Your search for: ecological AND cities

Found 14,907 results:

Books: 11,956

Journal Articles: 1,977

Magazine Articles: 801

Newspaper Articles: 165

Encyclopedia Articles: 8

Books on: ecological cities

11,956 results - MORE BOOK RESULTS: 1-10 11-20 21-30 31-40 41-50 >>

1.

The Dynamics of Cities: Ecological Determinism, Dualism and Chaos

Book by Dimitrios Dendrinos; Routledge, 1992

Collections: Entire Library

...THE DYNAMICS OF CITIES Ecological determinism, dualism...Interdependencies and ecological determinism...2 NATIONS, CITIES, INDUSTRIES, AND...aggregates like cities, industries, nations...are examples of ecological macrodynamics...
2.

The Fragmentation of Policing in American Cities: Toward an Ecological Theory of Police-Citizen Relations

Book by Hung-En Sung; Praeger, 2002

Subjects:

Police-Community Relations--United States

Collections: Entire Library

...Policing in American Cities - Toward an Ecological Theory of Police-Citizen...policing in American cities : toward an ecological theory of police-citizen...with citizens within ecological units much smaller than cities or towns. Neighborhoods...
3.

Healthy Cities and Urban Policy Research

Book by Takehito Takano; Spon Press, 2003

Subjects:

Urban Health--Congresses, Who Healthy Cities Project--Congresses

Collections: Entire Library

Healthy Cites and Urban Policy Research is a collection of papers by leading experts from academia or international organisations who have been involved in the Healthy Cities Movement. It is the first academic work to combine public health with urban planning. Contemporary issues from various ...
Read More

Healthy Cites and Urban Policy Research is a collection of papers by leading experts from academia or international organisations who have been involved in the Healthy Cities Movement. It is the first academic work to combine public health with urban planning. Contemporary issues from various perspectives are included which address evaluation, evidence-based practice, accountability, community participation and information technology.
Show less
4.

Cities in World Perspective

Book by Ivan Light; Macmillan, 1983

Subjects:

Cities And Towns, Sociology, Urban, Urbanization

Collections: History, Entire Library

...necessitated a migratory existence. Migratory tribes did not create cities. One reason was the migratory life-style that hunting and...new economic activities such as pottery and tourism. These ecological issues still affect people. Any resident of New York City...
5.

Compact Cities: Sustainable Urban Forms for Developing Countries

Book by Mike Jenks, Rod Burgess; Spon Press, 2000

Subjects:

Cities And Towns--Growth, City Planning--Developing Countries, Sociology, Urban--Developing Countries, Sustainable Development--Developing Countries

Collections: Entire Library

This collection of edited papers forms part of the Compact City Series, creating a companion volume to The Compact City (1996) and Achieving Sustainable Urban Form (2000) and extends the debate to developing countries. This book examines and evaluates the merits and defects of compact city ...
Read More

This collection of edited papers forms part of the Compact City Series, creating a companion volume to The Compact City (1996) and Achieving Sustainable Urban Form (2000) and extends the debate to developing countries. This book examines and evaluates the merits and defects of compact city approaches in the context of developing countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America. Issues of theory, policy and practice relating to sustainability of urban form are examined by a wide range of international academics and practitioners.
Show less

MORE BOOK RESULTS: 1-10 11-20 21-30 31-40 41-50 >>

Top

Journal Articles on: ecological cities

1,977 results - MORE JOURNAL RESULTS: 1-10 11-20 21-30 31-40 41-50 >>

1.

Environmental Transformations in Cities as They Get Larger, Wealthier and Better Managed

Journal article by David Satterthwaite; The Geographical Journal, Vol. 163, 1997

Subjects:

Cities and towns--Environmental aspects, Environmental protection--Analysis, Sustainable development--Analysis

Collections: Entire Library

...in wealthier cities in other countries...the human and ecological costs that intensive...worlds largest cities have among the largest ecological footprints, reflecting...Kenworthy, J. 1989 Cities and automobile...Rees, W.E. 1992 Ecological footprints and...
2.

Racialized Topographies: Altitude and Race in Southern Cities

Journal article by Jeff Ueland, Barney Warf; The Geographical Review, Vol. 96, 2006

Subjects:

Altitude--Research, Altitude--Social aspects, Altitudes--Research, Altitudes--Social aspects, Cities and towns--Demographic aspects, Cities and towns--History, Cities and towns--Social aspects, Race relations--History, Race relations--Research, Southern United States--Demographic aspects, Southern United States--History, Southern United States--Social aspects

Collections: Entire Library

...light of local histories; two cities defy the general trend, in...issues in which social and ecological concerns are intertwined, including...more obviously among smaller cities than among larger ones (Figure...the long history of social ecological research that argued that the...
3.

