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  • Bulldozer Revolutions
    Andrew C. Baker
    By examining the metropolitan fringes of Houston in Montgomery County, Texas, and Washington, D.C., in Loudoun County, Virginia, this book combines rural, environmental, and agricultural history to disrupt our view of the southern metropolis.Andrew C. Baker examines the local boosters, gentlemen farmers, historical preservationists, and nature-seeking suburbanites who abandoned...
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    76,00 €

  • Cities and the European Union
    Samuele Dossi
    This volume examines European Union policy instruments affecting the urban domain through the lens of Europeanisation. Instead of looking at EU instruments that are formally consecrated to cities, theoretical public policy analysis explores the arenas and causal mechanisms that structure the encounter between the EU and urban governance. The core variables that explain change c...
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    57,98 €

  • City on the Line
    Andrew Kleine
    In City on the Line, former Baltimore budget director Andrew Kleine asks why the way government does its most important job - deciding how to spend taxpayer dollars - hasn’t changed in hundreds of years. Parts memoir, manifesto, and manual, this book tells the story of Baltimore’s radical departure from traditional line item budgeting to a focus on outcomes like better schools,...
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    47,09 €

  • City on the Line
    Andrew Kleine
    In City on the Line, former Baltimore budget director Andrew Kleine asks why the way government does its most important job - deciding how to spend taxpayer dollars - hasn’t changed in hundreds of years. Parts memoir, manifesto, and manual, this book tells the story of Baltimore’s radical departure from traditional line item budgeting to a focus on outcomes like better schools,...
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    94,15 €

  • Multi-Level Governance in Developing Economies
    Effective governance is vital for all nations and can be made easier with advanced technology and communication. Through various collaborative efforts and processes, developing nations can enhance their economies with multi-level governance. Multi-Level Governance in Developing Economies is a collection of innovative research on the applications and theories of multi-level gove...
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    255,85 €

  • Chalet Fields of the Gower
    Owen Short / Stefan Szczelkun
    70 colour photographs of houses on two of the Chalet Fields of the Gower peninsular in South Wales. These show a form of self-provision of working-class housing which begins with a simple timber-framed dwelling. Over the last 60 years most of these simple, cheap houses have evolved into desirable residences. In the process they have a acquired an idiosyncratic style that gives ...
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    24,66 €

  • Why Old Places Matter
    Thompson M. Mayes / Thompson MMayes
    Why Old Places Matter is the only book that explores the reasons that old places matter to people. Although people often feel very deeply about the old places of their lives, they don’t have the words to express why. This book brings these ideas together in evocative language and with illustrative images for a broad audience.The book reveals the fundamentally important yet unde...
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    62,26 €

  • Optimizing Regional Development Through Transformative Urbanization
    Assisted by globalization and the rapid application of advanced technologies, the transformative power of urbanization is being felt around the world. The scale and the speed of existing and projected urbanization poses several challenges to researchers in multiple disciplines, such as computer science, engineering, and the social sciences. Optimizing Regional Development Throu...
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    282,15 €

  • The Divided City
    Binti Singh / Mahendra Sethi
    The Divided City contributes to the growing body of scholarly work on cities of the global South. Cities in developing countries, particularly emerging economies, are undergoing rapid urbanization and social transition. Empirically grounded to the contemporary urban situation in India, The Divided City is set in an opportune moment to assess how cities fare up to the challenge ...
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    123,83 €

  • American Cities and the Politics of Party Conventions
    David Swindell / Eric S. Heberlig / Eric SHeberlig / Suzanne M. Leland / Suzanne MLeland
    Uncovers the politics involved when a city recruits and implements a presidential convention. ...
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    29,24 €

  • The Road to Inequality
    Clayton Nall
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    23,74 €

  • England's New Towns
    Thomas F Walker
    A photographic journey around the new towns of England at a time when many of them are going through significant changes that will forever alter their nature. This book attempts to capture many of the unique features that define the different characters of these distinctive towns and cities. It also includes a historical narrative through the history of new towns in England, fr...
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    10,60 €

  • Stronger Than Steel
    Jeffrey A Parks
    Stronger than Steel is the story of a company town, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, that used alternative economic development strategies, including arts, tourism, and a casino to propel its way out of devastation of deindustrialization. Bethlehem’s strategies have been rewarded with dramatic results.In 2016, among Pennsylvania cities with a population over 20,000, Bethlehem had the h...
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    14,66 €

  • No Straight Lines
    Terry Kading
    Small cities face intricate challenges. No Straight Lines provides the basis for a refined model of community-engaged leadership and research designed to realize equality of quality of life.With particular attention to the small city of Kamloops, BC, this book explores the impact of extended, short-term, and unique leadership collaborations and local responses to homelessness, ...
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    38,03 €

  • The Children of the Poor
    Jacob Riis
    Tenements, saloons, and streets — How did children survive the perils of New York City slums? When this book appeared in 1892, it shocked the privileged class. The evidence of misery and greed was undeniable.The author, Jacob Riis, was a muckraker and social documentary photographer. His exposé includes stories of survival, child abuse and neglect, orphans and outcasts. He wrot...
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    13,06 €

  • Spatial Justice and Informal Settlements
    Dr Eva Schwab
    Spatial Justice and Informal Settlements links the discourses of informal urbanism with spatial justice in the context of in situ governmental programmes oriented around public open space and designed to upgrade informal settlements in Latin America. ...
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    98,62 €

