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Book SynopsisPublishing essays that examine American societies and cultures in global and local contexts, the journal contributes to the understanding of the United States, its diversity, and its impact on world politics and culture.Trade ReviewProvides a lively sample of the latest scholarship that critics and fans of Los Angeles alike will enjoy. -- Allison Varzally Southern California Quarterly 2006Table of ContentsPrefaceIntroduction: Los Angeles Studies and the Future of Urban CulturesChapter 1. Best MTA Bus Line: The Number 18, yes, let's take a trip down Whittier BoulevardChapter 2. Learning from Los Angeles: Another One Rides the BusChapter 3. Los Angeles and American Studies in a Pacific World of MigrationsChapter 4. Border City: Race and Social Distance in Los AngelesChapter 5. The Figure of the Neighbor: Los Angeles Past and FutureChapter 6. Straight into Compton: American Dreams, Urban Nightmares, and the Metamorphosis of a Black SuburbChapter 7. L.A. Race Woman: Charlotta Bass and the Complexities of Black Political Development in Los AngelesChapter 8. "What's Good for Boyle Heights Is Good for the Jews":Chapter 9. Creating Multiracialism on the Eastside during the 1950sChapter 10. The Art of the City: Modernism, Censorship, and the Emergence of Los Angeles's Postwar Art SceneChapter 11. Bringing Music to the People: Race, Urban Culture, and Municipal Politics inChapter 12. Postwar Los AngelesChapter 13. The Battle of Los Angeles: The Cultural Politics of Chicana/o Music in the Greater Eastside Chapter 14. What Is an MC If He Can't Rap to Banda?Chapter 15. Making Music in Nuevo L.A.Chapter 16. Fools Banished from the Kingdom: Remapping Geographies of Gang Violence between the Americas (Los Angeles and San Salvador)Chapter 17. Borders and Social Distinction in the Global SuburbChapter 18. Nuestra Los AngelesContributors Index

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Book SynopsisWinner of the inaugural Novel Prize, an elegant and subtle exploration of the mysteries of our relationships to othersTrade Review"Au’s writing ebbs along effortlessly and poetically." -- The Australian"Jessica Au is a new talent to be watched." -- Romy Ash - Australian Book Review"Rarely have I been so moved, reading a book: I love the quiet beauty of Cold Enough for Snow and how, within its calm simplicity, Jessica Au camouflages incredible power." -- Edouard Louis"Flawed understanding, consolation, and insufficiency all infuse this compelling, unsettling novel reminiscent of Jhumpa Lahiri's Whereabouts or Rachel Cusk's Outline Trilogy. A beautifully observed book, written in precise, elegant prose that contains a wealth of deep feeling." -- Kirkus (starred review)"On a trip to Japan, a mother and daughter circle each other quietly. There is no tension, no snap, but every exchange — about souvenirs and restaurant menus and their childhood memories — is laden with pressure, a potential missed opportunity for bonding...Cold Enough for Snow observes the invisible thread between parent and child as it twists and knots and occasionally goes slack." -- Hillary Kelly - Vulture"Au’s is a book of deceptive simplicity, weaving profound questions of identity and ontology into the fabric of quotidian banality...What matters, the novel reassures us, is constantly imbricated with the everyday, just as alienation and tender care can coexist in the same moment." -- Claire Messud - Harper’s"Quiet and crisp like a clear winter morning...a world of melancholy and dissolving identity." -- Shane Anderson - 032c"Jessica Au’s slim, spectral novel Cold Enough for Snow...deftly uses stream of consciousness to explore the legacy of inherited family traits and the difficulty of breaking away." -- Tobias Grey - The New York Times"Au’s novel is perhaps most masterly in the way it evokes our dissociation from desire—our own and other people’s...we can sense it in the soft, patient warmth of Au’s prose, which sometimes feels attuned to truths just out of the narrator’s reach." -- Peter C. Baker - The New Yorker"One of the novella’s neat turns lies in how precisely and matter-of-factly it narrates events that are – as we come to realize – anything but. Au is fascinated by the question of knowledge, especially the knowledge shared – or not – between two people." -- Declan Fry - The Sydney Morning Herald"Au’s calm, unrelenting focus would be hard to take over a longer book – but this novella is graceful and precise. Like the narrator fine-tuning the aperture on her Nikon camera, Au seems to say, we have to choose our scale, what we pay attention to." -- Imogen Dewey - The Guardian"Au captures the particular dynamic between adult children and their parents with complexity, allowing for moments of recognition as well as estrangement, frustration as well as tenderness. Although we often conflate being loved and being understood, perhaps an essential part of being close to someone is accepting the ways in which they’ll always be a mystery. Cold Enough for Snow reveals that there are other kinds of love that can hold space for silence, and privacy." -- Madelaine Lucas - Bomb"Full of musings about art, memory, relationships and the human condition, Cold Enough for Snow is in some ways a writer’s book, a pleasure to read as much for insight as for beautiful prose." -- Florentyna Low - Japan Times"A powerful novel about the relationship between a mother and daughter, and the ways that geography, language, art, travel and migration can change the ways we see ourselves....a hazy, dream-like mirage, in which characters, emotions and intentions are ever-so-slightly out of reach." -- Frieze"Cold Enough for Snow is defined by its small scale, driven by the details of life in its absolute present moment. Au’s flashbacks are more concerned with the patterns on bowls, the texture of fabrics, or the light through a “canopy of leaves,” than the sequence of events. Her language comes from a different logic of attention: One that skims along the textures of life, floating from one association to another; she finds connections not in historical causation, but in the way walking home after a swim recalls the same feeling as looking at Impressionist paintings. And if the narrator doesn’t succeed in bonding with her mother, Au succeeds in connecting to the reader with her subtle language and elegant way of looking." -- Emma Heath - Cleveland Review

