Nina Urban – Bücher, CDs, LPs und mehr, Seite 5

Richard Harris
Rise of the Neighbourhood in Canada, 1880s-2020s

Neighbourhoods matter now more than ever before. They sustain fewer social connections, but in an era of great social inequality and high levels of immigration, they have become vital as places for homeow…

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Richard Harris
Rise of the Neighbourhood in Canada, 1880s-2020s

Neighbourhoods matter now more than ever before. They sustain fewer social connections, but in an era of great social inequality and high levels of immigration, they have become vital as places for homeow…

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Digital Cities

Digital CitiesIn the era of high urbanization, there is a rapid shift in people's demands and needs for housing and accommodations. These demands require city planners to create technology-friendly and fu…

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Michael Pollack
Sidewalk Nation

An illuminating ramble along the American sidewalk: routinely unnoticed, yet central to daily life, neighborhood vitality, and significant legal controversies.Public infrastructure is as essential to our …

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Jennifer Baum
Just City

WINNER, 2025 ASSOCIATION OF UNIVERSITY PRESSES BOOK, JACKET, AND JOURNAL SHOW IN THE JACKETS & COVERS CATEGORYA captivating memoir of New York's Historic Upper West Side at a time when community and u…

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Raymond Pettit
Reinventing the River City

As the first major U.S. urban center located west of the Appalachian Mountains, Cincinnati depended on the Ohio River for its early development, eventually becoming one of the country's iconic river citie…

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Water Treatment in Urban Environments: A Guide for the Implementation and Scaling of Nature-based Solutions

The value of implementing nature-based solutions (NbS) for water treatment in urban environments is increasingly recognized due to the multiple ecosystem services and societal benefits they provide. The s…

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Japonica Brown-Saracino
The Death and Life of Gentrification

A provocative account of what is gained and what is lost when a word that once narrowly referred to neighborhood change takes on a life all its ownSociologist Ruth Glass coined the term gentrification in …

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Mike Davis, Kelly Mayhew, Jim Miller
Under the Perfect Sun

Three muckraking essays on the underside of San Diego cover the city's historically recent turn from red to blue while highlighting a new cast of villains and tenacious activists fighting for social justi…

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Ahmad Garba Khaleel, Zehra Yakut, Benjamin Leffel, Jesse M. Keenan
Financing Urban Transitions to Climate Neutrality and Increased Resilience in Cities

Elements in Climate Change and Cities

Contributes to the acceleration of equitable and actionable multi-level flows of innovative financing. Assesses recent analyses of the role of cities as financial agents of climate change solutions and ho…

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Paul Dobraszczyk
Future Cities

A breathtaking exploration that intertwines imaginary cities and real-world urban innovations.

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Messy Cities

Can messiness make our cities more liveable, lively, and inclusive?Crowded streets, sidewalk vendors, jumbled architecture, constant clamour, graffitied walls, parks gone wild: are these signs of a poorly…

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Plant Space

How plants shape space, knowledge, and hierarchies across historical, ecological, and epistemic terrains.Plant Space: Cultures of the Vegetal brings together eighteen international contributors working ac…

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Christof Spieler, David Copeland Loredo, Mandi Chapa
Transportation and the Shape of Cities

A practical framework for urban transportation designTransportation in cities has one undeniable limitation: space. Each mode of urban transportation has inherent geometric properties that no amount of po…

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Jan-Werner Müller
Street, Palace, Square

Building requires power and resources - then, once created, our environment structures how we relate to each other. But what would a distinctly democratic built environment look like? Should we prioritize…

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Katie J Wells, Kafui Attoh, Declan Cullen
Disrupting D.C.

A panoramic account of the urban politics and deep social divisions that gave rise to UberThe first city to fight back against Uber, Washington, D.C., was also the first city where such resistance was def…

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Global Cities in Indonesia

This book examines the development of global cities in Indonesia and proposes a new paradigm for urban development, grounded in inclusive social development. Inclusive development is defined as a new appr…

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Carrie Levan
Neighborhoods Matter

The unexpected impact of neighborhood design on civic engagementParticipation in official governmental institutions and activities has declined dramatically. Americans are less inclined to express trust i…

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Natural Beauty

How the parts relate to the whole: an essayistic exploration of architectural coherenceThis two-part book contains a series of statements on architecture, construction, rationality and photography--which …

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Stephane Safin
Cognitive Activities in Architectural Design

Architectural design relies on distinct cognitive processes that have been the subject of research for several decades. However, in light of recent social and technological shifts reshaping the discipline…

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