Urban Jungle: The History and Future of Nature in the City 0385548117, 9780385548113

History and Leadership: The Nature and Role of the Past in Navigating the Future 0367569787, 9780367569785

Leaders and managers are rightly tasked to take their organizations and communities to a desired future. They are expect

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Women and the City, Women in the City: A Gendered Perspective on Ottoman Urban History 9781782384120

An attempt to reveal, recover and reconsider the roles, positions, and actions of Ottoman women, this volume reconsiders

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The city of tomorrow: sensors, networks, hackers, and the future of urban life 0300204809, 9780300204803

An internationally renowned architect, urban planner, and scholar describes the major technological forces driving the f

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Secret Life of the City: How Nature Thrives in the Urban Wild 1771649356, 9781771649353

Come along on an informative, whirlwind tour of urban species―from intelligent crows to backyard lichens―and discover th

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Germany’s Urban Frontiers: Nature and History on the Edge of the Nineteenth-Century City [1 ed.] 0822946416, 9780822946410

In an era of transatlantic migration, Germans were fascinated by the myth of the frontier. Yet, for many, they were most

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'City of the Future': Built Space, Modernity and Urban Change in Astana 9781785332579

Astana, the capital city of the post-Soviet Kazakhstan, has often been admired for the design and planning of its futuri

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Canadian City: Essays in Urban and Social History 9780773584853

The emphasis is on urban society, with new essays on social structure, the family, ethnicity and immigration, and religi

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Architecture and the Turkish City: An Urban History of Istanbul since the Ottomans 9781784531058, 9781350985353, 9781786732309

Architecture and urban planning have always been used by political regimes to stamp their ideologies upon cities, and th

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The Nature of Future Conflict 9781473816633

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Jerusalem Unbound: Geography, History, and the Future of the Holy City 9780231537353

Jerusalem's formal political borders reveal neither the dynamics of power in the city nor the underlying factors th

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