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Taylor & Francis Inhabitable Infrastructures
Inhabitable Infrastructures: Science fiction or urban future?, the follow up to Food City and Smartcities and Eco-Warriors, from one of the worldâs leading urban design and architectural thinkers, explores the potential of climate change-related multi-use infrastructures that address the fundamental human requirements to protect, to provide and to participate. The stimulus for the infrastructures derives from postulated scenarios and processes gleaned from science fiction and futurology as well as the current body of scientific knowledge regarding changing environmental impacts on cities. Science fiction is interdisciplinary by nature, aggregates the past and present, and evaluates both lay opinions and professional strategies in an attempt to develop foresight and to map possible futures. The research culminates in the creation of innovative multi-use infrastructures and integrated self-sustaining support systems that meet the challenges posed through climate c
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Handbook of Global Urban Health
Book SynopsisThrough interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary perspectives, and with an emphasis on exploring patterns as well as distinct and unique conditions across the globe, this collection examines advanced and cutting-edge theoretical and methodological approaches to the study of the health of urban populations. Despite the growing interest in global urban health, there are limited resources available that provide an extensive and advanced exploration into the health of urban populations in a transnational context. This volume offers a high-quality and comprehensive examination of global urban health issues by leading urban health scholars from around the world. The book brings together a multi-disciplinary perspective on urban health, with chapter contributions emphasizing disciplines in the social sciences, construction sciences and medical sciences. The co-editors of the collection come from a number of different disciplinary backgrounds that have been at the forefront of urban hTrade Review"This handbook will make a significant contribution to the public health literature; it stitches together the writings of leading researchers from multiple disciplines that make up the interdisciplinary field of global urban health in a very readable and easy to follow manner."Ayaz Hyder, review in Journal of Urban AffairsTable of ContentsContentsAcknowledgmentsI) Urban Health: an introduction and overview 1) Introduction (Editors)2) Urban health: A history Susan Craddock (Professor and Interim Director, Center for Bioethics / Institute for Global Studies / Department of Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies, University of Minnesota) and Tim Brown (Senior Lecturer, Department of Geography, Queen Mary, University of London)3) Sin in the city: An urban history of medicine and modern morality in TurkeyEmine Ö. Evered (Department of History, Michigan State University) and Kyle Evered (Department of Geography, Environment, and Spatial Sciences, Michigan State University) 4) Healthcare and the city: A North American perspectiveMark Rosenberg (Department of Geography, Queen’s University)5) Delivering urban health through urban planning and designLaurence Carmichael (Architecture and the Built Environment, University of the West of England)2) HEALTHCARE POLICY AND URBAN HEALTH SERVICES6) Cities, immigration, and the Patient Protection and Affordable Care ActMichael K. Gusmano (School of Public Health, Rutgers University)7) Voluntary sector and urban health systemsAndrew Power (Department of Geography, University of Southampton) and Mark Skinner (Professor of Geography, Trent University)8) Urban policies and health in Latin America and the CaribbeanS. Claire Slesinski (Drexel Urban Health Collaborative), Adriana C. Lein (Drexel Urban Health Collaborative), Ana V. Diez Roux (Drexel Urban Health Collaborative), and Waleska T. Caiaffa (Epidemiology and Public Health, School of Medicine, Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), Belo Horizonte City, Brazil)9) Access to healthcare for the urban poor in Nairobi, Kenya: Harnessing the role of the private sector in informal settlements and a human rights-based approach to health policy Pauline Bakibinga (African Population and Health Research Center, Nairobi, Kenya) and Elizabeth Bakibinga-Gaswaga (Law Development at the Commonwealth Secretariat Headquarters, London)10) Medical travel/tourism and the cityMeghann Ormond (Cultural Geography, Wageningen University, Netherlands) and Heidi Kaspar (Careum Research, Kalaidos University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland)11) Health system and immigrants: A focus on urban FranceAnne-Cécile Hoyez (CNRS Research Officer, UMR ESO, Université Rennes 2, France), Clélia Gasquet-Blanchard (Geography, the French School of Public Health, EHESP) and Céline Bergeon (Geography, University of Poitiers, France)3) MENTAL hEALTH AND WELLBEING: AN URBAN CONTEXT12) Urban mental healthJames Lowe (Geography, University of Southampton)13) Children’s resilience and mental health in the urban context Maureen Mooney (School of Psychology, Massey University)14) Welfare facilities and happiness of the elderly in urban KoreaDanya Kim (Research Fellow Korean Culture & Tourism Institute) and Jangik Jin (Department of Real Estate, Graduate School of Tourism, Kyung Hee University)15) Public space and pedestrian stress perception: Insights from Darmstadt, GermanyMartin Knöll (Department of Architecture, Technical University of Darmstadt), Marianne Halblaub Miranda (Department of Architecture, Technical University of Darmstadt), Thomas Cleff (Economics of Innovation and Industrial Dynamics, Pforzheim University), and Annette Rudolph-Cleff (Department of Architecture, Technical University of Darmstadt)16) Cities and indigenous communitites: The health and wellbeing of urban Māori in Aotearoa, New Zealand John Ryks (Director, Aria Research), Naomi Simmonds and Jesse Whitehead (University of Waikato)17) Landscape restructuring in the shrinking city and implications for mental healthJared Olsen, Lora Daskalska, Kelly Hoorman, Kirsten Beyer (Public and Community Health, Medical College of Wisconsin)4) vulnerable URBAN populations 18) Challenges to public health in the favelas of metropolitan Rio de Janeiro, BrazilAlon Unger (School of Medicine, University of California San Francisco), Lee W. Riley (Division of Epidemiology and Infectious Diseases, University of California, Berkeley), Robert E. Snyder (Division of Epidemiology and Infectious Diseases, University of California, Berkeley), and Claudete Araújo Cardoso (Infectious Diseases, Universidade Federal Fluminense)19) Taking action to improve Indigenous health in the cities of Québec and elsewhere in Canada: the example of the Minowé Clinic at the Val-d'Or Native Friendship CentreCarole Lévesque (Institut national de la recherche scientifique, Université du Québec), Édith Cloutier (Val-d’Or Native Friendship Centre), Ioana Radu (Institut national de la recherche scientifique, Université du Québec), Dominique Parent-Manseau (Val-d’Or Native Friendship Centre), Stéphane Laroche (Val-d’Or Native Friendship Centre), Natasha Blanchet-Cohen (Department of Applied Human Sciences, Concordia University)20) Refugees and health: A European urban contextGordana Rabrenovic (Director of Brudnick Center on Violence, Northeastern University), Danijela V. Spasic (Academy of Criminalistic and Police Studies, University of Belgrade) and Tibrine da Fonseca (Department of Anthropology & Sociology, Northeastern University)21) Refugees and health in urban AfricaSheru Wanyua Muuo (African Population and Health Research