Urban and municipal planning and policy Books

Book SynopsisExploring the increasingly common problem of workers—such as teachers, firefighters, retail managers, and nurses—who cannot find affordable housing in the communities where they work, this book includes case studies and examples of financially feasible, for profit developments. It also offers a tool kit of policies that can be employed by communities that would like to encourage the development of workforce housing.

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Book SynopsisRichly illustrated with colour photographs, site plans, and diagrams, this book explains how to design and develop pedestrian-friendly, mixed-use developments.

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Book SynopsisExplains in plain terms how developers and planners can involve the community in the development process using the latest community engagement tools. It describes why, in these days of more complex projects and development approval procedures, it pays to win citizen support rather than fight opposition.

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Book SynopsisDescribes some of the most innovative and successful strategies that have produced housing that working families can afford.

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Book SynopsisThis practical book explains how industry professionals developed a wide variety of successful condominium projects throughout the nation.

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Book SynopsisThis comprehensive book is a practical how-to guide to developing hot retail projects such as lifestyle centres, mixed-use centres, and rehabs of failed malls. Project sizes range from small, ethnic-oriented community centres to major multilevel malls.

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Book SynopsisHow can aging inner-ring suburbs remain vital and attract investment from private development? This book describes the strategies and solutions employed by 10 inner-ring suburbs—some experiencing significant redevelopment and others striving to attract redevelopment.

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Book SynopsisGet practical how-to information on designing and developing attractive, profitable, and environmentally responsible planned communities. This book includes 10 case studies of successful projects in the US, the UK and Australia.

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Book SynopsisThis text addresses discrimination in the homeowner's insurance market based on the race or ethnic characteristics of neighbourhoods or of individuals that are related to risk. It brings fresh evidence to bear on the issues that have framed almost 30 years of debate over insurance redlining.

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Book SynopsisThe emergence of new planned cities in Asian countries, examined in terms of economic vibrancy.Since 2000, the emergence of new planned cities has established a significant trend in urbanization across Asian countries. Central planners explicitly conceptualize these projects primarily as long-term investments for urban economic vibrancy. They hope that new cities will allow their jurisdictions to leap into higher-skill sectors, diversify the existing economy, trigger creative clusters and innovation hubs, and cultivate vibrant urban environments that will attract talented workers and productive firms. The interplay of internal and external forces has prompted many Asian new cities to engage in global production and distribution chains. This book aims to present new cities in Asia from the perspective of economic vibrancy, identifying key mechanisms for measuring success. The analytical framework addresses the mechanisms along three dimensions: underlying forces that fo

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Book SynopsisNATIONAL BESTSELLERFINALIST FOR THE WRITERS' TRUST SHAUGHNESSY COHEN PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITINGFrom the Globe and Mail tech reporter who revealed countless controversies while following the Sidewalk Labs fiasco in Toronto, an uncompromising investigation into the bigger story and what the Google sister company's failure there reveals about Big Tech, data privacy and the monetization of everything.When former New York deputy mayor Dan Doctoroff landed in Toronto,  promising a revolution in better living through technology, the locals were starstruck. In 2017 a small parcel of land on the city's woefully underdeveloped lakeshore was available for development, and with Google co-founder Larry Page and his trusted chairman Eric Schmidt leaning into Sidewalk Labs' pitch for the long-forsaken property—with Doctoroff as the urban-planning company's CEO—Sidewalk's bid crushed the competition.      But as

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Book SynopsisDescribes all aspects of sustainable conversion adaptation of existing buildings and provides solutions for making urban settlements resilient to climate change This comprehensive book explores the potential to change the character of cities with residential conversion of office space in order to withstand the negative effects of climate change. It investigates the nature and extent of sustainable conversion in a number of global cities, as well as the political, economic, social, technological, environmental, and legal drivers and barriers to successful conversion. The book also identifies the key lessons learned through international comparisons with cases in the UK, US, Australia, and the Netherlands. Building Urban Resilience Through Change of Use covers the benefits and aspects of sustainable conversion adaptation through the whole lifecycle from inception, planning, and design, to procurement, construction, and management and operational issues. It illustrates and quantifies, Table of ContentsAbout the Editors ix Contributor Biographies xi Acknowledgements xv Foreword: Resilience as a ‘Lens’ for Driving the Adaptive Capacity of Cities xvii Chapter 1 The Context for Building Resilience through Sustainable Change of Use Adaptation 1 1.1 Introduction 1 1.2 Scale of the Problem: From City to Building Scale 4 1.3 Definitions of Key Terms 6 1.4 Background and Scope 8 1.5 The Notion of Urban Resilience 9 1.6 Synopsis 13 1.7 Summary 17 References 18 Chapter 2 Precinct]scale Innovation and the Sharing Paradigm 21 2.1 Introduction 21 2.2 The Emergence of the Sharing Paradigm 24 2.3 Potential Benefits of the Sharing Paradigm for Cities and Precincts 25 2.4 How Building and Land Conversions Could Help Enable the Sharing Paradigm 27 2.5 Conclusions: Sharing the City 35 References 36 Chapter 3 Planning Policy Instruments for Resilient Urban Redevelopment: The Case of Office Conversions in Rotterdam, the Netherlands 39 3.1 Introduction 39 3.2 Conceptual Planning Policy Instruments 41 3.3 Planning Policy Instruments in Rotterdam 46 3.4 Classifying and Evaluating Policy Instruments in Rotterdam 51 3.5 Conclusions 54 References 54 Chapter 4 Adaptation and Demolition in a Masterplan Context 57 4.1 Introduction 57 4.2 Literature Review 58 4.3 Methodology 64 4.4 Analysis 67 4.5 Conclusion 75 4.6 Planned Continuation of Research 77 References 78 Chapter 5 Sustainable Design and Building Conversion 83 5.1 Introduction 83 5.2 Durability: Measuring ‘Long Life’ 85 5.3 Adaptability: Measuring ‘Loose Fit’ 86 5.4 Sustainability: Measuring ‘Low Energy’ 88 5.5 Case Studies 89 5.6 A Framework for Evaluation of Urban Renewal Projects 91 5.7 The Application and Implications of Life Cycle Costing 99 5.8 Conclusion: Implications for Future Practice 100 References 102 Chapter 6 Top]up: Urban Resilience through Additions to the Tops of City Buildings 105 6.1 Introduction 105 6.2 Top]up Context 105 6.3 Top]up Typology 108 6.4 Top]up and Heritage 109 6.5 Case Studies 111 6.6 Urban Resilience 115 6.7 Conclusion 118 References 118 Chapter 7 Conversion Potential Assessment Tool 121 7.1 Introduction: Why Adaptive Reuse? 121 7.2 Opportunities and Risks 122 7.3. Conversion Meter 126 7.4 Conversion Meter Case Studies 142 7.5 Lessons Learned from Case Studies 143 7.6 Concluding Remarks 148 7.7 Next Steps 148 References 149 Chapter 8 Rating Tools, Resilience and Sustainable Change of Use Adaptations 153 8.1 Introduction 153 8.2 Sustainability in Building Adaptation: Drivers and Barriers 154 8.3 Leading Rating Tools and Conversion Adaptation 156 8.4 Resilience Challenges 168 8.5 Conclusions 171 References 172 Chapter 9 Conclusions on Building Resilience through Change of Use Adaptation: A Manifesto for the Future 175 9.1 Introduction 175 9.2 Overview of Resilience Issues, Sustainability and Change of Use Adaptation 175 9.3 Qualities of Resilient Systems in the Context of Conversion Adaptation 182 9.4 Resilience and Sustainable Conversion Adaptation 183 9.5 The Manifesto for Sustainable and Resilient Conversion Adaptation 184 9.6 Moving Forward 185 9.7 Conclusions 186 References 187 Appendix 9.A Checklists for Building Resilient Cities though Sustainable Change of Use 188 Index 193

