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31. Renewable Energy Project Development Under the Clean Development Mechanism

    A Guide for Latin America

    By Elizabeth Lokey

    Series: Environmental Market Insights

    This definitive guide to developing renewable energy CDM projects in Latin America - the largest market on the doorstep of the United States - provides business leaders, investors, project developers and host country offices with the one-stop guide to successful CDM renewable energy project...

    Published March 10th 2013 by Routledge
32. The Impact of Railways on Victorian Cities

    By John R. Kellett

    The arrival of the railway was one of the most far reaching events in the history of the Victorian city. The present study, based upon detailed case histories of Britain's five largest cities (London, Birmingham, Glasgow, Manchester and Liverpool), shows how the railways gave Victorian cities their...

    Published March 3rd 2013 by Routledge
33. European Urbanization, 1500-1800

    By Jan de Vries

    In European Urbanization Jan de Vries provides a comprehensive data base for understanding the nature of the changes that took place in European cities from 1500 to 1800. The book is based on an immense systematic survey of the population history of 379 European cities with 10,000 or more...

    Published March 3rd 2013 by Routledge
34. Household Waste Recycling

    By Richard Waite

    Series: Environmental Management Set

    Households in the UK each generate around one tonne of waste per year, and the successful management and disposal of this waste is becoming an increasingly important issue. In many cases, recycling is the most sensible option, and the UK government has set a target to recycle a quarter of all...

    Published March 3rd 2013 by Routledge
35. Garden Cities of To-Morrow

    By Ebenezer Howard

    Edited by F.J. Osborn

    Originally published in 1898 as To-Morrow: A peaceful path to reform, "the book", writes F.J. Osborn "holds a unique place in town planning literature, is cited in all planning bibliographies, stands on the shelves of the more important libraries, and is alluded to in most books on planning; yet...

    Published March 3rd 2013 by Routledge
36. François Blondel

    Architecture, Erudition, and the Scientific Revolution

    By Anthony Gerbino

    Series: The Classical Tradition in Architecture

    First director of the Académie royale d’architecture, François Blondel established a lasting model for architectural education that helped transform a still largely medieval profession into the one we recognize today. Most well known for his 1676 urban plan of Paris, Blondel is also celebrated as...

    Published February 28th 2013 by Routledge
37. Global Ideologies and Urban Landscapes

    Edited by Manfred Steger, Anne McNevin

    Series: Rethinking Globalizations

    How do political ideologies and urban landscapes intersect in the context of globalization? This volume illuminates the production of ideologies as both discursive and spatial phenomena in distinct contributions that ground their analysis in cities of the Global North and South. From Sydney to...

    Published February 14th 2013 by Routledge
38. The Politics of Biofuels, Land and Agrarian Change

    Edited by Saturnino Borras Jr., Philip McMichael, Ian Scoones

    Series: Critical Agrarian Studies

    This book addresses key questions on biofuels within agrarian political economy, political sociology and political ecology. Contributions are based on fresh empirical materials from different parts of the world. The book starts with four key questions in agrarian political economy: Who owns what?...

    Published February 13th 2013 by Routledge
39. Unfare Solutions

    Local Earmarked Charges to Fund Public Transport

    Edited by Marcus Enoch, Peter Nijkamp, Stephen Potter, Barry Ubbels

    Series: Transport, Development and Sustainability Series

    Transport policy is an increasingly difficult area for all national governments and regional/local authorities. Tackling car use and realising a sustainable transport system appears to be very difficult. Developing public transport is seen as an increasingly important element in improving the...

    Published January 13th 2013 by Routledge
40. Gated Communities

    Social Sustainability in Contemporary and Historical Gated Developments

    Edited by Samer Bagaeen, Ola Uduku

    Gated Communities provides a historic, socio-political and contemporary cultural perspective of gated communities. In doing so it offers a different lens through which to view the historical vernacular background of this now global phenomenon. The book presents a collection of new writing on the...

    Published December 6th 2012 by Routledge