‘Sociology’ Category




Bird on Fire: Lessons from the World’s Least Sustainable City

Sunday, January 8th, 2012

Phoenix, Arizona is one of America's fastest growing metropolitan regions. It is also its least sustainable one, sprawling over a thousand square miles, with a population of four and a half million, minimal rainfall, scorching heat, and an insatiable appetite for unrestrained growth and unrestricted property rights. In Bird on ...

Green to Gold: How Smart Companies Use Environmental Strategy to Innovate, Create Value, and Build Competitive Advantage

Tuesday, December 6th, 2011

Green to Gold is an essential guide for forward-thinking business leaders who see the Green Wave coming and want to profit from it. This audio explores what every executive must know to manage the environmental challenges facing society and business. Based on the authors’ years of experience and hundreds of ...

Who’s Your City?: How the Creative Economy Is Making Where to Live the Most Important Decision of Your Life

Friday, October 14th, 2011

International BestsellerAll places are not created equal. In this groundbreaking book, Richard Florida shows that where we live is increasingly a crucial factor in our lives, one that fundamentally affects our professional and personal prospects. As well as explaining why place matters now more than ever, Who’s Your City? provides ...

Suburban Nation: The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream

Saturday, September 24th, 2011

A manifesto by America's most controversial and celebrated town planners, proposing an alternative model for community design.There is a growing movement in North America to put an end to suburban sprawl and to replace the automobile-based settlement patterns of the past fifty years with a return to more traditional planning ...

Image of the City

Tuesday, August 23rd, 2011

What does the city's form actually mean to the people who live there? What can the city planner do to make the city's image more vivid and memorable to ...

Suburban Nation (10th Anniversary Edition): The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream

Tuesday, July 26th, 2011

For a decade, Suburban Nation has given voice to a growing movement in North America to put an end to suburban sprawl and replace the last century's automobile-based settlement patterns with a return to more traditional planning. Founders of the Congress for the New Urbanism, Andres Duany and Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk ...

Married to the Mouse: Walt Disney World and Orlando

Wednesday, June 22nd, 2011

Joined together in an extraordinarily close relationship, Walt Disney World and Orlando, Florida, have become the world's most popular tourist destination. This title traces the history of the ups and downs of this "marriage" and tells the inside story of Disney's use and abuse of unparalleled governmental powers. The tale ...

Walk Out Walk On: A Learning Journey into Communities Daring to Live the Future Now (Currents)

Friday, May 27th, 2011

ISBN13: 9781605097312Condition: NewNotes: BRAND NEW FROM PUBLISHER! 100% Satisfaction Guarantee. Tracking provided on most orders. Buy with Confidence! Millions of books sold! No One Is Coming to Help. Now What?In this era of increasingly complex problems and shrinking resources, can we find meaningful and enduring solutions to the challenges we face ...