Human Geography category: 3213 books

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Making Space

Property Development and Urban Planning

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Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014

Making Space studies the built environment by examining the private-sector forces responsible for its development and the urban planning systems put in place to influence, guide and manipulate its outcomes. The first part provides a theoretical context for understanding the functions of the...
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The Urban Political Economy and Ecology of Automobility

Driving Cities, Driving Inequality, Driving Politics

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Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2014

Just how resilient are our urban societies to social, energy, environmental and/or financial shocks, and how does this vary among cities and nations? Can our cities be made more sustainable, and can environmental, economic and social collapse be staved off through changes in urban form and travel...
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The Americas

International Dictionary of Historic Places

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Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013

First Published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2004

Individuals, consumer groups, nation states and supra-national bodies increasingly have interrogated the ethics of particular production and consumption relations such as GM foods. Flowing from and bound up with these political concerns is the growing interest in the mutual dependence of sites of...
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by Jonathan Richards
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2002

Facadism - the preservation of historic facades, the creation of facsimiles in front of new buildings and the decorative exercises of postmodernism - is accused of destroying architectural innovation, of divorcing the interior and exterior of buildings and of reducing townscapes to theatre sets. Its...
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Urban Landscapes

International Perspectives

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Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2013

Taking a multidisciplinary approach this addresses the academic and practical issues concerning the present and future of the built environment, arguing for its enlightened management in the future of our present-day environment.
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by Brian King
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2002

This work studies tropical island resorts, the people who live and work there and the tourists who visit them. The author includes, but goes beyond the more commonly encountered marketing and economic analyses of resort destinations, by examining social, cultural, mythical, environmental, organizational and political dimensions.
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Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2002

Fifty Key Thinkers on the Environment is a unique guide to environmental thinking through the ages. Joy A. Palmer, herself an important and prolific author on environmental matters, has assembled a team of thirty-five expert contributors to summarize and analyse the thinking of fifty diverse and stimulating...
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Colonial Urban Development

Culture, Social Power and Environment

by Anthony D. King
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012

The Study focuses on the social and, more especially, the cultural processes governing colonial urban development and develops a theory and methodology to do this. The author demonstrates how the physical and spatial arrangements characterizing urban development are unique products of a particular...
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The Global City and the Holy City

Narratives on Knowledge, Planning and Diversity

by Tovi Fenster
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2016

The Global City & the Holy City explores the local embodied knowledge of women and men of different national, cultural and ethnic identities and age groups, living in London and Jerusalem. Their narratives focus on the three main concepts of Comfort, Belonging and Commitment to the various spaces...
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Women and Planning

Creating Gendered Realities

by Clara H. Greed
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003

Planning is currently a male profession, but an analysis of a century of town planning reveals this to be a new development; women have been central to the planning movement since it began. Women and Planning is the first comprehensive history and analysis of women and the planning movement, covering...
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by Harold E. Nottridge
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013

The urban setting in which people live has an important influence upon the organization and planning of their social lives. H. E. Nottridge here presents a valuable introduction to the field of urban sociology, showing that it is a theoretical discipline which is worthy of consideration in its own...
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Performing Asian Transnationalisms

Theatre, Identity, and the Geographies of Performance

by Amanda Rogers
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2014

This book makes a significant contribution to interdisciplinary engagements between Theatre Studies and Cultural Geography in its analysis of how theatre articulates transnational geographies of Asian culture and identity. Deploying a geographical approach to transnational culture, Rogers analyses...
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by Dianne Smith
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013

There are many micro-habitats in built up areas, often subject to strong environmental pressures such as atmospheric and water pollution, frequent disturbance, trampling, nutrient or water scarcity, etc. In Urban Ecology Dianne Smith uses such features as footpaths, walls, gravestones, gardens, compost...
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