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Book SynopsisGuerrilla insurgencies rage across the globe, fueled by ethnic and religious conflict and the easy availability of weapons. This title examines eight key examples of urban guerrilla conflict across 4 continents, including Warsaw in 1944, Budapest in 1956, Algiers in 1957, Montevideo and Sao Paulo in the 1960s, and Grozny from 1994 to 1996.

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Heise's illuminating history of the urban underworld in twentieth-century American literature makes excellent use of critical geography to show how urban planners, social reformers, and literary artists conceived the metropolis and its ostensibly dark nether depths." -- Sean McCann * author of A Pinnacle of Feeling *"A timely and eloquent contribution to a growing body of critical work on the stratified meanings of the modern city. Heise convincingly weds textual and spatial analysis in a nuanced reading of the capitalist dialectic whereby uneven development produces urban underworlds and underworld contradictions spur uneven development." -- David Pike * author of Metropolis on the Styx *"Urban Underworlds offers sensitive, satisfying close readings of a vast body of urban literature to argue that these intimate portraits of America's ethnic, racial, and sexual underworlds expose the larger forces of uneven capitalist development. It also happens to be a beautifully written book." * Modern Fiction Studies *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements x An Overview and an Underview: Uneven Development and the Social Production of American Underworlds 1 1. Going Down: Narratives of Slumming in the Ethnic Underworlds of Lower New York, 1890s-1910s 30 2. Degenerate Sex and the City: The Underworlds of New York and Paris in the Work of Djuna Barnes and Claude Mckay, 1910s-1930s 77 3. The Black Underground: Urban Riots, the Black Underclass, and the Work of Richard Wright and Ralph Ellison 1940s-1950s 127 4. Wasted Dreams: John Rechy, Thomas Pynchon, and the Underworlds of Los Angeles, 1960s 169 5. White Spaces and Urban Ruins: Postmodern Geographies in Don DeLillo's Underworld, 1950s-1990s 213 Notes 255 Index 277

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"In this charming collection of essays, feminist journalist, activist, and author Brownmiller writes with passion, humor, and complete candidness about 35 years of gardening on the 20th-floor terrace of her Greenwich Village apartment. Along with weather, climate, and critter issues, Brownmiller also describes unique gardening problems that a more traditional yard gardener couldn’t fathom, such as building renovations and neighbors unappreciative of leaf drift—although plenty of them are eager to share plants and pots for Brownmiller’s urban oasis, too. From stories of the loss of her beloved birch trees in the wake of a hurricane to tales of victory at her garden’s thrilling achievements, the author reveals all, including the odd assortment of detritus she discovered thrown down from the shared rooftop garden above ... With a style reminiscent of Eric Grissell’s Thyme on My Hands and A Journal in Thyme, Brownmiller’s meandering musings will delight readers. Memoir lovers and gardeners alike will enjoy these adventures in urban gardening." * Library Journal *"Susan Brownmiller's delightful book is a gift not only for lucky city-dwellers able to cultivate green outdoor spaces of their own but for those who can only garden mentally. Nothing I've read has done a better job of capturing the inherent drama in gardening—the constant struggle against weather, drought, insects, disease, as well as the special challenges in cities posed by altitudes, landlords, developers and neighbors. Brownmiller's observant and witty writing has taken me back all over again to the special thrill and satisfaction of making things grow." -- Joyce Johnson * author of Minor Characters *"Charles Darwin made us aware of the ingenious adaptations plants evolved to survive in unlikely environments. Susan Brownmiller delights us with the ingenious adaptations plant growers like herself evolve to garden on the 20th floor. Defying drying winds and pests of several species, including homo sapiens, Brownmiller keeps the clematis climbing. My City Highrise Garden is a terrace gardener's how-to and every gardener's why-to. It's ardent, informative and also funny." -- Barbara Garson * author, playwright and community gardener *"A beautifully produced book. Beginning to end, Brownmiller informs, amuses and delights with her wit, knowledge and urbanity." * Lilith *"For those who enjoy garden journals, My City Highrise Garden is an wonderful journey and escape." * NYBG Plant Talk blog *Table of ContentsCHAPTER 1: HELLO, TERRACE CHAPTER 2. WIND CHAPTER 3. THE BIRCHES CHAPTER 4. THE CHORES OF MARCH CHAPTER 5. A WATER FEATURE CHAPTER 6. BUSHELS OF PEACHES CHAPTER 7. A FIELD OF COREOPSIS CHAPTER 8. EXPERIMENTAL STATIONS CHAPTER 9. COMING UP ROSES CHAPTER 10. BUTTERFLIES IN THE GARDEN CHAPTER 11. DAYLILY DREAMS CHAPTER 12. A PEONY BUSH CHAPTER 13. HYDRANGEAS CHAPTER 14. MY THIRTY-YEAR GERANIUMS CHAPTER 15. MY IRIS EXPERIENCE CHAPTER 16. RIOTOUS ANNUALS CHAPTER 17. BOSTON IVY CHAPTER 18. HONEYSUCKLE IS NOSTALGIA CHAPTER 19. HELPING A CLEMATIS CHAPTER 20. ALAS, THE ROAMING CAT CHAPTER 21. THE MOCKINGBIRD ON THE ROOFTOP CHAPTER 22. FALL IS FOR RECKONING EPILOGUE: A WOMAN’S WAY

