Elizabeth Urban's Books

Changing Urban Education

By: Simon Pratt-Adams,Meg Maguire,Elizabeth Burn

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Changing Urban Education

By: Simon Pratt-Adams,Meg Maguire,Elizabeth Burn

Introduces the debate surrounding teaching and learning in urban settings in contemporary Britain, and the impact this has on education. >

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

206

Publisher

A&C Black

Published Date

ISBN 10

1847060242

ISBN 13

9781847060242

Urban Environmental Policy Analysis

By: Heather E. Campbell,Elizabeth A Corley

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Urban Environmental Policy Analysis

By: Heather E. Campbell,Elizabeth A Corley

This timely book provides a wealth of useful information for following through on today's renewed concern for sustainability and environmentalism. It's designed to help city managers, policy analysts, and government administrators think comprehensively and communicate effectively about environmental policy issues.The authors illustrate a system-based framework model of the city that provides a holistic view of environmental media (land, air, and water) while helping decision-makers to understand the extent to which environmental policy decisions are intertwined with the natural, built, and social systems of the city. They go on to introduce basic and environment-specific policy-analytic models, methods, and tools; presents numerous specific environmental policy puzzles that will confront cities; and introduces methods for understanding and educating public opinions around urban environmental policy.The book is grounded in the policy-analytic perspective rather than political science, economic, or planning frameworks. It includes both new scholarship and synthesis of existing policy analysis. Numerous tables, figures, checklists, and maps, as well as a comprehensive reference list are included.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

447

Publisher

Routledge

Published Date

ISBN 10

1317452771

ISBN 13

9781317452775

Urban Waterfront Promenades

By: Elizabeth Macdonald

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Urban Waterfront Promenades

By: Elizabeth Macdonald

Some cities have long-treasured waterfront promenades, many cities have recently built ones, and others have plans to create them as opportunities arise. Beyond connecting people with urban water bodies, waterfront promenades offer many social and ecological benefits. They are places for social gathering, for physical activity, for relief from the stresses of urban life, and where the unique transition from water to land eco-systems can be nurtured and celebrated. The best are inclusive places, welcoming and accessible to diverse users. This book explores urban waterfront promenades worldwide. It presents 38 promenade case studies—as varied as Vancouver’s extensive network that has been built over the last century, the classic promenades in Rio de Janeiro, the promenades in Stockholm’s recently built Hammarby Sjöstad eco-district, and the Ma On Shan promenade in the Hong Kong New Territories—analyzing their physical form, social use, the circumstances under which they were built, the public policies that brought them into being, and the threats from sea level rise and the responses that have been made. Based on wide research, Urban Waterfront Promenades examines the possibilities for these public spaces and offers design and planning approaches useful for professionals, community decision-makers, and scholars. Extensive plans, cross sections, and photographs permit visual comparison.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

309

Publisher

Taylor & Francis

Published Date

ISBN 10

1317581369

ISBN 13

9781317581369

Inclusive Urban Design

Streets for Life

By: Elizabeth Burton,Lynne Mitchell

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Inclusive Urban Design

Streets for Life

By: Elizabeth Burton,Lynne Mitchell

This is the first book to address the design needs of older people and the disabled in the general outdoor built environment. It provides information on design principles essential to built environment professionals urban designers, planners and landscape architects who want to provide for all users of urban space and who wish to achieve true sustainability in their designs."--BOOK JACKET.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

202

Publisher

Elsevier

Published Date

ISBN 10

0750664584

ISBN 13

9780750664585

Household Economy And Urban Development

Sao Paulo 1765-1836

By: Elizabeth Anne Kuznesof

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Household Economy And Urban Development

Sao Paulo 1765-1836

By: Elizabeth Anne Kuznesof

Between 1765 and 1836 the household economy of São Paulo was transformed from a subsistence to a market-oriented economy. This transformation was paralleled by dramatic changes within society, existing kinship systems, and the organization of the household. The author suggests that this fundamental change in the mode of production was intentional, engineered by an interested elite of merchants and plantation owners who utilized local government bodies to promote the construction of centralized markets, roads, warehouses, and port facilities. The same group sponsored changes in local administration and land law in order to increase and control the resultant commerce in sugar and coffee. This book, based on household-level census data, looks at economic development at the micro level and analyzes how the change took place at a juncture in history when prior options seemed to disappear.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

