Urban and municipal planning and policy Books
Taylor & Francis Ltd Market Economy and Urban Change: Impacts in the
Book SynopsisAcross the developing world the preceding decade or so has witnessed a profound reconfiguration of the political economy of urban policy. This new policy environment is driven by globalization, the neo-liberal macro-economic package of 'market enablement' and structural adjustment, which now form the dominant development paradigm. The consequences of this approach for urban development agendas and ultimately the lives and livelihoods of millions of people across the globe are profound. Market Economy and Urban Change explores and evaluates urban sector and development policies in the context of market enablement, and the associated instruments of structural adjustment, urban management reform and 'good' governance. By articulating the linkages between this neo-liberal development paradigm and the way different actors in the urban sector enact policy responses, the book provides an understanding of both the factors driving market enablement, and its impacts on urban sector policies and programmes. With case studies drawn from countries such as Egypt, Mexico, Kenya, Brazil, Colombia and transitional economies, the book focuses in particular on the implications for land, shelter and related sectoral policies for poverty alleviation. By linking policy to practice, the book seeks to inform policy-makers in governments, donor and implementing agencies of the impact of shifts in the development debate on urban sector strategies.Table of ContentsPreface * Market Enablement and the Urban Sector * Developmental Welfare and Political Economy: Reflections on Policy-conditioned Aid and Strategic Redirection of International Housing and Urban Policies, 1960-2000 * The State, Foreign Aid and the Political Economy of Shelter in Egypt * Tackling Urban Poverty: Principles and Practice in Project and Programme Design in Kenya * Bridging the Rural - Urban Divide: What Can the Urban Learn from the Rural? Reflections on the Case of Mexico * Between Command and Market Economies: The Changing Roles of Public and Private Housing Sectors in Transitional Economies * Urban Land Tenure in Brazil: From Centralized State to Market Processes of Housing Land Delivery * Market Enablement and the Reconfiguration of Urban Structure in Columbia * Index
£42.99
Taylor & Francis Inc Urban Planning and Politics
Book SynopsisIn this decade of widespread public distrust of both government and big business, planning is often viewed as a process abused by the elite to pursue their own selfish ends at the expense of ordinary citizens. This book shows citizens, professionals, and students how planning can and does serve the public interest.Politics, planning, and justice: Johnson investigates these three basic concepts and shows how each interacts with the others. This book introduces the players - private citizens, public officials, business people, and nonprofit institutions - that are involved in urban planning today. By demonstrating the role of each group, Johnson reveals how they influence, and are influenced by, the planning machine. He explains common tools and procedures planners use, and explores several areas of special interest to the profession, such as housing, economic development, transportation, and the urban environment. Johnson uses four detailed case studies that elucidate basic concepts for beginning students as well as specfic policies for experienced professionals.Educators will find this a valuable guide for teaching the basics of planning. Johnson includes questions for review and discussion, an annotated list of 25 supplementary case studies, a comprehensive glossary of planning terms, and a brief essay on how to research and write case histories of planning.Table of Contents1. Perceptions and politics in planning 2. Planning values and memories 3. Governments as planners 4. The web of planning participants 5. Planners at work 6. Planning for jobs and wealth 7. Planning for homes 8. Planning for access and mobility 9. Planning for the natural environment 10. Planning the cultural landscape 11. Planning for the new century
£54.14
Taylor & Francis Inc Citistate Seattle: Shaping A Modern Metropolis
Book SynopsisWith style and humor, the author writes of special places in everyday Seattle. The author takes us to popular, high-profile landmarks like Pike Place Market as well as tucked-away gems — cozy cottages, trendy pubs, gracious apartment buildings, and vibrant urban villages — that flavor and enliven the city. The author shares his eye for unique, humanizing details of design, architecture, and function, bringing this colorful metropolis to life so vividly you'll practically smell the coffee they brew and sell on (almost) every street corner.Along the way, the author explains the public and private decisions that helped Seattle avoid the urban desolation that plagues other American cities. The author introduces many of Seattle's movers and shakers — mayors, developers, artists, and urban pioneers — who took it upon themselves to guide metropolitan Seattle along a different path.Table of Contents1. City centers 2. Building neighborhoods 3. Streets that work 4. Urban homes 5. Public spaces/sacred places 6. Public works as public art
£80.74
Taylor & Francis Inc Career Worth Planning: Starting Out and Moving
Book SynopsisNow that your planning degree is in sight or in hand, how and where can you find your "dream job?" Once you're on the job, what can you do to not just survive, but thrive and avoid common professional pitfalls? In A Career Worth Planning, two veteran planners offer a road map for success. Packed with practical information and useful advice, it is must reading for planning students, new planners, and experienced planners looking to advance their careers.Career questions can paralyze beginning planners. What are the differences between working for a public planning agency or a private consulting firm? What does an employer look for in a job candidate? How can you set yourself apart from other job hunters through your resume and in an interview? A Career Worth Planning answers these tough questions and many others.But landing a job is only half the battle. Once you're there, how do you negotiate the career ladder, even in the most difficult circumstances? Here are nuggets of wisdom on how to deal with a bad boss, identify crucial "insiders" who can make or break your success on the job, clarify ethical conflicts, manage political land mines, and yes, even evaluate your job satisfaction and determine when you're ready to move on.Wherever you are along your career path, this book will help you assess your skills, preferences, and work style, and find the planning niche that fits you.Table of ContentsPart 1. 1. Starting your Career 2. The Planning Profession and You 3. What Employers Are Looking For 4. Landing Your First Job 5. What to Expect from Your Job 6. For Whom Are You Working? Part 2. 1. Developing Your Career 2. Essential Communication Skills 3. Essential Management Skills 4. Essential Political Skills 5. Twelve Traps to Avoid 6. Setting a Career Path for Yourself
£42.99
Taylor & Francis Inc A Decent Home: Planning, Building, and Preserving
Book SynopsisWhat is a decent home? Does it simply provide shelter from the elements? Is it affordable enough that you can buy the other necessities of life? Does it connect you to a community with adequate social and economic resources? Noted housing expert Alan Mallach turns his decades of experience to these questions in "A Decent Home".Mallach's nuanced analysis of housing issues critical to communities across the country will help planners evaluate the housing situation in their own communities and formulate specific plans to address a variety of housing problems. The book is both a practical step-by-step guide to developing affordable housing and a sophisticated introduction to housing policy. Chapters address design, site selection, project approval, financing, and the history of housing policy in the United States. Planners will find useful information about inclusionary and exclusionary zoning, affordable housing preservation, and the risks and rewards of affordable-home-ownership programs. Mallach also connects the dots among regional economic competitiveness, quality of life, community revitalization, and affordable housing.Table of Contents1. The Case for Affordable Housing 2. Affordable Housing in the United States: A Short History 3. Designing Affordable Housing 4. Finding Sites and Gaining Approval for Affordable Housing 5. Making the Numbers Work: Financing Affordable Housing 6. Developing Affordable Housing, Step-by-Step 7. Concentration and Opportunity: Undoing the Exclusion of Affordable Housing 8. Affordable Housing, Community Development Corporations, and Neighborhood Revitalization 9. The Risks and Rewards of Affordable Home Ownership 10. Preserving Affordable Housing 11. Homelessness and Affordable Housing 12. Inclusionary Housing: Using the Market to Create Affordable Housing 13. Policies, Politics, and the Future of Affordable Housing in the United States
£999.99
Taylor & Francis Inc Reconsidering Jane Jacobs
Book SynopsisThis volume begins with the premise that the deepest respect is shown through honest critique. One of the greatest problems in understanding the influence of the author on cities and planning is that she has for much of the past five decades been "Saint Jane, the housewife" who upended urban renewal and gave us back our cities. Over time, she has become a saintly stick figure, a font of simple wisdom for urban health that allows many to recite her ideas and few to understand their complexity. The author has been the victim of her own success. This book gives this important thinker the respect she deserves, reminding planning professionals of the full range and complexity of her ideas and offering thoughtful critiques on the unintended consequences of her ideas on cities and planning today. It also looks at the international relevance – or lack thereof – of her work, with essays on urbanism in Abu Dhabi, Argentina, China, the Netherlands, and elsewhere. Table of Contents1. Introduction: More Than Meets the Eye Max Page 2. The Unknown Jane Jacobs: Geographer, Propagandist, City Planning Idealist Peter L. Laurence 3. An Australian Jane Jacobs Jane M. Jacobs 4. The Literary Craft of Jane Jacobs Jamin Creed Rowan 5. Urban Warfare: The Battles for Buenos Aires Sergio Kiernan 6. The Magpie and the Bee: Jane Jacobs' Magnificent Obsession Richard Harris 7. Jane Jacobs in Dutch Cities and Towns: Metropolitan Romance in Provincial Reality Gert-Jan Hospers 8. Time, Scale, and Control: How New Urbanism (Mis)Uses Jane Jacobs Jill L. Grant 9. Planning the Modern Arab City: The Case of Abu Dhabi Rudayna Abdo, AICP, and Geoffrey M. Batzel, AICP 10. Jane Jacobs, Andy Warhol, and the Kind of Problem a Community Is (Timothy Mennel) 11. A Chinese Perspective Nathan Cherry, AICP 12. Jane Jacobs and the Death and Life of American Planning Thomas J. Campanella
