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Retrofitting Suburbia, Updated Edition

Retrofitting Suburbia, Updated Edition

Ellen Dunham-Jones; June Williamson

John Wiley Sons Inc
2011
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Updated with a new Introduction by the authors and a foreword by Richard Florida, this book is a comprehensive guide book for urban designers, planners, architects, developers, environmentalists, and community leaders that illustrates how existing suburban developments can be redesigned into more urban and more sustainable places. While there has been considerable attention by practitioners and academics to development in urban cores and new neighborhoods on the periphery of cities, there has been little attention to the redesign and redevelopment of existing suburbs. The authors, both architects and noted experts on the subject, show how development in existing suburbs can absorb new growth and evolve in relation to changed demographic, technological, and economic conditions. Retrofitting Suburbia was named winner in the Architecture & Urban Planning category of the 2009 American Publishers Awards for Professional and Scholarly Excellence (The PROSE Awards) awarded by The Professional and Scholarly Publishing (PSP) Division of the Association of American Publishers
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Vegan Fitness for Mortals

Vegan Fitness for Mortals

Ellen Jaffe Jones

Book Publishing Company
2016
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Anyone who wants to be more active but doesn't think they're athletic enough to pull it off will find help and inspiration. Packed with practical information and achievable programs for both aerobic and weight-bearing exercise, this book provides enough great tips to motivate even the most avowed couch potato. Acclaimed athlete, trainer, and nutrition consultant Ellen Jaffe Jones describes how to develop basic routines for walking, running, biking, swimming, weight lifting, and yoga. Learn about how and why to employ warm-up and cool-down exercises into a workout, which gadgets and gear will help improve performance, tips on how to stay injury-free, and how to utilize the everyday environment from walls to furniture to instantly fit in exercise anywhere, anytime. In addition, readers learn why eating vegan can augment the benefits of exercise and help prevent exercise-related injuries.
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Case Studies in Retrofitting Suburbia

Case Studies in Retrofitting Suburbia

June Williamson; Ellen Dunham-Jones

John Wiley Sons Inc
2021
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A brand-new collection of 32 case studies that further demonstrate the retrofitting of suburbia This amply-illustrated book, second in a series, documents how defunct shopping malls, parking lots, and the past century’s other obsolete suburban development patterns are being retrofitted to address current urgent challenges they weren’t designed for: improving public health, increasing resilience in the face of climate change, leveraging social capital for equity, supporting an aging society, competing for jobs, and disrupting automobile dependence. Case Studies in Retrofitting Suburbia: Urban Design Strategies for Urgent Challenges provides summaries, data, and references on how these challenges manifest in suburbia and discussion of successful urban design strategies to address them in Part I. Part II documents how innovative design strategies are implemented in a range of northern American contexts and market conditions. From modest interventions with big ripple effects to ambitious do-overs, examples of redevelopment, reinhabitation, and regreening of changing suburban places from coast to coast are described in depth in 32 brand new case studies. Written by the authors of the highly influential Retrofitting Suburbia: Urban Design Solutions for Redesigning SuburbsDemonstrates changes that can and already have been realized in suburbia by focusing on case studies of retrofitted suburban placesIllustrated in full-color with photos, maps, plans, and diagrams Full of replicable lessons and creative responses to ongoing problems and potentials with conventional suburban form, Case Studies in Retrofitting Suburbia: Urban Design Strategies for Urgent Challenges is an important book for students and professionals involved in urban design, architecture, landscape architecture, urban planning, development, civil engineering, public health, public policy, and governance. Most of all, it is intended as a useful guide for anyone who seeks to inspire revitalization, justice, and shared prosperity in places they know and care about.
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Case Studies in Retrofitting Suburbia