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Book SynopsisPeter Hemmersam is Professor in Urban Design at the Institute of Urbanism and Landscape at the Oslo School of Architecture and Design and he directs the Oslo Centre for Urban and Landscape Studies, Norway.Trade ReviewHemmersam charts the unique motives and circumstances that have produced a distinct form of urbanism with comprehensive aplomb. The book provides urgent insight into the formation of Arctic cities and their trajectories from both a global polar view and from on the fragile ground in which they emerge. * Mason White, University of Toronto, Canada, founding partner, LATERAL OFFICE *The book will certainly be useful for the widest audience. First of all, those who are directly involved in the architecture and design of Arctic cities will find interesting material in it, there is a lot of interesting comparative material for them here ... Of course, the book is also useful for those who are interested in the Arctic from a cultural and political point of view. But the most amazing thing is that the book is useful for everyone who is engaged in urban studies anywhere and has never even had anything to do with the Arctic. The existential problems of Arctic cities, which the book makes you think about, allow you to think more deeply about the patterns of urban development in general. -- Nadezhda Zamyatina * Polar Record *In an increasingly relevant and global North, Peter Hemmersam brings a perspective of urbanism. Russia, Canada and Greenland of the last century offer Hemmersam ideas of relationships, and the historical and political frameworks that drive the built form. Hemmersam recognizes Indigenous communities and knowledge that provide a blueprint for thriving within the landscapes, which has been both embraced and ignored by settlers. With a sense of utility and in a place of extremes, we consider a new architecture and a new plan for imagining urban futures in the Arctic. * Julie Decker, Museum Director/CEO, Anchorage Museum, USA *Within a context of accelerated climate change, Hemmersam’s book brings much needed expertise to fill a void in scholarship that is long overdue for understanding the legacy and future of architecture and urban design in the incredibly important, complex, and rapidly changing Arctic region. * Matthew Jull, PhD, Arctic Design Group, School of Architecture, University of Virginia, USA *Making the Arctic City offers a compelling angle to enhance our understanding of the persistent colonial perceptions and imaginaries that have largely influenced Arctic urban development and city-building in all circumpolar regions, including the Barents region. Most circumpolar cities may have rather short histories, but the book is a crucial reminder that these cities are far from historyless. -- Auni Haapala * Barents Studies *As the Artic is made up of many Norths, Arctic urbanism is as diverse as urbanism elsewhere. By exploring these connections and dependencies, Making the Arctic City makes an important contribution to a more comprehensive and inclusive understanding of Arctic Cities. -- Torill Nyseth * Eurasian Geography and Economics *To understand the mechanisms of Arctic urbanism, the publication Making the Arctic City by Peter Hemmersam is very recommended. * The Arctic Institute, Map of the Month *Table of ContentsList of Figures List of Maps Preface Introduction Part One: Framing the Arctic City 1. Introducing the Arctic 2. Building cities in the Arctic 3. Studying Arctic cities Part Two: Arctic urban development 4. Developing Russia's Arctic cities 5. Developing Canada's Arctic cities 6. Developing Greenland's cities Part Three: Constructing the Arctic city 7. Defining Arctic urbanism 8. The architects of the Arctic city 9. Learning from the Arctic city Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisCommunism on Tomorrow Street demonstrates the relationship of Soviet mass housing and urban planning to international efforts at resolving the housing question that had been studied since the nineteenth century and led to housing developments in Western Europe, the United States, and Latin America as well as the USSR.Trade ReviewHarris provides fascinating new information about how state and society tried to build the daily lives of citizens in the post-war period. -- Seth Bernstein, National Research University, Higher School of Economics, Moscow Canadian Slavonic Papers This book is meticulously researched... Harris effectively presents the increasingly demanding attitudes of citizens towards authorities as well as the forms of social control generated by the new housing policy. -- Inna Leykin, Tel Aviv University Anthropology of East Europe Review Communism on Tomorrow Street is based on a considerable body of sources, and its empirical depth is itself an impressive scholarly achievement... Aside from breadth and depth, the book offers new analytical insights... Harris' book therefore succeeds in adding new material, novel perspectives and distinctive interpretations to the study of the housing programme. -- Mark B. Smith Slavonica Relying on a wealth of previously untapped archival evidence, Steven Harris has written an important social history of this reform, which was crucial to the transformation of Soviet society known as the Thaw... This reviewer recommends the book to all academic audiences--students and scholars of modern Russian history. -- Dennis Kozlov Journal of Modern History The book draws from an impressive variety of sources... it is also remarkable in the way that it spans social and architectural history. Harris demonstrates the relevance of architecture for social history and also provides explicit hands-on examples of the socially constructed nature of the built environment. Contemporary European HistoryTable of ContentsTables and FiguresAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Moving to the Separate ApartmentPart One: Making the Separate Apartment1. The Soviet Path to Minimum Living Space and theSingle-Family Apartment2. Khrushchevka: The Soviet Answer to the Housing QuestionPart II: Distributing Housing, Reordering Society3. The Waiting List4. Class and Mass HousingPart III: Living and Consuming the Communist Way of Life5. The Mass Housing Community6. New Furniture7. The Politics of ComplaintConclusion: Soviet Citizens' Answer to the Housing QuestionNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisWith the continual growth of the world's urban population, biodiversity in towns and cities will play a critical role in global biodiversity. This is the first book to provide an overview of international developments in urban biodiversity and sustainable design.Table of ContentsContributors ix Foreword xv Preface xvii Introduction 1 1 Urban Biodiversity and the Case for Implementing the Convention on Biological Diversity in Towns and Cities 3Norbert Müller and Peter Werner Fundamentals of Urban Biodiversity 35 2 Biodiversity of Urban-Industrial Areas and its Evaluation – a Critical Review 37Rüdiger Wittig 3 Cultural Aspects of Urban Biodiversity 56Andy Millard 4 Social Aspects of Urban Biodiversity – an Overview 81Sarel Cilliers 5 Urban Biodiversity and Climate Change 101David J. Nowak 6 Design and Future of Urban Biodiversity 118Maria Ignatieva 7 Urban Patterns and Biological Diversity: A Review 145Peter Werner and Rudolf Zahner History and Development of Urban Biodiversity 175 8 Urban Flora: Historic, Contemporary and Future Trends 177Philip James 9 Environmental History and Urban Colonizations from an Avian Perspective 191Timo Vuorisalo 10 Constraints of Urbanization on Vegetation Dynamics in a Growing City: A Chronological Framework in Rennes (France) 206Vincent Pellissier, Françoise Roze and Phillipe Clergeau 11 Most Frequently Occurring Vascular Plants and the Role of Non-native Species in Urban Areas – a Comparison of Selected Cities in the Old and the New Worlds 227Norbert Müller 12 Factors Influencing Non-Native Tree Species Distribution in Urban Landscapes 243Wayne C. ZippererAnalysis and Evaluation of Biodiversity in Cities 253 13 Towards an Automated Update of Urban Biotope Maps Using Remote Sensing Data: What is Possible? 255Mathias Bochow, Theres Peisker, Sigrid Roessner, Karl Segl and Hermann Kaufmann 14 Analysis of the Planted and Spontaneous Vegetation at Selected Open Spaces in Apipucos District of Recife, Brazil 273Dietmar Sattler, Simone Schmidt and Marccus Vinicius da Silva Alves 15 Multivariate Approaches to the Study of Urban Biodiversity and Vegetation: An Example from a Southern Temperate Colonial City, Christchurch, New Zealand 291Glenn H. Stewart, Maria Ignatieva and Colin D. Meurk 16 The Biodiversity of Historic Domestic Gardens – A Study in the Wilhelminian Quarter of Erfurt (Germany) 309Norbert Müller 17 Old Masonry Walls as Ruderal Habitats for Biodiversity Conservation and Enhancement in Urban Hong Kong 323C.Y. Jim 18 Green Roofs – Urban Habitats for Ground-Nesting Birds and Plants 348Nathalie Baumann and Friederike Kasten 19 South Atlantic Tourist Resorts: Predictors for Changes Induced by Afforestation 363Ana Faggi, Pablo Perepelizin and Jose R. Dadon Social Integration and Education for Biodiversity 381 20 Urban Green Spaces: Natural and Accessible? The Case of Greater Manchester, UK 383Aleksandra Kázmierczak, Richard Armitage and Philip James 21 UrbanWastelands –A Chance for Biodiversity in Cities? Ecological Aspects, Social Perceptions and Acceptance of Wilderness by Residents 406Juliane Mathey and Dieter Rink 22 Perception of Biodiversity – The Impact of School Gardening 425Dorothee Benkowitz and Karlheinz Köhler 23 Landscape Design and Children’s Participation in a Japanese Primary School – Planning Process of School Biotope for 5 Years 441Keitaro Ito, Ingunn Fjortoft, Tohru Manabe, Kentaro Masuda, Mahito Kamada and Katsunori Fujiwara 24 Attracting Interest in Urban Biodiversity with Bird Studies in Italy 454Marco Dinetti 25 Allotment Gardens as Part of Urban Green Infrastructure: Actual Trends and Perspectives in Central Europe 463Jürgen H. Breuste Conservation, Restoration and Design for Biodiversity 477 26 Integration ofNatural Vegetation in Urban Design – Information, Personal Determination and Commitment 479Clas Florgård 27 Prospects of Biodiversity in the Mega-City of Karachi, Pakistan: Potentials, Constraints and Implications 497Salman Qureshi and Jürgen H. Breuste 28 Potential of Biodiversity and Recreation in Shrinking Cities: Contextualization and Operationalization 518Dagmar Haase and Sophie Schetke 29 Near-Natural Restoration Strategies in Post-mining Landscapes 539Anita Kirmer and Sabine Tischew 30 Restoration and Design of Calcareous Grasslands in Urban and Suburban Areas: Examples from the Munich Plain 556Christine Joas, Johannes Gnädinger, Klaus Wiesinger, Rüdiger Haase and Kathrin Kiehl 31 Contribution of Landscape Design to Changing Urban Climate Conditions 572Katrin Hagen and Richard Stiles 32 Economics and the Convention on Biodiversity: Financial Incentives for Encouraging Biodiversity in Nagoya 593Ryo Kohsaka Conclusions 608Norbert Müller, Peter Werner and John G. Kelcey Index 611

