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Urban Studies / Sustainability

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Sustainability, Citizen Participation, and City Governance

Sustainability, Citizen Participation, and City Governance

Multidisciplinary Perspectives

Edited by Hoi L. Kong and Tanya Monforte

Price: $30.95

ISBN: 9781487542986

Pub Date: September 2022

Sustainability, Citizen Participation, and City Governance examines sustainable development challenges in law, planning, and policy, and offers municipal actors strategies for overcoming them.

Accidental Wilderness

Accidental Wilderness

The Origins and Ecology of Toronto’s Tommy Thompson Park

by Walter H. Kehm

Photographer Robert Burley

Price: $52.00

ISBN: 9781487508340

Pub Date: November 2020

Accidental Wilderness showcases how the removal of city rubble and its displacement can result in new urban parklands with significant ecological importance for the health of the city and its residents.

The Wonder of Water

The Wonder of Water

Lived Experience, Policy, and Practice

Edited by Ingrid Leman Stefanovic

Price: $36.95

ISBN: 9781487524036

Pub Date: December 2019

Judgment calls, values, and perceptions often implicitly affect decisions around water policies and programs. This book explores how embodied, lived experience informs such values and impacts policy and practice around water issues in critical ways.

The Suburban Land Question

The Suburban Land Question

A Global Survey

Edited by Richard Harris and Ute Lehrer

Price: $43.95

ISBN: 9781442626959

Pub Date: March 2018

The purpose of The Suburban Land Question is to identify the common elements of land development in suburban regions around the world.

Growing a Sustainable City?

Growing a Sustainable City?

The Question of Urban Agriculture

by Christina D. Rosan and Hamil Pearsall

Price: $31.95

ISBN: 9781442628557

Pub Date: December 2017

Growing a Sustainable City? offers a critical analysis of the development of urban agriculture policies and their role in making post-industrial cities more sustainable.

The Natural City

The Natural City

Re-envisioning the Built Environment

Edited by Ingrid Leman Stefanovic and Stephen Bede Scharper

Price: $48.95

ISBN: 9781442611023

Pub Date: December 2011

Recognizing the need to better link the humanities with public policy, The Natural City offers unique insights for the development of an alternative vision of urban life.

The Social Sustainability of Cities

The Social Sustainability of Cities

Diversity and the Management of Change

Edited by Mario Polese and Richard Stren

Price: $46.95

ISBN: 9780802083203

Pub Date: March 2000

Some cities have been more successful than others in creating environments conducive to the cohabitation of a diverse population. Case studies analyze ten cities in North America, South America, Europe, and Africa in terms of their social sustainability.

Compassionate Landscape

Compassionate Landscape

by Humphrey Carver

Price: $48.95

ISBN: 9780802062697

Pub Date: December 1975

This book is a history of the development of an awareness, of institutions, and of policies on the shaping of the man-made environment. It is however more than that. Mr Carver describes his own life and sensibilities, his family and his colleagues, with a trained and compassionate eye and a taut and careful prose.

Urban Futures for Central Canada

Urban Futures for Central Canada

Perspectives on Forecasting Urban Growth and Form

Edited by Larry S. Bourne, Ross D. MacKinnon, Jay Siegel and James W. Simmons

Price: $42.95

ISBN: 9780802062437

Pub Date: December 1974

Urban problems are now a dominant social issue: the essays in this volume consider the direction some of these problems may take in Central Canada.

The Form of Cities in Central Canada

The Form of Cities in Central Canada

Selected Papers

Edited by Larry S. Bourne, Ross D. MacKinnon and James W. Simmons

Price: $34.95

ISBN: 9780802033178

Pub Date: December 1973

This book is an anthology of research papers and reports building around a common theme: urban development in Central Canada.

Residential Water Demand

Residential Water Demand

Alternative Choices for Management

by Angelo P. Grima

Price: $31.95

ISBN: 9780802032904

Pub Date: December 1972

Dr. Grima examines several alternative choices for management, such as metering, increasing marginal prices, sewerage charges, seasonal charges, and an increasing price block schedule, and describes the results of each.
Urban Systems Development in Central Canada

Urban Systems Development in Central Canada

Selected Papers

Edited by Larry S. Bourne and Ross D. MacKinnon

Price: $30.95

ISBN: 9780802032935

Pub Date: December 1972

An excellent general reference on urbanization in Canada.

Vision Through the Atmosphere

Vision Through the Atmosphere

by W.E.K. Middleton

Price: $39.95

ISBN: 9781487587109

Pub Date: December 1952

The present volume is the only full account in English of the physical, physiological, and psychological factors which lie at the basis of the calculation of the range of vision through the atmosphere. There is an extended chapter on instruments and one on the author's own theory of the colours of distant objects.
Forest Regeneration in Ontario

Forest Regeneration in Ontario

Based on a Review of Surveys Conducted in the Province during the Period 1918-1951

by R.C. HOSIE and Research Council of Ontario

Price: $22.95

ISBN: 9781487591823

Pub Date: December 1953

This volume presents a general view of the nature of tree reproduction on cut-over forest land, followed by an analysis of the procedure in conducting and reporting regeneration surveys, and conclusions and recommendations for the conducting of future surveys.
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