Center, APHRC, Nairobi, Kenya)22) A statewide comparison of Florida urban cancer ratesMonghyeon Lee, Daniel Griffith and Yongwan Chun (School of Economic, Political and Policy Sciences, University of Texas, Dallas)23) African cities and Ebola Zacchaeus Anywaine and Ggayi Abubaker Mustapher (Medical Research Council/Uganda Virus Research Institute [MRC/UVRI] and London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine [LSHTM] Uganda Research Unit, Entebbe, Uganda)5) VIOLENCE AND INJURIES24) Injuries in the city: A global perspective Marie-Soleil Cloutier (INRS-Montreal) and Andrew Howard (Professor, Departments of Surgery and Health Policy, Management, and Evaluation, University of Toronto)25) Alcohol availability and crime in post-disaster Christchurch, New Zealand: Implications for health in citiesGregory Breetzke (University of Pretoria, Department of Geography) and Amber L. Pearson (Department of Geography, Environment and Spatial Sciences, Michigan State University)26) Urban gun violenceJack McDevitt (Associate Dean of Research, Director, Institute of Race and Justice, Northeastern University) and Janice Iwama (Department of Sociology, University of Massachusetts Boston) 27) European street gangs and urban violenceKeir Irwin-Rogers (Criminology, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, The Open University), Scott H. Decker (School of Criminology and Criminal Justice, Arizona State University), Amir Rostami (Department of Sociology, Stockholm University), Svetlana Stephenson (Sociology, London Metropolitan University) and Elke Van Hellemont (Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research, University of Kent)28) Neighborhood recovery and community wellbeing in cities following natural disasters: Findings from Christchurch, New ZealandVivienne Ivory, Chris Bowie, Clare Robertson (Opus International, New Zealand) and Amber L. Pearson (Department of Geography, Environment and Spatial Sciences, Michigan State University)6) POLLUTANTS, ENVIRONMENTAL CONTAMINATION AND URBAN HEALTH29) Urban slums, drinking water and health: Trends and lessons from Sub-Saharan AfricaEllis Adjei Adams (Georgia State University, Global Studies Institute), Heather Price (Stirling University) and Justin Stoler (University of Miami, Department of Geography)30) Environmental exposure disparities and gentrified inequities: A Seattle, Washington context Jonah White (Michigan State University) and Troy Abel (Western Washington University) 31) Accessing air quality risk in an urban minority community: Williamsburg, BrooklynIvan Ramirez (Department of Geography and Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado Denver), Ana Baptista (Milano School of International Affairs, The New School), Jieun Lee (Department of Geography and GIS, University of Northern Colorado), Ana Traverso-Krejcarek (El Puente) and Andreah Santos (Eugene Lang College, The New School)32) Ambient air pollution, urbanization, and population health in Shanghai Wei Tu (Department of Geology and Geography, Georgia Southern University), Zhijing Lin (School of Public Health, Fudan University), Haidong Kan (School of Public Health, Shanghai Medical College, Fudan University) and Weichun Ma (Department of Environmental Science and Engineering, Fudan University) 7) PUBLIC HEALTH AND THE ROLE OF the built environment33) Transport, urban regeneration and health: An issue across scale Angela Curl (Canterbury University) and Julie Clark (University of Liverpool)34) Rice, men, and other everyday anxieties: Navigating obesogenic urban food environments in Osaka, JapanCindi SturtzSreetharan (School of Human Evolution and Social Change, Arizona State University) and Alexandra Brewis (School of Human Evolution and Social Change, Arizona State University)35) The built environment, physical activity, and obesity: Exploring burdens on vulnerable U.S. populations Igor Vojnovic, Zeenat Kotval-K (Department of Geography, Environment and Spatial Sciences, Michigan State University), Jieun Lee (Department of Geography and GIS, University of Northern Colorado), Jeanette Eckert (Office of Research Compliance, University of Toledo), Jiang Chang, Wei Liu, Xiaomeng Li and Arika Ligmann-Zielinska (Department of Geography, Environment and Spatial Sciences, Michigan State University)36) Public health challenges with Sub-Saharan African informal settlements: A case study of Malaria in YaoundéRoland Ngom (University of Calgary, Department of Geography, and Geoimpacts Consulting)37) Health oriented city development in Germany: Urban planning and design approaches going beyond professional boundaries Angela Million (Department for City and Regional Planning, Technical University of Berlin, Chair for Urban Design and Urban Development) and Andrea Ruediger (School of Spatial Planning, Department of City Planning, TU Dortmund)38) Flint, Michigan’s food crisis: Retail abandonment, social and economic burdens, and local food-oriented solutionsRick Sadler (Michigan State University, Division of Public Health, College of Human Medicine)39) Urban housing and public health: A Los Angeles study Victoria Basolo and Edith Medina Huarita (Department of Policy, Planning and Design, University of California, Irvine)
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Routledge Companion to the Suburbs
Book SynopsisThe Routledge Companion to the Suburbs provides one of the most comprehensive examinations available to date of the suburbs around the world. International in scope and interdisciplinary in nature, this volume will serve as the definitive reference for scholars and students of the suburbs. This volume brings together the leading scholars of the suburbs researching in different parts of the world to better understand how and why suburbs and their communities grow, decline, and regenerate. The volume sets out four goals: 1) to provide a synthesis and critical appraisal of the historical and current state of understanding about the development of suburbs in the world; 2) to provide a forum for a comprehensive examination into the conceptual, theoretical, spatial, and empirical discontents of suburbanization; 3) to engage in a scholarly conversation about the transformation of suburbs that is interdisciplinary in nature and bridges the divide between the Global North andTrade Review"Hanlon and Vicino have produced a sorely-needed collection of essays on the definition, composition, and evolution of the wide variety of settlements collectively known as the suburbs. Notable both for its interdisciplinary methods and global scope, this volume includes an excellent and well-balanced selection of articles by leading urban and suburban scholars. I recommend this book to policymakers, researchers, and students concerned with metropolitan growth and the spatial dimensions of poverty and inequality." - Paul A. Jargowsky, Rutgers University, U.S.A."The Routledge Companion to the Suburbs brings together key contemporary urban scholars to systematically challenge the ways in which we understand and describe the suburbs. Crossing national and disciplinary boundaries, this collection expands our knowledge of urbanism and the forms it assumes across the globe." - Ali Modarres, Professor and Director, Urban Studies, University of Washington Tacoma, USATable of ContentsIntroduction Part I: Suburban Definitions and Descriptions Part II: Global Perspectives on the Suburbs Part III: Diversity, Exclusion, and Poverty in the Suburbs Part IV: Planning, Public Policy, and Reshaping the Suburbs Part V: Conclusion and Future Prospects Index
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Indias Contemporary Urban Conundrum