Ghettos in Canada's Cities? Racial Segregation, Ethnic Enclaves and Poverty Concentration in Canadian Urban Areas

Journal article by R. Alan Walks, Larry S. Bourne; The Canadian Geographer, Vol. 50, 2006

Subjects:

Inner cities--Analysis, Inner cities--Forecasts and trends, Poverty rate--Analysis, Segregation--Analysis, Urban ecology--Analysis

Collections: Entire Library

...benefits are shared unequally with some cities worse off than a decade earlier (Heisz...visible minority groups violates traditional ecological models that see immigrants and ethnic...ghetto of old) may be emerging in U.S. cities, composed only of the poorest segments...
4.

Understanding Change in Cities: A Personal Research Path

Journal article by Larry S. Bourne; The Canadian Geographer, Vol. 51, 2007

Subjects:

Cities and towns--Analysis, City planning--Analysis, Municipal research--Personal narratives, Urban planning--Analysis

Collections: Entire Library

...people and places they do not like. All cities, in theory, are shaped by all five principles...operating through the land market and the ecological fabric. But this process operates on a...centrally planned and tightly regulated cities, such as those in the pre-1989 socialist...
5.

Toward a Culturalist City: A Planning Agenda for Peripheral Mid-Size Cities

Journal article by Martin Simard, Carl Simard; Canadian Journal of Urban Research, Vol. 14, 2005

Subjects:

Cities and towns--Environmental policy, City planning--Analysis, Pollution control, Sustainable development--Analysis, Urban planning--Analysis

Collections: Entire Library

...development plans as areas of ecological, aesthetic and even cultural...servitude, etc.); and private ecological stewardship through the negotiation...Like metropolises and large cities, peripheral midsize cities are constantly evolving even...

MORE JOURNAL RESULTS: 1-10 11-20 21-30 31-40 41-50 >>

Top

Magazine Articles on: ecological cities

801 results - MORE MAGAZINE RESULTS: 1-10 11-20 21-30 31-40 41-50 >>

1.

<Unsustainable Cities

Magazine article by Brett Clark; Monthly Review, Vol. 55, December 2003

Subjects:

Dead Cities: And Other Tales (Book)

Collections: Entire Library

...economic, social, and ecological crises. Dead Cities exposes the contradictions...the bombing of cities during the Second...the social and ecological catastrophe of...necessary to avert the ecological crises before...transform dead cities into cities of...
2.

Design Matters: The City and the Good Life: Can the Art of Traditional Urban Design Be Renewed, and Can We Relearn How to Create Beautiful and Livable Cities?

Magazine article by Philip Bess; The Christian Century, Vol. 120, April 19, 2003

Subjects:

Aristotle--Works, Christianity--Demographic aspects, Cities and towns, Ruined, extinct, etc.--Influence, Cities and towns--Demographic aspects, Cities and towns--Protection, Cities and towns--Social aspects, Industrial development--Influence, Suburbs--Social aspects

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...cities like Annapolis, Savannah and Santa Barbara; and big cities with distinctive neighborhoods like Boston, New York and Chicago...CAN IDENTIFY at least four kinds of order in a good city: an ecological order: an economic order, a moral order and a formal order...
3.

City Shifts: Cities Are Continually in Flux, but Recent Changes in the Prosperity of Many Industrial Nineteenth-Century Ones Offer Exciting Possibilities for Generous Architecture and Urbanism

Magazine article; The Architectural Review, Vol. 215, March 2004

Subjects:

Cities and towns--Environmental aspects, Cities and towns--Social aspects, City and town life--Influence, Industrial development--Influence, Industrialization--Influence, Urban life--Influence

Collections: Entire Library

...understanding of what the British Urban Task Force (1) called the ecological threat. The Task Force, which undoubtedly produced the most...thoughtful discussion in the 90s of the nature of change in European cities, argued for the possibility of creating a political, professional...
4.

Cathedral and Bike Shed: Icons and the City; This Year's Venice Biennale Addresses Cities. Here, Charles Jencks Argues That What He Describes as the 'Convulsive Beauty' of the Iconic Building Will Continue to Be Significant in Their Future

Magazine article by Charles Jencks; The Architectural Review, Vol. 220, September 2006

Subjects:

Architectural firms--Trade shows, Architectural practice--Trade shows, Architectural services--Trade shows, Buildings--Design and construction, Cities and towns--Design and construction

Collections: Entire Library

...of time and money on an unusual image, one that does not have the sanction of religion or ideology, then in the age of the ecological crisis it will be an image that relates us to the cosmos. Not everyone agreed. Several critics have said this conclusion was...
5.

