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  • Kitchen Table Sustainability

    Practical Recipes for Community Engagement with Sustainability

    by Wendy Sarkissian, Yollana Shore, Steph Vajda, Cathy Wilkinson, Nancy Hofer ...
    Series series Earthscan Tools for Community Planning
    Kitchen Table Sustainability offers a unique view of sustainability through the lens of community engagement. It takes sustainability out of the ivory towers of universities, government departments and planners to the kitchen tables of the world.This practical guide distils decades of wisdom from community planning, engagement and sustainability practice internationally into a user-friendly and ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

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  • Planet of Slums

    by Mike Davis ...
    Series series Essential Mike Davis
    The “profound . . . brilliant” account of the rise of the world’s slums and the failures of modern urbanization—by the world’s leading urbanist (Arundhati Roy, activist and Booker Prize–winning author)According to the United Nations, more than one billion people now live in the slums of the cities of the South. In this brilliant and ambitious book, Mike Davis explores the future of a radically ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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  • EcoCities

    Rebuilding Cities in Balance with Nature (Revised Edition)

    by Richard Register ...
    Most of the world's population now lives in cities. So if we are to address the problems of environmental deterioration and peak oil adequately, the city has to be a major focus of attention.EcoCities is about re-building cities and towns based on ecological principles for the long term sustainability, cultural vitality and health of the Earth's biosphere. Unique in the literature is the book's ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Frameworks for Policy Analysis

    Merging Text and Context

    by Raul P. Lejano ...
    Frameworks for Policy Analysis argues that, in order to bring relevance back to policy analysis, we need to approach policy situations as complex phenomena and employ multiple ways of looking at things in order to understand the essential elements of each policy case. The book is an exploration of distinct, sometimes radically different, models for analysis, but it is also a reference for these ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Reinventing London

    by Bridget Rosewell ...
    Series series Perspectives
    London has enjoyed an extraordinary period of growth in the past generation, symbolized by the towers of Canary Wharf built on the skeleton of the old docks. Finance was at the heart of this, so how can London’s economy be reinvented after the financial crisis? Success will depend on several factors that must go together: growing service sectors in addition to finance; making it possible for the ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Public Space and the Challenges of Urban Transformation in Europe

    Edited by Ali Madanipour, Sabine Knierbein, Aglaée Degros ...
    European cities are changing rapidly in part due to the process of de-industrialization, European integration and economic globalization. Within those cities public spaces are the meeting place of politics and culture, social and individual territories, instrumental and expressive concerns. Public Space and the Challenges of Urban Transformation in Europe investigates how European city authorities ... Read more

    $70.99 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

  • Municipalities and Community Participation

    A Sourcebook for Capacity Building

    by Janelle Plummer ...
    Series series Municipal Capacity Building Series
    'Among all the literature on participation, this is the first book I know that focuses on municipal authorities. It... also has particular importance both for higher levels of government (at national or provincial/state level) and for international agencies. Firstly, it is a reminder of the importance of well-functioning municipal governments for reducing poverty. Secondly, it is a rich source of ... Read more

    $79.99 USD

  • Recycling and the Politics of Urban Waste

    by Matthew Gandy ...
    The affluence of western society has given rise to unprecedented quantities of waste, presenting one of the most intractable environmental problems for contemporary society.This book examines recycling and municipal waste management in three major cities: London, New York and Hamburg. A range of political and economic issues are examined to illustrate how any reduction in the size of the waste ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Cadastre: Geo-Information Innovations in Land Administration

    Edited by John McLaughlin, Tahsin Yomralioglu ...
    This book highlights the latest improvements in cadastre with examples and case studies from various parts of the world. Authors from different continents, in association with national and international organizations and societies, present the most comprehensive forum to date for cadastre, offering a broad overview of land administration and contemporary perspectives on current research and ... Read more

    $188.99 USD

  • From Poverty, Inequality to Smart City

    Proceedings of the National Conference on Sustainable Built Environment 2015

    Edited by Fumihiko Seta, Joy Sen, Arindam Biswas, Ajay Khare ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
    This book is a comprehensive document visualizing the future of built environment from a multidisciplinary dimension, with special emphasis on the Indian scenario. The multidisciplinary focus would be helpful for the readers to cross-refer and understand others' perspectives. The text also includes case studies substantiating theoretical research. This method of composition helps the book to ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • Governance of Urban Sustainability Transitions

    European and Asian Experiences

    Edited by Derk Loorbach, Julia M. Wittmayer, Hideaki Shiroyama, Junichi Fujino, Satoru Mizuguchi ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    Reading this book will lead to new insights compelling to an international audience into how cities address the sustainability challenges they face. They do this by not repeating old patterns but by searching for new and innovative methods and instruments based on shared principles of a transitions approach. The book describes the quest of cities on two continents to accelerate and stimulate such ... Read more

    $116.09 USD