Tag: City

Free Download Zachary B. Lamb, "The Equitably Resilient City: Solidarities and Struggles in the Face of Climate Crisis "
English | ISBN: 0262549867 | 2024 | 480 pages | PDF | 60 MB
Twelve global planning and urban design interventions-and what they reveal about equity-centered urban resilience in the face of climate change.

Free Download Stanley Brandes, "Staying Sober in Mexico City"
English | 2002 | pages: 261 | ISBN: 0292709056, 0292709080 | PDF | 1,2 mb
Staying sober is a daily struggle for many men living in Mexico City, one of the world’s largest, grittiest urban centers. In this engaging study, Stanley Brandes focuses on a common therapeutic response to alcoholism, Alcoholics Anonymous (A.A.), which boasts an enormous following throughout Mexico and much of Latin America.

Free Download Jamie Wang, "Reimagining the More-Than-Human City: Stories from Singapore "
English | ISBN: 0262550938 | 2024 | 280 pages | PDF | 7 MB
An exploration of the multifaceted urban environmental issues in Singapore through a more-than-human lens, calling for new ways to think of and story cities.

Free Download Jamie Wang, "Reimagining the More-Than-Human City: Stories from Singapore "
English | ISBN: 0262550938 | 2024 | 280 pages | PDF | 7 MB
An exploration of the multifaceted urban environmental issues in Singapore through a more-than-human lens, calling for new ways to think of and story cities.

Free Download Jamie Wang, "Reimagining the More-Than-Human City: Stories from Singapore "
English | ISBN: 0262550938 | 2024 | 280 pages | EPUB | 12 MB
An exploration of the multifaceted urban environmental issues in Singapore through a more-than-human lens, calling for new ways to think of and story cities.

Free Download W. E. Lyons, "The Politics of City-County Merger: The Lexington-Fayette County Experience"
English | 2014 | ISBN: 0813153336, 0813113636 | EPUB | pages: 192 | 0.7 mb
Although city-county consolidation has been urged for years as a solution for many urban problems, relatively few communities have come to the point of offering such an option to the voters and in most of the communities that have done so, the voters have rejected the idea.

Free Download Professor Salma Khadra Jayyusi, Renata Holod, Professor of Design and Dean Attilio Petruccioli, "The City in the Islamic World (2 Vols.)"
English | 2008 | pages: 1521 | ISBN: 9004162402 | PDF | 29,1 mb
The purpose of this book is to draw attention to the sites of life, politics and culture where current and past generations of the Islamic world have made their mark. Unlike many previous volumes dealing with the city in the Islamic world, this one has been expanded not only to include snapshots of historical fabric, but also to deal with the transformation of this fabric into modern and contemporary urban entities. Salma Khadra Jayyusi was awarded Cultural Personality of the Year by the Sheikh Zayed Book Award for her profound contribution to Arabic literature and culture in 2020. The paperback edition of The City in the Islamic World was published to celebrate the occasion.

Free Download The 15-Minute City: A Solution to Saving Our Time and Our Planet
English | 2024 | ISBN: 1394228147 | 284 Pages | PDF | 13 MB
In The 15-Minute City: A Solution for Saving Our Time and Our Planet, human city pioneer and international scientific advisor Carlos Moreno delivers an exciting and insightful discussion of the deceptively simple and revolutionary idea that everyday destinations like schools, stores, and offices should only be a short walk or bike ride away from home.

Free Download Amy Horton, "Disrupting the Speculative City: Property, Power and Community Resistance in London"
English | ISBN: 1800087098 | 2025 | 160 pages | EPUB | 5 MB
Analyzes urban land value extraction and the resulting community displacement in London.

Free Download Larry Lester, "Black Baseball in New York City: An Illustrated History, 1885-1959"
English | ISBN: 1476670463 | 2017 | 256 pages | EPUB | 45 MB
Covering the post-Civil War period through the 1950s, this richly illustrated-300 photographs!-history examines black baseball in and around New York City, focusing on its economic impact and cultural legacy. The author documents such famed teams as the Cuban Giants, Lincoln Stars/Giants, Black Yankees, Newark Eagles, and Brooklyn Royal Giants, along with a number of other historically important clubs, as well as the integration of Major League Baseball’s Dodgers, Yankees and Giants.