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  • Smart Communities

    How Citizens and Local Leaders Can Use Strategic Thinking to Build a Brighter Future

    Series series Essential Texts for Nonprofit and Public Leadership and Management
    The new edition of the acclaimed guide to strategic decision-making in community planning, development, and collaborationBased on the results of more than a decade of research by the Pew Partnership for Civic Change, Smart Communities provides directions for strategic decision-making and outlines the key strategies used by thousands of leaders who have worked to create successful communities. ... Leer más

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  • Radical Cities

    Across Latin America in Search of a New Architecture

    What makes the city of the future? How do you heal a divided city?In Radical Cities, Justin McGuirk travels across Latin America in search of the activist architects, maverick politicians and alternative communities already answering these questions. From Brazil to Venezuela, and from Mexico to Argentina, McGuirk discovers the people and ideas shaping the way cities are evolving.Ever since the mid ... Leer más

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  • The Social Roots of Risk

    Producing Disasters, Promoting Resilience

    Series series High Reliability and Crisis Management
    "This book about risk and disaster—and how they get amplified—is fascinating and hugely important as we face an ever-more-turbulent world." —Rebecca Solnit, award-winning author of A Field Guide to Getting LostThe first decade of the twenty-first century saw a remarkable number of large-scale disasters. Earthquakes in Haiti and Sumatra underscored the serious economic consequences that ... Leer más

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  • Ecology Against Capitalism

    In recent years John Bellamy Foster has emerged as a leading theorist of the Marxist perspective on ecology. His seminal book Marx's Ecology (Monthly Review Press, 2000) discusses the place of ecological issues within the intellectual history of Marxism and on the philosophical foundations of a Marxist ecology, and has become a major point of reference in ecological debates. This historical and ... Leer más

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  • Building Community, Chinatown Style

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    Gordon Chin, nationally recognized community leader and activist, tells the compelling story of the rise of civic and political power in San Francisco's Chinatown from the 1960s through the election of a Chinese American mayor in 2011. This grass roots community leadership has made San Francisco Chinatown a model for community development across the country. The narrative covers the birth of Asian ... Leer más

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  • Demographic Change in Australia's Rural Landscapes

    Implications for Society and the Environment

    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    The distribution and re-distribution of people across the landscape has signi cant implications for ecological, economic and social dynamics. Movement of people to urban centres (mostly from rural landscapes, especially in the developing world) is a major global phenomenon. This can result in the de-population of rural landscapes. Conversely, population growth and a changing demographic pro le ... Leer más

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  • Historical Farmland in China During 1661-1980

    Reconstruction and Spatiotemporal Characteristics

    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book explores various approaches to reconstruct the spatial and temporal distribution of historical farmland in China. The book contains background information about political regimes, economic and social development, population changes and land resource utilization in the past 300 years in China. A literature review focuses on the assumptions, methodologies and models of reconstructing ... Leer más

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  • Remaking Planning

    The Politics of Urban Change

    Remaking Planning challenges the common misconception that planning under the Conservative government has been dismantled and abandoned to market forces.This new edition of a very well received text brings the original study up to date with an analysis of how planning in the 1990s has responded to continuing economic restructuring, political fragmentation and social change, and developed a new ... Leer más

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  • Governing Urban Sustainability

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  • Urban Focus

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  • Measuring Quality in Planning

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    This book deals with one of the current major debates in planning: how to measure the quality and effectiveness of the output of the planning process. It deals with issues of defining quality, public sector management, the use of indicators and the planning process. Although case study material is drawn from UK practice this topic is universal and the authors include discussions of international ... Leer más

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  • Access to Justice for the Urban Poor

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    This publication suggests solutions that can be built into the design of urban development projects undertaken by the Asian Development Bank (ADB) to address the common problems and grievances of the urban poor, and to improve urban governance overall. It also identifies successful or promising community-based approaches to dispute resolution that can be useful in urban project design. It uses ADB ... Leer más

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