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Med antologin Medborgardialog - om det svåra i att mötas fortsätter Arkus att bidra till kunskaps- utveckling inom det angelägna temat medborgardialog. Medborgardialog - om det svåra i att mötas är ett utomordentligt bra exempel på när teori och p...

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Rural Places and Planning provides a compact analysis for students and early-career practitioners of the critical connections between place capitals and the broader ideas and practices of planning, seeded within rural communities. It looks across ...

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Egnahemsrörelsen var en folkrörelse med mål att ge arbetarklassen eget boende med hjälp av egen arbetskraft och förmånliga statliga lån. Det var en viktig del av vår ökade levnadsstandard under 1900-talet. Denna del av vårt lands historia riskerar...

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Architecture for Residential Care and Ageing Communities confronts urgent architectural design challenges within residential innovation, ageing communities and healthcare environments. The increasing and diversified demands on the housing market t...

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What should a metropolis for working women look like? A city of friendships beyond Sex and the City. A transit system that accommodates mothers with strollers on the school run. A public space with enough toilets. A place where women can walk with...

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The past two decades have seen revolutionary shifts in our ability to navigate, inhabit, and define the spatial realm. The data flows that condition much of our lives now regularly include Global Positioning System (GPS) readings and satellite ima...

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Named by Newsweek magazine to its list of "Fifty Books for Our Time." For sixteen years William Whyte walked the streets of New York and other major cities. With a group of young observers, camera and notebook in hand, he conducted pione...

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This book argues that architecture and the city and their processes can be better understood by drawing categories from disciplines that exceed the architectural and urban cultural context. It performs an open intellectual reading that traverses a...

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Life in the city is popular and creating liveable urban space is undoubtedly a priority for planners. Yet what makes a city worth living in? How do we define sustainable neighbourhoods that will function properly and continue to attract people in ...

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It is clear that the climate is changing and ecosystems are becoming severely degraded. Humans must mitigate the causes of, and adapt to, climate change and the loss of biodiversity, as the impacts of these changes become more apparent and demand ...

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There is an enormous need to map cities, rivers, coasts, roads, industrial installations and infrastructure in general, and also vulnerable areas in full three dimensions. It has to be done accurately and in detail. The main technologies for detai...

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  Stockholm under 800 år Stockholm kan bara liknas vid sig själv, konstaterades redan på 1800-talet. Den unika balansen mellan vattnen, öarna, bergen och det som vi människor skapat har resulterat i en unikt skön stad. Stadsbyggandet vilar hä...

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This book builds on case studies in depopulating and shrinking areas in Northern Europe. While most contemporary literature on shrinkage focuses on these issues from a planning standpoint, this book uniquely applies a policy perspective when appro...

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Om grannskapet kan vara en del av samhällets integration är en ständigt aktuell fråga. Här beskrivs hur olika ideal har dominerat vid olika tidsperioder, vilka olika teoretiska ansatser och bakomliggande antaganden som görs samt vilka empiriska st...

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Cities are synonymous with the production and consumption of culture. It is their material and human cultural infrastructure that also makes them archives and works of art. The Cultural Infrastructure of Cities critically re-examines the relations...

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Den sociala bostads- och markpolitik som dominerade den svenska stadsplaneringen under huvuddelen av 1900-talet har försvagats. Sedan mitten av 1980-talet kan man på många områden se en återgång till synsätt och förhållanden som rådde under det in...

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London Orbital is Iain Sinclair's exceptional voyage of discovery into the unloved outskirts of the city 'My book of the year. Sentence for sentence, there is no more interesting writer at work in English' John Lanchester, Daily Tel...

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The Routledge Handbook of Planning Research Methods is an expansive look at the traditions, methods, and challenges of research design and research projects in contemporary urban planning. Through case studies, an international group of researcher...

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Flygande bilar var länge en typisk del av visionen av den framtida staden. I dag ses bilar snarare som ett problem för urbaniteten än som ett svar på hur städer kan bli hållbara. Den djupt rotade tilltron till den bensindrivna personbilen är bara ...

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The first decade of the 21st century saw a remarkable number of large-scale disasters. Earthquakes in Haiti and Sumatra underscored the serious economic consequences that catastrophic events can have on developing countries, while 9/11 and Hurrica...

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The unprecedented housing and homelessness crisis in Ireland is having profound impacts on Generation Rent, the wellbeing of children, worsening wider inequality and threatening the economy. Hearne contextualises the Irish housing crisis within th...

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If we want to preserve what's still left of the natural world, we need to stop using so much of it. And, says veteran environmental activist Matt Hern, cities are the best chance we have left for a truly ecological future . . . but what does it ta...

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Academic interest in cycling has burgeoned in recent years with significant literature relating to the health and environmental benefits of cycling, the necessity for cycle-specific infrastructure, and the embodied experiences of cycling. Based up...

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Agricultural Systems, Second Edition, is a comprehensive text for developing sustainable farming systems. It presents a synthetic overview of the emerging area of agroecology applications to transforming farming systems and supporting rural innova...

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Stockholms första kooperativa bostadsförening för småhus med självbyggeri, Hem genom eget arbete u.p.a., bildades för hundra år sedan i stadsdelen Enskededalen. Genom bland annat ett unikt material från en av föreningens ursprungliga medlemmar, be...

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Region har på senare år blivit ett modeord i svensk och europeisk samhällsdebatt. Regionen betraktas som en allt viktigare plattform för politiskt och ekonomiskt agerande. Men vad är egentligen en region? Markus Idvall beskriver de sociala och k...

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Public Places Urban Spaces provides a comprehensive overview of the principles, theory and practices of urban design for those new to the subject and for those requiring a clear and systematic guide. In this new edition the book has been extensive...

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Under en lång tid har fokus för regional utveckling likställts med ekonomisk tillväxt, men dess innebörd har kommit att breddas och inkluderar idag även andra perspektiv där betydelsen av till exempel social och ekologisk hållbarhet lyfts i högre ...

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This textbook looks at economic development at the local, community or regional scale. It provides students with a comprehensive introduction to contemporary thinking about locally-based economic development, how growth can be planned and how that...

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The city's development from ancient times to the modern age.Winner of the National Book Award.'One of the major works of scholarship of the twentieth century' (Christian Science Monitor).Index; illustrations.

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