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An expert in American housing examines the rise of sprawling subdivisions, their effect on the environment, and sustainable development strategies.
Americans are spreading out more than ever-into "exurbs" and "boomburbs" miles from anywhere, where big subdivisions offer big houses. We cling to the notion of safer neighborhoods and better schools, but what we get are longer commutes, higher taxes, and a landscape of strip malls and office parks.
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"Today, we are at a turning point as we face ecological and political crises that are rooted in conflicts over the land itself. But these problems can be solved if we draw on elements of our tradition that move us toward a new commonwealth - a community founded on the well-being of all people and the natural world. In this brief, powerful, timely, and hopeful book, Jedediah Purdy, one of our finest writers and leading environmental thinkers, explores...
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Island Press
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English
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"In Within Walking Distance, journalist and urban critic Philip Langdon looks at why and how Americans are shifting toward a more human-scale way of building and living. He shows how people are creating, improving, and caring for walkable communities. There is no one-size-fits-all approach. Starting conditions differ radically, as do the attitudes and interests of residents. To draw the most important lessons, Langdon spent time in six communities...
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Rumur Films
Pub. Date
2011.
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English
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This New York Times Critics' Pick follows the story of reluctant activist Daniel Goldstein as he struggles to save his home and community from being demolished to make way for a professional basketball arena and the densest real estate development in U.S. history. Along the way, he falls in love, gets married and starts a family while living in a vacated building located at the heart of the project site.Over the course of seven years, Daniel spearheads...
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Registered places of America volume 2
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Distributed by the University of Minnesota Press
Pub. Date
2000
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English
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Verso
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2016.
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English
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"From the penthouse to the sewers--the political geography of the vertical city Vertical is a brilliant re-imagining of the world we live in. Today we live in a world that can no longer be read as a two-dimensional map. In Vertical Stephen Graham rewrites the city at every level, calling for a new understanding of our surroundings that takes into account above and below: why Dubai has been built to be seen from GoogleEarth; how the superrich in Sao...
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Moses Lake volume 3
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English
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"A whirlwind romance--and a leap of faith--has made Mallory Hale a mother and a rancher's wife in small-town Texas. Can she survive the wild adventure?"--Provided by publisher.
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The Monacelli Press, in association with the Architectural League of New York
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2017.
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English
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"Drawing on six years as the editor of Urban Omnibus, one of the leading publications charting innovations in urban practice, Shepard explores a broad variety of projects in New York, a city at the forefront of experimental and practical research: a constructed wetland in Staten Island, a workforce development and technology program in Red Hook, Brooklyn, a public art installation in a Bronx housing project, a housing advocacy initiative in Jackson...
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Naxos
Pub. Date
c2007
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English
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The plow that broke the plains depicts the social and economic history of the Great Plains from the settlement of the prairies by cattlemen and farmers through the World War I boom to drought and depression. The river traces life in the Mississippi River Valley during the previous 150 years, showing the consequences of sharecropping, soil exhaustion, unchecked erosion and floods, and concludes with scenes of regional planning, TVA development and...
16) El desequilibrio procesal y probatorio del "opositor víctima o sujeto vulnerable" en el proceso d
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Español
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"Esta obra se enmarca en la Ley de Víctimas, Ley 1448 del año 2011, y aborda específicamente los casos en que se presenta oposición de una víctima o de un sujeto vulnerable de especial protección frente a la reclamación de restitución de un predio por una víctima. No aborda la generalidad de los casos de oposición. Se indaga la posición procesal y las capacidades probatorias del opositor víctima o sujeto vulnerable, para entrar a estudiar...
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Bauhan Publishing
Pub. Date
2018.
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English
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While reporting on citizens fighting natural gas pipelines and transmission towers planned to cut right across their homes, Howard Mansfield saw the emotional toll of these projects. "They got under the skin," writes Mansfield. "This was about more than kilowatts, powerlines, and pipelines. Something in this upheaval felt familiar. I began to realize that I was witnessing an essential American experience: the world turned upside down. And it all turned...
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New Day Films
Pub. Date
[2012]
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English
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"Rebels With a Cause spotlights the schemers and dreamers who fought to keep developers from taking over the breathtaking landscape of the northern California coast. Rebels describes in fascinating detail how they protected agriculture and wildlife, established public parks next toi a densely populated urban center, and shaped the environmental movement as we know it today."--Container.
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