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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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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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OECD Territorial Reviews Yucatan, Mexico
by Oecd Publishing Publisher Comments The Mexican state of Yucatn, with its strategically important location near the United States, Central America and the Caribbean, is one of the most dynamic regions in the OECD. Yucatn is also a land of contrasts. It is a lagging but growing region...
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Washington, DC's Challenges
by Abdul K. Bangura Publisher Comments This is the fourth in a series of books dealing with Washington, DC. Like the first three, this also is the outgrowth of special seminars conducted in the Department of Political Science at Howard University. We examine Washington, DC's challenges...
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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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The Urban Village: A Charter for Democracy and Local Self-Sustainable Development
by Alberto Magnaghi Publisher Comments This book argues for the construction of democratic community-level institutions: profoundly more democratic than representative government; environmentally sustainable but not disconnected from long distance global networks; and having sufficient local...
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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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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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American Communities: The Next Human Advance, a New Class of Freedom
by Kenneth R. Schneider Publisher Comments American Communities centers upon a critical missing dimension of modern progress: an organizational equivalent to the corporation. The concept rests upon unified, integrated, socially beneficial community living that is comparable to a cruise ship on...
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Multifunctional Land Use
by Ulo (edt) Mander Publisher Comments Global change, land use policies and EU enlargement affect the driving forces for landscape functioning, land use management and rural development. New demands on landscapes and natural resources call for multifunctional approaches to land development...
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Improving Municipal Solid Waste Management in India: A Sourcebook for Policy Makers and Practitioners (Wbi Development Studies)
by Da Et Al Zhu Book News Annotation In this latest entry of the WBI Development Studies series, the authors stress the importance of solid waste management (SWM) in developing countries, and how policies adopted in India in 2000 can be executed properly. The World Bank assembled these...
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Multicultural Aspects of Counseling Series #4: Community Design: A Team Approach to Dynamic Community Systems
by W. Arthur Mehrhoff Synopsis Arthur Mehrhoff??'s Community Design represents a unique way of analyzing a community and the steps needed to help design a sustainable community. In this important contribution, Mehrhoff, through his work with the Minnesota Design Team, seeks to help...
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Integrating Distressed Urban Areas
by Patrice Vergriete Synopsis Distressed urban areas threaten social cohesion in urban regions, the very centre of our economies. This problem can be traced to no single cause; rather it represents a combination of environmental, economic, social and cultural circumstances that tak...
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Contesting Neoliberalism: Urban Frontiers
by Helga (edt) Leitner Publisher Comments The first book to focus on anti-neoliberal urban activism, this text brings together international experts in the field. Key, international examples include World Trade Organization protests in Seattle and Cancun, community revitalization in Calgary, and...
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