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"From Haussmann to Charlie Hebdo, Paris has always demanded our attention. Efforts to vigilantly reimagine the city and its inhabitants remain one of the most important tasks in this urban century, and Andrew Newman’s Landscape of Discontent provides masterful insights into what urban nature has been and can be."—Nik Heynen, University of Georgia"Andrew Newman has crafted a dynamic account of how local residents and activists can transform a social and physical urban environment by drawing in the very political forces—including city planners—that imagine themselves as the true shapers of that reality."—Michael Herzfeld, Harvard University"This is a fantastic book that should be required reading for anyone invested in debates on the right to the city, urban political ecology, and the cultural politics of belonging in contemporary France."—Antipode"An important contribution to a small, but growing body of Anglophone literature on housing and the built environment in late twentieth-century France."—H-France Review"Landscape of Discontent makes an important contribution to the politics of urban development, environmental activism, political power, and ethnocultural relations within the contemporary global city of Paris."—American Anthropologist"The author describes the grassroots protests opposing the rail company–led project for economic development and the political moves leading to the building of the park, bringing to light the actions and motives of activists and inhabitants, through interviews, conversations, and his own involvement in daily activities in the neighborhood."—Journal of Urban Affairs"Through research with residents, activists, and urban planners, Newman weaves together a detailed ethnography of grassroots mobilization with a structural analysis of neoliberal urbanism."—MetropoliticsTable of ContentsContentsAbbreviations Introduction1. Poets and Locomotives: Ecology and Politics on the Margins of Paris 2. Space, Style, and Grassroots Strategy in the Éole Mobilization3. Cultivating the Republic? Parks, Gardens, and Youth4. The End(s) of Urban Ecology in the Global City5. To Watch and Be Watched: Urban Design, Vigilance, and Contested Streets6. The Political Life of Small Urban SpacesConclusionAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Contributors attempt to remove stereotypes-- plenty are called out-- and to legitimate suburbs as a field of study. The topics covered here might fall into several fields ranging from sociology to urban planning, remain peripheral to them, or provoke further investigation."—CHOICE"The book succeeds in demolishing the single sterile stereotype of suburbia."—Planning Magazine"Demonstrating suburbia’s mobility as both metaphor and materiality, the collection’s diverse accounts of communities, families, and their dwellings evidence how the borders between the cul-de-sac and beyond remain malleable. Take together, the collection answers “yes” to the question, “Do these places matter?” and reaffirms the call for scholars to further study the complexity of suburbia."—Historical Geography"I greatly enjoyed reading Making Suburbia and highly recommend it for academic study as well as personal interest."—Journal of Planning Education and ResearchTable of ContentsContentsIntroduction: Making, Performing, Living SuburbiaJohn Archer, Paul J. P. Sandul, and Katherine SolomonsonPart I. Mobilizing1. The Social Fallout of Racial Politics: Civic Engagement in Suburban Pasadena, 1950–2000Becky Nicolaides2. Race, Planning, and Activism on Philadelphia’s Main LineTrecia Pottinger3. Defending “Women Who Stand by the Sink”: Suburban Homemakers and Anti-ERA Activism in New York StateStacie Taranto4. Gay Organizing in the “Desert of Suburbia” of Metropolitan DetroitTim Retzloff5. Ecological Preservation in Suburban AtlantaChristopher SellersPart II. Representing6. Metaburbia: The Evolving Suburb in Contemporary FictionMartin Dines7. Suburban Memory Works: Historical Representation and Meaning in Orangevale, CaliforniaPaul J. P. Sandul8. Does This Place Really Matter? The Preservation Debate in Denver’s Postwar SuburbsHeather Bailey9. Yards and Everyday Life in MinneapolisUrsula Lang10. Suburban Rhetorics: Planning and Design for American Shopping, 1930–1960David Smiley11. This Old House of the Future: Remixing Progress and Nostalgia in Suburban Domestic DesignHolley WlodarczykPart III. Gathering12. Everyday Racialization: Contesting Space and Identity in Suburban St. LouisJodi Rios13. The Vibrant Life of Asian Malls in Silicon ValleyWillow Lung-Amam14. Spaces for Youth in Suburban Protestant ChurchesGretchen Buggeln15. Sanctifying the SUV: Megachurches, the Prosperity Gospel, and the Suburban ChristianCharity R. CarneyPart IV. Building16. The Fabric of Spying: Double Agents and the Suburban Cold WarAndrew Friedman17. Selling Suburbia: Marshall Erdman’s Marketing Strategies for Prefabricated Buildings in the Postwar United StatesAnna Vemer Andrzejewski18. A Tiny Orchestra in the Living Room: Hi-Fidelity Sound, Stereo Systems, and the Postwar HouseDianne Harris19. Suburban Noise: Getting Inside Garage RockSteve Waksman20. The Complex: Social Difference and the Suburban Apartment in Postwar AmericaMatthew Gordon Lasner21. The Outdoor Kitchen and Twenty-first Century DomesticityBeverly K. GrindstaffAfterwordMargaret CrawfordContributorsIndex

