Waite and Jewell: Environmental Law in Property Transactions provides a comprehensive practitioner guide to the environmental issues that arise in property transactions.
**Finalist for the Thought and Criticism category of the FAD Awards 2019**This book traces the ideal of total environmental control through the intellectual and geographic journey of Knud Lonberg- Holm, a forgotten Danish architect who promoted a unique systemic, cybernetic, and ecological vision of architecture in the 1930s.
An outstanding resource for contemporary American Indians as well as students and scholars interested in community and ethnicity, this book dispels the myth that all American Indians live on reservations and are plagued with problems, and serves to illustrate a unique, dynamic model of community formation.
This book explores how the design characteristics of homes can support or suppress individuals' attempts to create meaning in their lives, which in turn, impacts well-being and delineates the production of health, income, and educational disparities within homes and communities.
This book, first published in 1984, is an attempt to make students aware of the variety in the urban condition and to introduce them to some of the relationships operating between space and society.
The Classroom Library: A Catalyst for Literacy Instruction serves two purposes by first providing classroom teachers with a how-to guide in setting up and using the classroom library to support literacy.
This book analyses the implications of eco-urbanism re-making for policy and practice under the transformational trends of economic decentralization and market reform in China.
Der dänische Architekt Jan Gehl, einer der weltweit wohl bekanntesten Stadtplaner, erläutert in seinem Buch Leben zwischen Häusern die fundamentale Bedeutung sensibler Raumplanung für ein gutes Zusammenleben in unseren Städten.
This landmark expose of the dark history of repressive police operations in American cities offers a richly detailed account of police misconduct and violations of protected freedoms over the past century.
Transform your school and your classroom with these best practices in equity That the typical modern classroom lacks equity will come as no surprise to many educators.
This book investigates the ways in which city regions view themselves as single entities, how they are governed, what is meant by 'governance', why the question of city-regional governance matters, and the extent to which the balance between internal and external factors is important for finding governance solutions.
Global cities all over the world are taking on new roles as they increasingly participate directly and independently in international affairs and global politics.
Originally published in 1971, this volume contains papers invited for a conference on economic research relevant to national urban development held in September of the same year.
This book examines racial and ethnic politics outside of the traditional context and questions the models used to understand mobility and government responsiveness.
European-East Asian Borders is an international, trans-disciplinary volume that breaks new ground in the study of borders and bordering practices in global politics.
The past ten years have seen local government in the UK facing two major challenges: to survive in the face of Thatcher government hostility, and to adapt to enormously powerful forces of economic restructuring which have also been encouraged by government policies.
Chapter "e;Crowd Spatial Patterns at Bus Stops: Security Implications and Effects of Warning Messages"e; is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.
Konflikte um die Energiewende, um die Ausweisung neuer Nationalparks und die Planung von Städten haben eines gemeinsam: jeweils werden landschaftliche Deutungen als Argument für Erhalt oder Veränderung von beteiligten Konfliktparteien vorgebracht.
This book is based on a national literature search focusing on the best practices of cities, of all sizes and geographic locations, intended to maintain public services while holding down taxes.
The book addresses the challenges of urban water security and adaptive management in Sub-Saharan Africa, exploring and interlinking novel concepts of ecosystems services, watershed investments, and boundary work.
On the Las Vegas Strip, blockbuster casinos burst out of the desert, billboards promise "e;hot babes,"e; actual hot babes proffer complimentary drinks, and a million happy slot machines ring day and night.
Most new urban growth takes place in the suburbs; consequently, infrastructures are in a constant state of playing catch-up, creating repeated infrastructure crises in these peripheries.
Though relatively small in number until the latter decades of the nineteenth century, Houston'sHispanic population possesses a rich and varied history that has previously not been readily associated in the popular imagination with Houston.