£94.99
Iudicium Verlag Japan 2023
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£25.50
JOVIS Verlag Urban Design Methods
Book SynopsisUrban Design Methods is a manual for reconciling contemporary approaches with increasingly complex demands in the shaping of urban living spaces. Architects and landscape architects, as well as city, regional, and landscape planners, often find that they are unable to do modern projects justice with their specialist skills alone. Cooperative approaches are needed to deal with both the complexity of raising questions and the growing number of affected parties who need to be involved. Urban design—understood as an inter- and transdisciplinary field at the interface of architecture, city and regional planning, landscape architecture, sociology, and the diverse stakeholders involved in any project—requires a compendium of adaptable methods to dissolve the boundaries between theory and praxis and between natural and social systems. For the first time, this book collects a broad spectrum of methods intended to support urban designers in deciphering the contexts in which they work, and help them attain a greater individual professional understanding. It clearly outlines the range of challenges and the constantly evolving areas of activity.Table of ContentsFrontmatter -- Contents -- # A.1 urban design as a changing profession -- # A.2 some notes about interdisciplinarity -- # A.3 external statements -- # A.4 working across geographical boundaries: reflecting on sino-german cooperation in urban design -- # B. how to read this book -- Introduction -- # B.1 understanding spatial practices -- # B.2 diagrammatic sketching -- # B.3 unpacking discourses -- # B.4 experimenting -- # B.5 interviewing experts -- # B.6 mapping spatial systems -- # B.7 urban data mining -- # B.8 analyzing pictures -- # B.9 using questionnaires -- # B.10 applying ANT -- # B.11 understanding typologies and morphologies -- # B.12 viewing the urban through an ethnographic lens -- # B.13 analyzing and visualizing actors -- # B.14 getting lost: unfolding creative thinking -- # B.15 narrating through graphics -- # B.16 adding, dividing, superimposing -- # B.17 creating conceptual models -- # B.18 intervening through system thinking -- # B.19 designing grid principles -- # B.20 producing and reducing complexity -- # B.21 engaging humans and nonhumans in design -- # B.22 building knowledge through charrettes -- # B.23 participation and enactment games -- # B.24 visualizing possible futures -- # B.25 urban coding -- # B.26 curating evolutionary landscapes -- # B.27 co-designing and building -- index of authors -- imprint
£23.40
JOVIS Verlag Tokyo: An Urban Portrait: Looking at a Megacity
Book SynopsisTokyo's seemingly endless sea of buildings has grown incrementally over the past centuries, leading to an urban condition that is both coherent and contradictory at the same time. The understanding of Tokyo as a continuous and interdependent urban complex is a much-neglected perspective in previous readings of the city. An attachment to the land, strong civic commitment, and a deep appreciation of the immaterial has produced a nested megastructure of smaller communities. These places have all evolved in a related way, briefly and temporarily disrupted by earthquakes and a devastating war. Over time, a set of distinct urban patterns emerged through centralisation processes, the "manshon urbanisation", the relocation of various types of manufacturing, and other developments. What might appear homogeneous in composition and rhythm is in fact a configuration of distinctly different spaces, created by the routines of everyday life that make the district of Shinjuku different from Shimokitazawa or Kitamoto. This book not only provides the first comprehensive reading of the many urbanisation processes shaping Tokyo today, but also seeks an entirely new approach for looking at megacity regions: through their differences, and the way those differences are produced in the course of everyday life.
£27.45
JOVIS Verlag Manifest der freien Straße
Book SynopsisSeit über 70 Jahren dominiert das private Auto den öffentlichen Raum deutscher Städte. Mit dem Manifest der freien Straße stellt eine kreativ-wissenschaftliche Allianz dieses Dogma grundsätzlich infrage und thematisiert vergessene und unerkannte Qualitäten und Möglichkeiten der Straßennutzung. Damit nimmt sie eine kommunale Raumressource in den Blick, die wir in Zeiten von Klimawandel, Digitalisierung und sozialer Ungleichheit dringend anders zu nutzen lernen müssen. Mit Bildern, Comics, Grafiken und knackigen wissenschaftlichen Erkenntnissen weist das Manifest der freien Straße den Weg in eine chancenreiche Zukunft und zeigt: Straßen sollten mehr sein, als bloß ein Raum, um von A nach B zu kommen.
£29.70
Spector Books Arne Schmitt: Zeichen der Zeit/ Signs of the
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Eureka Press Provincial Towns (6-vol. EP set)
Book Synopsis- This is the first collection of a new Eureka Press series which reprints in facsimile the local town handbooks published in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries on the occasion of the annual conference of the British Association for the Advancement of Science.- The first collection covers the northern part of England, including Newcastle-upon-Tyne, York, Leeds, Bradford, Sheffield, Manchester, Liverpool, and Southport.- Edited by local historians and scientists, the handbooks provided objective data on each city or town, together with many maps: ideal contemporary source materials for those researching Victorian and Edwardian England.Table of ContentsVolume 1 [Newcastle-upon-Tyne] A Hand-book to Newcastle-on-Tyne, 1863, c. 350 pp. Volume 2 [York] A Handbook to York, 1906, c. 380 pp. Volume 3 [Leeds and Airedale] Handbook for Leeds and Airedale, 1890, c.140 pp. [Bradford] Handbook to Bradford and the Neighbourhood, 1900, c. 200 pp. Volume 4 [Sheffield] Handbook & Guide to Sheffield, 1910, c. 510 pp. Volume 5 [Liverpool] Handbook to Liverpool, 1896, c. 200 pp. [Manchester] Handbook of Manchester, 1887, c. 125 pp. [Manchester] Manchester in 1915, 1915, c. 120 pp. Volume 6 [Southport] Southport: A Handbook of the Town and Surrounding, 1903, c. 260 pp.
£736.25
Valiz Urban Challenges, Resilient Solutions: Design
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£26.60
Springer Verlag, Singapore Microbial Biotechnology Approaches to Monuments of Cultural Heritage
Book SynopsisOur country’s cultural legacy is one of the world’s most diverse, drawing millions of visitors every year to our convents and monuments, and to our museums, libraries, concert halls and festivals. In addition, it is a dynamic trigger of economic activity and jobs. Among the various scientific branches, microbial biotechnology offers an innovative and precise approach to the complexity of problems that restorers face in their daily work. This book discusses a range of topics, including the biodiversity of microbial communities from various cultural heritage monuments, microbial biotechnological cleaning techniques, the role of bacterial fungal communities for the conservation of cultural heritage, and microbial enzymes and their potential applications as biorestoration agents. Written by internationally recognized experts, and providing up-to-date and detailed insights into microbial biotechnology approaches to cultural heritage monuments, the book is a valuable resource for biological scientists, especially microbiologists, microbial biotechnologists, biochemists and microbial biotechnologists.Table of ContentsChapter 1. Microbial Community Present on the Reverse Side of a Deteriorated Canvas.- Chapter 2. Microbial Biocleaning Technologies for Cultural Heritage: Current Status and Future Challenges.- Chapter 3. Role of Bacterial Communities to Prevent the Microbial Growth on Cultural Heritage.- Chapter 4. Entomogenous Fungi and the Conservation of the Cultural Heritage.- Chapter 5. Microorganisms and their Enzymes as Biorestoration Agents.- Chapter 6. Bioremediation of Cultural Heritage: Removal of Organic Substances.- Chapter 7. The Role Microorganisms for the Removal of Sulphates on Artistic Stoneworks.- Chapter 8. Microbiological Tools for Cultural Heritage Conservation.- Chapter 9. Biotechnology to Restoration and Conservation.- Chapter 10. Biocement: A novel approach in the restoration of construction materials.
£116.99
The University of Chicago Press Purging the Poorest
Book SynopsisOffers a narrative of the seventy-five-year struggle to house the deserving poor. This title offers the novel concept of design politics to show how issues of architecture and urbanism are intimately bound up in thinking about policy.Trade Review"Purging the Poorest advances a fresh and convincing periodization of the history of American public housing that illuminates clear patterns in the program's convoluted past. Lawrence J. Vale's treatment of this subject is the most original and significant I have read." (Gail Radford, author of Modern Housing for America)"
£28.00
The University of Chicago Press Marketing Schools Marketing Cities
Book SynopsisDiscuss real estate with any young family and the subject of schools is certain to come up - in fact, it will likely be a crucial factor in determining where that family lives. In this title, the author shows how education policy makes overt attempts to prevent, or at least slow, middle-class flight to the suburbs.Trade Review"Maia Bloomfield Cucchiara provides a very clear and compelling example of the involvement of private people and business in public education and of the ways in which market strategies have been at work here. She offers a major contribution that provides a good, detailed look at how 'market mechanisms' play out in practice." (Lisa Stulberg, New York University)"
£30.00
The University of Chicago Press New Yorks New Edge
Book SynopsisTells the story of New York's west side no longer stars the Sharks and the Jets. This book offers an analysis of the transforming district in New York's New Edge, and the result is a new understanding of how we perceive and interpret culture and the city in New York's gallery district.