232

Publisher

Routledge

Published Date

ISBN 10

0429712065

ISBN 13

9780429712067

The Urban Plays of the Early Abbey Theatre

Beyond O'Casey

By: Elizabeth Mannion

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Urban Plays of the Early Abbey Theatre

Beyond O'Casey

By: Elizabeth Mannion

Ireland’s Abbey Theatre was founded in 1904. Under the guidance of W. B. Yeats and Lady Augusta Gregory it became instrumental to the success of many of the leading Irish playwrights and actors of the early twentieth century. Conventional wisdom holds that the playwright Sean O’Casey was the first to offer a new vision of Irish authenticity in the people and struggles of inner-city Dublin in his groundbreaking trilogy The Shadow of a Gunman, The Plough and the Stars, and Juno and the Paycock. Challenging this view, Mannion argues that there was an established tradition of urban plays within the Abbey repertoire that has long been overlooked by critics. She seeks to restore attention to a lesser-known corpus of Irish urban plays, specifically those that appeared at the Abbey Theatre from the theatre’s founding until 1951, when the original theatre was destroyed by fire. Mannion illustrates distinct patterns within this Abbey urban genre and considers in particular themes of poverty, gender, and class. She provides historical context for the plays and considers the figures who helped shape the Abbey and this urban subset of plays. With detailed analysis of box office records and extensive appendixes of cast members and production schedules, this book offers a rich source of archival material as well as a fascinating revision to the story of this celebrated institution.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

240

Publisher

Syracuse University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0815653042

ISBN 13

9780815653042

Living Roofs in Integrated Urban Water Systems

By: Daniel Roehr,Elizabeth Fassman-Beck

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Living Roofs in Integrated Urban Water Systems

By: Daniel Roehr,Elizabeth Fassman-Beck

With the infrastructure to manage storm water threats in cities becoming increasingly expensive to build or repair, the design community needs to look at alternative approaches. Living roofs present an opportunity to compliment ground-level storm water control measures, contributing to a holistic, integrated urban water management system. This book offers tools to plan and design living roofs, in the context of effectively mitigating storm water. Quantitative tools for engineering calculations and qualitative discussion of potential influences and interactions of the design team and assembly elements are addressed.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

193

Publisher

Routledge

Published Date

ISBN 10

1317537033

ISBN 13

9781317537038

Urban Rehearsals and Novel Plots in the Early American City

By: Betsy Klimasmith

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Urban Rehearsals and Novel Plots in the Early American City

By: Betsy Klimasmith

Urban Rehearsals and Novel Plots in the Early American City sheds new light on the literature of the early US by exploring how literature, theatre, architecture, and images worked together to allow readers to imagine themselves as urbanites even before cities developed. In the four decades following the Revolutionary War, the new nation was a loose network of nascent cities connected by print. Before a national culture could develop, local city cultures took shape; literary texts played key roles in helping new Americans become city people. Drawing on extensive archival research, Urban Rehearsals argues that literature, particularly novels and plays, allowed Bostonians to navigate the transition from colonial town to post-revolution city, enabled Philadelphians to grieve their experiences of the 1793 Yellow Fever epidemic and rebuild in the epidemic's aftermath, and showed New Yorkers how the domestic practices that reinforced their urbanity could be opened to the broader public. Throughout, attention to underrepresented voices and texts calls attention to the possibilities for women, immigrants, and Black Americans in developing urban spaces, while showing how those possibilities would be foreclosed as the nation developed. Balancing attention to canonical texts of the early Republic, including The Power of Sympathy, Charlotte Temple, and Benjamin Franklin's Autobiography, with novels whose depiction of early cities deserves greater attention, such as Ormond, The Boarding-School, Monima, and Kelroy, this volume shows how US cities developed on the pages and stages of the early Republic, building urban imaginations that would construct the nation's early cities.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

