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Cities how humans live together
"If you could design a city that would be both a great place to live and good for the planet, what would it look like? Today, more than half the world's population lives in cities and many of those cities face big challenges, including the climate crisis, food insecurity...
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The declassification engine what history reveal ...
"A captivating study of US state secrecy that examines how officials use it to hoard power and prevent meaningful public oversight The United States was founded on the promise of a transparent government, but time and again we have abandoned the ideals of our open...
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A clean house? studies of corruption in Sweden
According to virtually all international corruption rankings, Sweden is one of the top performing countries with very few exposed incidents of corruption. But does this automatically imply that it can be declared a perfectly healthy patient? By extensively reviewing...
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Essays on Jane Jacobs
Jane Jacobs is an icon in urban planning. She became world-famous with her book The Death and Life of Great American Cities. Through her street-level activism in 1960s New York, she became a key figure in urban planning issues. In this anthology, the contributors provide...
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Sustainability assessments of urban systems
"The history of sustainability assessment goes back more than 20 years, with the first scientific articles devoted to the matter appearing in the mid-1990s, as laid out in Chapter 1. Starting off with approaches strongly influenced by the older tradition of environmental...