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Shaping the Metropolis by Zack Taylor
epub |eng | 2019-04-08 | Author:Zack Taylor

Figure 6.5 Regional districts in the Lower Mainland, 1967 Note: The provincial government divided the Lower Mainland into four regional districts in 1967. They assumed joint authority over the Official ...
( Category: City Planning & Urban Development July 25,2020 )
The Just City by Fainstein Susan S.;
epub |eng | | Author:Fainstein, Susan S.;

New York after 2001 The aftereffects of the World Trade Center attack of September 11, 2001, and the national recession of that year comprised a surprisingly short-lived setback to the ...
( Category: City Planning & Urban Development July 25,2020 )
Smart Cities For Dummies by Reichental
epub |eng | 2020-06-26 | Author:Reichental [Reichental, Jonathan]

Drones The 15-year-old Luke Bannister had a proud and exuberant smile on his face. He had just flown the flight of his life, hurtling at stunning speeds while taking steep ...
( Category: City Planning & Urban Development July 25,2020 )
Feeling Your Pain by James Bovard
epub |eng | 2018-10-02 | Author:James Bovard

Superfund made cleaning up abandoned waste sites far more hazardous than it otherwise would have been. Any company that came in to clean up a site could be held liable ...
( Category: City Planning & Urban Development July 20,2020 )
City Rules by Emily Talen
mobi |eng | 2012-06-22 | Author:Emily Talen

Figure 4.23. Tampa zoning, 1966. The area had just two zoning districts. There are other examples of how zoning’s increasing complexity undermined a healthy form of land-use mixing. The zoning ...
( Category: City Planning & Urban Development July 20,2020 )
Staying Alive: Women, Ecology, and Development by Vandana Shiva
epub |eng | 2015-07-17 | Author:Vandana Shiva

TABLE 2 IRRI finances according to source (1961-1980) (U.S. dollars) In 1941, the Rockefeller Foundation established a research centre near Mexico City primarily devoted to plant breeding, that in 1961 ...
( Category: Environmental Policy July 18,2020 )
The Unknown Cultural Revolution by Dongping Han
epub |eng | 2008-07-14 | Author:Dongping Han

NEW VILLAGE PRIMARY SCHOOLS By the time Jimo Preliminary Education Reform Program was issued in April 1968, the pro-reform Red Guard rebels were already in charge of Jimo County.21 Immediately, ...
( Category: Asian July 12,2020 )
Complexity Theories of Cities Have Come of Age by Juval Portugali Han Meyer Egbert Stolk & Ekim Tan
epub |eng | | Author:Juval Portugali, Han Meyer, Egbert Stolk & Ekim Tan

An example of a transition is a society’s shift from the use of fossil fuels to sustainable energy sources. As a result of global warming, geopolitics, and the depletion of ...
( Category: City Planning & Urban Development July 6,2020 )
Railtown by Ethan N. Elkind
epub |eng | | Author:Ethan N. Elkind

THE SUMITOMO TSUNAMI The Sumitomo controversy was the first sign that the recession and its social impact were going to create political problems for transit leaders. The reaction from the ...
( Category: City Planning & Urban Development July 4,2020 )
Why Preservation Matters by Max Page
epub |eng | 2016-07-14 | Author:Max Page

Factory and Canal in Holyoke, Massachusetts, 2013 The abandoned factories of Holyoke, once the papermaking capital of the country, are slowly being renovated. The water flowing through turbines underneath the ...
( Category: City Planning & Urban Development July 1,2020 )
Cities at War by Mary Kaldor
epub |eng | 2020-03-30 | Author:Mary Kaldor

Perhaps the greatest ambiguity to be resolved is how to view the frontier that has shaped so much of Juárez’s history and culture. For over a hundred years, decisions about ...
( Category: City Planning & Urban Development June 30,2020 )
Uneven Innovation by Jennifer Clark
epub |eng | 2020-02-11 | Author:Jennifer Clark

DATA AS THE PRODUCT: REDEFINING RIGHTS TO INTANGIBLE ASSETS One essential function of government is to define property rights and determine the legitimate (legal) methods of their exchange. In chapter ...
( Category: City Planning & Urban Development June 30,2020 )
Building Community by James S. Gruber
epub |eng | | Author:James S. Gruber

Goals, Challenges, Approaches, and Outcomes Goals Bring back the fish. Tribal staff and members stated one common goal time and again: restoring the salmon populations in the Elwha river. As ...
( Category: Canadian June 30,2020 )
Latino Placemaking and Planning by Jesus J. Lara
epub |eng | | Author:Jesus J. Lara [Lara, Jesus J.]

The Latino population in Detroit has more than doubled in the past ten years. Latinos have been present in Detroit since the 1920s, but large numbers of Latino immigrants began ...
( Category: City Planning & Urban Development June 28,2020 )
Law, Engineering, and the American Right-of-Way by David Prytherch
epub |eng | | Author:David Prytherch

Roadway Engineering and Rights and Justice on the Street Like traffic law, roadway engineering emerged in the twentieth century to both promote a new order among the mobile and physically ...
( Category: City Planning & Urban Development June 28,2020 )

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