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  • The Birth of a Building

    From Conception to Delivery

    by Ben Stevens ...
    We spend most of our lives in buildings and see new ones being created around us all the time. But the number of people and disciplines involved in a building's creation make it hard to understand the process as a whole. The Birth of a Building is an introduction to those aspects of finance, law, urban planning, architecture, engineering, construction, and real estate development which underlie ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Summary of Putin Country

    by Anne Garrels | Includes Analysis

    Summary of Putin Country by Anne Garrels | Includes AnalysisPreview:Putin Country is an account of foreign correspondent Anne Garrels’s travels in, and study of, Chelyabinsk, Russia. Chelyabinsk is a region of south central Russia located at the southern end of the Ural mountain chain, on the border of Europe and Asia. Although cosmopolitan Moscow is familiar to European and Western observers, ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Dubai

    Gilded Cage

    by Syed Ali ...
    This revealing portrait of the famously wealthy Persian Gulf city investigates the human cost of its miraculous rise to global prominence.In less than two decades, Dubai has transformed itself from an obscure territory of the United Arab Emirates into a global center for business, tourism, and luxury living. With astonishing skyscrapers and tax-free incomes, its rulers have made Dubai into a ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Working Class Majority

    America's Best Kept Secret

    by Michael Zweig ...
    In the second edition of his essential book—which incorporates vital new information and new material on immigration, race, gender, and the social crisis following 2008—Michael Zweig warns that by allowing the working class to disappear into categories of "middle class" or "consumers," we also allow those with the dominant power, capitalists, to vanish among the rich. Economic relations then ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Sustainable Energy Access for Communities

    Rethinking the Energy Agenda for Cities

    Edited by Aminata Fall, Reinhard Haas ...
    This open access book examines the transition to sustainable energy systems in emerging cities. Experts from around the world present case studies from different countries and discuss efforts were needed for achieving the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The authors look into the issue of environment vs. economics and discuss the question of whether the energy transition goal ... Read more

    Free

  • America's Frozen Neighborhoods

    The Abuse of Zoning

    This book examines local zoning policies and suggests reforms that states and the federal government might adopt to counter the negative effects of exclusionary zoningIn this book, Robert Ellickson asserts that local zoning policies are the most consequential regulatory program in the United States. Many localities have created barriers to the development of less costly forms of housing. Numerous ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • Disrupting D.C.

    The Rise of Uber and the Fall of the City

    A panoramic account of the urban politics and deep social divisions that gave rise to UberThe first city to fight back against Uber, Washington, D.C., was also the first city where such resistance was defeated. It was here that the company created a playbook for how to deal with intransigent regulators and to win in the realm of local politics. The city already serves as the nation’s capital. Now, ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Smart and Sustainable Planning for Cities and Regions

    Results of SSPCR 2019—Open Access Contributions

    Series series Green Energy and Technology
    This open access book offers a selection of research papers and case studies presented at the 3rd international conference “Smart and Sustainable Planning for Cities and Regions”, held in December 2019 in Bolzano, Italy, and explores the concept of smart and sustainable planning, including top contributions from academics, policy makers, consultants and other professionals.Innovation processes ... Read more

    Free

  • Everything in Its Place

    Entrepreneurship and the Strategic Management of Cities, Regions, and States

    Every city, region and state wants to do better---or at the very least, not do worse. Places have a strong and vigorous concern with and stake in generating a stronger economic performance. This concern spans a broad spectrum of constituents and interests, including business, labor, non-profit organizations, government, and private residents. However, such decision makers mandated with the ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • Unequal Cities

    Overcoming Anti-Urban Bias to Reduce Inequality in the United States

    Cities are central to prosperity: they are hubs of innovation and growth. However, the economic vitality of wealthy cities is marred by persistent and pervasive inequality—and deeply entrenched anti-urban policies and politics limit the options to address it. Structural racism, suburban subsidies, regional government fragmentation, the hostility of state legislatures, and federal policy all ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • The Creative Community Builder's Handbook

    How to Transform Communities Using Local Assets, Arts, and Culture

    by Tom Borrup ...
    Put the power of arts and culture to work in your community Part 1 of this unique guide distills research and emerging ideas behind culturally driven community development and explains key underlying principles. You'll understand the arts impact on community well-being and have the rationale for engaging others. Find inspiration and ideas from twenty case studies Part 2 gives you ten concrete ... Read more

    $28.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Emerald Cities

    Urban Sustainability and Economic Development

    Here is a refreshing look at how American cities are leading the way toward greener, cleaner, and more sustainable forms of economic development. In Emerald Cities, Joan Fitzgerald shows how in the absence of a comprehensive national policy, cities like Chicago, New York, Portland, San Francisco, and Seattle have taken the lead in addressing the interrelated environmental problems of global ... Read more

