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  • Beyond Edge Cities

    by Richard D. Bingham, William M. Bowen, Yosra Amara ...
    Series series Contemporary Urban Affairs
    In his influential 1991 book Edge City, Joel Garreau argued that every American city "is growing in the fashion of Los Angeles, with multiple urban cores". He named these cores "edge cities" because they perform all of the city functions, but rise in places that were farmlands or villages only decades ago, far from the old downtowns. This new book expands and clarifies Garreau's pioneering concept ... Read more

    $107.17 CAD

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  • Evaluation of Plan Implementation

    Peri-urban Development and the Shanghai Master Plan 1999-2020

    by Jinghuan He ...
    Shanghai, like the other big cities along China’s coastline, has witnessed extraordinary growth in its economy and population with industrial development and rural-to-urban migration generating extensive urban expansion. Shanghai’s GDP growth rate has been over 10 per cent for more than 15 years. Its population in 2013 was estimated at 23.47 million, which is double its size in 1979. The urban ... Read more

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  • Detroit City Is the Place to Be

    The Afterlife of an American Metropolis

    by Mark Binelli ...
    Once America's capitalist dream town, Detroit is our country's greatest urban failure, having fallen the longest and the farthest. But the city's worst crisis yet (and that's saying something) has managed to do the unthinkable: turn the end of days into a laboratory for the future. Urban planners, land speculators, neopastoral agriculturalists, and utopian environmentalists—all have been drawn to ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD

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  • Welcome to the Urban Revolution

    How Cities Are Changing The World

    by Jeb Brugmann ...
    In Welcome to the Urban Revolution, internationally recognized urbanist Jeb Brugmann turns traditional thinking about globalization on its head to show that the city isn't a backdrop to global change; it is a central driver of change—political, economic, social, and environmental. This powerful reappraisal of the global role of cities brilliantly synthesizes urban studies, economics, and sociology ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • Tales of Two Cities

    Paris, London and the Birth of the Modern City

    by Jonathan Conlin ...
    Paris and London have long held a mutual fascination, and never more so than in the period 1750–1914, when they vied to be the world's greatest city. Each city has been the focus of many books, yet Jonathan Conlin here explores the complex relationship between them for the first time. The reach and influence of both cities was such that the story of their rivalry has global implications. By ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • Urban Green

    Architecture for the Future

    by Neil B. Chambers ...
    Sustainable design is booming, but the men and women dedicated to reducing their carbon impact have lost sight of what they are trying to save: the natural world. Author Neil Chambers has been at the forefront of cutting-edge, sustainable architecture for years, and Urban Green is his revolutionary vision for bringing the power of the conservation and design movements together. He advocates ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD

  • Start-Up City

    Inspiring Private and Public Entrepreneurship, Getting Projects Done, and Having Fun

    by Gabe Klein ...
    There has been a revolution in urban transportation over the past five years—set off by start-ups across the US and internationally. Sleek, legible mobility platforms are connecting people to cars, trains, buses, and bikes as never before, opening up a range of new transportation options while improving existing ones. While many large city governments, such as Chicago, New York, and Washington, D ... Read more

    $31.89 CAD

  • Cities Under Siege

    The New Military Urbanism

    by Stephen Graham ...
    Cities are the new battleground of our increasingly urban world. From the slums of the global South to the wealthy financial centers of the West, Cities Under Siege traces the spread of political violence through the sites, spaces, infrastructure and symbols of the world’s rapidly expanding metropolitan areas.Drawing on a wealth of original research, Stephen Graham shows how Western militaries and ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

  • Geodesign by Integrating Design and Geospatial Sciences

    Edited by Eduardo Dias, Henk J. Scholten, Danbi J. Lee ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    In Europe, the emerging discipline of geodesign was earmarked by the first Geodesign Summit held in 2013 at the GeoFort, the Netherlands. Here researchers and practitioners from 28 different countries gathered to exchange ideas on how to merge the spatial sciences and design worlds. This book brings together experiences from this international group of spatial planners, architects, landscape ... Read more

    $64.09 CAD

  • Urban Policy Reconsidered

    Dialogues on the Problems and Prospects of American Cities

    by Charles C. Euchner, Stephen J. McGovern ...
    In the past decade, America has experienced an urban renaissance. Cities as varied as New York, Chicago and Boston are no longer seen as ungovernable and doomed to crime and blight. However, they still face formidable problems. Urban Policy Reconsidered is a comprehensive overview of the issues and problems facing our cities today and cover every important issue in urban affairs. What is poverty? ... Read more

    $114.04 CAD

  • 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

    $94.99 CAD

  • Urban Geography

    A Global Perspective

    by Michael Pacione ...
    Today, for the first time in the history of Humankind urban dwellers outnumber rural residents. Urban places, towns and cities, are of fundamental importance – for the distribution of population within countries; in the organization of economic production, distribution and exchange; in the structuring of social reproduction and cultural life; and in the allocation and exercise of power. ... Read more

    $105.99 CAD