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Book SynopsisApplied Urban Ecology: A Global Framework explores ways in which the environmental quality of urban areas can be improved starting with existing environmental conditions and their dynamics. Written by an internationally renowned selection of scientists and practitioners, the book covers a broad range of established and novel approaches to applied urban ecology. Approaches chosen for the book are placed in the context of issues such as climate change, green- and open-space development, flood-risk assessment, threats to urban biodiversity, and increasing environmental pollution (especially in the megacities of newly industrialized countries). All topics covered were chosen because they are socially and socio-politically relevant today. Further topics covered include sustainable energy and budget management, urban water resource management, urban land management, and urban landscape planning and design. Throughout the book, concepts and methods are illustrTrade Review“In return it broadens our perspective on the pathways we might follow in aiming to understand the complexities of urban environments, and ultimately learn how to shape their future and that of the majority of humanity.” (Austral Ecology, 1 October 2013) “This book provides a wealth of information . . . It is a book for the specialist rather than the generalist and is thus most relevant for advanced undergraduates and postgraduates of ecology, geography, environmental science and urban planning.” (Bulletin of the British Ecological Society, 1 June 2012) "I am sure that anyone teaching in this area at undergraduate or postgraduate levels will want it on their bookshelf." (Elsevier's Biological Conservation, 1 January 2012) "I highly recommend the very hands on and engaging book Applied Urban Ecology: A Global Framework edited by Matthias Richter and Ulrike Weiland, to any field researchers, scientists, practitioners, urban planners, policy makers in government, business leaders, educators, and students at all levels who are seeking a clear and understandable guide to urban ecology, its challenges, and its potential solutions. This book will transform the way decision makers approach urban ecological issues, and provide students with a firm foundation in applied urban ecology." (Blog Business World, 4 January 2012) "Nevertheless, each chapter is worth reading and I am sure this book will become a primer for studies in urban ecology. I am sure that anyone teaching in this area at undergraduate or postgraduate levels will want it on their bookshelf." (Biological Conservation, 12 December 2011)Table of ContentsList of contributors xi Foreword xiii PART I: INTRODUCTION 1 1. Urban ecology – brief history and present challenges 3 Ulrike Weiland andMatthias Richter 1.1 Introduction 3 1.2 Brief history 3 1.2.1 Initials in urban natural history 3 1.2.2 Socioecological tradition 4 1.2.3 Complex bioecological tradition 4 1.2.4 Ecosystem-related tradition 4 1.3 Recent and present challenges 5 1.4 Purpose and structure of the book 7 1.4.1 Purpose of the book 7 1.4.2 Structure of the book 8 References 9 PART II: URBAN ECOLOGY: RELATED DISCIPLINES AND METHODS 13 2. Thematic–methodical approaches to applied urban ecology 15 Matthias Richter and UlrikeWeiland 3. Monitoring urban land use changes with remote sensing techniques 18 Ellen Banzhaf andMaik Netzband 3.1 Land use changes and their consequences for urban ecology 18 3.2 Urban remote sensing (URS) and geographical information systems (GIS) for research in urban ecology 19 3.3 Measuring physical characteristics of urban areas with remote sensing technology 21 3.3.1 Effects of urban form on natural and man-made hazards 21 3.3.2 Urban dynamics and ecosystem function 23 3.4 Global initiatives to measure urban expansion and land use change 24 3.4.1 Global Urban Observatory of UN-HABITAT 24 3.4.2 "The Dynamics of Global Urban Expansion" – a contribution by theWorld Bank 24 3.4.3 Socioeconomic data and applications Center (SEDAC) at the Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN), Columbia University, New York, USA 25 3.4.4 The "100 Cities Project", Arizona State University, USA 26 3.5 Regional urban monitoring activities 26 3.5.1 Europe: ESPON, MOLAND and the Urban Atlas 26 3.5.2 Governmental research projects on urban growth in the United States 29 3.6 Synthesis and outlook 29 References 30 PART III: SELECTED FIELDS OF URBAN ECOLOGY 33 A. PATHWAYS OF THE ECOSYSTEM APPROACH. 4. Quantifying spatiotemporal patterns and ecological effects of urbanization: a multiscale landscape approach 35 Jianguo Wu, Alexander Buyantuyev, G. Darrel Jenerette, Jennifer Litteral, Kaesha Neil and Weijun Shen 4.1 Introduction 35 4.2 Characterizing the spatiotemporal pattern of urbanization 36 4.2.1 Quantifying urbanization patterns with landscape metrics 36 4.2.2 Other methods for quantifying urban landscape pattern 39 4.2.3 Effects of scale on the analysis of urban landscape patterns 39 4.2.4 Examples from CAP-LTER 40 4.3 Simulating spatiotemporal dynamics of urbanization 41 4.3.1 Importance of simulation models in urban studies 41 4.3.2 Approaches to simulating urban dynamics 41 4.3.3 Examples from CAP-LTER 42 4.4 Effects of urbanization on biodiversity and ecosystem processes: examples from CAP-LTER 43 4.4.1 Effects of urbanization on biodiversity 43 4.4.2 Effects of urbanization on soil biogeochemical patterns 44 4.4.3 Effects of urbanization on net primary production 45 4.4.4 Effects of urbanization on vegetation phenology 45 4.4.5 Urban heat islands and ecological effects 46 4.4.6 Ecosystem responses to urbanization-induced environmental changes 46 4.5 Concluding remarks 47 Acknowledgments 49 References 49 5. Designing urban systems: ecological strategies with stocks and flows of energy and material 54 Peter Baccini 5.1 The challenge of a new urbanity 54 5.2 Urban systems and their resource management 56 5.2.1 Methodology applied investigating resource management of complex systems 56 5.2.2 Relevant differences between agrarian and urban systems on a regional scale 56 5.2.3 The resource management perspectives on a global scale 58 5.2.4 The essential mass resources in the development of urban regions 59 5.3 Strategies of reconstruction 60 5.3.1 The 2000 watt society 60 5.3.2 Transformation of urban regions in a "time of safe practice" 61 5.3.3 The exploration of urban stocks 61 5.4 Developing strategies for the design of urban systems 63 References 65 B. SOCIOENVIRONMENTAL THREATS. 