<I><P>The Routledge Companion to Twentieth and Early Twenty-First Century Urban Design </I>is a fully illustrated descriptive and explanatory history of the development of urban design ideas and paradigms of the past 150 years. The ideas and projects, hypothetical and built, range in scale from the city to the urban block level. The focus is on where the generic ideas originated, the projects that were designed following their precepts, the functions they address and/or afford, and what we can learn from them.</P><P>The morphology of a city¿its built environment¿evolves unselfconsciously as private and governmental investors self-consciously erect buildings and infrastructure in a pragmatic, piecemeal manner to meet their own ends. Philosophers, novelists, architects, and social scientists have produced myriad ideas about the nature of the built environment that they consider to be superior to those forms resulting from a laissez-faire attitude to urban development.</P><P>Rationalist t
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This book addresses the aesthetic and social contexts of Canadian poetry written in the 20th and 21st centuries: it models for its readers the critical and theoretical discourses needed to understand the contexts of literary production in Canada.
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<p><em>The Routledge Companion to Art and Activism in the Twenty-First Century</em> brings together a wide range of geographical, cultural, historical, and conceptual perspectives in a single volume of new essays that facilitate a deeper...
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Events in the United States during the 1950s, ''60s, and ''70s created tectonic shifts in how the police operated. This was especially true in terms of their relationship with society. These events included, among others: the due process...
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Surveying the relationship between American politics and the twentieth-century novel, this volume analyzes how political movements, ideas, and events shaped the American novel. It also shows how those political phenomena were shaped in turn by long-form...
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