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  • A World to Shape

    Life, Times People and Places that shaped my me

    Edward James Blakely was born on April 21, 1938 San Bernardino, California to a modest African, Native American family. His life mirrors a racially and socially divided post World WarII America. Ed parents and grandparents along with his uncles and aunts were social & civil rights pioneers. His autobigrphy traces how he followed th journey of civil liberty across the United States. Ed carried his ... Leer más

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  • Dialogues in Urban Planning

    Towards Sustainable Regions

    In an age when the buzzword is 'sustainability', why do we continue to build unsustainable cities and regions? This book brings planners back to the centre of the debate. It shows that sustainability can no longer just apply to the subfield of planning called 'environmental planning' but has to permeate all aspects: housing, economic development, transport, regional coordination and urban design. ... Leer más

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  • My Storm

    Managing the Recovery of New Orleans in the Wake of Katrina

    Series series The City in the Twenty-First Century
    Edward J. Blakely has been called upon to help rebuild after some of the worst disasters in recent American history, from the San Francisco Bay Area's 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake to the September 11 attacks in New York. Yet none of these jobs compared to the challenges he faced in his appointment by New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin as Director of the Office of Recovery and Development Administration ... Leer más

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    Managing the Recovery of New Orleans in the Wake of Katrina

    Series series The City in the Twenty-First Century
    Edward J. Blakely has been called upon to help rebuild after some of the worst disasters in recent American history, from the San Francisco Bay Area's 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake to the September 11 attacks in New York. Yet none of these jobs compared to the challenges he faced in his appointment by New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin as Director of the Office of Recovery and Development Administration ... Leer más

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  • Crafting Innovative Places for Australia’s Knowledge Economy

    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book integrates planning, policy, economics, and urban design into an approach to crafting innovative places. Exploring new paradigms of innovative places under the framework of globalisation, urbanisation, and new technology, it argues against state-centric policies to innovation and focuses on how a globalized approach can shape innovative capacity and competitiveness. It notably situates ... Leer más

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  • The Black Metropolis in the Twenty-First Century

    Race, Power, and Politics of Place

    This book brings together key essays that seek to make visible and expand our understanding of the role of government (policies, programs, and investments) in shaping cities and metropolitan regions; the costs and consequences of uneven urban and regional growth patterns; suburban sprawl and public health, transportation, and economic development; and the enduring connection of place, space, and ... Leer más

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