6. Environmental and ecological threats in Indian mega-cities 66 Surinder Aggarwal and Carsten Butsch 6.1 Urbanization dynamics and emergence of mega-cities 66 6.2 Environmental threats 68 6.2.1 Environmental threats from waste water and sewerage disposal 68 6.2.2 Deteriorating air quality 69 6.2.3 Urban wastemismanagement and environmental degradation 71 6.2.4 Ecosystem damages and ecological footprints 72 6.2.5 Threats from natural hazards, disasters, and climate change 73 6.3 Mega-social challenges 74 6.3.1 Poverty and fragmentation 75 6.3.2 Rising vulnerabilities and insecurities 76 6.3.3 Inequities and inequalities in urban services 77 6.4 Concluding remarks 78 Acknowledgments 80 References 80 7. From wasteland to wilderness – aspects of a new form of urban nature 82 Dieter Rink and Harriet Herbst 7.1 Introduction 82 7.2 Urban wilderness – some attempts at defining the term 83 7.3 Wastelands as a source of urban wilderness 83 7.4 Urban wilderness in planning 85 7.5 On the ecology of urban wilderness 86 7.6 Urban wilderness in a social context 87 7.7 Educational value of urban wilderness 89 7.8 Conclusions 90 References 91 C. FLOODING AND CLIMATE ADAPTATION. 8. Multiscale flood risk assessment in urban areas – a geoinformatics approach 93 Norman Kerle and Dinand Alkema 8.1 Introduction 93 8.2 Flood risk in the context of urban ecology 94 8.3 Comprehensive flood risk assessment – Naga City, the Philippines 96 8.3.1 Floods in Naga 96 8.3.2 Naga's flood management practices 97 8.3.3 Model-based flood scenario studies 97 8.3.4 Linking flood modeling with disaster management 98 8.3.5 Naga as example for other flood-prone cities 99 8.4 The role of remote sensing in flood risk assessment and management 99 8.4.1 Quasistatic hazard data 100 8.4.2 Dynamic hazard data 101 8.4.3 Mapping elements at risk 102 8.5 Disaster risk in the context of urban ecology – an outlook 104 References 104 9. Urban open spaces and adaptation to climate change 106 Marialena Nikolopoulou 9.1 Cities, climate change and the role of open spaces 106 9.2 Outdoor comfort 107 9.3 Use of space 108 9.3.1 Seasonal profile 108 9.3.2 Diurnal profile 108 9.4 Thermal perception 111 9.5 Adaptation 113 9.5.1 Physical adaptation 113 9.5.2 Psychological adaptation, 113 9.6 Design interventions 116 9.6.1 Materials 117 9.6.2 Vegetation 118 9.6.3 Shading 118 9.6.4 Water 119 9.6.5 Other measures 119 9.7 Conclusions 120 References 121 D. URBAN BIODIVERSITY. 10. Social aspects of urban ecology in developing countries, with an emphasis on urban domestic gardens 123 Sarel Cilliers, Stefan Siebert, Elandrie Davoren and Rina Lubbe 10.1 Introduction 123 10.2 Social benefits and human perceptions of urban green areas 124 10.3 Consequences of socioeconomic aspects on the urban green infrastructure 125 10.4 Urban domestic gardens 126 10.4.1 Literature review 126 10.4.2 Case studies from the North-West Province, South Africa 128 10.5 Conclusions 133 References 135 11. Plant material for urban landscapes in the era of globalization: roots, challenges and innovative solutions 139 Maria Ignatieva 11.1 Introduction 139 11.2 The beginning of plant material globalization 139 11.3 Victorian Gardenesque (1820–1880) 140 11.4 Influence of the Victorian garden on the global planting pattern 142 11.5 Victorian tropical and subtropical paradise 143 11.6 Modern nurseries’ direction: global pool of plants 145 11.7 Innovative solutions: searching for new ecological planting design 148 11.7.1 Europe: United Kingdom 148 11.7.2 Europe: The Netherlands 148 11.7.3 Europe: Germany 148 11.7.4 United States 149 11.7.5 New Zealand: modern approach to planting design 149 11.8 Discussion and conclusion 150 Acknowledgments 150 References 150 E. ENVIRONMENTAL URBAN DESIGN. 12. Ecological infrastructure leads the way: the negative approach and landscape urbanism for smart preservation and smart growth 152 Kongjian Yu 12.1 Introduction 152 12.1.1 Urbanization in China challenges survival 152 12.1.2 The failure of the conventional approach in urban development planning 153 12.1.3 Green infrastructure leads the way: the negative approach and landscape urbanism 154 12.2 The negative approach: methodology 158 12.2.1 Process analysis 158 12.2.2 Defining landscape security patterns 159 12.2.3 Defining ecological infrastructure 159 12.2.4 Defining urban form at the large scale: urban growth alternatives based on regional EI 159 12.2.5 Defining urban form at the intermediate scale: urban open spaces system based on EI 159 12.2.6 Defining urban form at the small scale: site-specific urban development alternatives based on EI 159 12.3 Urban growth based on EI: a case of negative planning for Taizhou City 159 12.3.1 Critical landscape processes 161 12.3.2 Defining landscape security patterns for the targeted processes 162 12.3.3 Defining ecological infrastructure 164 12.3.4 Scenarios of urban growth pattern based on the regional ecological infrastructure 164 12.3.5 Shaping urban form at the intermediate scale 165 12.3.6 Shaping urban land development at the small scale 165 12.4 Conclusion 165 References 166 13. Integrating science and creativity for landscape planning and design of urban areas 170 Antje Stokman and Christina von Haaren 13.1 Introduction 170 13.2 Landscape planning as a legally based contribution to sustainable development in Germany 171 13.2.1 Tasks of landscape planning 171 13.2.2 Methodologies of landscape planning 172 13.3 Landscape design as a creative cultural action 173 13.3.1 Tasks of landscape design 173 13.3.2 Methodologies of landscape design 174 13.4 Linking landscape planning and design: differences, interfaces and potential synergies 175 13.4.1 A matter of timeline and scale: linking multidimensional perspectives on strategic landscape development 175 13.4.2 A matter of perception and meaning: linking environmental goals and cultural concepts 176 13.4.3 A matter of process and learning: linking management and experimentation to achieve adaptive landscape development 178 13.4.4 A matter of involvement and experience: linking information and participation 181 13.5 Conclusion 182 Acknowledgment 183 References 183 14. Landscape as a living system: Shanghai 2010 Expo Houtan Park 186 Kongjian Yu 14.1 Introduction 186 14.2 Objective 186 14.3 Challenges 186 14.3.1 Pollution 186 14.3.2 Flooding 186 14.3.3 Circulation 187 14.3.4 Transformation 187 14.3.5 Identity 187 14.3.6 Form 188 14.4 Design concept and strategy: a living system 188 14.4.1 Ecological landscape 189 14.4.2 Three dimensions of meanings 190 14.4.3 Experience network 191 14.5 Conclusions 192 F. ENVIRONMENTAL URBAN POLITICS. 15. Geographical perspectives on a radical political ecology of water 193 Alex Loftus 15.1 Introduction 193 15.2 The urbanization of nature 194 15.3 Urban political ecologies of water 195 15.4 Privatization questions 196 15.5 Taking the debates forward 199 15.6 Infrastructures of power: democratizing water technologies 199 15.7 The everyday 201 15.8 Conclusions 202 References 202 PART IV: SYNTHESIS 205 16. Synthesizing urban ecology research and topics for urban environmental management 207 Matthias Richter and UlrikeWeiland Index 213

