Brazil under Construction: Fiction and Public Works (New by S. Beal

Activists in City Hall: The Progressive Response to the Reagan Era in Boston and Chicago

In 1983, Boston and Chicago elected revolutionary mayors with deep roots between neighborhood activists. Taking workplace because the Reagan management used to be retreating federal relief from neighborhood governments, Boston's Raymond Flynn and Chicago's Harold Washington carried out significant regulations that may out live them. greater than reforming governments, they replaced the substance of what the govt was once attempting to do: notably, to impression a degree of redistribution of assets to the towns' terrible and dealing sessions and clear of hole targets of "growth" as measured by way of the buildup of skyscrapers.

Publics and the City (RGS-IBG Book Series)

Publics and town investigates struggles over the making of city publics, contemplating how the construction, administration and rules of ‘public areas’ has emerged as an issue for either city politics and concrete concept. Advances a brand new framework for contemplating the varied spatialities of publicness when it comes to town Argues city’s contribution to the making of publics is going past the supply of areas for public collecting Examines a sequence of specific case reviews appears to be like on the dating among urbanism, public spheres, and democracy

Architecture in an Age of Uncertainty (Ashgate Studies in Architecture)

Some time past 20 years fiscal bubbles inflated and architectural spending worldwide reached fever pitch. In either well-established facilities of capital accumulation and far--flung locales, audacious construction initiatives sprang up, whereas the skyscraper, heretofore in most cases linked to American capitalism, appeared as though it may close up and relocate to Dubai and Shanghai.

Still Renovating: A History of Canadian Social Housing Policy (Mcgill-Queen's Studies in Urban Governance)

Social housing - public, non-profit, or co-operative - used to be part of Canada's city good fortune tale. After years of forget and plenty of demands reasonable houses and strategies to homelessness, housing is once more a massive factor. In nonetheless Renovating, Greg Suttor tells the tale of the increase and fall of Canadian social housing coverage.