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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.

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Starting with the colonial period, but focusing especially on the Progressive era, Richard Foglesong offers both a narrative account and a theoretical interpretation of urban planning in the United States. Originally published in 1986. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-o

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From the early 1960s through the mid-1980s, New York, Paris, and London changed profoundly in physical appearance, social makeup, and politics. Here is a lively and informative account of the transformation of the three cities. Originally published in 1989. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make avai

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Preservation Politics is a provocative look at the changing prospects for historic districts, and how local preservation commissions, volunteers, and staff can prevent and reverse decline by thinking and acting politically on behalf of the communities they serve.

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Dan Immergluck examines the causes and consequences of the great U.S. mortgage crisis, identifying the factors that created the fragile housing finance system, which provided fertile ground for calamity, and providing a pathway forward into a more stable housing system.

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This edited collection explores what happens when a city administration tries to bring their vision for a city into being. It provides ethnographic accounts that complicate the dominant narrative of Manchester's renaissance. -- .

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Drawing on the history of state and local government in the New York Tri-State metropolitan region, the authors present a pathbreaking new theory about the values reformers must understand and balance in order to tackle the hard challenges of reforming and regionalizing local governance in the complex, dynamic world of American politics and public policy.

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A major new introduction to the UK planning system. It outlines the evolution and use of the new spatial planning approach which is increasingly adopted at all levels of the UK planning system from European through to the national, regional, sub-regional and local level.

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This book studies Southern environmental policy and politics in order to understand the concrete realities of the Southeast and extend those realities' understanding to other regions of the country. It analyzes a series of cases that describe the state of environmental policy ...

Interest in the sustainable city is growing around the world and with it come important questions about governing sustainable urban development.

The author examines the core elements of sustainable planning, and how processes of innovation, governance and policy-making work together to achieve sustainable urban change.

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In The New Brooklyn, Kay Hymowitz chronicles the policies and events that transformed Brooklyn so dramatically in such a short period of time. Her portrait of the dramatic transformation of one urban center offers prescriptions that any city can employ and will be required reading for everyone interested in the rebirth of Americas cities.

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After reestablishing the connection between morality and the law, the author develops a coherent position on many of the most controversial issues of urban life: the political uses of the streets; verbal assaults and the defamation of racial groups; the legitimate restriction of public speech; segregation, busing, and the use of racial quotas; educ

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This book is about how a new form of social contract, which we call the spatial contract, can help revitalize the economies of the basic things that matter - the core systems which build and provision the settlements human beings call home. -- .

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The goal of this book, the first in a series, is to bring policymakers, practitioners, and scholars up to speed on the state of knowledge on various aspects of urban and regional policy.

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Examines the concept of regional resilience, explaining how resilience can be promoted - or impeded - by regional characteristics and public policies. The authors illuminate how the walls that now segment metropolitan regions across political jurisdictions and across institutions have to be bridged in order for regions to cultivate resilience.

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Placing the practice of urban design in its political, economic and cultural context, this book sets out a clear and positive vision of the potential of urban design, and in particular its capacity to bring imagined futures into being for the benefit of the many.

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Combining chronological, thematic, and regional approaches, this book examines political, economic, and social developments that contributed to the rise and growth of towns in Ethiopia from 1887 to 1974. It provides a comprehensive history of the growth of Ethiopian cities during this time with an interdisciplinary approach.

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Combining chronological, thematic, and regional approaches, this book examines political, economic, and social developments that contributed to the rise and growth of towns in Ethiopia from 1887 to 1974. It provides a comprehensive history of the growth of Ethiopian cities during this time with an interdisciplinary approach.

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Latin America, one of the most urbanized regions of the world, can only be fully understood by exploring its urban-rural divide, inequalities within urban areas, and the prospects for change. This thoughtful text explores Latin American cities; their history, similarities, and differences; and the current problems they face.