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Book SynopsisThe rise to power of one of Canada’s most progressive municipal movements in recent memory.When it was dreamed up in the early 2000s by a transportation bureaucrat with a quixotic dream of bringing tramways back to the streets of Montreal, few expected Projet Montréal to go anywhere. But a decade and a half later, the party was a grassroots powerhouse with an ambitious agenda that had taken power at city hall—after dumping its founder, barely surviving a divisive leadership campaign and earning the ire of motorists across Quebec.Projet Montréal aspired to transform Montreal into a green, human-scale city with few, if any equal in North America. Equal parts reportage, oral history and memoir, Saving the City chronicles what the party did right, where it failed, and where it’s headed. Written from the perspective of someone who worked for Projet Montréal’s administration for almost a decade, Daniel Sanger’s book draws on dozens of interviews with other actors in the party and on the municipal scene, past and present.A highly readable history of Montreal municipal politics over the past 30 years, Saving the City will also discuss issues of interest to city-dwellers across Canada. Are political parties at the municipal level a good thing? Is Montreal’s borough system a model for other big cities? What are the best ways to control urban car use? What is the optimum width for a sidewalk? The best kind of street tree? And why free parking is a terrible idea.

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Book SynopsisDifferent forms of city government are in widespread use across the United States. The two most common structures are the mayor-council form and the council-manager form. In many large U.S. cities, there have been passionate movements to change the structure of city governments and equally intense efforts to defend an existing structure. Charter change (or preservation) is supported to solve problems such as legislative gridlock, corruption, weak executive leadership, short-range policies, or ineffective delivery of services. Some of these cities changed their form of government through referendum while other cities chose to retain the form in use. "More than Mayor or Manager" offers in-depth case studies of fourteen large U.S. cities that have considered changing their form of government over the past two decades: St. Petersburg, Florida; Spokane, Washington; Hartford, Connecticut; Richmond, Virginia; San Diego, California; Oakland, California; Kansas City, Missouri; Grand Rapids, Michigan; Dallas, Texas; Cincinnati, Ohio; El Paso, Texas; Topeka, Kansas; St. Louis, Missouri; and, Portland, Oregon. The case studies shed light on what these constitutional contests teach us about different forms of government-the causes that support movements for change, what the advocates of change promised, what is at stake for the nature of elected and professional leadership and the relationship between leaders, and why some referendums succeeded while others failed. This insightful volume will be of special interest to leaders and interest groups currently considering or facing efforts to change the form of government as well as scholars in the field of urban studies.Trade ReviewThis important book is a contribution to both public administration and urban politics. It sheds light on the issues of democracy in political science but also has practical advice for those who are appointed or are elected officials. -Dick Simpson, University of Illinois at ChicagoTable of ContentsPreface Introduction: Framing Constitutional Contests in Large CitiesJames H. Svara and Douglas J. Watson Part I: Change from Council-Manager to Mayor-Council Form 2. St. Petersburg: Easing into a Strong-Mayor GovernmentJ. Edwin Benton, Donald C. Menzel, and Darryl Paulson 3. Spokane: Development Debate Sparks Government DebateWendy L. Hassett 4. Hartford: Politics Trumps Professionalism.Wendy L. Hassett 5. Richmond: Implementation and Experience with Strong Mayor Form of GovernmentNelson Wikstrom 6. San Diego: Switch from Reform to RepresentativeGlen W. Sparrow 7. Oakland: The Power of Celebrity? Explaining Strong-Mayor Charter ReformMegan Mullin Part II: Rejected change from Council-Manager to Mayor-Council Form 8. Kansas City: The Evolution of Council-Manager GovernmentKimberly Nelson and Curtis Wood 9. Grand Rapids: A Lack of Enthusiasm for Change in the Council-Manager FormEric S. Zemmering 10. Dallas: The Survival of Council-Manager GovernmentKaren M. Jarrell 11. Cincinnati: Charter Conflict and ConsensusJohn T. Spence Part III: Change from Mayor-Council to Council-Manager 12. El Paso: Professionalism over Politics in the Shift to Council-Manager GovernmentLarry Terry 13. Topeka: Council-Manager Redux Finding Balance in the Politics-Administration DichotomyR. Paul Battaglio, Jr. Part IV: Rejected Change to Mayor-Council Form from Commission and Weak Mayor 14. St. Louis: Deja Vu All over Again: Charter Reform FailsRobert Cropf, Todd Swanstrom, and Scott Krummenacher 15. Portland: "Keep Portland Weird," Retaining the Commission Form of GovernmentDoug Morgan, Masami Nishishiba, and Dan Vizzini 16. Conclusion: Distinct Factors and Common Themes in Change of Form ReferendaJames H. Svara and Douglas J. Watson List of Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisHighlighting both the challenges and the opportunities for urban development, The Option of Urbanism shows how the American Dream is shifting to include cities as well as suburbs and how the financial and real estate communities need to respond to build communities that are more environmentally, socially, and financially sustainable.Trade Review"Could it possibly be that Washington, for years bashed by politicians, its population shrinking and, at one point, almost bankrupt, has become a model of how the entire nation might smartly develop in the twenty-first century? I never thought I'd see the day. But Christopher Leinberger, one of America's top real estate analysts and now a Brookings Institution fellow, makes a startling case for it in his just-published book, The Option of Urbanism." - CHARLOTTE OBSERVER"

