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Advanced Introduction to Planning Theory Robert A. Beauregard 9781788978903
RRP: $25.74Booksplease Price: $25.09Elgar Advanced Introductions are stimulating and thoughtful introductions to major fields in the social sciences and law, expertly written by the world's leading scholars. Designed to be accessible... -
Advanced Introduction to Planning Theory by Robert A. Beauregard 9781788978880
Booksplease Price: $127.93Elgar Advanced Introductions are stimulating and thoughtful introductions to major fields in the social sciences and law, expertly written by the world's leading scholars. Designed to be accessible... -
Planning Matter: Acting with Things by Robert A. Beauregard 9780226297255
Booksplease Price: $119.42City and regional planners talk constantly about the things of the world-from highway interchanges and retention ponds to zoning documents and conference rooms-yet most seem to have a poor... -
Cities in the Urban Age: A Dissent Robert A. Beauregard 9780226535388
Booksplease Price: $34.42We live in a self-proclaimed Urban Age, where we celebrate the city as the source of economic prosperity, a nurturer of social and cultural diversity, and a place primed for democracy. We proclaim... -
When America Became Suburban by Robert A. Beauregard 9780816648856
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $16.47In the decades after World War II, the United States became the most prosperous nation in the world and a superpower whose dominance was symbolized by the American suburbs. Spurred by the decline of... -
Voices of Decline: The Postwar Fate of US Cities by Robert A. Beauregard
RRP: $60.62Booksplease Price: $56.68[FOR HISTORY CATALOGS]Drawing on the pronouncements of public commentators, this book portrays the 20th century history of U.S. cities, focusing specifically on how commentators crafted a discourse... -
Planning Matter: Acting with Things Robert A. Beauregard (University of Pittsburgh) 9780226297392
Booksplease Price: $34.42City and regional planners talk constantly about the things of the world-from highway interchanges and retention ponds to zoning documents and conference rooms-yet most seem to have a poor... -
Voices of Decline: The Postwar Fate of US Cities by Robert A. Beauregard 9781557864420
RRP: $52.83Booksplease Price: $50.06As World War II faded into the past, urban decline emerged as the dominant motif in the public debate over the fate of the once-mighty cities of many Western industrial nations. Freely crossing... -
Change and Stability in Urban Europe: Form, Quality and Governance by Gertrud Jorgensen
Booksplease Price: $112.04This title was first published in 2001. Significant transformations in the spatial organization of European cities have taken place over the past two decades. Social fragmentation, increasingly... -
Actor Networks of Planning: Exploring the Influence of Actor Network Theory Yvonne Rydin 9781138573475
RRP: $68.36Booksplease Price: $64.36Planning is centrally focused on places which are significant to people, including both the built and natural environments. In making changes to these places, planning outcomes inevitably benefit... -
Explorations in Planning Theory Luigi Mazza 9780882851549
RRP: $68.36Booksplease Price: $64.75What is this thing called planning? What is its domain? What do planners do? How do they talk? What are the limits and possibilities for planning imposed by power, politics, knowledge, technology,... -
Democracy, Citizenship and the Global City Engin F. Isin 9780415216685
Booksplease Price: $140.64Democracy, Citizenship and the Global City focuses on the controversial, neglected theme of citizenship. It examines the changing role of citizens; their rights, obligations and responsibilities as... -
The Emancipatory City?: Paradoxes and Possibilities by Loretta Lees
Booksplease Price: $87.63'The Emancipatory City is a wonderful addition to a growing literature on the public culture of the city. In these spaces, tolerance and intolerance, difference and indifference, transgressions,... -
Planning for a Material World by Laura Lieto 9781138392878
RRP: $63.20Booksplease Price: $58.86Today, urban scholars think of cities and regions as evolving through networks of human associations, technologies, and natural ecologies. This being the case, planners are faced with the task of... -
Planning for the Unplanned: Recovering from Crises in Megacities by Aseem Inam
RRP: $30.95Booksplease Price: $30.37How do cities plan for the unplanned? Do cities plan for recovery from every possible sudden shock? How does one prepare a plan for the recovery after a tragedy, like the September 11, 2001 terrorist... -
Planning for the Unplanned: Recovering from Crises in Megacities by Aseem Inam 9780415951296
Booksplease Price: $59.97How do cities plan for the unplanned? Do cities plan for recovery from every possible sudden shock? How does one prepare a plan for the recovery after a tragedy, like the September 11, 2001 terrorist... -