    $47.99 USD

  • Frontiers of Real Estate Science in Japan

    Series Book 29 - New Frontiers in Regional Science: Asian Perspectives
    This open access book presents recent research and hot topics in the field of real estate science in Japan. It features carefully selected English translations of peer-reviewed papers and excellent articles published in the Japanese Journal of Real Estate Sciences, as well as papers presented at the Japan Association of Real Estate Sciences (JARES) annual conference.The topics covered include ... Read more

    Free

  • Urban Inequality and Segregation in Europe and China

    Towards a New Dialogue

    Series series The Urban Book Series
    This open access book explores new research directions in social inequality and urban segregation. With the goal of fostering an ongoing dialogue between scholars in Europe and China, it brings together an impressive team of international researchers to shed light on the entwined processes of inequality and segregation, and the implications for urban development. Through a rich collection of ... Read more

    Free

  • Welcome to the Urban Revolution

    How Cities Are Changing the World

    by Jeb Brugmann ...
    The revolutions that have taken place around the world during the last fifty years-the ousting of Marcos and the Shah of Iran; the fall of communist regimes in Eastern Europe; the end of Apartheid in South Africa and, indeed, the civil rights revolution in America-were fundamentally urban revolutions. They were the revolutions of Manila, Teheran, Gdansk, Leipzig, Berlin, Johannesburg and Detroit, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Movement

    how to take back our streets and transform our lives

    Our dependence on cars is damaging our health — and the planet’s. Movement asks radical questions about how we approach the biggest urban problem, reflecting on the apparent successes of Dutch cities.Making our communities safer, cleaner, and greener starts with asking the fundamental question: who do our streets belong to?Although there have been experiments in decreasing traffic in city centres, ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Crash!

    How the Economic Boom and Bust of the 1920s Worked

    Series series How Things Worked
    The irrationally exuberant highs and lows of the 1920s can help students recognize boom and bust cycles past, present, and future.Speculation—an economic reality for centuries—is a hallmark of the modern U.S. economy. But how does speculation work? Is it really caused, as some insist, by popular delusions and the madness of crowds, or do failed regulations play a greater part? And why is it that ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Cities and the Urban Land Premium

    After a long period of suburbanisation, cities have been in vogue again since the 1980s. But why are people prepared to spend far more money on a small house in the city than on a large house in the countryside and why doesn't this apply to all cities? This book shows that the appeal of the city in the 21st century is not only determined by the production side of the economy, but also by the ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Red Hot City

    Housing, Race, and Exclusion in Twenty-First-Century Atlanta

    An incisive examination of how growth-at-all-costs planning and policy have exacerbated inequality and racial division in Atlanta.Atlanta, the capital of the American South, is at the red-hot core of expansion, inequality, and political relevance. In recent decades, central Atlanta has experienced heavily racialized gentrification while the suburbs have become more diverse, with many affluent ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • The Life and Afterlife of Gay Neighborhoods

    Renaissance and Resurgence

    Series series The Urban Book Series
    This open access book examines the significance of gay neighborhoods (or ‘gayborhoods’) from critical periods of formation during the gay liberation and freedom movements of the 1960s and 1970s, to proven durability through the HIV/AIDS pandemic during the 1980s and 1990s, to a mature plateau since 2000. The book provides a framework for contemplating the future form and function of gay ... Read more

    Free

  • Renewables for Energy Access and Sustainable Development in East Africa

    Series series SpringerBriefs in Energy
    This short open access book investigates the role of renewable energy in East Africa to provide policy-relevant inputs for the achievement of a cost-effective electrification process in the region. For each country, the authors review the current situation in the domestic power sector, adopt a GIS-based approach to plot renewable energy resources potential, and review currently planned projects ... Read more

    Free

  • Carving Out the Commons

    Tenant Organizing and Housing Cooperatives in Washington, D.C.

    by Amanda Huron ...
    Series Book 2 - Diverse Economies and Livable Worlds
    An investigation of the practice of “commoning” in urban housing and its necessity for challenging economic injustice in our rapidly gentrifying citiesProvoked by mass evictions and the onset of gentrification in the 1970s, tenants in Washington, D.C., began forming cooperative organizations to collectively purchase and manage their apartment buildings. These tenants were creating a commons, ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Uneven Urbanscape

    Spatial Structures and Ethnoracial Inequality

    Series series Cambridge Studies in Stratification Economics: Economics and Social Identity
    Uneven Urbanscape takes a new theoretically grounded view of how society produces and reproduces ethnoracial economic inequality. Drawing on empirically rich documentation and quantitative analysis utilizing multiple data sources, including the US Bureau of the Census, Ong and Gonzalez assess the patterns, causes, and consequences of urban spatial disparities, specifically in home ownership, ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • The Metropolitan Revolution

    How Cities and Metros Are Fixing Our Broken Politics and Fragile Economy

    Across the US, cities and metropolitan areas are facing huge economic and competitive challenges that Washington won't, or can't, solve. The good news is that networks of metropolitan leaders mayors, business and labor leaders, educators, and philanthropists are stepping up and powering the nation forward. These state and local leaders are doing the hard work to grow more jobs and make their ... Read more

    $16.99 USD