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The death and life of great American cities / by Jacobs, Jane

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Death, memorialization and deviant spaces / by Spokes, Matthew, Denham, Jack, Lehmann, Benedikt

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Death Across Cultures Death and Dying in Non-Western Cultures /

Table of Contents: “…Secularism and Politics of Death Space in Hong Kong -- Death and Dying: Belief, Fear and Ritual in Vietnamese Culture -- Negotiating Traditions and Modernity: Chinese Death Rituals in Singapore -- The Bureaucratic Professionalization of Funeral Rites in Tehran's Behesht-e Zahra Cemetery -- Death and Burial Practices in Contemporary Zulu Culture, South Africa -- Death in Botswana: Life Among the Ashes -- Ancestors and Death: From West Africa to Southwest Europe -- Living Coffins and Death Among the Ga of Ghana -- The Yoruba of Nigeria and the Ontology of Death and Burial -- Transformation of Funeral Rituals in Togo -- Rituals Around Life and Death in Mexico; The Day of the Dead -- Continuity and Ruptures in Brazilian Funeral Rites -- The Right to a Dignified Death in Argentina -- Superstar-Saints and Wandering Souls: The Cemetery as a Cultural Hotspot in Latin American Cities -- He taonga tuku iho: Indigenous End of Life and Death Care Customs of New Zealand Māori -- Communicating with the Dead in an Australian Aboriginal Culture: The Tiwi from Melville and Bathurst Islands -- Death and Dying in American Indian Cultures -- The Beauty of the Afterlife Among the Inuit of Nunavut -- Eternity Calling: Modernity and the Revival of Death and the Afterlife.…”
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City As Landscape : A Post Post-Modern View of Design and Planning. by Turner, Tom

Table of Contents: “…Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- THEORIES -- 1 Post-postmodernism -- 2 Design and planning methods -- 3 'A city is not a tree': it is a landscape -- 4 Patterns in use -- footprints in the sand -- PLANNING -- 5 GIS, structuralism, the birth, the death and the life of planning -- 6 CD-plans -- 7 Metaphorical plans -- 8 Eco-city plans -- URBANISM -- 9 Architecture, language and the environment -- 10 Context and design -- 11 Deconstructing the constructive professions -- 12 The tragedy of feminine planning and design -- LANDSCAPE DESIGN -- 13 The blood of philosopher-kings -- 14 Studio craft -- OPEN SPACE PLANNING -- 15 Parks and boundless space -- 16 Harlequin space -- 17 Greenways and otherways -- 18 Reading Parc de la Villette -- GARDENS -- 19 Revolutions in the garden -- 20 Gardening with ideas -- REFERENCES -- INDEX.…”
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Büyük Amerikan Şehirlerinin ölümü ve yaşamı/ by Jacobs, Jane

“…The death and life of great American cities.…”
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Interrogating the Neoliberal Lifecycle The Limits of Success /

Table of Contents: “…: Successful Ageing and the Failure of Longevity in Japan; Jason Danely. - Part 4: Death and Dying -- Chapter 10: Old Age and the Neoliberal Life Course; Susan Pickard -- Chapter 11: Death and Dying in "Third Way" Death Manuals: Shaping Life and Death after Neoliberalism; Beverley Clack -- Chapter 12: Afterword: Advice for a Life Beyond Neoliberalism?…”
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Mental Health and Wellbeing in the Anthropocene A Posthuman Inquiry / by Mcphie, Jamie

Table of Contents: “…The Material (Re)Turn-to Mental Health -- 3. The Accidental Death of Mr. Happy and the Medical Gaze -- 4. The Birth of Mr. …”
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Blue ribbon papers interactionism : the emerging landscape /

Table of Contents: “…Katovich -- A home in brick city / Jeffrey M. Togman.…”
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Disputes in everyday life social and moral orders of children and young people /

Table of Contents: “…Turkish Saturday school / Seyda Deniz Tarim, Amy Kyratzis -- "A problem of versions" : laying down the law in the school playground / Maryanne Theobald, Susan Danby -- Conditional threats in young children's peer interaction / Amelia Church, Sally Hester -- When verbal disputes get physical / Amanda Bateman -- School bullying and the micro-politics of girls' gossip disputes / Ann-Carita Evaldsson, Johanna Svahn -- The logic of conflict : practices of social control among inner city Neapolitan girls / Heather Loyd -- When "yes" turns to "no" : young children's disputes during computer game playing in the home / Christina Davidson -- Disputes, stakes and game involvement : facing death in computer gaming / Björn Sjöblom, Karin Aronsson.…”
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