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How Reform Worked in China: The Transition from Plan to Market
A noted Chinese economist examines the mechanisms behind China's economic reforms, arguing that universal principles and specific implementations are equally important.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262342728
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Breakthrough Communities: Sustainability and Justice in the Next American Met…
Activists, analysts, and practitioners describe innovative strategies that promote healthy neighborhoods, fair housing, and accessible transportation throughout America's cities and suburbs.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262255479
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- 1 online resource (xli, 446 pages) :illustrations.
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Metabolism of the anthroposphere: Analysis, evaluation, design
Over the last several thousand years of human life on Earth, agricultural settlements became urban cores, and these regional settlements became tightly connected through infrastructures transporting people, materials, and information. This global network of urban systems, including ecosystems, is the anthroposphere; the physical flows and stocks of matter and energy within it form its metabolis…
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- 2nd ed.
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- 9780262301329
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- 1 online resource (x, 392 pages) :illustrations, maps
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The Nine Elements of a Sustainable Campus
A college campus offers an ideal setting for exploring and practicing sustainability. Colleges and universities offer our best hope for raising awareness about the climate crisis and the dire threat it poses to the planet. They provide opportunities for both research and implementation; they have the capacity to engage students, staff, and faculty in collaborative enterprises that inspire campu…
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- 9780262321570
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Transit-oriented displacement or community dividends? :understanding the effe…
An examination of the neighborhood transformation, gentrification, and displacement that accompany more compact development around transit. Cities and regions throughout the world are encouraging smarter growth patterns and expanding their transit systems to accommodate this growth, reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and satisfy new demands for mobility and accessibility. Yet despite a burgeoning…
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- 9780262352901
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Sustainable Urban Metabolism
A unified framework for analyzing urban sustainability in terms of cities' inflows and outflows of matter and energy. Urbanization and globalization have shaped the last hundred years. These two dominant trends are mutually reinforcing: globalization links countries through the networked communications of urban hubs. The urban population now generates more than eighty percent of global GDP. Cit…
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- 9780262316958
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- 1 online resource (xiii, 244 pages) :illustrations
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Sustainability in higher education :stories and strategies for transformation
In colleges and universities across the United States, students, faculty, and staff are forging new paths to sustainability. From private liberal arts colleges to major research institutions to community colleges, sustainability concerns are being integrated into curricula, policies, and programs. New divisions, degree programs, and courses of study cross traditional disciplinary boundaries; Su…
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The Harvard Jerusalem Studio : urban designs for the Holy City
These studies, conducted in 1980-1984 by teams of faculty, students, consultants, and advisors from the Jerusalem planning community and the Harvard Graduate School of Design, provide a unique sense of Jerusalem's natural and built environment, its livability, cultural diversity, and political and religious tensions.Modern Jerusalem is one of the most fascinating laboratories for urban developm…
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- 1 online resource (326 pages) : illustrations (some color), maps
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Perspectives on Defense Systems Analysis
"The Department of Defense and the military continually grapple with complex scientific, engineering, and technological problems. Defense systems analysis offers a way to reach a clearer understanding of how to approach and think about complex problems. It guides analysts in defining the question, capturing previous work in the area, assessing the principal issues, and understanding how they ar…
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- 9780262330244
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Inventing future cities
How we can invent--but not predict--the future of cities. We cannot predict future cities, but we can invent them. Cities are largely unpredictable because they are complex systems that are more like organisms than machines. Neither the laws of economics nor the laws of mechanics apply; cities are the product of countless individual and collective decisions that do not conform to any grand plan…
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- 9780262349895
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