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Cities between Competitiveness and Cohesion
Springer 2008; US$ 69.99The central aim of many analyses in population studies and demography is to explain cause-effect relationships among variables or events. For decades, population scientists have concentrated their efforts on estimating the a oecauses of effectsa (e.g. a oeWhat accounts for the decline of fertility rates?a ) by applying standard cross-sectional and... more...
Gentrification in a Global Context
Taylor and Francis 2004; US$ 59.95Gentrification, a process of class neighbourhood upgrading, is being identified in a broader range of urban contexts throughout the world. This book throws new light and evidence to bear on a subject that deeply divides commentators on its worth and social costs given its ability to physically improve areas but also to displace indigenous inhabitants.... more...
Brachflächenreaktivierung als Instrument der Stadterhaltung und nachhaltiger Innenentwicklung
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 2011; US$ 30.95Hauptbeschreibung Brachflächen wachsen. Diese Erkenntnis ist unbestritten. Bundesweit ist ein Brachflächenbestand von weit über 100.000 ha vorhanden. Diese Flächenressourcen gilt es für die künftige Siedlungsentwicklung und zum Schutz des Freiraums zu reaktivieren. Dabei stellt die Wiedernutzung von Brachflächen nicht nur neue Herausforderungen an... more...
Neighbourhood Renewal and Housing Markets
Wiley 2008; US$ 165.00The academic and policy interest in the development of cities, the renewal of residential and older industrial neighbourhoods in cities, and issues to do with race, polarisation and inequality in cities has remained at the forefront of policy and academic debate across Europe and North America. This book provides an important new contribution to these... more...
Race, Housing and Community
Wiley 2012; US$ 120.00This book provides an important new contribution to debates around housing policy and its impact on community cohesion. There has never been a more prescient time to discuss these concepts: the book provides an interpretation of housing, race and community cohesion in a highly politicized and fluid policy context. It is designed to initiate discussion... more...
The Third City
University of Chicago Press 2012; US$ 18.00Our traditional image of Chicago—as a gritty metropolis carved into ethnically defined enclaves where the game of machine politics overshadows its ends—is such a powerful shaper of the city’s identity that many of its closest observers fail to notice that a new Chicago has emerged over the past two decades. Larry Bennett here tackles... more...
Cities on Rails
Taylor and Francis 1998; US$ 165.00The development of railway stations and their surroundings is an emerging feature in current urban projects. Based on a series of the most inspiring contemporary European examples of station redevelopment, this book will help planners and urban designers understand the specific and complex nature of station locations. Based on their extensive research,... more...
The Sustainable City VI
WIT Press 2010; US$ 572.00This book contains papers presented at The Sustainable City 2010 conference, which was the sixth edition of the International Conference on Urban Regeneration and Sustainability. That event followed the very successful meetings held previously in Rio (2000), Segovia (2002), Siena (2004), Tallinn (2006) and Skiathos (2008) and proved one more time the... more...
Reviving America's Forgotten Neighbourhoods
Taylor and Francis 2000; US$ 42.95This book examines both successful and unsuccessful efforts at revitalizing low-income neighborhoods and features case studies on a wide range of American cities. more...
A Neighborhood That Never Changes
University of Chicago Press 2010; US$ 30.00Newcomers to older neighborhoods are usually perceived as destructive, tearing down everything that made the place special and attractive. But as A Neighborhood That Never Changes demonstrates, many gentrifiers seek to preserve the authentic local flavor of their new homes, rather than ruthlessly remake them. Drawing on ethnographic research in... more...









