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The Late Great U.S.A.: The Coming Merger with Mexico and Canada
by Jerome R. Corsi  Synopsis In "The Late Great USA," Jerome Corsi argues that the benignly-named "Security and Prosperity Partnership," created at a meeting between George W. Bush, Stephen Harper and Vincente Fox, is in fact the same kind of regional integration plan that led...
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Planet of Slums (06 Edition)
by Mike Davis Publisher Comments Celebrated urban historian's bestselling account of the global explosion of slums, with a major new introduction. According to the United Nations, more than one billion people now live in the slums of the cities of the South. In this brilliant and...
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City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles
by Mike Davis 
Publisher Comments To its official boosters, "Los Angeles brings it all together." To its detractors, it is "The Big Nowhere." No one has better captured L.A.'s bizarre role as both utopia and dystopia than Davis, the author of this mordantly elegant and wide-ranging work...
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Greater Portland: Urban Life and Landscape in the Pacific Northwest (Metropolitan Portraits)
by Carl Abbott Synopsis Carl Abbott reports how Portland became a model of American urban planning. "A panoramic portrait."--Carl Abbott reports how Portland became a model of American urban planning. "A panoramic portrait."--...
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Heat Wave: A Social Autopsy of Disaster in Chicago (Illinois)
by Eric Klinenberg Publisher Comments On Thursday, July 13, 1995, Chicagoans awoke to a blistering day in which the temperature would reach 106 degrees. The heat index, which measures how the temperature actually feels on the body, would hit 126 degrees by the time the day was over...
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Pedal Power: The Quiet Rise of the Bicycle in American Public Life
by J. Harry Wray Publisher Comments In an era of steep gas prices, snarled traffic, catastrophic climate change, and a yearning for a higher quality of life, interest in bike-friendly public policies is surging nationwide. A surprising array of political organizations, visionary...
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The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
by Robert A. Caro Publisher Comments One of the most acclaimed books of our time, winner of both the Pulitzer and the Francis Parkman prizes, The Power Broker tells the hidden story behind the shaping (and mis-shaping) of twentieth-century New York (city and state) and makes public what few...
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From the Ground Up : Environmental Racism and the Rise of the Environmental Justice Movement (01 Edition)
by Luke W. Cole Publisher Comments "They assess the effectiveness of the organizing tactics employed, casting particular scrutiny on the courts as agents of social change...The authors have presented concrete examples, all the while making clear that there are no road maps for successful...
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Root Shock: How Tearing Up City Neighborhoods Hurts America, and What We Can Do about It
by Mindy Fullilove Synopsis They called it progress. But for the people whose homes and districts were bulldozed, the urban renewal projects that swept America starting in 1949 were nothing short of assault. Vibrant city blocks--places rich in history--were reduced to garbage...
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Community Planning, P
by Eric D Kelly Publisher Comments Community Planning is an introductory textbook that provides a thorough examination of the comprehensive planning process as practiced in the United States today. The authors consider all aspects of the comprehensive plan: its elements, adoption, and...
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The Deliberative Practitioner: Encouraging Participatory Planning Processes
by John Forester Publisher Comments Citizen participation in such complex issues as the quality of the environment, neighborhood housing, urban design, and economic development often brings with it suspicion of government, anger between stakeholders, and power plays by many--as well as...
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Ancient Futures : Learning From Ladakh (91 Edition)
by Helena Norberg-hodge Publisher Comments The swiftly evolving socioeconomic life of Ladakh, whose people struggle to balance growth and technology with cultural values, offers crucial lessons in sustainable development. This gripping portrait of the western Himalayan land known as “Little...
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Urban Crisis: Culture and the Sustainability of Cities
by M Nadarajah Synopsis 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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Metrogreen: Connecting Open Space in North American Cities
by Donna Erickson Publisher Comments In metropolitan areas across the country you can hear the laments over the loss of green space to new subdivisions and strip malls. But some city residents have begun unprecedented measures to protect their open land, and a growing movement seeks not...
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There Goes the Neighborhood: Racial, Ethnic, and Class Tensions in Four Chicago Neighborhoods and Their Meaning for America (Vintage)
by William Julius Wilson Publisher Comments From one of America’s most admired sociologists and urban policy advisers, There Goes the Neighborhood is a long-awaited look at how race, class, and ethnicity influence one of Americans’ most personal choices—where we choose to live...
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Health and Community Design: The Impact of the Built Environment on Physical Activity
by Lawrence D Frank Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [223]-242) and index....
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Going Public: An Organizer's Guide to Citizen Action
by Michael Gecan Review “Trained by Saul Alinsky, whose Rules for Radicals is the original handbook for grass-roots organizing, Gecan…show[s] the incredible power people can have over their own lives and their own government when they stand together in creative ways....
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The Landscape of Modernity: New York City, 1900-1940
by David Ward Synopsis New York City stands as the first expression of the modern city, a mosaic of disparate neighborhoods born in 1898 with the amalgamation of the five boroughs and shaped by the passions of developers and regulators, architects and engineers, politicians...
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Inside Game/Outside Game: Winning Strategies for Saving Urban America
by David Rusk Synopsis For the past three decades, the federal government has targeted the poorest areas of American cities with a succession of antipoverty initiatives, yet these urban neighborhoods continue to decline. According to David Rusk, focusing on programs aimed at...
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Roots for Radicals (03 Edition)
by Edward T. Chambers Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [147]-148) and index....
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