In thirty-four provocative and insightful chapters, the nation’s leading planners present a definitive assessment of fifty years of city planning and establish a benchmark for the profession for the n
In thirty-four provocative and insightful chapters, the nation’s leading planners present a definitive assessment of fifty years of city planning and establish a benchmark for the profession for the n
This exciting collection of original essays provides students and professionals with an international and comparative examination of changes in global cities, revealing a growing pattern of social and
Drawing on original research from medical texts, psychiatric case histories, pioneering statistical surveys, first-person accounts, legal cases, sensationalist journalism, and legislative debates, Jen
Drawing on original research from medical texts, psychiatric case histories, pioneering statistical surveys, first-person accounts, legal cases, sensationalist journalism, and legislative debates, Jen
In Green Urbanism, Timothy Beatley explains what planners and local officials in the United States can learn from the sustainable cities movement in Europe. The book draws from the extensive European
Exploring the promise and limits of grassroots strategies for community organizing, development and planning, this book looks at how they can be used in the revitalization and maintenance of urban nei
Anthropological perspectives are not often represented in urban studies, even though many anthropologists have been contributing actively to theory and research on urban poverty, racism, globalization
Peters and Dent, co-founders of the Jubilee 2000 campaign to forgive Third World Debt, discuss the problems faced by the world's 52 poorest nations and restate their case for debt remission. They crit
Urban space has emerged as the central organizing construct in studies of the post-modern metropolis. Contributors to this volume write on how urban space is used and contested by different social gro
The movement toward creating more sustainable communities has been growing for decades, and in recent years has gained new prominence with the increasing visibility of planning approaches such as the
The only how-to guide to community design written from the design professional's perspective.In this groundbreaking guide to the increasingly important discipline of community design, a leading intern
This book describes and analyzes a wealth of data about Mexico City’s growth, change, and spatial patterns. Applying modern techniques of geographic information systems and cluster analysis, the autho
Verhulst examines fifteen towns, mainly situated on the rivers Meuse and Scheldt and along the North Sea coast of present day Belgium, Holland and France. He details the impact of political, military,
Citizen participation in such complex issues as the quality of the environment, neighborhood housing, urban design, and economic development often brings with it suspicion of government, anger betwee
The City Assembled is a history of the elements of cities: streets, public places, urban divisions (religious, political, and social), and the frontiers of city and countryside. Kostof follows the evo
