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“kenneth g elzinga”

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  • Antitrust, the Market and the State

    Contributions of Walter Adams

    by James W. Brock, Kenneth G. Elzinga ...
    Using the metaphor of the socially constructed organization of space, this text takes a broad view of the evolution of urban America, from its historical roots to the present. It examines how policies respond to and affect the organization of space, and it looks to the future of American cities. ... Read more

    $101.68 CAD

  • To Think Christianly

    A History of L'Abri, Regent College, and the Christian Study Center Movement

    by Charles E. Cotherman ...
    2020 ECPA Top Shelf Book Cover AwardIn the late 1960s and on into the next decade, the American pastor and bestselling author Francis Schaeffer regularly received requests from evangelicals across North America seeking his help to replicate his innovative learning community, L'Abri, within their own contexts.At the same time, an innovative school called Regent College had started up in Vancouver, ... Read more

    $52.87 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    by Jack Pransky ...
    Modello is the true story from beginning to end of how Dr. Roger Mills and staff accomplished the miracle in the Modello and Homestead Gardens Housing Projects applying the Three Principles/Health Realization approach based on a new spiritual psychology. Through extensive interviews with residents as well as Dr. Mills his staff and other professionals a very compelling and moving portrait is ... Read more

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  • Indigenous in the City

    Contemporary Identities and Cultural Innovation

    Edited by Evelyn Peters, Chris Andersen ...
    Research on Indigenous issues rarely focuses on life in major metropolitan centres. Instead, there is a tendency to frame rural locations as emblematic of authentic or "real" Indigeneity. While such a perspective may support Indigenous struggles for territory and recognition, it fails to account for large swaths of contemporary Indigenous realities, including the increased presence of Indigenous ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • ReBerth

    Stories from Cities on the Edge

    by Alexei Sayle, Valeria Parrella, Pawel Huelle ...
    Featuring: Alexei Sayle, Dinesh Allirajah, Valeria Parrella, Pawel Huelle, Adam Kaminski, Peppe Lanzetta, Claudia Parman, Artur Becker, Murathan Mungan, Hatice Meryem, Jean-Claude Izzo and Christian Garcin.The six European port cities known as the ‘Cities on the Edge’ – Liverpool, Bremen, Gdansk, Istanbul, Marseilles and Naples - share a history of dissent, diversity and economic reinvention. Once ... Read more

    $9.20 CAD

  • 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

    $21.99 CAD

  • Toward an Architecture of Enjoyment

    by Henri Lefebvre ...
    Translated by Robert Bononno ...
    Toward an Architecture of Enjoyment is the first publication in any language of the only book devoted to architecture by Henri Lefebvre. Written in 1973 but only recently discovered in a private archive, this work extends Lefebvre’s influential theory of urban space to the question of architecture. Taking the practices and perspective of habitation as his starting place, Lefebvre redefines ... Read more

    $30.79 CAD

  • Mapping Decline

    St. Louis and the Fate of the American City

    by Colin Gordon ...
    Series series Politics and Culture in Modern America
    Once a thriving metropolis on the banks of the Mississippi, St. Louis, Missouri, is now a ghostly landscape of vacant houses, boarded-up storefronts, and abandoned factories. The Gateway City is, by any measure, one of the most depopulated, deindustrialized, and deeply segregated examples of American urban decay. "Not a typical city," as one observer noted in the late 1970s, "but, like a Eugene O ... Read more

    $51.99 CAD

  • Educating Angels

    Teaching for the Pursuit of Happiness

    by Tony Armstrong, Ph.D ...
    Series Book 9 - Our National Conversation
    School reform and accountability tests have been hotly debated for decades, but the goal of reform and accountability has not. Most agree that the main problem with contemporary education is that it fails to adequately prepare students with the “21st century skills” needed to find jobs and promote national competitiveness in the global economy. Tony Armstrong challenges both the morality and the ... Read more

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  • Jaffa Shared and Shattered

    Contrived Coexistence in Israel/Palestine

    by Daniel Monterescu ...
    Series series Public Cultures of the Middle East and North Africa
    Binational cities play a pivotal role in situations of long-term conflict, and few places have been more marked by the tension between intimate proximity and visceral hostility than Jaffa, one of the "mixed towns" of Israel/Palestine. In this nuanced ethnographic and historical study, Daniel Monterescu argues that such places challenge our assumptions about cities and nationalism, calling into ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD

  • The Hallway Trilogy

    by Adam Rapp ...
    "Adam writes like nobody else, his fierce poetic power as inescapable as the doom that waits for his characters…his touch is that of a master in the making." —Marsha NormanMulti-talented artist and provocateur Adam Rapp shocks and disturbs, weaving themes of love, suffering, and redemption throughout this alarming yet heartening critical examination of societal change. Spanning one hundred years ... Read more

    $18.39 CAD

  • The City

    by Deborah Stevenson ...
    Series series Key Concepts
    This book is a fresh and engaging analysis of the city as a central concept in contemporary social thought. It probes the contested and negotiated ways in which cities are built, understood, lived and imagined. Taking a thematic approach and drawing on a range of theoretical, methodological and empirical points of reference, it examines such subjects as urban inequality, public space, creative ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD