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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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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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Alternate Route: Toward Efficient Urban Transportation
by Clifford Winston Publisher Comments This book develops an alternative solution to urban transportation problems based on economic analysis of public and private sector capabilities, concluding that public officials should take the next step and allow the private sector to play a leading...
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The Plan of Chicago: Daniel Burnham and the Remaking of the American City (Chicago Visions and Revisions)
by Carl Smith Publisher Comments Arguably the most influential document in the history of urban planning, Daniel Burnham’s 1909 Plan of Chicago, coauthored by Edward Bennett and produced in collaboration with the Commercial Club of Chicago, proposed many of the city’s most...
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In the Desert of Desire: Las Vegas and the Culture of Spectacle
by William L Fox Publisher Comments Las Vegas, says William Fox, is a pay-as-play paradise that succeeds through its collective ability to fantasize our deepest desires, which in a consumer society means vast wealth and the excesses of pleasure and consumption that go with it. In this...
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This Is the City: Making Model Citizens in Los Angeles
by Ronald J Schmidt Publisher Comments Jack Webb's Los Angles, a Southern California paradise built of confidence games and real estate booms, swindles and boondoggles, is indeed "the City." But it is not the only one, as Ronald Schmidt makes clear in this critical look at the little-examined...
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Making the Second Ghetto: Race and Housing in Chicago 1940-1960 (Historical Studies of Urban America)
by Arnold R Hirsch Publisher Comments In Making the Second Ghetto, Arnold Hirsch argues that in the post-depression years Chicago was a "pioneer in developing concepts and devices" for housing segregation. Hirsch shows that the legal framework for the national urban renewal effort was forged...
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Rule & Order: Dutch Planning Doctrine in the Twentieth Century
by Andreas Faludi Publisher Comments This book is about Dutch strategic planning. Although the Netherlands is often considered a planner's paradise, it should be realized that it is one that is carefully constructed and maintained by the planners themselves. In discussing national planning,...
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Urban Landscape Perspectives
by Giovanni (edt) Maciocco Publisher Comments Urban Landscape Perspectives explores how landscape terminology can be usefully brought into the urban debate. Articles in this book include theoretical reflections on the landscape as an eminently project-like figure. It argues for attention to be drawn...
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Networks of Local Action Groups in Rural Areas - The Example of the Eu Initiative Broads and Rivers Leader+
by Holger Schiller Publisher Comments The Community Initiative LEADER provides funding for rural areas and local actors and seeks to establish links between actions for the development of the rural economy. It aims to implement integrated, effective and sustainable strategies for rural...
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