Reasonable Use: The People, the Environment, and the State, by John T. Cumbler

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 was once chickening out federal relief from neighborhood governments, Boston's Raymond Flynn and Chicago's Harold Washington applied significant regulations that will out live them. greater than reforming governments, they replaced the substance of what the govt used to be attempting to do: particularly, to impact a degree of redistribution of assets to the towns' terrible and dealing sessions and clear of hole ambitions of "growth" as measured via 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 law of ‘public areas’ has emerged as an issue for either city politics and concrete conception. Advances a brand new framework for contemplating the varied spatialities of publicness relating to the town Argues city’s contribution to the making of publics is going past the availability of areas for public collecting Examines a chain of targeted case reports appears to be like on the dating among urbanism, public spheres, and democracy

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

Long ago twenty years monetary bubbles inflated and architectural spending around the world reached fever pitch. In either well-established facilities of capital accumulation and far--flung locales, audacious development tasks sprang up, whereas the skyscraper, heretofore generally linked to American capitalism, appeared as though it may well 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 overlook and lots of demands reasonable houses and options to homelessness, housing is once more a major factor. In nonetheless Renovating, Greg Suttor tells the tale of the increase and fall of Canadian social housing coverage.