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America's Waterfront Revival: Port Authorities and Urban Redevelopment (City in the 21st Century)
by Peter Hendee Brown  Publisher Comments Since the early years of the twentieth century, public authorities have been providing an enormous share of the public infrastructure in the United States and have shaped our urban environment in powerful ways. Politicians have continued to create new...
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Environmental Problems in an Urbanizing World: Finding Solutions in Africa, Asia, and Latin America
by Jorge Enrique Hardoy Publisher Comments This book is about the lives of these "squatter citizens" in cities of Africa, Asia and Latin America and the problems they face in their struggle for survival. It describes how they develop their own homes and neighbourhoods and their other...
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Participation: The New Tyranny?
by Bill Cooke Publisher Comments This book shows how participatory government can lead to the unjust and illegitimate exercise of power. It addresses the gulf between the almost universally fashionable rhetoric of participation, promising empowerment and appropriate development. Looking...
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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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Cities in the Twenty First Century
by Gary Gappert Publisher Comments The future will be post-something: but post what? How will the myriad of likely social and technological changes combine to affect the cities of thirty years hence? What will the effects be of reduced energy supplies; an ageing population...
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Retailers Operating at a Profit: Models of Successful Urban Projects
by Alyssa Stewart Lee Publisher Comments Urban Retail examines a wide array of project types that are, or should be, typical in urban areas, including these general categories: Neighborhood servicing retail such as grocery stores, convenience stores, and quick-serve food Community servicing...
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Renewing Hope W/In Neighborhoods Desp: The Community-Based Development Model (Suny Series in Urban Public Policy)
by Herbert J Rubin Publisher Comments Renewing Hope builds upon narratives provided by leaders of community-based development organizations (CBDOs) to describe how they bring about affordable, quality housing, commercial opportunities, and employment within poor areas. The book illustrates...
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Shaping Neighbourhoods: Health, Sustainability and Vitality
by Hugh Barton Publisher Comments Current policies in planning emphasise the importance of rejuvenating neighbourhoods. This new guide seeks to bridge the gap between rhetoric and reality, promoting an interprofessional and collaborative approach to making localities work. The objective...
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Transforming the City: Community Organizing and the Challenge of Political Change (Studies in Government and Public Policy)
by Marion (edt) Orr Synopsis As an avenue for progressive politics in a nation still skeptical of change, community organizing today faces significant challenges. This book assesses that activity within the context of political, cultural, social, and economic changes in cities--from...
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Mandated Landscape
by Roza I. M. El-eini Book News Annotation El-Eini (Institute for Historical Research, London U., UK) this work explores British administration's policy planning and implementation regarding the landscape of Mandate Palestine, looking at the government's urban and rural planning, agriculture...
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Colonias in Arizona and New Mexico
by Adrian Esparza Publisher Comments There are approximately half a million people living in 227 officially designated colonias in southern Arizona and New Mexico. These border communities are characterized by poor-quality housing, a lack of infrastructure (paved roads, water and sewer...
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Harvard Economic Studies #0157: Housing and Neighborhood Dynamics: A Simulation Study
by John F. Kain Publisher Comments This book assesses the effects of spatially concentrated programs for housing and neighborhood improvement. These programs provide direct assistance to low-income property owners in an attempt to arrest neighborhood decline and encourage revitalization....
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More Urban, Less Poor: An Introduction to Urban Development and Management
by Goran Tannerfeldt Publisher Comments The world is undergoing massive urbanization: now topping three billion of the world's six billion people and projected to increase to four billion city dwellers, mostly in the developing world, within twenty-five years. The impacts and development...
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Complex Artificial Environments
by J. (edt) Portugali Publisher Comments This book explores the possibilities of applying the theories of complexity and self-organization developed to account for various phenomena in the natural science to artifacts traditionally the realm of humanities and social sciences. The emphasis of...
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Fundamentals of Economic Development Finance
by Susan L. Giles Publisher Comments Public sector orientations to planning, community and social development, or local economic development often overlook the money end of the project and focus almost exclusively on the social good. Unfortunately, plans do not materialize without money...
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Visions of the City; Utopianism, Power and Politics in Twentieth Century Urbanism
by David Pinder Publisher Comments It is a comprehensive history of utopian urbanism both as a social movement and as a movement in urban planning in the past century. It begins with Ebenezer Howard's garden cities movement and then moves from Le Corbusier to the surrealists to the...
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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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Planning Polity: Planning, Government and the Policy Process (Rtpi Library Series)
by Mark Tewdwr-jones Publisher Comments Planning is not a technical and value free activity. Planning is an overt political system that creates both winners and losers. The Planning Polity is a book that considers the politics of development and decision-making, and political conflicts between...
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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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Practising Development: Social Science Perspectives
by Johan Pottier Publisher Comments Throughout the last decade, there has been a demand for the incorporation of social science perspectives into the design and management of sustainable development programs. Much of this pressure has come from internationally renowned development...
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