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  • Change and Continuity in Spatial Planning

    Metropolitan Planning in Cape Town Under Political Transition

    by Vanessa Watson ...
    Change and Continuity in Spatial Planning addresses a question of enduring interest to planners: can planning really bring about significant and positive change? In South Africa the process of political transition appeared to create the preconditions for planners to demonstrate how their traditional humanitarian and environmental concerns could find concrete expression in the reshaping of the ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • Urban Planning in the Global South

    Conflicting Rationalities in Contested Urban Space

    by Richard de Satgé, Vanessa Watson ...
    This book addresses the on-going crisis of informality in rapidly growing cities of the global South. The authors offer a Southern perspective on planning theory, explaining how the concept of conflicting rationalities complements and expands upon a theoretical tradition which still primarily speaks to global ‘Northern’ audiences. De Satgé and Watson posit that a significant change is needed in ... Read more

    $170.99 USD

  • Urban Markets

    Developing Informal Retailing

    by David Dewar, Vanessa Watson ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Urban Planning
    Originally published in 1990, Urban Markets looks at how the informal sector of the economy should be encouraged to assist in the alleviation of problems of poverty and unemployment. Despite this rhetoric, few concrete, implementable ways have been developed. This book is concerned with one such potential strategy which the authors consider to be particularly effective: the creation of both built ... Read more

    $51.99 USD

  • Regional Development and Settlement Policy

    Premises and Prospects

    by David Dewar, Alison Todes, Vanessa Watson ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Urban and Regional Economics
    Originally published in 1986. This book focusses on a critical analysis of regional development strategy in South Africa, and shifts over time in that strategy. Regional development theory and thinking about settlement policy have developed largely independently of each other. This book clarifies some of the resulting confusion and points towards a greater integration of the two areas of ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • Urban Food Systems Governance and Poverty in African Cities

    Edited by Jane Battersby, Vanessa Watson ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Food, Society and the Environment
    As Africa urbanises and the focus of poverty shifts to urban centres, there is an imperative to address poverty in African cities. This is particularly the case in smaller cities, which are often the most rapidly urbanising, but the least able to cope with this growth. This book argues that an examination of the food system and food security provides a valuable lens to interrogate urban poverty. ... Read more

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  • Planning and Transformation

    Learning from the Post-Apartheid Experience

    by Philip Harrison, Alison Todes, Vanessa Watson ...
    Series series RTPI Library Series
    Planning and Transformation provides a comprehensive view of planning under political transition in South Africa, offering an accessible resource for both students and researchers in an international and a local audience.In the years after the 1994 transition to democracy in South Africa, planners believed they would be able to successfully promote a vision of integrated, equitable and sustainable ... Read more

    $91.99 USD

  • Black Men’s Health

    A Strengths-Based Approach Through a Social Justice Lens for Helping Professions

    Edited by Yarneccia D. Dyson, Vanessa Robinson-Dooley, Jerry Watson ...
    Series series Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
    Now more than ever there is a need to focus on Black men's health in higher education and ensure that future practitioners are trained to ethically and culturally serve this historically oppressed community. This textbook provides practical insight and knowledge that prepare students to work with Black men and their families from a strengths-based and social justice lens.There is a dearth in the ... Read more

    $58.99 USD

  • The Routledge Handbook of Planning Theory

    Edited by Michael Gunder, Ali Madanipour, Vanessa Watson ...
    The Routledge Handbook of Planning Theory presents key contemporary themes in planning theory through the views of some of the most innovative thinkers in planning. They introduce and explore their own specialized areas of planning theory, to conceptualize their contemporary positions and to speculate how these positions are likely to evolve and change as new challenges emerge.In a changing and ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • The Routledge Companion to Planning in the Global South

    Edited by Gautam Bhan, Smita Srinivas, Vanessa Watson ...
    Series series Routledge International Handbooks
    The Routledge Companion to Planning in the Global South offers an edited collection on planning in parts of the world which, more often than not, are unrecognised or unmarked in mainstream planning texts. In doing so, its intention is not to fill a ‘gap’ that leaves this ‘mainstream’ unquestioned but to re-theorise planning from a deep understanding of ‘place’ as well as a commitment to recognise ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Dialogues in Urban and Regional Planning

    Volume 2

    Edited by Bruce Stiftel, Vanessa Watson, Henri Acselrad ...
    Series series Dialogues in Urban and Regional Planning
    Dialogues in Urban and Regional Planning offers a new selection of the best urban planning scholarship from each of the world's planning school associations. The award winning papers presented illustrate the concerns and the discourse of planning scholarship communities and provide a glimpse into planning theory and practice by planning academics around the world. All those with an interest in ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Dialogues in Urban and Regional Planning

    Volume 1

    Edited by Bruce Stiftel, Vanessa Watson ...
    Series series Dialogues in Urban and Regional Planning
    Dialogues in Urban and Regional Planning offers a selection of the best urban planning scholarship from each of the world's planning school associations. The award-winning papers presented illustrate the concerns and the discourse of planning scholarship communities and provide a glimpse into planning theory and practice by planning academics around the world. All those with an interest in urban ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    The Princess Pocahontas

    by Virginia Watson ...
    Narrated by Vanessa Benjamin ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 11 min

    Every schoolchild knows the story of how Pocahontas saved the life of Captain John Smith, but that’s not the whole story.The Native American princess Pocahontas was born near the end of the sixteenth century as the daughter of Powhatan, chief of the Powhatan confederacy. It was Pocahontas, known as Matoaka by her clan, who interceded on behalf of John Smith in 1608 and then persuaded her father to ... Read more

    $16.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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