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  • Revitalizing the City

    Strategies to Contain Sprawl and Revive the Core

    by Fritz W. Wagner, Timothy E. Joder, Anthony J. Mumphrey, Jr, Krishna M. Akundi, Alan F.J. Artibise ...
    This practical work demonstrates that controlling urban growth and reviving central city economies are not mutually exclusive endeavors. Rather than re-hash theories of urban development, the contributors describe and evaluate successful community-tested approaches to sustaining our cities. Revitalizing the City provides actual case examples of urban success stories - ranging from San Diego's ... Read more

    $83.81 CAD

  • Community Livability

    Issues and Approaches to Sustaining the Well-Being of People and Communities

    Edited by Fritz Wagner, Roger Caves ...
    What is a livable community? How do you design and develop one? What does government at all levels need to do to support and nurture the cause of livable communities?Using a blend of theory and practice, the second edition of Community Livability addresses evidence from international, state and local perspectives to explore what is meant by the term "livable communities." The second edition ... Read more

    $83.81 CAD

  • Livable Cities from a Global Perspective

    Edited by Fritz Wagner, Roger Caves ...
    Livable Cities from a Global Perspective offers case studies from around the world on how cities approach livability. They address the fundamental question, what is considered "livable?" The journey each city has taken or is currently taking is unique and context specific. There is no such thing as a one-size-fits-all approach to livability. Some cities have had a long history of developing ... Read more

    $105.80 CAD

  • Managing Capital Resources for Central City Revitalization

    Edited by Fritz W. Wagner, Timothy E. Joder, Anthony J. Mumphrey, Jr. ...
    Series series Contemporary Urban Affairs
    First Published in 2000. This book and its companion volume, Human Capital Investment fo r Central City Revitalization, are the products of a two-year endeavor by the National Center for the Revitalization of Central Cities. The National Center is a consortium of academic institutions that analyzes critical problems facing America’s central cities, evaluates strategies to address those problems, ... Read more

    $81.06 CAD

  • Human Capital Investment for Central City Revitalization

    Edited by Fritz Wagner, Timothy Joder, Anthony Mumphrey Jr. ...
    Series series Contemporary Urban Affairs
    Viewing poverty as a condition that is fed and renewed on a daily basis by social and economic structures, this book focuses on the ways in which poor residents can be helped to improve their own situations, their living conditions, and the central city itself. Also includes four maps. ... Read more

    $101.68 CAD

  • Transforming Distressed Global Communities

    Making Inclusive, Safe, Resilient, and Sustainable Cities

    Edited by Fritz Wagner, Riad Mahayni, Andreas Piller ...
    Series series Urban Planning and Environment
    Many of our global cities are distressed and facing a host of issues: economic collapse in the face of rising expectations, social disintegration and civil unrest, and ecological degradation and the threats associated with climate change, including more frequent and more severe natural disasters. Our long-held assumptions about man and nature and how they interact are defunct. We realize now that ... Read more

    $89.31 CAD

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    How Cities Can Thrive in the Age of Populism

    by Bruce Katz, Jeremy Nowak ...
    The New Localism provides a roadmap for change that starts in the communities where most people live and work.In their new book, The New Localism, urban experts Bruce Katz and Jeremy Nowak reveal where the real power to create change lies and how it can be used to address our most serious social, economic, and environmental challenges.Power is shifting in the world: downward from national ... Read more

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  • Back to the Future

    New Urbanism and the Rise of Neotraditionalism in Urban Planning

    by Karl Besel, Viviana Andreescu ...
    Back to the Future explores new urbanism and urban revitalization within the context of public policy trends such as regional governance and the role of nonprofits. The purpose of this book is to provide students and professionals alike with a context for examining the beginnings of new urbanism, as well as to illustrate how this movement has become a nationwide trend in response to changing ... Read more

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  • The Economics of Cultural Policy

    by David Throsby ...
    Cultural policy is changing. Traditionally, cultural policies have been concerned with providing financial support for the arts, for cultural heritage and for institutions such as museums and galleries. In recent years, around the world, interest has grown in the creative industries as a source of innovation and economic dynamism. This book argues that an understanding of the nature of both the ... Read more

    $52.79 CAD

  • Poverty, by America

    by Matthew Desmond ...
    **#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Evicted reimagines the debate on poverty, making a “provocative and compelling” (NPR) argument about why it persists in America: because the rest of us benefit from it.A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New Yorker, The New York Times Book Review, NPR, Oprah Daily, Time, The Star Tribune, Vulture, The Christian Science Monitor, Chicago ... Read more

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  • Urban Sociology

    A Global Introduction

    by Mark Abrahamson ...
    This concise yet comprehensive overview of the political and economic development of the world's cities offers a unique emphasis on its cultural impacts. The book emphasizes the transition from modern (industrial) to post-modern (post-industrial) eras and its effect on established and developing global cities, and arguments are supported with case studies for each of the main concepts of urban ... Read more

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  • Triumph of the City

    How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier, and Happier

    by Edward Glaeser ...
    **Shortlisted for the Financial Times and McKinsey Best Book of the Year Award in 2011“A masterpiece.” —Steven D. Levitt, coauthor of Freakonomics“Bursting with insights.” —The New York Times Book ReviewA pioneering urban economist presents a myth-shattering look at the majesty and greatness of cities**America is an urban nation, yet cities get a bad rap: they're dirty, poor, unhealthy, ... Read more

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