In his book City Economics, Brendan O ' Flaherty asserts " Cities could persist — as they have for thousands of years — only if their advantages offset the disadvantages ".

While this clarification is not overtly stated in the Cities and Knights rule book, it is enforced in the online version of the game.

* Fritz Leiber's novella Our Lady of Darkness revolves around the secret occult studies of fictional author / occultist Thibaut de Castries and his book Megapolisomancy: A New Science of Cities.

The Greenwich Village of the 1950s and 1960s was at the center of Jane Jacobs's book The Death and Life of Great American Cities, which defended it and similar communities, while critiquing common urban renewal policies of the time.

Jane Jacobs's 19561 book The Death and Life of Great American Cities was a sustained critique of urban planning as it had developed within Modernism and marked a transition from modernity to postmodernity in thinking about urban planning ( Irving 1993, 479 ).

Paris, Texas was named " Best Small Town in Texas " in 1998 by Kevin Heubusch in his book The New Rating Guide to Life in America's Small Cities.

The latter definition is evident in the title of David Rusk's book Cities Without Suburbs ( ISBN 0-943875-73-0 ), which promotes metropolitan government.

* Cities and Cemeteries of Etruria, the book by George Dennis at LacusCurtius

The changes wrought by Sixtus on the street plan of Rome were documented in the film, " Rome: Impact of an Idea ", featuring Edmund N. Bacon and based on sections of his book Design of Cities.

The changes wrought by Haussmann on the streetscape of Paris were documented in the film, Paris: Living Space, featuring Edmund N. Bacon and based on sections of his book Design of Cities.

The changes made by John Nash to the streetscape of London are documented in the film, " John Nash and London ", featuring Edmund N. Bacon and based on sections of his book Design of Cities.

Millett's Lost Twin Cities is probably the best known of his works in the Minneapolis-St. Paul region largely because KTCA, a local public television station, created a video documentary by the same name which covered a few of the buildings in the book.

Babbitt wrote a book in 2005 titled Cities in the Wilderness: A New Vision of Land Use in America, where he proposes to amend the Endangered Species Act so that it is used to identify, conserve, and protect landscapes, watersheds, and ecosystems whether or not an endangered species exists there.

A. C. Grayling in his book Among the Dead Cities makes the point that as the Area Bombing Directive issued to the RAF on 14 February 1942, focused on the " morale of the enemy civil population ", Lübeck, with its many timbered medieval buildings, was chosen because the RAF " Air Staff were eager to experiment with a bombing technique using a high proportion of incendiaries " to help them carry out the directive – the RAF were well aware that the technique was effective against cities and not against industrial targets because cities such as Coventry had been subject to such attacks by the Luftwaffe during the Blitz.

Lincoln Steffens ( April 6, 1866 – August 9, 1936 ) was a New York reporter who launched a series of articles in McClure's that would later be published together in a book titled The Shame of the Cities.

Pirenne is also the author of Medieval Cities: Their Origins and the Revival of Trade ( 1927 ), a book based on lectures he delivered in the United States in 1922.

* In the book A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens, the Old Bailey is the courthouse named in the book where Charles Darnay is put on trial for treason.

* Talisman: Sacred Cities, Secret Faith, a 2004 book by Graham Hancock and Robert Bauval

The term " conurbation " was coined as a neologism in 1915 by Patrick Geddes in his book Cities In Evolution.

In November 1959 Fleming left to travel around the world on behalf of The Sunday Times, material for which Fleming also used for his non-fiction travel book, Thrilling Cities.

Rihla (, may be translated as " A Gift to Those Who Contemplate the Wonders of Cities and the Marvels of Travelling "), simply referred to as the Rihla ( ar-Riḥlah, " The Journey "; or Riḥlat Ibn Baṭūṭah, " Journey of Ibn Battuta ") is a medieval book which recounts the journey of the 14th-century Berber Moroccan scholar and traveler Ibn Battuta.

* Lincoln Steffens's " Shame of the Cities " series on municipal corruption for McClure's Magazine ( 1903 ) was then published as a book.

The arrival of Carrot changes this ; Carrot has memorised the Laws and Ordinances of the Cities of Ankh and Morpork, and on his first day tries to arrest the head of the Thieves ' Guild for theft ( the Thieves ' Guild is permitted a quota of legally licensed thieving, a concept that the book of ancient Laws does not take into account ).

