Download or read book Urban Survival and Traffic written by Thomas Eifion Hopkins Williams and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Urban Survival and traffic written by Thomas Eifion Hopkins Williams and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Urban Survival and Traffic written by and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Urban Cyclist s Survival Guide written by James Rubin and published by Triumph Books (IL). This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What should a cyclist do after getting hit by a car? What lesson learned by bicycle cops can teach normal cyclists how to avoid theft? What is the most expensive bike ever made? What are the most potentially lethal accessories that any cyclist should think twice before buying? The Urban Cyclist's Survival Guide by James Rubin and Scott Rowan answers all the questions that commuters have when thinking about using their bike instead of car or public transportation to get around.
Download or read book The Art of Urban Survival a Family Safety and Self Defense Manual written by Stefan Verstappen and published by Stefan Verstappen. This book was released on 2011-06 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The complete guide to survival in the concrete jungle. The modern urban environment is rife with dangers. Crime, violence, natural disasters, wars, and terrorism are real life possibilities for which few people are prepared. The Art of Urban Survival offers readers simple, safe, and practical advice on how to prepare for, and react to dozens of life threatening situations. The author draws from psychology, sociology and anthropology to provide a deeper understanding of the laws of the urban jungle. In addition, elements of military strategy, eastern martial arts, and wilderness survival techniques are included to provide information on the full spectrum of urban survival skills.
Download or read book Urban Transportation Research and Planning Current Literature written by and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Settlement Spaces Urban Survival Prospects of China s Special Communities written by Xiao Wu and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-10-16 with total page 688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the settlement space of special communities in China on the community scale from an interdisciplinary approach that combines perspectives from urban planning and sociology. Using the framework of integration response, it theoretically and empirically explores the approaches these communities adopt to survive and evolve. Empirically, this discussion centers on four particular groups, namely international students, land-lost peasants, ethnic minorities, and migrant workers, and offers an analysis of their settlement spaces from different perspectives. Theoretically, this study optimizes the logic of one-way integration as used in classical theories. By constructing a two-way linkage in the theoretical framework of integration response, it provides a multi-scenario interpretation and summary of the laws of survival and evolution that govern the urban settlements of special communities in China. This study conforms to the major transformations that China has undergone in the concepts, models, and orientation of its development since the 18th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party. Furthermore, it renders profound research value and bears practical significance for the adjustment and management of urban spatial patterns in China, social care for marginalized groups, and the construction of a harmonious and moderately prosperous society. This study provides valuable reference for educators, researchers, and management personnel across various fields, including urban planning, geography, and sociology.
Download or read book The Cities in Tomorrow s World written by David Reuben Michelsohn and published by Julian Messner. This book was released on 1973 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses problems such as housing shortages, environmental pollution, and poor public transportation that challenge urban survival.
Download or read book Survival City written by Tom Vanderbilt and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2010-04-15 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the road to Survival City, Tom Vanderbilt maps the visible and invisible legacies of the cold war, exhuming the blueprints for the apocalypse we once envisioned and chronicling a time when we all lived at ground zero. In this road trip among ruined missile silos, atomic storage bunkers, and secret test sites, a lost battleground emerges amid the architecture of the 1950s, accompanied by Walter Cotten’s stunning photographs. Survival City looks deep into the national soul, unearthing the dreams and fears that drove us during the latter half of the twentieth century. “A crucial and dazzling book, masterful, and for me at least, intoxicating.”—Dave Eggers “A genuinely engaging book, perhaps because [Vanderbilt] is skillful at conveying his own sense of engagement to the reader.”—Los Angeles Times “A retracing of Dr. Strangelove as ordinary life.”—Greil Marcus, Bookforum
Download or read book Traffic in Towns written by Colin Buchanan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-05-08 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traffic in Towns, also known as the Buchanan Report, is regarded as one of the most influential planning documents of the twentieth century. The report reflected mounting concern about the impact on Britain’s towns and cities of rapid growth in the ownership and use of motor vehicles. Its purpose was to evaluate policy options for reducing the threat of traffic congestion to urban circulation and quality of life. Two main conclusions were drawn from the report: firstly, the need for large-scale reconstruction to make Britain’s cities fit for the ‘motor age’, including split-level megastructures and urban motorways; and secondly, the simultaneous need to preserve parts of the city, especially residential areas as car-free zones or ‘environmental areas’. In Britain, successive governments drew back from implementing the full recommendations of the Study Group, despite initial cross-party support. The prohibitive cost of city-centre redevelopment and motorway construction meant a ‘comprehensive’ solution to the problem of urban traffic on Buchanan lines was never attempted. However, local authorities in a variety of British cities, such as Glasgow, Leicester and Leeds took up aspects of the Report. Internationally, too, the Report had a major impact in countries such as Sweden, Italy and Australia. In the longer term, the influence of the Report may be best judged by the incremental changes it set in train such as pedestrianization of city centres, traffic calming, and other measures linked to Buchanan’s concept of ‘environmental areas’. In focusing attention on the effects of mass motorization on the urban environment Traffic in Towns set the terms of debate for a generation, pre-figuring recent discussion about the car and urban sustainability.
