Deakin Lecture 2008 - Cities and Nations of the Future
Griffith Review 20: Cities On The Edge
$19.95 (Paperback book / Abc Books )
Most people now live in cities which are increasingly under
stress. Making cities more liveable, more sustainable and more fun
is the challenge of the next decade.
The lead essay is by the most outstanding young urban p... More »
Fluid City Transforming Melbourne
$59.95 (Paperback book / Univ Nsw Pr )
Fluid City traces the transformation of Melbourne’s urban waterfront during the period 1983 to 2004, as the city turned its face to the water and the world, re-inventing itself to attract new flows of global capital.
T... More »
Concrete Dragon
$59.50 (Hardcover book / Princeton Archit. Pr )
China is the most rapidly urbanizing nation in the world, with an urban population that may well reach one billion within a generation. Over the past 25 years, surging economic growth has propelled a construction boom un... More »
Future City Experiment And Utopia In Architecture
$59.95 (Paperback book / Thames And Hudson )
For millennia, architects and builders have attempted to rationalize cities into well-functioning and liveable places. While many aspects of a city evolve naturally, other facets result from human interventions and radic... More »
Whos Your City How The Creative Economy Is Making Where You Live The Most Important Decision In Your Life
$48.95 (Hardcover book / Basic Books )
It’s a mantra of the age of globalization that where we live doesn’t matter. We can innovate just as easily from a ski chalet in Aspen or a beachhouse in Provence as in the office of a Silicon Valley startup. According t... More »
The End Of Charity
$26.95 (Paperback book / Allen & Unwin )
Nic Frances is a social entrepreneur. He once ran the Brotherhood of St Laurance. This is the story of how he came to understand that charity can never deliver a just and sustainable world. It is only through a value-cen... More »
Common Wealth: Economics For A Crowded Planet
$32.95 (Trade paperback / Allen Lane )
In this book Jeffrey Sachs, one of the world's leading economists and author of the bestselling The End of Poverty, analyses and addresses the great, and interconnected, global challenges of the twenty-first century. A s... More »
Futurecast 2020: A Global Blueprint
$39.95 (Trade paperback / Profile )
Rapid technological advances, globalisation, unparalleled demographic changes and the rise of China and India as superpowers mean that we are entering an unprecedented age. Rob Shapiro employs his immense experience in i... More »
Creating A World Without Poverty How Social Business Can Transform Our Lives
$29.95 (Paperback book / Public Affairs )
In the last two decades, free markets have swept the globe, bringing with them enormous potential for positive change. But traditional capitalism cannot solve problems like inequality and poverty, because it is hampered ... More »
Dear Mr Rudd: Ideas For A Better Australia
$29.95 (Paperback book / Black Inc )
With the election of the Rudd government, there is revived interest in the nation’s future – both the challenges and the opportunities. What kind of future can we imagine for Australia?
Dear Mr Rudd offers new essays... More »
Metropolitan World Atlas
$76.50 (Paperback book / 010, Rotterdam )
Despite the burgeoning interest in metropolitan growth and globalisation there has been no way of directly comparing metropolises – until now, that is. This atlas offers a unique survey of global trade networks and their... More »
Image And The Region
$70.00 (Paperback book / Lars Muller )
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Field Guide To Sprawl With Aerial Photographs By Jim Wark
$26.95 (Paperback book / W W Norton )
A lexicon of the colorful slang, from alligator investment to zoomburb, that defines sprawl in America today. Duck, ruburb, tower farm, big box, and pig-in-a-python are among dozens of zany terms invented by real estate ... More »