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This book deals with the present adverse effects of using precarious building materials on the ecology and human health.
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Using in-depth case studies, this volume shows how the infrastructure of tourism has transformed cities throughout North
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A reflection on the past and present of city life, and a bold proposal for its future “Constantly stimulating ideas from
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In 2006, the United Arab Emirates initiated the Masdar City project, which was a pre-planned eco-city concentrating on t
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In this passionate, lucid, and surprising book, Timothy Morton argues that all forms of life are connected in a vast, en
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Presents research on the New York City Building Administration from 1800-1941 from the foundation of building control, t
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“Takes us on a journey throughout Latin America, highlighting different stories of adaptation to the wondrous American l
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Perhaps the most challenging project under Stalin's first five-year plan was the race to build Europe's larges
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American metropolitan areas today are divided into neighborhoods of privilege and poverty, often along lines of ethnicit
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In Bottleneck, anthropologist Caroline Melly uses the problem of traffic bottlenecks to launch a wide-ranging study of m
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