£76.00
The University of Chicago Press Building the South Side Urban Space and Civic
Book SynopsisExplores the struggle for influence that dominated the planning and development of Chicago's South Side during the Progressive Era. This work examines the University of Chicago, Chicago's public parks, and the Black Belt to consider how community leaders looked to the physical design of the city to shape its culture and promote civic interaction.Trade Review"Bachin incisively charts the development of key urban institutions and landscapes that helped constitute the messy vitality of Chicago's late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century public realm." - Daniel Bluestone, Journal of American History "This is an ambitious book filled with important insights about issues of public space and its use by urban residents.... It is thoughtful, very well written, and should be read and appreciated by anyone interested in Chicago or cities generally. It is also a gentle reminder that people are as important as structures and spaces in trying to understand urban development." - Maureen A. Flanagan, American Historical Review"
£28.00
The University of Chicago Press Demolition Means Progress
Book SynopsisIn 1997, after General Motors shuttered a massive complex of factories in the gritty industrial city of Flint, Michigan, workers placed signs around the empty facility reading. This book suggests that the struggling city could not move forward to greatness until the old plants met the wrecking ball.
£76.00
The University of Chicago Press Sprawl A Compact History
Book SynopsisStripping urban sprawl of its pejorative connotations, this book offers a new vision of the city and its growth. The author leads readers to the conclusion that in its complexity and constant change, the city is a wonderful work of mankind.Trade Review"Robert Bruegmann's Sprawl is the most important book on the American landscape since Jane Jacobs's The Death and Life of Great American Cities. It will be as influential in helping us to see American cities and suburbs as they actually are, rather than as imagined by the world's ideologues." - Alexander Garvin, Professor of Urban Planning and Management, Yale University, and author of The American City: What Works, What Doesn't"
£32.30
The University of Chicago Press Robert Clifton Weaver and the American City The
Book SynopsisTracing Robert Clifton Weaver's career through the creation, expansion, and contraction of New Deal liberalism, this book illuminates his instrumental role in the birth of almost every urban initiative of the period, from public housing and urban renewal to affirmative action and rent control.
£24.00
The University of Chicago Press The Grasping Hand Kelo v. City of New London and
Book SynopsisThe Supreme Court ruled that the city of New London, Connecticut, could condemn fifteen residential properties in the Fort Trumbull area and transfer them to a new private owner. This book offers an analysis of the case alongside a history of the meaning of public use and the use of eminent domain and an evaluation of options for reform.Trade Review"Somin's thorough rebuttal of the constitutional reasoning and philosophical implications of the Supreme Court's Kelo decision demonstrates why that ruling was a constructive disaster: It was so dreadful it has provoked robust defenses of the role of private property in sustaining Americans' liberty." (George F. Will)
£26.00
The University of Chicago Press The New Urban Renewal
Book SynopsisTwo of the most celebrated black neighborhoods in the United States - Harlem in New York City and Bronzeville in Chicago - were once plagued by crime, drugs, and abject poverty. But now both have transformed. This work explores the factors - local, national, and global - driving the remarkable revitalization of these two iconic black communities.Trade Review"This crisply written elucidation of the forces behind the revitalization of Bronzeville and Harlem is an original and important addition to our understanding of urban politics and black-led gentrification. In particular, Hyra's detailed analysis of the contrasting political styles of Chicago and New York City is unique and insightful. A pleasure to read." - Lance Freeman, author of There Goes the Hood: Views of Gentrification from the Ground Up"
£24.00
The University of Chicago Press Demolition Means Progress Flint Michigan and the
Book SynopsisIn 1997, after General Motors shuttered a massive complex of factories in the gritty industrial city of Flint, Michigan, signs were placed around the empty facility reading, Demolition Means Progress, suggesting that the struggling metropolis could not move forward to greatness until the old plants met the wrecking ball. Much more than a trite corporate slogan, the phrase encapsulates the operating ethos of the nation's metropolitan leadership from at least the 1930s to the present. Throughout, the leaders of Flint and other municipalities repeatedly tried to revitalize their communities by demolishing outdated and inefficient structures and institutions and overseeing numerous urban renewal campaigns many of which yielded only more impoverished and more divided metropolises. After decades of these efforts, the dawn of the twenty-first century found Flint one of the most racially segregated and economically polarized metropolitan areas in the nation. In one of the most comprehensive works yet written on the history of inequality and metropolitan development in modern America, Andrew R. Highsmith uses the case of Flint to explain how the perennial quest for urban renewal even more than white flight, corporate abandonment, and other forces contributed to mass suburbanization, racial and economic division, deindustrialization, and political fragmentation. Challenging much of the conventional wisdom about structural inequality and the roots of the nation's urban crisis, Demolition Means Progress shows in vivid detail how public policies and programs designed to revitalize the Flint area ultimately led to the hardening of social divisions.
£26.00
The University of Chicago Press The Grasping Hand Kelo v. City of New London and
Book SynopsisIn 2005, the Supreme Court ruled that the city of New London, Connecticut, could condemn fifteen residential properties in order to transfer them to a new private owner. Although the Fifth Amendment only permits the taking of private property for public use, the Court ruled that the transfer of condemned land to private parties for economic development is permitted by the Constitution even if the government cannot prove that the expected development will ever actually happen. The Court's decision in Kelo v. City of New London empowered the grasping hand of the state at the expense of the invisible hand of the market. In this detailed study of one of the most controversial Supreme Court cases in modern times, Ilya Somin argues that Kelo was a grave error. Economic development and blight condemnations are unconstitutional under both originalist and most living constitution theories of legal interpretation. They also victimize the poor and the politically weak for the benefit of powerful interest groups and often destroy more economic value than they create. Kelo itself exemplifies these patterns. The residents targeted for condemnation lacked the influence needed to combat the formidable government and corporate interests arrayed against them. Moreover, the city's poorly conceived development plan ultimately failed: the condemned land lies empty to this day, occupied only by feral cats. The Supreme Court's unpopular ruling triggered an unprecedented political reaction, with forty-five states passing new laws intended to limit the use of eminent domain. But many of the new laws impose few or no genuine constraints on takings. The Kelo backlash led to significant progress, but not nearly as much as it may have seemed. Despite its outcome, the closely divided 5-4 ruling shattered what many believed to be a consensus that virtually any condemnation qualifies as a public use under the Fifth Amendment. It also showed that there is widespread public opposition to eminent domain abuse. With controversy over takings sure to continue, The Grasping Hand offers the first book-length analysis of Kelo by a legal scholar, alongside a broader history of the dispute over public use and eminent domain and an evaluation of options for reform.
£19.00
The University of Chicago Press The Importance of Being Urban Designing the
Book SynopsisFrom the 1890s through World War II, the greatest hopes of American progressive reformers lay not in the government, the markets, or other seats of power but in urban school districts and classrooms. The Importance of Being Urban focuses on four western school systemsin Denver, Oakland, Portland, and Seattleand their efforts to reconfigure public education in the face of rapid industrialization and the perceived perils [GDA1]of the modern city. In an era of accelerated immigration, shifting economic foundations, and widespread municipal shake-ups, reformers argued that the urban school district could provide the broad blend of social, cultural, and educational services needed to prepare students for twentieth-century life. These school districts were a crucial force not only in orchestrating educational change, but in delivering on the promise of democracy. David A. Gamson's book provides eye-opening views of the histories of American education, urban politics, and the Progressive Era.