Case Studies in Retrofitting Suburbia

June Williamson; Ellen Dunham-Jones

John Wiley Sons Inc
2020
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Demonstrates how suburbia is transforming due to the retrofitting movementArchitects and developers are proving that the retrofitting drive is making a big difference in how we improve our world. Focusing on the essential challenges for redevelopment in the 21st century, this fully-illustrated, colorful book showcases exemplary built case studies from around the globe and highlights the solutions that have been realized.Filled with examples of successful suburban projects that have been redeveloped, re-inhabited, and regreened for the betterment of the community and the environment, The Retrofitting Suburbia Case Studies: Designs for 21st-Century Challenges starts by introducing readers to the subject. It then continues with enlightening chapter coverage of case studies involving: Redesigning Water; Innovating Energy Planning; Reducing Auto-Dependency; Improving Public Health; Retrofitting for an Aging Population; Ramping Affordability; Creating and Competing for Jobs; International Challenges; Financing Change; and Design Inspiration.By the authors of the highly acclaimed Retrofitting Suburbia: Urban Design: Solutions for Redesigning SuburbsDemonstrates what can and already has been realized in suburbia by focusing on case studies of retrofitted suburban developmentsFeatures case studies from North American and around the worldIllustrated in full-color with photos, maps, plans, and diagramsThe Retrofitting Suburbia Case Studies: Designs for 21st-Century Challenges is an important book for students and professionals involved in urban design, architecture, urban planning, and development.
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Designing Suburban Futures

Designing Suburban Futures

June Williamson; Ellen Dunham-Jones

Island Press
2013
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Suburbs deserve a better, more resilient future. June Williamson shows that suburbs aren't destined to remain filled with strip malls and excess parking lots; they can be reinvigorated through inventive design. Drawing on award-winning design ideas for revitalizing Long Island, she offers valuable models not only for U.S. suburbs, but those emerging elsewhere with global urbanisation. Williamson argues that suburbia has historically been a site of great experimentation and is currently primed for exciting changes. Today, dead malls, aging office parks, and blighted apartment complexes are being retrofitted into walkable, sustainable communities. Williamson shows how to expand this trend, highlighting promising design strategies and tactics. She provides a broad vision of suburban reform based on the best schemes submitted in Long Island's highly successful "Build a Better Burb" competition. Many of the design ideas and plans operate at a regional scale, tackling systems such as transit, aquifer protection, and power generation. While some seek to fundamentally transform development patterns, others work with existing infrastructure to create mixed-use, shared networks. "Designing Suburban Futures" offers concrete but visionary strategies to take the sprawl out of suburbia, creating a vibrant, new suburban form.
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Megalodons, Mermaids, and Climate Change

Megalodons, Mermaids, and Climate Change

Ellen Prager; Dave Jones

Columbia University Press
2024
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Could ancient giant sharks called megalodons still exist in the deep sea? What should you do if stung by a jellyfish? Can we predict lightning strikes and how is climate change affecting hurricanes?With humor, easy-to-understand language, and fun illustrations, marine scientist Ellen Prager and meteorologist Dave Jones use frequently asked and zany questions about the ocean and atmosphere to combat misinformation and make science engaging and understandable for all. From dangerous marine life, coral reefs, and the deep sea to lightning, hurricanes, weather forecasting, the Sun, and climate change, they reveal what’s fact, what’s fiction, and how to find science-based answers. This book is perfect for anyone curious about the world around them, educators, science communicators, and even scientists who want to learn about and explain topics outside their expertise.
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Megalodons, Mermaids, and Climate Change

Megalodons, Mermaids, and Climate Change

Ellen Prager; Dave Jones

Columbia University Press
2024
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Could ancient giant sharks called megalodons still exist in the deep sea? What should you do if stung by a jellyfish? Can we predict lightning strikes and how is climate change affecting hurricanes?With humor, easy-to-understand language, and fun illustrations, marine scientist Ellen Prager and meteorologist Dave Jones use frequently asked and zany questions about the ocean and atmosphere to combat misinformation and make science engaging and understandable for all. From dangerous marine life, coral reefs, and the deep sea to lightning, hurricanes, weather forecasting, the Sun, and climate change, they reveal what’s fact, what’s fiction, and how to find science-based answers. This book is perfect for anyone curious about the world around them, educators, science communicators, and even scientists who want to learn about and explain topics outside their expertise.
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Screen Deep