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"DeFilippis brings together a series of insightful analyses that focus on the urban policies of the Obama administration from different but interrelated perspectives."—ChoiceTable of ContentsContents Introduction James DeFilippis 1. National Urban Policy in the Age of Obama Hilary Silver 2. The Subordination of Urban Policy in the Time of Financialization Robert W. Lake 3. Obama, Race, and Urban Policy Preston H. Smith II 4. Housing Policy and the Mortgage Foreclosure Crisis During the Obama Administration Rachel G. Bratt and Dan Immergluck 5. Public Housing Policy under Obama (See the Clinton Administration) Janet Smith 6. Immigrants and the Obama Urban Policies: Tarnishing the Golden Door Christine Thurlow Brenner 7. Obama’s Education Policy: More Markets, More Inequality, New Urban Contestations Pauline Lipman 8. Unions in the Obama Era: Laboring Under False Pretenses? Nik Theodore 9. The Affordable Care Act: A Work Still in Progress. The Achievements and Shortcomings of the Affordable Care Act J. Phillip Thompson 10. Still Swimming, Tides Rising: Community Change, Spatial Interventions, and the Challenge of Federal Place-based Anti-Poverty Public Policies Amy T. Khare 11. Community Development in the Age of Obama Kathe Newman 12. The Incompleteness of Comprehensive Community Revitalization Todd Swanstrom 13. The Obama Administration’s Neighborhood Stabilization Program: From Foreclosure Crisis to What in Nashville’s Chestnut Hill? Deirdre Oakley and James Fraser 14. Sustainable Fair Housing? Reconciling the Spatial Goals of Fair Housing and Sustainable Development in the Obama Administration Edward G. Goetz 15. Regional Policy in the Age of Obama Karen Chapple 16. Making Policy in the Streets Lorraine C. Minnite and Frances Fox Piven Conclusion. Why Urban Policy? On Social Justice, Urbanization, and Urban Policies James DeFilippis Afterword Cedric Johnson Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisOffers an incisive exploration of the limitations and possibilities of democratic discourse for resolving conflicts in urban communities. Candice Rai roots her study of democratic politics and publics in a range of urban case studies focused on public art, community policing, and urban development.Trade Review“Democracy’s Lot is one of the most interesting, original, and important studies I have read in a long time. Not only a fascinating story about gentrification and resistance in the contemporary North American city, it’s also a model of original sociological research, using a methodology the author calls ‘rhetorical ethnography,’ which combines the deep, sustained, social immersion of ethnography with the detailed, critical discourse analysis of rhetoric. Above all, Rai makes a timely, ground-breaking intervention into the study of contemporary democracy, putting the lie to both uncritical celebrations of free and open public spheres and radical critiques of democracy in the era of neoliberalism.” —David Fleming, author of City of Rhetoric: Revitalizing the Public Sphere in Metropolitan America""Candice Rai presents an innovative methodological framework that employs textual analysis and fieldwork to study the interactions of housing debates, street protests, public art, visceral bodily responses, and new media technologies. Fieldwork presents an exciting opportunity to expand the field of inquiry for rhetorical scholarship that typically lies outside of our reach. However, Rai adds to and extends this line of inquiry by drawing explicit connections between text-centered rhetorical themes and concepts (like topoi) and the field as a place of rhetorical practice.” —Robert Asen, coeditor of Public Modalities: Rhetoric, Culture, Media, and the Shape of Public Life

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Book Synopsisresidents for years with its dramatic visual and narrative presentation of the birth and development of Boulder. In this updated edition, 322 photographs - more than 90 of them current - capture landmarks, buildings, major events, and quiet moments from the 1860s to 2006. Photographs showing the same locations at several intervals in history reveal Boulder's continuum from past to present.Table of ContentsContents; Foreword; Map; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1 Early Boulder Photographers; 2 Downtown Business District: The Pearl Street Mall; 3 South Central Boulder: Floods, Minorities, and the Railroads; 4 North Central Boulder: Culture and Religion; 5 West Central Boulder: At the Foot of the Mountains; 6 East Central Boulder: Working Man's Neighborhood; 7 North Boulder: Vanishing Farmlands; 8 University of Colorado: Alone on the Hill; 9 University Hill and Chautauqua: Becoming Established; 10 South Boulder: Postwar Growth; 11 The End of an Era: The City Matures; For Further Reading; Index

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Book SynopsisGeneration Y - sometimes called Millennials - is an intriguing combination of optimistic and realistic: virtually all of them expect to eventually own a home, yet they do not necessarily consider housing an investment. This publication reports on Gen Y's housing preferences and needs, providing valuable insights for those who need to understand this generation's expectations for housing and community.

