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Urban planners in developed countries are increasingly recognizing
the need for closer integration of land use and transport. However,
this updated second edition of How Great Cities Happen explains how
crises like climate change and the lack of affordable housing
demonstrate the urgent need for a broader approach in order to
create and sustain great cities. Offering innovative solutions to
these contemporary challenges, this second edition of How Great
Cities Happen examines new and emerging directions in strategic
land use transport planning and analyses how cities function as a
home for future generations and other species. Taking an integrated
approach, and building on the first edition, chapters explore a
broad range of issues concerning strategic urban planning. These
include planning for productivity growth; social inclusion and
wellbeing, with a particular focus on planning cities for children
and youth; housing affordability; environmental sustainability; and
integrated governance and funding arrangements. New issues covered
in this edition include pressing concerns like climate change and
biodiversity protection. The authors adopt a meticulous yet
non-technical and accessible approach, grounded in a blend of
academic and real-world experience of cities. This
transdisciplinary second edition will prove vital to students and
scholars of urban planning, transport economics, and social and
environmental policy, alongside professional planners and urban
policymakers.
Elgar Research Agendas outline the future of research in a given
area. Leading scholars are given the space to explore their subject
in provocative ways, and map out the potential directions of
travel. They are relevant but also visionary. Transport
significantly affects everyday life in our modern world.
Highlighting key challenges and opportunities, this Research Agenda
identifies current and future themes that are central to both
research and practice in the transport sector. With chapters
written by eminent scholars and practitioners, it provides readers
with a state-of-the art analysis of the topic. This Research Agenda
identifies areas of research required to inform transport policy
development that will in turn support improved societal outcomes.
Chapters examine transport policy from a range of different
viewpoints, offering insights into socio-economic environments, the
importance of technology, and the differing approaches to transport
policy across five continents. Transport is on the cusp of major
transformation, and such disruptive change demands the broad,
integrated approach that this Research Agenda provides. Written in
a non-technical style, this book will appeal to transport policy
practitioners, looking to improve current infrastructure to better
suit the needs of the future. Public policy and geography scholars
focusing on the impact and importance of transport will also find
this to be a valuable read.
Elgar Research Agendas outline the future of research in a given
area. Leading scholars are given the space to explore their subject
in provocative ways, and map out the potential directions of
travel. They are relevant but also visionary. Transport
significantly affects everyday life in our modern world.
Highlighting key challenges and opportunities, this Research Agenda
identifies current and future themes that are central to both
research and practice in the transport sector. With chapters
written by eminent scholars and practitioners, it provides readers
with a state-of-the art analysis of the topic. This Research Agenda
identifies areas of research required to inform transport policy
development that will in turn support improved societal outcomes.
Chapters examine transport policy from a range of different
viewpoints, offering insights into socio-economic environments, the
importance of technology, and the differing approaches to transport
policy across five continents. Transport is on the cusp of major
transformation, and such disruptive change demands the broad,
integrated approach that this Research Agenda provides. Written in
a non-technical style, this book will appeal to transport policy
practitioners, looking to improve current infrastructure to better
suit the needs of the future. Public policy and geography scholars
focusing on the impact and importance of transport will also find
this to be a valuable read.
Urban planners in developed countries are pushing hard for closer
integration of land use and transport. At the same time, gaps in
knowledge and understanding are becoming more apparent, as the
traditional focus has been on the shape of the city, rather than
how it functions as a place to live and visit. How Great Cities
Happen addresses this challenge by developing a wider,
all-encompassing agenda for more productive, inclusive and
sustainable cities. This book's innovative approach to land use and
transport planning covers such issues as: urban planning for
productivity growth; social inclusion and wellbeing (including what
makes a great city for children); and environmental sustainability.
Extensive discussions of affordable housing and analyses of funding
opportunities for increased investment in urban public transport
are also provided. In addition, the book offers a review of the
governance frameworks that can best integrate top-down strategic
thinking and bottom-up approaches into a more holistic strategy.
The authors adopt a meticulous yet non-technical approach, grounded
in a blend of academic and real-world experience of cities. The
work will appeal to students in urban planning, policy, economics,
transport economics and social and environmental policy.
Professional planners and urban policymakers will also benefit from
the strong policy orientation.
This comprehensive and accessible textbook introduces the basic
concepts of transport policy and decision-making to students of
transport policy, transport planning, urban transport, transport
evaluation and public policy.It presents the foundations and
rationale of transport policy, incorporating a review of the policy
formulation process and models of decision-making appropriate to
public sector policy-makers. Topics covered include: - The basics
of transport planning and traffic theory deemed necessary to
understand policy implications of issues including congestion,
safety and parking. - Potential solutions to problems such as road
user charges, travel demand management, voluntary travel behavior
change, transport system management and public transport
investment. - Prescriptions for technological change. - Discussion
of the need for an integrated land transport policy along with a
case study to illustrate how this might be developed for a typical
metropolitan area. Contents: 1. Introduction 2. History of
Transport with Policy Implications 3. Policy Needs and Policy
Processes 4. Economic and Sustainability Foundations 5. Traffic
Theory and Transport Planning Foundations 6. Social Exclusion 7.
