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Product Description: This timely text provides a comprehensive overview of the dramatic and rapidly evolving issues confronting the cities of North America. Metropolitan areas throughout the United States and Canada face a range of dynamic and complex concernsâincluding the redistribution of economic activities, the continued decline of manufacturing, and a global growth in services...read more
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9781442213135, titled "Cities of North America: Contemporary Challenges in US and Canadian Cities" | Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc, December 12, 2013, cover price $72.00 | About this edition: This timely text provides a comprehensive overview of the dramatic and rapidly evolving issues confronting the cities of North America.
Cities and Nature illustrates how the city is part of the environment, and how it is subject to environmental constraints and opportunities. The city has been treated in geographical writings as only a social phenomena, and at the same time, environmental scientists have tended to ignore the urban. This book reconnects the science and social science through the examination of the urban. It critiques the dominant academic discourse which ignores the environmental base of urban life and living, and discusses the urban natural environment and how this is subjected to social influences. The book is organized around three central themes: urban environment in historical context issues in urban-nature relations realigning urban-nature relations. Ideas such as pollution as a physical environmental fact, often created or impacted by economic, cultural and political changes are discussed, as well as viewing pollution as a social act: consuming patterns of everyday activities - driving, showering, shopping, eating - and how this has an environmental impact. The authors reintroduce a social science perspective in examining urban nature, the city and its physical environment. Cities and Nature clearly illustrates the physical and social elements of the urban environment and shows how these are important to examining the city. It includes further reading and boxed case studies on Bangladesh, Paris, Delhi, Rome, Cubatao, Thailand, Los Angeles, Chicago, New Orleans and Toronto. This book would be an asset to students and researchers in environmental studies, urban studies and planning.
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9780415625555, titled "Cities and Nature" | 2 edition (Routledge, June 24, 2013), cover price $140.00 | also contains Cities & Nature
9780415355889 | Routledge, December 25, 2007, cover price $180.00 | About this edition: Cities and Nature illustrates how the city is part of the environment, and how it is subject to environmental constraints and opportunities.
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9780415625562, titled "Cities and Nature" | 2 edition (Routledge, June 24, 2013), cover price $61.95 | also contains Cities & Nature
9780415355896 | Routledge, January 24, 2008, cover price $54.95 | About this edition: Cities and Nature illustrates how the city is part of the environment, and how it is subject to environmental constraints and opportunities.
Hardcover:
9780415625555, titled "Cities and Nature" | 2 edition (Routledge, June 24, 2013), cover price $140.00 | also contains Cities & Nature
Paperback:
9780415625562, titled "Cities and Nature" | 2 edition (Routledge, June 24, 2013), cover price $61.95 | also contains Cities & Nature
Product Description: Immigration today touches the lives and economies of more people and places than ever before. Yet the places that are disproportionately affected by immigrant flows are not countries but cities. This remarkable collection examines contemporary global immigration trends and their profound effect on specific host cities...read more
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9780815631613 | Syracuse Univ Pr, July 1, 2008, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: Immigration today touches the lives and economies of more people and places than ever before.
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9780815631866 | Syracuse Univ Pr, July 1, 2008, cover price $24.95
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