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Creative Communities
Brookings Institution Press 2013; US$ 29.95Urban and regional planners, elected officials, and other decisionmakers are increasingly focused on what makes places livable. Access to the arts inevitably appears high on that list, but knowledge about how culture and the arts can act as a tool of economic development is sadly lacking. This important sector must be considered not only as a source... more...
Healthy City Planning
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 52.95Healthy city planning means seeking ways to eliminate the deep and persistent inequities that plague cities. Yet, as Jason Corburn argues in this book, neither city planning nor public health is currently organized to ensure that today?s cities will be equitable and healthy. Having made the case for what he calls ?adaptive urban health justice?... more...
Strong, Safe, and Resilient
World Bank Publications 2013; US$ 19.99Disaster risk management is essential in the fight against poverty. Disasters can, in an instant, wipe out decades of hard-fought poverty reduction and development gains and push countless households into poverty. Disasters disproportionally affect the poor: Vulnerable and marginalized groups, including women, children, the elderly, and people with... more...
Building Urban Resilience
World Bank Publications 2013; US$ 14.99Resilience is the ability of a system, community, or society exposed to hazards to resist, absorb, accommodate to, and recover from the effects of a hazard in a timely and efficient manner. Resilience in the context of cities translates into a new paradigm for urbanization, and forms base for a new understanding how to manage hazards and urban development.... more...
Rental Housing
World Bank Publications 2013; US$ 19.99The vast majority of rental housing around the world is unsubsidized and in private hands. Everywhere there are great needs for safe, decent, and affordable housing at the lowest income levels. A few countries-mostly developed ones-have a sizable social rental sector, yet even here the demand cannot be met and there are often long waiting lists for... more...
Urbanization beyond Municipal Boundaries
World Bank Publications 2013; US$ 19.99This study identifies three priority areas for India's policymakers as they try to harness economic efficiency and manage spatial equity associated with urbanization. First, to enhance productivity, invest in the institutional and information foundations to enable land and housing markets to function efficiently, while deregulating the intensity... more...
Asian and Pacific Cities
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 145.00The cities of Asia and the Pacific are at the epicentre of development in what is arguably, the most populous, culturally distinctive, and economically powerful region in the world. 16 major cities such as Tokyo, Shanghai, Manila, Jakarta, Bangkok, Singapore, Auckland, Kuala Lumpur and Santiago, located in countries as diverse as Mexico and Vietnam,... more...
The University and the City
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 145.00Universities are being seen as key urban institutions by researchers and policy makers around the world. They are global players with significant local direct and indirect impacts ? on employment, the built environment, business innovation and the wider society. The University and the City explores these impacts and in the process seeks to expose... more...
Markets and Politics in Central Asia
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 185.00Over a decade after national independence, it is apparent that the contrasting development strategies adopted by the five new governments of Central Asia have led to significantly different outcomes. This well-written and timely book analyses how the development strategies of these countries have affected their transition from communist governance. more...
Transforming Cities with Transit
World Bank Publications 2013; US$ 19.99Transforming Cities with Transit' explores the complex process of transit and land-use integration in rapidly growing cities in developing countries. As one of the most promising strategies for advancing environmental sustainability, economic competitiveness, and socially inclusive development in fast-growing cities, transit and land-use integration... more...









