MetroGreen: Connecting Open Space in North American Cities by Donna Erickson

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 workplace because the Reagan management used to be chickening out federal relief from neighborhood governments, Boston's Raymond Flynn and Chicago's Harold Washington carried out significant rules that may live longer than them. greater than reforming governments, they replaced the substance of what the govt. used to be attempting to do: principally, to influence a degree of redistribution of assets to the towns' negative and dealing periods and clear of hole ambitions of "growth" as measured by way of the buildup of skyscrapers.

Publics and the City (RGS-IBG Book Series)

Publics and the town investigates struggles over the making of city publics, contemplating how the creation, 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 with regards to town Argues city’s contribution to the making of publics is going past the supply of areas for public amassing Examines a sequence of exact case reports seems to be on the dating among urbanism, public spheres, and democracy

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

Some time past twenty years financial bubbles inflated and architectural spending around the world reached fever pitch. In either well-established facilities of capital accumulation and far--flung locales, audacious construction initiatives sprang up, whereas the skyscraper, heretofore traditionally linked to American capitalism, appeared as though it could possibly 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 - was part of Canada's city good fortune tale. After years of overlook and lots of demands cheap houses and strategies to homelessness, housing is once more an immense factor. In nonetheless Renovating, Greg Suttor tells the tale of the increase and fall of Canadian social housing coverage.