2008, ISBN: 9781883642174

Gebundene Ausgabe

John Wiley & Sons Inc, 2008. 8°, 304 S., zahlr. Abb., Kart., Tadell. Written by the chair of the LEED-Neighborhood Development (LEED-ND) initiative, Sustainable Urbanism: Urban Design w… Mehr…

John Wiley & Sons Inc, 2008. 8°, 304 S., zahlr. Abb., Kart., Tadell. Written by the chair of the LEED-Neighborhood Development (LEED-ND) initiative, Sustainable Urbanism: Urban Design with Nature is both an urgent call to action and a comprehensive introduction to "sustainable urbanism"--the emerging and growing design reform movement that combines the creation and enhancement of walkable and diverse places with the need to build high-performance infrastructure and buildings. Providing a historic perspective on the standards and regulations that got us to where we are today in terms of urban lifestyle and attempts at reform, Douglas Farr makes a powerful case for sustainable urbanism, showing where we went wrong, and where we need to go. He then explains how to implement sustainable urbanism through leadership and communication in cities, communities, and neighborhoods. Essays written by Farr and others delve into such issues as: Increasing sustainability through density. Integrating transportation and land use. Creating sustainable neighborhoods, including housing, car-free areas, locally-owned stores, walkable neighborhoods, and universal accessibility.The health and environmental benefits of linking humans to nature, including walk-to open spaces, neighborhood stormwater systems and waste treatment, and food production. High performance buildings and district energy systems. Enriching the argument are in-depth case studies in sustainable urbanism, from BedZED in London, England and Newington in Sydney, Australia, to New Railroad Square in Santa Rosa, California and Dongtan, Shanghai, China. An epilogue looks to the future of sustainable urbanism over the next 200 years. At once solidly researched and passionately argued, Sustainable Urbanism is the ideal guidebook for urban designers, planners, and architects who are eager to make a positive impact on our--and our descendants'--buildings, cities, and lives. 010, John Wiley & Sons Inc, 2008, 0, The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts and London, England, 2007 Book. As New. Hardcover. English text.; Hardcover (with dust jacket).; 16 x 24.5 cm 0.62 Kg.; 321 pages.; Used with minor signs of wear. As new. The dust jacket is now protected with a clearcover.; In 221 BCE the first Emperor of Qin unified the lands that would become the heart of a Chinese empire. Though forged by conquest, this vast domain depended for its political survival on a fundamental reshaping of Chinese culture. With this informative book, we are present at the creation of an ancient imperial order whose major features would endure for two millennia. Mark Edward Lewis highlights the key challenges faced by the court officials and scholars who set about governing an empire of such scale and diversity of peoples. He traces the drastic measures taken to transcend, without eliminating, these regional differences: the invention of the emperor as the divine embodiment of the state; the establishment of a common script for communication and a state-sponsored canon for the propagation of Confucian ideals; the flourishing of the great families, whose domination of local society rested on wealth, landholding, and elaborate kinship structures; the demilitarization of the interior; and the impact of non-Chinese warrior-nomads in setting the boundaries of an emerging Chinese identity. The first of a six-volume series on this history of imperial China, The Early Chinese Empires illuminates many formative events in China's long history of imperialism . events whose residual influence can still be discern today.., The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts and London, England, 2007, 5, Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1972. Fifth Printing [stated]. Hardcover. Good/Good. xivm 491, [5] pages. Endpaper maps. Occasional footnotes. Note on the Title. Maps. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Ex-library with some library markings. Rear pocket has been removed. DJ in plastic sleeve. taped to boards, with spine label partly removed. Some endpaper soiling and transfer marks from DJ tape. Edges soiled. Somewhat shaken. Frances FitzGerald (born October 21, 1940) is an American journalist and historian, who is primarily known for Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam (1972), an account of the Vietnam War. It was a bestseller that won the Pulitzer Prize, Bancroft Prize, and National Book Award. The book cautioned that the United States did not understand the history and culture of Vietnam and it warned about American involvement there. FitzGerald has continued to write about history and culture: her published books include America Revised, a highly critical review of history textbooks published in the United States; Cities on a Hill, an analysis of United States urban history compared to ideals; and Way Out There in the Blue: Reagan, Star Wars and the End of the Cold War, a Pulitzer Prize finalist. Frances FitzGerald's landmark history of Vietnam and the Vietnam War, "A compassionate and penetrating account of the collision of two societies that remain untranslatable to one another." (New York Times Book Review) This magisterial work, based on Frances FitzGerald's many years of research and travels, takes us inside the history of Vietnam--the traditional, ancestor-worshiping villages, the conflicts between Communists and anti-Communists, Catholics and Buddhists, generals and monks, the disruption created by French colonialism, and America's ill-fated intervention--and reveals the country as seen through Vietnamese eyes. FIRE IN THE LAKE was the first history of Vietnam written by an American. With a clarity and insight unrivaled by any author before it or since, Frances FitzGerald illustrates how America utterly and tragically misinterpreted the realities of Vietnam., Little, Brown and Company, 1972, 2.5, South Royalton, VT: Steerforth Press, 1994. First edition. Stated. Presumed first printing. Hardcover. Very good in very good dust jacket. Signed by author. Minor sticker residue to front of DJ. 337 p. A well-written and thoughtful account of the Communist Party--its participants, its ideals, its failures, its occasional tunnel vision--in the New York City and Washington D.C. of the 1930s. In addition to portraying the decade's leftist politics, Davis recounts the details of her painful marriage to Hermann Brunck, an economist who had to be committed to a sanatarium due to what Davis terms "disillusionment in the Soviet Union's false promise. " It is all here in relief: the intelligensia, the Red-baiting, the Freudian doctors and Party comrades., Steerforth Press, 1994, 3<

