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  • Governing Compact Cities

    How to Connect Planning, Design and Transport

    par Philipp Rode ...
    Collections series Cities series
    Governing Compact Cities investigates how governments and other critical actors organise to enable compact urban growth, combining higher urban densities, mixed use and urban design quality with more walkable and public transport-oriented urban development. Philipp Rode draws on empirical evidence from London and Berlin to examine how urban policymakers, professionals and stakeholders have worked ... En savoir plus

    $41.99 CAD

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  • The New Urban Crisis

    How Our Cities Are Increasing Inequality, Deepening Segregation, and Failing the Middle Class-and What We Can Do About It

    par Richard Florida ...
    In recent years, the young, educated, and affluent have surged back into cities, reversing decades of suburban flight and urban decline. And yet all is not well, Richard Florida argues in The New Urban Crisis. Florida, one of the first scholars to anticipate this back-to-the-city movement in his groundbreaking The Rise of the Creative Class, demonstrates how the same forces that power the growth ... En savoir plus

    Prix courant $16.99 CAD Maintenant $2.99 CAD

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  • In Search of Paradise

    Middle-Class Living in a Chinese Metropolis

    par Li Zhang ...
    A new revolution in homeownership and living has been sweeping the booming cities of China. This time the main actors on the social stage are not peasants, migrants, or working-class proletariats but middle-class professionals and entrepreneurs in search of a private paradise in a society now dominated by consumerism. No longer seeking happiness and fulfillment through collective sacrifice and ... En savoir plus

    $27.99 CAD

  • How to Kill a City

    Gentrification, Inequality, and the Fight for the Neighborhood

    par PE Moskowitz ...
    “An exacting look at gentrification” (New York Times Book Review)—and the lives devastated in the processThe term gentrification has become a buzzword to describe the changes in urban neighborhoods across the country, but we don’t realize just how threatening it is. It means more than the arrival of trendy shops, much-maligned hipsters, and expensive lattes. The very future of American cities as ... En savoir plus

    Prix courant $17.99 CAD Maintenant $2.99 CAD

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  • Cities and the Urban Land Premium

    par Gerard Marlet, Coen Teulings, Henri L.F. de Groot, Wouter Vermeulen ...
    After a long period of suburbanization, cities have been in vogue again since the 1980s. But why are people prepared to spend far more money on a small house in the city centre than on a large house in the countryside - and why doesn't this apply to all cities? The authors of this book argue that the appeal of the city in the 21st century is not only determined by the production side of the ... En savoir plus

    $41.99 CAD

  • Growing Urban Economies

    Innovation, Creativity, and Governance in Canadian City-Regions

    Modifié par David A. Wolfe, Meric S. Gertler ...
    Collections series Innovation, Creativity, and Governance in Canadian City-Regions
    Even in a globalizing, knowledge-based economy, cities remain engines of growth, innovation, and diversity. Increasingly, they are also active participants in the creation of the social and political conditions necessary to create a thriving community. The Innovation, Creativity, and Governance in Canadian City-Regions series is a focused analysis of how developments at the local and regional ... En savoir plus

    $40.99 CAD

  • What a City Is For

    Remaking the Politics of Displacement

    par Matt Hern ...
    An investigation into gentrification and displacement, focusing on the case of Portland, Oregon's systematic dispersal of black residents from its Albina neighborhood.Portland, Oregon, is one of the most beautiful, livable cities in the United States. It has walkable neighborhoods, bike lanes, low-density housing, public transportation, and significant green space—not to mention craft-beer bars ... En savoir plus

    $20.79 CAD

  • Understanding Cairo

    The Logic of a City Out of Control

    par David Sims ...
    This book moves beyond superficial generalizations about Cairo as a chaotic metropolis in the developing world into an analysis of the ways the city's eighteen million inhabitants have, in the face of a largely neglectful government, built and shaped their own city. Using a wealth of recent studies on Greater Cairo and a deep reading of informal urban processes, the city and its recent history are ... En savoir plus

    $31.99 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • The Handbook of Environmental Policy Evaluation

    par Ann Crabb, Pieter Leroy ...
    Policy evaluation is an important and well-established part of the policy process, facilitating and feeding back to promote the ongoing effectiveness of policies that have been implemented or anticipating policies in the making. Environmental policy is a special case, presenting new complexities uncommon to other areas, which standard evaluation tools are ill-equipped to grapple with. It is also ... En savoir plus

    $83.99 CAD

  • Sustainable Communities

    Creating a Durable Local Economy

    par Rhonda Phillips, Bruce Seifer, Ed Antczak ...
    Collections series Earthscan Tools for Community Planning
    With a foreword written by Senator Bernie SandersWhat is a durable economy? It is one that not only survives but thrives. How is it created, and what does it take to sustain over time? Sustainable Communities provides insight and answers to these questions.Citing Burlington, Vermont's remarkable rise to award-winning status, this book explores the balance of community planning, social enterprise ... En savoir plus

    $86.56 CAD

  • The Placemaker's Guide to Building Community

    par Nabeel Hamdi ...
    Collections series Earthscan Tools for Community Planning
    From the author of Small Change comes this engaging guide to placemaking, packed with practical skills and tools that architects, planners, urban designers and other built environment specialists need in order to engage effectively with development work in any context.Drawing on four decades of practical and teaching experience, the author offers fresh insight into the complexities faced by ... En savoir plus

    $71.99 CAD

  • Whose Detroit?

    Politics, Labor, and Race in a Modern American City

    par Heather Ann Thompson ...
    **"Thompson's engrossing book is essential for any collection on the history, politics, or society of post–World War II America."**â• Library JournalIn Whose Detroit?, Heather Ann Thompson focuses in detail on the African American struggles for full equality and equal justice under the law that shaped the Motor City during the 1960s and 1970s. Even after Great Society liberals committed themselves ... En savoir plus

    $28.99 CAD