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    Cultural Economies of Insurance, Credit and Spending

    de Liz Mcfall ...
    Series series CRESC
    The book explores the vital role played by the financial service industries in enabling the poor to consume over the last hundred and fifty years. Spending requires means, but these industries offered something else as well – they offered practical marketing devices that captured, captivated and enticed poor consumers. Consumption and consumer markets depend on such devices but their role has been ... Leer más

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    A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America

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  • Science and the City

    The Mechanics Behind the Metropolis

    Cities are a big deal. More people now live in them than don't, and with a growing world population, the urban jungle is only going to get busier in the coming decades. But how often do we stop to think about what makes our cities work?Cities are built using some of the most creative and revolutionary science and engineering ideas – from steel structures that scrape the sky to glass cables that ... Leer más

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  • Strategic Environmental Assessment and Land Use Planning

    An International Evaluation

    'A wonderfully international and up-to-date perspective on strategic environmental assessment of land use plans by leading experts in the field. Strategic Environmental Assessment and Land Use Planning covers not only how much such SEAs are carried out and in what context, but whether they are effective and why. It provides invaluable insights for practitioners and researchers in this rapidy ... Leer más

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  • Cities and the Politics of Difference

    Multiculturalism and Diversity in Urban Planning

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    Demographic change and a growing sensitivity to the diversity of urban communities have increasingly led planners to recognize the necessity of planning for diversity. Edited by Michael A. Burayidi, Cities and the Politics of Difference offers a guide for making diversity a cornerstone of planning practice.The essays in this collection cover the practical and theoretical issues that surround this ... Leer más

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  • Potsdamer Platz

    The Reshaping of Berlin

    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    The redesign of Potsdamer Platz depicts the struggle to revive Berlin, Germany. This central and highly visible square has undergone a series of strategic revisions to restore its vitality and so to meet place-enhancing objectives. Specifically, the book critically addresses the challenging tasks of restoring Potsdamer Platz from a state of disintegration to a condition worthy of a world-class ... Leer más

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  • Gearing Up for Competitiveness

    The Role of Planning, Governance, and Finance in Small and Medium-sized Cities in South Asia

    This book focuses on local government’s role in increasing city competitiveness through planning, governance, and finance, particularly in small to medium-sized cities in South Asia. Existing studies on city competitiveness tend to focus on megacities, and yet smaller cities house an increasingly large portion of South Asia’s population. This study seeks to initiate a more systematic thinking on ... Leer más

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  • Integrated Productivity in Urban Africa

    Introducing the Neo-Mercantile Planning Theory

    de Donald Okeke ...
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    This book introduces readers to neo-mercantile planning theory in the context of spatial regional integration in Africa. It proposes a new approach that rethinks neo-liberalism as the meta-theory of planning in Africa, and pioneers an original school of thought that presents a general theory of planning for Africa in the twenty-first century.Research to substantiate the new theory was conducted ... Leer más

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  • Furniture, Structure, Infrastructure

    Making and Using the Urban Environment

    de Nigel Bertram ...
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    Observation and analysis are types of invention. They make things apparent which perhaps were invisible. By noticing, drawing and naming something we bring it into being. On the other hand, building and making can be thought of as analytical observations, pointing out what had not been so clear before and revealing the potential for other actions yet to occur. This book is a collection of urban ... Leer más

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    Robert Cervero documents the rise in suburban traffic around the country and examines the role of various planning, design, and management approaches in defining the automobile's growing presence in suburbia. The book highlights suburban business complexes and mixed-use centers throughout the United States that have been planned and designed to reduce auto dependency and to promote ridesharing, ... Leer más

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  • Remaking Birmingham

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    Edición de Liam Kennedy ...
    The city of Birmingham offers a particularly rich case study on urban regeneration as it strives to build a new city image. Positioned between decline and regeneration, the landscape of the city and its environs collages old and new, producing dramatic contrasts - of industrial and post-industrial urbanisms of crumbling brutalism and spectacular flagship developments, of Victorian housing and ... Leer más

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  • West Ham and the River Lea

    A Social and Environmental History of London’s Industrialized Marshland, 1839–1914

    de Jim Clifford ...
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