urban environments

The city as action: retheorizing urban studies

by Pani, Narendar

fromGlobal urban studies

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"In constructing the urban as a set of interconnected actions, this book presents a less travelled route to understanding the city. It leads to a fresh perspective on several issues central to urban theory, including the uniqueness of a city alongside practices it shares with ot…

The city as action: retheorizing urban studies

by Pani, Narendar

fromGlobal urban studies

0 Type: Book

"In constructing the urban as a set of interconnected actions, this book presents a less travelled route to understanding the city. It leads to a fresh perspective on several issues central to urban theory, including the uniqueness of a city alongside practices it shares with ot…

Healthy urban environments: more-than-human theories

by Maller, Cecily

fromRoutledge Studies in Environment and Health

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"Set in the humanenvironment interaction space, this book applies new theoretical and practical insights to understanding what makes healthy urban environments. It stems from recognition that the world is rapidly urbanising and the international concern with how to create health…

The green city: urban nature as an ideal, provider of services an…

by Breuste, Jürgen

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Urban life without urban nature is unthinkable today! This textbook on the Green City examines urban nature as an ideal, provider of services and conceptual urban design approach. It answers important contemporary questions that arise about the ecological and cultural foundation…

Living with yards: negotiating nature and the habits of home

by Lang, Ursula

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"Yards are not quite wild, yet rarely tamed. Across diverse residential landscapes in North America and beyond, yards are regulated by the state and markets, defined by imaginary property lines on maps, and sometimes central to privilege and exclusion. As urban life is reimagine…

Living with yards: negotiating nature and the habits of home

by Lang, Ursula

0 Type: Book

"Yards are not quite wild, yet rarely tamed. Across diverse residential landscapes in North America and beyond, yards are regulated by the state and markets, defined by imaginary property lines on maps, and sometimes central to privilege and exclusion. As urban life is reimagine…

Rethinking urban transitions: politics in the low carbon city

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Rethinking Urban Transitions provides critical insight for societal and policy debates about the potential and limits of low carbon urbanism. It draws on over a decade of international research, undertaken by scholars across multiple disciplines concerned with analysing and shap…

Rethinking urban transitions: politics in the low carbon city

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"Rethinking Urban Transitions provides critical insight for societal and policy debates about the potential and limits of low carbon urbanism. It draws on over a decade of international research, undertaken by scholars across multiple disciplines concerned with analysing and sha…

Sustainable Urban Metabolism

by Ferrão, Paulo, Fernandez, John

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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…