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Neighbourhood Renewal and Housing Markets: Community Engagement in the Us and UK (Real Estate Issues)
by Harris Beider  Publisher Comments The academic and policy interest in the development of cities, the renewal of residential and older industrial neighbourhoods in cities, and issues to do with race, polarisation and inequality in cities has remained at the forefront of policy and...
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Street Smart: Competition, Entrepreneurship and the Future of Roads
by Gabriel Joseph Roth Publisher Comments The poor health of today's roads--a subject close to the hearts of motorists, taxpayers, and government treasurers around the world--has resulted from faculty incentives that misdirect government decision-makers, according to the contributors to Street...
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Introduction to Planning Practice
by Alan Prior Publisher Comments This introduction to town-and-country planning combines theory, procedures, and practice with detailed, real-world case studies. Both national and local perspectives in the United Kingdom are presented, clearly demonstrating how planning policies are...
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City and Environment
by Christopher Boone Publisher Comments Explore the city, its environment, and human roles in shaping the meaning and condition of...
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Randstad
by F. M. Dieleman Publisher Comments Randstad Holland is the urbanized western part of the Netherlands. It contains the four largest cities of the country: Amsterdam, Rotterdam, The Hague and Utrecht. The name Randstad (rim city) refers to the distinctive shape of the conurbation, a...
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Toward Sustainable Communities (Rev 05 Edition)
by Mark Roseland Publisher Comments Local governments are increasingly caught between rising expectations that development initiatives be sustainable and the fact that more and more services are being downloaded to the municipal level. The third edition of this classic text offers...
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Geojournal Library #92: The Post-Socialist City: Urban Form and Space Transformations in Central and Eastern Europe After Socialism
by Kiril Stanilov Publisher Comments In the large body of literature produced during the last fifteen years on the transformation of Eastern European societies after the fall of communism, studies investigating changes in urban form and structure have been quite rare. Yet a profound...
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Planners on Planning: Leading Planners Offer Real-Life Lessons on What Works, What Doesn't, and Why
by Bruce W. Mcclendon Publisher Comments Planners on Planning offers pragmatic information on the realities of day-to-day practice from some of the most innovative, respected, and visionary leaders in the planning profession today. The editors have gathered straightforward lessons from today's...
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Urban Planning Today: A Harvard Design Magazine Reader (Harvard Design Magazine)
by William S. Saunders Publisher Comments American cities' penchants for single-use zoning and free-market development in pursuit of economic growth have produced problems that have long been recognized: grueling commutes and dependency on automobiles, social isolation, expensive public...
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Dialogical Planning in a Fragmented Society
by Thomas L. Harper Book News Annotation The authors (both of the faculty of environmental design, U. of Calgary, Canada) explore how the neopragmatism of Hilary Putnam, Richard Rorty, and others can be applied to planning procedures and problems in the field of environmental design...
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The Warhol Economy: How Fashion, Art, and Music Drive New York City
by Elizabeth Currid Publisher Comments Which is more important to New York City's economy, the gleaming corporate office--or the grungy rock club that launches the best new bands? If you said office, think again. In The Warhol Economy, Elizabeth Currid argues that creative industries like...
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Development Economics on Trial: The Anthropological Case for a Prosecution
by Polly Hill Publisher Comments Polly Hill's provocative new book examines the disastrous gulf that currently separates development economics from its sister discipline, economic anthropology. Working with material from the rural tropical world, much of it collected at first hand in...
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Low Life: Lures and Snares of Old New York
by Luc Sante 
Powells.com Staff Pick While not crime fiction per se, Low Life is a great ride through the history of New York's underclass. Thieves, grifters, and skin-poppers abound, colossal gang wars destroy entire boroughs, and Sante's descriptions of life in the slums of the 1800's...
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Talking Cities: The Micropolitics of Urban Space / Die Mikropolitik Des Urbanen Raums
by Francesca Ferguson Publisher Comments Featuring innovative international design, architecture and spatial interventions in a trans-disciplinary platform, the magazine Talking Cities stretches the boundaries of architecture and urban design and shifts our perceptions of contemporary city...
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The Urban Challenge in Africa: Growth and Management of Its Large Cities
by Carole Rakodi Synopsis Scholars from a range of national and disciplinary backgrounds examine the growth of the largest cities in Africa--their characteristics, their dynamism despite economic crisis, and the results of attempts to manage them....
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War on the Dream: How Anti-Sprawl Policy Threatens the Quality of Life
by Wendell Cox Publisher Comments People around the world associate the universal dream of home ownership with an unprecedented improvement in quality of life. But there is a war on this dream, the result of policies that seek to control urban sprawl or suburbanization. The proponents...
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The Real and Virtual Worlds of Spatial Planning
by Martina Koll-schretzenmayr Publisher Comments The Real and Virtual Worlds of Spatial Planning brings together contributions from leaders in landscape, transportation, and urban planning today. The authors present an international range of case studies - from Europe, Australia, North America, Asia...
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Under the Perfect Sun : the San Diego Tourists Never See (03 Edition)
by Mike Davis Publisher Comments For fourteen million tourists each year, San Diego is the fun place in the sun that never breaks your heart. But America's eighth-largest city has a dark side. Behind Sea World, the zoo, the Gaslamp District, and the beaches of La Jolla hides a...
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The Intercultural City: Planning for Diversity Advantage
by Phil Wood Publisher Comments In a world where individuals are increasingly mobile, how people originating from different cultures live together is one of the key issues of the 21st century. There is a growing need for new thinking on how diverse communities can live together in...
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A Biomass Future for the North American Great Plains
by Norman J. Rosenberg Publisher Comments The Great Plains' ecological fragility and economic weakness are attributed by many to removal of its original grass cover. Abandonment of agricultural cropping and restoration of the grass cover is one proposed solution to the region's problems...
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