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  • El triunfo de las ciudades

    Cómo nuestra gran creación nos hace más ricos, más listos, más sostenibles, más

    Cómo nuestra mejor creación nos hace más ricos, más inteligentes, más ecológicos, más sanos y más felices.Más de la mitad de la población mundial vive en ciudades. En un planeta con enormes extensiones de espacio y en el que los avances tecnológicos han suprimido las distancias, 3.300 millones de personas han elegido concentrarse en estas densas aglomeraciones urbanas de altos edificios, marañas ... Read more

    $9.99 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

  • Family Business and Regional Development

    Series series Routledge Advances in Regional Economics, Science and Policy
    This book explores the relationship between families, firms, and regions and the extent to which these relationships contribute to regional economic and social development.Although family business participation in economic activities has been a common phenomenon since pre-industrial societies, and its importance has evolved throughout time and across spatial contexts, the book suggests that these ... Read more

    Free

  • 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 Nation City

    Why Mayors Are Now Running the World

    by Rahm Emanuel ...
    At a time of anxiety about the effectiveness of our national government, Rahm Emanuel provides a clear vision, for both progressives and centrists, of how to get things done in America today--a bracing, optimistic vision of America's future from one of our most experienced and original political minds.In The Nation City, Rahm Emanuel, former two-term mayor of Chicago and White House Chief of Staff ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • 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

  • 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

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  • 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

  • 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

  • Why Cities Lose

    The Deep Roots of the Urban-Rural Political Divide

    A prizewinning political scientist traces the origins of urban-rural political conflict and shows how geography shapes elections in America and beyondWhy is it so much easier for the Democratic Party to win the national popular vote than to build and maintain a majority in Congress? Why can Democrats sweep statewide offices in places like Pennsylvania and Michigan yet fail to take control of the ... Read more

    $18.99 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

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  • Bang in the Middle

    by Robert Shore ...
    A book to put the Midlands back on the map.Everyone knows what they think of the North and South of England – the clichés abound. But what about that big, anonymous stretch of land in between: the Midlands? Despite being home to around a third of the English population, it’s a region that seems to have neither purpose nor identity. In this humorous exploration, the author – a Midlander exiled in ... Read more

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  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Spatial Justice and Cohesion

    The Role of Place-Based Action in Community Development

    Place-based strategies are widely discussed as powerful instruments of economic and community development. In terms of the European debate, the local level – cities, towns and neighbourhoods – has recently come under increased scrutiny as a potentially decisive actor in Cohesion Policy. As understandings of socio-spatial and economic cohesion evolve, the idea that spatial justice requires a ... Read more

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  • 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

  • Cities Matter

    A Montrealer’s Ode to Jane Jacobs, Economist

    Why do cities exist? Can’t we find better ways of organizing life on earth? With the climate crisis and other environmental issues, are cities part of the problem? Or can they help solve the problems of our time? Cities Matter answers those questions and more. Jane Jacobs is known mainly as a thinker of all things urban. That she was. But Ramsay insists that she was also a very important—and much ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Coming Home to New Orleans

    Neighborhood Rebuilding After Katrina

    Coming Home to New Orleans documents grassroots rebuilding efforts in New Orleans neighborhoods after hurricane Katrina, and draws lessons on their contribution to the post-disaster recovery of cities. The book begins with two chapters that address Katrina's impact and the planning and public sector recovery policies that set the context for neighborhood recovery. Rebuilding narratives for six New ... Read more

    $58.99 USD

  • City Planning: A Very Short Introduction

    by Carl Abbott ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    City planning is a practice and a profession. It is also a set of goals and--sometimes utopian--aspirations. Formal thought about the shaping of cities as physical spaces and social environments calls on the same range of disciplines and approaches that we use for understanding cities themselves, from art and literature through the social and natural sciences. Surrounding the core profession of ... Read more

    $8.99 USD