City Planning Urban Development category: 1330 books
by Gaetano Savatteri
Language: Italian
Release Date: November 7, 2018
Language: Italian
Release Date: November 7, 2018
La Sicilia di oggi non è più quella degli stereotipi incrostatisi sulla Trinacria nel corso dei secoli. E di storie e di voci nuove che la raccontano, questo libro ne contiene davvero tantissime. Giuseppe Culicchia «Non ne posso più di Verga, di Pirandello, di Tomasi di Lampedusa, di Sciascia....
Madness in International Relations
Psychology, Security, and the Global Governance of Mental Health
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2011
Madness in International Relations provides an important and innovative account of the role of psychology and psychiatry in global politics, showing how mental health governance has become a means of securing various populations, often with questionable effects.
Through the analysis of three...
Nouveau Projet 10
Automne-hiver 2016
Language: French
Release Date: August 29, 2016
Des paradis fiscaux au jazz de Port-au-Prince, de la pertinence des cégeps au souci de vérité en littérature, Nouveau Projet 10 balaye de nombreux sujets. Le dossier central (plus de 50 pages) porte quant à lui sur Montréal. Dans le cadre du 375e anniversaire de sa fondation, nous avons eu envie...
Schwestern der Revolution
Aktivistinnen im Kampf gegen Diktatur und Unterdrückung
Language: German
Release Date: May 18, 2016
Furchtlos in der ersten Reihe standen Frauen bei Revolutionen seit jeher, doch sichtbar haben sie erst die neuen Medien gemacht. Als "das Mädchen mit dem blauen BH" in Ägypten oder die von Wasserwerfern beschossene "Frau im roten Kleid" in der Türkei gingen ihre Bilder um die...
by Tino Mager
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
First emerging at the beginning of the twentieth century, architectural reconstruction has increasingly become an instrument to visually revive a long bygone past. This book deals with the phenomenon of meticulous reconstruction in architecture. It argues that the politics of reconstruction go far...
Architecture and the Modern Hospital
Nosokomeion to Hygeia
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2018
More than any other building type in the twentieth century, the hospital was connected to transformations in the health of populations and expectations of lifespan. From the scale of public health to the level of the individual, the architecture of the modern hospital has reshaped knowledge about...
Moving toward Integration
The Past and Future of Fair Housing
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2018
Reducing residential segregation is the best way to reduce racial inequality in the United States. African American employment rates, earnings, test scores, even longevity all improve sharply as residential integration increases. Yet far too many participants in our policy and political conversations...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2018
This book contains a collection of studies that have been conducted among older residents in Singapore. Different methods, from surveys to crowd sourcing, have been used to investigate the older adults’ lived experiences and social participation in the residential environment. The findings reveal...
by Walter Thabit
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2005
In response to the riots of the mid-‘60s, Walter Thabit was hired to work with the community of East New York to develop a plan for low- and moderate-income public housing. In the years that followed, he experienced first-hand the forces that had engineered East New York’s dramatic decline and...
by Ferruccio Sansa, Andrea Garibaldi, Antonio Massari
Language: Italian
Release Date: October 16, 2010
Language: Italian
Release Date: October 16, 2010
L’Italia è uno dei paesi più belli al mondo. Ha la maggiore concentrazione di beni culturali e centri storici, le più famose città d’arte. Tutto questo è la nostra ricchezza. Rischiamo di perderla, per sempre. Il PARTITO DEL CEMENTO avanza e non lo ferma più nessuno. Dal nord al sud la febbre...
Studi sull’edilizia degli ordini mendicanti
Un quadro generale dell’edilizia mendicante attraverso le grandi chiese.
Language: Italian
Release Date: March 20, 2016
Laureatasi con Ludovico Quaroni nel 1968, Gabriella Villetti ha immediatamente iniziato la sua carriera di docente universitaria presso la Facoltà di Architettura dell’Università di Roma La Sapienza, rivolgendosi a pieno tempo all’insegnamento e alla ricerca sui temi della forma, della natura...
Women and museums 1850–1914
Modernity and the gendering of knowledge
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
This book recovers the significant contribution made by women to museums, not just in obvious roles such as workers, but also as donors, visitors, volunteers and patrons. It suggests that women persistently acted to domesticate the museum, by importing domestic objects and domestic regimes of value,...
by Collectif
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2018
The 2018 edition analyses tourism performance and policy trends across 49 OECD countries and partner economies. It highlights the need for coherent and comprehensive approaches to tourism policy making, and the significance of the tourism economy, with data covering domestic, inbound and outbound...
Devising Consumption
Cultural Economies of Insurance, Credit and Spending
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2014
The book explores the vital role played by the financial service industries in enabling the poor to consume over the last hundred and fifty years. Spending requires means, but these industries offered something else as well – they offered practical marketing devices that captured, captivated and...