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Rescaling Urban Governance

Planning, Localism and Institutional Change

by John Sturzaker, Alexander Nurse ...

Series series Urban Policy, Planning and the Built Environment
Cities across the globe face unprecedented challenges as a result of ever-increasing pressure from climate change, migration, ageing populations and resource shortages. In order to guarantee a sustainable global future, these issues demand radical new approaches to how we govern our cities.Providing new research and thinking about cities, their governance and innovative models of planning reform, ... Read more

$43.99 CAD

Cities across the globe face unprecedented challenges as a result of ever-increasing pressure from climate change, migration, ageing populations and resource shortages. In order to guarantee a sustainable global future, these issues demand radical new approaches to how we govern our cities.Providing new research and thinking about cities, their governance and innovative models of planning reform,
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Green Belts

Past; present; future?

by John Sturzaker, Ian Mell ...

Series series Routledge Studies in Urbanism and the City
Most of us have heard of green belts – but how much do we really know about them? This book tries to separate the fact from the fiction when it comes to green belts by looking both backwards and forwards. They were introduced in the mid-twentieth century to try and stop cities merging together as they grew. There is little doubt they have been very effective at doing that, but at what cost? Are ... Read more

$94.81 CAD

Most of us have heard of green belts – but how much do we really know about them? This book tries to separate the fact from the fiction when it comes to green belts by looking both backwards and forwards. They were introduced in the mid-twentieth century to try and stop cities merging together as they grew. There is little doubt they have been very effective at doing that, but at what cost? Are
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Rural Planning Futures

Principles, Policy and Practice in the UK and Ireland

Edited by Mark Scott, John Sturzaker, Nick Gallent, Gavin Parker, Amy Burnett, Ian Mell ...

Series series RTPI Library Series
Rural Planning Futures charts the critical societal challenges that are reshaping rural places across the UK and Ireland. The book evaluates current planning processes and explores the prospects for an enhanced, cross-sectoral and holistic future practice that mediates rural change towards more resilient and sustainable outcomes. Rural places and planning have, for too long, been viewed as ... Read more

$83.81 CAD

Rural Planning Futures charts the critical societal challenges that are reshaping rural places across the UK and Ireland. The book evaluates current planning processes and explores the prospects for an enhanced, cross-sectoral and holistic future practice that mediates rural change towards more resilient and sustainable outcomes. Rural places and planning have, for too long, been viewed as
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Planning in a Failing State

Reforming Spatial Governance in England

by Tom Moore, Chia-Lin Chen, Manuela Madeddu, Phil O'Brien, Richard Dunning, Richard Cowell, Mark Smith, Sebastian Dembski, Alex Lord, Alexander Nurse, Thomas Fischer, Urmila Thakur ...

This topical, edited collection analyses the state of the planning system in England and offers a robust, evidence-based review of over a decade of change since the Conservative-led coalition government came to power. With a critique of ongoing planning reforms by the UK government, the book argues that the planning system is often blamed for a range of issues caused by ineffective policy making ... Read more

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This topical, edited collection analyses the state of the planning system in England and offers a robust, evidence-based review of over a decade of change since the Conservative-led coalition government came to power. With a critique of ongoing planning reforms by the UK government, the book argues that the planning system is often blamed for a range of issues caused by ineffective policy making
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A Streetcar Named Desire

A BBC Radio full-cast dramatisation

by Tennessee Williams ...

Narrated by Anne-Marie Duff, David Sturzaker, Georgie Glenn, John Dougall, John Heffernan, Leila Arias, Matthew Needham, Pippa Bennett-Warner, Sarah Ridgeway, Tom Forrister ...

Unabridged

1 hour 53 min

Anne-Marie Duff stars as Blanche DuBois in BBC Radio 3’s landmark production of Tennessee Williams’ masterpieceTennessee Williams's iconic play tells the story of a catastrophic confrontation between fantasy and reality, embodied in the characters of Blanche DuBois and Stanley Kowalski.Blanche DuBois arrives unexpectedly on the doorstep of her sister Stella and her explosive brother-in-law Stanley ... Read more

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Anne-Marie Duff stars as Blanche DuBois in BBC Radio 3’s landmark production of Tennessee Williams’ masterpieceTennessee Williams's iconic play tells the story of a catastrophic confrontation between fantasy and reality, embodied in the characters of Blanche DuBois and Stanley Kowalski.Blanche DuBois arrives unexpectedly on the doorstep of her sister Stella and her explosive brother-in-law Stanley
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Waiting for Godot

by Samuel Beckett ...

Narrated by Sean Barrett, David Burke, Terence Rigby, Nigel Anthony, Zachary Fox ...

Unabridged

2 hours 2 min

Samuel Beckett, one of the great avant-garde Irish dramatists and writers of the second half of the twentieth century, was born on 13 April 1906. He died in 1989. He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1969. His centenary will be celebrated throughout 2006 with performances of his major plays, but the most popular of them all will be, without doubt, the play with which he first made his name, ... Read more

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Samuel Beckett, one of the great avant-garde Irish dramatists and writers of the second half of the twentieth century, was born on 13 April 1906. He died in 1989. He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1969. His centenary will be celebrated throughout 2006 with performances of his major plays, but the most popular of them all will be, without doubt, the play with which he first made his name,
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Oedipus

by Sophocles ...

