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  • Climate Change at the City Scale

    Impacts, Mitigation and Adaptation in Cape Town

    Edited by Anton Cartwright, Susan Parnell, Gregg Oelofse, Sarah Ward ...
    Climate change impacts are scale and context specific, and cities are likely to bear some of the greatest costs. In recent years cities have begun to craft their own climate change responses against the backdrop of the reluctance displayed by nation-states in committing to emissions reductions and managing the consequences of climate change.Climate Change at the City Scale presents a fresh ... Read more

    $200.00 USD

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    The excitement of the brilliantly innovative book is that it challenges the reader to revise his concept of order—and to consider the seemingly disparate problems of the individual personality and the urban society in the light of a fresh, unified framework that has the shock of new truth.Drawing on recent ideas in psychology, sociology, and urban history, Sennett shows how the excessively ... Read more

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  • Seven Rules for Sustainable Communities

    Design Strategies for the Post Carbon World

    by Patrick M. Condon ...
    Questions of how to green the North American economy, create a green energy and transportation infrastructure, and halt the deadly increase in greenhouse gas buildup dominate our daily news. Related questions of how the design of cities can impact these challenges dominate the thoughts of urban planners and designers across the U.S. and Canada. With admirable clarity, Patrick Condon discusses ... Read more

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  • Local Governments and Climate Change

    Sustainable Energy Planning and Implementation in Small and Medium Sized Communities

    Edited by Maryke van Staden, Francesco Musco ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    Global warming is changing the world as we know it. Climate change can have catastrophic impacts in numerous cities across the world. It is time for us to react – quickly and effectively. The European Community (EC) has been leading the fight against climate change, making it one of its top priorities. We have introduced the most ambitious targets of their kind, known as the “20/20/20 by 2020” ... Read more

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  • The Ontario Municipal Board

    From Impact to Subsistence 1971-2016

    by Peter H. Howden ...
    The Ontario Municipal Board attracted power to it from the time it was formed in 1906 as a railway overseer and thereafter until 1932 when it became the regulatory tribunal for municipal financing and urban and regional planning applications. By 2006, the same government of Ontario that had entrusted the OMB with pre-eminent authority as the provincial land use, expropriation, and development ... Read more

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  • The Transit Metropolis

    A Global Inquiry

    by Robert Cervero ...
    Around the world, mass transit is struggling to compete with the private automobile, and in many places, its market share is rapidly eroding. Yet a number of metropolitan areas have in recent decades managed to mount cost-effective and resource-conserving transit services that provide respectable alternatives to car travel. What sets these places apart?In this book, noted transportation expert ... Read more

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  • Urban Policy Reconsidered

    Dialogues on the Problems and Prospects of American Cities

    by Charles C. Euchner, Stephen McGovern ...
    In the past decade, America has experienced an urban renaissance. Cities as varied as New York, Chicago and Boston are no longer seen as ungovernable and doomed to crime and blight. However, they still face formidable problems. Urban Policy Reconsidered is a comprehensive overview of the issues and problems facing our cities today and cover every important issue in urban affairs. What is poverty? ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Connecting Places, Connecting People

    A Paradigm for Urban Living in the 21st Century

    by Reena Tiwari ...
    What is a better community? How can we reconfigure places and transport networks to create environmentally friendly, economically sound, and socially just communities? How can we meet the challenges of growing pollution, depleting fossil fuels, rising gasoline prices, traffic congestion, traffic fatalities, increased prevalence of obesity, and lack of social inclusion?The era of car-based planning ... Read more

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  • Shantytown, USA

    Forgotten Landscapes of the Working Poor

    by Lisa Goff ...
    The word “shantytown” conjures images of crowded slums in developing nations. Though their history is largely forgotten, shantytowns were a prominent feature of one developing nation in particular: the United States. Lisa Goff restores shantytowns to the central place they once occupied in America’s urban landscape, showing how the basic but resourcefully constructed dwellings of America’s working ... Read more

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  • Holding Their Ground

    Secure Land Tenure for the Urban Poor in Developing Countries

    Edited by Alain Durand-Lasserve, Lauren Royston ...
    Security of land tenure for the urban poor is now a major problem for developing cities in Africa, Asia and Latin America. This book presents and analyzes the main conclusions of a comparative research programme on land tenure issues. It looks at how solutions can be found and implemented to respond to the demands and needs of the majority of squatters and informal settlements, and analyzes how ... Read more

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    by John Friend, Allen Hickling ...
    Planning under Pressure offers managers, planners, consultants and students a comprehensive and authoritative guide to the Strategic Choice Approach, which has gradually been attracting worldwide recognition as a fresh, versatile and practical approach to collaborative decision-making under uncertainty. Starting from basic principles, the book uses helpful diagrams and clear explanations to ... Read more

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  • Ordinary Cities

    Between Modernity and Development

    by Jennifer Robinson ...
    Series series Questioning Cities
    With the urbanization of the world's population proceeding apace and the equally rapid urbanization of poverty, urban theory has an urgent challenge to meet if it is to remain relevant to the majority of cities and their populations, many of which are outside the West.This groundbreaking book establishes a new framework for urban development. It makes the argument that all cities are best ... Read more

    $57.99 USD