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Homelessness in New York City by Main Thomas J.;
epub |eng | | Author:Main, Thomas J.;

While this Court seriously doubts the wisdom of a regulation that potentially causes small children or infants to be consigned to the streets for their parents’ or caretakers’ infractions or ...
( Category: Social Policy March 14,2020 )
The Last Days of Old Beijing by Michael Meyer
epub |eng | 2010-02-21 | Author:Michael Meyer

The one correct classroom chalkboard said that 790 days remained until the Olympics. Class Two still held that 996 days remained, but time continued to flow around it. Beijing’s late-June ...
( Category: Asian March 14,2020 )
The Shenzhen Experiment by Juan Du
epub |eng | | Author:Juan Du

On September 15, 2006, with the majority of the villagers in support of relocation but without a final agreement on exact terms, the developer’s bulldozers started demolition. Soon, the redevelopment ...
( Category: Asian March 14,2020 )
The Dream Revisited by Ingrid Ellen
epub |eng | 2019-01-14 | Author:Ingrid Ellen

The Contemporary Relevance of Decades-Old Fair Lending Laws by Patrice Ficklin In the recent financial crisis, millions lost their jobs; millions lost their homes; and many lost a considerable portion ...
( Category: Discrimination & Racism March 14,2020 )
Landscape Perspectives by Marc Antrop & Veerle Van Eetvelde
epub |eng | | Author:Marc Antrop & Veerle Van Eetvelde

Cushman, S. A., McGarigal, K., & Neel, M. C. (2008). Parsimony in landscape metrics: Strength, universality, and consistency. Ecological Indicators, 8(5), 691–703.Crossref De Veer, A., & Burrough, P. (1978). Physiographic ...
( Category: City Planning & Urban Development March 13,2020 )
The Resilience Imperative by Michael Lewis
epub |eng | | Author:Michael Lewis

London Rebuilding Society A very different strategy is under development at the London Rebuilding Society (LRS), a community lender that focuses on financing for social enterprises and ethical businesses. As ...
( Category: Canadian March 13,2020 )
The Promises and Pitfalls of Performance-Informed Management by Katherine Barrett & Richard Greene
epub |eng | 2019-12-16 | Author:Katherine Barrett & Richard Greene

8 Buy-In ■ ■ ■ 83 Theoretically, improving performance should be entirely satisfying. What could be a more fulfilling job than one that helps make the world—especially the world in ...
( Category: City Planning & Urban Development March 13,2020 )
Regeneration Songs by Anna Minton
epub |eng | | Author:Anna Minton

Figs 13 and 14: Random images of colonial buildings and pieces of architecture on the banners around a working site in Shanghai (top). The depicted buildings, belonging to the Bund, ...
( Category: Communism & Socialism March 12,2020 )
Handbook of Disaster Research by Havidán Rodríguez William Donner & Joseph E. Trainor
epub |eng | | Author:Havidán Rodríguez, William Donner & Joseph E. Trainor

15.6 The Growth of Geographic Informations Systems (GIS) in the Field GIS applications have made strong headway into the field since the late 1980s/early 1990s in both an academic and ...
( Category: City Planning & Urban Development March 12,2020 )
Smart Cities of Today and Tomorrow by Joseph N. Pelton & Indu B. Singh
epub |eng | | Author:Joseph N. Pelton & Indu B. Singh

Today, some 7 years later, this broadband first responder network system is now in various stages of implementation with some 15 states specifically opted into this program and all of ...
( Category: City Planning & Urban Development March 12,2020 )
Urbanism Without Effort by Charles R. Wolfe
epub |eng | 2019-03-09 | Author:Charles R. Wolfe

Figure 3–3: Barcelona: Plaça de Catalunya “occupied.” Figure 3–4: Barcelona: the Ramblas style. Figure 3–5: Rome: the quintessential urban space, Campo de’ Fiori. My own, filmed walks through Campo de’ ...
( Category: City Planning & Urban Development March 10,2020 )
Urban Design by Ron Kasprisin;
epub |eng | 2019-07-10 | Author:Ron Kasprisin;

The following illustrations provide examples of templates that are useful in design/planning concept generation. They can be set up for crafting methods, as illustrated here, and digital methods or templates. ...
( Category: City Planning & Urban Development March 7,2020 )
Rebel Cities by David Harvey
mobi |eng | 2012-04-03 | Author:David Harvey

CHAPTER FOUR The Art of Rent The number of workers engaged in cultural activities and production has increased considerably over the past few decades (from some 150,000 artists registered in ...
( Category: Communism & Socialism March 6,2020 )
Bell Curve City: St. Louis, Ferguson, and the Unmentionable Racial Realities That Shape Them by Paul Kersey
mobi |eng | 2015-06-13 | Author:Paul Kersey

What's happening in St. Louis is real. And the only word does justice to what the black population is doing to Ferguson, the city of St. Louis, and those communities ...
( Category: City Planning & Urban Development March 6,2020 )
The Cul-de-Sac Syndrome by John F. Wasik
epub |eng | 2010-12-20 | Author:John F. Wasik

Solar, Sexy, and Expensive Can a home be even more energy conscious than Kaufmann’s modular designs? Adding more solar panels and wind and geothermal appliances makes it possible to sell ...
( Category: City Planning & Urban Development March 5,2020 )

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