£41.80
The University of Chicago Press The Origins of the Dual City Housing Race and
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The University of Chicago Press The Origins of the Dual City Housing Race and
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The University of Chicago Press The Plan of Chicago Daniel Burnham and the
Book SynopsisA document in the history of urban planning, Daniel Burnham's "1909 Plan of Chicago", produced in collaboration with the Commercial Club of Chicago, proposed many of the city's most distinctive features. This title reveals the Plan's central role in shaping the ways people envision the cityscape and urban life itself.Trade Review"An imaginative, beautifully produced, and visually appealing masterpiece of stirring prose and stunning illustration.... Carl Smith's book is a concise, splendidly accessible, and beautifully constructed introduction to a seminal work of American urban planning and its enduring influence on Chicago and other American cities." - William Bryk, New York Sun "A concise and reader-friendly introduction to the visionary and ambitious plan that helped shape much of the Windy City as we know it today." - Kevin Nance, Chicago Sun-Times "The story of Burnham's plan has been told many times but never in a more appealing or succinct style than in Carl Smith's modest little book.... What sets this book apart from other Burnham histories is Smith's attention to the filthy, miserable, nineteenth-century city that repelled and motivated Burnham, and the extraordinary promotional effort led by the Commercial Club of Chicago that sold his plan to the public.... A clear-eyed assessment of Burnham." - Lois Wille, Chicago Tribune"
£13.39
Columbia University Press The Greatest Grid
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewYou don't have to be a geometry major to love The Greatest Grid... -- Sam Roberts New York Times
£52.70
Columbia University Press Uneven Innovation
Book SynopsisJennifer Clark reframes the smart city concept within the trajectory of uneven development of cities and regions, as well as the long history of technocratic solutions to urban policy challenges. She considers the potential of emerging technologies as well as their capacity to exacerbate existing inequalities and even produce new ones.Trade ReviewWritten by one of the world’s foremost experts, Uneven Innovation is a must-have book for everyone interested in the potential and the pitfalls of the smart cities narrative. It provides both a critical review of the main debates surrounding smart cities and thought-provoking insights into future research and policy agendas. -- Ben Derudder, Ghent UniversityUneven Innovation is a superb, original, and informative intervention into ongoing debates about what a smart city is and its implications across all cities. Grounded in significant original and secondary research, Clark links smart cities to urban innovation and the production of markets, crucially arguing that the smart city is an economic rather than technological issue. -- Robyn Dowling, University of SydneyUneven Innovation problematizes the smart city project, showing us the many ways that it continues—rather than disrupts—underlying patterns of inequality, precariousness, and powerlessness. Clark’s insightful critique is not only a call for action, her work draws to light the 'operational standards' that all cities should be pushed to uphold when engaging the latest urban development fad. An essential read for practitioners, activists, and scholars seeking to understand and shape the role of technology on the future of cities and the urban workforce. -- Nichola Lowe, University of North Carolina, Chapel HillIn Uneven Innovation, Jennifer Clark takes on the cult of urban innovation, cutting through the buzz and exposing the false promises of the smart city machine. It’s a searching, critical account that opens horizons beyond the smart city limits, while also delving into the belly of the beast. A timely and necessary intervention. -- Jamie Peck, University of British ColumbiaUneven Innovation provides a new framework for understanding the emergence of the smart city project. It is a geographically and historically nuanced approach to the current focus on smart cities. Clark leaves the reader in no doubt that technology is as likely to deepen as to address existing spatial inequalities. -- Kevin Ward, University of ManchesterJennifer Clark's enlightening book challenges the premise that smart cities are radically disruptive. With an economic geographer's critical eye, she shows how the smart cities project follows established patterns of corporations beggaring the public sector, converting citizens into consumers and precarious workers, and reinforcing preexisting spatial inequalities. Yet Uneven Innovation is not a screed; it is well-reasoned, empirically-rich analysis of the interface between tech companies, new platforms and infrastructures, and urban governance that should be the starting point for all discussions of this fast-growing phenomenon. -- Rachel Weber, University of Illinois at ChicagoIn Uneven Innovation, Jennifer Clark delves deep into the contemporary Smart Cities discourse. Socio-spatial and economic dynamics that are inherent to processes of technological change and ensuing (local) uneven economic development opportunities are diligently exposed via expert insights into the Urban Innovation Project. It’s an agenda setting account of extraordinary relevance. -- Dieter Kogler, University College DublinFor anyone interested in the role of technology and the tech industry in shaping modern cities, Uneven Innovation is a must read. Jennifer Clark's analysis cuts through the hype around smart cities, and provides a refreshing critical perspective, highlighting both the benefits of emerging technologies and the ways they have been used to exacerbate urban inequalities. -- Chris Benner, Dorothy E. Everett Chair in Global Innovation and Social Entrepreneurship, University of California Santa CruzJennifer Clark’s compelling book Uneven Innovation places these claims in context and examines them with the discerning eye of an economic geographer. * Journal of Urban Affairs *In the end, the book’s greatest strength will be its sustained relevance. Though published in early 2020 and presumably finalized in late 2019, the book does not immediately need a Covid-era update. Its main tenets resonated before the pandemic and will continue to act as a warning for cities as they begin to re-engage with the challenges of the smart-cities project in the post-Covid era. * Metropolitics *Stands out for its insightful and critical analysis from a political economy perspective...should be required reading in the urban informatics graduate programs popping up all over the country. Further, it should be among the readings in graduate courses in urban economic development, economic geography, and urban data analytics. * Journal of the American Planning Association *It has both theoretical and practical implications, and is important reading for anyone performing research on this issue, or for those working on the implementation of smart city activities. * Regional Studies *Table of ContentsList of IllustrationsPreface 1. Uneven Innovation: The Evolution of the Urban Technology Project2. Smart Cities as Solutions 3. Smart Cities as Emerging Markets 4. Smart Cities as the New Urban Entrepreneurship 5. Smart Cities as Urban Innovation Networks 6. Smart Cities as Participatory Planning 7. Smart Cities as the New Uneven Development8. Conclusions: The Local Is (Not) the Enemy Epilogue: The View from Inside the Urban Innovation ProjectNotesBibliographyIndex
£75.00
Columbia University Press Reforming the City
Book SynopsisAriane Liazos examines the urban reform movement that swept through the country in the early twentieth century and its unintended consequences. Reforming the City offers powerful insights into the relationships between scholarship and reform and between the structures of city government and urban democracy.Trade ReviewA century ago, progressive reformers often thought expertise and nonpartisanship were the solution to extreme polarization and inequality in U.S. politics, as they do now. But Ariane Liazos dramatizes the unintended consequences of changes pursued in hundreds of U.S. cities in the early 1900s. The findings in Reforming the City hold important lessons for today’s democracy reformers, along with all students of American history and politics. -- Theda Skocpol, Harvard UniversityThis well-researched volume offers an important new perspective on an era of grassroots democratic reform that is highly relevant to our urgent social, political, and economic crises today, including a useful focus on unexpected alliances, unintended consequences, and lost opportunities. -- Robert D. Putnam, author of The Upswing: How America Came Together a Century Ago and How We Can Do It AgainIn this comprehensive, provocative, and richly nuanced study, Ariane Liazos brilliantly shows how progressive reformers forged coalitions to end corruption, improve efficiency, and inspire civic participation in urban governance. Understanding their aims, the challenges they faced, and the surprising consequences of their efforts is indispensable for historians, political scientists, and activists mobilizing today to address the persistent tensions between administration and democracy. -- James T. Kloppenberg, author of Toward Democracy: The Struggle for Self-Rule in European and American ThoughtWhy are cities, once the birthplace of Progressive reform, often considered undemocratic today? How is it that Americans feel closest to their local governments and yet fail to participate actively in them? These and other puzzles drive Ariane Liazos’s important study of how a wide range of actors joined together a century ago to remake how cities were governed and the unintended consequences of their efforts. This book has much to teach us about the past, but it also holds compelling lessons for our own day. -- Lizabeth Cohen, author of Saving America’s Cities: Ed Logue and the Struggle to Renew Urban America in the Suburban AgeReforming the City is the most thorough and persuasive study of municipal reform in American cities I have ever read. This detailed account is the most important work ever written on the topic. -- Robert Fairbanks, University of Texas at ArlingtonAriane Liazos has written an ambitious, elegant, and well researched book. -- Amy Bridges, University of California, San DiegoA compelling explanation for better understanding the struggles to restructure municipal government in many American cities between 1900 and 1930. . . . Highly recommended. * Choice *Ariane Liazos has written a definitive account of how the council-manager system of governance - usually paired with at-large nonpartisan elections - became the dominant form of local governance, ultimately replacing ward-based partisan elections in many localities. * Political Science Quarterly *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Urban Reform, Coalitions, and American Political Development1. The Emergence of the Movement for “Good City Government”: Municipal Reform Associations, c. 1880–19002. “Saved by the Scholar”: Political Science, the Municipal Program, and the National Municipal League, c. 1890–19003. The Municipal Program and Early Campaigns for Charter Reform, c. 1895–19104. “The Franchise Problem”: Home Rule, Charter Reform, and the Provision of Public Services, c. 1900–19155. The Commission Plan, c. 1900–19156. “Whether Democracy and Efficiency Are Inherently Irreconcilable”: Professionalization and Expertise in Municipal Reform, c. 1905–19207. “The Transition to Government by Experts”: The Origins and Spread of Commission/City Manager Government, 1912–19258. The Legacy of the Movement for Urban Reform: State Building and Popular Control Epilogue: The End of the CoalitionsAcknowledgmentsAppendix 1Appendix 2Publication AbbreviationsNotesIndex
