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  • The Eminent Domain Revolt:

    Changing Perceptions a New Constitutional Epoch

    by John Ryskamp ...
    Ryskamp provides an up-to-the-minute report on the law and politics of eminent domain after the Supreme Court's (in)famous Kelo v. New London decision of June of 2005. All the states are just beginning to debate reforming their eminent domain laws, and there is nothing whatsoever on the market which would give them a clue as to how to frame the debate. Legislators are bewildered as to how to ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Eminent Domain Revolt

    by John Ryskamp ...
    The eminent domain issue involves a new legal controversy about an apparently settled issue. It demands knowledge of the history out of which the Constitution arose, as well as legal background.Twist the Constitution and you can un-do decades of work sustaining the right to housing. What is the &quote;public interest&quote;? A legal expert analyzes recent legislative proposals and presents a new ... Read more

    $50.99 CAD

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  • Tom Gilmartin

    The Man Who Brought Down a Taoiseach and Exposed the Greed and Corruption at the Heart of Irish Politics

    by Frank Connolly ...
    A successful property developer in England, the Sligo-born Tom Gilmartin had ambitious plans for major retail developments in Dublin in the late 1980s. Little did he know that in order to do business in the city, senior politicians and public officials would want a slice of the action … in the form of large amounts of cash. Gilmartin blew the whistle on corruption at the heart of government and ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Rethinking the Economics of Land and Housing

    by Josh Ryan-Collins, Toby Lloyd, Laurie Macfarlane ...
    Why are house prices in many advanced economies rising faster than incomes? Why isn't land and location taught or seen as important in modern economics? What is the relationship between the financial system and land?In this accessible but provocative guide to the economics of land and housing, the authors reveal how many of the key challenges facing modern economies - including housing crises, ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

  • What a City Is For

    Remaking the Politics of Displacement

    by Matt Hern ...
    An investigation into gentrification and displacement, focusing on the case of Portland, Oregon's systematic dispersal of black residents from its Albina neighborhood.Portland, Oregon, is one of the most beautiful, livable cities in the United States. It has walkable neighborhoods, bike lanes, low-density housing, public transportation, and significant green space—not to mention craft-beer bars ... Read more

    $20.79 CAD

  • Rights of Passage

    Sidewalks and the Regulation of Public Flow

    by Nicholas Blomley ...
    Series series Social Justice
    Rights of Passage: Sidewalks and the Regulation of Public Flow documents a powerful and under-researched form of urban governance that focuses on pedestrian flow. This logic, which Nicholas Blomley terms 'pedestrianism', values public space not in terms of its aesthetic merits, or its success in promoting public citizenship and democracy. Rather, the function of the sidewalk is understood to be ... Read more

    $86.99 CAD

  • The Emergence of Pacific Urban Villages

    Urbanization Trends in the Pacific Islands

    by Asian Development Bank ...
    Series series Pacific Studies
    This publication seeks to explain the nature of settlements termed “urban villages” as set within the context of growing levels of urbanization in contemporary Pacific towns and cities. It investigates the meaning and conceptualization of myriad forms of urban villages by examining the evolution of different types of settlement commonly known as native or traditional villages, and more recently ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Telling & Duxbury's Planning Law and Procedure

    by Robert Duxbury ...
    Telling & Duxbury's Planning Law and Procedure covers the fundamental principles of planning law in England and Wales. Now in its fourteenth edition, this guide to the complexities of planning law has been fully updated to take account of significant developments in legislation and case law since the previous edition's publication in 2005.This title comprehensively covers all aspects of planning ... Read more

    $87.99 CAD

  • Urban Commons

    Rethinking the City

    Edited by Christian Borch, Martin Kornberger ...
    Series series Space, Materiality and the Normative
    This book rethinks the city by examining its various forms of collectivity – their atmospheres, modes of exclusion and self-organization, as well as how they are governed – on the basis of a critical discussion of the notion of urban commons. The idea of the commons has received surprisingly little attention in urban theory, although the city may well be conceived as a shared resource. Urban ... Read more

    $114.99 CAD

  • Housing Law and Policy

    by David Cowan ...
    Series series Law in Context
    An innovative and timely guide to housing law that integrates the disciplines of law and public policy so that readers see how the subject fits together – both the letter of the law and the way it is practised. The innovative three-part structure covers all the topics of a typical Housing Law module and it is written in a clear and conversational style, with a wide range of source material to show ... Read more

    $69.99 CAD

  • The Limits of the Legal Process: A Study of Landlords, Law and Crime

    by David Nelken ...
    This classic and pathbreaking study in the sociology of law has won multiple academic awards for its insight, clarity, and broad import in examining the UK's Rent Acts and landlord behavior over a period of time in the 1960s and 1970s. Not just a revelation of the unintended consequences of well-meaning tenant reforms--though it certainly does lay bare the bizarre side-effects of a law presented ... Read more

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  • Practice Notes on Planning Law

    Edited by Clive Brand ...
    This book provides valuable guidance and insight into the key features of the town and country planning system and the process of obtaining planning permission for development of land. The text is essentially procedural in nature since it focuses on the making of planning applications and the use of appeal procedures. It also explains how to deal with enforcement problems where a breach of ... Read more

    $86.56 CAD