Book SynopsisThis book lays out the different and complex dimensions of urbanisation in India. It brings together contributors with expertise in fields as varied as demography, geography, economics, political science, sociology, anthropology, architecture, planning and land use, environmental sciences, creative writing, filmmaking and grassroots activism to reflect on and examine India's urban experience. It discusses various dimensions of city lifehow to define the urban; the conditions generating work, living and (in)security; the nature of contemporary cities; the dilemmas of creating and executing urban policy, planning and governance; and the issues concerning ecology and environment. The volume also articulates and evaluates the way Indian urbanism promotes and organises aspirations and utopias of the people, whilst simultaneously endorsing disparities, depravities and conflicts.The volume includes interventions that shape contemporary debates. Comprehensive, accessible and tTable of ContentsForeword Preface Introduction: Revisiting Urban India I Debate on Defining the Urban Rurbanisation: An Alternate Development Paradigm Subaltern Urbanisation Revisited II Conditions Generating Work, Living and (In)Security Only ‘Good People’, Please: Residential Segregation in Urbanising India Inclusive Urbanisation: Informal Employment and Gender Resettlement, Mobility and Women’s Safety in Cities Cities for Healthy People III Cities of Contemporary India The Planned and the Unplanned: Company Towns in India The Logistical City Cities and Smartness Public Spaces and Places: Gendered Intersectionalities in Indian Cities Reading the City through Art IV Urban Policy, Planning and Governance India’s ‘Urban’ and the Policy Disconnect Changing Trajectories of Urban Local Governance Urban Development, Housing and ‘Slums’ Engine Urbanism Post-national Urbanism: ‘Ordinary’ People, Capital and the State V Ecology, Environment and Well-Being The Art of Evolution Nurturing Urban Commons for Sustainable Urbanisation The Unsustainable Urban Waste Economy: What is to be Done? The Canal and the City: An Urban–Ecological Lens on Chennai’s Growth Cities: Changing the Metaphor to Quality of Life
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Taylor & Francis Spatial Planning and Fiscal Impact Analysis
Book SynopsisThe Spatial Fiscal Impact Analysis Method is an innovative approach to measure fiscal impact and project the future costs of a proposed development, recognizing that all revenues and expenditures are spatially related. The Spatial Method focuses on estimating existing fiscal impacts of detailed land use categories by their location. It takes advantage of readily available data that reflect the flows of revenues and expenditures in a city, using the tools of Geographic Information Systems (GIS). The result is a comprehensive yet transparent database for measuring existing fiscal impacts and projecting the impacts of future development or redevelopment. This book will provide readers with guidance as to how to conduct the Spatial Method in their own cities. The book will provide an overview of the history of fiscal analysis, and demonstrate the advantages of the Spatial Method to other methods, taking the reader step by step through the process, from analyzing city financial reports, determining and developing the factors that are needed to model the flows of revenues and expenditures, and then estimating fiscal impact at the parcel level. The result is a summary of detailed land use categories and neighborhoods that will be invaluable to city planners and public administration officials everywhere.Table of ContentsChapter 1 Spatial Planning and Fiscal Impact Analysis Method Chapter 2 A Survey of Fiscal Impact Analysis Methods Chapter 3 A Comparison of the Spatial Fiscal Impact Method to Other Methods Chapter 4 Preliminary Financial Analysis Chapter 5 Compiling the Parcel_Factor Shapefile Attributes Chapter 6 Determining Fiscal Allocation Multipliers Chapter 7 Calculating Existing Fiscal Impact Chapter 8 Analyzing School Fiscal Impact Chapter 9 Projecting Fiscal Impact Chapter 10 Marginal Impacts and Sprawl Chapter 11 Working Toward an Enterprise Spatial Planning and Fiscal Impact Analysis System Chapter 12 Summary of the Spatial Planning and Fiscal Impact Analysis Method Appendix A Creating Address-Matching File for Parcels Appendix B Allocating Public Safety Data to Parcels Appendix C Determining Local Road Frontage for Parcels Appendix D Reconciling Census Blocks with Parcels Appendix E Using Census Data to Estimate Adult and School-Age Population by Parcel Appendix F Modeling Fiscal Impact Using ArcGIS Model Builder
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Design Research for Urban Landscapes
Book SynopsisWithin the spatial design disciplines, research through design as a tool and practice has often been neglected. This book provides a much-needed companion to the theories, methods and processes involved in using design-based research in landscape, architecture and urban design. Aimed specifically at researchers completing PhD projects, supervisors and designers working in practice, it covers applied approaches to help you to use design research in your work. With fully illustrated examples of original international design research PhDs from a variety of programme types, such as individual, structured and practice-based, Design Research for Urban Landscapes offers PhD candidates and supervisors a clear foundational pathway. Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Crossing fields: Designing and Researching Raumgeschehen 2. Design Research as a Non-Linear Interplay of Five Moments 3. Navigating in Urban Landscapes – Mapping as a Navigational Strategy in Designing Landscapes 4. Walk with Me! How Walking Inspires Designing 5. Design Comments – A Dialogue-Based Approach to Using Designerly Knowledge in Transdisciplinary Contexts 6. On Playing and Designing. Gaining Knowledge and Finding Ideas through Play during the Process of Designing Urban Landscapes Chapter 7. Holding onto the land 8. Urban Landscape Stories – Narratives as a Design Research Tool 9. Creating Future Research Platforms 10. Setting Out. Creative Strategies for the Beginning Phase in Large-Scale Landscape Design 11. Conclusion
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Cities and Cinema
Book SynopsisThe second edition of Cities and Cinema provides an updated survey of films about cities, from their significance for modernity at the beginning of the twentieth century to the contemporary relationship between virtual reality and urban space. The book demonstrates the importance of the filmic depiction of capitals for national cinemas in the twentieth century and analyzes the transnational transfer of cinematic images surrounding global cities in the twenty-first century.Cities and Cinema covers the different facets of the cinematic depiction of cities. It rehearses distinct methodologies and offers a survey of the history of the cinematic city. The book also deepens our understanding of tropes and narrative conventions that shape films about urban settings and that reflect the transformation of cities throughout the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Beginning with a discussion of the Weimar street film, it analyzes how the city film defined modernitTable of ContentsList of figures. Acknowledgments for the first edition. Acknowledgments for the second and revised edition.Introduction.Part I. 1 Modernity and the city film: Berlin. 2 The dark city and film noir: Los Angeles. 3 Mobility in the city of love: Paris.Part II. 4 City film industry: Hong Kong. 5 The city in ruins and the divided city. 6 Utopia and dystopia: fantastic and virtual cities.Part III. 7 Ghetto film. 8 The queer city. 9 Cities in global cinema.Conclusion.Bibliography. Filmography. Index.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Residential Satisfaction and Housing Policy
