Urban Transformation in China: Theory, Evidence and Policy by Gordon G. Liu,Aimin Chen

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 used to be taking flight federal relief from neighborhood governments, Boston's Raymond Flynn and Chicago's Harold Washington applied 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: especially, to influence a degree of redistribution of assets to the towns' terrible and dealing periods and clear of hole pursuits 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 thought. Advances a brand new framework for contemplating the various spatialities of publicness when it comes to town Argues city’s contribution to the making of publics is going past the availability of locations for public accumulating Examines a chain of certain case reports 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 all over the world reached fever pitch. In either well-established facilities of capital accumulation and far--flung locales, audacious development initiatives sprang up, whereas the skyscraper, heretofore on the whole linked to American capitalism, appeared as though it will probably 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 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.