Tackling the Externalities - Environment 8. Tackling the
Externalities - Health and Safety 9. Tackling the Externalities -
Congestion 10. Tackling the Externalities - Fuels and Technology
11. Agglomeration and Other Wider Economic Benefits 12. Road User
Charges 13. Potential Solutions - Public Transport Investment and
Technology 14. Potential Solutions - TSM, TDM, VTBC, etc 15. Goods
Movement 16. An Integrated Land Use/Transport Policy
This comprehensive and accessible textbook introduces the basic
concepts of transport policy and decision-making to students of
transport policy, transport planning, urban transport, transport
evaluation and public policy.It presents the foundations and
rationale of transport policy, incorporating a review of the policy
formulation process and models of decision-making appropriate to
public sector policy-makers. Topics covered include: - The basics
of transport planning and traffic theory deemed necessary to
understand policy implications of issues including congestion,
safety and parking. - Potential solutions to problems such as road
user charges, travel demand management, voluntary travel behavior
change, transport system management and public transport
investment. - Prescriptions for technological change. - Discussion
of the need for an integrated land transport policy along with a
case study to illustrate how this might be developed for a typical
metropolitan area. Contents: 1. Introduction 2. History of
Transport with Policy Implications 3. Policy Needs and Policy
Processes 4. Economic and Sustainability Foundations 5. Traffic
Theory and Transport Planning Foundations 6. Social Exclusion 7.
Tackling the Externalities - Environment 8. Tackling the
Externalities - Health and Safety 9. Tackling the Externalities -
Congestion 10. Tackling the Externalities - Fuels and Technology
11. Agglomeration and Other Wider Economic Benefits 12. Road User
Charges 13. Potential Solutions - Public Transport Investment and
Technology 14. Potential Solutions - TSM, TDM, VTBC, etc 15. Goods
Movement 16. An Integrated Land Use/Transport Policy
John Stanley's beloved classic now available in paperback Now
collected in an omnibus paperback, John Stanley's Melvin Monster is
about a good-natured monster boy whose sweet personality belies his
monstrous appearance. Melvin just wants to be good, go to school,
and do as he is told. Melvin's sunny optimism makes him an oddball
outcast in his Monsterville community, where he disappoints his
parents, "Mummy" and "Baddy," with his irrepressible sunny
disposition, and also continually escapes the wrath of their pet
alligator Cleopatra who only wants to eat Melvin whole. Gag after
gag, the acclaimed mid-century cartoonist Stanley sets Melvin up in
fairly quotidian situations that spiral into hilarious
ridiculousness, with a ferociously frenetic comedic timing.
Charmingly naïve, Melvin Monster draws its direct inspiration from
the 1960s monster craze and the work of cartoonist Charles Addams
and its television adaptation The Addams Family as well as The
Munsters, however, Melvin Monster is all its own with Stanley's
superior cartooning skills, melding pop colors, expressive lines,
and funny jokes on full display.
The publications of the Hakluyt Society (founded in 1846) made
available edited (and sometimes translated) early accounts of
exploration. The first series, which ran from 1847 to 1899,
consists of 100 books containing published or previously
unpublished works by authors from Christopher Columbus to Sir
Francis Drake, and covering voyages to the New World, to China and
Japan, to Russia and to Africa and India. This 1874 volume contains
an account of the first circumnavigation of the globe in 1519 1522
by Antonio Pigafetta, a Venetian member of Magellan's expedition.
It also contains Pigafetta's treatise on navigation, and other
material relating to Magellan's voyage, including log-books,
records by the pilot and others, and details of the crew and the
cost of the fleet. Pigafetta vividly recorded the geography,
climate, flora, fauna and the inhabitants of the places that the
expedition visited, as well as Magellan's death in the Philippines.
Healaugh Park began as a hermitage in the twelfth century before
being re-established as an Augustinian priory in 1218. It remained
a small and poor community, with seven canons in 1381 and six in
1535. The Chartulary was compiled in the early sixteenth century,
so it covers a much longer period than is usual. It comprises 194
folios, beginning with a pedigree of the Haget family, patrons of
the house, a list of priors, and documents relating to Healaugh's
early history. There is no geographical or chronological logic to
the arrangement of subsequent documents, nor any attempt to date
them. The last twenty folios contain later material, mostly in
English, which is interesting for the study of dialect and
pronunciation at the time, and topographical information. Valuable
to local historians, the Chartulary also shows how such small
foundations struggled with financial and disciplinary matters.
English summaries of the Latin documents are provided.
The publications of the Hakluyt Society (founded in 1846) made
available edited (and sometimes translated) early accounts of
exploration. The first series, which ran from 1847 to 1899,
consists of 100 books containing published or previously
unpublished works by authors from Christopher Columbus to Sir
Francis Drake, and covering voyages to the New World, to China and
Japan, to Russia and to Africa and India. Vasco de Gama (c. 1460
1524) was a Portuguese explorer who commanded the first European
expedition to sail directly to India. He was later appointed
Viceroy of Portuguese India in 1524. This volume, first published
in 1869, contains an account of his expeditions written by the
Portuguese historian Gaspar Correa (c. 1496 c. 1563), taken from
his book Lendas da India. His work is an important contemporary
history of Portuguese colonialism in India, using contemporary
sources not available to later Portuguese historians.
