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  • Participatory Governance

    Planning, Conflict Mediation and Public Decision-Making in Civil Society

    Edited by W. Robert Lovan, Michael Murray, Ron Shaffer ...
    In recent years a new participatory governance dynamic has been redefining relationships and responsibilities in the planning and implementation of policies and programs. Participatory governance not only crosses public, private and associational sectors, but is also intra-organizational. It allows for individual and collective participation, and challenges longstanding norms of institutional ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

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  • Rebel Cities

    From the Right to the City to the Urban Revolution

    by David Harvey ...
    "David Harvey...has inspired a generation of radical intellectuals." —Naomi KleinA "forensic and ferocious" manifesto on the city as a center for anti-capitalist resistance from an acclaimed theorist (The Guardian)Long before the Occupy movement, modern cities had already become the central sites of revolutionary politics, where the deeper currents of social and political change rise to the ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Detroit

    A Biography

    by Scott Martelle ...
    At its heyday in the 1950s and 1960s, Detroit's status as epicenter of the American auto industry made it a vibrant, populous, commercial hub—and then the bottom fell out. Detroit : A Biography takes a long, unflinching look at the evolution of one of America's great cities and one of the nation's greatest urban failures. This authoritative yet accessible narrative seeks to explain how the city ... Read more

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  • My Backyard Jungle

    The Adventures of an Urban Wildlife Lover Who Turned His Yard into Habitat and Learned to Live with It

    by James Barilla ...
    For James Barilla and his family, the dream of transforming their Columbia, South Carolina, backyard into a haven for wildlife evoked images of kids catching grasshoppers by day and fireflies at night, of digging up potatoes and picking strawberries. When they signed up with the National Wildlife Federation to certify their yard as a wildlife habitat, it felt like pushing back, in however small a ... Read more

    $20.19 USD

  • The Community Planning Handbook

    How people can shape their cities, towns & villages in any part of the world

    by Nick Wates ...
    Series series Earthscan Tools for Community Planning
    Growing numbers of residents are getting involved with professionals in shaping their local environment, and there is now a powerful menu of tools available, from design workshops to electronic maps. The Community Planning Handbook is the essential starting point for all those involved: planners and local authorities, architects and other practitioners, community workers, students and local ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • The Post-Growth Project

    How the End of Economic Growth Could Bring a Fairer and Happier Society

    Edited by John Blewitt ...
    This book challenges the assumption that it is bad news when the economy doesn’t grow. For decades, it has been widely recognized that there are ecological limits to continuing economic growth and that different ways of living, working and organizing our economies are urgently required. This urgency has increased since the financial crash of 2007–2008, but mainstream economists and politicians are ... Read more

    $10.49 USD

  • Global Cities

    A Short History

    by Greg Clark ...
    Series series The Short Histories
    Why have some cities become great global urban centers, and what cities will be future leaders?From Athens and Rome in ancient times to New York and Singapore today, a handful of cities have stood out as centers of global economic, military, or political power. In the twenty-first century, the number of truly global cities is greater than ever before, reflecting the globalization of both economic ... Read more

    $15.39 USD

  • The Streets Were Paved with Gold

    by Ken Auletta ...
    How - and why - did one of the world's greatest cities come to be teetering on the edge of bankruptcy? Ken Auletta, writer for THE NEW YORKER and columnist for THE DAILY NEWS, shows how the decline of New York City was partly inevitable --- the result of shifting migration patterns and rapidl technological innovations --- and partly caused by anarchic political and economic factions, each angling ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Twentieth-Century Sprawl

    Highways and the Reshaping of the American Landscape

    by Owen D. Gutfreund ...
    Owen Gutfreund's Twentieth-Century Sprawl explains important--and largely unexamined--changes in the American landscape. He offers an illuminating look at how highways have dramatically transformed American communities, aiding growth and development in unsettled areas and undermining existing urban centers. Gutfreund takes a "follow the money" approach to show how government policies--from as ... Read more

    $20.89 USD

  • Urban Theory and the Urban Experience

    Encountering the City

    by Simon Parker ...
    Urban Theory and the Urban Experience brings together classic and contemporary approaches to urban research in order to reveal the intellectual origins of urban studies and the often unacknowledged debt that empirical and theoretical perspectives on the city owe one another.From the foundations of modern urban theory in the work of Weber, Simmel, Benjamin and Lefebbvre to the writings of ... Read more

    $115.99 USD

  • Towards a Territorial Multi-Disaster Buildings’ Resistance Certification

    by Daniele Fabrizio Bignami ...
    Series series Energy (R0)
    Disaster risk is increasing, not only in number of events, but also in incurred losses. Such increases are being driven also by the growing exposure of assets, due to the rapid urban growth, because vulnerability decreases as countries develop, but not enough to compensate. The situation will be more and more critical, due to the growth of the amount of the building stock. Thus we need new ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Urban Livelihoods

    A People-centred Approach to Reducing Poverty

    by Tony Lloyd-Jones, Carole Rakodi ...
    One of the most promising approaches to poverty reduction in developing countries is to encourage sustainable livelihoods for the poor. This takes account of their opportunities and assets and the sources of their vulnerability. Based on recent and extensive research, this volume thoroughly assesses the value of the livelihoods approach to urban poverty. The book reviews the situation and ... Read more

    $91.99 USD