276

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0192846213

ISBN 13

9780192846211

Four Years Old in an Urban Community

By: John Newson,Elizabeth Newson

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Four Years Old in an Urban Community

By: John Newson,Elizabeth Newson

Although psychologists by training, John and Elizabeth Newson have more aptly been described as pioneers in social ecology; they work from the conviction that the causes and the consequences of child-rearing attitudes can fruitfully be investigated only in the framework of the total social environment in which they occur. This book continues their analysis of child rearing in an English urban setting. To this project the Newsons have brought the rigorous research techniques of their scientific background; but they do not undervalue the practical experience of parenthood which has taught them to distrust the magical short cuts to "understanding" child development offered by the various theoretical schools of thought. They believe that much of the theory-building has been premature and that there is an urgent need for detailed descriptive studies of how parents do in fact treat their, children and, equally important, how children treat their parents: the constant two-way interaction through which the pattern of family life is evolved. The four-year-old child has been much discussed from the angle of nursery school education: this book breaks new ground in its description of nursery-age children in the much more basic and intimate context of the home. Written without recourse to unnecessary technical jargon, it will be of absorbing interest to every intelligent parent and indeed to anyone looking for new insights into the working of our society. For teachers, doctors, nurses, and all whose profession it is to work with young children or with their families, it will be both essential and enjoyable reading. John Newson and Elizabeth Newson in addition to this book are authors of The Family and the Handicapped Child: A Study of Cerebral Palsied Children in Their Homes and Infant Care in an Urban Community. They were professors of psychology at the University of Nottingham.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

570

Publisher

Transaction Publishers

ISBN 10

0202366146

ISBN 13

9780202366142

New Haven, a Guide to Architecture and Urban Design

By: Elizabeth Mills Brown

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

New Haven, a Guide to Architecture and Urban Design

By: Elizabeth Mills Brown

Fifteen tours of the city for pedestrians, cyclists, and motorists and information on cultural history accompany captioned photographs of more than five hundred buildings.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

242

Publisher

Yale University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0300019939

ISBN 13

9780300019933

Urban Country Style

By: Elizabeth Betts Hickman,Nancy Gent

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Urban Country Style

By: Elizabeth Betts Hickman,Nancy Gent

Urban Country Style" is an illustrated guide for mixing modern and vintageurnishings with a crisp, clean approach and a touch of the unexpected.ickman and Gent go beyond the generic idea of an "eclectic mix" and definehis popular emerging style by really showing readers how to achieve not only more stylish home, but a more functional one as well. At the heart of "rban Country Style" is the contrast between old and new, traditional andodern, chic sophistication and cozy comfort: a vintage table paired withontemporary metal chairs, French doors hung on overhead tracks like barnoors, and traditional wood cabinets alongside open stainless shelves alleflect the Urban Country philosophy.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

172

Publisher

Gibbs Smith

Published Date

ISBN 10

1423601599

ISBN 13

9781423601593

Book's by Elizabeth Urban

Changing Urban Education

Changing Urban Education

Urban Environmental Policy Analysis

Urban Environmental Policy Analysis

Urban Waterfront Promenades

Urban Waterfront Promenades

Inclusive Urban Design

Inclusive Urban Design

Household Economy And Urban Development

Household Economy And Urban Development

The Urban Plays of the Early Abbey Theatre

The Urban Plays of the Early Abbey Theatre

Living Roofs in Integrated Urban Water Systems

Living Roofs in Integrated Urban Water Systems

Urban Rehearsals and Novel Plots in the Early American City

Urban Rehearsals and Novel Plots in the Early American City

Four Years Old in an Urban Community

Four Years Old in an Urban Community

New Haven, a Guide to Architecture and Urban Design

New Haven, a Guide to Architecture and Urban Design

Urban Country Style

Urban Country Style

Username

Password

Username

Password

Password again

Birthday

Email