Encyclopedia of the City, 

Автор: Storper Michael
Название: Keys to the City
ISBN: 0691143110 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780691143118
Издательство: Wiley
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Описание: Why do some cities grow economically while others decline? Why do some show sustained economic performance while others cycle up and down? In Keys to the City, Michael Storper, one of the world`s leading economic geographers, looks at why we should consider economic development issues within a regional context--at the level of the city-region--and

Автор: Eldredge Niles, Horenstein Sidney
Название: Concrete Jungle: New York City and Our Last Best Hope for a Sustainable Future
ISBN: 0520270150 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780520270152
Издательство: Wiley
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Описание: If they are to survive, cities need healthy chunks of the world`s ecosystems to persist; yet cities, like parasites, grow and prosper by local destruction of these very ecosystems. This book helps you explore both the positive and the negative sides of the relationship between cities, the environment, and the future of global biodiversity.

Автор: SMITH, CARL
Название: CITY WATER, CITY LIFE: WATER AND THE INFRASTRUCTURE OF IDEAS IN URBANIZING PHILADELPHIA, BOSTON, AND CHICAGO
ISBN: 022615159X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780226151595
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Описание: A city is more than a massing of citizens, a layout of buildings and streets, or an arrangement of political, economic, and social institutions. By examining the place of water in the nineteenth-century consciousness, the author illuminates how city dwellers perceived themselves during the great age of American urbanization.

Автор: Luz
Название: The Mamluk City in the Middle East
ISBN: 1107626714 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107626713
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: The Mamluk City in the Middle East offers an interdisciplinary study of urban history, urban experience and the nature of urbanism in the region under the rule of the Mamluk Sultanate (1250-1517), focusing on three less-explored but politically significant cities in the Syrian region - Jerusalem, Safad (now in Israel), and Tripoli (now in Lebanon).

Автор: Marcuse Peter
Название: Searching for the Just City
ISBN: 0415687616 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780415687614
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Описание: If today`s cities are full of injustices, what would a `Just City` look like? Contributors to this volume including David Harvey, Peter Marcuse and Susan Fainstein define the concept, examining it from multiple angles in addition to questioning it and suggesting alternatives.

Автор: Hopkins DJ
Название: Performance and the Global City
ISBN: 0230361676 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780230361676
Издательство: Springer
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Описание: Following the ground-breaking Performance and the City, this new volume explores what it means to create and experience urban performance - as both an aesthetic and a political practice - in the burgeoning world where cities are built by globalization and neoliberal capital.

Автор: Mcdonald
Название: World City Syndrome
ISBN: 0415875005 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780415875004
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Описание: This book examines the significance of Cape Town`s claim to being a "world city." McDonald argues that Cape Town must be seen as a neoliberal city, situating it against the broader political and economic reforms of South Africa`s re-entry into a global market economy.