Technological and Social Dimensions of the Green Revolution: by Pratyusha Basu,Bruce Scholten

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 group activists. Taking place of work because the Reagan management was once taking flight federal reduction from neighborhood governments, Boston's Raymond Flynn and Chicago's Harold Washington carried out significant rules that may out live them. greater than reforming governments, they replaced the substance of what the govt used to be attempting to do: specially, to impact a degree of redistribution of assets to the towns' terrible and dealing periods and clear of hole ambitions of "growth" as measured through 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 construction, administration and rules of ‘public areas’ has emerged as an issue for either city politics and concrete conception. Advances a brand new framework for contemplating the various spatialities of publicness relating to the town Argues city’s contribution to the making of publics is going past the supply of areas for public amassing Examines a chain of specified case reports seems on the dating among urbanism, public spheres, and democracy

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

Long ago 20 years financial bubbles inflated and architectural spending worldwide reached fever pitch. In either well-established facilities of capital accumulation and far--flung locales, audacious development tasks sprang up, whereas the skyscraper, heretofore most commonly linked to American capitalism, appeared as though it may 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 - used to be part of Canada's city luck tale. After years of forget and lots of demands reasonable houses and suggestions 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.