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  • - A History of Suburban Corporate Landscapes
    af Louise A. (University of California Berkeley) Mozingo
    309,95 kr.

    How business appropriated the pastoral landscape, as seen in the corporate campus, the corporate estate, and the office park.

  • af Lynne B Sagalyn
    422,95 kr.

    "This is a story of profound urban change over decades of time in a symbolic space celebrated as a worldwide phenomenon. Drawing on the history, sociology, and political economy of the place, Times Square Remade examines, twenty years later, how the public-private transformation of 42nd Street at Times Square impacted the entertainment district and adjacent neighborhoods, particularly Hell's Kitchen. The contrast in development growth between these neighborhoods tells a broader story of New York City"--

  • - A Struggle for Environmental Justice in Louisiana's Chemical Corridor
    af Steve Lerner
    362,95 kr.

  • - Reworking Nature in New York City
    af Matthew (University of Cambridge) Gandy
    291,95 kr.

    An interdisciplinary account of the environmental history and changing landscape of New York City.In this innovative account of the urbanization of nature in New York City, Matthew Gandy explores how the raw materials of nature have been reworked to produce a "metropolitan nature" distinct from the forms of nature experienced by early settlers. The book traces five broad developments: the expansion and redefinition of public space, the construction of landscaped highways, the creation of a modern water supply system, the radical environmental politics of the barrio in the late 1960s and early 1970s, and the contemporary politics of the environmental justice movement. Drawing on political economy, environmental studies, social theory, cultural theory, and architecture, Gandy shows how New York's environmental history is bound up not only with the upstate landscapes that stretch beyond the city's political boundaries but also with more distant places that reflect the nation's colonial and imperial legacies. Using the shifting meaning of nature under urbanization as a framework, he looks at how modern nature has been produced through interrelated transformations ranging from new water technologies to changing fashions in landscape design. Throughout, he considers the economic and ideological forces that underlie phenomena as diverse as the location of parks and the social stigma of dirty neighborhoods.

  • - Community Knowledge and Environmental Health Justice
    af Berkeley) Corburn & Jason (University of California
    467,95 kr.

    An analysis of how local knowledge, based on the first-hand experience of community members, can strengthen science in environmental health decision making; with four case studies from a Brooklyn neighborhood.

  • - Stories and Strategies for Change
     
    93,95 kr.

    Stories both practical and inspirational about environmental leadership on campus.

  • - Countering Commonsense Antiurbanism
    af William B. (Colgate University) Meyer
    463,95 kr.

    An analysis that offers evidence to challenge the widely held assumption that urbanization and environmental quality are necessarily at odds. Conventional wisdom about the environmental impact of cities holds that urbanization and environmental quality are necessarily at odds. Cities are seen to be sites of ecological disruption, consuming a disproportionate share of natural resources, producing high levels of pollution, and concentrating harmful emissions precisely where the population is most concentrated. Cities appear to be particularly vulnerable to natural disasters, to be inherently at risk from outbreaks of infectious diseases, and even to offer dysfunctional and unnatural settings for human life. In this book, William Meyer tests these widely held beliefs against the evidence.Borrowing some useful terminology from the public health literature, Meyer weighs instances of "urban penalty” against those of "urban advantage.” He finds that many supposed urban environmental penalties are illusory, based on commonsense preconceptions and not on solid evidence. In fact, greater degrees of "urbanness” often offer advantages rather than penalties. The characteristic compactness of cities, for example, lessens the pressure on ecological systems and enables resource consumption to be more efficient. On the whole, Meyer reports, cities offer greater safety from environmental hazards (geophysical, technological, and biological) than more dispersed settlement does. In fact, the city-defining characteristics widely supposed to result in environmental penalties do much to account for cities' environmental advantages.As of 2008 (according to U.N. statistics), more people live in cities than in rural areas. Meyer's analysis clarifies the effects of such a profound shift, covering a full range of environmental issues in urban settings.

  • - Sustainability and Justice in the Next American Metropolis
     
    93,95 kr.

  • - The Struggle Against Water Privatization in the United States and Canada
    af Joanna L. Robinson
    93,95 - 151,95 kr.

    An examination of anti-water privatization movements in the United States and Canada that explores the interplay of the local and the global.

  • - Environmentalism and Democracy in the Twenty-First Century
    af William A. Shutkin
    218,95 kr.

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    297,95 kr.

