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Interventions eBook Series

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  • The Politics of Exile

    by Elizabeth Dauphinee ...
    Series series Interventions
    Written in both autoethnographical and narrative form, The Politics of Exile offers unique insight into the complex encounter of researcher with research subject in the context of the Bosnian War and its aftermath. Exploring themes of personal and civilizational guilt, of displaced and fractured identity, of secrets and subterfuge, of love and alienation, of moral choice and the impossibility of ... Read more

    $54.99 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

    $18.99 USD

  • Resilient Downtowns of Small Urban Communities

    A New Approach to Revitalizing Small- and Medium-City Downtowns

    by Michael A. Burayidi ...
    Resilient Downtowns provides a guide to communities in reviving and redeveloping their core districts into resilient, thriving neighborhoods. While the National Main Street program’s four-point approach of organization, promotion, economic restructuring, and design has been standard practice for cities seeking to rejuvenate their downtowns for decades there is disquiet among downtown managers and ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Rebuilding the American City

    Design and Strategy for the 21st Century Urban Core

    by David Gamble, Patty Heyda ...
    Urban redevelopment in American cities is neither easy nor quick. It takes a delicate alignment of goals, power, leadership and sustained advocacy on the part of many. Rebuilding the American City highlights 15 urban design and planning projects in the U.S. that have been catalysts for their downtowns—yet were implemented during the tumultuous start of the 21st century. The book presents five ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • A City's Architecture

    Aberdeen as 'Designed City'

    by William Alvis Brogden ...
    Series series Ashgate Studies in Architecture
    When considering the successful design of cities, the focus tends to be on famous examples such as Paris or Rome, with equally successful but smaller and more remote examples being ignored. In addition, the more diffuse patterns of settlement of the north and western parts of Europe are hardly considered at all in comparison to the tightly formed urban centres of the Mediterranean. However, the ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • Global Urban Analysis

    A Survey of Cities in Globalization

    by Peter J Taylor, Pengfei Ni, Ben Derudder, Michael Hoyler, Jin Huang, Frank Witlox ...
    Global Urban Analysis provides a unique insight into the contemporary world economy through a focus on cities. It is based upon a large-scale customised data collection on how leading businesses use cities across the world: as headquarter locations, for finance, for professional and creative services, for media. These data - involving up to 2000 firms and over 500 cities - provide evidence for ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Healthy City Planning

    From Neighbourhood to National Health Equity

    by Jason Corburn ...
    Series series Planning, History and Environment Series
    Healthy city planning means seeking ways to eliminate the deep and persistent inequities that plague cities. Yet, as Jason Corburn argues in this book, neither city planning nor public health is currently organized to ensure that today’s cities will be equitable and healthy.Having made the case for what he calls ‘adaptive urban health justice’ in the opening chapter, Corburn briefly reviews the ... Read more

    $87.99 USD

  • The Government Next Door

    Neighborhood Politics in Urban China

    by Luigi Tomba ...
    Chinese residential communities are places of intense governing and an arena of active political engagement between state and society. In The Government Next Door, Luigi Tomba investigates how the goals of a government consolidated in a distant authority materialize in citizens' everyday lives. Chinese neighborhoods reveal much about the changing nature of governing practices in the country. ... Read more

    $22.79 USD

  • Ecoregions

    The Ecosystem Geography of the Oceans and Continents

    by Robert G. Bailey ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    Global warming and human-driven impacts are changing the World’s ecological zones. This book applies the principles described in Bailey’s Ecosystem Geography: From Ecoregions to Sites, 2nd ed. (Springer 2009, 1st ed. 1996) to describe and characterize the major terrestrial and aquatic ecological zones of the Earth. Bailey’s system for classifying these zones has been adopted by major organizations ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • The One-Way Street of Integration

    Fair Housing and the Pursuit of Racial Justice in American Cities

    by Edward G. Goetz ...
    The One-Way Street of Integration examines two contrasting housing policy approaches to achieving racial justice. Integration initiatives and community development efforts have been for decades contrasting means of achieving racial equity through housing policy. Goetz traces the tensions involved in housing integration and policy to show why he doesn't see the solution to racial injustice as the ... Read more

    $10.49 USD

  • Local Redistribution and Local Democracy: Interest Groups and the Courts

    by Clayton P. Gillette ...

    $44.99 USD

  • Building a World Heritage City

    Sanaa, Yemen

    by Michele Lamprakos ...
    Series series Heritage, Culture and Identity
    "Society of Architectural Historians Spiro Kostof Book Award, Honorable Mention, 2018"The conservation of old Sanaa is a major cultural heritage initiative that began in the 1980's under the auspices of UNESCO; it continues today, led by local agencies and actors. In contrast to other parts of the world where conservation was introduced at a later date to remediate the effects of modernization, in ... Read more

    $72.99 USD