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Reviving America's Forgotten Neighbourhoodsby Elise M. Bright
Routledge 2001; US$ 42.95This book examines both successful and unsuccessful efforts at revitalizing low-income neighbourhoods and features case studies on a wide range of American cities. more...
Waterfronts in Post-Industrial Citiesby Richard Marshall
Spon Press 2001; US$ 90.00Waterfronts in Post-Industrial Cities is a second generation waterfront publication which reflects on recent and contemporary developments. Successful examples are Amsterdam, Boston, Genoa, Sydney and Vancouver. more...
Art of Revitalizationby John W. Zielenbach
Garland Science 2000; US$ 51.95Focusing on two Chicago neighbourhoods as case studies, this text examines the regional and national factors that affect urban development as well as the specific local characteristics that impact revitalization. more...
Manufactured Sitesby Niall Kirkwood
Spon Press 2001; US$ 130.00This collection of interdisciplinary essays presents internationally renowned designers, scientists, regulators, environmental and civil engineers and their research and project work on the integration of cleanup. more...
Industrial and Business Space Developmentby S. Morely; C. Marsh; A. McIntosh; H. Martinos
Spon Press 1989; US$ 165.00An insight into the changing nature of the industrial and business space property market and how business space development schemes can be initiated and implemented to revitalise urban areas. more...
Edge of Empireby Jane M. Jacobs
Routledge 1996; US$ 71.95Edge of Empire forms the basis for understanding imperialism over space and time, and is a recognition of the unruly spatial politics of race and nation, nature and culture, past and present. more...
Gentrification in a Global Contextby Rowland Atkinson; Gary Bridge
Routledge 2004; US$ 56.95The Gentrification in a Global Perspective brings together the most recent theoretical and empirical research on gentrification at a global scale. more...
Management of Regenerationby John Diamond; Joyce Liddle
Routledge 2005; US$ 59.95This book examines new forms of regeneration management while reflecting on the theoretical models of the past 20 years and focusing on partnership, sustainability, capacity building and community engagement and participation. more...
Rebuilding Communityby Dr John Pierson; Dr Joan Smith
Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. 2001; US$ 112.00Our poorest urban neighbourhoods experience economic and social difficulties that uniquely affect the lives of those who live there. This volume examines the policies and initiatives now underway on both sides of the Atlantic to revitalize those areas. With contributors from the US, France and the UK the volume explains the nature of specific community building programmes and explores critical issues such as the role of partnerships and the importance of race and gender in urban regeneration. more...
City for Saleby Chester Hartman
University of California Press 2002; US$ 15.95San Francisco is perhaps the most exhilarating of all American cities--its beauty, cultural and political avant-gardism, and history are legendary, while its idiosyncrasies make front-page news. In this revised edition of his highly regarded study of San Francisco's economic and political development since the mid-1950s, Chester Hartman gives a detailed account of how the city has been transformed by the expansion--outward and upward--of its downtown. His story is fueled by a wide range of players and an astonishing array of events, from police storming the International Hotel to citizens forcing the midair termination of a freeway. Throughout, Hartman raises a troubling question: can San Francisco's unique qualities survive the changes that... more...