Narrated by Michael Sheen, Nichola McAuliffe, Edward de Souza, Adam Kotz, Neville Jason, Bruce Alexander, John Moffat, tJonathan Keeble, Heathcote Williams, Laura Brattan, Karen Archer ...

Unabridged

1 hour 42 min

This new translation of the great classic of Ancient Greece starts a cycle of drama recordings by Naxos AudioBooks. The anguished tale of Oedipus, who having solved the riddle of the Sphinx and become King of Thebes, gradually realises the crimes he has, unwittingly, committed, remains a drama of unremitting power 2,500 years after it was written. With full drama values, Naxos AudioBooks the ... Read more

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This new translation of the great classic of Ancient Greece starts a cycle of drama recordings by Naxos AudioBooks. The anguished tale of Oedipus, who having solved the riddle of the Sphinx and become King of Thebes, gradually realises the crimes he has, unwittingly, committed, remains a drama of unremitting power 2,500 years after it was written. With full drama values, Naxos AudioBooks the
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King Richard III

Directed by David Timson

by William Shakespeare ...

Narrated by Kenneth Branagh, Geraldine McEwan, Nicholas Farrell, Stella Gonet, Michael Maloney, John Shrapnel, Celia Imrie, John Woodvine, Bruce Alexander, Auriol Smith, Raphael Clarkson, Louise Alder, Dominic Kraemer, Jamie Glover, Stephen Thorne, Daniel Philpott, Jonathan Keeble, Peter Yapp, Barrie Jaimeson, Nick Fletcher, Neville Jason, David Timson ...

Unabridged

3 hours 20 min

Kenneth Branagh heads an outstanding cast in playing one of Shakespeare’s strongest characters. The eighth production in the widely admired series of Shakespeare plays presented by Naxos AudioBooks in association with Cambridge University Press. ... Read more

$16.49 CAD

Kenneth Branagh heads an outstanding cast in playing one of Shakespeare’s strongest characters. The eighth production in the widely admired series of Shakespeare plays presented by Naxos AudioBooks in association with Cambridge University Press.
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Underworld

A Novel

by Don DeLillo ...

Narrated by Richard Poe ...

Abridged

9 hours 8 min

Finalist for the Pulitzer PrizeFinalist for the National Book AwardFinalist for the National Book Critics Circle AwardWinner of the Howell’s Medal of the American Academy of Arts and Letters“A great American novel” (San Francisco Chronicle) that spans five decades of American history, following the intimate lives of the men and women who lived through them.It b... ... Read more

$35.99 CAD

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Finalist for the Pulitzer PrizeFinalist for the National Book AwardFinalist for the National Book Critics Circle AwardWinner of the Howell’s Medal of the American Academy of Arts and Letters“A great American novel” (San Francisco Chronicle) that spans five decades of American history, following the intimate lives of the men and women who lived through them.It b...
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Naked Lunch

The Restored Text

by William S. Burroughs ...

Narrated by Mark Bramhall ...

Unabridged

10 hours 25 min

Naked Lunch is one of the most important novels of the twentieth century. Exerting its influence on authors like Thomas Pynchon, J. G. Ballard, and William Gibson; on the relationship between art and obscenity; and on the shape of music, film, and media generally, it is one of the books that redefined not just literature but American culture.Naked Lunch is the unnerving tale of Bill Lee, addicted ... Read more

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Naked Lunch is one of the most important novels of the twentieth century. Exerting its influence on authors like Thomas Pynchon, J. G. Ballard, and William Gibson; on the relationship between art and obscenity; and on the shape of music, film, and media generally, it is one of the books that redefined not just literature but American culture.Naked Lunch is the unnerving tale of Bill Lee, addicted
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Rabbit, Run

by John Updike ...

Narrated by Arthur Morey ...

Series Audiobook 1 - Rabbit
Unabridged

12 hours 5 min

**“A lacerating story of loss and of seeking, written in prose that is charged with emotion but is always held under impeccable control.”—***Kansas City StarRabbit, Run* is the book thatestablished John Updike as one of the major American novelists of his—or any other—generation. Its hero is Harry “Rabbit” Angstrom, a onetime high-school basketball star who on an impulse deserts his wife and son. ... Read more

$25.99 CAD

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**“A lacerating story of loss and of seeking, written in prose that is charged with emotion but is always held under impeccable control.”—***Kansas City StarRabbit, Run* is the book thatestablished John Updike as one of the major American novelists of his—or any other—generation. Its hero is Harry “Rabbit” Angstrom, a onetime high-school basketball star who on an impulse deserts his wife and son.
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

50th Anniversary Edition

by Ken Kesey ...

Narrated by John C. Reilly ...

Series series Penguin Audio Classics
Unabridged

10 hours 32 min

A fiftieth-anniversary edition of Ken Kesey's searing American classic.Boisterous, ribald, and ultimately shattering, Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest has left an indelible mark on the literature of our time. Turning conventional notions of sanity and insanity on their heads, the novel tells the unforgettable story of a mental ward and its inhabitants, especially tyrannical Big Nurse ... Read more

$22.50 CAD

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A fiftieth-anniversary edition of Ken Kesey's searing American classic.Boisterous, ribald, and ultimately shattering, Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest has left an indelible mark on the literature of our time. Turning conventional notions of sanity and insanity on their heads, the novel tells the unforgettable story of a mental ward and its inhabitants, especially tyrannical Big Nurse
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