Lifeboat Cities
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Lifeboat Cities
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Author : Brendan Gleeson
language : en
Publisher: UNSW Press
Release Date : 2010-10
Lifeboat Cities written by Brendan Gleeson and has been published by UNSW Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-10 with Political Science categories.
Today we find ourselves exhausted and depleted by natural and economic disruption. Worse, we face more of the same but on a greater, even more frightening scale. Hopeful and provocative, this book considers the principal social and ecological threats facing Australia, and outlines ways in which these crises need to be confronted and addressed. Brendan Gleeson wants to rouse us and his book makes a big statement about our collective future.
Lifeboat
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Author : John R. Stilgoe
language : en
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Release Date : 2003
Lifeboat written by John R. Stilgoe and has been published by University of Virginia Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
The fire extinguisher; the airline safety card; the lifeboat. Until September 11, 2001, most Americans paid homage to these appurtenances of disaster with a sidelong glance, if at all. But John Stilgoe has been thinking about lifeboats ever since he listened with his father as the kitchen radio announced that the liner Lakonia had caught fire and sunk in the Atlantic. It was Christmas 1963, and airline travel and Cold War paranoia had made the images of an ocean liner's distress--the air force dropping supplies in the dark, a freighter collecting survivors from lifeboats--seem like echoes of a bygone era. But Stilgoe, already a passionate reader and an aficionado of small-boat navigation, began to delve into accounts of other disasters at sea. What he found was a trunkful of hair-raising stories--of shipwreck, salvation, seamanship brilliant and inept, noble sacrifice, insanity, cannibalism, courage and cravenness, even scandal. In nonfiction accounts and in the works of Conrad, Melville, and Tomlinson, fear and survival animate and degrade human nature, in the microcosm of an open boat as in society at large. How lifeboats are made, rigged, and captained, Stilgoe discovered, and how accounts of their use or misuse are put down, says much about the culture and circumstances from which they are launched. In the hands of a skillful historian such as Stilgoe, the lifeboat becomes a symbol of human optimism, of engineering ingenuity, of bureaucratic regulation, of fear and frailty. Woven through Lifeboat are good old-fashioned yarns, thrilling tales of adventure that will quicken the pulse of readers who have enjoyed the novels of Patrick O'Brian, Crabwalk by G nter Grass, or works of nonfiction such as The Perfect Storm and In the Heart of the Sea. But Stilgoe, whose other works have plumbed suburban culture, locomotives, and the shore, is ultimately after bigger fish. Through the humble, much-ignored lifeboat, its design and navigation and the stories of its ultimate purpose, he has found a peculiar lens on roughly the past two centuries of human history, particularly the war-tossed, technology-driven history of man and the sea.
The Story Of The Dover Lifeboats
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Author : Jeff Morris
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2006
The Story Of The Dover Lifeboats written by Jeff Morris and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Lifeboat service categories.
History Of The Life Boat And Its Work
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Author : Richard Lewis
language : en
Publisher: London : Macmillan
Release Date : 1874
History Of The Life Boat And Its Work written by Richard Lewis and has been published by London : Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1874 with Lifeboats categories.
The Lifeboat Service In England The North East Coast
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Author : Nicholas Leach
language : en
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
Release Date : 2018-05-15
The Lifeboat Service In England The North East Coast written by Nicholas Leach and has been published by Amberley Publishing Limited this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-05-15 with Transportation categories.
Nicholas Leach has amassed a wealth of information about the lifeboats and lifeboat stations of the North East which he showcases here.
Resilient Cities 2
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Author : Konrad Otto-Zimmermann
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2012-05-04
Resilient Cities 2 written by Konrad Otto-Zimmermann and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-05-04 with Science categories.
Assembling papers originally presented at the Resilient Cities 2011 Congress in Bonn, Germany (June 2011), the second global forum on cities and adaptation to climate change, this volume is the second in a series resulting from this annual event. These cutting-edge papers represent the latest research on the topic and reflect the intensification of the debate on the meaning of and interaction between climate adaptation, risk reduction and broader resilience. Thus, contributors offer more material related to resilience, such as water, energy and food security; green infrastructure; the role of renewables and ecosystem services; vulnerable communities and urban poor; and responsive financing for adaptation and multi-level governance. Overall, the book brings a number of different perspectives to bear on the most pressing issues and controversies surrounding climate change adaptation in cities. These papers will prove invaluable to anyone interested in deepening their understanding of urban resilience and contributing to tackling climate change at the local level.
The Routledge Handbook Of Australian Urban And Regional Planning
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Author : Neil Sipe
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-08-25
The Routledge Handbook Of Australian Urban And Regional Planning written by Neil Sipe and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-08-25 with Architecture categories.
Where is planning in twenty-first-century Australia? What are the key challenges that confront planning? What does planning scholarship reveal about the state of planning practice in meeting the needs of urban and regional Australians? The Routledge Handbook of Australian Urban and Regional Planning includes 27 chapters that answer these and many other questions that confront planners working in urban and regional areas in twenty-first-century Australia. It provides a single source for cutting edge thinking and research across a broad range of the most important topics in urban and regional planning. Divided into six parts, this handbook explores: contexts of urban and regional planning in Australia critical debates in Australian planning planning policy climate change, disaster risk and environmental management engaging and taking planning action planning education and research This handbook is a valuable resource for advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students in urban planning, built environment, urban studies and public policy as well as academics and practitioners across Australia and internationally.
The Lifeboat Service In England The South West And Bristol Channel
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Author : Nicholas Leach
language : en
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
Release Date : 2016-01-15
The Lifeboat Service In England The South West And Bristol Channel written by Nicholas Leach and has been published by Amberley Publishing Limited this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-01-15 with Transportation categories.
The history of every lifeboat station on the South-West Coast along with rescue stories.
The City Of Grace
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Author : David Wadley
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2019-11-29
The City Of Grace written by David Wadley and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-11-29 with Social Science categories.
In this sweeping appraisal of the urban condition, David Wadley argues that anything less that high-level resolution in modelling the well-being of inhabitants is wasting precious time. Humanity is encountering rising entropy, caused by unsustainable economic and demographic expansion. Supported by a strong interdisciplinary backdrop featuring systems and crisis theories, The City of Grace tackles these obstacles by picturing gracious function and graceful form in a human-scale settlement. In an attempt to salvage things lost in the teleology of urban development over the last 100 years, the outlook is both heterodox and contrarian. How long can we all go on in the present way? In addressing grace, a more elevated concept than those focusing previous urban analyses, this manifesto aims not to placate or please but, instead, to get humanity to face the encompassing realities it tries so hard to forget.
The Lifeboat Service In South East England
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Author : Nicholas Leach
language : en
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
Release Date : 2014-04-15
The Lifeboat Service In South East England written by Nicholas Leach and has been published by Amberley Publishing Limited this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-04-15 with Transportation categories.
The history of the lifeboat service from East Anglia to East Sussex. Covering both daring rescues and the boats in service.