Book SynopsisThis book explores residential satisfaction and housing policy trends in developing nations by using subsidised low-income housing examples in South Africa, Ghana and Nigeria as case studies. While there has been much documentation on the formation of residential satisfaction and the evolution of housing policy in developed nations, relatively little has been written about these topics in developing nations. This book provides readers with two major practical insights: The first is focused on the theoretical underpinning of residential satisfaction and the formation of residential satisfaction in subsidised low-income housing through the development of a conceptual framework, while the second is focused on housing policy evolution and its trends in South Africa. In this section of the book, comparative overviews of public housing in two West African countries are provided with an emphasis on the philosophical basis for its development in these countries. The centralTable of ContentsPart I The Fundamentals Chapter One: Introduction Part II Housing Theories and Policy Development Chapter Two: Theoretical Perspectives of Housing Studies Research Chapter Three: Housing Policy Evolution and Development Part III Housing Policy and Development in Africa Chapter Four: Housing Development in Ghana Chapter Five: Housing Development in Nigeria Chapter Six: Housing Development in South AfricaPart IV Residential Satisfaction Theories and Research Chapter Seven: Residential Satisfaction Theories Chapter Eight: Conceptual Perspective of Residential Satisfaction Formation
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Taylor & Francis Ltd New Materialisms Ancient Urbanisms
Book SynopsisThe future of humanity is urban, and knowledge of urbanism's deep past is critical for us all to navigate that future. The time has come for archaeologists to rethink this global phenomenon by asking what urbanism is and, more to the point, was. Can we truly understand ancient urbanism by only asking after the human element, or are the properties and qualities of landscapes, materials, and atmospheres equally causal? The nine authors of New Materialisms Ancient Urbanisms seek less anthropocentric answers to questions about the historical relationships between urbanism and humanity in Africa, Asia, and the Americas. They analyze the movements and flows of materials, things, phenomena, and beingshuman and otherwiseas these were assembled to produce the kinds of complex, dense, and stratified relationships that we today label urban. In so doing, the book emerges as a work of both theory and historical anthropology. It breaks new ground in the archaeology of urbanisTrade Review"The writers have produced an outstanding overview of the flow of antiquities, moving from the source of the looting or excavation, through transit states, and culminating in museums, showrooms, and private collections. This book stands as an excellent summary of the work being done on this illicit trade, and will be an invaluable resource for those familiar with the subject, and for those new to it." - Prof. Derek Fincham, South Texas College of Law Houston, USA"This fascinating book will become the go-to resource on the global market in illicit antiquities. The authors’ in-depth investigations into this devastating global crime problem highlight the importance of collecting and analysing evidence to counter the justifications that can exist in the often grey worlds that thrive around illicit antiquities. Highly accessible, the book engages with theory, research methods and international policy in a manner that provides a valuable counterpoint to much work on the area that is based on conjecture. In presenting their hugely significant Trafficking Culture research, the authors also promote an important future policy approach. The book will inspire future research into the global market in illicit antiquities and serve as an example of how it should be undertaken." - John Kerr, University of Roehampton, UK"Inspired by Deleuzian and other realist philosophies, this provocative book synthesizes New Materialist theories and relational approaches to tackle a mainstay of traditional archaeological research, urbanism and city life in ancient societies. The authors demonstrate that cities defy reduction to essentialized types but must be understood as dense but fluid assemblages of peoples, infrastructures, substances, formless matter, phenomena and objects. The case studies, ranging from across the globe, reveal the fundamental importance of ontology and religion to urban historical process, one mediated by diverse assemblages of non-human entities. The edited volume presents a radically new approach to the analysis of urbanism that stands to revolutionize archaeological approaches to ancient landscapes." - Edward Swenson, University of Toronto, CanadaTable of Contents1. Introducing New Materialisms, Rethinking Ancient Urbanisms; 2. From Weeping Hills to Lost Caves: A Search for Vibrant Matter in Greater Cahokia; 3. Chaco Gathers: Experience and Assemblage in the Ancient Southwest; 4. Assembling the City: Monte Albán as a Mountain of Creation and Sustenance; 5. Assembling Tiwanaku: Water and Stone, Humans and Monoliths; 6. Immanence and the Spirit of Ancient Urbanism at Paquimé and Liangzhu; 7. The Gathering of Swahili Religious Practice: Mosques-as-Assemblages at 1000 CE Swahili Towns; 8. Urbanism and the Temporality of Materiality on the Medieval Deccan: Beyond the Cosmograms of Social and Political Space; 9. Cities, the Underworld, and the Infrastructure: The Ecology of Water in the Hittite World; 10. Commentary: The City and the City
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Shaping Jerusalem
Book SynopsisShaping Jerusalem: Spatial planning, politics and the conflict focuses on a hidden facet of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict; the relentless reshaping of the Holy City by the Israeli authorities through urban policies, spatial plans, infrastructural and architectural projects, land use and building regulations. From a political point of view, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict may appear to be at an impasse; however, it is precisely by looking at the city's physical space that one can perceive that a war of cement and stone is under way. Many books have been written on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict over Jerusalem; some of them have focused on the urban fabric; Shaping Jerusalem uniquely discusses the role of Israeli spatial actions within the conflict. It argues that Israel's main political objective control over the whole city is ordinarily and silently pursued through physical devices which permanently modify the territory and the urban fabric. RTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsPreface1. The spatial dimension of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict over Jerusalem2. The occupied city: planning the occupation of East Jerusalem3. The illegal city: urban policies for Arab neighbourhoods in East Jerusalem4. The locked city: the separation Barrier as territorial strategy5. The lesson of Jerusalem
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Urban Heritage in Divided Cities