Download or read book Traffic Planning and Engineering written by F. D. Hobbs and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2016-01-21 with total page 561 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traffic Planning and Engineering, Second Edition takes into account underlying trends in traffic planning and engineering. In this edition, Chapter 3 has been remodeled, focusing on the techniques on conducting surveys and their subsequent analysis. Further emphasis has also been provided on environmental management and the central role of computers in all aspects of traffic planning and engineering. The topics discussed in this book include administration and planning in traffic engineering; traffic studies; traffic surveys and analysis; parking; traffic and environmental management; and road user, the vehicle and the road. The traffic stream and capacity; traffic control systems; street lighting, traffic signs, and carriageway markings; and accidents and road safety are also deliberated in this text. This publication is valuable to traffic engineering students, as well as individuals researching on techniques to achieve the safe and efficient movement of people and goods on roadways.
Download or read book Urbanman the Psychology of Urban Survival written by John Helmer and published by New York : Free Press. This book was released on 1973 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explains the concept of relative size by comparing the "large" and "small" characteristics of various objects, animals, and people.
Download or read book The Prepper s Urban Survival Guide to Los Angeles written by Yoni Binstock and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-09-03 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We live in a chaotic world where disasters, manmade or natural, can strike at any time. Earthquakes, wildfires, blackouts, and acts of terrorism are all real threats and if you want to keep your family safe, you need to be prepared. Unlike survivalist books or fringe websites that expect the imminent end of the world, this book doesn't endorse getting a cabin in the country, going off the grid, building an arsenal of weapons, or any other unrealistic suggestion to prepare for a doomsday scenario. Instead, The Prepper's Urban Survival Guide to Los Angeles is a guidebook written specifically for Los Angeles on how to stay safe during a city-wide emergency with practical and common-sense advice. In the book, we'll have a list for anyone living in Los Angeles of geographically relevant disasters, evacuation routes, and city-specific emergency plans, and other important information they need to know to either hunker down or evacuate the city. Some things you'll learn Previous Los Angeles disasters The emergency plans of the city What to keep in your emergency supplies How to put together a bug out bag What route and mode of transport you should take during an evacuation How to take care of pets during a disaster As a bonus, there is an extended list resources to help you be fully prepared in any emergency. "I like that the book had a lot of practical resources in it. I especially like the reference maps highlighting key areas. I'll be keeping this one in my glove compartment." - Luis Perez "This book is full of great material. What I especially liked was unlike TV shows like Doomsday Preppers or other sites that recommend moving out to the boondocks and loading up on ammunition, this book was very practical with its suggestions. The author realizes that the vast majority of people don't want to go full out "prepper," but instead want a simple and gradual list of things to do to better prepare for a city-wide disaster. If that's what you're looking for, you should check out the book." - Wendy Selig "As a Los Angeles resident, this book was exactly what I was looking for. It has a ton of checklist and practical material to use that's specific for disasters and emergencies in the Los Angeles area. I don't consider myself a "prepper," but I wanted to know how to take care of my family when the s**t hits the fan. This guide did a great job in helping me figure out what to do when my kids are in school, how to avoid deadlock traffic during an evacuation, and what to use in my bug-out bag. I highly recommend it." - Jamie Lee Buy the book today and be prepared for any disaster.
