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The Architecture of Edwin Maxwell Fry and Jane Drew

Twentieth Century Architecture, Pioneer Modernism and the Tropics

by Iain Jackson, Jessica Holland
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2016

Maxwell Fry and Jane Drew were pioneers of Modern Architecture in Britain and its former colonies from the late 1920s through to the early 1970s. As a barometer of twentieth century architecture, their work traces the major cultural developments of that century from the development of modernism, its...
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Landscape Perspectives

The Holistic Nature of Landscape

by Marc Antrop, Veerle Van Eetvelde
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2017

Climb a mountain and experience the landscape. Try to grasp its holistic nature. Do not climb alone, but with others and share your experience. Be sure the ways of seeing the landscape will be very different. We experience the landscape with all senses as a complex, dynamic and hierarchically structured...
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Leaders in the Shadows

The Leadership Qualities of Municipal Chief Administrative Officers

by David Siegel
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2015

In most municipalities across Canada, the top public servant is the chief administrative officer (CAO) or city manager. Compared to elected politicians such as the mayor and the council, the work of a CAO is often overlooked and not well understood. In Leaders in the Shadows, David Siegel brings the...
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Disaster Risk Reduction in Indonesia

Progress, Challenges, and Issues

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Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017

This book is a unique, transdisciplinary summary of the state of the art of disaster risk reduction (DRR) in Indonesia. It provides a comprehensive overview of disaster risk governance across all levels and multiple actors including diverse perspectives from practitioners and researchers on the challenges...
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Eco-socialism as Politics

Rebuilding the Basis of Our Modern Civilisation

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Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2010

This volume consists of analyses by experts from both the West and the East on the up-to-date development of Eco-socialism as a red-green politics within the context of capitalist globalisation. It investigates whether and/or in what sense Eco-socialism can offer a better explanation to the causes...
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Mapping Women, Making Politics

Feminist Perspectives on Political Geography

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Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2013

Mapping Women, Making Politics demonstrates the multiple ways in which gender influences political processes and the politics of space. The book begins by addressing feminism's theoretical and conceptual challenges to traditional political geography and than applies these perspectives to a range of...
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How Regions Grow

Trends and Analysis

by Collective
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2009

Regional differences within OECD countries are often greater than those between countries and much inequality remains. This report explores what generates growth at the regional level. Based on in-depth econometric modelling and analyses, this report reframes the debate on regional policy and development, emphasising that opportunities for growth exist in all regions.
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by Collective
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2009

The Copenhagen metropolitan region accounts for nearly half of Denmark's national output and plays a key role for the country as a whole. Nevertheless, it has witnessed only modest economic growth over the last decade. This review of metropolitan area policy for Copenhagen examines key challenges...
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Breaking Out of Policy Silos

Doing More with Less

by Collective
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2010

In the context of the economic recovery and public budget cuts, policy silos and fragmented short-term policy interventions have become luxuries that our economies can no longer afford. Government intervenes in a myriad of ways at the local level, and rarely are these interventions co-ordinated effectively....
Cover of OECD Territorial Reviews: Chile 2009
by Collective
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2009

Chile has achieved strong economic growth during the last 20 years. Nevertheless, its economy depends on a few resource-based sectors located in a small number of regions. The performance of Chilean regions varies significantly and regional disparities in GDP per capita are very high compared to those...
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The Material Imagination

Reveries on Architecture and Matter

by Matthew Mindrup
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016

In recent years architectural discourse has witnessed a renewed interest in materiality under the guise of such familiar tropes as 'material honesty,' 'form finding,' or 'digital materiality.' Motivated in part by the development of new materials and an increasing integration of designers in fabricating...
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by Xavier Greffe
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2016

This book is a monograph of cultural economics of a new concept, artist–enterprises. It explores various dimensions that artists embody, i.e., aesthetic, critical, messianic, and economic ones, and screens the multiple challenges faced by the artist–enterprises in terms of pricing, funding, and...
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by J. Patrick Doody
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2012

This book deals with the development of temperate coastal sand dunes and the way these have been influenced by human activity. The different states in which the habitat exists both for the beach/foredune and inland dune are reviewed against the pressures exerted upon them. Options for management...
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Ike Would Be Proud

Eisenhower Fellowships - a Leadership Program

by C. Richard Peterson
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2003

Dick Peterson has written this book about the Eisenhower Fellows, and for the Fellows. He has chosen to focus on two very visible examples of the Fellows leadership and networking the Irish Peace Process and ProyectoCities. As an active EF Trustee since 1994, Dick has become convinced that these models...
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