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Peasant Power in China: The Era of Rural Reform, 1979-1989
by Daniel Kelliher  Publisher Comments This is a carefully wrought, intelligent, well-written, and original analysis of central issues in Chinese peasant politics. It is, moreover, cast in the larger framework of issues of considerable moment in social sciences.-Mark Selden, coauthor of...
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Metrogreen: Connecting Open Space in North American Cities
by Donna Erickson Publisher Comments Land-use and urban planning professionals, along with landscape architects and environmental advocates, have joined efforts to protect and connect open spaces. MetroGreen answers their need for the latest thinking and newest practices in this growing...
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OECD Rural Policy Reviews Mexico
by Oecd Publishing Publisher Comments The challenges faced by Mexico's rural areas are significant. Mexico's countryside is home to a large population (more than the overall population of many OECD countries) that is highly dispersed and largely living in poverty. The potential of these...
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Boomburbs: The Rise of America's Accidental Cities
by Robert E Lang Publisher Comments A glance at a list of America's fastest growing cities reveals quite a surprise: most are really overgrown suburbs. Places such as North Las Vegas, NV; Plano, TX; Gilbert, AZ; and Chula Vista, CA have swelled to big-city size with few people really...
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Gaining Ground: A History of Landmaking in Boston
by Nancy S. Seasholes Publisher Comments Historian Seasholes presents the first complete account of when, why, and how this land was created. The story of landmaking in Boston is presented geographically; each chapter traces landmaking in a different part of the city from its first permanent...
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Times Square Roulette: Remaking the City Icon
by Lynne B. Sagalyn Publisher Comments The compelling story of the politics, policies, and personalities that made Times Square's revitalization possible....
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The Urban Growth Machine: Critical Perspectives, Two Decades Later (Suny Series in Urban Public Policy)
by Andrew E. G. Jonas Publisher Comments Harvey Molotch's "city as a growth machine" thesis is one of the most influential approaches to the analysis of urban politics and local economic development in the United States. However, the nature and context of urban politics have changed...
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Urban and Landscape Perspectives #1: Fundamental Trends in City Development
by Giovanni Maciocco Synopsis The Reinvented City reflects on externity, the principal feature of a reinvented city. Three fundamental trends of the city are investigated, "discomposed," "generic" and "segregated" phenomena with the loss of the city as a space of social interaction...
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People First: A Guide to Self-Reliant Participatory Rural Development
by Stan Burkey Synopsis Conscious of the frequent co-option of the idea of participation by official development agencies, and of the other pitfalls that participatory development can run into, the author provides a hardheaded and practical education about the role of change...
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Landlords and Property
by John Allen Publisher Comments This book provides an anatomy of the nature of private landlordism in the 1980s, types of landlord in the market, scope of their activities, and choices and constraints that guide their actions in the market....
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Ecology of Fear Los Angeles & the Imagin
by Mike Davis Publisher Comments From the author of City of Quartz, a startling new view of Los Angeles, the disaster capital of the world--and what it has to tell us about America at the millennium. Los Angeles has become a magnet for the American apocalyptic imagination. Riot...
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Jane Jacobs: Urban Visionary
by Alice Sparberg Alexiou Publisher Comments In this analysis of Jane Jacob's work and ideas, Alice Sparberg Alexiou tells the remarkable story of a woman who without any formal training in planning became a prominent and effective spokesperson for sensible urban change....
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The Key to Sustainable Cities: Meeting Human Needs, Transforming Community Systems
by Gwendolyn Hallsmith Publisher Comments Most of the world's population now live in cities, but despite wide agreement on the core values of sustainable societies, municipalities are so busy solving current problems, they don't have the time or resources to plan effective action for...
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Since Megalopolis: The Urban Writings of Jean Gottmann
by Jean Gottmann Publisher Comments In 1961 Jean Gottmann published his pioneering study of urban sprawl along the Boston-Washington corridor. The book's title soon became a household word, and its author gained worldwide acclaim for his insights into the dimensions of urbanism. Since...
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Visionaries and Planners: The Garden City Movement and the Modern Community
by Stanley Buder Publisher Comments In this book, Stanley Buder examines the Garden City movement from its origins in mid-nineteenth-century England to its subsequent development and elaboration in twentieth- century America. The Garden City movement emphasized green belts around cities...
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Conceptions of the Desirable: What Cities Ought to Know about the Future
by Franz (edt) Hirschmugl Synopsis Right in the heart of Graz, the second largest city in Austria, an entire city district had simply fallen into oblivion. Now, the industrial park of the former Reininghaus Brewery has been rediscovered. The new owners have taken up the search for answers:...
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Why Planning Does Not Work: Land Use Planning and Residents' Rights in Tanzania
by Tumsifu Jonas Nnkya Publisher Comments Lack of transparency and accountability in the planning practice allow for misuse and abuse of the planning system to serve the interests of the more powerful and influential groups, including those entrusted with the powers of planning. The outcomes of...
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The Art of City Making
by Charles Landry Publisher Comments City-making is an art, not a formula. The skills required to re-enchant the city are far wider than the conventional ones like architecture, engineering and land-use planning. There is no simplistic, ten-point plan, but strong principles can help send...
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Chicago: A Geography of the City and Its Region (Center for American Places-Center Books on American Places)
by John C Hudson Publisher Comments The geography of Chicago is central to its history and to its success as the nation’s now third largest metropolitan area. The first geography of the Windy City in more than fifty years, Chicago: A Geography of the City and Its Region is a topical...
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Halfway To Everyone (04 Edition)
by Hudnutt Publisher Comments Drawing from his experience as mayor, Bill Hudnut describes the plight of first-tier suburbs and reveals how they have been left behind as the spotlight has focused on downtown revitalization and growth in outlying areas. Learn how these areas are...
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