City Planning category: 1330 books
by Michael Gecan
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2009
A longtime community organizer outlines a way to reverse the fifty-year decline in social mobility and economic progress.
by Jane Jacobs
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2016
In this eye-opening work of economic theory, Jane Jacobs argues that it is cities—not nations—that are the drivers of wealth. Challenging centuries of economic orthodoxy, in Cities and the Wealth of Nations the beloved author contends that healthy cities are constantly evolving to replace imported...
Classics of International Relations
Essays in Criticism and Appreciation
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2013
Classics of International Relations introduces, contextualises and assesses 24 of the most important works on international relations of the last 100 years. Providing an indispensable guide for all students of IR theory, from advanced undergraduates to academic specialists, it asks why are these works...
The Argentine Republic
Its Development and Progress
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2014
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In the following chapters I have endeavoured to indicate the essential aspects of colonization in modern Argentina: the conquest of the soil by man, the exploitation of its natural resources, the development of agriculture and cattle-breeding, and the growth...
Enough
Our Fight to Keep America Safe from Gun Violence
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2014
Former Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and her husband, astronaut Mark Kelly, share their impassioned argument for responsible gun ownership.
After the 2011 Tucson shooting that nearly took her life, basic questions consumed Gabby Giffords and her family: Would Gabby survive the bullet through...
by C. Eugene Steuerle
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2012
C. Eugene Steuerle, one of the country's most influential economists, offers an insider's look at tax policy based on a quarter century of working with officials of all political stripes. Steuerle outlines the principles of taxation and the early postwar period before proceeding to the tax policy...
The Plurality of Power
An Archaeology of Industrial Capitalism
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2011
How do people experience power within capitalist societies? Research presented here explicitly addresses the notion of pluralistic power, which encompasses both productive and oppressive forms of power and acknowledges that nuanced and multifaceted power relations can exist in combination with binary...
Internal Improvement
National Public Works and the Promise of Popular Government in the Early United States
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2002
When the people of British North America threw off their colonial bonds, they sought more than freedom from bad government: most of the founding generation also desired the freedom to create and enjoy good, popular, responsive government. This book traces the central issue on which early Americans...
Hablo de la ciudad
Los principios del siglo XX desde la ciudad de México
Language: Spanish
Release Date: January 23, 2018
La presente obra está compuesta por seis ensayos sobre la Ciudad de México, en los cuales el autor nos remite a los inicios de la ciudad en el siglo xx. Marcada por la nostalgia, el autor busca presentar la historia de la experiencia urbana. Escapando del formalismo académico y dando paso a un...
by Bridget Rosewell
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2013
London has enjoyed an extraordinary period of growth in the past generation, symbolized by the towers of Canary Wharf built on the skeleton of the old docks. Finance was at the heart of this, so how can London’s economy be reinvented after the financial crisis? Success will depend on several factors...
Community Building: What Makes It Work
A Review of Factors Influencing Successful Community Building
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 1997
This practical guide shows you what really does (and doesn't) contribute to community building success. It reveals 28 keys to help you build community more effectively and efficiently. You won't find another single report that pulls out common lessons from across community building initiatives about...
Beyond Charity
The Call to Christian Community Development
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 1993
A powerful call to action to bring reconciliation and restoration to broken communities.
by Dennis Paulaha
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
The economist W.F. Paulaha has written a little book that addresses two questions at the core of all philosophical and practical discussions of government, from Plato in 360 BCE (The Republic) to today's New York Times, Wall Street Journal, left and right wing blogs, and ountless meetings in neighborhood...
by Jack Thurston
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2012
This is the first issue of the Bicycle Reader, a new collection of quality writing about cycling. Two thoughts inspired us to start this collection.The first is that there is a great deal of brilliant article and essay-length writing about cycling that remains inaccessible to most readers....