City Planning Urban Development category: 1330 books
by Lucia Lo, Valerie Preston, Paul Anisef
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2015
Social Infrastructure and Vulnerability in the Suburbs examines how the combination of the low-density, car-centric geography of outer suburbs and neoliberal governance in the past several decades has affected disadvantaged populations in North American metro areas. Taking the example of York Region,...
Race, Gender, and Culture in International Relations
Postcolonial Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2018
International relations theory has broadened out considerably since the end of the Cold War. Topics and issues once deemed irrelevant to the discipline have been systematically drawn into the debate and great strides have been made in the areas of culture/identity, race, and gender in the discipline....
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Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2016
This collection of essays and design case studies explores a range of ideas and best practices for adapting to dynamic waterfront conditions while incorporating nature conservation in urbanized coastal areas. The editors have curated a selection of works contributed by leading practitioners in the...
Reconstructing Italy
The Ina-Casa Neighborhoods of the Postwar Era
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
Reconstructing Italy traces the postwar transformation of the Italian nation through an analysis of the Ina-Casa plan for working class housing, established in 1949 to address the employment and housing crises. Government sponsored housing programs undertaken after WWII have often been criticized...
Living in sin
Cohabiting as husband and wife in nineteenth-century England
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
Living in sin is the first book-length study of cohabitation in nineteenth-century England, based on research into the lives of hundreds of couples. ‘Common-law’ marriages did not have any legal basis, so the Victorian courts had to wrestle with unions that resembled marriage in every way, yet...
Decolonising Governance
Archipelagic Thinking
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2018
Power may be globalized, but Westphalian notions of sovereignty continue to determine political and legal arrangements domestically and internationally: global issues - the legacy of colonialism expressed in continuing human displacement and environmental destruction - are thus treated ‘parochially’...
Below the Radar
How Silence Can Save Civil Rights
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2015
In 1993, the nation exploded into anti-same sex marriage fervor when the Hawaii Supreme Court issued its decision to support marriage equality for gay and lesbian couples. Opponents feared that all children, but especially those raised by lesbian or gay couples, would be harmed by the possibility...
Ethics As Foreign Policy
Britain, The EU and the Other
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2009
Ethical foreign policy has often been considered utopian, unrealistic and potentially very dangerous. Dan Bulley argues for a reconceptualisation of ethics as foreign policy, as both look to how we can, and ought to, relate to others.
Inspired by the deconstructive thought of Jacques Derrida,...
Is America Safe?
Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Emergency Preparedness
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2019
As potential targets such as military facilities, symbols of democracy, government buildings, and infrastructure are 'hardened' against possible terrorist attacks, terrorists will shift to softer targets: churches, schools, malls, mass entertainment centers, high-rise apartments, transportation centers,...
Administrative Discretion in Action
A Narrative of Eminent Domain
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2013
This book is about changing the way we do public administration. It is about the wielding of administrative discretion in the implementation of a constitutional power: eminent domain, taking private property for public use. Administrative Discretion in Action: A Narrative of Eminent Domain, emphasizes...
Responses to Disasters and Climate Change
Understanding Vulnerability and Fostering Resilience
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
As the global climate shifts, communities are faced with a myriad of mitigation and adaptation challenges. These highlight the political, cultural, economic, social, and physical vulnerability of social groups, communities, families, and individuals. They also foster resilience and creative responses....
Homeless Outreach & Housing First
Lessons Learned
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
From the author of Homeless Narratives & Pretreatment Pathways
Jay S. Levy brings us a new educational resource entitled Homeless Outreach & Housing First: Lessons Learned. This monograph features three written works on homelessness inclusive of an article on moral, fiscal, and quality of...
Theorizing Post-Conflict Reconciliation
Agonism, Restitution & Repair
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
The founding of truth commissions, legal tribunals, and public confessionals in places like South Africa, Australia, Yugoslavia, and Chile have attempted to heal wounds and bring about reconciliation in societies divided by a history of violence and conflict.
This volume asks how many of the...
Politics of Violence
Militancy, International Politics, Killing in the name
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
Critical thinkers like Foucault, Benjamin, Derrida and Žižek have long challenged the liberal separation of violence and politics by highlighting the implicit violence within political and economic structures. But in an era of international terrorism and counter-terrorism, should we not also reverse...