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uTOpia eBook Series

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  • HTO

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

    Edited by Wayne Reeves, Christina Palassio ...
    Series series 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 ... Read more

    R218,49

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  • The Human City

    Urbanism for the Rest of Us

    by 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 ... Read more

    R254,37 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • From Boom to Bubble

    How Finance Built the New Chicago

    by 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 ... Read more

    R259,66 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Demystifying Your Business Strategy

    by David Lei, John Slocum ...
    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 ... Read more

    R598,10

  • Regenerating London

    Governance, Sustainability and Community in a Global City

    Edited by 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. ... Read more

    R1 321,11

  • Root Shock

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

    by Mindy Thompson Fullilove ...
    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 ... Read more

    R292,09

  • The Routledge Handbook of Urbanization and Global Environmental Change

    Edited by Karen Seto, William Solecki, Corrie Griffith ...
    Series series 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 ... Read more

    R1 221,38

  • Change and Continuity in Spatial Planning

    Metropolitan Planning in Cape Town Under Political Transition

    by Vanessa Watson ...
    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 ... Read more

    R598,10

  • Globalizing Taipei

    The Political Economy of Spatial Development

    Edited by Reginald Kwok ...
    Series series 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 ... Read more

    R1 146,59

  • Affordable Housing in US Shrinking Cities

    From Neighborhoods of Despair to Neighborhoods of Opportunity?

    by Robert Mark Silverman, Kelly L. Patterson, Li Yin, Molly Ranahan, Laiyun Wu ...
    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 ... Read more

    R163,40

  • Cairo Cosmopolitan

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

    Edited by 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 ... Read more

    R423,65 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Art of Revitalization

    Improving Conditions in Distressed Inner-City Neighborhoods

    by Sean Zielenbach ...
    Series series Contemporary Urban Affairs
    This book discusses the revitalization of decayed inner-city neighborhoods. It explores the role of social capital in stabilizing and turning around distressed communities, and it highlights the roles that local actors can and do play in the revitalization process.The Art of Revitalization takes two Chicago neighborhoods, Englewood and North Lawndale, as case studies. Zielenbach discusses them in ... Read more

    R1 321,11