Kate Brown is Associate Professor of History at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County and the author of A Biography of No Place: From Ethnic Borderland to Soviet Heartland, winner of the American Historical Association's George Louis Beer Prize. A 2009 Guggenheim Fellow, her work has also appeared in the Times Literary Supplement, American Historical Review, Chronicle of...(展开全部)

A direct and fundamentally optimistic indictment of the short-sightedness and intellectual arrogance that has characterized much of urban planning in this century, The Death and Life of Great American Cities has, since its first publication in 1961, become the standard against which all endeavors in that field are measured. In prose of outstanding immediacy, Jane Jacobs write...(展开全部)

A direct and fundamentally optimistic indictment of the short-sightedness and intellectual arrogance that has characterized much of urban planning in this century, The Death and Life of Great American Cities has, since its first publication in 1961, become the standard against which all endeavors in that field are measured. In prose of outstanding immediacy, Jane Jacobs write...(展开全部)

Thirty years after its publication, "The Death and Life of Great American Cities" was described by "The New York Times" as "perhaps the most influential single work in the history of town planning.... It] can also be seen in a much larger context. It is first of all a work of literature; the descriptions of street life as a kind of ballet and the bitingly satiric account of tra...(展开全部)

A chilling account of seventy years of nuclear catastrophes, by the author of the “definitive” (Economist) Cold War history, Nuclear Folly. Nuclear energy was embraced across the globe at the height of the nuclear industry in the 1960s and 1970s; today, there are 440 nuclear reactors operating throughout the world, with nuclear power providing 10 percent of world electricity. Y...(展开全部)

A chilling account of seventy years of nuclear catastrophes, by the author of the “definitive” (Economist) Cold War history, Nuclear Folly. Nuclear energy was embraced across the globe at the height of the nuclear industry in the 1960s and 1970s; today, there are 440 nuclear reactors operating throughout the world, with nuclear power providing 10 percent of world electricity. Y...(展开全部)

The Accidental Ecosystem tells the story of how cities across the United States went from having little wildlife to filling, dramatically and unexpectedly, with wild creatures. Today, many of these cities have more large and charismatic wild animals living in them than at any time in at least the past 150 years. Why have so many cities—the most artificial and human-dominated of...(展开全部)

胜利的喜悦...失败的痛苦。《设计灾难》抓住了成功的另一面，即洞察力，安慰和失败的行为力量。这并不是指所有的失败。而是特指设计失败。特别是哪些公众的，丢脸的设计。那些真正伟大的设计师是怎样把这些设计灾难变成成功的设计的呢？阅读此书，你就能了解作为顶级设计师的心酸，极其可笑的精力，他们反过的错，他们如何从经验错误中发展壮大起来。这些错误包括：自欺欺人、承诺过多，拖延、错过了最后期限，愤怒的客户，是的，这些错误他们都犯过。阅读《设计灾难》可以让你收到鼓舞，让你发现摆脱颓势的希望。 The thrill of victory…the agony of defeat. Design Disasters captures the flip side of success, bringing insight, solace, and energy to the ...(展开全部)

胜利的喜悦...失败的痛苦。《设计灾难》抓住了成功的另一面，即洞察力，安慰和失败的行为力量。这并不是指所有的失败。而是特指设计失败。特别是哪些公众的，丢脸的设计。那些真正伟大的设计师是怎样把这些设计灾难变成成功的设计的呢？阅读此书，你就能了解作为顶级设计师的心酸，极其可笑的精力，他们反过的错，他们如何从经验错误中发展壮大起来。这些错误包括：自欺欺人、承诺过多，拖延、错过了最后期限，愤怒的客户，是的，这些错误他们都犯过。阅读《设计灾难》可以让你收到鼓舞，让你发现摆脱颓势的希望。 The thrill of victory…the agony of defeat. Design Disasters captures the flip side of success, bringing insight, solace, and energy to the ...(展开全部)

In the seven essays of Cities and the Creative Class - four of which have been previously published - Richard Florida outlines how certain cities succeed in attracting members of the "creative class." This class, roughly speaking, is composed of the millions of people who work in information-age economic sectors and in industries driven by innovation and talent. Cities that su...(展开全部)