£83.60
Columbia University Press Parks for Profit
Book SynopsisKevin Loughran explores the High Line in New York, the Bloomingdale Trail/606 in Chicago, and Buffalo Bayou Park in Houston to offer a critical perspective on the rise of the postindustrial park. He reveals how elites deploy the popularity and seemingly benign nature of parks to achieve their cultural, political, and economic goals.Trade ReviewParks for Profit offers a fresh take on the problem of environmental equity. Loughran deftly shows how the economic value of urban green space for capital can shrink the pool of public funds for parks and play areas in the places that need them most. He asks tough but necessary questions, and his answers are sure to spark debate. -- Eric Klinenberg, author of Palaces for the People: How Social Infrastructure Can Help Fight Inequality, Polarization, and the Decline of Civic LifeKevin Loughran's Parks for Profit is a beautifully written, carefully researched study of the role of green spaces in contemporary urban economic redevelopment. Loughran's richly textured and engaging book takes the reader to New York, Chicago, and Houston, demonstrating how cities reinvent their industrial pasts to serve tourists' and affluent urbanites' desire for green amenities. Parks for Profit powerfully reveals how planners and landscape architects rely on the urban industrial past to create postindustrial spaces that appeal to a new class of urban dwellers and visitors. Deeply attentive to the past, present, and future, Loughran reveals how histories of urban disinvestment, deindustrialization, White flight, and, more recently, gentrification, drive the emergence of new parks. Parks for Profit will productively challenge preconceived notions about the High Line and other new urban green spaces, and will sharpen understandings of how and why cities alter the material and cultural landscape. Loughran's book is a must-read for students of culture, urbanism, nature, and urban economies, providing a powerful example of the utility of multi-sited research and of the value of historically informed analyses of contemporary dynamics. -- Japonica Brown-Saracino, author of A Neighborhood That Never Changes: Gentrification, Social Preservation, and the Search for AuthenticityParks for Profit asks how a generation of refurbished parks change and re-valorize the picturesque framing of nature by imagining a union of wild nature and the postindustrial landscape, and, in doing so, gives a sense of the whole park, not merely its use or its financing or construction. The manuscript’s insightful and thoughtful analysis of the parks is valuable and even lyrical. Rarely is a book of urban sociology so well written, and rarely does it stand on the merits of the author’s insights. -- Gregory Smithsimon, author of Cause: ... And How It Doesn't Always Equal EffectHow do you turn a weeded rail and disused viaduct into a celebrated garden, and then turn the garden into a growth machine, and why does it matter? From New York, to Chicago, to Houston, private corporations have turned spaces that were unused by the right kind of people into restoration projects, sprouting high end businesses and economic growth. While city boosters call these public-private partnerships win-win solutions, Parks for Profits shows us just who the losers are. Not just those who get left, or pushed, out, but also anyone who cares about the things we should all share. Parks for Profit points to what’s gone wrong and how the wrongs can be made right. An important intervention. -- Frederick F. Wherry, Princeton UniversityA timely counterargument to the urban cheerleading that promotes this model of privately funded showstopper spaces. * CityLab *At its best, Parks for Profit illuminates the disconnect between the way these projects were sold to the public with the thrill of exciting new public spaces and the gentrifying impact they had on their surrounding areas. * The Architect's Newspaper *The work is so well researched and considered. * H-Environment *Incredibly engaging and well written, moving easily from one case to the next. Students and practitioners of urban sociology, environmental design, planning, and political science will find much wisdom in these pages, as will anyone with an interest in parks, urban planning, or revitalization. * Journal of Urban Affairs *A good book that will be of useful to sociologists, urban geographers, planners, and park historians, as well as lay people interested in these subjects. * Social Forces *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsI. Introduction1. Sometime in 20092. Varieties of Urban Crisis: New York, Chicago, HoustonII. Growth Machines in the Garden3. “The Yuppie Express”4. “No More Bake Sales, Man”5. “A Piece of Crud”6. Parks for Profit or for People?III. Gardens in the Machine7. Defective Landscapes8. Imbricated Spaces9. Constructing Environmental Authenticity10. Spatial Practices and Social ControlIV. Conclusion11. After the High Line12. Abolish, Decolonize, Rot: Three Proposals for Parks EquityNotesReferencesIndex
£90.00
Columbia University Press Parks for Profit
Book SynopsisKevin Loughran explores the High Line in New York, the Bloomingdale Trail/606 in Chicago, and Buffalo Bayou Park in Houston to offer a critical perspective on the rise of the postindustrial park. He reveals how elites deploy the popularity and seemingly benign nature of parks to achieve their cultural, political, and economic goals.Trade ReviewParks for Profit offers a fresh take on the problem of environmental equity. Loughran deftly shows how the economic value of urban green space for capital can shrink the pool of public funds for parks and play areas in the places that need them most. He asks tough but necessary questions, and his answers are sure to spark debate. -- Eric Klinenberg, author of Palaces for the People: How Social Infrastructure Can Help Fight Inequality, Polarization, and the Decline of Civic LifeKevin Loughran's Parks for Profit is a beautifully written, carefully researched study of the role of green spaces in contemporary urban economic redevelopment. Loughran's richly textured and engaging book takes the reader to New York, Chicago, and Houston, demonstrating how cities reinvent their industrial pasts to serve tourists' and affluent urbanites' desire for green amenities. Parks for Profit powerfully reveals how planners and landscape architects rely on the urban industrial past to create postindustrial spaces that appeal to a new class of urban dwellers and visitors. Deeply attentive to the past, present, and future, Loughran reveals how histories of urban disinvestment, deindustrialization, White flight, and, more recently, gentrification, drive the emergence of new parks. Parks for Profit will productively challenge preconceived notions about the High Line and other new urban green spaces, and will sharpen understandings of how and why cities alter the material and cultural landscape. Loughran's book is a must-read for students of culture, urbanism, nature, and urban economies, providing a powerful example of the utility of multi-sited research and of the value of historically informed analyses of contemporary dynamics. -- Japonica Brown-Saracino, author of A Neighborhood That Never Changes: Gentrification, Social Preservation, and the Search for AuthenticityParks for Profit asks how a generation of refurbished parks change and re-valorize the picturesque framing of nature by imagining a union of wild nature and the postindustrial landscape, and, in doing so, gives a sense of the whole park, not merely its use or its financing or construction. The manuscript’s insightful and thoughtful analysis of the parks is valuable and even lyrical. Rarely is a book of urban sociology so well written, and rarely does it stand on the merits of the author’s insights. -- Gregory Smithsimon, author of Cause: ... And How It Doesn't Always Equal EffectHow do you turn a weeded rail and disused viaduct into a celebrated garden, and then turn the garden into a growth machine, and why does it matter? From New York, to Chicago, to Houston, private corporations have turned spaces that were unused by the right kind of people into restoration projects, sprouting high end businesses and economic growth. While city boosters call these public-private partnerships win-win solutions, Parks for Profits shows us just who the losers are. Not just those who get left, or pushed, out, but also anyone who cares about the things we should all share. Parks for Profit points to what’s gone wrong and how the wrongs can be made right. An important intervention. -- Frederick F. Wherry, Princeton UniversityA timely counterargument to the urban cheerleading that promotes this model of privately funded showstopper spaces. * CityLab *At its best, Parks for Profit illuminates the disconnect between the way these projects were sold to the public with the thrill of exciting new public spaces and the gentrifying impact they had on their surrounding areas. * The Architect's Newspaper *The work is so well researched and considered. * H-Environment *Incredibly engaging and well written, moving easily from one case to the next. Students and practitioners of urban sociology, environmental design, planning, and political science will find much wisdom in these pages, as will anyone with an interest in parks, urban planning, or revitalization. * Journal of Urban Affairs *A good book that will be of useful to sociologists, urban geographers, planners, and park historians, as well as lay people interested in these subjects. * Social Forces *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsI. Introduction1. Sometime in 20092. Varieties of Urban Crisis: New York, Chicago, HoustonII. Growth Machines in the Garden3. “The Yuppie Express”4. “No More Bake Sales, Man”5. “A Piece of Crud”6. Parks for Profit or for People?III. Gardens in the Machine7. Defective Landscapes8. Imbricated Spaces9. Constructing Environmental Authenticity10. Spatial Practices and Social ControlIV. Conclusion11. After the High Line12. Abolish, Decolonize, Rot: Three Proposals for Parks EquityNotesReferencesIndex
