Creating Chinese Urbanism describes the landscape of urbanisation in China, revealing the profound impacts of marketisation on Chinese society and the consequential governance changes at the grassroots level.
Jules Verne, in this chief of his works, has set himself to tell the story of all the most stirring adventure of which we have any written record-to give the history, "e;from the time of Hanno and Herodotus down to that of Livingstone and Stanley,"e; of those voyages of exploration and discovery which are among the most exciting episodes in the history of human enterprise.
Refuge in a Moving World draws together more than thirty contributions from multiple disciplines and fields of research and practice to discuss different ways of engaging with, and responding to, migration and displacement.
London's Urban Landscape is the first major study of a global city to adopt a materialist perspective and stress the significance of place and the built environment to the urban landscape.
Environmental changes have significant impacts on people's lives and livelihoods, particularly the urban poor and those living in informal settlements.
How to Build a Mobile App Without CodingA Beginner's Guide to App Development (Create and Launch Your Own App Using No-Code Tools and Monetization Strategies)The world of app development is evolving, and you no longer need programming skills to create your dream application.
Cities Made of Boundaries presents the theoretical foundation and concepts for a new social scientific urban morphological mapping method, Boundary Line Type (BLT) Mapping.
Jules Verne has invented so many tales of adventure that he is quite at home when he comes to chronicle the wonderful feats of exploration which testify that truth is stranger than fiction.
Schon oft habe ich Listen vorgestellt, die entweder die Größten, schwersten oder längsten Dinge aufzählen und preisen, doch heute beschäftige ich mich einmal mit den kleinsten Ländern der Welt.
En la actualidad, los problemas ambientales son complejos y el dano ambiental -el cual es definido por el articulo 27 de la Ley General del Ambiente - adquiere otra dimension cuando el sistema juridico no previene, no limita, no resarce ni repara; cuando el Estado en sus diferentes niveles y a traves de sus funcionarios no controla, no ejerce su poder de policia y desampara; cuando dicho dano traspasa las fronteras de lo imaginable y perdura en el tiempo, por decadas, vulnerando los derechos fundamentales de los mas debiles tales como la vida, la salud, el bienestar, el ambiente sano y equilibrado, el "e;proyecto de vida"e; -como postula Fernandez Sessarego (2015) y que es aquel producido por todo acto danino que impide que el ser humano se realice existencialmente de conformidad con el proyecto libremente escogido- y, basicamente, la dignidad humana.
After decades of missed opportunities, the door to a sustainable future has closed, and the future we face now is one in which todays industrial civilization unravels in the face of uncontrolled climate change and resource depletion.
Pain, Pride, and Politics is an examination of diasporic politics based on a case study of Sri Lankan Tamils in Canada, with particular focus on activism between December 2008 and May 2009.
In the face of the destructive possibilities of resurgent nationalisms, unyielding ethnicities and fundamentalist religious affinities, there is hardly a more urgent task than understanding how humans can learn to live alongside one another.
Over the last decade, the world s largest corporations from The Coca Cola Company to Amazon, Apple to Unilever have taken up the cause of combatting modern slavery.
While this is not a self-help book, some may find a few of the vignettes within the pages here as helpful if you have an open mind and consider the consequences of ignoring the common-sense rules that guide your personal universe.
Dans cet hymne à la joie de vivre, l’esprit libre, éclairé et de bonnes mœurs, l’auteur s’applique à penser les multiples spatialités des humains sur Terre, au quotidien et à différentes échelles, en quête d’une fraternité universelle toujours incertaine et fuyante.