Catherynne M. Valente zachwyciła czytelników swoją urzekającą powieścią ,,W ogrodzie nocy". Obecnie podejmuje tkanie gawędziarskiej magii w kolejnym tomie ,,Opowieści sieroty", epopei fantastycznej i...
JEST ROK 1513. Przeniosłeś się do Ameryki z epoki konkwistadorów. Poszukujesz siedmiu miast, które, jak wieść niesie, są zbudowane ze złota. Przedzierasz się przez bagna Florydy... i nagle atakuje ci...
Od Człowieka Lodu przez terakotowych wojowników odprowadzających chińskiego cesarza w zaświaty po wrak „Titanica” – to pasjonująca i pełna przygód opowieść o odkryciach, które zmieniły świat! Tajemn...
Zamysłem autora niniejszego albumu było przybliżenie czytelnikom jedynej w swoim rodzaju urody miast i miasteczek regionu Warmii i Mazur, utrwalonej w fotografii. Na bogaty materiał ilustracyjny skład...
Professor Bird presents a synthesis of the many approaches to the study of a central feature of modern life - the city, including its distant past and its future. He sees centrality as a mental projec...
Caught between the twin pressures of rising public expectations and falling resources, public services have become the subject of intense academic scrutiny and public debate. Much of this controversy ...
Surveying the remains of cities from all over the world, this work discloses what was left behind and what the remains can tell us about the inhabitants, their lifestyles, ceremonies, beliefs and soci...
London's bid to host the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games was based upon the event providing a significant catalyst for the regeneration and renewal of East London. The bid emphasized the concentrati...
This book highlights the need to boost infrastructure investment in cities as also the necessity for fiscal management across all levels of government-within the context of decentralizing service deli...
Returning to his native Chicago after World War II, Nelson Algren found a city transformed. The flourishing industry, culture, and literature that had placed pre-war Chicago at centre stage in America...
From human sacrifice and war to royal palaces, explore the awesome history of Meso America. Take a trip through the Zapotecs' City of the Gods or learn about the Aztec practice of human sacrifice. "Ci...
"Cities, Capitalism and Civilization" looks at the character and distinctiveness of Western Civilization. R. J. Holton sets out to challenge the belief that cities and urban social classes have formed...
This collection of readings draws on material from a wide range of sources - from the past and present and from literature and technology - and is concentrated on the areas which seem most relevant to...
Movement in Cities describes and analyses urban travel in terms of purpose, distance and frequency of journeys and modes and routes used, concentrating mainly on British towns with many references to ...
During the 1970s, accelerating change accompanied by dramatic developments in finance, technology and energy usage had a profound impact on the processes of urban development throughout the Western wo...
What visitor to Mexico City, unaware of its pre-Hispanic history, could imagine that right under a Christian Church may still lie the remains of the sinister tzompantli, the Aztecs' altar of skulls? P...
Urban growth is changing the condition of humanity and the face of the earth. Half the world's people now live in cities, with most of the other half depending on them for their economic survival. Meg...
Pictorial. Which will be the first city you turn to in this lucky dip of a book? Copenhagen? Buenos Aires? Shanghai? Or maybe you'll find out how much you want to go to Beirut or Nuuk. Who knew? The w...
As publisher of 50 city magazines and 75 guidebooks, Time Out is the world authority on world cities. Time Out draws on its unrivalled library of specially shot city photography, its network of local ...
Książka prezentuje różne aspekty rewitalizacji miast historycznych, ze szczególnym uwzględnieniem problemów, jakie dla przestrzeni kulturowej śródmieścia stwarzają reguły gry rynkowej. Przykłady rewi...
What makes a good city? This question has long preoccupied groups interested and involved in the making and remaking of city spaces. In The Moral Economy of Cities, Evelyn S. Ruppert contends that the...
"Tourism Marketing for Cities and Towns" provides thorough and succinct coverage of marketing theory specific to the tourism industry. It focuses on developing the branded destination with special emp...
If one surveys the development of wind engineering, one comes to the conclusion that the challenge of urban climatology is one of the most important remaining tasks for the wind engineers. But what di...
Local citizens' movements for the improvement of local environments spread rapidly throughout Japan during the 1990s. Such activities are widely referred to as Machizukuri in Japan, and represent a ve...
Chinese expatriate Qiu's gripping fourth Inspector Chen novel (after 2004's When Red Is Black) captures an honest detective's struggle to be true to his professional ideals under a repressive regime. ...
Contemporary cities are of at least two kinds: those that are vibrant and growing and those that are lagging. While this is nothing new the reasons are, at least in part, different than in past genera...
Urbanization of the Earth’s population will have increased the Earth’s urban population from less than one billion in 1950 to five billion by 2030. Managing water for this burgeoning urban population ...
The director of the Design Museum defines the greatest artefact of all time: the city. We live in a world that is now predominantly urban. So how do we define the city as it evolves in the twenty-firs...
The death of Alexander the Great was the signal to begin the greatest war in human history - a war that swept like a firestorm from one end of the known world to the other, as his former generals foug...