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Urban Regeneration in Europe
by Chris Couch  Publisher Comments This book provides a comparative account of the process of urban regeneration and examines the factors influencing these processes, as well as the consequences of their implementation. Through a mixture of theoretical discussion and a series of case...
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Metropolitics: A Regional Agenda for Community and Stability (Revised Edition)
by Myron Orfield Publisher Comments "No study provides greater insights on the causes and consequences of metropolitan polarization. And no study offers a more convincing policy agenda to achieve the political integration of cities and suburbs".--William Julius Wilson, Harvard University. "...
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The Politics of Downtown Development: Dynamic Political Cultures in San Francisco and Washington, D.C.
by Stephen Mcgovern Publisher Comments Through an insightful comparison of effective protest in San Francisco and ineffective protest in Washington, D.C., Stephen McGovern examines how citizens - even those lacking financial resources - have sought to control their own urban environments. His...
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Managing for a Change How To Run Commu
by Anthony Davies Publisher Comments Project management is a skill we have to learn; good intentions and enthusiasm are not enough! This book provides an insight into development project planning and management by guiding the reader, chapter by chapter, through the stages from concept to...
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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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Urban Development and Civil Society: The Role of Communities in Sustainable Cities
by Michael Carley Publisher Comments The world's population is rapidly urbanizing but the affluence and development often associated with cities are far from equitably or sustainably distributed. Where it was once taken for granted that responsibility for urban development lay with the...
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Water and Sanitation in the World's Cities: Local Action for Global Goals
by United Nations Human Settlements Program Publisher Comments The world??'s governments agreed at the Millennium Summit to halve the number of people who lack access to safe water, mainly in the world??'s cities, by 2015. With rapidly growing urban populations the challenge is immense.This is a comprehensive and...
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Brookings-Wharton Papers on Urban Affairs: 2005 (Brookings-Wharton Papers on Urban Affairs)
by Janet Rothenberg Pack Publisher Comments Subscribe to "Brookings-Wharton Papers on Urban Affairs" Designed to reach a wide audience of scholars and policymakers, the "Brookings-Wharton Papers on Urban Affairs" is an annual series that serves as a forum for cutting-edge, accessible research on...
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Landscapes of Power : From Detroit To Disney World (91 Edition)
by Sharon Zukin Publisher Comments Great social transformations mark both an end and a beginning . In the structural changes of the past twenty-years, Americans have struggled to defined which elements of their lives have been destroyed forever and which are in the process of being...
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Planning for Sustainability: Creating Livable, Equitable and Ecological Communities
by Stephen M. Wheeler Publisher Comments Existing patterns of urbanization are unsustainable in the long run. Current development practices consume enormous amounts of land and resources, damage local ecosystems, produce pollutants, create huge inequalities between groups of people, and...
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Applied Anthropology: An Introduction-- Third Edition
by John Van Willigen Publisher Comments Applied Anthropology: An Introduction (3rd edition) is a text focused on the use of the methods and theories of anthropology to solve the practical problems of human communities. It addresses a wide range of problem-solving practices in two large...
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Contemporary Urban Affairs #7: Managing Capital Resources for Central City Revitalization
by Fritz W. Wagner Publisher Comments Much has been done since the end of the second world war to revitalize central cities. Some efforts have been piecemeal and haphazard (such as urban renewal) while others have been qualified successes (such as urban development action grants). Since 1980,...
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The Urban Oasis: Guideways and Greenways in the Human Environment
by Roxanne Warren Publisher Comments Decentralization and the flight to the suburbs have drained the economic and cultural life out of many urban communities, while driving our consumption of land and fuel to new heights. But the option of conventional planning for higher densities raises...
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The New American City Faces Its Regional Future: A Cleveland Perspective
by David C. Sweet Publisher Comments The fate of Cleveland, Ohio, rides on a web of interdependencies on a regional scale. People and communities throughout that area of Ohio are being forced to adjust to new civic roles. The city of Cleveland must understand how it fits into Greater...
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The Peasant Family and Rural Development in the Yangzi Delta, 1350-1988
by Philip C. C. Huang Synopsis How can we account for the durability of subsistence farming in China despite six centuries of vigorous commercialization from 1350 to 1950 and three decades of collectivization between 1950 to 1980? Here, scholars attempt to answer this question....
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Collaborative Planning: Shaping Places in Fragmented Societies (Planning, Environment, Cities)
by Patsy Healey Publisher Comments Spatial and environmental planning is an essential feature of all but the very simplest of societies. Its form and role and the principles on which it should be based, however, have become increasingly controversial questions. In this important book...
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Building Gotham: Civic Culture and Public Policy in New York City, 18981938
by Keith D. Revell Publisher Comments The work thus demonstrates how a group of ambitious professionals overcame the limits of traditional means of decision-making and developed the city-building practices that enabled New York to become America's first mega-city....
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Greater MilwaukeeS Growing PainS, 1950-2000
by Richard W. Cutler Publisher Comments This book examines the historic trends and battles which shaped Milwaukee in the past fifty years, including the boundary wars of the 1950s between city and suburban towns and municipalities, freeway construction, and arguments and lawsuits over flooding...
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Local Partnerships for Rural Development: The European Experience (Geography)
by John Frederick Arthu Mason Publisher Comments This book has been developed from a report of the cross-national PRIDE (Partnerships for Rural Integrated Development in Europe) research project. The research involved focusing on public and private sector rural development experience of six member...
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Planning the City Upon a Hill: Boston Since 1630
by Lawrence Kennedy Publisher Comments "Kennedy balances a wealth of pertinent detail, comparisons with the history of other cities, and carefully chosen maps and aerial views to create a scholarly and well-written tome that will serve as a standard in the history of American urban planning"....
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