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In Our Own Backyard: Principles for Effective Improvement of the Nation's Infrastructure (Studies in Infrastructure Technology & Policy)
by Committee On Infrastructure  Publisher Comments This volume takes a fresh look - primarily from a technological perspective - at the nation's "infrastructure": a collection of diverse modes that function as a system supporting a wide range of economic and social activities. Within an infrastructure...
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Carleton Contemporary #02: Urban Enigmas: Montreal, Toronto, and the Problem of Comparing Cities
by Johanne (edt) Sloan Synopsis The practice of comparison is implicit in every act of imagining, representing, and studying urban experience. Urban Enigmas contributes to recent interdisciplinary interest in cities by introducing comparison as a key methodology for urban cultural...
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Remotely Sensed Cities
by Gregory Mcculloch Publisher Comments New urban applications are emerging for remote sensing, in particular with the use of high-resolution data for measuring, monitoring and analysis. This comes through the use of high spatial resolution imaging, such as for precision mapping of cities; new...
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The Urban Household Energy Transition: Social and Environmental Impacts in the Developing World
by Douglas F. Barnes Publisher Comments As cities in developing countries grow and become more prosperous, energy use shifts from fuelwood to fuels like charcoal, kerosene and coal, and, ultimately, to fuels such as liquid petroleum gas, and electricity. Energy use is not usually considered a...
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Lewis Mumford and the Ecological Region: Politics of Planning, the (Critical Perspectives)
by Mark Luccarelli Publisher Comments Well known for his column in "The New Yorker," Lewis Mumford is widely regarded as the foremost urban critic of this century. Through historical and theoretical perspectives, author Mark Luccarelli traces the development of Mumford's thought on regional...
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Planning for Urban Quality: Urban Design in Towns and Cities
by Gordon Power Publisher Comments Rapid regeneration of city areas has placed the quality of urban design high on public and policy agendas worldwide. This work examines the achievement of quality in the urban environment, in a planning context. Tracing urban design from its roots, the...
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Freeing China's Farmers: Rural Restructuring in the Reform Era (Socialism & Social Movements)
by David Zweig Publisher Comments A comprehensive analysis of China's rural reforms, this book links local experiences to national policy, showing the dynamic tension in the reform process among state policy, local cadre power and self-interest, and the peasants' search for economic...
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Practice of Modernism
by John R. Gold Publisher Comments In this sequel to his widely-acclaimed book "The Experience of Modernism (1997"), John Gold continues his detailed enquiry into the Modern Movement's involvement in urban planning and city design. Making extensive use of information gained from hours of...
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Postmodernpositions #1: Philosophical Streets: New Approaches to Urbanism
by Dennis Crow Publisher Comments In this collection, architects, city planners, and social theorists apply the poststructuralism of Derrida, Foucault, Baudrillard, de Man, Barthes, and Frankfurt School theory to the problems of cities. These insights challenge urban scholars to produce...
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Rural Development in China: Prospect and Retrospect
by Hsiao-tung Fei Publisher Comments This collection of essays written from 1947-1986 by Fei Hsiao-tung, China's most distinguished sociologist and anthropologist, presents a rich and representative sampling of the research that has characterized his long career. In 1936, Fei conducted...
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Redesigning Cities: Principles, Practice, Implementation
by Jonathan Barnett Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 295-298) and index....
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Urban Planning and Civic Order in Germany, 1860-1914 (Harvard Historical Studies)
by Brian Ladd Publisher Comments This unique contribution to social and urban history describes the struggle of prosperous German bourgeois leaders to bring order to their rapidly growing cities during the tumultuous age of industrial expansion in the decades before World War I. Brian...
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City Year: On the Streets & in the Neighborhoods with Twelve Young Community Service Volunteers
by Suzanne Goldsmith Publisher Comments This is the story of that year. The author tells of how, together with a varied team, she helped renovate buildings for the homeless, tutored schoolchildren, reclaimed a community garden from drug dealers, and organized a community street-cleaning day...
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Urban Textures ] Yves Lion
by Jean-louis Cohen Synopsis A monograph on this prominent French architect, Yves Lion, and a survey of his oeuvre. Born in Casablanca in 1945, Yves Lion has been a pre-eminent figure in the French architectural scene and debate for some 30 years. Now, leading architectural...
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Change and Continuity in Spatial Planning: The Global Local Dilemma (Routledge Classics)
by Vanessa Watson Publisher Comments "Change and Continuity in Spatial Planning" addresses a question of enduring interest to planners: can planning really bring about significant and positive change? In South Africa the process of political transition appeared to create the preconditions...
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New Burlington :the life and death of an American village
by John Baskin Publisher Comments In the early 1970s, the quiet Ohio village of New Burlington was abandoned to allow construction of a dam. John Baskin lived in New Burlington for its final year, commemorating and recording its residents' heartbreaking stories. The result is one of the...
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Back of the Yards: The Making of a Local Democracy
by Robert Slayton Publisher Comments "Robert A. Slayton's Back of the Yards is one of the finest accounts I have ever read on an urban, working-class neighborhood in twentieth-century America. Its focus on family, politics, and worklife is penetrating and its conclusions reinforce an...
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Understanding Government Budgets
by Mark Musell R. Publisher Comments Budgets in the United States follow rules of presentation and use terms that make sense to few outside the world of government finance. Moreover, practices vary widely among the thousands of governments in the country, between federal, state, and local...
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Social Town Planning: Planning & Social Policy
by Clara Greed Publisher Comments This book introduces the concept of 'social town planning' to integrate planning policy and practives with the cultural and social issues of the people they are planning for....
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Financial Management for Local Government
by Publisher Comments ** Comprehensive reference handbook in 4 volumes covers all aspects of financial management for local and municipal authorities** Covers all levels of financial management and decision-making up to Chief Executive level** Suitable for governments with...
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