Book SynopsisUrban Heritage in Divided Cities explores the role of contested urban heritage in mediating, subverting and overcoming sociopolitical conflict in divided cities. Investigating various examples of transformations of urban heritage around the world, the book analyses the spatial, social and political causes behind them, as well as the consequences for the division and reunification of cities during both wartime and peacetime conflicts.Contributors to the volume define urban heritage in a broad sense, as tangible elements of the city, such as ruins, remains of border architecture, traces of violence in public space and memorials, as well as intangible elements like urban voids, everyday rituals, place names and other forms of spatial discourse. Addressing both historic and contemporary cases from a wide range of academic disciplines, contributors to the book investigate the role of urban heritage in divided cities in Africa, Asia, the Americas, Europe and the Middle EasTable of Contents1. CONTESTED PASTS IN DIVIDED CITIES: INTRODUCTION; Part I: TRANSFORMATIONS OF HERITAGE AS ‘CONFLICT BY OTHER MEANS’; 2. HERITAGE NECROPOLITICS AND THE CAPTURE OF HEBRON: THE LOGIC OF CLOSURE, FEAR, HUMILIATION AND ELIMINATION; 3. CONTESTED HERITAGE-MAKING AS AN INSTRUMENT OF ETHNIC DIVISION: MITROVICA, KOSOVO; 4. NICOSIA HOTSPOT: VISUALITIES OF MEMORY AND HERITAGE IN THE GREEK CYPRIOT URBAN SPACE; 5. LEFKOSA VS. LEFKOSIA: THE HERITAGE OF CONFLICT; 6. THE DIVISION OF ALEPPO CITY: HERITAGE AND URBAN SPACE; Part II: SEGREGATED HERITAGE; 7. DIVIDED HISTORIES OF THE PACIFIC WAR: REVISITING "CHANGI’S" (POST)COLONIAL HERITAGE; 8. HERITAGE OF INCLUSION OR EXCLUSION? CONTESTED CLAIMS AND ACCESS TO HOUSING IN AMRITSAR, INDIA; 9. SEGREGATION, GENTRIFICATION AND HERITAGE IN FREDERICKSBURG, VIRGINIA: A PRESERVATION PERSPECTIVE; 10. HERITAGE AS A MEDIATOR OF SOCIO-SPATIAL SEGREGATION: CARTAGENA DE INDIAS, COLOMBIA; Part III: DEALING WITH CONTESTED HERITAGE; 11. AN ISLAND IN SECTARIAN SEAS? HERITAGE, MEMORY AND IDENTITY IN POST-WAR REDEVELOPMENT OF BEIRUT’S CENTRAL DISTRICT; 12. ENTREPRENEURIAL HERITAGE-MAKING IN POST-WALL BERLIN: THE CASE OF NEW POTSDAMER PLATZ; 13. DEALING WITH THE SPATIAL REMNANTS OF CONFLICT IN BELFAST: THE ANDERSONSTOWN BARRACKS SITE IN WEST BELFAST; 14. PERFORMING IMAGINARY HEALINGS: THE POST-CONFLICT HERITAGE OF EBRINGTON BARRACKS; 15. CONTESTED COLLECTIVE MEMORY IN THE SEGREGATED CITY OF CAPE TOWN
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Explorations in Place Attachment
Book SynopsisThe book explores the unique contribution that geographers make to the concept of place attachment, and related ideas of place identity and sense of place. It presents six types of places to which people become attached, and provides a global range of empirical case studies to illustrate the theoretical foundations. The book reveals that the types of places to which people bond is not discrete. Rather, a holistic approach, one that seeks to understand the interactive and reinforcing qualities between people and places, is most effective in advancing our understanding of place attachment.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Putting PLACE Back in Place Attachment Research. Jeffrey S. Smith.Part I. Secure Places. 1. Influence of Memory on Post-Resettlement Place Attachment. Michael Strong. 2. Hazardscapes: Perceptions of Tornado Risk and the Role of Place Attachment in Central Oklahoma. Randy A. Peppler, Kimberly E. Klockow, and Richard D. Smith Part II. Socializing Places. 3. Constructing Sense of Place through Place-Labelization in Rural France. Hélène B. Ducros. 4. Exploring Place Attachment and a Sense of Community in the Chacarita of Asuncion, Paraguay. Jeffrey S. Smith Part III. Transformative Places 5. Making Place through the Memorial Landscape. Chris W. Post. 6. Exploring Place Attachment and the Immigrant Experience in Comics and Graphic Novels: Shaun Tan’s The Arrival. Steven M. Schnell Part IV. Restorative Places 7. Constructing Place Attachment in Grand Teton National Park. Yolonda Youngs. 8. Visitor Perception, Place Attachment, and Wilderness Management in the Adirondack High Peaks Tyra A. Olstad Part V. Validating Places 9. Baseball Stadiums and Urban Reimaging in St. Louis: Shaping Place and Placelessness Douglas A. Hurt. 10. Avant-Garde, Wannabe Cowboys: Place Attachment among Bohemians, Beatniks, and Hippies in Virginia City, Nevada Engrid Barnett. 11. Lost in Time and Space: The Impact of Place Image on Pitcairn Island Christine K. Johnson Part VI. Vanishing Places12. Rethinking Fountainbridge: Honoring the Past and Greening the Future Geoffrey L. Buckley. 13. Landscapes of Recovery: Shifting Sense of Place Attachment in Kesennuma, Japan Rex "RJ" Rowley. Epilogue Methodologies of Place Attachment Research Paul C. Adams
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Greening PostIndustrial Cities
Book SynopsisCity greening has been heralded for contributing to environmental governance and critiqued for exacerbating displacement and inequality. Bringing these two disparate analyses into conversation, this book offers a comparative understanding of how tensions between growth, environmental protection, and social equity are playing out in practice. Examining Chicago, USA, Birmingham, UK, and Vancouver, Canada, McKendry argues that city greening efforts were closely connected to processes of post-industrial branding in the neoliberal economy. While this brought some benefits, concerns about the unequal distribution of these benefits and greening's limited environmental impact challenged its legitimacy. In response, city leaders have moved toward initiatives that strive to better address environmental effectiveness and social equity while still spurring growth. Through an analysis that highlights how different varieties of liberal environmentalism are manifested in each case, this booTrade Review'Can the world’s cities save Earth’s environment? As international environmentalism becomes ever more sclerotic, growing numbers of cities across the world are proclaiming their sustainability bona fides through programs and projects rooted in what Corina McKendry calls "green urban entrepreneurialism." But are these programs any more than green window dressing, designed to attract trendy, upscale people? Dr McKendry looks closely into three world cities—Chicago, Vancouver and Birmingham, UK—to assess whether Being Green is more than just another cliché and finds that it does mean something. This extraordinary book should be read widely by students, scholars and citizens who want to make a difference within their cities as well as across the world as a whole.'—Ronnie D. Lipschutz, Professor of Politics, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA'By using comparative methodology, McKendry sets this book apart from most books on cities, which tend to be monographs. With rich, comparative data this book illuminates the similarities and differences of efforts to green cities in a multinational context. Moreover, McKendry produces a highly productive typology of "liberal environmentalisms" that give us a new conceptual tool to understand the contested political project of urban sustainability.'—Nik Janos, Assistant Professor, California State University, Chico, USA'Greening Post-Industrial Cities advances our understanding of cities in global environmental governance by placing the urban greening and environmental justice literatures into conversation and exploring how "varieties of liberal environmentalism" have played out in different urban contexts. With healthy skepticism and hopeful pragmatism, McKendry helps us imagine cities as sites for creating a more equitable and sustainable future.'—Michele M. Betsill, Department of Political Science, Colorado State University, USA'Analysts and practitioners alike have long recognized that cities are major actors in, and arenas of, global governance. By their nature they are internally complex, diverse and contested. In order to better understand them, therefore, we need theoretically informed empirical studies that capture city dynamics across time rather than at any one turning point. Corina McKendry’s book contributes profoundly to the study of cities by providing an empirically fine-grained comparison of the greening of three important cities, based on a compelling theoretical scheme that will inform and influence future research on urban politics and global governance.'—Dimitris Stevis, Department of Political Science, Colorado State University, USATable of Contents1. Local Politics of Global Environmental Governance2. From Keynesianism to Liberal Environmentalism3. Greening the Post-Industrial City4. Beyond Green Urban Entrepreneurialism 5. Energy and Climate Justice 6. Green Urban Development7. Environmental Amenities 8. Conclusion – Cities and the Challenge of Environmental GovernancePostface: Green Cities in an Uncertain MomentReferences
