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Redefining Urban and Suburban America
Brookings Institution Press 2005; US$ 26.95Provides a closer look at the unprecedented social and economic changes taking place in the nation's oldest and newest communities, and explores the implications for a diverse set of policy areas, including metropolitan development patterns, immigrant incorporation, and the promotion of affordable housing and homeownership. more...
Don't Call It Sprawl
Cambridge University Press 2006; US$ 23.00Bogart puts the current policy debate over urban sprawl into a broader analytical context. He explains economic ideas about the structure of metropolitan areas to people interested in understanding the pattern of growth in their city. It then uses these ideas to analyze the impact and effectiveness of various policies. more...
Cities, Transport and Communications
Palgrave Macmillan 2003; US$ 159.00This book shows the impact of globalization on Southeast Asia, which over a few decades has evolved from a loose set of war-torn ex-colonies to being a centre of global manufacturing. Focusing on cities, the authors explain the emergence of modern Southeast Asia and its increasing integration into the world economy by showing how technological change,... more...
Livable Cities?
University of California Press 2002; US$ 29.95The sprawling cities of the developing world are vibrant hubs of economic growth, but they are also increasingly ecologically unsustainable and, for ordinary citizens, increasingly unlivable. Pollution is rising, affordable housing is decreasing, and green space is shrinking. Since three-quarters of those joining the world's population during the next... more...
The New Urban Sociology
Westview Press 2010; US$ 49.00Now revised and updated, this groundbreaking text utilizes an integrated sociospatial paradigm to consider the role of race, class, gender, lifestyle, economics, culture, and politics on the development of metropolitan areas. more...
The Polycentric Metropolis
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 125.00A new 21st century urban phenomenon is emerging: the networked polycentric mega-city region. Developed around one or more cities of global status, it is characterized by a cluster of cities and towns, physically separate but intensively networked in a complex spatial division of labour. This book describes and analyses eight such regions in North West... more...
Redefining Urban and Suburban America, Volume 1
Brookings Institution Press 2003; US$ 26.95Redefining Urban and Suburban America explores demographic trends and their complexities, along with their implications for the policies and politics shaping metropolitan America. The shifts discussed here have significant influence in demand for housing and schools, childcare and healthcare, as well as private goods and services. more...
World Cities in a World-System
Cambridge University Press 1995; US$ 42.00Seventeen essays by leading researchers in the area of world cities and the economic factors. more...
Synergy in Polycentric Urban Regions
IOS Press 2007; US$ 55.00In understanding and explaining the functioning of cities, contemporary urban and regional studies attribute great significance to relationships between cities. This book focuses on relationships between cities in polycentric urban regions (PURs), which are regions containing proximate but distinct cities that are rather similar in size. more...
Sunbelt/Frostbelt
Brookings Institution Press 2005; US$ 24.95"The product of a multiyear project looking at how government policies shape growth patterns in five metropolitan areas--Los Angeles, Phoenix, Pittsburgh, Chicago, and Philadelphia--this book examines how these sunbelt and frostbelt metro areas have tried to use policy reform to address their individual development challenges"--Provided by publishe more...