£23.75
Columbia University Press Flywheels
Book SynopsisTom Alberg, a venture capitalist who was one of the first investors in Amazon, draws on his experience in Seattle’s tech boom to offer a vision for how cities and businesses can build a brighter future together. He explores how cities can soar to prosperity by creating the conditions that encourage innovation.Trade ReviewTom saw something in Amazon before most people did. . . . That leap of faith led to a long-term partnership as Tom continued to collaborate with me over more than two decades on Amazon’s board. -- Jeff Bezos, founder and CEO, AmazonEmpowering everyone and every organization on the planet to achieve more begins locally. In Flywheels, Tom Alberg delves into how the Seattle area and other communities are building tech platforms that drive innovation while also doing good, providing a thoughtful approach to building livable communities that we can all learn from. -- Satya Nadella, chairman and CEO, MicrosoftThroughout his distinguished career, Tom Alberg has been at the center of companies that have come to define Seattle, including Boeing, McCaw, and Amazon. In Flywheels, Alberg provides a view into the boardroom decisions that shaped these companies combined with a citizen's view of both the resulting prosperity and problems. Alberg provides insightful analysis of the key inputs to the flywheel for creating a culture of entrepreneurship and innovation in other cities as well as solutions to the resulting traffic and housing crisis in Seattle. A must-read for any business and civic-minded leader. -- Bill Carr, coauthor of Working Backwards: Insights, Stories, and Secrets from Inside AmazonIf you really want to understand how to build a tech hub, read this book. Tom Alberg, a leading venture capitalist, tells the inside story of how and why Seattle's culture of openness and risk propelled it to the leading ranks of global innovation centers, home to companies like Amazon, Microsoft, and more. But Alberg goes beyond tech boosterism to create a guidebook and game plan for addressing today's new urban crisis of housing unaffordability, inequality, and homelessness. Drawing on examples like Tulsa's pioneering efforts to harness remote workers, new models of public-private partnership are required to truly keep the urban flywheel turning for post-pandemic prosperity. -- Richard Florida, author of The Rise of the Creative Class and The New Urban CrisisA fascinating first-person account of the companies, people, and regional assets that made Seattle into a global tech powerhouse, written by someone who knows its innovation ecosystem better than any other. Alberg shows not only how it was done but also how high-tech capitals—and cities everywhere—can do it even better through strong leadership, long-term thinking, and a commitment to livability for all. Essential reading for navigating times of extraordinary change and tech-driven disruption. -- Margaret O’Mara, author of The Code: Silicon Valley and the Remaking of AmericaIn Flywheels, the venture capitalist Tom Alberg makes a powerful case for business and government to work together to solve our most pressing urban problems—problems that can’t be solved by either alone. I have watched Tom put this belief into practice, moving leaders from corporate and civic life toward our common goals through Challenge Seattle, a group of twenty-one CEOs that I lead. Tom was one of the first members. At our roundtable discussions, he has pressed some of our region’s most successful business leaders to put their appetite for innovation toward finding solutions to homelessness, transportation, and a host of other urban challenges. This book pushes that work forward in ways that will resonate in cities across the country. -- Christine Gregoire, former governor of Washington and CEO of Challenge SeattleSeattle’s emergence as a global hub of creativity and innovation is a history that had not been written—until now. Uniquely positioned to write it, Tom Alberg simultaneously offers a guide for others who would create similar flywheels of prosperity in their own regions. His curiosity, appreciation for research institutions, and humanity shine through on every page. -- Ed Lazowska, Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering, University of WashingtonExceptionally well written, organized and presented. * Midwest Book Reviews *Table of ContentsForeword by John StantonPart I. Prelude to Jeff Bezos’s Day 11. Opportunities and Challenges of Cities2. Foundations of the Economic Flywheel3. Seattle’s Flywheels Begin Spinning4. Microsoft and Amazon Innovate to SuccessPart II5. On the Precipice of the Future6. Investing in the Future: Talent and Capital7. Models for Success: Oklahoma City, Tulsa, and Kansas CityPart III8. Livable Cities9. Public Safety and Privacy10. Homelessness and PreK–12 Education11. Transportation and EnvironmentPart IV12. Government and Business: Conflicts and Cooperation13. The Future of CitiesAcknowledgmentsNote on SourcesNotesIndex
£18.00
Columbia University Press Urban Climate Law
Book SynopsisAimed at a nonspecialist audience, this book provides concise and comprehensible answers to the core questions cities confront when seeking to develop legally sound local climate policy.Trade ReviewLocal governments are often seen as the engines of climate innovation, and they are. Cities imagine, test, and implement new approaches that, when successful, are adopted across states and beyond. Urban Climate Law provides an important and accessible resource that outlines, in plain language, the legal guardrails that must be considered by local governments as they create new pathways for climate progress. -- Gina McCarthy, former administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency and first White House National Climate AdvisorCities are central to addressing the biggest sources of greenhouse gases—transportation, buildings, energy generation, and waste. Doing so is legally complex. This book is the first to delineate the legal frameworks and areas of law that apply to local climate policy making. It will help local governments craft sounder policies with increased awareness of the legal constraints and opportunities within which cities operate. -- Michael B. Gerrard, professor and faculty director, Sabin Center for Climate Change Law, Columbia Law SchoolUrban Climate Law is the resource by lawyers for city practitioners that we’ve been waiting for. As climate change policy in cities requires governments to act boldly and think creatively, there is a constant stream of legal questions that create uncertainty at the local level. This book is going to be the building block needed to unlock city-led action in addressing the climate crisis. -- Laura Jay, regional director for North America, C40 CitiesMichael Burger and Amy E. Turner provide an excellent high-level overview of how U.S. cities can enact measures to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and the legal obstacles they may face. -- Katrina M. Wyman, Wilf Family Professor of Property Law and Faculty Director, Guarini Center on Environmental, Energy & Land Use Law, New York University School of LawTable of ContentsA Note on Terminology and GlossaryIntroduction1. Cross-Cutting Legal Concepts2. Equity3. Buildings4. Reducing Transportation-Related Greenhouse Gas Emissions5. Scaling Up Renewable Energy6. Decarbonizing a City’s WasteConclusionNotesIndex
£54.40
Columbia University Press Urban Climate Law
Book SynopsisAimed at a nonspecialist audience, this book provides concise and comprehensible answers to the core questions cities confront when seeking to develop legally sound local climate policy.Trade ReviewLocal governments are often seen as the engines of climate innovation, and they are. Cities imagine, test, and implement new approaches that, when successful, are adopted across states and beyond. Urban Climate Law provides an important and accessible resource that outlines, in plain language, the legal guardrails that must be considered by local governments as they create new pathways for climate progress. -- Gina McCarthy, former administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency and first White House National Climate AdvisorCities are central to addressing the biggest sources of greenhouse gases—transportation, buildings, energy generation, and waste. Doing so is legally complex. This book is the first to delineate the legal frameworks and areas of law that apply to local climate policy making. It will help local governments craft sounder policies with increased awareness of the legal constraints and opportunities within which cities operate. -- Michael B. Gerrard, professor and faculty director, Sabin Center for Climate Change Law, Columbia Law SchoolUrban Climate Law is the resource by lawyers for city practitioners that we’ve been waiting for. As climate change policy in cities requires governments to act boldly and think creatively, there is a constant stream of legal questions that create uncertainty at the local level. This book is going to be the building block needed to unlock city-led action in addressing the climate crisis. -- Laura Jay, regional director for North America, C40 CitiesMichael Burger and Amy E. Turner provide an excellent high-level overview of how U.S. cities can enact measures to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and the legal obstacles they may face. -- Katrina M. Wyman, Wilf Family Professor of Property Law and Faculty Director, Guarini Center on Environmental, Energy & Land Use Law, New York University School of LawTable of ContentsA Note on Terminology and GlossaryIntroduction1. Cross-Cutting Legal Concepts2. Equity3. Buildings4. Reducing Transportation-Related Greenhouse Gas Emissions5. Scaling Up Renewable Energy6. Decarbonizing a City’s WasteConclusionNotesIndex
£15.29
University of Illinois Press Building the Body Politic
Book SynopsisPower, language, and urban planning politics in Washington, D.C.Trade Review"Farrar provides a strong theoretical base, supported by well-framed examples. Recommended."--Choice
£35.10
University of Illinois Press The Peoples Money
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£77.35
University of Illinois Press Are We There Yet
