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  • Past Trends and Future Prospects of the American City

    The Dynamics of Atlanta

    par Robert M. Adelman, Fred Brooks, Jennifer Chirico, Obie Clayton, Glenn T. Eskew, Charles A. Gallagher, Gregory Hall, Katherine B. Hankins, Melissa M. Hayes, Cynthia Hewitt, Charles Jaret, Larry Keating, Douglas J. Krupka, Douglas S. Noonan, Glenwood Ross, Michael Rushton, Matthew Wooten, David L Sjoquist, Truman A. Hartshorn ...
    Atlanta's experience over the past 15 to 20 years is reflective of many cities, particularly those in the south and west. Thus, the story of how and why Atlanta has changed is informative for cities in general. What accounts for the positive turn-around of the city of Atlanta? What can other cities learn from Atlanta's experience?This collection examines changes in the city of Atlanta over the ... En savoir plus

    $142.99 CAD

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  • Community Conversations

    Mobilizing the Ideas, Skills, and Passion of Community Organizations, Governments, Businesses, and People, Second Edition

    par Paul Born ...
    Communities around the world are entering a new era of community building.Whether improving economic conditions and reducing poverty, re-energizing citizens and social programs, reducing crime, or revitalizing a troubled neighborhood, they are engaging people from all sectors as never before to work together as equals to improve their quality of life.At the heart of this engagement are community ... En savoir plus

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  • Makeshift Metropolis

    Ideas About Cities

    par Witold Rybczynski ...
    In this new work, prizewinning author, professor, and Slate architecture critic Witold Rybczynski returns to the territory he knows best: writing about the way people live, just as he did in the acclaimed bestsellers Home and A Clearing in the Distance. In Makeshift Metropolis, Rybczynski has drawn upon a lifetime of observing cities to craft a concise and insightful book that is at once an ... En savoir plus

    $16.99 CAD

  • A Free Man: A True Story of Life and Death in Delhi

    A True Story of Life and Death in Delhi

    par Aman Sethi ...
    A 2012 New York Times Book Review Editor's ChoiceAn intimate portrait of an invisible man—a powerful story of one man’s life that contains multitudes.Like Dave Eggers’s Zeitoun and Alexander Masters’s Stuart, this is a tour de force of narrative reportage.Mohammed Ashraf studied biology, became a butcher, a tailor, and an electrician’s apprentice; now he is a homeless day laborer in the heart of ... En savoir plus

    Prix courant $21.99 CAD Maintenant $12.99 CAD

  • Modello: A Story of Hope for the Inner City and Beyond: An Inside-Out Model of Prevention and Resiliency in Action

    par 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 ... En savoir plus

    $8.99 CAD

  • Prayer for My Enemy

    par Craig Lucas ...
    “America the addicted. America the numb. America the war weary. America the lonely. All these countries compose the jagged terrain of this viscerally potent new play.”—The Seattle Times“The very best we can hope for is to show the mess of life in such a way as to perhaps awaken our shared capacity for embracing it, in all its beauty and terror.”—Craig LucasCraig Lucas “can masterfully distill a ... En savoir plus

    $15.99 CAD

  • Street Art, Public City

    Law, Crime and the Urban Imagination

    par Alison Young ...
    What is street art? Who is the street artist? Why is street art a crime?Since the late 1990s, a distinctive cultural practice has emerged in many cities: street art, involving the placement of uncommissioned artworks in public places. Sometimes regarded as a variant of graffiti, sometimes called a new art movement, its practitioners engage in illicit activities while at the same time the resulting ... En savoir plus

    $114.99 CAD

  • We're Still Here Ya Bastards

    How the People of New Orleans Rebuilt Their City

    par Roberta Brandes Gratz ...
    The aftermath of Hurricane Katrina is one of the darkest chapters in American history. The storm caused unprecedented destruction, and a toxic combination of government neglect and socioeconomic inequality turned a crisis into a tragedy. But among the rubble, there is hope.We're Still Here Ya Bastards presents an extraordinary panoramic look at New Orleans's revival in the years following the ... En savoir plus

    $20.99 CAD

  • Slipping into the Shadows

    Junkies, Prostitutes, Con Artists

    par Eugene Barron ...
    In every large city, there are marginal, criminal types who live on the fringes of the society. They are faceless, ignored or feared. The author had worked and lived in their East Harlem, New York neighborhood. Through a series of in-depth interviews he attempts to give them a human face.These are documentary stories, capturing not just the life style of addicts, prostitutes, con artists and ... En savoir plus

    $5.99 CAD

  • Seeing Like a City

    par Ash Amin, Nigel Thrift ...
    Seeing like a city means recognizing that cities are living things made up of a tangle of networks, built up from the agency of countless actors. Cities must not be considered as expressions of larger paradigms or sites of human effort and organization alone. Within their density, size and sprawl can be found a world of symbols, bodies, buildings, technologies and infrastructures. It is the ... En savoir plus

    $19.99 CAD

  • Living Cities in Japan

    Citizens' Movements, Machizukuri and Local Environments

    Modifié par André Sorensen, Carolin Funck ...
    Collections series Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese Studies
    Over the last fifteen years local citizens' movements have spread rapidly throughout Japan. Created with the aim of improving the quality of the local environment, and of environmental management processes, such activities are widely referred to as machizukuri, and represent an important development in local politics and urban management in Japan.This volume examines the growth and nature of such ... En savoir plus

    $114.99 CAD

  • Africa's Urban Revolution

    par Doctor Edgar Pieterse, Susan Parnell ...
    The facts of Africa's rapid urbanisation are startling. By 2030 African cities will have grown by more than 350 million people and over half the continent's population will be urban. Yet in the minds of policy makers, scholars and much of the general public, Africa remains a quintessentially rural place. This lack of awareness and robust analysis means it is difficult to make a policy case for a ... En savoir plus

    $37.99 CAD