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  • Human Capital Investment for Central City Revitalization

    Edited by Fritz Wagner, Timothy Joder, Anthony Mumphrey Jr. ...
    Series series Contemporary Urban Affairs
    Viewing poverty as a condition that is fed and renewed on a daily basis by social and economic structures, this book focuses on the ways in which poor residents can be helped to improve their own situations, their living conditions, and the central city itself. Also includes four maps. ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

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    by Lewis Mumford ...
    Series Book 19 - Forbidden Bookshelf
    A classic work advocating ecological urban planning—from a civic visionary and former architecture critic for the New Yorker.Considered among the greatest works of Lewis Mumford—a prolific historian, sociologist, philosopher of technology, and longtime architecture critic for the New Yorker—The Culture of Cities is a call for communal action to "rebuild the urban world on a sounder human ... Read more

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  • From Boom to Bubble

    How Finance Built the New Chicago

    by Rachel Weber ...
    An unprecedented historical, sociological, and geographic look at how property markets change and fail—and how that affects cities.In From Boom to Bubble, Rachel Weber debunks the idea that booms occur only when cities are growing and innovating. Instead, she argues, even in cities experiencing employment and population decline, developers rush to erect new office towers and apartment buildings ... Read more

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  • The New Localism

    How Cities Can Thrive in the Age of Populism

    by Bruce Katz, Jeremy Nowak ...
    The New Localism provides a roadmap for change that starts in the communities where most people live and work.In their new book, The New Localism, urban experts Bruce Katz and Jeremy Nowak reveal where the real power to create change lies and how it can be used to address our most serious social, economic, and environmental challenges.Power is shifting in the world: downward from national ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

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  • Ecotopia 2121

    A Vision for Our Future Green Utopia?in 100 Cities

    by Alan Marshall ...
    **A 2016 Green Book Festival "Future Forecasts" WinnerA stunningly original, lushly illustrated vision for a Green Utopia, published on the 500th anniversary of the original Big Idea.**Five hundred years ago a powerful new word was unleashed upon the world when Thomas More published his book Utopia, about an island paradise far away from his troubled land. It was an instant hit, and the literati ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • The Folklore of the Freeway

    Race and Revolt in the Modernist City

    by Eric Avila ...
    Series series A Quadrant Book
    When the interstate highway program connected America’s cities, it also divided them, cutting through and destroying countless communities. Affluent and predominantly white residents fought back in a much heralded “freeway revolt,” saving such historic neighborhoods as Greenwich Village and New Orleans’s French Quarter. This book tells of the other revolt, a movement of creative opposition, ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Comparative Planning Cultures

    Edited by Sanyal Bishwapriya ...
    Bringing together leading planning and urban scholars, and including fascinating international case studies, this unique book investigates urban planning across the world and in different cultures. ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • The Routledge Handbook of Urbanization and Global Environmental Change

    Edited by Karen Seto, William Solecki, Corrie Griffith ...
    Series series Routledge International Handbooks
    This volume provides a comprehensive overview of the interactions and feedbacks between urbanization and global environmental change. A key focus is the examination of how urbanization influences global environmental change, and how global environmental change in turn influences urbanization processes. It has four thematic foci: Theme 1 addresses the pathways through which urbanization drives ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Loose Space

    Possibility and Diversity in Urban Life

    Edited by Karen Franck, Quentin Stevens ...
    In cities around the world people use a variety of public spaces to relax, to protest, to buy and sell, to experiment and to celebrate. Loose Space explores the many ways that urban residents, with creativity and determination, appropriate public space to meet their own needs and desires. Familiar or unexpected, spontaneous or planned, momentary or long-lasting, the activities that make urban ... Read more

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  • Gender in the Post-Fordist Urban

    The Gender Revolution in Planning and Public Policy

    by Marguerite van den Berg ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book investigates the gender revolution in urban planning and public policy. Building on feminist urban studies, it introduces the concept of genderfication as a means of understanding the consequences of post-Fordist gender notions for the city. It traces the changes in western urban gender relations, arguing that in the post-Fordist urban landscape gender is used for urban planning and ... Read more

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  • Sex and the Revitalized City

    Gender, Condominium Development, and Urban Citizenship

    by Leslie Kern ...
    Young, single women emerged in the late 1990s as powerful consumers in the wave of real estate development that was reshaping the landscape of cities. Reports claimed that condominium ownership offered women new-found freedom, financial independence, and personal security. But has home ownership truly empowered women, or were the reports merely celebratory rhetoric that disguised more disquieting ... Read more

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  • Planning for the Unplanned

    Recovering from Crises in Megacities

    by Aseem Inam ...
    How do cities plan for the unplanned? Do cities plan for recovery from every possible sudden shock? How does one prepare a plan for the recovery after a tragedy, like the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on New York? The book discovers the systematic features that contribute to the success of planning institutions. In cities filled with uncertainty and complexity, planning institutions ... Read more

    $33.99 USD