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Paris, Capital of Modernity
by David Harvey  Publisher Comments David Harvey's historical work on 19th century Paris is universally regarded as brilliant. As much as Benjamin and Marx, he has demonstrated the absolute centrality of capital in creating the modern city--its class relations, culture, urban form, and...
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The City Builders: Property Development in New York and London, 1980-2000 (Studies in Government and Public Policy)
by Susan S. Fainstein Publisher Comments In the last twenty years, urban centers worldwide have experienced enormous booms and busts as real-estate developers, financial institutions, and public officials first poured resources into physical redevelopment, then watched as the market collapsed...
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Urban Sprawl and Public Health (04 Edition)
by Howard Frumkin Publisher Comments In Urban Sprawl and Public Health, Howard Frumkin, Lawrence Frank, and Richard Jackson, three of the nation's leading public health and urban planning experts explore an intriguing question: How does the physical environment in which we live affect our...
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Heat Wave: A Social Autopsy of Disaster in Chicago (Illinois)
by Eric Klinenberg Publisher Comments On Thursday, July 13, 1995, Chicagoans awoke to a blistering day in which the temperature would reach 106 degrees. The heat index, which measures how the temperature actually feels on the body, would hit 126 degrees by the time the day was over...
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The Code of the City: Standards and the Hidden Language of Place Making (Urban and Industrial Environments)
by Eran Ben-joseph Publisher Comments Standards and codes dictate virtually all aspects of urban development. The same standards for subdividing land, grading, laying streets and utilities, and configuring rights-of-way and street widths to accommodate cars (rather than pedestrians) have...
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The Late Great U.S.A.: The Coming Merger with Mexico and Canada
by Jerome R., Ph.d. Corsi Publisher Comments In "The Late Great USA," Jerome Corsi argues that the benignly-named "Security and Prosperity Partnership," created at a meeting between George W. Bush, Stephen Harper and Vincente Fox, is in fact the same kind of regional integration plan that led...
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Mapping Decline: St. Louis and the Fate of the American City (Politics and Culture in Modern America)
by Colin Gordon Publisher Comments Once a thriving metropolis on the banks of the Mississippi, St. Louis, Missouri, is now a ghostly landscape of vacant houses, boarded up storefronts, and abandoned factories. The Gateway City is, by any measure, one of the most depopulated...
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Frederick Law Olmsted
by Charles E. Beveridge Publisher Comments Frederick Law Olmsted: Designing the American Landscape By Chalres E. Beveridge and Paul Rocheleau Edited and designed by David Larkin A man of passionate vision and drive, Frederick Law Olmsted defined and named the profession of landscape architecture...
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Remaking the Urban Waterfront
by Urban Land Institute Publisher Comments Written by expert architects and planners, this book explains the importance of and challenges inherent in transforming waterfronts into attractive community destinations....
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The Deliberative Practitioner: Encouraging Participatory Planning Processes
by John Forester Publisher Comments Citizen participation in such complex issues as the quality of the environment, neighborhood housing, urban design, and economic development often brings with it suspicion of government, anger between stakeholders, and power plays by many--as well as...
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Turf Wars (06 Edition)
by Gabriella Gahlia Modan Publisher Comments Turf Wars: Discourse, Diversity, and the Politics of Place is the fascinating story of an urban neighborhood undergoing rapid gentrification....
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The Community Planning Handbook: How People Can Shape Their Cities, Towns and Villages in Any Part of the World
by Nick (edt) Wates Publisher Comments An accessible how-to-do-it style, with tips, checklists and sample documents help readers to get started quickly, learn from others' experience and select the approach best suited to their situation. The glossary, bibliography and contact details allow...
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Community Organizing: Building Social Capital as a Development Strategy
by Ross J. Gittell Publisher Comments This book provides new insights into an important national community development challenge: how to stimulate the formation of genuinely community-based organizations and effective citizen action in neighbourhoods that have not spawned these efforts...
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Urban and Regional Planning
by P. Hall Publisher Comments This is the fourth edition of the classic text for students of urban and regional planning. It gives a historical overview of the developments and changes in the theory and practice of planning, throughout the entire 20th century. This extensively...
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Place Making: Developing Town Centers, Main Streets, and Urban Villages
by Charles C. Bohl Publisher Comments Addressing one of the hottest trends in real estate--the development of town centers and urban villages with mixed uses in pedestrian-friendly settings--this book will help navigate through the unique design and development issues and reveal how to make...
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Urban Crisis: Culture and the Sustainability of Cities
by M Nadarajah Publisher Comments This book offers fresh insights into the role of culture in fostering community development, environmental awareness, and balanced economic growth. It will be of particular interest to students of urban studies, academics, and civil society groups...
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Urban Development: The Logic of Making Plans
by Lewis D. Hopkins Publisher Comments With increased awareness of the role of plans in shaping urban and suburban landscapes has come increased criticism of planners and the planning profession. Developers, politicians, and citizens alike blame "poor planning" for a host of community ills...
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Sustainable Brownfield Regeneration: Liveable Places from Problem Spaces
by Tim Dixon Et Al Publisher Comments Sustainable Brownfield Regeneration presents a comprehensive account of UK policies, processes and practices in brownfield regeneration and takes an integrated and theoretically-grounded approach to highlight best practice. Brownfield regeneration has...
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Linking Regions and Central Governments: Contracts for Regional Development
by Oecd Publishing Publisher Comments A trend toward decentralisation has meant that sub-national governments increasingly find themselves responsible for providing a host of public goods and services. Rarely, however, can they go it alone. Co-ordination among levels of government is...
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Geojournal Library #67: The Power of Planning: Spaces of Control and Transformation
by Oren Yiftachel Publisher Comments The book addresses critically the question: "What is the societal impact of urban and regional planning?". It begins with a theoretical discussion and then analyses, through a series of case studies, the intentions, contents, struggles and consequences...
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