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Book SynopsisViewing the city in light of sociology, geography, history, and planning, this work examines the genesis of modern Detroit. Examining its redevelopment policies and the ensuing political conflicts, it discusses where Detroit has been and where it is going.Trade Review"Anyone interested in urban economic development, the politics of economic development, and American race relations will find [in this book] a fascinating and careful analysis of Detroit's rise, fall, and ongoing comeback struggle.... of particular interest to urban planners and researchers concerned with urban decline in North America and Western Europe."—Urban Studies"Detroit is a wonderfully thorough compendium of urban inequality. It should quickly establish itself as the definitive study for Detroit-area planners and policy makers. For teachers and students in the Detroit metropolitan region, this book will prove invaluable as a reference text. The quantitative data are presented with minimal, but appropriate, statistical analysis, helpful maps, and well-organized tables. The case studies of struggles for school and housing integration make up some of the most readable sections of the book and power structure research methods are used to shed new light on such development projects as the Renaissance Center."—Contemporary Sociology"The book offers fine treatments of the rise of black political power, of the efforts to rejuvenate downtown and the waterfront, and of the debt of the city in efforts to acquire new industrial and service-oriented development. Overall, Detroit ably achieves the goals of the series. The perspective is truly interdisciplinary, reflecting the authors’ backgrounds. It is a thoroughly enjoyable geography, in the best sense of the word, of the Detroit metropolitan region."—Geographical ReviewsTable of Contents List of Maps, Figures, and Tables Preface: Angles of Vision Series Preface 1. Detroit: An Overview 2. Uneven Development in Metropolitan DetroitThe Motor City • One Detroit, Two Detroits, Many Detroits • Coming Full Circle: Renaissance On The Riverfront • Conclusion 3. Patterns of Race and Class DisparityPatterns of Race • Black Protest • Racial Disparity in Social and Economic Life • The Pattern of Race within Detroit, 1940-1980 • The Spatial Distribution of Blacks and Housing Costs, 1960-1980 • The Consequences of Racial Segregation • Differential Patterns of Racial Mobility in the Suburbs • Patterns of Class • Conclusion 4. Interracial Conflict and Cooperation: Housing as a Case StudyThe Emerging Conflict • Building Barricades vs. Welcoming the Strangers • Building an Interracial Movement for Fair Housing • Suburban Resistance to HUD • Maintaining The Struggle and the Dream • Conclusion 5. City Redevelopment PoliciesThe Detroit Plan and the Problem of Slums • Slum Clearance Through Urban Renewal • Balancing Redevelopment Resources • Conclusion 6. Politics and Policy in Metropolitan DetroitBlack Political Power in Detroit • Metropolitan School Desegregation: A Policy Issue • Toward Metropolitan Cooperation • Conclusion 7. What Future for Detroit?Uneven Development • Patterns of Race and Class • Redevelopment Policies • Interracial Conflict and Cooperation • Regional Politics • Guideposts for the Future Notes Index

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Book SynopsisSince the appearance of "Urban America in the Modern Age" in 1987, the study of American cities has flourished. This work explores the themes and topics central to its predecessor - the physical form of metropolitan areas, their sources of growth and mix of ethnic and racial groups, the shaping of public policy, and ideas of community planning.Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Metropolitan Era; The First Modern Cities; Building and Rebuilding; A New Urban America; Prosperity and Poverty; The Promise of Urban Life.

