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Constructing Health
How the Built Environment Enhances Your Mind’s Health
Price:
$65.00
ISBN: 9781487557225
Pub Date: May 2024
Illuminating how our brain and body engage with our surroundings, Constructing Health answers urgent questions about the role of architecture in creating and maintaining health.
Sustainability, Citizen Participation, and City Governance
Multidisciplinary Perspectives
Price:
$30.95
ISBN: 9781487542986
Pub Date: August 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
The Origins and Ecology of Toronto’s Tommy Thompson Park
Price:
$55.00
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
Lived Experience, Policy, and Practice
Price:
$39.95
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
A Global Survey
Price:
$46.95
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?
The Question of Urban Agriculture
Price:
$34.95
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
Re-envisioning the Built Environment
Price:
$51.00
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
Diversity and the Management of Change
Price:
$49.95
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
Price:
$51.00
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
Perspectives on Forecasting Urban Growth and Form
Price:
$45.95
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
Selected Papers
Price:
$37.95
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
Alternative Choices for Management
Price:
$34.95
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
Selected Papers
Price:
$32.95
ISBN: 9780802032935
Pub Date: December 1972
An excellent general reference on urbanization in Canada.
Vision Through the Atmosphere
Price:
$42.95
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
Based on a Review of Surveys Conducted in the Province during the Period 1918-1951
Price:
$24.95
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.

Constructing Health
How the Built Environment Enhances Your Mind’s Health
$65.00
ISBN: 9781487557225
Pub Date: May 2024
Sustainability, Citizen Participation, and City Governance
Multidisciplinary Perspectives
$30.95
ISBN: 9781487542986
Pub Date: August 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
The Origins and Ecology of Toronto’s Tommy Thompson Park
$55.00
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
Lived Experience, Policy, and Practice
$39.95
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
A Global Survey
$46.95
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?
The Question of Urban Agriculture
$34.95
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
Re-envisioning the Built Environment
$51.00
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
Diversity and the Management of Change
$49.95
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
$51.00
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
Perspectives on Forecasting Urban Growth and Form
$45.95
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
Selected Papers
$37.95
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
Alternative Choices for Management
$34.95
ISBN: 9780802032904
Pub Date: December 1972
Urban Systems Development in Central Canada
Selected Papers
$32.95
ISBN: 9780802032935
Pub Date: December 1972
An excellent general reference on urbanization in Canada.
Vision Through the Atmosphere
$42.95
ISBN: 9781487587109
Pub Date: December 1952
Forest Regeneration in Ontario
Based on a Review of Surveys Conducted in the Province during the Period 1918-1951
$24.95
ISBN: 9781487591823
Pub Date: December 1953