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In Defense of Housing by Peter Marcuse & Peter Marcuse
epub |eng | | Author:Peter Marcuse & Peter Marcuse

This is the richest and best developed country in the world. Who made it so? The rich? No. The Police Commissioner? No. The poor made it so. The only cure ...
( Category: Social Policy September 6,2016 )
The City of Tomorrow by Carlo Ratti & Matthew Claudel
epub |eng | 2016-08-12 | Author:Carlo Ratti & Matthew Claudel

Plan of Brasília by Oscar Niemeyer and Lúcio Costa Building a city entirely from scratch allows the planner to selectively use only the most advanced technology of the time. Recalling ...
( Category: City Planning & Urban Development August 13,2016 )
From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in America by Elizabeth Hinton
epub, pdf |eng | 2016-05-08 | Author:Elizabeth Hinton [Hinton, Elizabeth]

PUNISHING “POTENTIAL CRIMINALS” AND “DELINQUENTS” As the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act successfully removed white youth from penal institutions and provided them with rehabilitative services, it vastly expanded the ...
( Category: Social Policy July 24,2016 )
The Long Shadow of Small Ghosts by Laura Tillman
epub |eng | | Author:Laura Tillman

A. And I said, “Buela, quien?” And I remembered what my grandmother used to do, little details, so I asked her, “Is it you, Grandma?” She said, “Yes.” “What did ...
( Category: Urban June 14,2016 )
The Human City by Kotkin Joel
epub |eng | 2016-04-11 | Author:Kotkin, Joel

WHY WE NEED BOTH GEOGRAPHIES Ultimately, urban policy should be about choices, and developers should respond to market signals and preferences rather than government edicts that suggest how people should ...
( Category: City Planning & Urban Development June 12,2016 )
Start-Up City by Gabe Klein
epub |eng | | Author:Gabe Klein

Components of the Vision Zero safety initiative in Chicago, including (a) mannequins, (b) stickers, and (c) ads (a, c: Michelle Stenzel, Bike Walk Lincoln Park; b: Metropolitan Planning Council) What ...
( Category: Local April 19,2016 )
A History of Future Cities by Daniel Brook
epub |eng | | Author:Daniel Brook

II: THE DARK AGES | Shanghai, 1937–1989 In the summer of 1937, the militarist empire of Japan, intent on subduing a vast swath of Asia, attacked China. That fall, vicious ...
( Category: Urban April 16,2016 )
0553447432 (N) by Matthew Desmond
epub |eng | 2016-03-01 | Author:Matthew Desmond [Desmond, Matthew]

20. Nobody Wants the North Side The Lodge sat on the corner of Seventh and Vine Streets, near downtown. On most days, residents gathered near the entrance, talking, smoking, and ...
( Category: Minority Studies April 14,2016 )
Putin Country by Anne Garrels
epub, azw3, mobi |eng | | Author:Anne Garrels

ELEVEN THE BELIEVERS In the early 1990s, Chelyabinsk, like the rest of Russia, was flooded with foreign missionaries seeking lost souls. Reforms had unleashed a free market for the nation’s ...
( Category: Russian & Former Soviet Union April 11,2016 )
Sidewalking by David L. Ulin
epub |eng | | Author:David L. Ulin

is the ability of the retail band to carry the residential band. Old buildings did it in a very neat way. New buildings are flat, so the developer saves money. ...
( Category: Pacific April 6,2016 )
The Gentrification of the Mind by Sarah Schulman
epub |eng | | Author:Sarah Schulman

CHAPTER FIVE The Gentrification of Gay Politics Election Day, November 2008. It's a new dawn for America. Barack Obama has triumphed at the polls and every constituency of people without ...
( Category: Urban March 14,2016 )
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond
epub |eng | 2016-03-01 | Author:Matthew Desmond [Desmond, Matthew]

20. Nobody Wants the North Side The Lodge sat on the corner of Seventh and Vine Streets, near downtown. On most days, residents gathered near the entrance, talking, smoking, and ...
( Category: Public Affairs & Policy March 13,2016 )
Happy City by Charles Montgomery
epub |eng | 2013-11-11 | Author:Charles Montgomery [Montgomery, Charles]

First We Shape Our Streets, Then They Shape Us A white male living in Midtown (left), near Atlanta’s downtown, is likely to weigh ten pounds less than his identical twin ...
( Category: City Planning & Urban Development March 5,2016 )
World City Network: A global urban analysis by Taylor Peter J. & Derudder Ben
azw3 |eng | 2015-08-16 | Author:Taylor, Peter J. & Derudder, Ben [Taylor, Peter J.]

Measuring hinterworlds To compute a city’s hinterworld it is necessary to specify its external relations with all other cities. For this exercise we deal with our operational roster of 152 ...
( Category: Networks January 5,2016 )
World City Network by Taylor Peter J. & Derudder Ben
epub |eng | 2015-08-16 | Author:Taylor, Peter J. & Derudder, Ben

Measuring hinterworlds To compute a city’s hinterworld it is necessary to specify its external relations with all other cities. For this exercise we deal with our operational roster of 152 ...
( Category: Networks January 5,2016 )

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