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Urban sprawl in Europe : The ignored challenge
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Europe is a fascinating and diverse continent, one of the most urbanised on earth. Today, approximately 75% of the European population live in urban areas, while still enjoying access to extensive natural or…
Urban development : A new perspective
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Although it has often been taken as a general definition of the city and urban culture (whence the commonsense notion that cities must fulfill commercial functions), Pirenne's fomulation was deficient because only the…
Effluent America : Cities, industry, energy, and the environment
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Garbage, wastewater, hazardous waste: these are the lenses through which Melosi views nineteenth- and twentieth-century America. In broad overviews and specific case studies, Melosi treats the relationship between…
Visions of Eden: Environmentalism, urban planning, and city building in St. Petersburg, Florida
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This book examines the efforts of planners and their advocates to harmonize city building and environmental protection. Despite its geriatric image, St. Petersburg is a young city, the product of America's amazing…
Twentieth-century Pittsburgh, Volume One: Government, business, and environmental change
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First published in 1969, Roy Lubove's Twentieth-Century Pittsburgh is a pioneering analysis of elite driven, post-World War II urban renewal in a city once disdained as "hell with the lid off." The book…
Garbage in the cities: Refuse, reform, and the environment
Abstract from the publisher: As recently as the 1880s, most American cities had no effective means of collecting and removing the mountains of garbage, refuse, and manure-over a thousand tons a day in New York City alone-that clogged streets and…
Environment and urbanization
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This twice-yearly journal focuses on urban and environmental issues and their interconnections, with a particular emphasis on Africa, Asia and Latin America (where most of world's urban population now lives).
Each…
Envies de villes
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La qualité d’une ville est une notion subjective et relative.
Dans le temps, un bref regard historique nous révèle que l’idée qu’une ville puisse être…
Post ex sub dis : Urban fragmentations and constructions
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Post, ex, sub and dis - these are but a few of the prefixes that have been used to compose neologisms for describing the contemporary cityscape. Terms such as posturban space, postsuburbia, exurbia and disurbia are…
Crucibles of hazard: Mega-cities and disasters in transition
Abstract from the publisher: As a result of repeated experiences with devastating earthquakes, storms, floods, and wildfires, places like Tokyo, Mexico City, San Francisco, and Los Angeles are already identified with catastrophe in both scientific…
Usonia ou le mythe de la ville-nature américaine
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Voilà minutieusement reconstituée la tradition anti-urbaine aux États-Unis, depuis les premières communautés cherchant une alternative aux formes traditionnelles de…
Hors les murs
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Cet ouvrage est le résultat d'une expérience originale menée par deux enseignants avec des élèves de 4e du collège Rosa-Parks de Gentilly.
Pendant une…