2008, ISBN: 9781883642174

Gebundene Ausgabe

The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts and London, England, 2007 Book. As New. Hardcover. English text.; Hardcover (with dust jacket).; 16 x 24.5 cm 0.62 … Mehr…

The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts and London, England, 2007 Book. As New. Hardcover. English text.; Hardcover (with dust jacket).; 16 x 24.5 cm 0.62 Kg.; 321 pages.; Used with minor signs of wear. As new. The dust jacket is now protected with a clearcover.; In 221 BCE the first Emperor of Qin unified the lands that would become the heart of a Chinese empire. Though forged by conquest, this vast domain depended for its political survival on a fundamental reshaping of Chinese culture. With this informative book, we are present at the creation of an ancient imperial order whose major features would endure for two millennia. Mark Edward Lewis highlights the key challenges faced by the court officials and scholars who set about governing an empire of such scale and diversity of peoples. He traces the drastic measures taken to transcend, without eliminating, these regional differences: the invention of the emperor as the divine embodiment of the state; the establishment of a common script for communication and a state-sponsored canon for the propagation of Confucian ideals; the flourishing of the great families, whose domination of local society rested on wealth, landholding, and elaborate kinship structures; the demilitarization of the interior; and the impact of non-Chinese warrior-nomads in setting the boundaries of an emerging Chinese identity. The first of a six-volume series on this history of imperial China, The Early Chinese Empires illuminates many formative events in China's long history of imperialism . events whose residual influence can still be discern today.., The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts and London, England, 2007, 5, John Wiley & Sons Inc, 2008. 8°, 304 S., zahlr. Abb., Kart., Tadell. Written by the chair of the LEED-Neighborhood Development (LEED-ND) initiative, Sustainable Urbanism: Urban Design with Nature is both an urgent call to action and a comprehensive introduction to "sustainable urbanism"--the emerging and growing design reform movement that combines the creation and enhancement of walkable and diverse places with the need to build high-performance infrastructure and buildings. Providing a historic perspective on the standards and regulations that got us to where we are today in terms of urban lifestyle and attempts at reform, Douglas Farr makes a powerful case for sustainable urbanism, showing where we went wrong, and where we need to go. He then explains how to implement sustainable urbanism through leadership and communication in cities, communities, and neighborhoods. Essays written by Farr and others delve into such issues as: Increasing sustainability through density. Integrating transportation and land use. Creating sustainable neighborhoods, including housing, car-free areas, locally-owned stores, walkable neighborhoods, and universal accessibility.The health and environmental benefits of linking humans to nature, including walk-to open spaces, neighborhood stormwater systems and waste treatment, and food production. High performance buildings and district energy systems. Enriching the argument are in-depth case studies in sustainable urbanism, from BedZED in London, England and Newington in Sydney, Australia, to New Railroad Square in Santa Rosa, California and Dongtan, Shanghai, China. An epilogue looks to the future of sustainable urbanism over the next 200 years. At once solidly researched and passionately argued, Sustainable Urbanism is the ideal guidebook for urban designers, planners, and architects who are eager to make a positive impact on our--and our descendants'--buildings, cities, and lives. 010, John Wiley & Sons Inc, 2008, 0, Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1972. Fifth Printing [stated]. Hardcover. Good/Good. xivm 491, [5] pages. Endpaper maps. Occasional footnotes. Note on the Title. Maps. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Ex-library with some library markings. Rear pocket has been removed. DJ in plastic sleeve. taped to boards, with spine label partly removed. Some endpaper soiling and transfer marks from DJ tape. Edges soiled. Somewhat shaken. Frances FitzGerald (born October 21, 1940) is an American journalist and historian, who is primarily known for Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam (1972), an account of the Vietnam War. It was a bestseller that won the Pulitzer Prize, Bancroft Prize, and National Book Award. The book cautioned that the United States did not understand the history and culture of Vietnam and it warned about American involvement there. FitzGerald has continued to write about history and culture: her published books include America Revised, a highly critical review of history textbooks published in the United States; Cities on a Hill, an analysis of United States urban history compared to ideals; and Way Out There in the Blue: Reagan, Star Wars and the End of the Cold War, a Pulitzer Prize finalist. Frances FitzGerald's landmark history of Vietnam and the Vietnam War, "A compassionate and penetrating account of the collision of two societies that remain untranslatable to one another." (New York Times Book Review) This magisterial work, based on Frances FitzGerald's many years of research and travels, takes us inside the history of Vietnam--the traditional, ancestor-worshiping villages, the conflicts between Communists and anti-Communists, Catholics and Buddhists, generals and monks, the disruption created by French colonialism, and America's ill-fated intervention--and reveals the country as seen through Vietnamese eyes. FIRE IN THE LAKE was the first history of Vietnam written by an American. With a clarity and insight unrivaled by any author before it or since, Frances FitzGerald illustrates how America utterly and tragically misinterpreted the realities of Vietnam., Little, Brown and Company, 1972, 2.5, South Royalton, VT: Steerforth Press, 1994. First edition. Stated. Presumed first printing. Hardcover. Very good in very good dust jacket. Signed by author. Minor sticker residue to front of DJ. 337 p. A well-written and thoughtful account of the Communist Party--its participants, its ideals, its failures, its occasional tunnel vision--in the New York City and Washington D.C. of the 1930s. In addition to portraying the decade's leftist politics, Davis recounts the details of her painful marriage to Hermann Brunck, an economist who had to be committed to a sanatarium due to what Davis terms "disillusionment in the Soviet Union's false promise. " It is all here in relief: the intelligensia, the Red-baiting, the Freudian doctors and Party comrades., Steerforth Press, 1994, 3<