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The City as Target
Book SynopsisBringing together scholars from a diverse range of disciplines, The City as Target provides a sustained and critical response to the relationship between the concept of targeting (in its many forms) and notions of understanding, imagining and shaping the urban. Among the many spatial and graphic terms used to describe cities in urban studies, the word target is rarely encountered. Though equally spatial, it differs from these others by implying some motive force, and, more than that, a force with some intentionality. To target is to aim, to project, and ultimately to impact. It suggests a space of violence, or at least action, or movement resulting in displacement, which most other terms do not. In that sense it is useful, underused, and perhaps revelatory. Rather than approach the city as simply a site of growth, processes, and developments, the contributors to this volume treat it as the recipient of attentions. The work draws on a wide variety of geographicTable of Contents1. Cities as Targets Ryan Bishop, Gregory Clancey, and John Phillips 2. ‘But with Malice Aforethought’: Cities and the Natural History of Hatred Nigel Thrift 3. Targeting the Imaginist City John Armitage 4. The Refugee War Eyal Weizman 5. Theme Park Archipelago: Convergences of War, Simulation and Entertainment in Urban Targeting Steve Graham 6. Empire or Imperialism: Implications for a "New" Politics of Resistance Pal Ahluwalia 7 . The City-as-Target: Targeting the City Verena Andermatt Conley 8. Tokyo: Water, Earthquake, and Island Universe Suzuki Hiroyuki 9. Vast Clearings: Emergency, Technology, and American De-Urbanization, 1930-1945 Gregory Clancey 10. Concealment and Exposure: Imagining London after the Great Fire Li Shiqiao 11. Moscow: Fortress City Irina Aristarkhova 12. Ars Memoria and Unbombing Tjebbe van Tijen 13. London: The Imperial Target Rajeev Patke 14. : Keizu to Nendaiki: Making and Erasing History in Tsukuba Science City at the Edge of Empire Sharon Traweek 15. The City and the Economy of "Losing": Targeting Competitive Bodies in an Era of Global Competition Robbie Goh 16. The Absorptive Assemblage Jordan Crandall 17. "The Target is the People": Representations of the Village in Modernization and National Security Doctrine Nick Cullather
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Routledge Handbook of Planning Theory
Book SynopsisThe Routledge Handbook of Planning Theory presents key contemporary themes in planning theory through the views of some of the most innovative thinkers in planning. They introduce and explore their own specialized areas of planning theory, to conceptualize their contemporary positions and to speculate how these positions are likely to evolve and change as new challenges emerge.In a changing and often unpredictable globalized world, planning theory is core to understanding how planning and its practices both function and evolve. As illustrated in this book, planning and its many roles have changed profoundly over the recent decades; so have the theories, both critical and explanatory, about its practices, values and knowledges. In the context of these changes, and to contribute to the development of planning research, this handbook identifies and introduces the cutting edge, and the new emerging trajectories, of contemporary planning theory. The aim is to Table of ContentsPlanning Theory: An IntroductionMichael Gunder, Ali Madanipour, Vanessa WatsonPart I: Contemporary Planning Practices Spatial Planning: The Promised Land or Rolled-Out Neoliberalism? Simin DavoudiStrategic Planning: Ontological and Epistemological ChallengesLouis AlbrechtsGrowth Management Theory: From the Garden City to Smart Growth Jill L. GrantPlanning in the AnthropoceneWilliam E. ReesPart II: How Meaning/Values are Constructed in Planning The Public InterestStefano MoroniRethinking Scholarship on Planning Ethics Tanja Winkler Communicative Planning Tore Sager Neoliberal PlanningGuy BaetenNeo Pragmatist Planning TheoryCharles HochUrban Planning and Social Justice Susan S. FainsteinThe Grassroots of Planning: Poor People's Movements, Political Society, and the Question of RightsAnanya RoyThe Dilemmas of Diversity: Gender, Race and Ethnicity in Planning TheorySuzanne Speak and Ashok KumarPostcolonial Consequences and New MeaningsLibby PorterPostpolitics and PlanningJonathan Metzger‘Cultural Work’ And the Remaking of Planning’s ‘Apparatus of Truth’Andy InchCountering ‘The Dark Side’ of Planning: Power, Governmentality, Counter-ConductMargo HuxleyCo- Evolutionary Planning Theory: Evolutionary Governance Theory and Its RelativesKristof Van Assche, Raoul Beunen, Martijn DuineveldPart III: Networks, Flows, Relationships and Institutions Flexibly Networked, Yet Institutionally Grounded: The Governance of PlanningRaine Mäntysalo and Pia Bäcklund New Institutionalism and Planning TheoryAndré SorensenConflict and AgonismJohn PløgerInsurgent Practices and Decolonization of Future(s) Faranak MiraftabState Hegemonic Planning and the Marginalization and Oppression of PeopleYosef JabareenActor-Network TheoryYvonne RydinSpatial Planning and the Complexity of Turbulent, Open Environments: About Purposeful Interventions in a World of Non-Linear ChangeGert de RooAssemblage Thinking in Planning TheoryJoris Van WezemaelLines of BecomingJean Hillier
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Taylor & Francis Heterotopia and the City
Book SynopsisHeterotopia, literally meaning âother placeâ, is a rich concept in urban design that describes a space that is on the margins of ordered or civil society, and one that possesses multiple, fragmented or even incompatible meanings. The term has had an impact on architectural and urban theory since it was coined by Foucault in the late 1960s but it has remained a source of confusion and debate since. Heterotopia and the City seeks to clarify this concept and investigates the heterotopias which exist throughout our contemporary world: in museums, theme parks, malls, holiday resorts, gated communities, wellness hotels and festival markets. With theoretical contributions on the concept of heterotopia, including a new translation of Foucaultâs influential 1967 text, Of Other Space and essays by well-known scholars, the book comprises a series of critical case studies, from Beaubourg to Bilbao, which probe a range of (post)urban transformations and which redirect thTable of ContentsPart 1: Heterotopology: ‘A Science in the Making’ Part 2: Heterotopia Revisited Part 3: The Mall as Agora: The Agora as Mall Part 4: Dwelling in a Postcivil Society Part 5: Terrains Vagues: Transgression and Urban Activism Part 6: Heterotopia in the Splintering Metropolis Part 7: Heterotopia After the Polis
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Renewable Energy and the Public
