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Very short introductions volume 655
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Language
English
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Description
"City Planning: A Very Short Introduction gives an international overview of progress in city planning over the last century. City planning explores the tension between the idea of cities as individually held land-parcels and as representations of community and identity. It has inevitable political and ethical dimensions. Over time, cities have grown and merged, leading to larger-scale thinking about planning, but it remains a regional discipline....
Author
Publisher
Cornell University Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"In Suburb, Royce Hanson explores how well a century of strategic land-use decisions served the public interest in Montgomery County, Maryland, a suburb of Washington, D.C. Transformed from a rural hinterland into the home of a million people and a half-million jobs, Montgomery County built a national reputation for innovation in land use policy--including inclusive zoning, linking zoning to master plans, preservation of farmland and open space, growth...
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
For thousands of years, the Tigris has acted as a lung exhaling life into Mesopotamia. Its cycles of flooding created seasons of plenty and seasons of scarcity. Water was once everywhere, from the northern mountains to the southern marshlands. But it is now beginning to falter, becoming clogged and erratic, and the changing climate is bringing environmental instability to the countries that rely on it. During the pandemic, in 2020, Leon McCarron travelled...
17) Healthy Cities
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
A collection from ECU's archive of documentaries and teaching films.
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