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“amy glasmeier”

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  • An Atlas of Poverty in America

    One Nation, Pulling Apart 1960–2003

    by Amy Glasmeier ...
    Persistant poverty has long been one of America's most pressing and intractable problems. According to some estimates, by 2003, almost twenty-five percent of the America's countries had per-capita incomes below one half the national average, high unemployment, low labour force participation rates, and a high dependency on government transfer payments - all measures of economic distress. An Atlas ... Read more

    $91.99 USD

  • The High-Tech Potential

    Economic Development in Rural America

    by Amy K. Glasmeier ...
    Rural America is at a crossroads in its economic development. Like regions of other First World nations, the traditional economic base of rural communities in the United States is rapidly deteriorating. Natural resources, including agriculture, show little prospect for generating future job growth, and manufacturing has become a new source of instability. Faced with these changes and an increasing ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

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  • The City

    A World History

    by Andrew Lees ...
    Series series New Oxford World History
    The City: A World History tells the story of the rise and development of urban centers from ancient times to the twenty-first century. It begins with the establishment of the first cities in the Near East in the fourth millennium BCE, and goes on to examine urban growth in the Indus River Valley in India, as well as Egypt and areas that bordered the Mediterranean Sea. Athens, Alexandria, and Rome ... Read more

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  • Slow Burn City

    London in the Twenty-First Century

    by Rowan Moore ...
    With a new introduction for the paperback.London is a supreme achievement of civilization. It offers fulfilments of body and soul, encourages discovery and invention. It is a place of freedom, multiplicity and co-existence. It is a Liberal city, which means it stands for values now in peril.London has also become its own worst enemy, testing to destruction the idea that the free market alone can ... Read more

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  • Crime Prevention and the Built Environment

    by Ted Kitchen, Richard H. Schneider ...
    With a comprehensive analysis, this book links theory, evidence and practical application to bridge gaps between planning, design and criminology. The authors investigate connections between crime prevention and development planning with an international approach, looking at initiatives in the field and incorporating an understanding of current responses to the growth of technology and terrorism. ... Read more

    $91.99 USD

  • Small Change

    About the Art of Practice and the Limits of Planning in Cities

    by Nabeel Hamdi ...
    What exactly is 'small change'?Build a bus stop in an urban slum and a vibrant community sprouts and grows around it - that is the power of small changes that have huge positive effects.This book is an argument for the wisdom of the street, the ingenuity of the improvisers and the long-term, large-scale effectiveness of immediate, small-scale actions. Written by Nabeel Hamdi, the guru of urban ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • The New Urban Frontier

    Gentrification and the Revanchist City

    by Neil Smith ...
    Why have so many central and inner cities in Europe, North America and Australia been so radically revamped in the last three decades, converting urban decay into new chic? Will the process continue in the twenty-first century or has it ended? What does this mean for the people who live there? Can they do anything about it? This book challenges conventional wisdom, which holds gentrification to be ... Read more

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  • Urbanism

    by David Rudlin ...
    The Academy of Urbanism was founded in 2006 with a mission to recognise, encourage and celebrate great places across the UK, Europe and beyond, and the people and organisations that create and sustain them. This book is a compendium of seventy five places that have been shortlisted as part of the Academy's annual awards scheme which covers great Places, Streets, Neighbourhoods, Towns and Cities ... Read more

    $82.99 USD

  • Sociable Cities

    The 21st-Century Reinvention of the Garden City

    by Peter Hall, Colin Ward ...
    Series series Planning, History and Environment Series
    Peter Hall and Colin Ward wrote Sociable Cities to celebrate the centenary of publication of Ebenezer Howard’s To-morrow: A Peaceful Path to Real Reform in 1998 – an event they then marked by co-editing (with Dennis Hardy) the magnificent annotated facsimile edition of Howard’s original, long lost and very scarce, in 2003. In this revised edition of Sociable Cities, sadly now without Colin Ward, ... Read more

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  • The creation of City Districts under Local Governments in Pakistan

    by Muhammad Abd al-Hameed ...
    Series series Local Government
    This study was written before the new Local Government system was introduced in Pakistan in 2001. It analyzes various components of a City District and proposes how three provincial capitals might be converted into City Districts. The geographical and other features of Quetta, Peshawar and Lahore were studied. (Karachi, the capital of Sindh province, was not covered in the study because it was ... Read more

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  • My Storm

    Managing the Recovery of New Orleans in the Wake of Katrina

    by Edward J. Blakely, Henry Cisneros ...
    Series series The City in the Twenty-First Century
    Edward J. Blakely has been called upon to help rebuild after some of the worst disasters in recent American history, from the San Francisco Bay Area's 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake to the September 11 attacks in New York. Yet none of these jobs compared to the challenges he faced in his appointment by New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin as Director of the Office of Recovery and Development Administration ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Positive Development

    From Vicious Circles to Virtuous Cycles through Built Environment Design

    by Janis Birkeland ...
    Janis Birkeland presents the innovative new paradigm of 'Positive Development' in which the built environment provides greater life quality, health, amenity and safety for all without sacrificing resources or money. With a different form of design, development itself can become a 'sustainability solution'. A cornerstone of this new paradigm is the eco-retrofitting of the vast urban fabric we ... Read more

    $73.99 USD