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The Just City by Susan S. Fainstein
RRP: €21.41Booksplease Price: €18.66For much of the twentieth century improvement in the situation of disadvantaged communities was a focus for urban planning and policy. Yet over the past three decades the ideological triumph of... -
The Just City by Susan S. Fainstein 9780801446559
RRP: €64.26Booksplease Price: €50.69For much of the twentieth century improvement in the situation of disadvantaged communities was a focus for urban planning and policy. Yet over the past three decades the ideological triumph of... -
Readings in Planning Theory by Susan S. Fainstein 9781119045069
RRP: €35.64Booksplease Price: €34.40Featuring updates and revisions to reflect rapid changes in an increasingly globalized world, Readings in Planning Theory remains the definitive resource for the latest theoretical and practical... -
Gender and Planning: A Reader by Susan S. Fainstein 9780813534992
RRP: €41.65Booksplease Price: €33.95Increasingly, experts recognize that gender has affected urban planning and the design of the spaces where we live and work. Too often, urban and suburban spaces support stereotypically male... -
Divided Cities Susan S. Fainstein (Harvard University) 9780631183020
RRP: €33.92Booksplease Price: €31.57Divided Cities is the comparative analysis of New York and London which many have been waiting for. Wider in scope and richer in detailthan any previous study, this work provides the best... -
Readings in Urban Theory Susan S. Fainstein (Harvard University, USA) 9781444330816
RRP: €35.64Booksplease Price: €34.40Updated with a majority of new readings, the Third Edition of Readings in Urban Theory expands its focus to present the most recent developments in urban and regional theories and policies in a... -
The City Builders: Property Development in New York and London, 1980-2000 by Susan S. Fainstein 9780700611331
RRP: €34.50Booksplease Price: €29.80In the last twenty years, urban centers worldwide have experienced enormous booms and busts as real-estate developers, financial institutions, and public officials first poured resources into... -
Justice and the American Metropolis by Todd Swanstrom
Booksplease Price: €33.51Today's American cities and suburbs are the sites of "thick injustice"-unjust power relations that are deeply and densely concentrated as well as opaque and seemingly intractable. Thick injustice is... -
City Matters: Competitiveness, Cohesion and Urban Governance by 9781861344458
RRP: €101.15Booksplease Price: €98.90This book provides, in a single volume, a review of the findings of the largest ever programme of cities research in the UK, the Economic and Social Research Council's 'Cities: Competitiveness and... -
City matters: Competitiveness, cohesion and urban governance Martin Boddy 9781861344441
RRP: €36.88Booksplease Price: €34.32This book provides, in a single volume, a review of the findings of the largest ever programme of cities research in the UK, the Economic and Social Research Council's 'Cities: Competitiveness and... -
The Resilience Machine Jim Bohland 9780815381136
RRP: €63.06Booksplease Price: €56.88We live in a time where environmental pressures, social inequities and political derision are the backdrop of everyday life, and where resilience has become a routine prescription for coping with the... -
Airbnb, Short-Term Rentals and the Future of Housing by Lily M. Hoffman
RRP: €38.07Booksplease Price: €35.83How do Airbnb and short-term rentals affect housing and communities? Locating the origins and success of Airbnb in the conditions wrought by the 2008 financial crisis, the authors bring together a... -
Policy, Planning, and People: Promoting Justice in Urban Development by Naomi Carmon
RRP: €59.50Booksplease Price: €49.21The contributors of Policy, Planning, and People argue for the promotion of social equity and quality of life by designing and evaluating urban policies and plans. Edited by Naomi Carmon and Susan S... -
Making Equity Planning Work: Leadership in the Public Sector by Norman Krumholz
RRP: €33.31Booksplease Price: €28.87Lessons from an experiment in equity planningLessons from an experiment in equity planningAbout the AuthorNorman Krumholz, Professor of Urban Planning at Cleveland State University, is former... -
The Hard State, Soft City of Singapore by Mike Douglass
RRP: €154.70Booksplease Price: €136.48With Singapore serving as the subject of exploration, The Hard State, Soft City of Singapore explores the purview of imaginative representations of the city. Alongside the physical structures and... -
Cities and the Politics of Difference: Multiculturalism and Diversity in Urban Planning by Michael Burayidi 9781442616158
RRP: €38.08Booksplease Price: €32.96Demographic change and a growing sensitivity to the diversity of urban communities have increasingly led planners to recognize the necessity of planning for diversity. Edited by Michael A. Burayidi,... -
The Hard State, Soft City of Singapore Simone Shu-Yeng Chung 9781041188117
RRP: €54.73Booksplease Price: €49.25With Singapore serving as the subject of exploration, The Hard State, Soft City of Singapore explores the purview of imaginative representations of the city. Alongside the physical structures and... -
Unequal Partnerships: Political Economy of Urban Redevelopment in Postwar America by Gregory D. Squires 9780813514529
RRP: €35.69Booksplease Price: €29.27Unequal Partnerships explores urban development in American cities since World War II. Gregory D. Squires and other contributors examine what has long been a highly inequitable and destructive... -
Cities and Visitors: Regulating People, Markets, and City Space by Lily M. Hoffman 9781405100588
RRP: €71.40Booksplease Price: €63.43The authors of this book use regulation theory to bring theoretical focus and analytic clarity to the study of urban tourism. Provides a unifying analytic framework for the study of urban tourism... -
Financialising City Statecraft and Infrastructure Andy Pike 9781800373846
RRP: €42.78Booksplease Price: €40.59Infrastructure systems provide the services we all rely upon for our day-to-day lives. Through new conceptual work and fresh empirical analysis, this book investigates how financialisation engages... -