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Book SynopsisVertical will make you look at the world around you anew: this is a revolution in understanding your place in the world.Today we live in a world that can no longer be read as a two-dimensional map, but must now be understood as a series of vertical strata that reach from the satellites that encircle our planet to the tunnels deep within the ground. In Vertical, Stephen Graham rewrites the city at every level: how the geography of inequality, politics, and identity is determined in terms of above and below.Starting at the edge of earth's atmosphere and, in a series of riveting studies, descending through each layer, Graham explores the world of drones, the city from the viewpoint of an aerial bomber, the design of sidewalks and the hidden depths of underground bunkers.Trade Review"In this panoramic, at times jaw-dropping book, Stephen Graham describes how in recent years the built environment around the world, both above and below ground, has become dramatically more vertical - and more unequal. sharp and memorable. dizzyingly restless. Cities feel different once you've read it" -- Andy Beckett * Guardian *A rigorously researched, pioneering book packed with disturbing and at times astonishing information * Icon *He takes the view that we've been looking at cities all wrong, all laid out like maps, when what we should be doing is taking vertical slices through them instead. He doesn't just mean from the tip of the skyscrapers to the metro tunnels below ground: he means from the circling satellites round the planet right down to bunkers, sewers, mines. * Spectator *An enlightening overview of the security state's impact on contemporary cities, from overt authoritarian control in war-torn areas to more subtle forms of behavioral influence in places supposedly at peace. Graham shows how military/police/security forces perceive urban places and urban dwellers as subjects to control, and how their inherently undemocratic tactics threaten freedom all over the world -- Nate Berg * Curbed *Seeing cities as Gordian knots of geopolitics, he gathers an impressive range of case studies to bolster his analysis. These compel and convince, from Saudi Arabia's high-rise vanity projects to Rio de Janeiro's favelas. * Nature *

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Book SynopsisHow London was bought and sold by the Super-Rich, and what it means for the rest of usWho owns London? In recent decades, it has fallen into the hands of the super-rich. It is today the essential 'World City' for High-Net-Worth Individuals and Ultra-High-Net-Worth Individuals. Compared to New York or Tokyo, the two cities that bear the closest comparison, it has the largest number of wealthy people per head of population. Taken as a whole, London is the epicentre of the world's finance markets, an elite cultural hub, and a place to hide one's wealth.Rowland Atkinson presents a history of the property boom economy, going back to the end of Empire. It tells the story of eager developers, sovereign wealth and grasping politicians, all paving the way for the wealthy colonisation of the cityscape. The consequences of this transformation of the capital for capital is the brutal expulsion of the urban poor, austerity, cuts, demolitions, and a catalogue of social injustices. This Faustian pact has resulted in the sale and destruction of public assets, while the rich turn a blind eye toward criminal money laundering to feather their own nests.Alpha City moves from gated communities and the mega-houses of the super-rich to the disturbing rise of evictions and displacements from the city. It shows how the consequences of widening inequality have an impact on the urban landscape.Trade ReviewA fascinating interdisciplinary study, which is a must read for anyone interested in the links between emotional security, private security, surveillance and the architecture of an increasingly militarised environment. -- Anna Minton * [on Domestic Fortress] *An urgent and important book that should be read by anyone keen to get to grips with the ways homes are morphing into fortresses across the world. -- Stephen Graham * [on Domestic Fortress] *Alpha City is the heart-breaking, carefully-told, story of how London - its heart, mind and soul - was stolen from the people by the plutocrats and their minions. When, the book asks, will the greed of the super-rich end up strangling the city, whose body sustains them? Rowland Atkinson has delved deep to uncover the extent of the super-rich's grip on London. A masterpiece. -- Danny Dorling, author of Inequality and 1%Turning large swathes of London over to the Super-Rich was meant to generate a sloshing pool of wealth that would 'trickle down' to the rest of us. In practice, the detailed, informed and devastating trawl through the global capital of the ruling class in Alpha City proves the only thing that has trickled down is contempt.' -- Owen Hatherley, author of The Ministry of NostalgiaOpens the lid on a can of dangerous worms. While Britain's policies to tempt the world's mobile hot money and its owners have blessed a small section of the population, Atkinson reveals how this has cursed far larger numbers of people, as the super rich have sucked away wealth, talent, investment, culture, government attention, and opportunities from the majority. A welcome and urgently important corrective to the dominant British narrative that the super-rich benefit London and the wider nation. -- Nicholas Shaxson, author of Treasure IslandsA great book that provides vital insights into a strangely under researched group - the wealthiest people on the planet. -- Anna Minton, author of Big CapitalIn Alpha Cities, Rowland Atkinson lays bare how London has been geared up as the world's monument to inequality. It exposes the tactics of gilded elites alongside their legions of enablers and hangers on, and the ways in which they have turned an already tough city into a 21st century dystopia, where the ultra-rich glide through pristine, soulless environments while the infrastructure we all need decays around us. This fast-paced guide to the new gilded age is a timely warning of how much damage inequality can do. * Douglas Murphy, author of Nincompoopolis *Timely and relevant...Alpha City takes us through the ugly world of a mega city captured by wealth. Cities and towns have always struggled with inequality and the social and spatial realities of unequal access to power and resources. In the great global cities, such as London and New York, these inequalities have often been more stark. -- Eoin Ó Broin * Irish Times *An urgent reminder of the capital's inequalities. -- Ceri Radford * Independent *The inequalities are glaring. It is a revealing but unsettling read, whatever page you land on. -- Angela Cobbinah * Camden New Journal *Essential reading before Covid-19, is even more so now . . .vividly describes how the super-rich have distorted the socioeconomic and physical landscape of London * Morning Star *[Atkinson] writes with flair. The long-term result of the pressures he charts is starting to be felt. -- Mika Ross-Southall * Times Literary Supplement *

