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Governing Disaster in Urban Environments
Climate Change Preparation and Adaption after Hurricane Sandy
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2018
Governing Disaster in Urban Environments: Climate Change Preparation and Adaption after Hurricane Sandy is a comprehensive account of relevant debates, conceptualizations, and practical considerations for the governance of disaster at multiple scales. In this interdisciplinary work, Julia Nevárez...
Sustainable Rural and Urban Ecosystems: Design, Implementation and Operation
Manual for Practice and Study
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2012
These days human beings have a profound influence on aspects of the planetary ecosystem, e.g. on climate change and biodiversity, to name only two. This manual is intended to help practitioners, who are dealing with human-based rural and urban settlement-ecosystems, in the key steps towards their...
Multimedia Explorations in Urban Policy and Planning
Beyond the Flatlands
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2010
The book is a collection of essays exploring the potential of multimedia to enrich and transform the planning field. By multimedia the authors refer to a broad range of new information and communication technologies (from film and video to digital ethnography and the internet), which are opening up...
Urban Renewal and the End of Black Culture in Charlottesville, Virginia
An Oral History of Vinegar Hill
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2017
From the 1920s through the 1950s, the center of black social and business life in Charlottesville, Virginia, was the area known as Vinegar Hill. But in 1960, noting the prevalence of aging frame houses and “substandard” conditions such as outdoor toilets, voters decided that Vinegar Hill would...
A Comparative Political Ecology of Exurbia
Planning, Environmental Management, and Landscape Change
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2016
This book is about politics and planning outside of cities, where urban political economy and planning theories do not account for the resilience of places that are no longer rural and where local communities work hard to keep from ever becoming urban. By examining exurbia as a type of place that...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2015
"Localism" has been deployed in recent debates over planning law as an anodyne, grassroots way to shape communities into sustainable, human-scale neighborhoods. But "local" is a moving category, with contradictory, nuanced dimensions. Reconsidering Localism brings together new...
Saving Our Cities
A Progressive Plan to Transform Urban America
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2016
In Saving Our Cities, William W. Goldsmith shows how cities can be places of opportunity rather than places with problems. With strongly revived cities and suburbs, working as places that serve all their residents, metropolitan areas will thrive, thus making the national economy more productive, the...
Urban Neighborhoods in a New Era
Revitalization Politics in the Postindustrial City
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2015
For decades, North American cities racked by deindustrialization and population loss have followed one primary path in their attempts at revitalization: a focus on economic growth in downtown and business areas. Neighborhoods, meanwhile, have often been left severely underserved. There are, however,...
Falling Back
Incarceration and Transitions to Adulthood among Urban Youth
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Jamie J. Fader documents the transition to adulthood for a particularly vulnerable population: young inner-city men of color who have, by the age of eighteen, already been imprisoned. How, she asks, do such precariously situated youth become adult men? What are the sources of change in their lives?
Falling...
Rebuilding Urban Places After Disaster
Lessons from Hurricane Katrina
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2013
Disasters—natural ones, such as hurricanes, floods, or earthquakes, and unnatural ones such as terrorist attacks—are part of the American experience in the twenty-first century. The challenges of preparing for these events, withstanding their impact, and rebuilding communities afterward require...
Investigating Quality of Urban Life
Theory, Methods, and Empirical Research
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2011
The study of quality of urban life involves both an objective approach to analysis using spatially aggregated secondary data and a subjective approach using unit record survey data whereby people provide subjective evaluations of QOL domains. This book provides a comprehensive overview of theoretical...
Neighborhood as Refuge
Community Reconstruction, Place Remaking, and Environmental Justice in the City
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2014
An examination of environmental revitalization efforts in low-income communities in Boston, Barcelona, and Havana that help heal traumatized urban neighborhoods.
Environmental justice as studied in a variety of disciplines is most often associated with redressing disproportionate exposure to...
The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture
Volume 15: Urbanization
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2010
This volume of The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture offers a current and authoritative reference to urbanization in the American South from the eighteenth century to the twenty-first, surveying important southern cities individually and examining the various issues that shape patterns of urbanization...
Governing Urban Regions Through Collaboration
A View from North America
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
With the demise of the Old Regionalist project of achieving good regional governance through amalgamation, voluntary collaboration has become the modus operandi of a large number of North American metropolitan regions. Although many researchers have become interested in regional collaboration and...