Urbanity – Bücher, CDs, LPs und mehr, Seite 7

Peripheral Centralities

The majority of the peripheries and in-between spaces of the planet's urban regions are living spaces and working landscapes. Despite this, we understand little about the centrality of urban peripheries a…

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Lynn Shore
The Green City Witch

A beautifully illustrated handbook for urban witches that combines green witchcraft with city life.Rich with herbal and esoteric wisdom, this delightful and thoughtful guide provides an essential basis fo…

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Ivan Pistone
Urban Coasts in Socio-ecological Transition

This book delves into the concept of city-sea interface as a space of strong physical, ecological, social and functional connection between the edge of the city and the edge of the water, recalling the id…

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Seeding Urban Transformation

Seeding Urban Transformation explores opportunities to produce urban life afresh in the fraught presents of ecological fragility, social strain and financial inequity. A collection of case studies across …

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Urban Inequalities from Space

Rapid transformation processes occur in the Majority World, where most of the global population is living (estimated around ¿ of the global population), often deprived of access to infrastructure, service…

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Tanzil Shafique
City of Desire

In this major open access contribution to Global South urban studies, Tanzil Shafique offers a new way of knowing and engaging with the most common urban environment in the Global South - informal settlem…

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Economies of the Male Body

An intimate portrayal of masculinity in Egypt from lively, grounded, and fresh perspectivesBased on long-term research in Cairo and Alexandria and grounded in ethnographic stories and intimate portrayals,…

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John F. Lopez
The Aquatic Metropolis

For centuries, both the Aztec and the Spanish sought to control catastrophic flooding in Tenochtitlan and later Mexico City, buttheir responses were about more than just engineering. What might seem like …

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Chris Fitch
Wild Cities

**'Mind-shifting, heart-lifting'**ISABELLA TREE**'Inspiring and essential'**ALASTAIR HUMPHREYS'As entertaining as it is enlightening' INDEPENDENT,¿¿¿¿¿Nature isn't a luxury, it's a necessity. But today th…

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Joe Hoover
Living Just Enough for the City

Today, most of us call the city home. The city is also the context in which we come to understand ourselves, build relationships with others, and negotiate our collective lives. Many authors have recognis…

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Christophe Providence
Urban Solidarity, Local Governance and Territorial Resilience in Haiti

This book examines urbanization in Haiti as a laboratory of crisis and resilience, where the absence of state capacity collides with the creativity of grassroots actors. It reveals how communities, women,…

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Remote Sensing of Urban Heat Islands

As urbanization intensifies, the phenomenon of urban heat islands poses significant challenges to public health, energy consumption, and overall urban livability. The integration of remote sensing technol…

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Jon Davies, Steve Williams
Wild City

Learn how to nurture green space in the city for you and your community through this radical, grass-roots approach to gardening and landscaping. With inspiring vignettes, case studies and practical how-to…

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Chris Fitch
Wild Cities

**'Mind-shifting, heart-lifting'**ISABELLA TREE**'Inspiring and essential'**ALASTAIR HUMPHREYS'As entertaining as it is enlightening' INDEPENDENT,¿¿¿¿¿Nature isn't a luxury, it's a necessity. But today th…

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COVID-19 (Forced) Innovations

This book gives an overview of the shifting paradigm from traditional design techniques and standards to new values and methods that occurred in response to confronting the COVID-19 pandemic. The theoreti…

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Martin Wagner, Soren Urbansky,
Entangled Empires

As expansionist empires, socialist superpowers, and authoritarian regimes, China and Russia have much in common. While many in the West fear the formation of an authoritarian alliance between these two gr…

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Jess Reia
Urban Music Governance

A transnational exploration of street performance, this original interdisciplinary study examines the intricate limits of legality, data visibility and resistance from the perspective of those working at …

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Spatial Methods in Transdisciplinarity for Urban Sustainability

The book critically addresses the role of spatial methods in a transdisciplinary research-practice agenda regarding the promotion of urban sustainability throughout the globe with the aid of eight differe…

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Nicole Kelner
Quietest Places in New York City

This charming guide invites readers to experience places of quiet magic and mindfulness hidden within the city.Featuring beautiful watercolors and hand-drawn maps created for this book, this is a useful r…

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Menno Schilthuizen,
The Urban Naturalist

A manifesto---and a field guide---for a new dawn of natural history, practiced by community scientists in their own urban jungle.Imagine taking your smartphone-turned-microscope to an empty lot and discov…

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