Cities and Nature

  • Cities and Nature
    By John Rennie Short, Lisa Benton-Short

    Mecca as pilgrimage site Wolfe, M. (ed.)(1999) One Thousand Roads to Mecca: Ten CenturiesofTravelers Writing About The Muslim Pilgrimage, New York:Grove. On New Orleans Colten, C. (ed.) (2000) Transforming New Orleans and Its Environs, ...

  • Cities and Nature
    By John Rennie Short, Lisa Benton-Short

    Wheeler, S. (2004) Planning for Sustainability.' Creating Livable, Equitable and Ecological Communities. London and New York: Routledge, p. 23. Wheeler, Planningfor Sustainability, pp. 23-5. Girardet, H. (1999) “Sustainable cities: a ...

  • Cities and Nature
    By John Rennie Short, Lisa Benton-Short

    Pearce, D. and Barboer, E. (2000) Blueprint for a Sustainable Economy, London: Earthscan. Jenkins, J., Riemann, R., Groffman, P., Pouyat, R. V., Grove, J. M., Nowak, D. and Birdsey, R. (2001) “What do urbanized regions contribute to the ...

  • Cities and Nature
    By John Rennie Short, Lisa Benton-Short

    Over the long term the river has shifted its position as it deposits sediment and creates new river courses. The river is continually changing course because of the changing topography and the gravitation pull of searching for the ...

  • Cities and Nature
    By Lisa Benton-Short, John R. Short

    Chafe, Z. (2007) “Reducing natural disaster risk in cities”, In State of The World: Our Urban Future, New York: Norton, pp. 112-129; see also, Bull–Kamanga, L., ... Sawislak, K. (1995) Smoldering City; Chicagoans and the Great Fire ...

  • Cities and Nature: A Handbook for Renewal
    By Roger L. Kemp

    Cities and towns across the United States are making concerted efforts to restore nature and increase green space as a means of community renewal and downtown revitalization. For local government...