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Book SynopsisGlobal climate change creates new challenges in particular for cities and regions. As centres of human activity they are especially vulnerable to climate change impacts. Adapting to a changing climate requires dealing with multiple uncertainties and complexity in order to allow proactive action.Table of ContentsList of contributors, ix 1 Climate adaptation governance in cities and regions: framework conditions, theoretical concepts and research questions 1Jörg Knieling and Katharina Klindworth Part 1: Theoretical basis 2 Applying social resilience concepts and indicators to support climate adaptation in tropical North Queensland, Australia 23Allan Patrick Dale, Karen Vella, Ruth Potts, Bronwyn Voyce, Bob Stevenson, Alison Cottrell, David King, Hurriyet Babacan, Helen Boon, Margaret Gooch and Petina Pert 3 Spatial planning to promote urban resilience in coping with climate change and flooding: exploring two cases in Kaohsiung, Taiwan 45Peiwen Lu 4 Adaptation to climate change and participatory action research (PAR): lessons from municipalities in Quebec, Canada 69Steve Plante, Liette Vasseur and Charlotte DaCunha 5 Generating narratives on future risk to inform regional climate change adaptation planning 89Douglas K. Bardsley, Nathanael D. Wiseman and Graeme J. Hugo 6 Advancing climate change adaptation and climate risk understanding through intervention research: case studies from Brazil and Australia 113Silvia Serrao-Neumann, Gabriela Marques Di Giulio, Lucia Costa Ferreira and Darryl Low Choy 7 Climate adaptation and the significance of different modes of local political leadership: views of Swedish local political leaders 131Mattias Hjerpe and Sofie Storbjörk Part 2: Hierarchical forms of coordination 8 Regulating climate change adaptation, the case of surface water 155Trude Rauken 9 Climate adaptation governance – theory, concepts, and praxis in cities and regions. The role of climate and water governance in supporting climate change adaptation processes 171Walter Leal Filho, Margot A. Hurlbert and Harry Diaz 10 Climate problem and territorial governance: an overview of adaptation initiatives at the French regional level 191François Bertrand, Elsa Richard and Corinne Larrue 11 Regional rescaling in adaptation governance: from agency to collaborative control in flood management in England? 209Irene Lorenzoni, David Benson and Hadrian Cook 12 From case studies to policy-making: adapting to climate change in Lithuania 223Justas Kažys, Egidijus Rimkus and Julija Naujëkaitë 13 The rise and fall of climate adaptation governance on the Gold Coast, Australia 237Michael Howes and Aysin Dedekorkut-Howes 14 Climate change adaptation in private real estate development: essential concepts about development for feasible research, regulation and governance 251Eddo Coiacetto 15 Pro-poor climate change adaptation in Zambia 267Danny Simatele Part 3: Informal and corporative forms of coordination 16 Climate change adaptation through hierarchies and networks in the city of Bergen 287Marte Winsvold, Kari Johanne Hjeltnes, Jan Erling Klausen and Ove Langeland 17 Influence of citizens and stakeholders in shaping adaptation policy – opportunities and barriers 305Søren Gram, Bjørn Bedsted and Andreas Hastrup Clemmensen 18 Public participation in the governance of metropolitan scale climate adaptation: panacea or problem? 317Paul Burton and Johanna Nalau 19 Governance for (climate) change in American "Legacy" cities: a case study of Cleveland 333Sanda Kaufman 20 Governance of climate change adaptation on Small Island Developing States (SIDS) 355Ilan Kelman 21 Adaptation in small coastal towns in Australia 371Janet Stanley 22 Transnational learning for climate change adaptation in the Baltic Sea Region 389Stefanie Lange Scherbenske and Lisa Van Well Part 4: Findings of Climate Change Adaptation in Cities and Regions 23 Climate adaptation governance in cities and regions between hierarchical steering and network cooperation: findings from theoretical considerations and international practice 405Jörg Knieling and Katharina Klindworth Index, 421

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Book SynopsisA Spiritual City provides a broad examination of the meaning and importance of cities from a Christian perspective. Contains thought-provoking theological and spiritual reflections on city-making by a leading scholar Unites contemporary thinking about urban space and built environments with the latest in urban theology Addresses the long-standing anti-urban bias of Christianity and its emphasis on inwardness and pilgrimage Presents an important religious perspective on the potential of cities to create a strong human community and sense of sacred space Trade Review“This book is a must-read for anyone concerned about the future of cities — and that ought to be pretty much everyone, given that well over half the world’s population now lives in cites, up from 29 per cent in 1950. In any event, Revelation makes it clear that if we don’t live in one now, we shall, God willing.” (Church Times, 27 March 2015)Table of ContentsPreface ix Introduction 1 Part One The City in Christian Thought 23 1 Augustine’s Two Cities 25 2 Monasticism and Utopian Visions 43 3 The City as Sacred 63 4 The City and the Reformations 81 5 Michel de Certeau: Everyday Practices and the City 99 Part Two Theological Reflection and the City 115 6 Place and the Sacred 117 7 The Art of Community 137 8 Reconciliation and Hospitality 157 9 Urban Virtues 179 Epilogue: A Spiritual Vision of the Human City 201 Select Reading 211 Index 221

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Book SynopsisTIME • Most Anticipated Books of Fall 2022 From the international best-selling author of Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 comes this chilling dystopian fable for fans of Netflix’s Squid Game.Trade Review"A dystopian thriller with a series of intimate character sketches that form a portrait of a community. (Imagine “Winesburg, Ohio” set in “1984.”)... Cho draws touching portraits of her discarded denizens… illuminat[ing] the systemic enforcement of class in the same way that “Kim Jiyoung” revealed gender inequality…. An affecting portrait of people doing their best to survive in a world that would rather pretend they didn’t exist." -- Lincoln Michel - New York Times Book Review"What is it called again when dystopian fiction seems too uncomfortably plausible: Horror? Speculative fiction? A wake-up call? Treading in territories visited over time by Dickens, Orwell, Atwood, Ishiguro, Squid Game, and Parasite, Cho recounts—in specific and painstaking detail—the miserable lives endured by the many residents of the Saha housing complex... This successor to Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 (2020), Cho’s chronicle of the misogynistic forces behind South Korea’s #MeToo movement—a finalist for the National Book Award—addresses another equally corrosive social horror. Read. Weep. Learn." -- Kirkus Reviews, starred review

