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Solving Sprawl

Models Of Smart Growth In Communities Across America

by Natural Resources Defense Council
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2003

Solving Sprawl shines a spotlight on American communities applying smart growth principles in successfully addressing the problem of sprawl. It offers examples that illustrate key concepts and tells the story of how this new approach to developmhas caught hold across America. It reports the good news...

Evaluation of Plan Implementation

Peri-urban Development and the Shanghai Master Plan 1999-2020

by Jinghuan He
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2015

Shanghai, like the other big cities along China’s coastline, has witnessed extraordinary growth in its economy and population with industrial development and rural-to-urban migration generating extensive urban expansion. Shanghai’s GDP growth rate has been over 10 per cent for more than 15 years....

Urbanism

by David Rudlin, Rob Thompson, Sarah Jarvis
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2016

The Academy of Urbanism was founded in 2006 with a mission to recognise, encourage and celebrate great places across the UK, Europe and beyond, and the people and organisations that create and sustain them. This book is a compendium of seventy five places that have been shortlisted as part of the...

Perspectives in Urban Ecology

Ecosystems and Interactions between Humans and Nature in the Metropolis of Berlin

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Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2011

This book gives an interdisciplinary overview on urban ecology. Basic understanding of urban nature development and its social reception are discussed for the European Metropolitan Area of Berlin. Furthermore, we investigate specific consequences for the environment, nature and the quality of life...

Copenhagenize

The Definitive Guide to Global Bicycle Urbanism

by Mikael Colville-Andersen
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2018

The bicycle enjoyed a starring role in urban history over a century ago, but now it is back, stronger than ever. It is the single most important tool for improving our cities. Designing around it is the most efficient way to make our cities life-sized—to scale cities for humans. It is time to cement...

Assessing Impact

Handbook of EIA and SEA Follow-up

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Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2012

Written and edited by an authoritative team of internationally known experts in environmental impact assessment (EIA), this is the first book to present in a coherent manner the theory and practice of EIA and strategic environmental assessment (SEA) follow-up. Without some form of follow-up, the consequences...

Ultimate China Guide: How to Teach English, Travel, Learn Chinese, & Find Work in China

by Nick Lenczewski
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016

How would you like to have an interesting lifestyle teaching English 20 hours a week in China with several months of vacation every year? This is exactly what Nick Lenczewski (Len-chess-key) did after he finished college and his book will help start you on the same path and guide you in the process...

Terrain Vague

Interstices at the Edge of the Pale

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Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013

As planners and designers have turned their attentions to the blighted, vacant areas of the city, the concept of "terrain vague," has become increasingly important. Terrain Vague seeks to explore the ambiguous spaces of the city -- the places that exist outside the cultural, social, and economic circuits...

The City Crown by Bruno Taut

by Matthew Mindrup, Ulrike Altenmüller-Lewis
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016

This book is the first English translation of the German architect Bruno Taut’s early twentieth-century anthology Die Stadtkrone (The City Crown). Written under the influence of World War I, Taut developed The City Crown to promote a utopian urban concept where people would live in a garden city...

Global Downtowns

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Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2012

Global Downtowns reconsiders one of the defining features of urban life—the energy and exuberance that characterize downtown areas—within a framework of contemporary globalization and change. It analyzes the iconic centers of global cities through individual case studies from Europe, Asia, Africa,...

Urban Growth in Ethiopia, 1887–1974

From the Foundation of Finfinnee to the Demise of the First Imperial Era

by Getahun Benti
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2016

This book highlights the positive achievements that Imperial Ethiopia made in its journey towards urbanization into the modern era, and undertakes a critical assessment of the economic, political, and social impediments that prevented the country from transitioning into a truly fully fledged modern...

Disclosing Intellectual Property

by John p Mc Manus
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2012

For many knowledge-intensive or technology-based start-up companies, the professional management of intellectual property (IP) is critically important. In fact, IP may be the main asset by which the value of a young company is determined and on which decisions to invest in the company are based –...

Patenting Your Innovation: The Process

by John P Mc Manus
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2012

For many knowledge-intensive or technology-based start-up companies, the professional management of intellectual property (IP) is critically important. In fact, IP may be the main asset by which the value of a young company is determined and on which decisions to invest in the company are based –...

Start Your Perfume Business

by V.T.
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2014

Do you want to set up your own fragrances? You very own perfume line? Well, it can be done easily now. This ebook compiles tons of tips from REAL perfume business owners, sharing their tips and experiences on making perfume, wholesale, dropship, marketing, etc ... Read this ebook, make notes and start planning for your perfume business. Get it now!