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1 - 12 de 12 resultados para “gary mcdonogh”
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  • Sustainability in the Global City

    Myth and Practice

    Edición de Cindy Isenhour, Gary McDonogh, Melissa Checker ...
    Series series New Directions in Sustainability and Society
    Cities play a pivotal but paradoxical role in the future of our planet. As world leaders and citizens grapple with the consequences of growth, pollution, climate change, and waste, urban sustainability has become a ubiquitous catchphrase and a beacon of hope. Yet we know little about how the concept is implemented in daily life, particularly with regard to questions of social justice and equity. ... Leer más

    $45.99 USD

  • Global Hong Kong

    de Cindy Wong, Gary McDonogh ...
    Series series Global Realities
    Global Hong Kong locates Hong Kong in the contemporary globalizing world. Hong Kong, as the authors argue, is an archetypal place, sitting at the intersection of East and West. It is also a major center for global capital flows and world trade. Moreover, in recent years, the island's global cultural power has become increasingly evident, as Hong Kong popular culture has spread to the West via a ... Leer más

    $57.99 USD

  • Global Downtowns

    Edición de Marina Peterson, Gary McDonogh ...
    Series series The City in the Twenty-First Century
    Global Downtowns reconsiders one of the defining features of urban life—the energy and exuberance that characterize downtown areas—within a framework of contemporary globalization and change. It analyzes the iconic centers of global cities through individual case studies from Europe, Asia, Africa, Latin America, and the United States, considering issues of function, population, imagery, and growth ... Leer más

    $25.99 USD

  • Barcelona

    de Gary McDonogh, Sergi Martinez-Rigol ...
    Series series Cities in World History
    Barcelona has existed as a settlement for two millennia. Early civilizations shaped the city before it achieved, in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, global power as a trading metropolis and empire capital. After a long struggle with the unifying Spanish state, the city revived, in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, as an industrial and commercial powerhouse. It became a center of culture, ... Leer más

    $12.00 USD

  • Global Downtowns

    Edición de Marina Peterson, Gary McDonogh ...
    Series series The City in the Twenty-First Century
    Global Downtowns reconsiders one of the defining features of urban life—the energy and exuberance that characterize downtown areas—within a framework of contemporary globalization and change. It analyzes the iconic centers of global cities through individual case studies from Europe, Asia, Africa, Latin America, and the United States, considering issues of function, population, imagery, and growth ... Leer más

    $31.99 USD

  • Iberian Worlds

    de Gary McDonogh ...
    Series series Global Realities
    Iberian Worlds is an imaginative, short text that dramatically depicts important globalization themes and processes through the important flows and impacts Spain and Portugal have had with many important regions of the world for many centuries. Spain and Portugal have long histories at the cutting-edge of world relations, managing far-flung empires, and author Gary McDonogh stresses this ... Leer más

    $40.99 USD

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  • China A to Z

    Everything You Need to Know to Understand Chinese Customs and Culture

    de Winberg Chai, May-lee Chai ...
    A practical and accessible guide to an ancient but rapidly changing culture—now revised and updatedPerfect for business, pleasure, or armchair travelers, China A to Z explains the customs, culture, and etiquette essential for any trip or for anyone wanting to understand this complex country. In one hundred brief, reader-friendly essays alphabetized by subject, this fully revised and updated ... Leer más

    $4.99 USD

  • The Chinese in Toronto from 1878

    From Outside to Inside the Circle

    de Arlene Chan ...
    The modest beginnings of the Chinese in Toronto and the development of Chinatown is largely due to the completion of the CPR in 1885. No longer requiring the services of the Chinese labourers, a hostile British Columbia sent them eastward in search of employment and a more welcoming place.In 1894 Toronto's Chinese population numbered fifty. Today, no less than seven Chinatowns serve what has ... Leer más

    $8.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Evil Paradises

    Dreamworlds of Neoliberalism

    Edición de Mike Davis, Daniel Bertrand Monk ...
    Evil Paradises, edited by Mike Davis and Daniel Bertrand Monk, is a global guidebook to phantasmagoric but real places—alternate realities being constructed as “utopias” in a capitalist era unfettered by unions and state regulation. These developments—in cities, deserts, and in the middle of the sea—are worlds where consumption and inequality surpass our worst nightmares. Although they read like ... Leer más

    $13.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • A Concise History of Hong Kong

    de John M. Carroll ...
    When the British occupied the tiny island of Hong Kong during the First Opium War, the Chinese empire was well into its decline, while Great Britain was already in the second decade of its legendary "Imperial Century." From this collision of empires arose a city that continues to intrigue observers. Melding Chinese and Western influences, Hong Kong has long defied easy categorization. John M. ... Leer más

    $42.99 USD

  • A Concise History of Spain

    de William D. Phillips, Jr, Carla Rahn Phillips ...
    Series series Cambridge Concise Histories
    The rich cultural and political life of Spain has emerged from its complex history, from the diversity of its peoples, and from continual contact with outside influences. This book traces that history from prehistoric times to the present, focusing particularly on culture, society, politics, and personalities. Written in an engaging style, it introduces readers to the key themes that have shaped ... Leer más

    $24.99 USD

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    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

  • City of Protest

    A Recent History of Dissent in Hong Kong: Penguin Specials

    de Antony Dapiran ...
    Series series Penguin China | Penguin Specials
    From the turbulent 1960s until today, Hong Kong has been a city shaped by civil disobedience. The latest wave of protests in Hong Kong’s long history of public dissent culminated in the Occupy Central movement of 2014. What emerges from these grassroots movements is a unique Hong Kong identity, one shaped neither by Britain nor China. An insightful exploration of the historical and social stimuli ... Leer más

    $8.99 USD