City Planning category: 1330 books
The Renaissance of Takefu
How People and the Local Past Changed the Civic Life of a Regional Japanese Town
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2004
This book tells the story of a citizen group through the example and results of their participation in local civic life. The book draws attention to the complicated conditions under which civic participation may succeed. The story is about the individuals and organizations in the regional Japanese...
Rethinking Life at the Margins
The Assemblage of Contexts, Subjects, and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2016
Experimenting with new ways of looking at the contexts, subjects, processes and multiple political stances that make up life at the margins, this book provides a novel source for a critical rethinking of marginalisation. Drawing on post-colonialism and critical assemblage thinking, the rich ethnographic...
Eco-socialism as Politics
Rebuilding the Basis of Our Modern Civilisation
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2010
This volume consists of analyses by experts from both the West and the East on the up-to-date development of Eco-socialism as a red-green politics within the context of capitalist globalisation. It investigates whether and/or in what sense Eco-socialism can offer a better explanation to the causes...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2018
In today’s world, citizenship is increasingly defined in normative terms. Political belonging comes to be equated with specific norms, values and appropriate behaviour, with distinctions made between virtuous, desirable citizens and deviant, undesirable ones. In this book, we analyze the formulation,...
Mapping Women, Making Politics
Feminist Perspectives on Political Geography
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2013
Mapping Women, Making Politics demonstrates the multiple ways in which gender influences political processes and the politics of space. The book begins by addressing feminism's theoretical and conceptual challenges to traditional political geography and than applies these perspectives to a range of...
Deleuze & Fascism
Security: War: Aesthetics
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2013
This edited volume deploys Deleuzian thinking to re-theorize fascism as a mutable problem in changing orders of power relations dependent on hitherto misunderstood social and political conditions of formation. The book provides a theoretically distinct approach to the problem of fascism and its relations...
Snarl
In Defense of Stalled Traffic and Faulty Networks
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2013
Ruth A. Miller excavates a centuries-old history of nonhuman and nonbiological constitutional engagement and outlines a robust mechanical democracy that challenges existing theories of liberal and human political participation. Drawing on an eclectic set of legal, political, and automotive texts from...
Race and Racism in International Relations
Confronting the Global Colour Line
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2014
International Relations, as a discipline, does not grant race and racism explanatory agency in its conventional analyses, despite such issues being integral to the birth of the discipline. Race and Racism in International Relations seeks to remedy this oversight by acting as a catalyst for remembering,...
Snob Zones
Fear, Prejudice, and Real Estate
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
An exploration of the corrosive effects of overpriced housing, exclusionary zoning, and the flight of the younger population in the Northeast
Winner of the 2014 Bruss Silver Award and First-Time Author Award from the National Association of Real Estate Editors
Towns with strict zoning...
Pathways through Crisis
Urban Risk and Public Culture
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2008
When densely populated urban areas face severe crises—natural disasters, epidemics, sudden unemployment, massive immigration—they often find that established mechanisms cannot respond adequately to the problems. Carl Maida argues that solutions to these problems tend to be developed within the...
A Quiet Evolution
The Emergence of Indigenous-Local Intergovernmental Partnerships in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2016
Much of the coverage surrounding the relationship between Indigenous communities and the Crown in Canada has focused on the federal, provincial, and territorial governments. Yet it is at the local level where some of the most important and significant partnerships are being made between Indigenous...
People, Places and Landscapes
Social Change in High Amenity Rural Areas
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2011
This volume is a cogent empirical analysis of the interplay between a region’s natural amenities and its socioeconomic evolution. It focuses on the rural sectors of America’s Intermountain West region, which lies between the Cascades and Sierra Nevada mountains to the west and the Rocky Mountains...
by Collective
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2009
With more than 700 million residents living in rural areas, China is still a predominantly rural country. But despite substantial improvements in standards of living, the Chinese countryside is largely lagging behind. This report analyses the key socio-economic forces at work in China's rural areas...
by Collective
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2010
OECD's review of rural policy in Quebec. It finds that in rural Québec, both population and personal income are growing, on average, and the province’s economic base continues to diversify. Land occupancy is more homogenous than in the rest of Canada, due to the presence of denser networks of small...