Screen Deep

Ellen E. Jones

FABER FABER
2024
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Screen Deep is a book about the immense potential of screen storytelling to defeat an evil both historic and urgently topical: racism. Everyone watches TV and movies. Everyone has an interest in building a more just and equitable world. Screen Deep goes beyond the many film books and anti-racist manuals by demonstrating the connection between these two aspects of modern life. In Screen Deep Ellen E. Jones combines her personal experience as a mixed-race woman who cares about racism with her professional expertise as a film and TV journalist of twenty years standing, to ask - and answer - several questions: Is there such a thing as an Indigenous western? Is race comedy 'cancelled'? Where are all the films for white people? And most importantly: Can you still fight the good fight with a mouthful of popcorn?
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Screen Deep

Screen Deep

Ellen E. Jones

FABER FABER
2025
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'A brilliantly readable and insightful book.' Mark Kermode, Observer'Deftly, delightfully, yet inexorably, Ellen E Jones shows us exactly what's wrong with the world as we usually see it on screen. With her big love of cinema and her very big brain, she's the best film critic in a generation.' Lucy WorsleyIs race comedy 'cancelled'?Is there such a thing as an Indigenous Western?Where are all the films about 'whiteness'?Ellen E. Jones combines her personal experience as a mixed-race woman with her professional expertise as a film and TV journalist of twenty years to ask and answer these questions. Screen Deep illuminates the immense potential of screen storytelling to challenge societal racism, and ultimately defeat it.
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Heaven...Eternal Living

Heaven...Eternal Living

Ellen M. Jones

AuthorHouse
2005
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This book was written with you in mind. People need to understand that there is something more to life than what our five senses says there is. Our lives were delicately designed to live longer than 40, 60 or even 100 years. God put way too much work and effort into forming us out of His own image and originally placing us in a paradise. Every good father wants the best for his children and works hard to give them what he never had. How much more will God the Father give unto those who give their heart to Him? God wants us to experience the greatness and glory of what He has. Be mindful that every good and perfect gift that we have experienced is only just a taste of what is prepare for us. The feelings that we have on our 18th birthday, the relief of stress the day after our retirement, the satisfaction that we experience after accomplishing a goal and the joy and excitement of a dream come true can not compare with our final destination; Heaven ....Eternal Living.
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Euphoric

Euphoric

Elle Jones

Austin Macauley Publishers
2024
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"The world was changing rapidly around me, and I was just running to catch up. But sometimes it is nice to go for a jog." Nora is stuck between a world of misery back at her apartment and a harsh, unloving reality just outside of it. She's caught in the entanglement of what to do with her life when her bartender invites himself into her booth. What starts as a slightly creepy opening line ends with what seems to be an offering to join a cult... either that or be murdered. But Nora didn't have anything better going for her. And why return to the violent atmosphere back at the apartment when a door to relief has just been opened?
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Treasures in Isaiah

Treasures in Isaiah

Ellet Jones Waggoner; E J Waggoner

TEACH Services, Inc.
2003
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Anyone who is "instructed concerning the kingdom of heaven is like a householder who brings out of his treasured things new and old." The Holy Spirit "instructed" the author of this book how to read with new eyes the familiar pages of Isaiah. Portrayed herein, "old things" shine with new light, and many "new things" come to light that we may not heretofore have discerned in the "Gospel Prophet." At least this is the testimony of thousands of modern readers of Ellet J. Waggoner's other writings. They rejoice for this new discovery recently found in the archives. Published originally in England as articles or editorials in the magazine The Present Truth from January 5, 1899 through June 21, 1900.
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Studies in the Book of Hebrews

Studies in the Book of Hebrews

Ellet Jones Waggoner; E J Waggoner

TEACH Services, Inc.
2003
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A series of studies given at the General Conference of 1897 by E. J. Waggoner which were retyped from the 1897 G. C. bulletin. The studies, presented by E. J. Waggoner each day, are just as alive and full of hope for each Bible student today as when they were presented.
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