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  • HTO

    Toronto's Water from Lake Iroquois to Lost Rivers and Low-flow Toilets

    Redigeret af Wayne Reeves, Christina Palassio ...
    Serier serie uTOpia
    Drained by a half-dozen major watersheds, cut by a network of deep ravines and fronting on a Great Lake, Toronto is dominated by water. Like most cities, though, Toronto has mismanaged its water, from the decades-long transformation of the citys creeks into sewersheds to the alteration of Torontos waterfront. Recently, the trend of fettering Torontos water and putting it underground has been ... Læs mere

    105,86 kr.

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  • Wrestling with Moses

    How Jane Jacobs Took On New York's Master Builder and Transformed the American City

    af Anthony Flint ...
    The rivalry of Jane Jacobs and Robert Moses, a struggle for the soul of a city, is one of the most dramatic and consequential in modern American history. To a young Jane Jacobs, Greenwich Village, with its winding cobblestone streets and diverse makeup, was everything a city neighborhood should be. But consummate power broker Robert Moses, the father of many of New York’s most monumental ... Læs mere

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  • The Human City

    Urbanism for the Rest of Us

    af Joel Kotkin ...
    The author of The Coming of Neo-Feudalism and The New Class Conflict challenges conventions of urban planning.Around the globe, most new urban development has adhered to similar tenets: tall structures, small units, and high density. In The Human City, Joel Kotkin―called "America's uber-geographer" by David Brooks of the New York Times―questions these nearly ubiquitous practices, suggesting that ... Læs mere

    84,61 kr. eller Gratis med Kobo Plus

  • From Boom to Bubble

    How Finance Built the New Chicago

    af Rachel Weber ...
    An unprecedented historical, sociological, and geographic look at how property markets change and fail—and how that affects cities.In From Boom to Bubble, Rachel Weber debunks the idea that booms occur only when cities are growing and innovating. Instead, she argues, even in cities experiencing employment and population decline, developers rush to erect new office towers and apartment buildings ... Læs mere

    94,11 kr. eller Gratis med Kobo Plus

  • Demystifying Your Business Strategy

    While scores of strategic management books have been written, many books fail to take into consideration the influences that shape and constrain managers’ ability to formulate and execute well-thought out strategies. Demystifying Your Business Strategy acknowledges and harnesses those influences, providing practitioners with a helpful new approach to developing and maintaining a competitive ... Læs mere

    257,39 kr.

  • Regenerating London

    Governance, Sustainability and Community in a Global City

    Redigeret af Rob Imrie, Loretta Lees, Mike Raco ...
    Regenerating London explores latest thinking on urban regeneration in one of the fastest changing world cities. Engaging with social, economic, and political structures of cities, it highlights paradoxes and contradictions in urban policy and offers an evaluation of the contemporary forms of urban redevelopment. ... Læs mere

    568,53 kr.

  • Root Shock

    How Tearing Up City Neighborhoods Hurts America, And What We Can Do About It

    Root Shock examines 3 different U.S. cities to unmask the crippling results of decades-old disinvestment in communities of color and the urban renewal practices that ultimately destroyed these neighborhoods for the advantage of developers and the elite.Like a sequel to the prescient warnings of urbanist Jane Jacobs, Dr. Mindy Thompson Fullilove reveals the disturbing effects of decades of ... Læs mere

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  • The Routledge Handbook of Urbanization and Global Environmental Change

    Serier serie Routledge International Handbooks
    This volume provides a comprehensive overview of the interactions and feedbacks between urbanization and global environmental change. A key focus is the examination of how urbanization influences global environmental change, and how global environmental change in turn influences urbanization processes. It has four thematic foci: Theme 1 addresses the pathways through which urbanization drives ... Læs mere

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  • Change and Continuity in Spatial Planning

    Metropolitan Planning in Cape Town Under Political Transition

    Change and Continuity in Spatial Planning addresses a question of enduring interest to planners: can planning really bring about significant and positive change? In South Africa the process of political transition appeared to create the preconditions for planners to demonstrate how their traditional humanitarian and environmental concerns could find concrete expression in the reshaping of the ... Læs mere

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  • Globalizing Taipei

    The Political Economy of Spatial Development

    Redigeret af Reginald Kwok ...
    Serier serie Planning, History and Environment Series
    Taipei's quest to become a global city is the key to its urban development. Globalizing Taipei looks at this "Asian Dragon", a major city in the South China Growth Triangle and a centre for transnational production, revealing how the development of this capital has received firm state support but is conditioned by international and domestic politics.The book is divided into four parts: economic ... Læs mere

    493,43 kr.

  • Affordable Housing in US Shrinking Cities

    From Neighborhoods of Despair to Neighborhoods of Opportunity?

    Given the rapid urbanisation of the world’s population, the converse phenomenon of shrinking cities is often overlooked and little understood. Yet with almost one in ten post-industrial US cities shrinking in recent years, efforts by government and anchor institutions to regenerate these cities is gaining policy urgency, with the availability and siting of affordable housing being a key concern ... Læs mere

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  • Cairo Cosmopolitan

    Politics, Culture, and Urban Space in the New Middle East

    Redigeret af Diane Singerman, Paul Amar ...
    Bringing together a distinguished interdisciplinary group of scholars, this volume explores what happens when new forms of privatization meet collectivist pasts, public space is sold off to satisfy investor needs and tourist gazes, and the state plans for Egypt's future in desert cities while stigmatizing and neglecting Cairo's popular neighborhoods. These dynamics produce surprising ... Læs mere

    164,11 kr. eller Gratis med Kobo Plus