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“jonas eliasson”

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  • Congestion Taxes in City Traffic

    Lessons Learnt from the Stockholm Trial

    Edited by Anders Gullberg, Katarina Isaksson, Jonas Eliasson, Greger Henriksson ...
    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

    $31.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • How Cycling Can Save the World

    by Peter Walker ...
    Peter Walker—reporter at the Guardian and curator of its popular bike blog—shows how the future of humanity depends on the bicycle.Car culture has ensnared much of the world—and it's no wonder. Convenience and comfort (as well as some clever lobbying) have made the car the transportation method of choice for generations. But as the world evolves, the high cost of the automobile is made clearer ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Leading the Inclusive City

    Place-Based Innovation for a Bounded Planet

    by Robin Hambleton ...
    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

    $46.79 USD

  • Rochdale Village

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

    by Peter Eisenstadt ...
    Series series American Institutions and Society
    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

    $32.39 USD

  • Toronto, No Mean City

    Third Edition, Revised

    by Eric Arthur, Stephen Otto ...
    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

    $42.49 USD

  • The New Urban Question

    by Andy Merrifield ...
    The New Urban Question is an exuberant and illuminating adventure through our current global urban condition, tracing the connections between radical urban theory and political activism.From Haussmann's attempts to use urban planning to rid 19th-century Paris of workers revolution to the contemporary metropolis, including urban disaster-zones such as downtown Detroit, Merrifield reveals how the ... Read more

    $23.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Building Community, Chinatown Style

    A Half Century of Leadership in San Francisco Chinatown

    by Gordon Chin ...
    Gordon Chin, nationally recognized community leader and activist, tells the compelling story of the rise of civic and political power in San Francisco's Chinatown from the 1960s through the election of a Chinese American mayor in 2011. This grass roots community leadership has made San Francisco Chinatown a model for community development across the country. The narrative covers the birth of Asian ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

  • Your Moving Guide to an Organized Relocation

    by Jody Barnes ...
    Moving can be overwhelming, but with patience, organization and a good sense of humor, it can be accomplished without the loss of hair or sanity (assuming you had those things to start with). This guide will help you with issues such as determining which items you will be taking, how to pack or if a professional mover is needed. It's your best investment for saving time and money. ... Read more

    $5.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Sociable Cities

    The 21st-Century Reinvention of the Garden City

    by Peter Hall, Colin Ward ...
    Series series Planning, History and Environment Series
    Peter Hall and Colin Ward wrote Sociable Cities to celebrate the centenary of publication of Ebenezer Howard’s To-morrow: A Peaceful Path to Real Reform in 1998 – an event they then marked by co-editing (with Dennis Hardy) the magnificent annotated facsimile edition of Howard’s original, long lost and very scarce, in 2003. In this revised edition of Sociable Cities, sadly now without Colin Ward, ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • My Storm

    Managing the Recovery of New Orleans in the Wake of Katrina

    by Edward J. Blakely, Henry Cisneros ...
    Series series The City in the Twenty-First Century
    Edward J. Blakely has been called upon to help rebuild after some of the worst disasters in recent American history, from the San Francisco Bay Area's 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake to the September 11 attacks in New York. Yet none of these jobs compared to the challenges he faced in his appointment by New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin as Director of the Office of Recovery and Development Administration ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Theories of Urban Politics

    Edited by David Imbroscio, Jonathan S Davies ...
    ′Anybody who thinks the study of urban politics is stagnating needs to pick up a copy of Theories of Urban Politics. Insightful analysis of scholarship on traditional topics is supplemented by chapters on nontraditional topics, including the new institutionalism, network governance, and urban leadership… If you want to keep up with cutting-edge debates in urban studies, the Davies and Imbroscio ... Read more

    $93.59 USD

  • Demographic Change in Australia's Rural Landscapes

    Implications for Society and the Environment

    Edited by Gary W. Luck, Digby Race, Rosemary Black ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    The distribution and re-distribution of people across the landscape has signi cant implications for ecological, economic and social dynamics. Movement of people to urban centres (mostly from rural landscapes, especially in the developing world) is a major global phenomenon. This can result in the de-population of rural landscapes. Conversely, population growth and a changing demographic pro le ... Read more

    $143.09 USD