Fleeing the City: Studies in the Culture and Politics of Antiurbanism by M. Thompson 9780230610590
Booksplease Price: $116.82This collection of essays explores the phenomenon of antiurbanism: the antipathy, fear, and hatred of the city. Antiurbanism has been a pervasive counter-discourse to modernity and urbanization... -
The Making of Global City Regions: Johannesburg, Mumbai/Bombay, São Paulo, and Shanghai by Klaus Segbers 9780801885150
Booksplease Price: $74.67As sites for economic, social, and political innovation, Johannesburg, Mumbai/Bombay, Sao Paulo, and Shanghai function as gateways to the global economy for their respective countries and the... -
Critical Theory, Public Policy, and Planning Practice by John Forester 9780791414460
Booksplease Price: $33.63Too often attacked as hopelessly abstract, contemporary critical social theory can help us to understand both public policy and its analysis. In this book, John Forester shows how policy analysis,... -
The Experimenting Society: Essays in Honor of Donald T. Campbell by William N. Dunn
RRP: $58.04Booksplease Price: $54.49An experimenting society is one in which policy-relevant knowledge is created. It is then critically assessed and communicated in real-life or natural settings, with the aim of discovering new forms... -
The Invention of Brownstone Brooklyn: Gentrification and the Search for Authenticity in Postwar New York by Suleiman Osman 9780195387315
RRP: $59.97Booksplease Price: $48.66The gentrification of Brooklyn has been one of the most striking developments in recent urban history. Considered one of the city's most notorious industrial slums in the 1940s and 1950s, Brownstone... -
Co-Crafting the Just City: Tales from the Field by a Planning Scholar Turned Mayor James A. Throgmorton 9780367751043
RRP: $46.43Booksplease Price: $44.62The 2016 election in Iowa City would provide an opportunity that planning faculty have long desired: the opportunity for one of their own to serve as mayor. In this new book, former Iowa City Mayor... -
The Humanities in City Planning: Culture, Uncertainty, and Visuality Martin Krieger 9781032755212
RRP: $50.30Booksplease Price: $47.91This book by preeminent planning theorist Martin H. Krieger explores how cities are much more than their economies, demographies, or geographies. Planning today is dominated by social science, but... -
The Power of Pragmatism: Knowledge Production and Social Inquiry by Jane Wills 9781526167194
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $30.37This book makes the case for a pragmatist approach to the practice of social inquiry and knowledge production. Through diverse examples from multiple disciplines, contributors explore the power of... -
Cities in the Anthropocene: New Ecology and Urban Politics by Ihnji Jon 9780745341491
Booksplease Price: $110.49Climate change is real, and extreme weather events are its physical manifestations. These extreme events affect how we live and work in cities, and subsequently the way we design, plan, and govern... -
Pragmatic Justifications for the Sustainable City: Acting in the common place by Meg Holden 9780367152222
RRP: $63.20Booksplease Price: $58.86What can justice and sustainability mean, pragmatically speaking, in today's cities? Can justice be the basis on which the practices of city building rely? Can this recognition constitute... -
Cities in the Anthropocene: New Ecology and Urban Politics Ihnji Jon 9780745341507
RRP: $29.66Booksplease Price: $27.14Climate change is real, and extreme weather events are its physical manifestations. These extreme events affect how we live and work in cities, and subsequently the way we design, plan, and govern... -
Latour for Architects by Albena Yaneva 9780367348618
RRP: $122.54Booksplease Price: $116.98Bruno Latour is one of the leading figures in Social Sciences today, but his contributions are also widely recognised in the arts. His theories 'flourished' in the 1980s in the aftermath of the... -
Cities of Europe: Changing Contexts, Local Arrangement and the Challenge to Urban Cohesion Yuri Kazepov (University of Urbino) 9781405121323
RRP: $25.79Booksplease Price: $24.56Cities of Europe is a unique combination of book and CD-ROM examining the effects of recent socio-economic transformations on western European cities. A unique combination of book and CD-ROM... -
Latour for Architects by Albena Yaneva
Booksplease Price: $33.66Bruno Latour is one of the leading figures in Social Sciences today, but his contributions are also widely recognised in the arts. His theories 'flourished' in the 1980s in the aftermath of the... -
Regulation and Planning: Practices, Institutions, Agency by Yvonne Rydin
RRP: $51.59Booksplease Price: $49.01In Regulation and Planning, planning scholars from the United Kingdom, France, Italy, Sweden, Canada, Australia, and the United States explore how planning regulations are negotiated amid layers of...