alone,...
by Asian Development Bank
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
Across the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS), there are over 500 special economic zones (SEZs) and industrial zones located near GMS economic corridors and covering over 50 million people. This proposed health impact assessment (HIA) framework recognizes these SEZs and economic corridors as economic...
by
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2019
This monograph presents potential remedies for some of the current environmental issues in developed countries in a theoretical or empirical manner with the interdisciplinary approaches of economics, statistics, and engineering. The book illustrates effective economic and environmental policies for...
The New Hampshire Gardener's Companion
An Insider's Guide to Gardening in the Granite State
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
The New Hampshire Gardener’s Companion is the only guide focused on the challenges of cultivating a successful garden in the Granite State. Whether you are an experienced green thumb or an inquiring novice, whether you live in the White Mountains, the Connecticut or Merrimac River valleys, or along...
by Janet Loughrey
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2006
Garden photographer Janet Loughrey has covered the vast Adirondacks region to document how people have overcome the area's challenging mountain climate to create beautiful gardens for the past 150 years. Her profiles of contemporary gardeners and landscapers and their creations are supplemented with...
The New Orleans Garden
Gardening in the Gulf South
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 1993
Among America's garden cities, one of the most remarkably beautiful is New Orleans. Now the exotic New Orleans garden can live not only in romance but also in settings very close to home. Whether in the Vieux Carre or in the humid hinterlands, anyone hoping to recreate such a romantic spot in the climes...
by New England Wild Flower Society
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
Native plants are drought tolerant, disease resistant, wildlife friendly, and environmentally sound. Experts increasingly encourage gardeners to use natives exclusively. This handy and practical guide focuses on 100 great native flowers, ground covers, shrubs, ferns, and grasses that will thrive in...
Regionalismo e regioni in Italia
1861-2011
Language: Italian
Release Date: March 20, 2016
Questo libro nasce nell’ambito delle celebrazioni per il 150° anniversario dell’Unità d’Italia, promosse dal Ministro per gli Affari regionali e per la coesione territoriale, Raffaele Fitto. Il volume si apre con la lectio magistralis tenuta, ancora su iniziativa del Dipartimento per gli Affari...
Entrepreneurial Seoulite
Culture and Subjectivity in Hongdae, Seoul
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2019
Entrepreneurial Seoulite might be read as a memoir on Hongdae based on the author’s observations as a member of South Korea’s Generation X. During the 1990’s, Hongdae became widely known as a cool place associated with discourses on alternative music, independent labels, and club culture. Today,...