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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “jill grant”
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  • Seeking Talent for Creative Cities

    The Social Dynamics of Innovation

    Edited by Jill Grant ...
    Series series Innovation, Creativity, and Governance in Canadian City-Regions
    With the growth of knowledge-based economies, cities across the globe must compete to attract and retain the most talented workers. Seeking Talent for Creative Cities offers a comprehensive and insightful analysis of the diverse, dynamic factors that affect cities’ ability to achieve this goal.Based on a comparative national study of 16 Canadian cities, this volume systematically evaluates the ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • Planning the Good Community

    New Urbanism in Theory and Practice

    by Jill Grant ...
    Series series RTPI Library Series
    An examination of new urban approaches both in theory and in practice. Taking a critical look at how new urbanism has lived up to its ideals, the author asks whether new urban approaches offer a viable path to creating good communities.With examples drawn principally from North America, Europe and Japan, Planning the Good Community explores new urban approaches in a wide range of settings. It ... Read more

    $106.99 USD

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  • Planning Sustainable Cities

    An infrastructure-based approach

    by Spiro Pollalis ...
    Planning Sustainable Cities: An infrastructure-based approach provides an analytical framework for urban sustainability, focusing on the services and performance of infrastructure systems.The book approaches infrastructure as a series of systems that function in synergy and are directly linked with urban planning. This method streamlines and guides the planning process, while still highlighting ... Read more

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  • Detroit

    A Biography

    by Scott Martelle ...
    At its heyday in the 1950s and 1960s, Detroit's status as epicenter of the American auto industry made it a vibrant, populous, commercial hub—and then the bottom fell out. Detroit : A Biography takes a long, unflinching look at the evolution of one of America's great cities and one of the nation's greatest urban failures. This authoritative yet accessible narrative seeks to explain how the city ... Read more

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  • Planning Latin America's Capital Cities 1850-1950

    Edited by Arturo Almandoz ...
    Series series Planning, History and Environment Series
    In this first comprehensive work in English to describe the building of Latin America's capital cities in the postcolonial period, Arturo Almandoz and his contributors demonstrate how Europe and France in particular shaped their culture, architecture and planning until the United States began to play a part in the 1930s. The book provides a new per ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Place Identity, Participation and Planning

    Edited by Cliff Hague, Paul Jenkins ...
    Series series RTPI Library Series
    The central concern of this book is place identity, and its representation and manipulation through planning. Place identity is of growing international concern, both in planning practice and in academic work. The issue is important to practitioners because of the impact of globalisation on notions of place. This book includes comparisons between Norway, the Netherlands, Sweden and Scotland, ... Read more

    $84.99 USD

  • Naked City

    The Death and Life of Authentic Urban Places

    by Sharon Zukin ...
    As cities have gentrified, educated urbanites have come to prize what they regard as "authentic" urban life: aging buildings, art galleries, small boutiques, upscale food markets, neighborhood old-timers, funky ethnic restaurants, and old, family-owned shops. These signify a place's authenticity, in contrast to the bland standardization of the suburbs and exurbs. But as Sharon Zukin shows in Naked ... Read more

    $22.79 USD

  • The Vulnerability of Cities

    Natural Disasters and Social Resilience

    by Mark Pelling ...
    When disaster strikes in cities the effects can be catastrophic compared to other environments. But what factors actually determine the vulnerability or resilience of cities? The Vulnerability of Cities fills a vital gap in disaster studies by examining the too-often overlooked impact of disasters on cities, the conditions leading to high losses from urban disasters and why some households and ... Read more

    $82.99 USD

  • Resilience Thinking in Urban Planning

    Edited by Ayda Eraydin, Tuna Taşan-Kok ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    There is consensus in literature that urban areas have become increasingly vulnerable to the outcomes of economic restructuring under the neoliberal political economic ideology. The increased frequency and widening diversity of problems offer evidence that the socio-economic and spatial policies, planning and practices introduced under the neoliberal agenda can no longer be sustained. As this ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Moving People, Goods and Information in the 21st Century

    The Cutting-Edge Infrastructures of Networked Cities

    Edited by Richard Hanley ...
    Series series Networked Cities Series
    Globalisation and technological innovation have changed the way people, goods, and information move through and about cities. To remain, or become, economically and environmentally sustainable, cities and their regions must adapt to these changes by creating cutting-edge infrastructures that integrate advanced technologies, communications, and multiple modes of transportation. The book defines ... Read more

    $94.99 USD

  • How to Live in the City

    by Hugo Macdonald ...
    Series Book 12 - The School of Life
    Building a relationship with a city is a lot like building a relationship with another person - just as cities can be intoxicating, generous and inspiring, so they can also be dangerous, fickle and impenetrable. How to Live in the City is a book for navigating and nurturing this important relationship.Hugo Macdonald believes you need to feel a city to understand it. He won't tell you how wide the ... Read more

    $11.49 USD

  • The Spirit of Cities

    Why the Identity of a City Matters in a Global Age

    by Daniel A. Bell, Avner de-Shalit ...
    A lively and personal book that returns the city to political thoughtCities shape the lives and outlooks of billions of people, yet they have been overshadowed in contemporary political thought by nation-states, identity groups, and concepts like justice and freedom. The Spirit of Cities revives the classical idea that a city expresses its own distinctive ethos or values. In the ancient world, ... Read more

    $16.59 USD