Urbanization, Urbanism, and Urbanity in an African City: by P. Jenkins

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 place of work because the Reagan management was once retreating federal relief from neighborhood governments, Boston's Raymond Flynn and Chicago's Harold Washington carried out significant rules that will out live them. greater than reforming governments, they replaced the substance of what the govt was once attempting to do: in particular, to impact a degree of redistribution of assets to the towns' terrible and dealing sessions and clear of hole objectives 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 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 town Argues city’s contribution to the making of publics is going past the availability of locations for public collecting Examines a chain of specific case reviews seems to be on the courting among urbanism, public spheres, and democracy

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

Some time past 20 years fiscal bubbles inflated and architectural spending world wide reached fever pitch. In either well-established facilities of capital accumulation and far--flung locales, audacious construction initiatives sprang up, whereas the skyscraper, heretofore normally linked to American capitalism, appeared as though it could 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 recommendations to homelessness, housing is once more a tremendous factor. In nonetheless Renovating, Greg Suttor tells the tale of the increase and fall of Canadian social housing coverage.