Book SynopsisAutonomous vehicle (AV) technology represents a possible paradigm shift in our way of life. But complex challenges and obstacles impose a reality at odds with the utopian visions propounded by AV enthusiasts in the private and public sectors. The new volume in the Urban Agenda series examines the technological questions still surrounding autonomous vehicles and the uncertain societal and legislative impact of widespread AV adoption. Assessing both short- and long-term concerns, the authors probe how autonomous vehicles might change transportation but also land use, energy consumption, mass transit, commuter habits, traffic safety, job markets, the freight industry, and supply chains. At the same time, the essays discuss opportunities for industry, researchers, and policymakers to make the autonomous future safer, more efficient, and more mobile. Contributors: Austin Brown, Stan Caldwell, Chris Hendrickson, Kazuya Kawamura, Taylor Long, and P. S. Srira.Trade Review"Recommended. All readers." --Choice"It is great to see an Illinois institution of higher learning provide thought leadership on connected, automated, shared and electric mobility. This ever-evolving ecosystem is disrupting systems, policies and behaviors which have been engrained in our culture and are ripe for enhancement. Especially when that enhancement means increased safety and increased efficiency." --Jerry Quandt, Executive Director, Illinois Autonomous Vehicles Association
£77.35
University of Illinois Press The Peoples Money
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£15.19
University of Illinois Press Are We There Yet
Book SynopsisAutonomous vehicle (AV) technology represents a possible paradigm shift in our way of life. But complex challenges and obstacles impose a reality at odds with the utopian visions propounded by AV enthusiasts in the private and public sectors. The new volume in the Urban Agenda series examines the technological questions still surrounding autonomous vehicles and the uncertain societal and legislative impact of widespread AV adoption. Assessing both short- and long-term concerns, the authors probe how autonomous vehicles might change transportation but also land use, energy consumption, mass transit, commuter habits, traffic safety, job markets, the freight industry, and supply chains. At the same time, the essays discuss opportunities for industry, researchers, and policymakers to make the autonomous future safer, more efficient, and more mobile. Contributors: Austin Brown, Stan Caldwell, Chris Hendrickson, Kazuya Kawamura, Taylor Long, and P. S. Srira.Trade Review"Recommended. All readers." --Choice"It is great to see an Illinois institution of higher learning provide thought leadership on connected, automated, shared and electric mobility. This ever-evolving ecosystem is disrupting systems, policies and behaviors which have been engrained in our culture and are ripe for enhancement. Especially when that enhancement means increased safety and increased efficiency." --Jerry Quandt, Executive Director, Illinois Autonomous Vehicles Association
£15.19
Indiana University Press Normalizing Occupation The Politics of Everyday
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThis book is an essential addition to an academic library and ideal for researchers dealing with related Middle East subjects. * Association of Jewish Libraries Reviews *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Normalizing the Occupation: the Making of the Jewish West Bank Settlements / Marco Allegra, Ariel Handel and Erez Maggor Part I - Across the Green Line: Suburbanization, Privatization and the Settlements1. The Settlements and the Relationship between Privatization and the Occupation / Daniel Gutwein 2. Settlement as Suburbanization: The Banality of Colonization / David Newman 3. "Outside Jerusalem—yet so Near": Ma'ale Adumim, Jerusalem, and the suburbanization of Israel's settlement policy / Marco Allegra4. Educating Architecture (photo essay) / Miki Kratsman and Ruthie Ginsburg Part II – Between Cities and Outposts: the Heterogeneity of the Settlements and the Settlers5. Embedded Politics in a West Bank Settlement / Hadas Weiss 6. Informal Outposts in the West Bank: Normality in Gray Space / Erez Tzfadia 7. From Ghetto-politics to Geo-politics: Ultra-Orthodox Settlements in the West Bank / Lee Cahaner8. "A Blessed Deviation in Jewish History": On Contemporary forms of Messianism among Religiously Motivated Settlers in the West Bank / Assaf Harel Part III - Forced Co-existence: Palestinians and Jewish Settlers9. From Kubniya to Outpost: A Genealogy of the Palestinian Conceptualization of Jewish Settlement in a Shifting National Context / Honaida Ghanem 10. Integrated or Segregated? Employment Relations in the Settlements / Amir Paz-Fuchs and Yael Ronen11. Jerusalem's Colonial Space as Paradox: Palestinians Living in the Settlements / Wendy Pullan and Haim Yacobi
£62.90
Indiana University Press Normalizing Occupation
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThis book is an essential addition to an academic library and ideal for researchers dealing with related Middle East subjects. * Association of Jewish Libraries Reviews *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Normalizing the Occupation: the Making of the Jewish West Bank Settlements / Marco Allegra, Ariel Handel and Erez Maggor Part I - Across the Green Line: Suburbanization, Privatization and the Settlements1. The Settlements and the Relationship between Privatization and the Occupation / Daniel Gutwein 2. Settlement as Suburbanization: The Banality of Colonization / David Newman 3. "Outside Jerusalem—yet so Near": Ma'ale Adumim, Jerusalem, and the suburbanization of Israel's settlement policy / Marco Allegra4. Educating Architecture (photo essay) / Miki Kratsman and Ruthie Ginsburg Part II – Between Cities and Outposts: the Heterogeneity of the Settlements and the Settlers5. Embedded Politics in a West Bank Settlement / Hadas Weiss 6. Informal Outposts in the West Bank: Normality in Gray Space / Erez Tzfadia 7. From Ghetto-politics to Geo-politics: Ultra-Orthodox Settlements in the West Bank / Lee Cahaner8. "A Blessed Deviation in Jewish History": On Contemporary forms of Messianism among Religiously Motivated Settlers in the West Bank / Assaf Harel Part III - Forced Co-existence: Palestinians and Jewish Settlers9. From Kubniya to Outpost: A Genealogy of the Palestinian Conceptualization of Jewish Settlement in a Shifting National Context / Honaida Ghanem 10. Integrated or Segregated? Employment Relations in the Settlements / Amir Paz-Fuchs and Yael Ronen11. Jerusalem's Colonial Space as Paradox: Palestinians Living in the Settlements / Wendy Pullan and Haim Yacobi
£25.19
Indiana University Press Citizens without a City
Book SynopsisA fascinating read for anyone interested in the politics of disaster relief, Citizens without a City illustrates how survivors tried to remake effective political agency—and their lives—in a ruined town.Trade Review"Riveting and nuanced."—Christian Sorace, author of Shaken Authority: China's Communist Party and the 2008 Sichuan Earthquake"Set in the aftermath of the 2009 L'Aquila earthquake in central Italy, Citizens without a City tells of how civic life is negotiated in the post-disaster context. Through intricate court cases, civic activities, artistic performances, and invented traditions, Aquilani strive to regain their city and their citizenship. Through eloquent ethnography and innovative conceptual insights, Bock portrays life rising from rubble where versions of collective pasts and futures are intensely disputed. Providing the definitive line on everyday orientations after catastrophe, Citizens without a City is a fascinating study of life in post-disaster contexts which has repercussions for the anthropology of crisis, temporality, and urban politics."—Daniel M. Knight, University of St Andrews, author of Vertiginous Life: An Anthropology of Time and the Unforeseen"This is an extraordinary book. Jan Bock in Citizens Without a City provides us with an unflinching and fascinating account of the aftermath of the devastating earthquake in L'Aquila. Pathbreaking in its approach, which moves across disciplines, this account provides us with a deep analysis of the way that citizens reacted to the earthquake, and the protests, divisions, spatial changes and political controversies that followed. Bock draws out the contradictory outcomes to this traumatic event at a local and micro level. The overall story, perhaps surprisingly, is one of division as opposed to reconciliation and solidarity. An urgent and troubling book, which is beautifully written, organised and illustrated which will be of interest to historians, anthropologists, sociologists and the general reader."—John Foot, author of The Archipelago: Italy since 1945, University of Bristol"Citizens Without a City is a masterpiece of scholarly empathy. In ethnographically probing the deep factionalism that official autocracy, condescension, and mismanagement inflamed among the long-suffering survivors of a catastrophic earthquake, Bock deftly steers analysis away from both politically sterile recrimination and equally unproductive utopianism. In its place, he suggests an inclusive partiality – hard, realistic choices leavened by the social recognition and cultural representation of the losers' durable distress – as the precondition for the very possibility of genuine participation."—Michael Herzfeld, author of Evicted from Eternity: The Restructuring of Modern Rome, Harvard University"Richly detailed, thoughtful, and full of evocative accounts, Citizens without a City offers a razor-sharp analysis of a pivotal period in Italy's recent history, showing how well-intentioned attempts at disaster relief can leave recipients feeling divided and disenfranchised. Importantly, the book shows that while citizens may turn to grassroots politics or legal redress in an attempt to get their voices heard, these arenas often prove unsatisfying or counterproductive. By contrast, the cultural realms of cinema, theatre and autobiographical writing offer more hopeful prospects for social recovery. Bock's analysis makes for urgent, timely and stimulating reading as we collectively reckon with the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and the states of emergency implemented to mitigate it. It is also a fine testament to the way that anthropological research can itself provide a platform for hitherto silenced voices."—Nicholas J. Long, London School of Economics and Political Science"The picture of Italy that emerges from the pages of this book is in some ways a familiar one, with its ability to recover in the face of tragedy, shaped by spontaneous expressions of solidarity among citizens afflicted by catastrophe. And yet there is more. In this sensitive account of the L'Aquila earthquake and its aftermath, constructed out of careful observation and participation, there is a desire to understand and to overcome the veil of 'tragedy' in order to grasp, collectively, a sense of 'responsibility' and the depth of the idea of society."