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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 SynopsisDespite a modest revival in city living, Americans are spreading out more than ever - into exurbs and boomburbs miles from anywhere, in big houses in big subdivisions. This book tells the untold story of development in America - how the landscape is shaped by a furious clash of political, economic and cultural forces.Trade ReviewEngaging, vivid and provocative work. Written with analytical rigor but also a crafty journalistic eye for the human-interest story that crystallizes an abstract theme, this book merits inclusion in any library. Library Journal A panoramic and extraordinarily up-to-date account of the struggle over how America builds. -- Philip Langdon New Urban News This Land offers a provocative and insightful overview of the challenges of sprawl. Boston Globe Those who truly hate sprawl and want to fight back would be well advised to read this book. Audubon Well researched, well written... very personable and readable. Recommended for all readers. Northeastern Naturalist Flint provides a historical perspective on how we became a suburban nation... with the easy-flowing, narrative skill of a journalist. -- Lawrence Bluestone Architecture Boston As an inquiry into the backlash against 'smart growth'... it offers valuable insights and unsettling observations from the frontlines of the battles over land use and suburban development. -- Tom Urbaniak Urban Affairs Review Cear, well-written overview of the sprawl debate. -- Jackie Begley Berkeley Planning Journal This Land is an important discussion of the future of America, its cities, and what lies outside of it. Midwest Book ReviewTable of ContentsIntroduction: Developing America1. Grids and Greenfields2. Suburbia's Promise, and Curse3. New Paradigm: New Urbanism4. The Smart Growth Revolution5. Walk Daily, Buy Local, Build Green6. Hands Off My Land7. Dream Defenders and Sprawl Inc.8. Pitched Battles9. The Density Dilemma10. Smart, and Fair11. Planning and DisasterConclusion: Six Healthy Habits for Sensible GrowthNotesBibliographical EssayAcknowledgmentsIndex

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Book SynopsisIt helps policy makers understand how best to develop and implement effective public health strategies around the United States.Trade ReviewBerg's extensive research, keen analysis, and clear exposition, as well as his unique perspective as a political scientist, make this an invaluable resource for any policymaker, politician, health-care provider, or concerned citizen. Library Journal Berg's book is important and useful--it shows what can be achieved in a complex, modern democracy, often against the odds. -- William Hatchett Environmental Health News Covers a wide range of important political perspectives--from neoliberal to libertarian--that influence public health policy... An enjoyable read, this volume will be valuable to those interested in public health, bioethics, and the role of government in health care. ChoiceTable of ContentsAcknowledgments1. Introduction2. Lead Poisoning in Children3. Managing Asthma4. Living with HIV/AIDS5. Helping a City Lose Weight6. The First Appearance of West Nile Virus7. ConclusionReferencesIndex

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Book SynopsisIn photos and words, this irresistible volume showcases long-established great cities like Paris, Rome, New York, London, and Tokyo, as well as exciting up-and-comers, including Denver, Asheville, Oslo, and Abu Dhabi. As readable as it is beautiful, this expansive travel guide offers a playful, informative mix of inspirational personal narratives; photo galleries, and fun facts; plus sidebars on oddities; where to find the best food and shopping; novels that capture a particular city’s atmosphere; local secrets; and more. Many additional cities appear in illustrated lists, such as eco-friendly cities, foodie cities; and happiest cities. The twenty-first century is the Century of the City, and on-the-go visitors and armchair travelers alike will make World’s Best Cities a must-have volume to accompany all their urban adventures.Trade Review"A must-have volume for on-the-go visitors and armchair travelers alike to accompany them on all of their urban adventures." --The Global Dispatch"If your travel tastes lean more toward big towns than big sky, [this] new book from National Geographic should find a place in your library." --Wall Street Journal"A gorgeously illustrated hardcover book that offers an inviting glance at cities around the world from New York to Abu Dhabi, along with curated lists of best cities in categories like eco-smart, oceanfront, high-altitude and all-American." --Associated Press"Iconic pictures, local insider tips, and hip stats make this a top choice for jet setters." --PeterGreenberg.com

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Book SynopsisThe award-winning book on urban poverty--now thoroughly revised and updatedTrade Review"When the authors concluded the first edition with an optimistic appraisal of policy options that could alleviate poverty and inequality, they could not have known that the nation was on the cusp of a political and economic transformation that would greatly exacerbate existing inequalities. Therefore, this second edition is all the more welcome." - Contemporary Sociology "[A] coherent account that draws on an extensive array of sources to describe the divisions that isolate poorer residents from the majority of the population...After a thoughtful overview, they amass their evidence to shed light on 'separate assets' (income distribution, and differences by race and gender), 'separate opportunities' (participation in the labour market, international comparisons) and 'separate places' (the changing social and economic contours of city regions). For many readers...the chapter on the changing shape of the American metropolis will be of most interest... [A] generally incisive and well-argued book." -Housing StudiesTable of ContentsCONTENTS:1. The End of an Era: Divided We Fall2. Separate Assets: Race, Gender and Other Dimensions of Poverty3. Separate Opportunities: Competition Versus Inclusion - The International Dimensions of American Urban Poverty4. Separate Places: The Changing Shape of the American Metropolis5. Rebuilding the American City

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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 SynopsisTouted as the key to more livable cities, the "smart cities" approach gets an independent-minded analysis from experts. They point out its strengths, its weaknesses, the agendas at play, and the risks it poses for Canadians.