Download or read book They Eat Our Sweat written by Daniel E. Agbiboa and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Accounts of corruption in Africa and the Global South are generally overly simplistic and macro-oriented, and commonly disconnect everyday (petty) corruption from political (grand) corruption. In contrast to this tendency, They Eat Our Sweat offers a fresh and engaging look at the corruption complex in Africa through a micro analysis of its informal transport sector, where collusion between state and nonstate actors is most rife. Focusing on Lagos, Nigeria's commercial capital and Africa's largest city, Daniel Agbiboa investigates the workaday world of road transport operators as refracted through the extortion racket and violence of transport unions acting in complicity with the state. Steeped in an embodied knowledge of Lagos and backed by two years of thorough ethnographic fieldwork, including working as an informal bus conductor, Agbiboa provides an emic perspective on precarious labour, popular agency and the daily pursuit of survival under the shadow of the modern world system. Corruption, Agbiboa argues, is not rooted in Nigerian culture but is shaped by the struggle to get by and get ahead on the fast and slow lanes of Lagos. The pursuit of economic survival compels transport operators to participate in the reproduction of the very transgressive system they denounce. They Eat Our Sweat is not just a book about corruption but also about transportation, politics, and governance in urban Africa.
Download or read book SAS Urban Survival Handbook written by John "Lofty" Wiseman and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-04-10 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John "Lofty" Wiseman is the author of the bestselling SAS Survival Handbook, the definitive guide to survival in the wild from Britain's Special Air Service. Now he has compiled a complete guide to survival in the urban jungle. Every year in America there are thousands of fatal accidents in the home—more than on the roads, and many more than in the great outdoors. Fire, electricity, water, gas, sharp knives, poisons, chemicals—these valuable tools can quickly become dangerous weapons when not treated with proper respect and understanding. Add to these the risks of travel, terrorism, muggings, rape, tsunamis, and earthquakes. We are constantly reminded that the world is a dangerous place. Wiseman shows readers how to think realistically and practically about these perils in order to avoid them, whether they are at home, on the street, in school, or in transit. From self-defense techniques to home security systems to coping with natural disasters, this book will teach readers to recognize risks, make quick decisions, and live confidently in the modern urban world.
Download or read book Strong Towns written by Charles L. Marohn, Jr. and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2019-10-01 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new way forward for sustainable quality of life in cities of all sizes Strong Towns: A Bottom-Up Revolution to Build American Prosperity is a book of forward-thinking ideas that breaks with modern wisdom to present a new vision of urban development in the United States. Presenting the foundational ideas of the Strong Towns movement he co-founded, Charles Marohn explains why cities of all sizes continue to struggle to meet their basic needs, and reveals the new paradigm that can solve this longstanding problem. Inside, you’ll learn why inducing growth and development has been the conventional response to urban financial struggles—and why it just doesn’t work. New development and high-risk investing don’t generate enough wealth to support itself, and cities continue to struggle. Read this book to find out how cities large and small can focus on bottom-up investments to minimize risk and maximize their ability to strengthen the community financially and improve citizens’ quality of life. Develop in-depth knowledge of the underlying logic behind the “traditional” search for never-ending urban growth Learn practical solutions for ameliorating financial struggles through low-risk investment and a grassroots focus Gain insights and tools that can stop the vicious cycle of budget shortfalls and unexpected downturns Become a part of the Strong Towns revolution by shifting the focus away from top-down growth toward rebuilding American prosperity Strong Towns acknowledges that there is a problem with the American approach to growth and shows community leaders a new way forward. The Strong Towns response is a revolution in how we assemble the places we live.
Download or read book Liveable Urban Streets written by M. Sue Gerson and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
