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  • Housing Standardisation and Design Governance

    par Sam Jacoby, Alvaro Arancibia ...
    Equitable access to decent housing remains a major global challenge, particularly for lower-income populations reliant on subsidised, affordable homes. This is exacerbated by the continued commodification of housing, demographic change, and the increasing time many people now spend at home. Addressing these challenges requires, as this book argues, stronger state intervention, closer cooperation ... En savoir plus

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    How Canada’s Immigration Officers Decide Who Gets in

    par Vic Satzewich ...
    Every year, over 1.3 million people apply to visit, work, or settle in Canada. It falls to visa officers to determine who gets in – and who stays out. In the face of this enormous responsibility, how do these gatekeepers use their discretionary authority to assess eligibility, credibility, and risk?Seeking answers to this question, Vic Satzewich conducted interviews with 128 visa officers, locally ... En savoir plus

    $26.99 CAD

  • Designing Disorder

    Experiments and Disruptions in the City

    par Richard Sennett, Pablo Sendra ...
    Rethinking the open cityPlanners, privatisation, and police surveillance are laying siege to urban public spaces. The streets are becoming ever more regimented as life and character are sapped from our cities. What is to be done? Is it possible to maintain the public realm as a flexible space that adapts over time? Can disorder be designed?Fifty years ago, Richard Sennett wrote his groundbreaking ... En savoir plus

    $11.19 CAD

  • The Scramble for Africa in the 21st Century

    par Harry Stephan, Michael Power ...
    “[This new edition of] The Scramble for Africa uses tools of international political economy to clarify the challenges of development in today’s Africa from managing mounting demand for the region’s natural resources and land, to navigating the turbulence of global capital and trade flows. It critically analyses the sources and sustainability of the current African growth path and explains why ... En savoir plus

    $13.60 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Urban Geography

    A Global Perspective

    par 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. ... En savoir plus

    $105.80 CAD

  • Housing the Future

    Alternative Approaches for Tomorrow

    Modifié par Graham Cairns, Rachel Isaac-Menard ...
    Housing The Future: Alternative Approaches for Tomorrow offers three perspectives on the problems of housing today with an eye on tomorrow. It brings together world-leading practising architects with academics from seven countries and teams of international students. World leaders in the field of residential design such as UN Habitat Award winner Avi Friedman present built projects whose design ... En savoir plus

    $25.99 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Transport and Urban Development

    par David Banister ...
    The editor and his contributors take an international perspective on the links between land use, development and transport and present the latest thinking, the theory and practice of these links. Authors from six countries - all experts in this area - have been commissioned to write chapters on the theoretical debates and more practical issues, via the use of detailed case studies. ... En savoir plus

    $94.81 CAD

  • Design Quality in New Housing

    Learning from the Netherlands

    par Matthew Cousins ...
    This book addresses the need for an in-depth study into design quality in new housing. The wider implications of policy and design are examined through a series of case studies of new housing projects in the UK and the Netherlands.Dutch interdisciplinary design and modern methods of construction are widely considered to be of the highest quality from which much can be learned and understood. This ... En savoir plus

    $126.41 CAD

  • Women and the Informal Economy in Urban Africa

    From the Margins to the Centre

    par Mary Njeri Kinyanjui ...
    Collections series Africa Now
    In this highly original work, Mary Njeri Kinyanjui explores the trajectory of women's movement from the margins of urbanization into the centres of business activities in Nairobi and its accompanying implications for urban planning.While women in much of Africa have struggled to gain urban citizenship and continue to be weighed down by poor education, low income and confinement to domestic ... En savoir plus

    $39.99 CAD

  • Licensed larceny

    Infrastructure, financial extraction and the global South

    par Nicholas Hildyard ...
    Collections series Manchester Capitalism
    The growing wealth gap is best viewed as a proxy for how for how effectively elites have constructed institutions that extract value from the rest of society. For inequality is not just a problem of poverty and the poor; it is as much a problem of wealth and the rich. The provision of public services is one area which is increasingly being reconfigured to extract wealth upward to the one per cent, ... En savoir plus

    $19.99 CAD

  • Are Trade Unions Still Relevant?

    Union Recognition 100 Years On

    par Dr Tom Turner, Dr Daryl D'Art, Dr Michelle O'Sullivan ...
    This edited collection examines the relevance of trade unions 100 years on from the 1913 Lockout in Dublin. The general argument underpinning the papers in this book is that trade unions are still relevant in the 21st century, since they provide an independent collective representation for workers and address the power imbalance between the worker and employer. All of the chapter authors are based ... En savoir plus

    $12.33 CAD

  • Instruments of Land Policy

    Dealing with Scarcity of Land

    Modifié par Jean-David Gerber, Thomas Hartmann, Andreas Hengstermann ...
    Collections series Urban Planning and Environment
    In dealing with scarce land, planners often need to interact with, and sometimes confront, property right-holders to address complex property rights situations. To reinforce their position in situations of rivalrous land uses, planners can strategically use and combine different policy instruments in addition to standard land use plans. Effectively steering spatial development requires a keen ... En savoir plus

    $81.99 CAD