Book SynopsisThroughout the world, the threat of climate change is pressing governments to accelerate the deployment of technologies to generate low carbon electricity or heat. But this is frequently leading to controversy, as energy and planning policies are revised to support new energy sources or technologies (e.g. offshore wind, tidal, bioenergy or hydrogen energy) and communities face the prospect of unfamiliar, often large-scale energy technologies being sited near to their homes. Policy makers in many countries face tensions between ''streamlining'' planning procedures, engaging with diverse publics to address what is commonly conceived as ''NIMBY'' (not in my back yard) opposition, and the need to maintain democratic, participatory values in planning systems. This volume provides a timely, international review of research on public engagement, in contexts of diverse, innovative energy technologies. Public engagement is conceived broadly - as the interaction between how developers Trade Review'Public acceptance is key to the development of the renewable energy we need to meet our climate goals. Simple stereotypes of NIMBY opposition may work in newspaper headlines, but developers and policymakers need a more sophisticated understanding of what makes people tick and how best to engage. This new volume meets a pressing need - both academics and practitioners will gain from it.' Prof Jim Skea, Research Director, UK Energy Research Centre 'This book provides a broad survey of public perceptions and community reactions to building new low-carbon energy facilities. The chapters treat community resistance (and support) as systematic phenomena to be scientifically studied, opening possibilities for creative action. This is a welcome antidote to the typical reaction by engineers and project developers, treating public opinion as an immutable black box.' Prof. Willett Kempton, Center for Carbon-free Power Integration, University of Delaware, USA 'Extensive research has been done over the last decades on both mitigation and adaptation to climate change in the built environment, but the outputs of much of this research have failed to result in the wider uptake of effective greenhouse gas emission reduction solutions. This book introduces 'fresh thinking' on how this may be done- with chapters from leading experts in fields ranging from philosophy, the social, political and physical sciences, engineering, architecture, mathematics and complexity science.' Renew Magazine 'Patrick Devine-Wright's Renewable Energy and the Public: From NIMBY to Participation takes a broad, multidisciplinary approach to the issue of public engagement for renewable energy products. A multitude of contributors offer a variety of theoretical and empirical analyses of the issue, all of which support Devine-Wright's core argument that traditional means of conceptualizing public and stakeholder positions on renewable energy are overly simplistic, and public engagement processes based on these depictions are insufficient for pursuing the goal of increased renewable energy use in a fair and democratic way.' - Damian Pitt, Journal of Planning Education and ResearchTable of ContentsIntroduction (Patrick Devine-Wright, University of Exeter, UK) Section 1: Conceptual approaches 1. Symmetries, expectations, dynamics and contexts: a framework for understanding public engagement with renewable energy projects (Walker, University of Lancaster, UK, and colleagues) 2. The principles, procedures, and pitfalls of public engagement in decision-making about renewable energy (Haggett, University of Edinburgh, UK) 3. Beyond consensus? Agonism, republicanism and a low carbon future (Barry and Ellis, Queens' University, Belfast, N. Ireland) 4. Public roles and socio-technical configurations: diversity in renewable energy deployment in the UK and its implications (Walker and Cass, University of Lancaster, UK) 5. From Backyards to Places: Public engagement and the emplacement of renewable energy technologies (Patrick Devine-Wright, University of Exeter, UK) Section 2: Empirical studies of public engagement Part 1: Stakeholder and media representations of public engagement 6. Discourses on the implementation of wind power: Stakeholder views on public engagement (Wolsink, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands) 7. Governing the Reconfiguration of Energy in Greater London: Practical Public Engagement as 'Delivery' (Hodson and Marvin, University of Salford, UK) 8. Envisioning public engagement with renewable energy: an empirical analysis of images within the UK National Press 2006/7 (Hannah Devine-Wright, University of Manchester, UK) 9. NIMBYism and community consultation in electricity transmission network planning (Cotton and Patrick Devine-Wright, University of Exeter, UK) Part 2: Case studies of public beliefs and responses Future energy scenarios 10. Turning the heat on: Public engagement in Australia's energy future (Ashworth, Littleboy, Graham & Niemeyer, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Australia) Solar energy and microgeneration 11. Shaping people's engagement with microgeneration technology: the case of solar photovoltaics in UK homes (Abi-Ghanem, Imperial College London and Haggett, University of Edinburgh, UK) 12. Siting Solar Power in Arizona: A Public Value Failure? (Pasqualetti and Schwartz, Arizona State University, USA) 13. Socio-Environmental Research on Energy Sustainable Communities: Participation Experiences of Two Decades (Schweizer-Ries, University of Saarland, Germany) 14. Yes in my back yard: UK householders pioneering microgeneration heat (Roy and Caird and Roy, Open University, UK) Wind energy 15. Socio-environmental impacts of Brazil's first large-scale wind farm (Improta and Pinheiro, Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, Natal, Brazil) 16. Perceptions and Preferences Regarding Offshore Wind Power in the United States - The Leading Edge of a New Energy Source for the Americas (Firestone, University of Delaware, USA) Hydrogen energy: 17. The limits of upstream engagement in an emergent technology: lay perceptions of hydrogen energy technologies (Flynn, Bellaby and Ricci, University of Salford, UK) 18. Public engagement with wind-hydrogen energy technology: a comparative study (Sherry-Brennan, Devine-Wright and Devine-Wright, University of Exeter, UK) Marine energy 19. Symbolic interpretations of wave energy in the UK: surfers' perspectives (McLachlan, University of Manchester, UK) Bioenergy 20. Heat and light: understanding bioenergy siting controversy (Upham, University of Manchester, UK) Nuclear and low carbon energy 21. From the Material to the Imagined: Public Engagement with Low Carbon Technologies in a Nuclear Community (Butler, Parkhill and Pidgeon, Cardiff University, Wales, UK) Conclusions (Devine-Wright, University of Exeter, UK)
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Financing Urban Shelter: Global Report on Human
Book Synopsis'Achieving the goals set by world leaders in the United Nations Millennium Declaration will be difficult without a significant improvement in the lives of slum dwellers, and the lives of slum dwellers cannot be improved without the sound and sustainable economic development that is conducive to the establishment of a strong shelter sector. As Financing Urban Shelter: Global Report on Human Settlements 2005 emphasizes, one of the key challenges in meeting the Millennium Declaration Goal on slums is mobilization of the financial resources necessary for both slum upgrading and slum prevention by supplying new housing affordable to lower income groups on a large scale. . . . It is my hope that, by highlighting the impacts of current shelter financing systems on low-income households and by identifying the types of financing mechanisms that appear to have worked for them, this report will contribute to the efforts of the wide range of actors involved in improving the lives of slum dwellers, including governments at the central and local levels, as well as non-governmental and international organizations.' From the Foreword by KOFI ANNAN, Secretary-General, United Nations Financing Urban Shelter presents the first global assessment of housing