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By The Johns Hopkins University Press.
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No comments about The Landscape of Modernity: New York City, 1900-1940.
Posted in Art and Photography (Wednesday, December 3, 2008)
Written by Alminana/Lejeun. By Routledge.
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No comments about Modern Civic Art: A contemporary reading of planning and urban design.
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Written by David Godschalk and Timothy Beatley and Philip Berke and David Brower and Edward J. Kaiser. By Island Press.
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No comments about Natural Hazard Mitigation: Recasting Disaster Policy And Planning.
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Written by John Shannon Hendrix. By Peter Lang Publishing.
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No comments about Architecture and Psychoanalysis: Peter Eisenman and Jacques Lacan.
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Written by Professor White. By Routledge.
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Written by Walter Isard. By The MIT Press.
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No comments about Location and Space-Economy: A General Theory Relating to Industrial Location, Market Areas, Land Use, Trade, and Urban Structure.
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Written by Deyan Sudjic. By Harvest/HBJ Book.
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1 comments about The 100 Mile City.
- Overstretched, Resource-Scarce, Unregulated. Los Angeles and other world cities are increasingly walking a tightrope that becomes harder to balance on. This book carefully outlines how cities got to this untenable situation and looks at examples of how different communities are combating these problems with mixed results. A read for anyone interested in urban politics, involved in the real estate business, or studying urban and regional planning
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Written by Nicholas Negroponte. By The MIT Press.
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Written by Mary C. Comerio. By University of California Press.
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No comments about Disaster Hits Home: New Policy for Urban Housing Recovery.
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Written by Andrew F. Bennett. By World Conservation Union.
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1 comments about Linkages In The Landscape: The Role Of Corridors And Connectivity In Wildlife Conservation.
- The world has seen unprecedented land clearing in the last half-century, with widespread conversion of forest to agriculture and other uses. This forest conversion has led to a significant loss of species around the world. For many species, much of the remaining habitat is fragmented, with scattered forests in a landscape otherwise occupied by humans.
Various theories, such as island biogeography theory, suggest that this fragmentation is bad for species survival. One natural solution is to try to connected these islands of forest through wildlife corridors, greenbelts, and similar strategies. Though this solution sounds perfectly reasonable in theory there is little evidence whether it works or not.
This is the question that Bennett addresses in this book. He does not present original research on the effectiveness of these linkage strategies but does a good job bringing together existing research on the topic. The book is intended primarily for students and for practitioners, but is accessible to a general audience interested in these questions.
Bennett makes a convincing case that the usefulness of linkages strategies varies significantly by habitat and especially by species. For example, many birds can thrive in a fragmented landscape because they can move from one forest to another. At the other extreme, snails don't really benefit from linkages at all. The entire book goes through such examples, presenting the advantages and disadvantages of linkages in the landscape, successes and failures, challenges, and the evidence both for and against them.
This is a very helpful book. Its overall coherence suffers somewhat from reliance on other people's studies, not all of which are directly comparable. But it's a good place to start.
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