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    Lessons Learnt from the Stockholm Trial

    An examination into Stockholm's seven-month-long trial period with congestion taxes, this collection of articles analyzes the political and administrative processes of the first Swedish congestion experiment and its aftermath. Describing the preoccupations, hopes, and impressions that came along with the trial period and how feelings fluctuated among the inhabitants of Stockholm before, during, ... Read more

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  • Images of the Future City

    Time and Space For Sustainable Development

    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book is an ideal complement to studies showing the potentially devastating ecological effects of climate change, studies trying to calculate the costs of climate change, and studies trying to identify the most pressing needs in preparing for the new climate. ... Read more

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  • Congestion Taxes in City Traffic: Lessons learnt from the Stockholm Trial

    Edited by Anders Gullberg ...
    Trängsel i trafiken och miljöpåverkan orsakad av biltrafik är ett växande problem i många storstäder. 2006 genomfördes ett försök med trängselavgifter i Stockholm. Försöket syftade till att minska trängseln, öka framkomligheten och förbättra miljösituationen. Försöket föll väl ut och är nu gjort permanent.I Congestion Taxes in City Traffic analyserar en grupp forskare de politiska och sociala ... Read more

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  • Leading the Inclusive City

    Place-Based Innovation for a Bounded Planet

    Cities are often seen as helpless victims in a global flow of events and many view growing inequality in cities as inevitable. This engaging book rejects this gloomy prognosis and argues that imaginative place-based leadership can enable citizens to shape the urban future in accordance with progressive values – advancing social justice, promoting care for the environment and bolstering community ... Read more

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  • Grounds For Hope

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  • Rochdale Village

    Robert Moses, 6,000 Families, and New York City's Great Experiment in Integrated Housing

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    From 1963 to 1965 roughly 6,000 families moved into Rochdale Village, at the time the world's largest housing cooperative, in southeastern Queens County. The moderate-income cooperative attracted families from a diverse background, white and black, to what was a predominantly black neighborhood. In its early years, Rochdale was widely hailed as one of the few successful large-scale efforts to ... Read more

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  • The New Urban Frontier

    Gentrification and the Revanchist City

    by Neil Smith ...
    Why have so many central and inner cities in Europe, North America and Australia been so radically revamped in the last three decades, converting urban decay into new chic? Will the process continue in the twenty-first century or has it ended? What does this mean for the people who live there? Can they do anything about it? This book challenges conventional wisdom, which holds gentrification to be ... Read more

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    Series series Introduction to Earth Science
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    Much of the scholarly and professional literature on development focuses either on the ‘macro’ level of national policies and politics or on the ‘micro’ level of devel- ment projects and household or community socio-economic dynamics. By contrast, this collection pitches itself at the ‘meso’ level with a comparative exploration of the ways in which local institutions – municipalities, local ... Read more

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  • Toronto, No Mean City

    Third Edition, Revised

    Series series Heritage
    Eric Arthur fell in love with Toronto the first time he saw it. The year was 1923; he was twenty-five years old, newly arrived to teach architecture at the University of Toronto. For the next sixty years he dedicated himself to saving the great buildings of Toronto's past. Toronto, No Mean City sounded a clarion call in his crusade. First published in 1964, it sparked the preservation movement of ... Read more

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