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Waterfronts in Post-Industrial Cities
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Richard Marshall |
Most books on waterfronts deal with a relatively narrow collection of cities and projects; one might describe them as the 'top ten' list of waterfront revitalisation projects. For instance, Boston an… |
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Sport in the City
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Chris Gratton |
Sport in the City looks closely at how sport has been used in contemporary cities across the world, and evaluates policies, strategies and management. Five key areas are examined:- sport and urban ec… |
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Industrial and Business Space Development
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S. Morely |
An insight into the changing nature of the industrial and business space property market and how business space development schemes can be initiated and implemented to revitalise urban areas. |
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The new urban frontier
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Neil Smith,Neil Smith,Neil Smith |
¿Qué está ocurriendo en los centros urbanos y en muchos otros barrios históricos de las ciudades de Europa, Norteamérica y otros continentes? ¿Por qué se ha producido esa oleada de operaciones de reg… |
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Rebuilding America's legacy cities
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Alan Mallach |
For America's legacy cities--cities losing population and their economic base--this book puts forth strategies to create smaller, healthier cities. Creative strategies for using vacant land need to b… |
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Edge of empire
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Jane Jacobs |
Edge of Empire examines struggles over urban space in four contemporary first world cities: two sites in London and two sites in the Australian cities of Perth and Brisbane. Through these examples th… |
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The chosen city
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Nicholas Schoon |
There is endless talk about the need for an urban renaissance; can it happen in the real world? In this broad, challenging and highly engaging book, Nicholas Schoon argues that the foremost priority … |
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Big plans
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Kenneth L. Kolson |
"Big Plans: The Allure and Folly of Urban Design springs from the idea that human aspirations for the city - as expressed through visual images such as architectural drawings, three-dimensional model… |
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No Miracles Here
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Theodore J. Gilman |
"This probing comparison of two struggling company towns, one in Japan and one in the United States, offers valuable urban revitalization lessons. The author compares urban revitalization efforts in … |
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Conservation and Sustainability in Historic Cities
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Dennis Rodwell |
Conservation and Sustainability in Historic Cities examines how the two key issues of urban conservation and sustainability relate to each other in the context of historic cities, and how they can be… |
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The death and life of great American cities
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Jane Jacobs,Gerd Albers |
The Death and Life of Great American Cities was described by The New York Times as “perhaps the most influential single work in the history of town planning. . . . [It] can also be seen in a much lar… |
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