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Book SynopsisFeminist City is an ongoing experiment in living differently, living better, and living more justly in an urban world. We live in the city of men. Our public spaces are not designed for female bodies. There is little consideration for woman as mothers, workers or carers. The urban streets often are a place of threats rather than community. Gentrification has made the everyday lives of women even more difficult. What would a metropolis for working women look like? A city of friendships beyond Sex and the City. A transit system that accommodates mothers with strollers on the school run. A public space with enough toilets. A place where women can walk without harassment. In The Feminist City, through history, personal experience and popular culture Leslie Kern exposes what is hidden in plain sight: the social inequalities are built into our cities, homes, and neighbourhoods. And offers an alternative vision of the feminist city.Taking on fear, motherhood, friendship, activism, and the joys and perils of being alone, Kern maps the city from new vantage points, laying out a feminist intersectional approach to urban histories and proposes that the city is perhaps also our best hope for shaping a new urban future. It is time to dismantle what we take for granted about cities and to ask how we can build more just, sustainable, and care-full cities together.Trade ReviewA damning stab at the subtle and overt manipulation of women in urban spaces. Kern's interwoven references to her personal experience through childhood, adulthood, and motherhood make her deeply researched and whip-smart work infinitely readable. Kern shows that the ability of all women to exploit the city fully is a valuable, necessary gauge for city worth -- Lezlie Lowe, author of No Place To GoThis original study of the gendering processes occurring in the neoliberal city is a significant addition to scholarly debate on cities and gender. Empirically grounded in the intricacies of the condo market in Toronto, it both adds to, and updates, the pathbreaking work around gendered critical urban analysis. An accessible and incisive text that will no doubt instigate future discussions -- Loretta Lees, Cities Group, Department of Geography, King’s College, London * [for Sex and the Revitalised City] *How do we begin to reckon with and ultimately reimagine our public realm in the #MeToo era? We can start by lifting up a greater diversity of experiences and voices that influence our thinking about what makes a place equitable, fun, accessible, safe, and dynamic for all. Kern's exploration is honest, timely, and intentional in acknowledging the work of women-fellow urbanists and others-in advancing the feminist city -- Lynn M. Ross, AICP, urban planner and feministThe next-generation urbanism book I've been waiting for! Leslie lays out a comprehensive guide to feminist world-building that our cities so desperately need. A must-read for all city officials and budding urbanists alike as we move into the female future of our urban environments. -- Katrina Johnston-Zimmerman, Lindy Institute for Urban Innovation, Drexel UniversityCities aren't built to accommodate female bodies, female needs, female desires. In this rich, engaging book the feminist geographer Leslie Kern envisions how we might transform the "city of men" into a city for everyone. Let's all move there immediately.' Lauren Elkin, author of Flaneuse -- Lauren Elkin, author of Flaneuse[An] insightful scholarly work ... This provocative analysis will resonate with theoretically minded feminists. * Publishers Weekly *This book totally opened my eyes! Feminist City is an incredibly incisive look at cities and urban design through the lens of gender, while also inspecting how acts of claiming urban space affect other marginalized groups. Combining academic and lived experience, Leslie Kern's intersectional approach clearly lays out just how cities are failing and what it might mean to imagine a more just urban life. Feminist City made me see my own experiences in a whole new light, and Kern makes the field of feminist geography completely accessible and exciting to the average city slicker. Anyone who considers themselves a feminist or activist should read this book! -- Julia DeVarti * Literati Bookstore *Approachable and based in thorough research ... In eye-opening detail, [Feminist City] argues that the privatization of security and heightened police presences endanger women of certain demographic groups, while marketers, who present condo living as the safest way to exist in a city, ironically turn women into accomplices in gentrification, forcing low-income women out of safer areas and into environments that are more dangerous. -- Tanisha Rule * Foreword Reviews *An optimistic, pragmatic book, which points to already extant solutions and looks forward to a more just, joyous urban future. -- Stephanie Sy-Quia * Tribune *In Feminist City, Kern imagines a world where public spaces are designed with women and equity in mind. * Bitch *Kern resists drawing a blueprint for a new master-planned feminist city. Instead, she believes we ought to take a closer look at how cities perpetuate inequality from the perspective of race, gender, ability, and class. -- Diana Budds * Curbed *An intersectional analysis of our urban environments through a combination of personal narrative, theory, and pop culture analysis. -- Leilah Stone * Metropolis Magazine *[Feminist City] examines the city's paradoxical ability to oppress and emancipate-how an environment teeming with gendered inconvenience, racial discrimination, and sexual violence can also be a locus of queer independence, community care, and emancipatory feminist world-making. ... Heavily researched but accessibly written, the book is a dynamic mix of high and low, facts and feelings, research and reality. * Hazlitt *Kern delves into the interlocking inequalities and systems of oppression that take concrete shape in cities, using an intersectional feminist approach to explore the gendered aspects of urban space...an enjoyable and accessible book that not only contributes to urban feminist geography, but to urban planning and policy more broadly * LSE Review of Books *Feminist City is brilliant because of the ways it lays out, quite clearly, the fact that cities are designed to discriminate in both overt and hidden ways and that it's possible to imagine something new-something that is more inclusive of different bodies and experiences. -- Evette Dionne * Bitch *[Feminist City is] a small but provocative book. It is both an introduction to feminist geography and to modern feminism, with its multiple meanings and numerous contradictions. ... In a world where the male gaze is so often the only gaze considered, so much so [that] most people don't even think of it as being gendered in any way, Feminist City is revelatory. -- Ron Jacobs * CounterPunch *Charting the physical aspects of the city that work against women, from inefficient public transport to a lack of supportive care networks for working mothers, Kern argues that there are ways to transform the city that would advance the liberation of women and marginalized people. ... Kern's analysis seems especially timely as we debate the role of police in our society and how we can better protect marginalized people. -- Nicole Froio * Bitch Media *Looking through the lens of geography, pop culture and public and personal history, the book exposes how female bodies are ostracised in urban spaces. * Refinery29 *Feminist City balances descriptions of our environment with the internal conversations or anxieties we feel as we wait for the bus, rush to pick up our child before daycare closes, and navigate space that's designed to keep us inside. -- Elizabeth Whitton * Greater Greater Washington *A joy to dip into * The Developer *There should be more books like this...Feminist City is wide-ranging and sophisticated, brief and engaging. * ICON Magazine *[Kern's] message is that thoughtful planners can and, eventually will, arrive at the feminist city as long as women's voices get the attention they deserve. -- Josh Stephens * California Planning & Development Report *A wide-ranging survey of social inequalities exacerbated by one-size-fits-all urban planning-inequalities ripe for improvement. -- Britta Shoot * KQED *Kern [wants] to envi­sion a more inclu­sive city that con­sid­ers the phys­i­cal and cul­tur­al needs of its most mar­gin­al­ized mem­bers. -- Apoorva Tadepalli * In These Times *[Kern] introduces readers to a number of different ways the city is at once emancipatory and endangering. She deploys an intersectional lens to explore such themes as mobility, protest, adolescence, and friendship, weaving together an impressive array of sources from academic writings and popular culture (Doreen Massey appears alongside Two Dope Queens). -- Sophie Gonick * Public Books *Feminist City presents a comprehensive analysis of how people of color are the folks that make our cities work, and yet, they are not the folks our cities were designed for. -- Audrey Kalman * The Daily Emerald *Reminds us that our cities are moulded by male fantasies and designed to serve gender-based structures. * New Welsh Review *A good introduction to reading the city from a feminist perspective. * Urban Design Group *So much to digest here - cities old and new, politics old and new. -- Rosita Sweetman * Irish Times *Feminist City is a call for gender equity in planning (and for intersectionality), and it's one that planners of all genders should heed. * Planetizen (The Top Urban Planning Books of 2020) *Kern works to identify what a feminist city actually is as she pushes readers to thinkbigger, to think more radically, to think in terms of proactive world- and community-building ratherthan reactionary, incrementalist, or singularly policy-based world-adjusting. ... Feminist City provides a fundamental critique of contemporary society through a feminist and urbanist lens. Itshould be considered a significant contribution to both fields of study. -- Anna Parnigoni * Journal of Urban Affairs *An excellent contribution ... Leslie Kern's clear laying out of feminist urban theory and empirical work generates both a personal and critical understanding of the city. * Gender & Development *I was hooked by this deep dive into how women's freedom is curtailed by the design and culture of man-made cities - and how we can reclaim space -- Moya Crockett * Stylist Loves *[Feminist City] encourages people to look around their community and ask: Who are these spaces meant for? Who feels included and safe and welcome, and who might feel excluded, unsafe or even pushed out of the city? -- Vawn Himmelsbach * Wheels.ca *Importantly, Kern shows how sexism in cities is also inextricably linked to other systems of privilege and oppression, particularly racism, classism, homophobia and ableism ... a noteworthy book for our times * The F-Word *Essential . Kern an excellent example of a writer who wants to amplify marginalised voices . Feminist City urges women to take up space in their environments and not to be afraid of the unknown. -- Becky Little * Bright Green *

