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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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Who's Who in Peoplestown - Historic Edition
by Ellen N. Fleming Synopsis The Atlanta, Georgia, community of Peoplestown, its history, including its relationship with the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games, its present renovation projects and programs, its programs for young people, and its future are all presented in this volume....
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Stakeholder Dialogues in Natural Resources Management
by Susanne (edt) Stoll-kleemann Publisher Comments The book outlines an integrative theoretical framework and examines examples of stakeholder dialogues and public participation in three areas: science, policy and management. The current practice has been to analyse these separately. However, the three...
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Developing Successful Infill Housing
by Diane R. Suchman Publisher Comments Learn how to develop profitable, market-rate infill housing in urban and inner-ring suburban areas. This book explains how to find and take advantage of opportunities and overcome obstacles....
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Placing Words: Symbols, Space, and the City
by William J. Mitchell Publisher Comments The meaning of a message, says William Mitchell, depends on the context of its reception. andquot;Shouting 'fire' in a crowded theater produces a dramatically different effect from barking the same word to a squad of soldiers with guns,andquot; he...
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Celebration, U.S.A.: Living in Disney's Brave New Town
by Douglas Frantz Publisher Comments A prize-winning reporter, his wife, and their two kids describe life in Disney's vision of the future. In 1997, six months after the first residents had moved into Celebration, Florida-Disney's town of the future with its distinctly retro link to a...
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Rtpi Library Series #6: Urban Planning and Cultural Identity
by William J. V. Neill Publisher Comments This book links debates in urban planning with debates in cultural geography/studies. Using a combination of case studies - Detroit, Belfast and Berlin - and reviews of literature in cultural studies. The work illustrates the important role planners play...
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Community Space: How Land and Weather Shape Communities (Communities at Work)
by Angela Catalano Publisher Comments This engaging, age-appropriate set is designed to meet the early childhood social studies curriculum, where students learn about themselves and their community and what makes their community similar to and different from communities across the United...
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OECD Rural Policy Reviews Germany
by Publisher Comments This review discusses the challenges and opportunities of German rural areas. Significant differences between East and West persist and many of these have clear rural dimensions. Factors such as CAP reforms, ageing of the German population and...
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American Metropolitics : the New Suburban Reality (02 Edition)
by Myron Orfield Publisher Comments Myron Orfield's new work, American Metropolitics, applies revolutionary mapping and demographic research to an eye-opening analysis of the economic, racial, environmental, and political trends of the 25 largest metropolitan regions in the United States....
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Going Public: An Organizer's Guide to Citizen Action
by Michael Gecan Publisher Comments Urban decay can sap the determination--not to mention the soul--of anyone who experiences it. But there are forces that can and do reverse it. They are not spectators, or critics, or occasional demonstrators. They are groups of citizens, encouraged and...
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Before Renaissance : Planning in Pittsburgh, 1889-1943 (06 Edition)
by John F. Bauman Publisher Comments Examines a half-century epoch when planners, public officials, and civic leaders engaged in a dialogue about the meaning of planning and its application for improving life in Pittsburgh. Defines Pittsburgh’ s key role in the national urban...
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The Politics of Historic Districts: A Primer for Grassroots Preservation
by William Edgar Schmickle Publisher Comments Politics of Historic Districts is your political battle plan in a fight to designate a local historic district. Thirty-four brief chapters cover everything you need to know about the politics of organizing a grassroots campaign and what you have to do to...
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It Takes a Neighborhood
by David J. Wright Book News Annotation The Pew Charitable Trusts sought to understand thriving, working-class urban residential neighborhoods through the Neighborhood Preservation Initiative (NPI), a community-building initiative in 10 neighborhoods in nine mid-sized cities. Wright...
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Integrated Land Use and Environmental Models: A Survey of Current Applications and Research
by Subhrajit Guhathakurta Publisher Comments The authors of this volume follow four interrelated themes. In the first section "Evolving Definitions - Changing Practices" the fundamental shifts in urban modeling practices are examined in relation to the new theoretical and computational advances in...
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Urban Ecology: An International Perspective on the Interaction Between Humans and Nature
by John M. Marzluff Publisher Comments Urban Ecology is a rapidly growing field of academic and practical significance. Urban ecologists have published several conference proceedings and regularly contribute to the ecological, architectural, planning, and geography literature. However...
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Women & Planning: Creating Genedered Realities
by Clara Greed Publisher Comments Planning is currently a male profession, but an analysis of a century of town planning reveals this to be a new development; women have been central to the planning movement since it began. "Women and Planning" is the first comprehensive history and...
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Unfinished City : New York and the Metropolitan Idea (02 Edition)
by Thomas Bender Synopsis Throughout history, cities have been a powerful source of inspiration and energy, nourishing invention and intellect and fuelling movements for innovation and reform. In this text, Thomas Bender uses New York City to plumb the source of the city's power...
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