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  • Private Cities

    Global and Local Perspectives

    by Georg Glasze, Chris Webster, Klaus Frantz ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Human Geography
    For the antagonist, private communities are icons of post-consensus, fragmenting civic society, enclosing and excluding by contractual constitution and sometimes by walls and gates. For others they are simply an efficient new way of organizing urban life.Contributed to, and edited by, an international team of leading authors, this revealing book constructs an interdisciplinary discourse on the ... Read more

    $94.81 CAD

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  • Walkable City

    How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time

    by Jeff Speck ...
    Jeff Speck has dedicated his career to determining what makes cities thrive. And he has boiled it down to one key factor: walkability.The very idea of a modern metropolis evokes visions of bustling sidewalks, vital mass transit, and a vibrant, pedestrian-friendly urban core. But in the typical American city, the car is still king, and downtown is a place that's easy to drive to but often not worth ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • The Culture of Cities

    by Lewis Mumford ...
    Series Book 19 - Forbidden Bookshelf
    A classic work advocating ecological urban planning—from a civic visionary and former architecture critic for the New Yorker.Considered among the greatest works of Lewis Mumford—a prolific historian, sociologist, philosopher of technology, and longtime architecture critic for the New Yorker—The Culture of Cities is a call for communal action to "rebuild the urban world on a sounder human ... Read more

    $15.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • HTO

    Toronto's Water from Lake Iroquois to Lost Rivers and Low-flow Toilets

    Edited by Wayne Reeves, Christina Palassio ...
    Series series uTOpia
    Drained by a half-dozen major watersheds, cut by a network of deep ravines and fronting on a Great Lake, Toronto is dominated by water. Like most cities, though, Toronto has mismanaged its water, from the decades-long transformation of the citys creeks into sewersheds to the alteration of Torontos waterfront. Recently, the trend of fettering Torontos water and putting it underground has been ... Read more

    $14.39 CAD

  • The Routledge Companion to Urban Regeneration

    Edited by Michael E. Leary, John McCarthy ...
    In the past decade, urban regeneration policy makers and practitioners have faced a number of difficult challenges, such as sustainability, budgetary constraints, demands for community involvement and rapid urbanization in the Global South. Urban regeneration remains a high profile and important field of government-led intervention, and policy and practice continue to adapt to the fresh challenges ... Read more

    $94.81 CAD

  • Comparative Planning Cultures

    Edited by Sanyal Bishwapriya ...
    Bringing together leading planning and urban scholars, and including fascinating international case studies, this unique book investigates urban planning across the world and in different cultures. ... Read more

    $94.81 CAD

  • Loose Space

    Possibility and Diversity in Urban Life

    Edited by Karen Franck, Quentin Stevens ...
    In cities around the world people use a variety of public spaces to relax, to protest, to buy and sell, to experiment and to celebrate. Loose Space explores the many ways that urban residents, with creativity and determination, appropriate public space to meet their own needs and desires. Familiar or unexpected, spontaneous or planned, momentary or long-lasting, the activities that make urban ... Read more

    $116.79 CAD

  • Whose Urban Renaissance?

    An international comparison of urban regeneration strategies

    Edited by Libby Porter, Kate Shaw ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Human Geography
    The desire of governments for a 'renaissance' of their cities is a defining feature of contemporary urban policy. From Melbourne and Toronto to Johannesburg and Istanbul, government policies are successfully attracting investment and middle-class populations to their inner areas. Regeneration - or gentrification as it can often become - produces winners and losers. There is a substantial ... Read more

    $105.80 CAD

  • Copenhagenize

    The Definitive Guide to Global Bicycle Urbanism

    by Mikael Colville-Andersen ...
    The bicycle enjoyed a starring role in urban history over a century ago, but now it is back, stronger than ever. It is the single most important tool for improving our cities. Designing around it is the most efficient way to make our cities life-sized—to scale cities for humans. It is time to cement the bicycle firmly in the urban narrative in US and global cities.Enter urban designer Mikael ... Read more

    $49.49 CAD

  • Mega-Events and Legacies in Post-Metropolitan Spaces

    Expos and Urban Agendas

    by Stefano Di Vita, Corinna Morandi ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book offers new perspectives through which to observe and interpret mega-events. Using the specific case studies of World’s Fairs, Di Vita and Morandi present a report of the Milan Expo 2015 and its trans-scalar legacies. While the event and post-event have been affected by the world crisis, the locations of exhibition areas have greatly expanded, encompassing regional as well as post ... Read more

    $70.49 CAD

  • Constructive Feminism

    Women's Spaces and Women's Rights in the American City

    by Daphne Spain ...
    In Constructive Feminism**, Daphne Spain examines the deliberate and unintended spatial consequences of feminism's second wave, a social movement dedicated to reconfiguring power relations between women and men.** Placing the women's movement of the 1970s in the context of other social movements that have changed the use of urban space, Spain argues that reform feminists used the legal system to ... Read more

    $27.19 CAD

  • Routledge Revivals: Theories of Planning and Spatial Development (1983)

    Edited by Philip Cooke ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    First published in 1983, this book attempts to unify two bodies of theory which had become severely disjointed. Theories of the planning process had become detached from those of the urban and regional processes which are the subject of planning intervention. The author argues that major weaknesses of planning intervention in cities and regions have resulted from this split, and shows how it is ... Read more

    $79.69 CAD