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Book Synopsis"Cities without Suburbs", first published in 1993, has influenced analysis of America's cities by city planners, scholars, and citizens alike. David Rusk, the former mayor of Albuquerque, argues that America must end the isolation of the central city from the suburbs if it is to solve its urban problems. Rusk's analysis, extending back to 1950, covers all metropolitan areas in the United States but focuses on the 137 largest metro areas and their principal central cities. He finds that cities that were trapped within old boundaries during the age of sprawl have suffered severe racial segregation and the emergence of an urban underclass; but cities with annexation powers - termed "elastic" by Rusk - have shared in area-wide development. The fourth edition updates Rusk's argument using the 2010 Census and the American Community Survey. It provides new material on the difference between population trends and household trends, the impact of Hispanic immigration, and the potential for city-county consolidation. The fourth edition also brings added emphasis to "elasticity mimics" - a variety of intergovernmental policies that can provide some of the benefits of regional consolidation efforts in situations where annexation and consolidation are impossible.Trade ReviewThe evidence that Rusk has marshaled here makes a clear and cogent case that the survival of many American cities depends on making city and suburb one. New York Review of Books Every mayor, every governor, every county executive, indeed anyone who cares about our great but ailing cities ought to read it. Detroit Free Press This book is MUST reading. Rusk makes his argument concisely, logically, and forcefully. Journal of the American Planning Association This fourth edition of a standard handbook/textbook supersedes the earlier editions through its presentation of revisions based on the 2010 census, other recent data and literature, and knowledge from recent experience. Choice

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Book SynopsisAlmost everything that landscape architects design is ultimately for a community. Community can be the boon or bane of a project, and oftentimes both. LA+ COMMUNITY aims to explore how, over time, each of us moves in and out of multiple communities, shaping them as they shape us, and in turn shaping our landscapes and cities. We ask how different disciplines construct different ideas of community and how those communities are anchored in space and time, whose interests they serve, and what traces they leave. And we examine how — in this pluralistic, fragmented, and fluid world — designers can meaningfully engage with communities. Contributions from: Anne Whiston Spirn reflects upon her personal and professional journey through her long-term engagement with the Mill Creek community in the West Philadelphia Landscape Project. Architect and cofounder of the DisOrdinary Architecture Project Jocelyn Boys discusses how designers and policy-makers make assumptions about the "ordinary user" of public space and explores ways of understanding and improving how people with disabilities engage with such spaces. Historical geographer Garrett Dash Nelson contemplates the conceptual and practical slippages between understanding community in both its geographical and sociological forms, and what this means for designers seeking to give spatial form to the concept of community. A multi-perspective Q+A with BIPOC designers, educators, and artists Kofi Boone, Julian Agyeman, Hanna Kim, Alma du Solier, Jeffrey Hou, Melissa Guerrero, and Kat Engleman confronts the enduring practices of spatial injustice and the need for new processes, engagement, and outcomes for a racially and culturally inclusive future. Philosopher and author Mark Kingwell considers the literal ins and outs of the question “What is community?” in the midst of a global pandemic. Landscape architect Kate Orff speaks about the ways in which she uses community activism and different practices of engagement to drive better design outcomes. Criminologists James Petty + Alison Young open our eyes to the rise of hostile architecture and criminalisation of homelessness in public space. Designer Chrili Car reflects on lessons learned from working with a self-organised community in a remote village in northern Ghana to masterplan long-term local sustainability and greenbelt projects. Ecologist Jodi Hilty, President and Chief Scientist of the Yellowstone to Yukon Initiative, speaks about the realisation of this visionary wildlife-corridor project spanning 3,200 km, two countries, and hundreds of different communities and interests. Historic preservationist and planner Francesca Russello Ammon teases out the contradictions in the canonical urban renewal success story of Philadelphia’s Society Hill. Landscape architect Jessica Henson gives us the inside story on the intractably complex socio-political and ecological task of master planning a 51-mile swath of the Los Angeles River with a diverse range of user communities. Michael Schwarze-Rodrian recounts the extraordinary achievements of the Emscher Landscape Park in Germany’s Ruhrgebiet, where over the last 30 years a working-class community facing the trauma of transition to a post-industrial economy has been sustained by the medium of landscape, without the forms of displacement or gentrification typically associated with high-end greening. Urban planner and author of Just Sustainabilities Julian Agyeman elucidates what the culturally inclusive design of public space entails. Architect Mario Matamoros delivers a stinging critique of the way in which developers and designers in the Honduran city of Tegucigalpa dupe the public with cynical community consultation so as to anesthetise the possibility of dissent, and Sara Padgett Kjaersgaard interviews the CEO of the Federation of Traditional Owner Corporations, Paul Paton and landscape architect Anne-Marie Pisani about working with Indigenous communities in Australia to help facilitate self-determination and connection to their lands.

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