—Piero Vereni, University of Rome Tor Vergata"This book is not just about the city of L'Aquila. Although Jan-Jonathan Bock reconstructs, grounded in in-depth fieldwork, the unique experiences that followed the horrific earthquake of 2009, many readers will detect further issues that are common in other democratic societies. This account addresses a conundrum across the West, especially in the face of the pandemic: the crisis of dialogue between citizens and institutions. Emergencies always reveal the relationship between citizens and power. Citizens Without a City stimulates further reflection on this subject through its richly detailed analysis of grassroots actions and political context. This book is of significant value for scholars and a general readership in many countries, and also for the Italian public, since 'states of emergency' too often become the norm in disaster management in Italy."—Mattia Diletti, University of Rome La Sapienza"In Citizens Without a City (2022), Jan-Jonathan Bock follows various modalities of protest and legal challenges by local residents to the postdisaster measures implemented by the Italian government to deal with the aftermath of the earthquake in L' Aquila, Italy. Through a detailed ethnography, the book shows how such post-disaster programs can divide survivors and how forms of protest and resistance by those affected by the disaster do not always succeed."—Smoki Musaraj and Matt Canfield, PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology ReviewTable of ContentsAcknowledgments1. Introduction: The L'Aquila Earthquake2. The State of Emergency3. Disaster Politics and the War Among the Poor4. Contesting Urban Recovery5. Activism and Grassroots Politics6. Culture and Social Recovery7. Mourning in Court8. Conclusion: A Future for L'AquilaBibliographyIndex
£49.30
Indiana University Press Citizens Without a City
Book SynopsisA fascinating read for anyone interested in the politics of disaster relief, Citizens without a City illustrates how survivors tried to remake effective political agencyand their livesin a ruined town.Trade Review"Riveting and nuanced."—Christian Sorace, author of Shaken Authority: China's Communist Party and the 2008 Sichuan Earthquake"Set in the aftermath of the 2009 L'Aquila earthquake in central Italy, Citizens without a City tells of how civic life is negotiated in the post-disaster context. Through intricate court cases, civic activities, artistic performances, and invented traditions, Aquilani strive to regain their city and their citizenship. Through eloquent ethnography and innovative conceptual insights, Bock portrays life rising from rubble where versions of collective pasts and futures are intensely disputed. Providing the definitive line on everyday orientations after catastrophe, Citizens without a City is a fascinating study of life in post-disaster contexts which has repercussions for the anthropology of crisis, temporality, and urban politics."—Daniel M. Knight, University of St Andrews, author of Vertiginous Life: An Anthropology of Time and the Unforeseen"This is an extraordinary book. Jan Bock in Citizens Without a City provides us with an unflinching and fascinating account of the aftermath of the devastating earthquake in L'Aquila. Pathbreaking in its approach, which moves across disciplines, this account provides us with a deep analysis of the way that citizens reacted to the earthquake, and the protests, divisions, spatial changes and political controversies that followed. Bock draws out the contradictory outcomes to this traumatic event at a local and micro level. The overall story, perhaps surprisingly, is one of division as opposed to reconciliation and solidarity. An urgent and troubling book, which is beautifully written, organised and illustrated which will be of interest to historians, anthropologists, sociologists and the general reader."—John Foot, author of The Archipelago: Italy since 1945, University of Bristol"Citizens Without a City is a masterpiece of scholarly empathy. In ethnographically probing the deep factionalism that official autocracy, condescension, and mismanagement inflamed among the long-suffering survivors of a catastrophic earthquake, Bock deftly steers analysis away from both politically sterile recrimination and equally unproductive utopianism. In its place, he suggests an inclusive partiality – hard, realistic choices leavened by the social recognition and cultural representation of the losers' durable distress – as the precondition for the very possibility of genuine participation."—Michael Herzfeld, author of Evicted from Eternity: The Restructuring of Modern Rome, Harvard University"Richly detailed, thoughtful, and full of evocative accounts, Citizens without a City offers a razor-sharp analysis of a pivotal period in Italy's recent history, showing how well-intentioned attempts at disaster relief can leave recipients feeling divided and disenfranchised. Importantly, the book shows that while citizens may turn to grassroots politics or legal redress in an attempt to get their voices heard, these arenas often prove unsatisfying or counterproductive. By contrast, the cultural realms of cinema, theatre and autobiographical writing offer more hopeful prospects for social recovery. Bock's analysis makes for urgent, timely and stimulating reading as we collectively reckon with the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and the states of emergency implemented to mitigate it. It is also a fine testament to the way that anthropological research can itself provide a platform for hitherto silenced voices."—Nicholas J. Long, London School of Economics and Political Science"The picture of Italy that emerges from the pages of this book is in some ways a familiar one, with its ability to recover in the face of tragedy, shaped by spontaneous expressions of solidarity among citizens afflicted by catastrophe. And yet there is more. In this sensitive account of the L'Aquila earthquake and its aftermath, constructed out of careful observation and participation, there is a desire to understand and to overcome the veil of 'tragedy' in order to grasp, collectively, a sense of 'responsibility' and the depth of the idea of society."—Piero Vereni, University of Rome Tor Vergata"This book is not just about the city of L'Aquila. Although Jan-Jonathan Bock reconstructs, grounded in in-depth fieldwork, the unique experiences that followed the horrific earthquake of 2009, many readers will detect further issues that are common in other democratic societies. This account addresses a conundrum across the West, especially in the face of the pandemic: the crisis of dialogue between citizens and institutions. Emergencies always reveal the relationship between citizens and power. Citizens Without a City stimulates further reflection on this subject through its richly detailed analysis of grassroots actions and political context. This book is of significant value for scholars and a general readership in many countries, and also for the Italian public, since 'states of emergency' too often become the norm in disaster management in Italy."—Mattia Diletti, University of Rome La Sapienza"In Citizens Without a City (2022), Jan-Jonathan Bock follows various modalities of protest and legal challenges by local residents to the postdisaster measures implemented by the Italian government to deal with the aftermath of the earthquake in L' Aquila, Italy. Through a detailed ethnography, the book shows how such post-disaster programs can divide survivors and how forms of protest and resistance by those affected by the disaster do not always succeed."—Smoki Musaraj and Matt Canfield, PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology ReviewTable of ContentsAcknowledgments1. Introduction: The L'Aquila Earthquake2. The State of Emergency3. Disaster Politics and the War Among the Poor4. Contesting Urban Recovery5. Activism and Grassroots Politics6. Culture and Social Recovery7. Mourning in Court8. Conclusion: A Future for L'AquilaBibliographyIndex
£22.79
University of Texas Press Rethinking Urban Parks Public Space and Cultural
Book SynopsisA study of five major urban parks, including New York's Prospect Park and Philadelphia's Independence National Historical Park, that offers a blueprint for promoting and maintaining cultural diversity in parks around the world.Table of Contents Acknowledgments Chapter 1. The Cultural Life of Large Urban Spaces Chapter 2. Urban Parks: History and Social Context Chapter 3. Prospect Park: Diversity at Risk Chapter 4. The Ellis Island Bridge Proposal: Cultural Values, Park Access, and Economics Chapter 5. Jacob Riis Park: Conflicts in the Use of a Historical Landscape Chapter 6. Orchard Beach in Pelham Bay Park: Parks and Symbolic Expression Chapter 7. Independence National Historical Park: Recapturing Erased Histories Chapter 8. Anthropological Methods for Assessing Cultural Values Chapter 9. Conclusion: Lessons on Culture and Diversity Notes References Cited Index
£18.99
University of Washington Press The Carbon Efficient City
Book SynopsisThe Carbon Efficient City shows how regional economies can be aligned with practices that drive carbon efficiency. It details ten strategies for reducing carbon emissions in our cities: standardized measurement, frameworks that support innovation, regulatory alignment, reducing consumption, reuse and restoration, focus on neighborhoods, providing spaces for nature, use of on-site life cycles for water and energy, coordination of regional transportation, and emphasis on solutions that delight people. Although climate change is recognized as an urgent concern, local and national governments, nonprofits, and private interests often work at cross purposes in attempting to address it. The Carbon Efficient City's focus on concrete, achievable measures that can be implemented in a market economy gives it broad appeal to professionals and engaged citizens across the political spectrum. Watch the book trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pg3h0-fhYyATrade Review". . . a systematic approach that can make a difference. . . in areas like building construction, land use, transportation, electricity generation and how consumers can choose value while at the same time playing a role in a carbon efficient economy." -- Robert E. Hoopes * Wildlife Book Reviews *"Modestly named, it's nothing less than a 'best practices' manual for achieving carbon neutrality . . . framing the challenge culturally and legally, and using available technologies and political strategies to meet it. . . . Words to live by as we look forward." -- Clair Enlow * Daily Journal of Commerce *Table of ContentsForeword by Denis Hayes Preface Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Measure for Measure 2. The Invisible Hand 3. Regulatory Roadblocks 4. Reduce 5. Built to Last 6. Great Neighborhoods 7. Spaces for Nature 8. On-Site Life Cycles 9. Regional Transportation 10. Delight 11. Making a Dent Notes Bibliography Index
£110.48
