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Handwritten note on backing says: "From E.C. Booth, Australia, 1874-6, vol. 11, fac. p. 214". A further fainter note says: "1872 Aust. Illus. ?".

Family and Culture --- City life --- Adelaide, South Australia

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A grande maioria da população vive hoje nas cidades. Mas elas variam bastante entre si e há diferenças marcantes mesmo dentro de uma mesma cidade, o que tem impacto sobre as características da vida urbana e as condições de saúde da população. Compreender essa complexidade é essencial para a tomada de decisões sobre intervenções públicas nas cidades. Estudos e ensaios sobre o assunto estão reunidos neste livro, que não só traz reflexões teóricas, mas as coloca em diálogo com diferentes iniciativas para a melhoria da saúde das cidades. Municípios ou comunidades saudáveis dependem de uma prática contínua de aprimoramento do ambiente físico e social, por meio de estratégias que priorizem a saúde dos cidadãos dentro de uma lógica ampliada de qualidade de vida, com ações intersetoriais e garantia de participação social. Uma cidade saudável, destaca-se, é também uma cidade com justiça social, pois as iniquidades se destacam entre as causas de deterioração da saúde.

City and town life. --- City life --- Town life --- Urban life --- Sociology, Urban

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This volume examines the multifarious dimensions that constitute the workings of the Hindu temple as an architectural and urban built form. Eleven chapters reflect on Hindu temples from multiple standpoints - tracing their elusive evolution from wayside shrines as well as canonization into classical objects; questioning the role of treatises containing their building rules; analyzing their prescribed proportions and orders; examining their presence in, and as, larger sacred habitats and ritua...

Hindu temples --- City and town life --- City life --- Town life --- Urban life --- Sociology, Urban --- Religious aspects.

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Can civic engagement rescue the humanities from a prolonged identity crisis? How can the practices and methods, the conventions and innovations of humanities teaching and scholarship yield knowledge that contributes to the public good? These are just two of the vexing questions David D. Cooper tackles in his essays on the humanities, literacy, and public life. As insightful as they are provocative, these essays address important issues head-on and raise questions about the relevance and roles of humanities teaching and scholarship, the moral footings and public purposes of the humaniti

City and town life. --- Humanities --- City life --- Town life --- Urban life --- Sociology, Urban --- Philosophy.

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City and town life. --- City life --- Town life --- Urban life --- Sociology, Urban