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Unsettled urban space : routines, temporalities and contestations
While urban life can be characterized by endeavors to settle stable and safe environments, for many people, urban space is rarely stable or safe; it is uncertain, troubled, imbued with challenges and perpetually under pressure. As the concept of unsettled appears to define the contemporary urban experience, this multidisciplinary book investigates the conflicts and possibilities of settling and…
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- 3
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780367258610
- Collation
- xix, 313p.
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 307.1216 UNS v
Housing Estates in the Baltic Countries : The Legacy of Central Planning in E…
This open access book focuses on the formation and later socio-spatial trajectories of large housing estates in the Baltic countries—Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. It also explores claims that a distinctly “westward-looking orientation” in their design produced housing estates that were superior in design to those produced elsewhere in the Soviet Union (between 1944 and 1991, Estonia was…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783030233921
- Collation
- xviii, 383 p.
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- -
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- 307.76809479 HOU D
Paris-Amsterdam underground : essays on cultural resistance, subversion, and …
The postwar histories of Paris and Amsterdam have been significantly defined by the notion of the “underground” as both a material and metaphorical space. Examining the underground traffic between the two cities, this book interrogates the countercultural histories of Paris and Amsterdam in the mid to late-twentieth century. Shuttling between Paris and Amsterdam, as well as between postwar …
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9789048518203
- Collation
- 196 p. : ill.
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- -
- Call Number
- 307.760944361 LIN p
Water in times of climate change : a values-driven dialogue
This book on water and climate change goes beyond the usual and predictable analyses, by bringing religion and values into a discussion that is often dominated by technocratic solutions. The three case studies of Jakarta, Cape Town, and Amsterdam demonstrate the challenges of water management in urban areas and the role religion can play in addressing them. With representatives from science, po…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9789048555383
- Collation
- 151 p. : ill.
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- -
- Call Number
- 202.12 HAS w
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