Northscapes
History, Technology, and the Making of Northern Environments
Northscapes examines concepts of North and the way in which different northern environments are shaped by the intersection of technology and human societies.
- Copyright year: 2013
How to Study Public Life
Methods in Urban Design
- Copyright year: 2013
A Timeless Place
The Ontario Cottage
An exploration of the personal, social, and cultural meanings of the iconic Canadian cottage.
- Copyright year: 2013
Measuring Urban Design
Metrics for Livable Places
Red Stamps and Gold Stars
Fieldwork Dilemmas in Upland Socialist Asia
A multi-disciplinary volume reflecting on the fieldwork practices and dilemmas of researchers studying ethnic minorities in upland socialist Asia, specifically China, Vietnam, and Laos.
- Copyright year: 2013
Inventing Stanley Park
An Environmental History
A timely exploration of how the interplay between attitudes toward nature, parks policy, public memory, and the force of nature helped shape one of the world’s most famous urban parks.
- Copyright year: 2013
Designing Suburban Futures
New Models from Build a Better Burb
Social Transformation in Rural Canada
Community, Cultures, and Collective Action
A series of stories, ideas, and insights into the social dynamics of change within rural Canada that help communities forge new ways of understanding and relating to each other and to the broader world.
- Copyright year: 2013
Kwakwa̲ka̲'wakw Settlements, 1775-1920
A Geographical Analysis and Gazetteer
This book provides a geographic overview of the demography and settlement patterns of the Kwakwa̲ka̲'wakw, who lived in northern Vancouver Island and the adjacent mainland of British Columbia.
- Copyright year: 1994
Investing in Place
Economic Renewal in Northern British Columbia
A compelling exploration of place-based development as a timely, pragmatic approach to renewing rural and small-town economies in northern British Columbia.
- Copyright year: 2012
Planning as if People Matter
Governing for Social Equity
This book goes beyond theory to give real-world examples of how better planning can level inequities.
- Copyright year: 2012
Stewardship of the Built Environment
Sustainability, Preservation, and Reuse
Stewardship of the Built Environment shows how rehabilitating and reusing existing structures holds untapped potential for achieving sustainable communities.
- Copyright year: 2012
The Shape of Green
Aesthetics, Ecology, and Design
The Shape of Green argues that beauty is inherent to sustainability, for how things look and feel is as important as how they’re made.
- Copyright year: 2012
Climate and Conservation
Landscape and Seascape Science, Planning, and Action
Climate and Conservation offers readers tangible, place-based examples of projects designed to protect large landscapes as a means of conserving biodiversity in the face of the looming threat of global climate change.
- Copyright year: 2012
Green Cities of Europe
Global Lessons on Green Urbanism
With Green Cities of Europe, Beatley offers the North American planning community not only a vision of holistic sustainability, but a clear guide to accomplishing it at home.
- Copyright year: 2011
Human Transit
How Clearer Thinking about Public Transit Can Enrich OurCommunities and Our Lives
This book explains the fundamental geometry of transit that shapes successful systems; the process for fitting technology to a particular community; and the local choices that lead to transit-friendly development.
- Copyright year: 2011
City Rules
How Regulations Affect Urban Form
City Rules offers a challenge to students and professionals in urban planning, design, and policy to change the rules of city-building, using regulations to reinvigorate, rather than stifle, our communities.
- Copyright year: 2012
Health in Rural Canada
This topical, comprehensive volume surveys the current state of rural health and health care across Canada to enhance our knowledge of health differences and similarities across Canadian geographies.
- Copyright year: 2012
Rethinking the Great White North
Race, Nature, and the Historical Geographies of Whiteness in Canada
Rethinking the Great White North explores the troubling side of the images of whiteness and wilderness that are so central to Canadian national identity.
- Copyright year: 2011