Cities and Visitors: Regulating People, Markets, and City Space by Lily M. Hoffman 9781405100595
RRP: €23.79Booksplease Price: €22.30The authors of this book use regulation theory to bring theoretical focus and analytic clarity to the study of urban tourism. Provides a unifying analytic framework for the study of urban tourism... -
Global Urban Politics: Informalization of the State Julie-Anne Boudreau 9780745685496
RRP: €59.50Booksplease Price: €53.31In what ways has global urbanization affected the political process? This book offers a reflection on the transformations of urban politics worldwide in the past four decades, from interpersonal... -
Global Urban Politics: Informalization of the State Julie-Anne Boudreau 9780745685502
RRP: €19.03Booksplease Price: €18.25In what ways has global urbanization affected the political process? This book offers a reflection on the transformations of urban politics worldwide in the past four decades, from interpersonal... -
The Global Architect: Firms, Fame and Urban Form Donald McNeill (University of Western Sydney, USA) 9780415956413
RRP: €49.97Booksplease Price: €45.66The Global Architect explores the increasing significance of globalization processes on urban change, architectural practice and the built environment. In what is primarily a critical sociological... -
Voices of Decline: The Postwar Fate of US Cities by Robert A. Beauregard 9781557864420
RRP: €48.73Booksplease Price: €46.18As 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... -
The Inner City: Urban Poverty and Economic Development in the Next Century by Catherine Ross
RRP: €58.30Booksplease Price: €52.29Michael Porter has argued that a sustainable economic base can be created in the inner city only if it has been created elsewhere: through private, for-profit, initiatives and investment based on... -
The End of the Hamptons: Scenes from the Class Struggle in America's Paradise by Corey Dolgon 9780814719589
Booksplease Price: €107.78Winner of the 2005 Book Prize from the Association for Humanist Sociology A portrait of the contentious, controversial history of the Manhattan elite's favorite fabled summer playground In this... -
London voices, London lives: Tales from a working capital Peter Hall (Bartlett Professor of Planning and Regeneration, University College London) 9781861349835
RRP: €35.69Booksplease Price: €32.53This book is a unique collection: ordinary Londoners, in their own voices, tell about ordinary London lives. Interviews with over a hundred people in eight localities, from inner-city Battersea, to... -
The Tourist City by Dennis R. Judd 9780300078466
Booksplease Price: €42.27Throughout the world, cities vie for tourist dollars in a competition so intense that they sometimes totally reconstruct their downtowns and waterfronts to attract tourists. Growing at an astonishing... -
The End of the Hamptons: Scenes from the Class Struggle in America's Paradise by Corey Dolgon 9780814719978
RRP: €35.69Booksplease Price: €30.73Winner of the 2005 Book Prize from the Association for Humanist Sociology A portrait of the contentious, controversial history of the Manhattan elite's favorite fabled summer playground In this... -
The Routledge Handbook of Planning Theory by Michael Gunder
RRP: €60.68Booksplease Price: €54.84The Routledge Handbook of Planning Theory presents key contemporary themes in planning theory through the views of some of the most innovative thinkers in planning. They introduce and explore their... -
The Death and Life of the Urban Commonwealth by Margaret Kohn 9780190606596
Booksplease Price: €129.75The city is a paradoxical space, in theory belonging to everyone, in practice inaccessible to people who cannot afford the high price of urban real estate. Within these urban spaces are public and... -
Urban Tourism and Urban Change: Cities in a Global Economy by Costas Spirou
RRP: €58.30Booksplease Price: €52.80Urban Tourism and Urban Change: Cities in a Global Economy provides both a sociological / cultural analysis of change that has taken place in many of the world's cities. This focused treatment of... -
The City Reader by Richard T. LeGates
Booksplease Price: €82.00The seventh edition of the highly successful The City Reader juxtaposes the very best classic and contemporary writings on the city. Sixty-three selections are included: forty-five from the sixth... -
The Death and Life of the Urban Commonwealth by Margaret Kohn 9780190606602
RRP: €47.59Booksplease Price: €35.32The city is a paradoxical space, in theory belonging to everyone, in practice inaccessible to people who cannot afford the high price of urban real estate. Within these urban spaces are public and... -
Jaqueline Tyrwhitt: A Transnational Life in Urban Planning and Design Ellen Shoshkes 9781138249547
RRP: €70.20Booksplease Price: €62.40Jaqueline Tyrwhitt's life story is truly a gap in the planning and urban design literature: while largely unacknowledged, she played a central role in twentieth-century design history. Here, Ellen... -
Handbook of Urban Segregation Sako Musterd 9781803924588
RRP: €55.87Booksplease Price: €52.50The Handbook of Urban Segregation scrutinises key debates on spatial inequality in cities across the globe. It engages with multiple domains, including residential places, public spaces and the field... -
Convention Center Follies: Politics, Power, and Public Investment in American Cities by Heywood T. Sanders
RRP: €76.16Booksplease Price: €50.17American cities have experienced a remarkable surge in convention center development over the last two decades, with exhibit hall space growing from 40 million square feet in 1990 to 70 million in... -
The Homegrown City: Reclaiming the Metropolis For Those Who Use It by Matias Sendoa Echanove 9781788730136
RRP: €23.79Booksplease Price: €16.95Slums, informal settlements, and other unplanned habitats are seen as the antithesis of the metropolis. Matias Echanove and Rahul Srivastava, found ers of the design practice urbz, explore how such... -
Intergenerational Solidarity: Strengthening Economic and Social Ties by Maria Amparo Cruz-Saco 9780230110748
Booksplease Price: €108.90This volume analyzes intergenerational solidarity from diverse interdisciplinary angles within the social sciences. It provides analytical tools to advance research and documents how societies are...