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More than half the world's population lives in cities, and that proportion is expected to rise to three-quarters by 2050. Urbanization is a global phenomenon, but the way cities are developing, the experience of city life, and the prospects for the future of cities vary widely from region to region. The Atlas of Cities presents a unique taxonomy of

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Drawing on examples of worldwide best practice urban planning, Leslie A. Stein uses an evidence-based approach and a consideration of underlying ideologies to find the universal patterns, solutions and responses to common urban planning problems.

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Modern "sub-urbs" as a place of vibrancy, conflict and resistance

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Architectures of survival investigates how airpower influenced urbanism and debates about the future of cities in modern Britain. It traces the targeting of cities and militarisation of urban space from interwar to Cold War and highlights how air raids became incorporated into civilian planning debates about cities and infrastructure. -- .

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How communities can collaborate across systems and sectors to address environmental health disparities; with case studies from Rochester, New York; Duluth, Minnesota; and Southern California.

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Viewing urban dynamics in the context of complexity theory; models and examples in scales from the local to the regional.

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Provides an action plan for how American federal, state, and local policies should be restructured to achieve better housing outcomes. The author proposes systemic change in the political processes regulating housing production, federal tax policy, funding for transportation and infrastructure, and greater federal support for the social safety net.

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The first major study to apply an intercultural approach to cities and city building outside Europe,

considering the role of social and cultural sustainability in city building.

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A consideration of the locking effect of urban land use policies on African Americans. Arguing that the locking effect leads to the disenfranchisement of African Americans, the author shows how wealth is channelled to the dominant group and African Americans' life choices are denuded.

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Introducing students to the key skills they will need in a planning career, this book draws on case studies and the advice of professionals from around the world to show students how to develop their skills for success in the workplace.

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Despite roughly thirty years of experience with growth management programs, which are basically land-use planning tools, most U.S. communities do not plan for how best to limit or manage rapid growth;

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Despite roughly thirty years of experience with growth management programs, which are basically land-use planning tools, most U.S. communities do not plan for how best to limit or manage rapid growth;

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Since the demise of urban renewal in the early 1970s, the politics of large-scale public investment in and around major American cities has received little scholarly attention.

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This book addresses important issues facing neighborhoods as they strive to meet the human needs of their residents. It examines neighborhood mobilization from multiple perspectives.

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This book tells the story of how an ambitiousand riskysocial experiment affected the lives of the people it was ultimately intended to benefit: the residents who had suffered through the worst days of crime, decay, and rampant mismanagement of the Chicago Housing Authority (CHA), and now had to face losing the only home many of them had known.

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This book tells the story of how an ambitiousand riskysocial experiment affected the lives of the people it was ultimately intended to benefit: the residents who had suffered through the worst days of crime, decay, and rampant mismanagement of the Chicago Housing Authority (CHA), and now had to face losing the only home many of them had known.

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This book challenges the conventional wisdom about participation in American communities through the story of Pimmit Hills, Virginia. It shows how every community is the sum of different types of participation. Its proximity to Washington, D.C. meant its residents had front-row seats to the creation of policies that continue to shape America.