Filled with facts and colour photographs, these books provide a bridge from the Foundation Stage into Key Stage 1. They will encourage pupils to investigate and understand colour, shape and space, pattern and texture and to use them to represent their ideas and feelings.

Product Description: If European reality is essentially urban, what is the meaning of the urban notion today? Which new changes have occurred in the urban structures during the last 15-20 years - that is after the intensive urbanization of the post-war period? Which new ways of organizing urban space have developed? Which changes have taken place in urban life? What are the new roles of cities in the economic globalization process? How can cities manage both the economic competition and social cohesion? What impacts do these changes have on have on the social structure? Is there an increasing social and spatial fragmentation of cities? What effects do these developments have on the managment of cities and urban policies? How do these changes exacerbate the welfare and fiscal crises that affect the government of cities? Which new forms of urban governance have appeared? Throughout this book many of these questions are answered or at least are attempted to be answered...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The relationship between the shape of transportation networks and the optimal locations and allocations of human activities is examined in this volume. The author uses innovative as well as existing techniques to "measure" the shape of a transportation network...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)