Urban & municipal planning books

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Urban America Reconsidered: Alternatives for Governance and Policy

Urban America Reconsidered: Alternatives for Governance...

Author: David L. Imbroscio
ISBN: 9780801475658
Format: Paperback
$55.44

The aftermath of Hurricane Katrina laid bare the tragedy of American cities. What the storm revealed about the social...  Read More >>

Housing Washington: Two Centuries of Residential Development and Planning in the National Capital Area

Housing Washington: Two Centuries of Residential Development...

Author: Richard Longstreth
ISBN: 9781935195078
Format: Hardback
$130.68

Since the early nineteenth century, an unusually rich and varied array of housing stock has been created in the...  Read More >>

Urban Green: Innovative Parks for Resurgent Cities

Urban Green: Innovative Parks for Resurgent Cities

Author: Peter Harnik ,  Mayor Michael Bloomberg
ISBN: 9781597266796
Format: Hardback
$158.40

Urban Green explores new and innovative ways for “built out” cities to add much-needed parkland. After first exploring...  Read More >>

Reinventing Practice in a Disenchanted World: Bourdieu and Urban Poverty in Oaxaca, Mexico

Reinventing Practice in a Disenchanted World: Bourdieu...

Author: Cheleen Ann-Catherine Mahar
ISBN: 9780292721920
Format: Hardback
$145.20

A unique intergenerational ethnography about Oaxaca that uses Pierre Bourdieu's practice-theoretical approach  Read More >>

Urban America Reconsidered: Alternatives for Governance and Policy

Urban America Reconsidered: Alternatives for Governance...

Author: David L. Imbroscio
ISBN: 9780801448522
Format: Hardback
$180.84

The aftermath of Hurricane Katrina laid bare the tragedy of American cities. What the storm revealed about the social...  Read More >>

Cities Surround the Countryside: Urban Aesthetics in Postsocialist China

Cities Surround the Countryside: Urban Aesthetics in...

Author: Robin Visser
ISBN: 9780822347286
Format: Paperback
$68.51

Explores the cultural significance of the explosive growth of China s cities during the past three decades through...  Read More >>

The New Economy of the Inner City: Restructuring, Regeneration and Dislocation in the 21st Century Metropolis

The New Economy of the Inner City: Restructuring, Regeneration...

Author: Thomas A. Hutton (University of British Columbia, Canada)
ISBN: 9780415569323
Format: Paperback
$62.99

The New Economy of the Inner City presents a penetrating analysis of contemporary new industry formation and its...  Read More >>

Cities Surround the Countryside: Urban Aesthetics in Postsocialist China

Cities Surround the Countryside: Urban Aesthetics in...

Author: Robin Visser
ISBN: 9780822347095
Format: Hardback
$237.47

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The Property Tax and Local Autonomy

The Property Tax and Local Autonomy

Author: Michael E. Bell ,  Joan M. Youngman
ISBN: 9781558442061
Format: Hardback
$57.95

Some of the nation's leading scholars of government and public finance provide their views on the consequences of...  Read More >>

Kick the Tyres, Light the Fires: One Man's Vision for Britain's Future and How We Can Make It Work

Kick the Tyres, Light the Fires: One Man's Vision for...

Author: Torquil Norman
ISBN: 9781282578050
Format: Electronic book text
$41.29

Kick the Tyres, Light the Fires is thestory of Torquil Norman's extraordinary life, leading up to the acquisition...  Read More >>

Urban Nation: Australia's Planning Heritage

Urban Nation: Australia's Planning Heritage

Author: Robert Freestone
ISBN: 9780643096981
Format: Paperback
$79.95

Provides the first national survey of the historical impact of urban planning and design on the Australian landscape....  Read More >>

Urban Agriculture: Growing Healthy, Sustainable Communities

Urban Agriculture: Growing Healthy, Sustainable Communities...

Author: Kimberley Hodgson ,  Marcia Campbell
ISBN: 9781932364910
Format: Paperback
$158.40

Urban agriculture is rising steadily in popularity in the United States and Canada -- there are stories in the popular...  Read More >>

Environmental City: People, Place, Politics, and the Meaning of Modern Austin

Environmental City: People, Place, Politics, and the...

Author: William Scott Jr. Swearingen
ISBN: 9780292722026
Format: Paperback
$45.95

A history of the environmental movement in Austin, Texas, that shows how it became a model for the national movement...  Read More >>

Reinventing Practice in a Disenchanted World: Bourdieu and Urban Poverty in Oaxaca, Mexico

Reinventing Practice in a Disenchanted World: Bourdieu...

Author: Cheleen Ann-Catherine Mahar
ISBN: 9780292728899
Format: Paperback
$32.95

A unique intergenerational ethnography about Oaxaca that uses Pierre Bourdieu's practice-theoretical approach  Read More >>

Delta Urbanism: New Orleans

Delta Urbanism: New Orleans

Author: Richard Campanella
ISBN: 9781932364859
Format: Paperback
$88.99

This volume of APA's Delta Urbanism series traces the development of New Orleans from precolonial times to post-Katrina...  Read More >>

Emerald Cities: Urban Sustainability and Economic Development

Emerald Cities: Urban Sustainability and Economic Development...

Author: Joan Fitzgerald (, Northeastern University)
ISBN: 9780195382761
Format: Hardback
$69.95

Here is a refreshing look at how American cities are leading the way toward greener, cleaner, and more sustainable...  Read More >>

OECD Rural Policy Reviews

OECD Rural Policy Reviews

Author: Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development
ISBN: 9789264083950
Format: Paperback
$59.95

The delivery of services to rural regions is a key concern for both OECD and non-OECD countries. The service sector,...  Read More >>

Sydney's Construction Union Strategy and Immigrant Worker Issues: a Roman Catholic-Marxist Perspective

Sydney's Construction Union Strategy and Immigrant Worker...

Author: Jenny Kwai-Sim Leung ,  Kieran James
ISBN: 9781926635408
Format: Hardback
$52.80

Based on fieldwork data gained through co-operation with the Sydney, Australia branch of the Construction Forestry...  Read More >>

Contesting Community: The Limits and Potential of Local Organizing

Contesting Community: The Limits and Potential of Local...

Author: Prof James Defilippis ,  Prof Robert Fisher
ISBN: 9786613383099
Format: Electronic book text
$228.10

<br>What do community organizations and organizers do, and what should they do? For the past thirty years politicians,...  Read More >>

Water Rates, Fees, and the Legal Environment

Water Rates, Fees, and the Legal Environment

Author: C.M. Corrsmit ,  C (Kees) W Corssmit
ISBN: 9781583217962
Format: Paperback
$261.36

This book is designed to help the water utility avoid legal challenges to its water rates and fees.  Read More >>

Planning with Complexity: An Introduction to Collaborative Rationality for Public Policy

Planning with Complexity: An Introduction to Collaborative...

Author: Judith E. Innes ,  David E. Booher (Center for Collaborative Policy, California State University, Sacramento, USA)
ISBN: 9780415779326
Format: Paperback
$79.07

An analysis of various practices of collaboration in planning and public policy. It presents a theory of collaborative...  Read More >>

Planning with Complexity: An Introduction to Collaborative Rationality for Public Policy

Planning with Complexity: An Introduction to Collaborative...

Author: Judith E. Innes ,  David E. Booher (Center for Collaborative Policy, California State University, Sacramento, USA)
ISBN: 9780415779319
Format: Hardback
$396.00

An analysis of various practices of collaboration in planning and public policy. It presents a theory of collaborative...  Read More >>

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