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Cars, conduits and kampongs: the modernization of the Indonesiaan city, 1920-…
Cars, Conduits and Kampongs offers a wide panorama of the modernization of Indonesian cities between 1920 and 1960. In examining the multiple responses to innovations introduced by Western colonialism, the contributors demonstrate how modernization, urbanization, and decolonization were intrinsically linked. A full text Open Access version is also available.
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- 9789004280724
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- xiv, 351p.: ill.
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- 307.760998 CAR c
Urban re-industrialization
Urban re-industrialisation could be seen as a method of increasing business effectiveness in the context of a politically stimulated ‘green economy’; it could also be seen as a nostalgic mutation of a creative-class concept, focused on 3D printing, ‘boutique manufacturing’ and crafts. These two notions place urban re-industrialisation within the context of the current neoliberal economi…
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- 9781947447035
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- 186 p.; 23 cm.
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- 338.9 URB u
The dynamics of opportunity in America : evidence and perspectives
Across the country, our children are beginning life from very different starting points. Some have aspirations and believe they can be achieved. For too many others, aspirations are tempered, if not dashed, by the sobering realities of everyday life. These different starting points place children on distinctly different trajectories of growth and development, ultimately leading to vastly differ…
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- 9783319259918
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- 379 DYN d
Collaborative curriculum design for sustainable innovation and teacher learning
This open access book provides insight into what it takes to actively involve teachers in the curriculum design process. It examines different aspects of teacher involvement in collaborative curriculum design, with specific attention to its implications for sustainable curriculum innovation and teacher learning. Divided into six sections, the book starts out by introducing the notion of collabo…
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- 9783030200626
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- VI, 424 p.
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- 375.001 COL c
Academia in crisis : the rise and risk of neoliberal education in Europe
Academia is standing at a junction in time. Behind lies the community of the curious, ahead the mass and the market. This book joins in a growing stream of works that explore the vicissitudes of present-day European universities in what Bauman coined as liquid times. Here, a number of concerned (engaged) European scholars attempt to defend and brush up academic core values and practices, starti…
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- 9789004402034
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- ix, 201p. : ill.
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- 378.4 ACA a
Landscape impact assessment in planning processes
Aims and Scope Growing social and economic needs exert major pressures on landscapes, challenging preserved landscape values and the regional significance of places. As a result, the scope oflandscape management has broadened and diversifiedin response to international calls for greater landscape protection, and to existing and new challenges, such as thoserelating to climate change adaptation…
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- 9783110601558
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- X, 218 p.
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- 712 BEL l
The illusion of risk control : what does it take to live with uncertainty?
This book explores the implications of acknowledging uncertainty and black swans for regulation of high-hazard technologies, for stakeholder acceptability of potentially hazardous activities and for risk governance. The conventional approach to risk assessment, which combines the likelihood of an event and the severity of its consequences, is poorly suited to situations where uncertainty and am…
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- 9783319329390
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- v, 112p. : ill.
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- 658.155 ILL i
Un(intended) language planning in a globalising world : mutliple levels of pl…
This first book provides a comprehensive overview of the different levels of players who have been involved in both intended and unintended language planning and policy, and shows how they have impacted multilingual language use. Specifically, it looks at the roles of different ‘glo-national’ (global national) players in directing the choices of language use in various parts of the world. D…
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- 9783110518269
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- X, 312 p.
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- 400 CHU u
A designer’s log case studies in instructional design
Books and articles on instructional design in online learning abound but rarely do we get such a comprehensive picture of what instructional designers do, how they do it, and the problems they solve as their university changes. Power documents the emergence of an adapted instructional design model for transforming courses from single-mode to dual-mode instruction, making this designer’s log a…
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- 9781897425466
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- 378.199 POW a
Sport, recreation and green space in the European city
Green space has become a major issue in European cities in recent years as a result of enhanced environmental awareness, urban marketing, planning policy and growing population densities. Up to now, however, the subject of sports areas and grounds has attracted little research, despite the fact that since the First World War such public and private areas – from football pitches and running tr…
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- 9789522227911
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- 220 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
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- Studia Fennica. 16
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- 796 SPO s
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