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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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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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- 0262367963
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- 1 online resource (326 pages) : illustrations (some color), maps
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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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- 1 online resource (304 pages).
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Toward the healthy city People, Places, and the Politics of Urban Planning
A call to reconnect the fields of urban planning and public health that offers a new decision-making framework for healthy city planning.
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- 1 online resource (ix, 282 pages) : illustrations, maps.
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Cerebral plasticity: New perspectives
The notion that neurons in the living brain can change in response to experience—a phenomenon known as "plasticity"—has become a major conceptual issue in neuroscience research as well as a practical focus for the fields of neural rehabilitation and neurodegenerative disease. Early work dealt with the plasticity of the developing brain and demonstrated the critical role played by sensory ex…
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- 9780262295444
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- 1 online resource (x, 415 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates) :illustrations (some color)
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American urban form :a representative history
An illustrated history of the American city's evolution from sparsely populated village to regional metropolis.American Urban Form--the spaces, places, and boundaries that define city life--has been evolving since the first settlements of colonial days. The changing patterns of houses, buildings, streets, parks, pipes and wires, wharves, railroads, highways, and airports reflect changing patter…
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- 9780262301671
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- 1 online resource (183 pages).
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Greening Berlin :the co-production of science, politics, and urban nature
How plant and animal species conservation became part of urban planning in Berlin, and how the science of ecology contributed to this change.Although nature conservation has traditionally focused on the countryside, issues of biodiversity protection also appear on the political agendas of many cities. One of the emblematic examples of this now worldwide trend has been the German city of Berlin,…
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- 9780262312424
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In the images of development :city design in the Global South
"Magisterial and critical study of city design in the Global South, tracing the historical, economic, political, and ideological forces influencing development up to the present"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262361118
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The City in the city :architecture and change in London's financial district
"This book charts the development of London's financial district, the City of London, in the decades following the Second World War, investigating the relationship between economic and built change"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262375856
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Concrete and Clay: Reworking Nature in New York City
An interdisciplinary account of the environmental history and changing landscape of New York City.In this innovative account of the urbanization of nature in New York City, Matthew Gandy explores how the raw materials of nature have been reworked to produce a "metropolitan nature" distinct from the forms of nature experienced by early settlers. The book traces five broad developments: the expan…
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- 1 online resource (xi, 344 pages) :illustrations, maps.
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