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“michael e leary”

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  • The Routledge Handbook of Henri Lefebvre, The City and Urban Society

    Edited by Michael E. Leary-Owhin, John P. McCarthy ...
    The Routledge Handbook of Henri Lefebvre,The City and Urban Society is the first edited book to focus on Lefebvre's urban theories and ideas from a global perspective, making use of recent theoretical and empirical developments, with contributions from eminent as well as emergent global scholars.The book provides international comparison of Lefebvrian research and theoretical conjecture and aims; ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • The Routledge Companion to Urban Regeneration

    Edited by Michael E. Leary, John McCarthy ...
    In the past decade, urban regeneration policy makers and practitioners have faced a number of difficult challenges, such as sustainability, budgetary constraints, demands for community involvement and rapid urbanization in the Global South. Urban regeneration remains a high profile and important field of government-led intervention, and policy and practice continue to adapt to the fresh challenges ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

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  • The Just City

    by Susan S. Fainstein ...
    "The just city is one in which equity, democracy, and diversity are important considerations. This is in contrast with the city as growth machine. Fainstein examines three cities: New York, London, and Amsterdam. She provides a history of post–World War II planning and then focuses on fairly recent cases of development in each. Her goals, though modest, are important if growing inequality in urban ... Read more

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  • Uses of Disorder

    by Richard Sennett ...
    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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  • The Well-Tempered City

    What Modern Science, Ancient Civilizations, and Human Nature Teach Us About the Future of Urban Life

    by Jonathan F. P. Rose ...
    "A thorough education in how to move from simply maximizing the economic output of cities to improving the well-being of all urban residents." —Daniel L. Doctoroff, CEO, Sidewalk Labs2017 PROSE Award Winner: Outstanding Scholarly Work by a Trade PublisherCities are birthplaces of civilization; centers of culture, trade, and progress; cauldrons of opportunity—and the home of eighty percent of the ... Read more

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  • Edible City, The

    Edited by Christina Palassio, Alana Wilcox ...
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    If a city is its people, and its people are what they eat, then shouldn’t food play a larger role in our dialogue about how and where we live? The food of a metropolis is essential to its character. Native plants, proximity to farmland, the locations of supermarkets, immigration, the role chefs can and should play in society - how a city nourishes itself makes a statement about the kind of city it ... Read more

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  • Food and Urbanism

    The Convivial City and a Sustainable Future

    by Susan Parham ...
    Cities are home to over fifty percent of the world's population, a figure which is expected to increase enormously by 2050. Despite the growing demand on urban resources and infrastructure, food is still often overlooked as a key factor in planning and designing cities. Without incorporating food into the design process – how it is grown, transported, and bought, cooked, eaten and disposed of – it ... Read more

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  • Demystifying Your Business Strategy

    by David Lei, John Slocum ...
    While scores of strategic management books have been written, many books fail to take into consideration the influences that shape and constrain managers’ ability to formulate and execute well-thought out strategies. Demystifying Your Business Strategy acknowledges and harnesses those influences, providing practitioners with a helpful new approach to developing and maintaining a competitive ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Root Shock

    How Tearing Up City Neighborhoods Hurts America, And What We Can Do About It

    by Mindy Thompson Fullilove ...
    Root Shock examines 3 different U.S. cities to unmask the crippling results of decades-old disinvestment in communities of color and the urban renewal practices that ultimately destroyed these neighborhoods for the advantage of developers and the elite.Like a sequel to the prescient warnings of urbanist Jane Jacobs, Dr. Mindy Thompson Fullilove reveals the disturbing effects of decades of ... Read more

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  • The New Urban Agenda

    The Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area

    by Bill Freeman ...
    2015 Speaker's Book Award — ShortlistedCity planning in the GTHA has been mired in political grandstanding for the past decade, The New Urban Agenda offers a plain language solution to the issues plaguing the GTHA.Politics in the Greater Toronto, Hamilton Area (GTHA) have become increasingly divisive over the past decade, and solutions to the city’s problems have become hot-topic issues debated in ... Read more

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  • Relaunching Titanic

    Memory and marketing in the New Belfast

    Edited by Michael Murray, Berna Grist, William Neill ...
    Relaunching Titanic critically considers the invocation of Titanic heritage in Belfast in contributing to a new ‘post-conflict’ understanding of the city. The authors address how the memory of Titanic is being and should be represented in the place of its origin, from where it was launched into the collective consciousness and unconscious of western civilization.Relaunching Titanic examines the ... Read more

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  • Urban Design Futures

    Edited by Malcolm Moor, Jon Rowland ...
    The last decade has seen the rise of urban design which has taken a central position in the new agendas for urban regeneration and renaissance. Urban design has moved from marginality to mainstream. The principles espoused by urban designers over the past thirty years are now accepted as key to a better urban environment and as we move towards greater sustainability, different ideas are emerging ... Read more

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