    Bicycling in cities is booming, for many reasons: health and environmental benefits, time and cost savings, more and better bike lanes and paths, innovative bike sharing programs, and the sheer fun of riding. City Cycling offers a guide to this urban cycling renaissance, with the goal of promoting cycling as sustainable urban transportation available to everyone. It reports on cycling trends and policies in cities in North America, Europe, and Australia, and offers information on such topics as cycling safety, cycling infrastructure provisions including bikeways and bike parking, the wide range of bike designs and bike equipment, integration of cycling with public transportation, and promoting cycling for women and children. The book also offers detailed examinations and illustrations of cycling conditions in different urban environments: small cities (including Davis, California, and Delft, the Netherlands), large cities (including Sydney, Chicago, Toronto and Berlin), and ¿megacities¿ (London, New York, Paris, and Tokyo).

  • - Adaptation and Transformation from the Ground Up
    af Keith G. Tidball & Marianne E. (Cornell University) Krasny
    244,95 kr.

  • - Conflict and Negotiation over Public Space
    af Anastasia (Professor Loukaitou-Sideris
    230,95 kr.

    Examines the evolution of an undervalued urban space and how conflicts over competing uses-from the right to sit to the right to parade-have been negotiated.

  • - Nature, Technology, and the Sustainable City
    af Andrew (Professor Karvonen
    93,95 kr.

  • - Expert Cultures in a Grassroots Movement
     
    93,95 kr.

    Case studies exploring how experts' encounters with environmental justice are changing technical and scientific practice.

  • - Lessons from China
    af Tufts University) Gallagher, Environmental Policy & Kelly Sims (Professor of Energy
    244,95 - 397,95 kr.

    An examination of barriers that impede and incentives that motivate the global development and deployment of cleaner energy technologies, with case studies from China.

  • - Transnational Movements for Environmental Justice
    af University Of California, Santa Barbara) Pellow & David Naguib (Professor of Environmental Studies and Sociology
    487,95 kr.

    Examines the export of hazardous wastes to poor communities of color around the world and charts the global social movements that challenge them.

  • - Rethinking Urban Rivers
     
    93,95 kr.

  • - The Social Justice Challenge to the Environmental Movement
     
    93,95 kr.

    Analysis and case studies from interdisciplinary perspectives explore the possibility and desirability of collaboration between the grassroots-oriented environmental justice movement and mainstream environmental organizations. Although the environmental movement and the environmental justice movement would seem to be natural allies, their relationship over the years has often been characterized by conflict and division. The environmental justice movement has charged the mainstream environmental movement with racism and elitism and has criticized its activist agenda on the grounds that it values wilderness over people. Environmental justice advocates have called upon environmental organizations to act on environmental injustice and address racism and classism in their own hiring and organizational practices, lobbying agenda, and political platforms. This book examines the current relationship between the two movements in both conceptual and practical terms and explores the possibilities for future collaboration. In ten original essays, contributors from a variety of disciplines consider such topics as the relationship between the two movements' ethical commitments and activist goals, instances of successful cooperation in U.S. contexts, and the challenges posed to both movements by globalization and climate change. They examine the possibility and desirability of one unified movement as opposed to two complementary ones by means of analyses and case studies; these include a story of asbestos hazards that begins in a Montana mine and ends with the release of asbestos insulation into the air of Manhattan after the collapse of the World Trade Center. This book, part of a necessary rethinking of the relationship between the two movements, shows that effective, mutually beneficial alliances can advance the missions of both.ContributorsKim Allen, J. Robert Cox, Vinci Daro, Kevin DeLuca, Giovanna Di Chiro, Daniel Faber, Dorothy Holland, Dale Jamieson, M. Nils Peterson, Markus John Peterson, Tarla Rai Peterson, Phaedra C. Pezzullo, J. Timmons Roberts, Ronald Sandler, Steve Schwarze, Peter Wenz

  • - Standards and the Hidden Language of Place Making
    af Eran (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Ben-Joseph
    218,95 kr.

  • - Visions and Histories of Urban Freeways
    af Joseph F.C. (University of California DiMento
    507,95 kr.

