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  • Cities and Development

    by Sean Fox, Tom Goodfellow ...
    Series series Routledge Perspectives on Development
    For the first time in human history more people now live and towns and cities than in rural areas. In the wealthier countries of the world, the transition from predominantly rural to urban habitation is more or less complete. But in many parts of Africa, Asia and Latin America, urban populations are expanding rapidly. Current UN projections indicate that virtually all population growth in the ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • Avoiding Common Errors in Pediatric Emergency Medicine

    by Sean Fox, Jim Homme, Aaron Leetch, Tim Ruttan ...
    Conversational and easy to read, Avoiding Common Errors in Pediatric Emergency Medicine discusses 198 errors commonly made in the practice of pediatric emergency medicine and gives practical, easy-to-remember tips for avoiding these pitfalls. This unique manual offers brief, approachable, evidence-based chapters suitable for reading immediately before the start of a rotation, for quick reference ... Read more

    $75.59 USD

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  • Dead End

    Suburban Sprawl and the Rebirth of American Urbanism

    by Benjamin Ross ...
    More than five decades have passed since Jane Jacobs wrote her classic The Death and Life of Great American Cities, and since a front page headline in the New York Times read, "Cars Choking Cities as 'Urban Sprawl' Takes Over." Yet sprawl persists, and not by mistake. It happens for a reason. As an activist and a scholar, Benjamin Ross is uniquely placed to diagnose why this is so. Dead End traces ... Read more

    $20.89 USD

  • History of Urban Form Before the Industrial Revolution

    by A.E.J. Morris ...
    Provides an international history of urban development, from its origins to the industrial revolution. This well established book maintains the high standard of information found in the previous two editions, describing the physical results of some 5000 years of urban activity. It explains and develops the concept of 'unplanned' cities that grow organically, in contrast with 'planned' cities that ... Read more

    $160.00 USD

  • Dispatches Against Displacement

    Field Notes from San Franciscos Housing Wars

    by James Tracy ...
    San Francisco is being eroded by waves of cash flowing north from Silicon Valley. Recent evictions of long-time San Francisco residents, outrageous rents and home prices, and blockaded "Google buses" are only the tip of the iceberg. James Tracy's book focuses on the long arc of displacement over almost two decades of "dot com" boom and bust, offering the necessary perspective to analyze the latest ... Read more

    $12.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Streets Were Paved with Gold

    by Ken Auletta ...
    How - and why - did one of the world's greatest cities come to be teetering on the edge of bankruptcy? Ken Auletta, writer for THE NEW YORKER and columnist for THE DAILY NEWS, shows how the decline of New York City was partly inevitable --- the result of shifting migration patterns and rapidl technological innovations --- and partly caused by anarchic political and economic factions, each angling ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Low Car(bon) Communities

    Inspiring car-free and car-lite urban futures

    by Nicole Foletta ...
    With increasing awareness of the urgent need to respond to global warming by reducing carbon emissions and recognition of the social benefits of car-free and car-lite living, more and more city planners, advocates, and everyday urban dwellers are demanding new ways of building cities. In Low Car(bon) Communities, authors Nicole Foletta and Jason Henderson examine seven case studies in Europe and ... Read more

    $91.99 USD

  • City Power

    Urban Governance in a Global Age

    by Richard Schragger ...
    Reigning theories of urban power suggest that in a world dominated by footloose transnational capital, cities have little capacity to effect social change. In City Power, Richard C. Schragger challenges the existing assumptions, arguing that cities can govern, but only if we let them. In the past decade, city leaders across the country have raised the minimum wage, expanded social services, and ... Read more

    $22.79 USD

  • Sustainable Urban Design

    An Environmental Approach

    Edited by Adam Ritchie, Randall Thomas ...
    By the end of the twenty-first century it is thought that three-quarters of the world’s population will be urban; our future is in cities. Making these cities healthy, vibrant and sustainable is an exceptional challenge which this book addresses. It sets out some of the basic principles of the design of our future cities and, through a series of carefully-selected case studies from leading ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Mr. Jefferson's Piano & Other Central Harlem Stories

    by B.L Wilson ...
    Mr. Jefferson's Piano & Other Central Harlem Stories is the second edition of an anthology that weaves together a rich tapestry of 68 short stories, agency memos, and letters of events that take place during the late seventies, eighties, and nineties as seen through Melba Farris' eyes. Melba writes notes about everything work-related, chronicling her journey into the field of property management ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Decent Homes for All

    Planning's Evolving Role in Housing Provision

    by Nick Gallent, Mark Tewdwr-Jones ...
    Series series Housing, Planning and Design Series
    Are you concerned about the state of current housing provision? Worried about further decline in the years ahead? Decent Homes for All addresses fundamental questions about the current housing crisis; examining its history and evolution.The first text on the housing-planning interface, it explores the relationship between planning and housing supply, focusing on housing supply, the quality and ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Half a Century of Municipal Decline

    1935-1985

    Edited by Martin Louglin, M. David Gelfand, Ken Young ...
    Local government passed unscathed through the political and economic upheavals which followed the Great Depression. Contemporary commentators had every reason to look forward to continued growth and expansion in the role of local government, which was seen as the main vehicle for the social programmes of the comeing Welfare State. That optimism was misplaced. Many of the trends of the early ... Read more

    $63.99 USD