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Paris and the parasite :noise, health, and politics in the media city
"Smith investigates the role of parasites in the planning of Paris, specifically those stealing resources, hurting the city's health, and interfering of information transmission"--Outgrowth of the author's thesis (doctoral)--Princeton University, 2015, under the title: Paris and the parasite : the politics of noise in the mediatic city.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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Installing automobility :emerging politics of mobility and streets in Indian …
An examination of the process of prioritizing private motorized transportation in Bengaluru, a rapidly growing megacity of the Global South. Automobiles and their associated infrastructures, deeply embedded in Western cities, have become a rapidly growing presence in the mega-cities of the Global South. Streets, once crowded with pedestrians, pushcarts, vendors, and bicyclists, are now choked w…
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- 1 online resource (304 pages).
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Putting skill to work :how to create good jobs in uncertain times
"A policy proposal for increased collaboration between employers and workforce intermediaries to come together to create greater opportunities for worker skill development"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 0262363151
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The new science of cities
A proposal for a new way to understand cities and their design not as artifacts but as systems composed of flows and networks.In The New Science of Cities, Michael Batty suggests that to understand cities we must view them not simply as places in space but as systems of networks and flows. To understand space, he argues, we must understand flows, and to understand flows, we must understand netw…
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- 9781461950332
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- 1 online resource (xx, 496 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.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262258685
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- 1 online resource (ix, 282 pages) :illustrations, maps.
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Reinventing Los Angeles :nature and community in the global city
Describes how water politics, cars and freeways, and immigration and globalization have shaped Los Angeles, and how innovative social movements are working to make a more livable and sustainable city.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262274128
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- 1 online resource (viii, 430 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) :illustrations.
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The architecture machine
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- 0262368064
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- 1 online resource (153 pages)illustrations
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Architectural space in Ancient Greece
Translation of the author's thesis, prepared at the Berlin Charlottenburg Technische Hochschule and published in 1937 under title: Raumordnung im griechischen St?adtebau.Doxiadis is best known as an architect-planner, as a consultant with an international clientele, as something of a prophet whose outlook is focused on man's worldwide future. But here, in his first major study, originally publi…
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- 0262368080
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- 1 online resource (xxxvii, 184 pages)illustrations
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The education of the architect :historiography, urbanism, and the growth of a…
The authors of these eighteen essays have all been deeply influenced by the philosophy of architecture developed by Stanford Anderson, through his writings and through the teaching program of the Department of History, Theory and Criticism of Architecture, which he and Henry Millon founded at MIT over twenty years ago. This "school" of architectural thought views architecture as a world of inqu…
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- 0262367998
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- 1 online resource (xv, 478 pages :illustrations
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Making a middle landscape
Today's suburban metropolitan development of single-family homes, shopping centers, corporate offices, and roadway systems constitute what Peter Rowe calls a ""middle landscape"" between the city and the country. Looking closely at suburban America in terms of design and physical planning, Rowe builds a case for a new way of seeing and building suburbia - complete with theoretical underpinnings…
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- 0262367947
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- 1 online resource (325 pages) :illustrations, maps.
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