Études économiques de l'OCDE : Canada 2016 (Economie) by Collectif

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

In 1983, Boston and Chicago elected innovative mayors with deep roots between group activists. Taking place of work because the Reagan management was once chickening out federal relief from neighborhood governments, Boston's Raymond Flynn and Chicago's Harold Washington applied significant guidelines that might live longer than them. greater than reforming governments, they replaced the substance of what the govt. was once attempting to do: especially, to impression a degree of redistribution of assets to the towns' terrible and dealing periods and clear of hole pursuits of "growth" as measured through 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 idea. Advances a brand new framework for contemplating the various spatialities of publicness with regards to the town Argues city’s contribution to the making of publics is going past the supply of locations for public amassing Examines a sequence of specified case reviews seems on the courting among urbanism, public spheres, and democracy

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

Some time past 20 years monetary bubbles inflated and architectural spending worldwide reached fever pitch. In either well-established facilities of capital accumulation and far--flung locales, audacious construction tasks sprang up, whereas the skyscraper, heretofore most commonly 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 luck tale. After years of overlook and plenty of demands reasonable houses and recommendations to homelessness, housing is once more a huge factor. In nonetheless Renovating, Greg Suttor tells the tale of the increase and fall of Canadian social housing coverage.