finance systems, placing shelter and urban development challenges within the overall context of macroeconomic policies. The report describes and analyses housing finance conditions and trends in all regions of the world, including formal housing finance mechanisms, microfinance and community funding, highlighting their relevance to the upgrading of slums. Recent shelter finance policy development is discussed at the international and national levels, and the directions that could be taken to strengthen shelter finance systems are examined. The Global Report on Human Settlements is the most authoritative and up-to-date assessment of conditions and trends in the world's cities. It is an essential tool and reference for researchers, academics, public authorities and civil society organizations around the world. The preceding issues of the Global Report on Human Settlements have addressed such topics as An Urbanizing World, Cities in a Globalizing World and The Challenge of Slums. Published with UN-HABITATTable of ContentsPART I: ECONOMIC AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT CONTEXT * Challenges of Sustainable Shelter Development in Macroeconomic Context * Understanding Urban Shelter Development Challenges * The Macroeconomic Context of Urban Shelter Development * Shelter Policy and Finance: Retrospective Overview * Context to International Thoughts on Financing for Urban Development * Trends in Shelter and Municipal Finance Development: 1972 2004 * Globalization of Finance * The New Millennium: Policies and Organizations in Shelter and Urban Development * Financing Urban Development * Municipal Finance and Urban Development: The Main Issues * National Municipal Finance Systems * Sources of Municipal Finance * Municipal Spending Patterns * Privatization of Municipal Services * Summing Up: Assessing the Effectiveness and Impacts of Municipal Finance Systems * PART II: SHELTER FINANCE, ASSESSMENT OF TRENDS * Mortgage Finance: Institutions and Mechanisms * Highlights * Recent Trends * Regional Analysis * Terms and Conditions * Housing Finance, Affordability and Lower Income Households * Financing for Social and Rental Housing * Conditions and Trends * Challenges * Small Loans: Shelter Microfinance * The Growth of Microfinance for Shelter * Other Providers and Sources of * Community Funds * What Are Community Funds? * PART III: TOWARDS SUSTAINABLE SHELTER FINANCE SYSTEMS * Assessing Shelter Finance Systems * Affordability and the Difficulties of Reaching the Poor * The Role of Mortgage Finance: Access to Capital and the Lack of Loan Finance * The Bigger Picture and What the Market Cannot Manage * Connections and Diversity within Globalization * Policy Directions Towards Sustainable Urban Shelter Finance Systems * Towards Inclusive Urban Infrastructure and Services * Strengthening the Sustainability and Performance of Shelter Finance Systems * Epilogue: Towards Sustainable Urban Shelter * First Element: Abating Housing Costs * Second Element: Increasing Purchasing Power * Synergizing the Two: Lower Housing Prices and Higher Incomes * Formulating and Implementing Urban Shelter Policies: Sheltering the Poor from 'Market Poaching' * PART IV: STATISTICAL ANNEX *
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Towards Sustainable Aviation
Book SynopsisAviation is integral to the global economy but it is also one of the main obstacles to environmentally sustainable development. It is one of the world's fastest growing - and most polluting - industries. What can be done to retain the economic and other benefits it brings, without the associated pollution, noise, congestion and loss of countryside? In this volume, industry, policy and research experts examine how to address the problems, and what it would take to achieve genuinely sustainable aviation - looking at technological, policy and demand-management options. Without far-reaching changes the problems caused by aviation can only multiply and worsen. This work seeks to take an important step in diagnosing the problems and in pointing towards their solutions.Trade Review'Wide-ranging and thorough.' Future Survey 'A very comprehensive book which contains vital industry intelligence and foresight, making it an essential information source and analysis for managers, consultants, regulators, researchers, students and especially environmental and government policy-makers.' International Journal of Environmental Studies '... This is a significant and timely book that sets out the challenges presented by aviation in a comprehensive manner.' Local Transport Today 'Without far-reaching changes, the problems associated with aviation can only multiply and worsen. This book takes an important step in accurately diagnosing these problems and pointing towards their solutions.' Sustain 'This comprehensive collection contains vital industry intelligence and foresight, making it an essential source of information and analysis for managers, consultants, regulators, planners, and policymakers'. Book notes. Business Horizons 4 July-August 2004Table of ContentsPreface * Part 1: Trends and Issues � Introduction: Perspectives on Sustainability and Aviation * Organizational and Growth Trends in Air Transport * the Social and Economic Benefits of Aviation * Aircraft Noise, Community Relations and Stakeholder Involvement * Part 2: Mitigations and Potential Solutions - Environmental Management and the Aviation Industry * The Potential for Modal Substitution * Air Freight and Global Supply Chains: the Environmental Dimension * The Potential Offered by Aircraft and Engine Technologies * Climate Policy for Civil Aviation: Actors, Policy Instruments and the Potential for Emissions Reductions * Part 3: Multisector Commentaries -Multisector Commentaries on Sustainability and Aviation * Economic Aspects of Sustainability and UK Aviation Sustainable Aviation: Implications for Economies in Transition * Key Issues in Aviation Environmental Policy-Making * Towards Sustainable Aviation? * Aircraft Noise: The NGO Perspective * Environmental and Economic Factors in Airport Capacity * Potential Improvements to Air Traffic Management * Making Aviation Less Unsustainable: Some Pointers to the Way Ahead * Sustainable Aviation: What do you Mean? * Sustainability and Aviation: Problems and Solutions * Airlines and Sustainable Development * the Case for 'No growth' * Conclusion * Index
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Cambridge University Press Economics in Urban Conservation
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Cambridge University Press English and French Towns in Feudal Society
Book SynopsisIn this comparative study of the role of English and French towns in feudal society in the middle ages Professor Hilton provides a new perspective on medieval society and argues that medieval towns were not, as is often thought, harbingers of capitalism. He emphasises how urban societies fitted into, rather than challenged, feudalism.Trade Review'This book pulls off a double: specialists will enjoy and be inspired by it, while novices will appreciate its clarity and terseness … It deserves the widest possible audience.' Julia Barrow, History Workshop Journal'A useful summary with some profound insights.' David Nicholas, The Economic History Review'This synthesis, presented with talent by R. H. Hilton, must take a very honourable place among the few comparative studies of medieval urban history.' Cahiers de Civilisation MédiévaleTable of ContentsPreface; Introduction; 1. The town and feudalism: preliminary definitions; 2. The feudal presence in towns; 3. Urban social structures; 4. Urban rulers; 5. How urban society was imagined; 6. Urban communities and conflict; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.
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