    The story of the evolution of the urban freeway, the competing visions that informed it, and the emerging alternatives for more sustainable urban transportation.Urban freeways often cut through the heart of a city, destroying neighborhoods, displacing residents, and reconfiguring street maps. These massive infrastructure projects, costing billions of dollars in transportation funds, have been shaped for the last half century by the ideas of highway engineers, urban planners, landscape architects, and architects—with highway engineers playing the leading role. In Changing Lanes, Joseph DiMento and Cliff Ellis describe the evolution of the urban freeway in the United States, from its rural parkway precursors through the construction of the interstate highway system to emerging alternatives for more sustainable urban transportation.DiMento and Ellis describe controversies that arose over urban freeway construction, focusing on three cases: Syracuse, which early on embraced freeways through its center; Los Angeles, which rejected some routes and then built I-105, the most expensive urban road of its time; and Memphis, which blocked the construction of I-40 through its core. Finally, they consider the emerging urban highway removal movement and other innovative efforts by cities to re-envision urban transportation.

  • - Achieving Livable Communities, Environmental Justice, and Regional Equity
     
    476,95 kr.

    Experts from academia, government, and nonprofit organizations offer an environmental justice perspective on Smart Growth, discussing equitable solutions to suburban sprawl and urban decay.

  • - A Representative History
    af Sam Bass Warner Jr.
    332,95 kr.

    An illustrated history of the American city's evolution from sparsely populated village to regional metropolis.

  • - New Practices for Reimagining the City
    af Dana Cuff
    298,95 kr.

    Original, action-oriented humanist practices for interpreting and intervening in the city: a new methodology at the intersection of the humanities, design, and urban studies.Urban humanities is an emerging field at the intersection of the humanities, urban planning, and design. It offers a new approach not only for understanding cities in a global context but for intervening in them, interpreting their histories, engaging with them in the present, and speculating about their futures. This book introduces both the theory and practice of urban humanities, tracing the evolution of the concept, presenting methods and practices with a wide range of research applications, describing changes in teaching and curricula, and offering case studies of urban humanities practices in the field.Urban humanities views the city through a lens of spatial justice, and its inquiries are centered on the microsettings of everyday life. The book's case studies report on real-world projects in mega-cities in the Pacific Rim—Tokyo, Shanghai, Mexico City, and Los Angeles—with several projects described in detail, including playful spaces for children in car-oriented Mexico City, a commons in a Tokyo neighborhood, and a rolling story-telling box to promote "literary justice” in Los Angeles.

  • - The Politics of Expert Advice in a Neoliberal Democracy
    af University Of California, Santa Barbara) Barandiaran & Javiera (Assistant Professor
    661,95 kr.

    The politics of scientific advice across four environmental conflicts in Chile, when the state acted as a "neutral broker" rather than protecting the common good.

  • - The Politics of Expert Advice in a Neoliberal Democracy
    af Javiera (Assistant Professor Barandiaran
    432,95 kr.

    The politics of scientific advice across four environmental conflicts in Chile, when the state acted as a "neutral broker” rather than protecting the common good.In Science and Environment in Chile, Javiera Barandiarán examines the consequences for environmental governance when the state lacks the capacity to produce an authoritative body of knowledge. Focusing on the experience of Chile after it transitioned from dictatorship to democracy, she examines a series of environmental conflicts in which the state tried to act as a "neutral broker” rather than the protector of the common good. She argues that this shift in the role of the state—occurring in other countries as well—is driven in part by the political ideology of neoliberalism, which favors market mechanisms and private initiatives over the actions of state agencies. Chile has not invested in environmental science labs, state agencies with in-house capacities, or an ancillary network of trusted scientific advisers—despite the growing complexity of environmental problems and increasing popular demand for more active environmental stewardship. Unlike a high modernist "empire” state with the scientific and technical capacity to undertake large-scale projects, Chile's model has been that of an "umpire” state that purchases scientific advice from markets.After describing the evolution of Chilean regulatory and scientific institutions during the transition, Barandiarán describes four environmental crises that shook citizens' trust in government: the near-collapse of the farmed salmon industry when an epidemic killed millions of fish; pollution from a paper and pulp mill that killed off or forced out thousands of black-neck swans; a gold mine that threatened three glaciers; and five controversial mega-dams in Patagonia.

  • - Living with Pollution in Rural China
    af Anna Lora-Wainwright
    661,95 kr.

    An examination of the daily grind of living with pollution in rural China and of the varying forms of activism that develop in response.

  • - The Drive for Justice at America's Port
    af Scott L. Cummings
    484,95 - 707,95 kr.

    How an alliance of the labor and environmental movements used law as a tool to clean up the trucking industry at the nation's largest port.

  • - People, Places, and the Politics of Urban Planning
    af Jason (University of California Corburn
    447,95 kr.

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