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With only a small capital investment, and without the need to own land, you can become part of this growing movement. The Urban Farmer will help you learn the crops, techniques, and business strategies you need to make a good living growing food intensively right in your own backyard. Growing food in the city means that fresh crops may travel only a few blocks from field to table, making this innovative approach the next logical step in the local...

"A visionary in responsible urban development and renewal presents an interdisciplinary exploration of the development of cities from the beginning of civilization to the present, revealing the conditions that gave rise to the happiest communities, and the qualities that define them,"--NoveList. In the vein of Jane Jacobs's The Death and Life of Great American Cities and Edward Glaeser's Triumph of the City, Jonathan F.P. Rose--a visionary in urban...

An exciting tale of the attempts of the unscrupulous cattlemen to drive the homesteader from their holdings and leave the land free for grazing. Alan Macdonald leads the homesteaders in their defense and, after many misunderstandings and unjust accusations clears his love story as well.

A comprehensive look at the shrubland biome, describing the climate, plants, animals, people, and future of these areas, and providing detailed views of some major shrubland regions.

"American Zion is the story of the Bundy family, famous for their armed conflicts in the West. With an antagonism that goes back to the very first Mormons who fled the Midwest for the Great Basin, they hold a sense of entitlement that confronts both law and democracy. Today their cowboy confrontations threaten public lands, wild species, and American heritage."--Provided by publisher.

L'avènement de l'univers numérique a mis à mal notre rapport à la ville tangible, que nous avons désertée au profit d'une hyperconnectivité qui n'est pas sans conséquences sur l'espace public en tant que lieu de sociabilité. Et l'arrivée annoncée d'un soi-disant «métavers» ne fera qu'amplifier ce phénomène. La dépersonnalisation des relations interpersonnelles et le transfert des décisions humaines à des machines menacent, à terme,...

"Ciudades legibles: una mirada desde el diseño de información y su contribución para hacer mejores lugares es una obra en la que no solo se presentan los resultados de tres pasantías de investigación, sino también la descripción y recopilación de experiencias de ciudades legibles en todo el mundo a la luz de autores clave que han sentado las bases para estos ejercicios de diseño de la información a nivel urbano basados en el usuario. Este...

Since its emergence in the mid-nineteenth century as the nation's "metropolis," New York has faced the most challenging housing problems of any American city, but it has also led the nation in innovation and reform. The horrors of the tenement were perfected in New York at the same time that the very rich were building palaces along Fifth Avenue; public housing for the poor originated in New York, as did government subsidies for middle-class housing....

A lo largo del siglo XX, las ciudades latinoamericanas experimentaron un vertiginoso proceso de urbanización, acompañado por una débil institucionalidad pública. El resultado es evidente: ciudades extensas y densamente pobladas con problemas como la segregación socioespacial y la ocupación informal de terrenos. La tarea pendiente es encontrar formas más equitativas y sostenibles de relacionamiento con el espacio y el territorio, lo cual requiere...

Les architectes, les urbanistes et parfois les architectes de paysage mentionnent dans leurs biographies professionnelles le « design urbain » comme appartenant à leur champ d'expertise. Les architectes, les urbanistes et les architectes de paysage seraient-ils naturellement des designers urbains? Et le design urbain ne serait-il qu'une activité connexe de l'urbanisme, de l'architecture de paysage et plus encore de l’architecture? Cela a été...