City Planning Urban Development category: 1330 books
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 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....
Understanding Government Budgets
A Practical Guide
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2009
Budgets in the United States follow rules of presentation and use terms that make sense to few outside the world of government finance. Moreover, practices vary widely among the thousands of governments in the country, between federal, state, and local levels. Understanding Government Budgets offers...
Nine Months at Ground Zero
The Story of the Brotherhood of Workers Who Took on a Job Like No Other
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2006
Hours after two airplanes hit the World Trade Center on the morning of September 11, 2001, Charlie Vitchers, a construction superintendent, and Bobby Gray, a crane operator, headed downtown. They knew their skills would be crucial amid the chaos and destruction after the towers fell.
What they...
by Lowe, Stuart
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2011
The emergence of Britain as a fully fledged home-owning society at the end of the 20th century has major implications for how houses are used not just as a home but as an asset. The key debate in this important and timely book is whether social policy and people's homes should be so closely connected,...
Private Financing of Public Transportation Infrastructure
Utilizing Public-Private Partnerships
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2015
This book discusses a unique combination of best practices and lessons learned, including evaluation and transparency issues not found elsewhere in other texts. Given that P3s are evolving and changing, it contains the most up to date information and review of relevant sources. Other topics that have...
The Road to Renewal
Private Investment in the U.S. Transportation Infrastructure
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2011
Despite record levels of government spending, America's transportation system is plagued by traffic congestion, decaying infrastructure, and politicization of transportation funding-leading to calamities such as the 2007 collapse an interstate highway bridge over the Mississippi River and political...
Subprime Cities
The Political Economy of Mortgage Markets
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2012
Subprime Cities: The Political Economy of Mortgage Markets presents a collection of works from social scientists that offer insights into mortgage markets and the causes, effects, and aftermath of the recent 'subprime' mortgage crisis.
Provides an even-handed and detailed analysis of mortgage...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2015
Race and Real Estate brings together new work by architects, sociologists, legal scholars, and literary critics that qualifies and complicates traditional narratives of race, property, and citizenship in the United States. Rather than simply rehearsing the standard account of how blacks were historically...
Regulating the Poor
The Functions of Public Welfare
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2012
Piven and Cloward have updated their classic work on the history and function of welfare to cover the American welfare state's massive erosion during the Reagan, Bush, and Clinton years. The authors present a boldly comprehensive, brilliant new theory to explain the comparative underdevelopment of...
by Kate Barker
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2014
Housing is a fundamental necessity, and yet it is generally acknowledged that we have a ‘housing crisis’ in the UK. The housing market has worked well for many people (who have enjoyed the steeply rising values of their homes), which is why change, especially new building, is resisted. But for...
by Udoh Elijah Udom
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2010
Restless Citizens gives a unique insider's view of how the United Nations treats its employees. Written by Dr. Udoh E. Udom, a retired senior official in the World Health Organization, the book is a robustly critical but deeply informed view of all aspects of UN employment. Excerpted from the foreword by David Antill, School of Law, University of Leicester - UK Words: 60
Evaluation of a Dialogical Psychologically Informed Environment (PIE) Pilot
Addressing homelessness, re-offending, substance abuse, and mental illness
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
The Fulfilling Lives Programme is seeking to help people with multiple and complex needs to better manage their lives, by ensuring that services, across Newcastle and Gateshead, are more tailored and better connected to each other. The focus of the programme is on those people who often spiral around...