Ecology and Community Design: Lessons from Northern European Ecological Communities

Magazine article by Todd Saunders; Alternatives Journal, Vol. 22, April 1996

Subjects:

City planners--Technique, City planning--Environmental aspects, Community development--Environmental aspects, Northern Europe--Environmental aspects, Urban ecology--Planning

Collections: Entire Library

...period of five weeks, which presented me with an opportunity to get an insiders view of an ecological community. (3) Herbert Girardet, The Gaia Atlas of Cities New Directions for Sustainable Urban Living (New York: Doubleday/Anchor Books, 1992...

MORE MAGAZINE RESULTS: 1-10 11-20 21-30 31-40 41-50 >>

Top

Newspaper Articles on: ecological cities

165 results - MORE NEWSPAPER RESULTS: 1-10 11-20 21-30 31-40 41-50 >>

1.

It's Official, Glasgow Is the Dear Green Place; Top of the League: Glasgow Green Helps the City's Ecological Footprint

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), October 23, 2007

Subjects:

Environmental sustainability

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...of a table of ecological footprints ofScottish cities. Edinburgh came...ranked the 60 cities of Scotland...by theaverage ecological footprint of...for WWF-UKs Ecological Footprint of...that richer cities consumed more...
2.

Ecological Problems No Longer as Visible

Newspaper article by Joyce Howard Price; The Washington Times, April 21, 2000

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...22.5 percent * Sulfur dioxide: 66.7 percent * Lead: 97.3 percent * Nitrogen dioxide: 37.9 percent The number of U.S. cities not meeting national air quality standards for ozone was more than cut in half between 1990 and 1995. The number that did not...
3.

Research Center Favors DDT Use; Malaria Toll Trumps Ecological Threat

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, May 9, 2003

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

Research center favors DDT use; Malaria toll trumps ecological threat. Byline: Tom Carter, THE WASHINGTON TIMES...agriculture. It was used during World War II, when entire cities were sprayed to control lice and typhus. DDT was used to...
4.

Idyllic City That Makes the Green Police Choke; Vibrant: But Winchester Has the Worst 'Ecological Footprint' in Britain

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), October 23, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...the least green of British cities withits 110,000 residents...wascalculated to have an ecological footprint of 6.52 - the worst...60English, Scottish and Welsh cities studied. Measured in hectares, the ecological footprint is an estimate...
5.

Idyllic City That Makes the Green Police Choke; Vibrant: But Winchester Has the Worst 'Ecological Footprint' in Britain Idyllic City

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), October 23, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...the least green of British cities withits 110,000 residents...wascalculated to have an ecological footprint of 6.52 - the worst...60English, Scottish and Welsh cities studied. Measured in hectares, the ecological footprint is an estimate...

MORE NEWSPAPER RESULTS: 1-10 11-20 21-30 31-40 41-50 >>

Top

Encyclopedia Articles on: ecological cities

8 results MORE ENCYCLOPEDIA RESULTS: 1-8

1.

Mansfield , Cities, United States

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

MANSFIELD , cities, United States 1 Town (1990 pop. 20,634), Tolland co., NE Conn...Ohio State Univ. is there. The home of Louis Bromfield is used as an ecological center and experiment farm. Also of interest are South Park, with...
2.

Adams, Robert Mccormick, Jr

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...extensively on the role played by irrigation, warfare, and ecological diversity in the evolution of the earliest states. His writings...Uruk Countryside (1972; with H. J. Nissen), Heartland of Cities (1981), and Paths of Fire (1996...
3.

Kola Peninsula

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Murmansk and the mining center of Kirovsk are the major cities of the peninsula. Along the coasts and in the mining centers...raising. Since the 1960s the peninsula has suffered severe ecological degradation from mining and smelting operations. Near Murmansk...
4.

Natives, North American

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Country Today. Many of these publications are now produced in cities as more Native Americans move off reservations and into urban...Montano, The Native American Almanac (1999); S. Krech, The Ecological Indian (1999); J. Wilson, The Earth Shall Weep: A History...
5.

North America

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...and Caribbean countries, and the population outside the major cities is largely rural. The largest urban agglomerations on the continent...4th rev. ed. 1992); T. Flannery, The Eternal Frontier: An Ecological History of North America and Its Peoples (2001); A. Taylor...

MORE ENCYCLOPEDIA RESULTS: 1-8

Top

© 2008 - Questia Media America, Inc. All rights reserved. All service marks and trademarks are property of
Questia Media and its affiliates. Any advertising or navigational links included on this site are not necessarily
endorsed by the publishers or content providers whose materials appear on this site.

Search the Library:

Collection(s):