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  • Amsterdam Human Capitalby Sako Musterd; Willem Salet

    Amsterdam University Press 2003; US$ 50.00

    An interdisciplinary study of the changing urban space of Amsterdam. more...

  • That City is Mine!by Cordula Rooijendijk

    Amsterdam University Press 2005; US$ 8.50

    Examines images of Amsterdam and Rotterdam from a range of city dwellers, describing their ideal city as they engage in city council debates to gain support, and try to eliminate those with different images more...

  • The Creative Cityby Charles Landry

    Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 42.95

    The Creative City is a clarion call for imaginative action in developing and running urban life. It shows how to think, plan and act creatively in addressing urban issues, with remarkable examples of innovation and regeneration from around the world. This revised edition of Charles Landry's highly influential text has been updated with a new, extensive... more...

  • Reshaping Planning with Cultureby Greg Young

    Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2008; US$ 99.95

    Greg Young argues that there is a need and opportunity to re-position planning and proposes a new system of 'culturisation', which is defined as the ethical, critical and reflexive integration of culture into planning. This original and practical system is put forward, taking into account cultural theory, neo-modern and post-modern planning... more...

  • Local Sustainable Urban Development in a Globalized Worldby Lauren C. Heberle; Susan M. Opp

    Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2008; US$ 124.95

    Sustainable development' is a key issue of concern to urban planners across the globe.Bringing together leading experts from North America, Europe, the Middle East and SE Asia, this book provides a timely overview of the various methods for understanding and implementing sustainable practices at local levels. more...

  • Urban Green Belts in the Twenty-first Centuryby Marco Amati

    Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2008; US$ 124.95

    By bringing together and comparing the experiences of green belt reform across the whole developed world, this book adds to the understanding of how a green belt can be affected and what alternatives exist to it. A team of leading researchers and practitioners assess the usefulness of green belts and their alternatives as tools for planners in this... more...

  • Improving Municipal Management for Cities to Succeedby Gilbert. Roy Trevo

    World Bank Publications 2009; US$ 9.99

    Cities now house half the world’s population and produce 70 percent of its GDP. Managing them well helps development. Strengthening municipal management of planning, finance, and service provision has been at the core of World Bank support through municipal development projects (MDPs). This book reviews how, worldwide, nearly 3,000 municipalities... more...

  • Crossing Bordersby Patsy Healey; Robert Upton

    Taylor and Francis 2010; US$ 62.95

    The complex diffusion processes affecting the flow of planning ideas and practices across the globe are illustrated in this book. It raises questions about why and how some ideas and practices attract international attention, and about the invention processes which go on when external influences are woven together with local efforts to meet local... more...

  • Stedelijke economieën in een tijd van mondialiseringby Jeroen van der Waal

    Amsterdam University Press 2010; US$ 21.50

    De laatste decennia is er veel geschreven over de lokale gevolgen van economische mondialisering. In Stedelijke economieën in een tijd van mondialisering wordt de complexe internationale literatuur over de lokale gevolgen hiervan op heldere wijze uiteengezet en vervolgens aan empirische toetsing onderworpen.Een analyse met betrekking tot de tweeëntwintig... more...

  • A Planner's Encounter with Complexityby Gert de Roo; Elisabete A. Silva

    Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2010; US$ 124.95

    Bringing together a team of leading spatiial theorists, this book argues that a view of environments which are confronted with discontinuous, non-linear evolving processes is more realistic than the notion that an environment is simply a planner's creation, and that recognising the 'complexity' of our environment offers an entirely new... more...