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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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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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- 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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Digital Apollo : Human and Machine in Spaceflight
How human pilots and automated systems worked together to achieve the ultimate in flight--the lunar landings of NASA's Apollo program.As Apollo 11's Lunar Module descended toward the moon under automatic control, a program alarm in the guidance computer's software nearly caused a mission abort. Neil Armstrong responded by switching off the automatic mode and taking direct control. He stopped mo…
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Digital Apollo Digital Apollo: Human and Machine in Spaceflight
How human pilots and automated systems worked together to achieve the ultimate in flight--the lunar landings of NASA's Apollo program.As Apollo 11's Lunar Module descended toward the moon under automatic control, a program alarm in the guidance computer's software nearly caused a mission abort. Neil Armstrong responded by switching off the automatic mode and taking direct control. He stopped mo…
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- 1 online resource (xiii, 359 pages) : illustrations
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Deep time reckoning :how future thinking can help earth now
"How Finland's nuclear waste experts discern far future Earths, and what the rest of us non-Finns and non-experts can learn from them"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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Strategies for Electronic Commerce and the Internet
A guide to help business managers better compete in the age of the internet and electronic commerce.This book offers a novel approach for analyzing and developing business strategies for the Internet and electronic commerce. The topics addressed include how to predict which firms will be successful, how a manager should respond to competitors who adopt the Internet and electronic commerce, and …
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- 1 online resource (xiv, 265 pages) :illustrations
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Sustainability on Campus: Stories and Strategies for Change
Stories both practical and inspirational about environmental leadership on campus.These personal narratives of greening college campuses offer inspiration, motivation, and practical advice. Written by faculty, staff, administrators, and a student, from varying perspectives and reflecting divergent experiences, these stories also map the growing strength of a national movement toward environment…
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- 1 online resource (viii, 327 pages) :illustrations.
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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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