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  • Local Government and Strategic Choice (Routledge Revivals)

    An Operational Research Approach to the Processes of Public Planning

    Series series Routledge Revivals
    First published in 1969, this book is concerned with the processes of policy-making in local government. The authors address themselves to the basic challenge of planning in a democracy and consider issues such as how those elected to exercise choice on our behalf can preserve and expand their capacity to choose discriminatingly, when the sheer complexity of the issues facing them tends all the ... Leer más

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  • Communications in the Building Industry

    The report of a pilot study

    Edición de Gurth Higgin, Neil Jessop ...
    Tavistock Press was established as a co-operative venture between the Tavistock Institute and Routledge & Kegan Paul (RKP) in the 1950s to produce a series of major contributions across the social sciences.This volume is part of a 2001 reissue of a selection of those important works which have since gone out of print, or are difficult to locate. Published by Routledge, 112 volumes in total are ... Leer más

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  • The Ins and Outs of POOP

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  • Divided Cities

    Belfast, Beirut, Jerusalem, Mostar, and Nicosia

    Series series The City in the Twenty-First Century
    In Jerusalem, Israeli and Jordanian militias patrolled a fortified, impassable Green Line from 1948 until 1967. In Nicosia, two walls and a buffer zone have segregated Turkish and Greek Cypriots since 1963. In Belfast, "peaceline" barricades have separated working-class Catholics and Protestants since 1969. In Beirut, civil war from 1974 until 1990 turned a cosmopolitan city into a lethal ... Leer más

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  • The Spirit of Cities

    Why the Identity of a City Matters in a Global Age

    A lively and personal book that returns the city to political thoughtCities shape the lives and outlooks of billions of people, yet they have been overshadowed in contemporary political thought by nation-states, identity groups, and concepts like justice and freedom. The Spirit of Cities revives the classical idea that a city expresses its own distinctive ethos or values. In the ancient world, ... Leer más

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  • Edge City

    Life on the New Frontier

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    First there was downtown. Then there were suburbs. Then there were malls. Then Americans launched the most sweeping change in 100 years in how they live, work, and play. The Edge City. ... Leer más

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  • The Well-Tempered City

    What Modern Science, Ancient Civilizations, and Human Nature Teach Us About the Future of Urban Life

    "A thorough education in how to move from simply maximizing the economic output of cities to improving the well-being of all urban residents." —Daniel L. Doctoroff, CEO, Sidewalk Labs2017 PROSE Award Winner: Outstanding Scholarly Work by a Trade PublisherCities are birthplaces of civilization; centers of culture, trade, and progress; cauldrons of opportunity—and the home of eighty percent of the ... Leer más

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  • New Deal Ruins

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    Public housing was an integral part of the New Deal, as the federal government funded public works to generate economic activity and offer material support to families made destitute by the Great Depression, and it remained a major element of urban policy in subsequent decades. As chronicled in New Deal Ruins, however, housing policy since the 1990s has turned to the demolition of public housing ... Leer más

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  • Rochdale Village

    Robert Moses, 6,000 Families, and New York City's Great Experiment in Integrated Housing

    Series series American Institutions and Society
    From 1963 to 1965 roughly 6,000 families moved into Rochdale Village, at the time the world's largest housing cooperative, in southeastern Queens County. The moderate-income cooperative attracted families from a diverse background, white and black, to what was a predominantly black neighborhood. In its early years, Rochdale was widely hailed as one of the few successful large-scale efforts to ... Leer más

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    Popular opinion holds that public housing is a failure; so what more needs to be said about seventy-five years of dashed hopes and destructive policies? Over the past decade, however, historians and social scientists have quietly exploded the common wisdom about public housing. Public Housing Myths pulls together these fresh perspectives and unexpected findings into a single volume to provide an ... Leer más

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  • Staging the New Berlin

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