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Book SynopsisJohns Hopkins destroyed his private papers so thoroughly that no credible biography exists of the Baltimore Quaker titan. One of America’s richest men and the largest single shareholder of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, Hopkins was also one of the city’s defining developers. In The Ghosts of Johns Hopkins, Antero Pietila weaves together a biography of the man with a portrait of how the institutions he founded have shaped the racial legacy of an industrial city from its heyday to its decline and revitalization. From the destruction of neighborhoods to make way for the mercantile buildings that dominated Baltimore’s downtown through much of the 19th century to the role that the president of Johns Hopkins University played in government sponsored “Negro Removal” that unleashed the migration patterns that created Baltimore’s existing racial patchwork, Pietila tells the story of how one man’s wealth shaped and reshaped the life of a city long after his lifetime.Trade Review“In The Ghosts of Johns Hopkins, veteran Baltimore Sun journalist Antero Pietila has not merely chronicled the history and reach of one of the world's greatest medical institutions and its enigmatic founder. He has done something more insightful. This is a careful, textbook study of how power and money are routed through American cities-- or not. Pietila knows the origins and outcomes in Baltimore as few ever will, but more than that, he understands our permanent national pathologies of race, class and greed." -- David Simon, Baltimore-based author; journalist; and writer and producer of HBO's "The Wire"“Antero Pietila has insightfully and carefully woven a story of wealth, pain, prejudice and the unrealized potential of an American city, through the dimly lit lens of one of its most famous and enigmatic benefactors. The story within the story chronicles and explains the less than accidental idiosyncrasies and complexities of influence and pretense, on over a century of urban development. Less than a stone's throw from Washington, DC, and long after Hopkins' death, Pietila accurately details the Baltimore epitaph; a coexistence of excellence and mediocrity forged on an anvil of premeditated policy and racial practice. It is a welcome treatise on a not so incidental slice of American history.” -- Hon. Kweisi Mfume, former congressman and president of the NAACP"Antero Pietila has woven a rich tapestry of Baltimore history that vividly interweaves the legacy of the elusive Johns Hopkins with the warp and woof of twentieth century politics, the torturous aftereffects of slavery, and gritty personal reporting that never shies away from the disturbing questions posed by long-ingrained racism and poverty." -- Fergus M. Bordewich, author of "The First Congress: How James Madison, George Washington, and a Group of Extraordinary Men Invented the Government""Hard-hitting and occasionally outrageous, this book gives us Baltimore by way of its most influential citizen and the institutions he created. Pietila also offers up plenty of digressions— from guano to grave robbers, mobsters to medical experiments—that are as revealing as his central subject. Picking up where his groundbreaking Not in My Neighborhood left off, he again powerfully demonstrates how racism has shaped Baltimore, even down to the legacy of the abolitionist Hopkins. Once again Pietila has written a book that should stimulate much discussion among those who care about Baltimore and its history." -- Deborah R. Weiner, co-author of On Middle Ground: A History of the Jews of Baltimore"Post-industrial Baltimore is fertile ground for coming to terms with the nation’s history of innovation and invention but also of forced labor, segregation, lynchings, eugenics and 'socioeconomic rotation'. In his latest book Pietila uses Johns Hopkins as the lens to focus on the high and mighty who pulled the strings and shaped Baltimore. He weaves the dealings of luminaries, power brokers, hustlers, police, and even Russian hackers, into a captivating story about his adopted hometown. Covering 200 years, the book ranges wide and far until a comprehensive picture emerges in which heroes and villains are thoroughly intertwined. Many strands lead to Johns Hopkins, the person, the university and the hospital bearing his name, adding up to what is today a 'global premium brand.'" -- Klaus Philipsen, architect and author of Baltimore: Reinventing an Industrial Legacy CityNo citizen left a more profound impact on Baltimore than entrepreneur, abolitionist, and philanthropist Johns Hopkins, who, after his death, endowed to the city the great university and hospital system that bears his name. At the same time, because he thoroughly destroyed his private papers, no comprehensive biography exists of Hopkins—but this is a good place to start. Pietila, a Baltimore Sun reporter for 35 years, delves into not just Hopkins’ formative years but the formative years of the city itself . . . If readers want to learn more about Baltimore’s history, particularly that of the east side, they won’t be disappointed. * Baltimore Magazine *

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