Author: Andrew PhippsPublisher:
ISBN: 9783936573541
Category :
Languages : de
Pages : 160
Book Description
Author: Andrew Phipps
Author: Andrew PhippsTransit Maps of the World
Author: Mark OvendenPublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0143128493
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 177
Book Description
A completely updated and expanded edition of the cult bestseller, featuring subway, light rail, and streetcar maps from New York to Nizhny Novgorod. Transit Maps of the World is the first and only comprehensive collection of historical and current maps of every rapid-transit system on earth. In glorious, colorful graphics, Mark Ovenden traces the cartographic history of mass transit—including rare and historic maps, diagrams, and photographs, some available for the first time since their original publication. Now expanded with thirty-six more pages, 250 city maps revised from previous editions, and listings given from almost a thousand systems in total, this is the graphic designer’s new bible, the transport enthusiast’s dream collection, and a coffee-table essential for everyone who’s ever traveled in a city.
Author: Andrew Phipps
Author: Tokyo in Transit
Author: Alisa FreedmanPublisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 0804771456
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
This work discusses literary depictions of mass transit in 20th century Tokyo in the decades preceding WWII. It cuts across literary and historical/sociological analysis, and contributes to the growing body of work examining Japanese urbanism, gender, and modernism.
Human Settlement Development - Volume III
Author: Saskia SassenPublisher: EOLSS Publications
ISBN: 1848260466
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
Human Settlement Development is a component of Encyclopedia of Institutional and Infrastructural Resources in the global Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems (EOLSS), which is an integrated compendium of twenty one Encyclopedias. The Theme on Human Settlement Development deals, in nine parts and four volumes , with a myriad of issues of great relevance to our world such as: Urban Sustainability and the Regional City System in the Asia Pacific; Peri-Urbanization: Zones of Rural - Urban Transition; Urban Sustainability: Theoretical Perspectives on Integrating Economic Development and the Environment; Rural Sustainability; Using Foreign Direct Investment to Improve Urban Environmental Infrastructure and Services- The Case of Hanoi, Vietnam; The Long Road Towards Sustainable Cities: The Dutch case; Urban Dimensions of Sustainable Development; Rural Development: Participation and Diversity for Sustainability; The Cities, the State and the Markets: In Search of Sustainability These four volumes are aimed at the following five major target audiences: University and College students Educators, Professional practitioners, Research personnel and Policy analysts, managers, and decision makers and NGOs.
Global Road Warrior
Author: Publisher: World Trade Press
ISBN: 9781885073860
Category : Business travel
Languages : en
Pages : 872
Book Description
The Global Road Warrior is the ultra-pragmatic reference for the international business communicator and traveler, containing critical information you need for survival and success while on the road internationally.
Railway Directory 2008
Author: Railway Gazette InternationalPublisher: Nicholson
ISBN: 9780955774003
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 716
Book Description
Providing an overview of global railway networks and services, 'Railway Directory 2008' outlines current issues and provides accurate data on all of the world's major networks.
