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Urban Process and Powerby Peter Ambrose
Routledge 1994; US$ 61.95Analyses and explains a century of the production and reproduction of the urban environment and focuses on recent changes in the control of these processes and the ideology which has ensured that urban inequalities continue to exist and grow. more...
Designing the Cityby Hildebrand Frey
Spon Press 1999; US$ 90.00Designing the City looks at currnet urban problems in cities and demonstrates how effective urban design can address soical, economic and environmental issues as well as the physical planning at local level. more...
Of Planting and Planningby Robert Home
Spon Press 1996; US$ 200.00This book looks at the transfer of British planning legislation to the colonies and the influence of this transfer on world urbanization and present urban management approaches. more...
To-Morrowby Sir Peter Hall; Dennis Hardy; E. Howard; David Lock; Colin Ward
Routledge 2003; US$ 44.95Ebenezer Howard's Tomorrow: A Peaceful Path to Real Reform was first published in 1898. This new facsimilie edition of the original publication has updated authoritative commentary. more...
Urban Planning and Real Estate Developmentby John Ratcliffe; Michael Stubbs; Mark Shepherd
Spon Press 2003; US$ 61.95This book is a comprehensive treatment of the twin processes of planning and development and is the only book to bring the two fields together in a single text. more...
Dialogues in Urban and Regional Planningby Bruce Stiftel; Vanessa Watson
Routledge 2004; US$ 165.00Dialogues in Urban and Regional Planning offers a selection of the best urban planning scholarship from each of the world's planning scholarship communities. The papers presented illustrate the concerns and the discourse of planning scholarship more...
Visionaries and Plannersby Stanley Buder
Oxford University Press 1990; US$ 145.00For nearly a century the Garden City movement has represented one end of a continuum in an ongoing debate about the future of the modern city. In 1898 Ebenezer Howard envisioned an experimental community as the alternative to huge, teeming cities. Small, planned "garden cities" girdled by greenbelts were to serve in time as the "master key" to a higher, more cooperative stage of civilization based on ecologically balanced communities. Howard soon founded an international planning movement which ever since has represented a remarkable blend of accommodation to and protest against urban changes and the rise of the suburbs. In this interconnected history of the Garden City movement in the United States and Britain, Buder examines its influence,... more...
Globalization and Urban Developmentby Harry W. Richardson; Chang-Hee C. Bae
Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG 2005; US$ 149.00Most research on globalization has focused on macroeconomic and economy-wide consequences. This book explores an under-researched area, the impacts of globalization on cities and national urban hierarchies, especially but not solely in developing countries. Most of the globalization-urban research has concentrated on the "global cities" (e.g. New York, London, Paris, Tokyo) that influence what happens in the rest of the world. In contrast, this research looks at the cities at the receiving end of the forces of globalization. The general finding is that large cities, on balance, benefit from globalization, although in some cases at the expense of widening spatial inequities. more...
Power and City Governanceby Alan DiGaetano; John S. Klemanski
University of Minnesota Press 1999; US$ 84.00This book develops a new way of comparing and understanding urban politics across national borders. The authors? approach, called ?modes of governance,? emphasizes governing alignments and their agendas. Applying this perspective to Boston and Detroit in the United States and Birmingham and Bristol in England, the authors compare the effects of postindustrial and urban political transformations, and link these to trends in the wider political economy. more...
Urban Energy Transitionby Peter Droege
Elsevier 2008; US$ 200.00This compendium of 29 chapters from 18 countries contains both fundamental and advanced insight into the inevitable shift from cities dominated by the fossil-fuel systems of the industrial age to a renewable-energy based urban development framework. The cross-disciplinary handbook covers a range of diverse yet relevant topics, including: carbon emissions policy and practice; the role of embodied energy; urban thermal performance planning; building efficiency services; energy poverty alleviation efforts; renewable community support networks; aspects of household level bio-fuel markets; urban renewable energy legislation, programs and incentives; innovations in individual transport systems; global urban mobility trends; implications of intelligent... more...









