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  • HOW TO STUDY PUBLIC LIFE
    HOW TO STUDY PUBLIC LIFE
    GEHL, JAN & SVARRE, BIRGITTE / GEHL, JAN / SVARRE, BIRGITTE
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    Q. 300

  • FOREST PATCHES IN TROPICAL LANDSCAP
    FOREST PATCHES IN TROPICAL LANDSCAP
    JOHN SCHELHAS
    "While tropical forests are being cleared at an alarming rate, the clearing is rarely complete and is often not permanent. A considerable amount of tropical forest exists as remnants that have significant value both for the conservation of biological diversity and for meeting the needs of local people.This volume brings together world-renowned scientists and conservationists to...
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    Q. 785

  • URBANISM IN THE AGE OF CLIMATE CHANGE
    URBANISM IN THE AGE OF CLIMATE CHANGE
    PETER CALTHORPE
    "Cities are green" is becoming a common refrain. But Calthorpe argues that a more comprehensive understanding of urbanism at the regional scale provides a better platform to address climate change. In this groundbreaking new work, he shows how such regionally scaled urbanism can be combined with green technology to achieve not only needed reductions in carbon emissions but othe...
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    Q. 785

  • GOOD URBANISM
    GOOD URBANISM
    NAN ELLIN
    We all have a natural nesting instinct--we know what makes a good place. And a consensus has developed among urban planners and designers about the essential components of healthy, prosperous communities. So why aren't these ideals being put into practice? In "Good Urbanism," Nan Ellin identifies the obstacles to creating thriving environments, and presents a six-step process t...
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    Q. 550

  • PEOPLE CITIES:
    PEOPLE CITIES:
    NEWMAN, PETER & MATAN, ANNIE
    Biographical Note:Annie Matan is a researcher and lecturer at Curtin University Sustainability Policy (CUSP) Institute in Australia, interested in creating sustainable, vibrant and people-focused urban places. She has worked in state and local government, and joined CUSP in 2011 after finishing her PhD at Curtin University. Peter Newman is the Professor of Sustainability at Cur...
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    Q. 330

  • CITIES FOR PEOPLE
    CITIES FOR PEOPLE
    GEHL, JAN
    For more than forty years Jan Gehl has helped to transform urban environments around the world based on his research into the ways people actually use--or could use--the spaces where they live and work. Inthis revolutionary book, Gehl presents his latest work creating (or recreating) cityscapes on a human scale. He clearly explains the methods and tools he uses to reconfigure u...
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    Q. 865

  • NEW MODELS FOR ECOSYSTEM DYNAMICS AND RESTORATION
    NEW MODELS FOR ECOSYSTEM DYNAMICS AND RESTORATION
    KATHARINE SUDING / RICHARD HOBBS
    As scientific understanding about ecological processes has grown, the idea that ecosystem dynamics are complex, nonlinear, and often unpredictable has gained prominence. Of particular importance is the idea that rather than following an inevitable progression toward an ultimate endpoint, some ecosystems may occur in a number of states depending on past and present ecological co...
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    Q. 785