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  • Community Architecture (Routledge Revivals)

    How People Are Creating Their Own Environment

    by Nick Wates, Charles Knevitt ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    First published in 1987, this title was one of the first to explore the emerging popular movement of Community Architecture, championed by Prince Charles, which gained momentum throughout Britain in the 1970s and 1980s. The conceptual framework rests fundamentally on the principle that the built environment is most effective when those who live in a particular area are actively engaged with its ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • The Community Planning Handbook

    How People Can Shape Their Cities, Towns and Villages in Any Part of the World

    by Nick Wates ...
    Series series Earthscan Tools for Community Planning
    Growing numbers of residents are getting involved with professionals in shaping their local environment, and there is now a powerful menu of tools available, from design workshops to electronic maps. The Community Planning Handbook is the essential starting point for all those involved: planners and local authorities, architects and other practitioners, community workers, students and local ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • The Battle for Tolmers Square (Routledge Revivals)

    by Nick Wates ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    First published in 1976, this book tells of the dramatic struggle between tenants’ groups, community associations, students, squatters, intellectuals, political parties, and property developers at Tolmers Square in north London. The author describes how property developers, interested only in maximising profits, attempted to redevelop the Tolmers area for offices, while the local authority, ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • The Community Planning Event Manual

    How to use Collaborative Planning and Urban Design Events to Improve your Environment

    by Nick Wates, John Thompson ...
    Series series Earthscan Tools for Community Planning
    Want to improve your village? Your town? Your city? A community planning event may be just what you have been waiting for. All over the world people are organizing dynamic collaborative events to improve their surroundings. For a few intensive days, everyone concerned gets an opportunity to have their say and be involved - residents, businesses, professionals and politicians. It's effective and it ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

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  • Some Great Idea

    Good Neighbourhoods, Crazy Politics and the Invention of Toronto

    by Edward Keenan ...
    Since 2010, Toronto's headlines have been consumed by the outrageous personal foibles and government-slashing, anti-urbanist policies of Mayor Rob Ford. But the heated debate at City Hall has obscured a bigger, decade-long narrative of Toronto's ascendance as a mature global city. Some Great Idea traces how post-amalgamation, and under three very different mayors, Toronto managed to so quickly ... Read more

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  • Roads Were Not Built for Cars

    How cyclists were the first to push for good roads & became the pioneers of motoring

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    In Roads Were Not Built for Cars, Carlton Reid reveals the pivotal—and largely unrecognized—role that bicyclists played in the development of modern roadways. Reid introduces readers to cycling personalities, such as Henry Ford, and the cycling advocacy groups that influenced early road improvements, literally paving the way for the motor car. When the bicycle morphed from the vehicle of rich ... Read more

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  • The End of the Suburbs

    Where the American Dream Is Moving

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  • Move

    How to Rebuild and Reinvent America's Infrastructure

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    Americans are stuck.Americans are stuck.We live with travel delays on congested roads, shipping delays on clogged railways, and delays on repairs and project approvals due to gridlocked leadership. And when we can’t move, when goods are delayed, and when information networks can’t connect, then economic opportunity deteriorates and social inequity grows. We don’t have to take it anymore! In Move, ... Read more

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  • Streetfight

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    by Janette Sadik-Khan, Seth Solomonow ...
    Like a modern-day Jane Jacobs, Janette Sadik-Khan transformed New York City's streets to make room for pedestrians, cyclists, buses, and green spaces. Describing the battles she fought to enact change, Streetfight imparts wisdom and practical advice that other cities can follow to make their own streets safer and more vibrant.As New York City’s transportation commissioner, Janette Sadik-Khan ... Read more

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  • Property Management

    Corporate Strategies, Financial Instruments and the Urban Environment

    by Mark Deakin ...
    Drawing upon a number of international property management projects, this book outlines the issues underlying the development of property management. Addressing key topics such as value for money, economy, efficiency and effectiveness, it focuses on corporate strategies and financial instruments of property management. It examines how managers are responsible for developing the corporate ... Read more

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  • Aerotropolis

    The Way We'll Live Next

    by John D. Kasarda, Greg Lindsay ...
    An exploration of near-future urban planning as airports become the center of cities, changing the way we live and conduct business.Not so long ago, airports were built near cities, and roads connected the one to the other. This pattern—the city in the center, the airport on the periphery—shaped life in the twentieth century, from the central city to exurban sprawl. Today, the ubiquity of jet ... Read more

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