The term was used by author John Perkins in his 2004 book Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, where he described corporatocracy as a collective composed of corporations, banks, and governments.

" Mises developed his critique of socialism more completely in his 1922 book Socialism, an Economic and Sociological Analysis.

His paper was followed by his 1944 book Theory of Games and Economic Behavior, with Oskar Morgenstern, which considered cooperative games of several players.

This argument was explicitly given by Adam Smith in his Theory of Moral Sentiments, and has more recently been developed by Harvard economist Benjamin Friedman in his book The Moral Consequences of Economic Growth.

The Russian economist Nikolai Kondratiev ( also written Kondratieff ) was the first to bring these observations to international attention in his book The Major Economic Cycles ( 1925 ) alongside other works written in the same decade.

Frédéric Bastiat's main treatise on property can be found in chapter 8 of his book Economic Harmonies ( 1850 ).

* John Maynard Keynes ' book The Economic Consequences of the Peace is published in the UK.

Common use of the phrase " The Great Depression " for the 1930s crisis is most frequently attributed to British economist Lionel Robbins, whose 1934 book The Great Depression is credited with ' formalizing ' the phrase, though US president Herbert Hoover is widely credited with having ' popularized ' the term / phrase, informally referring to the downturn as a " depression ", with such uses as " Economic depression cannot be cured by legislative action or executive pronouncement ", ( December 1930, Message to Congress ) and " I need not recount to you that the world is passing through a great depression " ( 1931 ).

The concept of the mixed strategy Nash Equilibrium was introduced by John von Neumann and Oskar Morgenstern in their 1944 book The Theory of Games and Economic Behavior.

The British economist John Maynard Keynes attacked Lloyd George's stance on reparations in his book The Economic Consequences of the Peace, calling the Prime Minister a " half-human visitor to our age from the hag-ridden magic and enchanted woods of Celtic antiquity ".

In his 1964 book Railroads and American Economic Growth: Essays in Econometric History, Fogel tried to use quantitative methods to imagine what the U. S. economy would have been like in 1890 had there been no railroads.

More recently, former businessman John Perkins alleges in his book Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, that Torrijos was assassinated by American interests, who had a bomb planted aboard his aircraft ( by CIA organized operatives ).

Another part of the intellectual underpinning of the Bush Doctrine was the 2004 book The Case for Democracy, written by Israeli politician and author Natan Sharansky and Israeli Minister of Economic Affairs in the United States Ron Dermer, which Bush has cited as influential in his thinking.

* By being the first English language historian to bring attention to the work of the French economist and historian Étienne Mantoux, especially his 1946 book The Carthaginian Peace: or The Economic Consequences of Mr Keynes, he was able to show that Germany was capable of paying reparations to France after the First World War ; the only problem was that the Germans were unwilling.

The now dominant negative use came into widespread use during the 1990 recession, and was popularised by a best-selling book Economic Rationalism in Canberra by Michael Pusey.

Joseph Schumpeter, who lived in the first half of 20th century, was the author of the book The Theory of Economic Development ( 1911, transl.

In the 19th century, the term “ conspicuous consumption ” was introduced by the economist and sociologist Thorstein Veblen ( 1857 – 1929 ), in the book The Theory of the Leisure Class: An Economic Study in the Evolution of Institutions ( 1899 ), to describe the behavioural characteristics of the nouveau riche ( new rich ) social class who emerged as a result of the accumulation of capital wealth during the Second Industrial Revolution ( ca.

It was also the year of the publication of his first academic book ; Economic Problems of the Church from Archbishop Whitgift to the Long Parliament.

In 2008, getAbstract awarded his book Economic Facts and Fallacies with its International Book Award.

Lane wrote book reviews for the National Economic Council and later for the Volker Fund, out of which grew the Institute for Humane Studies.

The library comprises more than 100, 000 book titles, and more than 1, 000 printed academic journal titles covering areas of Economics, International and European Economic Studies, Business Administration, Management Science and Marketing, Informatics, Statistics, Accounting and Finance, and Management and Technology.

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The comic novel The Return of Reginald Perrin, by David Nobbs, contains the following footnote: " Note: It is believed that this book mentions Godalming more than any other book ever written, including A Social, Artistic and Economic History of Godalming by E.