The publications of the Hakluyt Society (founded in 1846) made
available edited (and sometimes translated) early accounts of
exploration. The first series, which ran from 1847 to 1899,
consists of 100 books containing published or previously
unpublished works by authors from Christopher Columbus to Sir
Francis Drake, and covering voyages to the New World, to China and
Japan, to Russia and to Africa and India. This volume contains an
English translation of a description of Ethiopia written by
Francisco Alvarez (c.1465 c.1540) during the six years he spent as
a missionary with the Portuguese embassy to the Emperor of
Ethiopia. Alverez describes Orthodox Christian monasteries and
churches, compares the Orthodox and Catholic rites, and provides
the first known descriptions of the ancient city of Axum in this,
the earliest surviving Western description of Ethiopia, first
published in English in 1881.
The publications of the Hakluyt Society (founded in 1846) made
available edited (and sometimes translated) early accounts of
exploration. The first series, which ran from 1847 to 1899,
consists of 100 books containing published or previously
unpublished works by authors from Christopher Columbus to Sir
Francis Drake, and covering voyages to the New World, to China and
Japan, to Russia and to Africa and India. This volume contains six
narratives by Venetian diplomats of travel to Persia in the
fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries. Barbaro's account is given
in a sixteenth-century translation; the others were made for this
edition. These stories of travel, by land and by sea, to distant
destinations are full of engaging detail about the customs of the
countries visited, and also about the negotiations by which the
Venetian Signoria and Uzun Hassan, the ruler of Persia, tried to
form an alliance against the Ottoman Turks.
The fastest growth in tourism is the culinary sector. Covering
farmers markets, taste tours, agri-entertainment, glamping,
restaurants, farm shops and more, food tourism has become both an
important part of holidaying and a purpose in itself. With growth
occurring in most developed countries and tourists searching out
culinary tourism throughout the world, this book provides an
overall direction to the development of food tourism and a section
on the future of this trend.
Lulu Moppet is back with even more outlandish adventures and
misadventures, as cartoonist John Stanley settles into kooky and
entertaining suburban storylines starring Lulu, Tubby, Alvin, and
the rest of the gang. Lulu is a strong, assertive young girl who is
both entertaining and empowering to girls and women of all ages
even if she sometimes finds herself in hot water. In Little Lulu:
The Fuzzythingus Poopi, she outsmarts criminals, sabotages the boys
in a masterful snowball fight, and solves the crime of the missing
piggy bank! Over the course of these stories, Stanley excels at
visual gags, from Lulu winning the soap box derby by turning her
frock into a sail, to a lonely cloud almost getting sucked up by a
vacuum. This is the second installment in Drawn & Quarterly s
landmark reprint series of the classic John Stanley comic strip
that was first published by Dell Comics in the 1940s and 50s.
Little Lulu: The Fuzzythingus Poopi will delight longtime fans of
the series and new readers alike.
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The Last Seven (DVD)
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Low-budget British thriller starring Danny Dyer, Tamer Hassan and
Simon Phillips. Set in an eerie post-apocalyptic London, the film
tells the story of seven people who are the only remaining
survivors after an unspecified cataclysmic event has wiped out the
Earth's entire population. As they struggle to understand what has
happened to them, the seven are hunted down one by one by a
mysterious demonic power.
The fastest growth in tourism is the culinary sector. Covering
farmers markets, taste tours, agri-entertainment, glamping,
restaurants, farm shops and more, food tourism has become both an
important part of holidaying and a purpose in itself. With growth
occurring in most developed countries and tourists searching out
culinary tourism throughout the world, this book provides an
overall direction to the development of food tourism and a section
on the future of this trend.
Lulu Moppet is an outspoken, brazen young girl who doesn't follow
the rules--whether they've been set by her parents, the
neighborhood boys, or society itself. In spring 2019 D+Q begins a
landmark reissue series of Lulu's suburban hijinks: she goes on
picnics, babysits, and attempts to break into the boys' clubhouse
again and again. The cartoonist John Stanley's expert timing and
constant gags made these stories unbelievably enjoyable, which made
Marge's Little Lulu a defining comic of the postwar period. First
released in the 1940s and 1950s as Dell comics, Little Lulu as
helmed by Stanley remains one of the most entertaining works in the
medium. In this first volume, Little Lulu: Working Girl, we meet
the mainstay characters: Lulu, Tubby, Alvin, and oodles more
neighborhood kids. Little Lulu's comedy lies in the hilarious
dynamic between its cast of characters, so it's a joy to see them
come to life. Lulu's assertiveness, individuality, and creativity
is empowering to witness--the series is powerfully feminist despite
the decades in which the stories were created. It's her strong
personality that made her beloved by such feminist icons as Patti
Smith, Eileen Myles, and more. Lovingly restored to its original
full color, complete with knee-slapping humor and insightful
representation of how young children behave, Little Lulu: Working
Girl is a delight for readers of all ages.
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