In Rethinking Feminist Interventions into the Urban, Linda Peake and Martina Rieker embark on an ambitious project to explore the extent to which a ...
.In "A Country of Cities," author Vishaan Chakrabarti argues that well-designed cities are the key to solving America's great national challenges: environmental degradation, unsustainable ...
There is a perennial gap between theory and practice, between academia and active professionals in the field of disaster management. This gap means that ...
Resilient Downtowns provides a guide to communities in reviving and redeveloping their core districts into resilient, thriving neighborhoods. While the National Main Street program's ...
Transcultural Cities uses a framework of transcultural placemaking, cross-disciplinary inquiry and transnational focus to examine a collection of case studies around the world, presented ...
New research in community development shows that institutions matter. Where the private sector disinvests from the inner city, public and nonprofit institutions step in ...
Healthy city planning means seeking ways to eliminate the deep and persistent inequities that plague cities. Yet, as Jason Corburn argues in this book, ...
En el primer Informe Lugano, publicado en 2001, Susan George recreaba un informe secreto, elaborado por quienes realmente rigen los destinos del mundo, para ...
¿Qué está ocurriendo en los centros urbanos y en muchos otros barrios históricos de las ciudades de Europa, Norteamérica y otros continentes?¿Por qué se ...
Bracket 2 examines physical and virtual soft systems, as they pertain to infrastructure, ecologies, landscapes, environments, and networks. In an era of declared crises'economic, ...
Here for the first time is a thoroughly interdisciplinary and international examination of Jane Jacobs's legacy. Divided into four parts: I. Jacobs, Urban Philosopher; ...