  • Fixing Your City
    George Crandall
    Tired of watching your city being degraded by new development that doesn’t fit? Paying for city plans that never get implemented? Wondering what your city can do to respond to climate change?In his groundbreaking book, Fixing Your City, Portland urban architect George Crandall reveals how to produce city plans that mitigate climate change and create healthy places to live, work...
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    29,49 €

  • George Washington’s Washington
    Adam Costanzo
    This book traces the history of the development, abandonment, and eventual revival of George Washington's original vision for a grand national capital on the Potomac. In 1791 Washington's ideas found form in architect Peter Charles L'Enfant's plans for the city. Yet the unprecedented scope of the plan; reliance on the sale of city lots to fund construction of th...
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    101,32 €

  • Smart Cities, Smart Mobility
    Lukas Neckermann
    No single book can ever seek to do justice to all of the incredible urban transformations and city initiatives taking place around the world – and I certainly don’t try to do so here. Instead, we will focus on the specific interconnection between smart mobility and smart cities, and how this results in a new (smarter) way of living and working.  ...
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    13,89 €

  • Race, Class, and Gentrification in Brooklyn
    Jerome Krase / Judith N. DeSena / Judith NDeSena
    In this book, the authors 'revisit' two iconic Brooklyn neighborhoods, Crown Heights-Prospect-Lefferts Gardens and Greenpoint-Williamsburg, where they have been active scholars since the 1970s. Krase and DeSena’s comprehensive view from the street describes and analyses the neighborhoods’ decline and rise with a focus on race and social class. They look closely at the strategie...
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    58,82 €

  • The Children of the Poor
    Jacob Riis
    Tenements, saloons, and streets - How did children survive the perils of poor New York City neighborhoods? When this book appeared in 1892, it shocked the privileged class. The evidence of misery and greed was undeniable.The author, Jacob Riis, was a muckraker and social documentary photographer. His book includes stories of survival, child abuse and neglect, orphans and outcas...
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    22,90 €

  • Designing Grid Cities for Optimized Urban Development and Planning
    With the growth of the global population, the expansion of metropolitan areas has become an essential aspect of land development. With the need for more space to accommodate the growing population, discussion on the best methods of expansion has arisen. Designing Grid Cities for Optimized Urban Development and Planning is a critical scholarly resource that explores the expansio...
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    286,79 €

  • Knowledge-Based Urban Development in the Middle East
    The knowledge economy has become an important part of contemporary development for cities in a time of globalization and expansion. Examining theories of knowledge transfer and urban advancement allows for better adaptation in a changing global society. Knowledge-Based Urban Development in the Middle East provides emerging research on the contemporary practices of architecture,...
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    242,85 €

  • Cross-Cultural Dialogues on Homelessness
    Cross-Cultural Dialogues on Homelessness Reveal New InsightsThis groundbreaking book presents compelling narratives and innovative approaches for addressing the psychological traumas that can underlie homelessness and is the first to explore in-depth what the US and UK can learn from one another.Authors focus on understanding and applying the precepts of Pretreatment and “Psych...
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    22,34 €

  • Cross-Cultural Dialogues on Homelessness
    Cross-Cultural Dialogues on Homelessness Reveal New InsightsThis groundbreaking book presents compelling narratives and innovative approaches for addressing the psychological traumas that can underlie homelessness and is the first to explore in-depth what the US and UK can learn from one another.Authors focus on understanding and applying the precepts of Pretreatment and “Psych...
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    26,90 €

  • Sustainable
    Tom DeWeese
    Sustainable: The WAR on Free Enterprise, Private Property and Individuals describes in detail the process being used at every level of government to reorganize our society under the excuse of environmental protection. Author Tom DeWeese pulls back the curtain to reveal the policies and the powers behind them that are systematically changing our culture and system of government ...
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    14,73 €

  • Sustaining Russia’s Arctic Cities
    Robert W Orttung
    Urban areas in Arctic Russia are experiencing unprecedented social and ecological change. This collection outlines the key challenges that city managers will face in navigating this shifting political, economic, social, and environmental terrain. In particular, the volume examines how energy production drives a boom-bust cycle in the Arctic economy, explores how migrants from M...
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    44,42 €

  • Neighborhood Change and Neighborhood Action
    This book is an examination of neighborhood mobilization and engagement from the perspective of several disciplines: psychology, social work, political science, planning, and education. The essays included in the work examine both internal and external factors related to the ability of neighborhoods to meet the human needs of their residents. They address the constraints put on...
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    129,15 €

  • Handbook of Research on Perception-Driven Approaches to Urban Assessment and Design
    The creation of metropolitan areas is influenced by a wide array of factors, both practical and ecological. They can also be influenced by immaterial characteristics of a given area. The Handbook of Research on Perception-Driven Approaches to Urban Assessment and Design is a scholarly resource that assesses metropolitan development and its relation to the ecological and sustain...
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    411,21 €

  • Living in Smart Cities
     Cities around the world are becoming increasingly popular as economic powerhouses and magnets for migrants from rural and suburban areas. All big cities in First and Third World countries as well as emerging markets such as New York, London, Tokyo, Paris, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Singapore, New Dehli, Jakarta etc. have to cope with high population density and serious challenges su...
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    229,84 €


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