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  • Advanced Introduction to Planning Theory

    by Robert A. Beauregard ...
    Series series Elgar Advanced Introductions series
    Elgar Advanced Introductions are stimulating and thoughtful introductions to major fields in the social sciences and law, expertly written by the world's leading scholars. Designed to be accessible yet rigorous, they offer concise and lucid surveys of the substantive and policy issues associated with discrete subject areas.In this original approach to the world of planning theory, Robert A. ... Read more

    $26.99 CAD

  • Planning Matter

    Acting with Things

    by Robert A. Beauregard ...
    City and regional planners talk constantly about the things of the world—from highway interchanges and retention ponds to zoning documents and conference rooms—yet most seem to have a poor understanding of the materiality of the world in which they're immersed. Too often planners treat built forms, weather patterns, plants, animals, or regulatory technologies as passively awaiting commands rather ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Cities in the Urban Age

    A Dissent

    by Robert A. Beauregard ...
    We live in a self-proclaimed Urban Age, where we celebrate the city as the source of economic prosperity, a nurturer of social and cultural diversity, and a place primed for democracy. We proclaim the city as the fertile ground from which progress will arise. Without cities, we tell ourselves, human civilization would falter and decay. In Cities in the Urban Age, Robert A. Beauregard argues that ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • When America Became Suburban

    by Robert A. Beauregard ...
    In the decades after World War II, the United States became the most prosperous nation in the world and a superpower whose dominance was symbolized by the American suburbs. Spurred by the decline of its industrial cities and by mass suburbanization, people imagined a new national identity—one that emphasized consumerism, social mobility, and a suburban lifestyle. The urbanity of the city was lost. ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

  • Voices of Decline

    The Postwar Fate of US Cities

    by Robert A. Beauregard ...
    [FOR HISTORY CATALOGS]Drawing on the pronouncements of public commentators, this book portrays the 20th century history of U.S. cities, focusing specifically on how commentators crafted a discourse of urban decline and prosperity peculiar to the post-World War II era. The efforts of these commentators spoke to the foundational ambivalence Americans have toward their cities and, in turn, shaped the ... Read more

    $90.99 CAD

  • Regulation and Planning

    Practices, Institutions, Agency

    Edited by Yvonne Rydin, Robert Beauregard, Marco Cremaschi, Laura Lieto ...
    In Regulation and Planning, planning scholars from the United Kingdom, France, Italy, Sweden, Canada, Australia, and the United States explore how planning regulations are negotiated amid layers of normative considerations. It treats regulation not simply as a set of legal guidelines to be compared against proposed actions, but as a social practice in which issues of governmental legitimacy, ... Read more

    $79.69 CAD

  • The Political Economy of Land

    Rent, Financialization and Resistance

    Edited by Mika Hyötyläinen, Robert Beauregard ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Urbanism and the City
    Recent years have seen a gathering interest in the importance of real estate development to the growth and development of cities. This has included theoretical work on such topics as land rent and property rights as well as empirical studies on property investments, assetization, securitization, and the effects of changing property values on economic growth and the global status of cities. In the ... Read more

    $83.99 CAD

  • Emerging Johannesburg

    Edited by Richard Tomlinson, Robert Beauregard, Lindsay Bremmer, Xolela Mangcu ...
    Johannesburg is most often compared with Sao Paulo and Los Angeles and sometimes even with Budapest, Calcutta and Jerusalem. Johannesburg reflects and informs conditions in cities around the world. As might be expected from such comparisons, South Africa's political transformation has not led to redistribution and inclusive social change in Johannesburg. In Emerging Johannesburg the contributors ... Read more

    $101.68 CAD

  • Planning for a Material World

    Edited by Laura Lieto, Robert Beauregard ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Planning and Urban Design
    Today, urban scholars think of cities and regions as evolving through networks of human associations, technologies, and natural ecologies. This being the case, planners are faced with the task of navigating a profoundly material world. Planning with and for humans alone is unacceptable: in the unfolding of urban processes, non-human things cannot be ignored. This inclusive vision has consequences ... Read more

    $94.81 CAD

  • Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies: Reports of Fort Sumter

    by Robert Anderson & P.G.T. Beauregard ...
    Although several Southern states had already seceded, led by South Carolina shortly after his election, President Abraham Lincoln still hoped to preserve the Union until the attack on Fort Sumter, which commenced April 12, 1861. Although nobody was killed, the federal garrison had to surrender the fort after a day of shelling. The Civil War had just started. The military officials in charge on ... Read more

    $2.73 CAD

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    by Leslie Budd, Panu Lehtovuori, Mark D. Gottdiener ...
    Series series SAGE Key Concepts series
    "Key Concepts in Urban Studies is written in an accessible, concise way and introduces students to the key topics in urban studies. Drawing examples from different parts of the world, this authoritative resource exposes students to the diverse forms that cities take, and the social, spatial and temporal dimensions of urban living. It is an essential resource for students across disciplines ... Read more

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  • Cogs and Monsters

    What Economics Is, and What It Should Be

    by Diane Coyle ...
    How economics needs to change to keep pace with the twenty-first century and the digital economyDigital technology, big data, big tech, machine learning, and AI are revolutionizing both the tools of economics and the phenomena it seeks to measure, understand, and shape. In Cogs and Monsters, Diane Coyle explores the enormous problems—but also opportunities—facing economics today and examines what ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

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