A local and transnational study of the 20th century experience of a Central European borderland city with four key forces of European and global 20th century history: Soviet Communism, Soviet nation-shaping (here, Ukrainization), nationalism, and Nazism. It examines a fundamenta…
A call for action on one of the most talked about issues of our time: how skyrocketing rents and home values are pricing out the working and middleclass from urban America
In a narrative spanning continents and epochs, Hunt tracks the origins of life with a team of NASA microbiologists a mile beneath the Black Hills, descends with an Aboriginal family into a 35,000-year-old sacred mine in the Australian outback, and more. Each adventure is woven w…
The rebirth of towns in the West AD 700-1050: a review of current research into how, when, and …
by Hodges, Richard, Joint CBA/DUA International Conference on the Rebirth of Towns in the West, AD 700-1050, Museum of London), Hobley, Brian, Museum of London., Department of Urban Archaeology, Council for British Archaeology
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This book exposes research accounts which seek to convey an appreciation for local differences, for the empowerment of people and for the human-centred design of urban technology"--Provided by publisher
Everyday urbanism: featuring John Chase .
by Crawford, Margaret, Chase, John, Kaliski, John
"Everyday space can be spirited, spontaneous, vital, and inclusive; all too often it is neglected by its inhabitants, ignored by city planners, and disregarded by critics. The essays collected in Everyday Urbanism offer both an analysis of and a method for working within the cit…
Phoenix, Arizona is one of America's fastest growing metropolitan regions. It is also its least sustainable one, sprawling over a thousand square miles, with a population of four and a half million, minimal rainfall, scorching heat, and an insatiable appetite for unrestrained gr…