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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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Comparative Policy Evaluation #12: From Studies to Streams: Manaing Evaluative Systems
by Ray C. (edt) Rist Publisher Comments Recent developments in the area of policy evaluation have focused on new notions of process and use or, notably, "influence." But this debate among evaluators on how evaluations are used has been essentially a closed one--evaluators talking only among...
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Springs of Participation: Creating and Evolving Methods for Participatory Development
by Karen Brock Publisher Comments Learning from others in the form of fusion and adaptation of existing tools and approaches is very much part of evolving new participatory methods. This book discusses a wide and rich range of participatory methods, focussing on Reflect and the Internal...
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Structure and Meaning in Human Settlements
by Tony (edt) Atkin Book News Annotation In this intriguing and beautifully illustrated examination of the relationships among form, space and cultural meaning in human habitation, contributors from a variety of disciplines address the possibilities of common ground in architectural theories...
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Living Together; Towards Inclusive Communities in New Zealand.
by Michelle Thompson-fawcett And Claire Freeman Book News Annotation Urban planners, geographers, and other social scientists from New Zealand explore various ways to build better communities, and identify frustrations and potentials of the process. Their topics include whether New Zealand is a post-feminist paradise...
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Planning World Cities: Globalization, Urban Governance and Policy Dilemmas (Planning, Environment, Cities)
by Peter Newman Publisher Comments This internationally comparative text on urban planning covers both the global and regional context in which it takes place and the different combinations of issues confronting different types of cities. In contrast to existing texts the book considers...
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Rebuilding Communities the Public Trust Way: Community Foundation Assistance to CDCS, 1980-2000
by Jeffrey S. Lowe Publisher Comments Rebuilding Communities the Public Trust Way highlights cases of community foundation assistance to Community Development Corporations (CDCs) during the final two decades of the twentieth century in Cleveland, Ohio; Florida; and New Orleans, Louisiana....
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Creating Better Futures: Scenario Planning as a Tool for a Better Tomorrow
by James A. Ogilvy Publisher Comments As a founder and managing director of Global Business Network, James Ogilvy helped develop the technique of scenario planning, which has become an integral part of strategic thinking in both business and government. Now Ogilvy shows how we can use this...
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Rediscovered Frontier : Land Use and Resource Issues in the New West (06 Edition)
by Philip L. Jackson Publisher Comments A Rediscovered Frontier describes the changing land use issues taking place in the rapidly growing western United States, paying special attention to the previously unexplored area of private lands planning and local growth management. A Rediscovered...
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Managing the City
by John Diamond Synopsis Authored by academics and practitioners this exciting new book takes a problem based approach to regeneration management. The challenges facing those involved with regeneration are many and varied, this book provides the tools and techniques, using a...
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Geojournal Library #91: Employment Deconcentration in European Metropolitan Areas: Market Forces Versus Planning Regulations
by Erin (edt) Razin Publisher Comments Spatial deconcentration of economic activities, particularly the growth of suburban office, retail and entertainment concentrations, has become a prime concern in European metropolitan areas. This book provides a cross-national comparative perspective on...
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Social Capital and Poor Communities (Ford Foundation Series on Asset Building)
by Susan Saegert Book News Annotation Twenty-three American academics and specialists from a variety of fields contribute 12 chapters to this text funded by the Ford Foundation, exploring the strengths and policy relevance of the asset- building approach to poverty alleviation. Coverage...
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At Home in the Park: Loving a Neighborhood Back to Life
by Lola L. Lucas Publisher Comments What's the difference between a group of houses and a real community? Author Lola L. Lucas explores this question in At Home in the Park: Loving a Neighborhood Back to Life. Lucas chronicles the rebirth of Enos Park, a section of Springfield, Illinois...
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Naked Cities - Struggle in the Global Slums
by Mute Publisher Comments According to UN research data, by 2030 half of the world's population will be living in slums. Meanwhile, in Durban, residents of Forman and Kennedy Road settlements risk arrest and police violence to protest forced eviction and demand clean drinking...
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The Public City: The Political Construction of Urban Life in San Francisco, 1850-1900
by Philip J Ethington Publisher Comments A new look at how the issues of concern in the public sphere were influenced by journalism and political organizing in American cities in the second half of the 19th century....
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Managing America's Cities: A Handbook for Local Government Productivity
by Roger L. Kemp Publisher Comments This work describes the operations of a typical municipal government and examines the many productivity trends that are occurring in city halls across America. Much of the focus is on the increasing need for planning in city government to ensure that...
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