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  • Devising Consumption

    Cultural Economies of Insurance, Credit and Spending

    by Liz Mcfall ...
    Series series CRESC
    The book explores the vital role played by the financial service industries in enabling the poor to consume over the last hundred and fifty years. Spending requires means, but these industries offered something else as well – they offered practical marketing devices that captured, captivated and enticed poor consumers. Consumption and consumer markets depend on such devices but their role has been ... Read more

    $82.99 USD

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  • The Color of Law

    A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America

    by Richard Rothstein ...
    New York Times Bestseller • Notable Book of the Year • Editors' Choice SelectionOne of Bill Gates’ “Amazing Books” of the YearOne of Publishers Weekly’s 10 Best Books of the YearLonglisted for the National Book Award for NonfictionAn NPR Best Book of the YearWinner of the Hillman Prize for NonfictionGold Winner • California Book Award (Nonfiction)Finalist • Los Angeles Times Book Prize (History ... Read more

    $12.29 USD

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  • Science and the City

    The Mechanics Behind the Metropolis

    by Laurie Winkless ...
    Cities are a big deal. More people now live in them than don't, and with a growing world population, the urban jungle is only going to get busier in the coming decades. But how often do we stop to think about what makes our cities work?Cities are built using some of the most creative and revolutionary science and engineering ideas – from steel structures that scrape the sky to glass cables that ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • Strategic Environmental Assessment and Land Use Planning

    An International Evaluation

    by Michael Short, Mark Baker, Jeremy Carter, Stephen Jay, Carys Jones ...
    'A wonderfully international and up-to-date perspective on strategic environmental assessment of land use plans by leading experts in the field. Strategic Environmental Assessment and Land Use Planning covers not only how much such SEAs are carried out and in what context, but whether they are effective and why. It provides invaluable insights for practitioners and researchers in this rapidy ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Cities and the Politics of Difference

    Multiculturalism and Diversity in Urban Planning

    Edited by Michael Burayidi ...
    Demographic change and a growing sensitivity to the diversity of urban communities have increasingly led planners to recognize the necessity of planning for diversity. Edited by Michael A. Burayidi, Cities and the Politics of Difference offers a guide for making diversity a cornerstone of planning practice.The essays in this collection cover the practical and theoretical issues that surround this ... Read more

    $36.79 USD

  • Potsdamer Platz

    The Reshaping of Berlin

    by Quazi Mahtab Zaman, Malgorzata Nowobilska ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    The redesign of Potsdamer Platz depicts the struggle to revive Berlin, Germany. This central and highly visible square has undergone a series of strategic revisions to restore its vitality and so to meet place-enhancing objectives. Specifically, the book critically addresses the challenging tasks of restoring Potsdamer Platz from a state of disintegration to a condition worthy of a world-class ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Gearing Up for Competitiveness

    The Role of Planning, Governance, and Finance in Small and Medium-sized Cities in South Asia

    by Asian Development Bank ...
    This book focuses on local government’s role in increasing city competitiveness through planning, governance, and finance, particularly in small to medium-sized cities in South Asia. Existing studies on city competitiveness tend to focus on megacities, and yet smaller cities house an increasingly large portion of South Asia’s population. This study seeks to initiate a more systematic thinking on ... Read more

    $5.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Integrated Productivity in Urban Africa

    Introducing the Neo-Mercantile Planning Theory

    by Donald Okeke ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book introduces readers to neo-mercantile planning theory in the context of spatial regional integration in Africa. It proposes a new approach that rethinks neo-liberalism as the meta-theory of planning in Africa, and pioneers an original school of thought that presents a general theory of planning for Africa in the twenty-first century.Research to substantiate the new theory was conducted ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Furniture, Structure, Infrastructure

    Making and Using the Urban Environment

    by Nigel Bertram ...
    Series series Design Research in Architecture
    Observation and analysis are types of invention. They make things apparent which perhaps were invisible. By noticing, drawing and naming something we bring it into being. On the other hand, building and making can be thought of as analytical observations, pointing out what had not been so clear before and revealing the potential for other actions yet to occur. This book is a collection of urban ... Read more

    $91.99 USD

  • Suburban Gridlock

    Edited by Robert Cervero ...
    Robert Cervero documents the rise in suburban traffic around the country and examines the role of various planning, design, and management approaches in defining the automobile's growing presence in suburbia. The book highlights suburban business complexes and mixed-use centers throughout the United States that have been planned and designed to reduce auto dependency and to promote ridesharing, ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Remaking Birmingham

    The Visual Culture of Urban Regeneration

    Edited by Liam Kennedy ...
    The city of Birmingham offers a particularly rich case study on urban regeneration as it strives to build a new city image. Positioned between decline and regeneration, the landscape of the city and its environs collages old and new, producing dramatic contrasts - of industrial and post-industrial urbanisms of crumbling brutalism and spectacular flagship developments, of Victorian housing and ... Read more

    $82.99 USD

  • West Ham and the River Lea

    A Social and Environmental History of London’s Industrialized Marshland, 1839–1914

    by Jim Clifford ...
    Series series Nature | History | Society
    During the nineteenth century, London’s population grew by more than five million as people flocked from the countryside to the city to take up jobs in shops and factories. In West Ham and the River Lea, Jim Clifford explores the growth of London’s most populous independent suburb and the degradation of its second largest river, bringing to light the consequences of these developments on social ... Read more

    $29.69 USD