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Book April 30, 2024

Equality and the City: Urban Innovations for All Citizens

In Equality and the City, Enrique Peñalosa Londoño draws on his experience as mayor of Bogotá, Colombia to share his perspective on the issues facing developing cities, especially sustainable transportation and equal access to public space.

Enrique Peñalosa

Urban Development

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Displaying 1 - 25 of 53

Community Benefits

Publication February 27, 2025 Community Benefits In Community Benefits, Jovanna P. Rosen explores a new pattern in urban development: local residents and community representatives leveraging large-scale development projects for agreements that promise dedicated local benefits, such as parks and jobs. In general, such development projects have not produced impactful benefits for local residents, and often have contributed to significant community harm, including gentrification and displacement. Jovanna Rosen

Nation's Metropolis

Publication February 27, 2025 Nation's Metropolis Nation’s Metropolis describes how the national capital region functions as a metropolitan political economy. Its authors distinguish aspects of the Washington region that reflect its characteristics as a national capital from those common to most other metropolitan regions and to other capitals. To do so, they employ an interdisciplinary approach that draws from economics, political science, sociology, geography, and history. Royce Hanson Harold Wolman

The Paradox of Urban Revitalization

Publication February 27, 2025 The Paradox of Urban Revitalization Charting the tension between the practice of corporate subsidy and efforts to assure social justice, The Paradox of Urban Revitalization assesses the course of urban politics and policy over the past half century, before the COVID-19 pandemic upended everything, and details prospects for achieving greater equity in the years ahead. Howard Gillette Jr.

Urban Planning in a World of Informal Politics

Publication February 27, 2025 Urban Planning in a World of Informal Politics In this book, Chandan Deuskar explores how politicians in developing democracies provide urban land and services to the urban poor in exchange for their political support, demonstrates how this impacts urban growth, and suggests innovative and practical ways in which urban planners can try to be more effective in this challenging political context. Chandan Deuskar

China Urbanizing

Publication February 27, 2025 China Urbanizing This book situates China’s urbanization in the interconnected forces of historical legacies, contemporary state interventions, and human and ecological conditions. It captures the complexity of the phenomenon of urbanization in its historical and regional variations, and explores its impact on the country’s socioeconomic welfare, environment and resources, urban form and lifestyle, and population and health. Weiping Wu Qin Gao

Master Plans and Encroachments

Publication February 27, 2025 Master Plans and Encroachments: The Architecture of Informality in Islamabad Master Plans and Encroachments examines informality in the high-modernist city of Islamabad as a strategic conformity to official schemes and regulations rather than as a deviation from them. Faiza Moatasim

Cover of Urban Sustainable Development

Publication November 14, 2024 Urban Sustainable Development: Governance, Finance, and Politics Urban Sustainable Development: Governance, Finance, and Politics addresses the critical challenges of promoting sustainable growth in rapidly expanding cities. Eugénie L. Birch Mauricio Rodas

Equality and the City by Enrique Peñalosa Londoño book cover

Publication April 30, 2024 Equality and the City: Urban Innovations for All Citizens In Equality and the City, Enrique Peñalosa Londoño draws on his experience as mayor of Bogotá, Colombia to share his perspective on the issues facing developing cities, especially sustainable transportation and equal access to public space. Enrique Peñalosa

Underground by Bruce O'Neill book cover

Publication April 26, 2024 Underground: Dreams and Degradations in Bucharest Underground moves beneath Romania’s capital, Bucharest, to examine how the demands of global accumulation have extended urban life beneath city sidewalks. Bruce O'Neill

Cover of the book New Towns in the Twenty-First Century

Publication December 16, 2020 New Towns for the Twenty-First Century: A Guide to Planned Communities Worldwide Richard Peiser Ann Forsyth

Cover of Perspectives on Fair Housing

Publication October 19, 2020 Perspectives on Fair Housing Vincent Reina Wendell Pritchett Susan Wachter

Cover of Street Commerce

Publication September 16, 2020 Street Commerce: Creating Vibrant Urban Sidewalks A comprehensive analysis of the issues involved in planning for and facilitating successful street commerce Andres Sevtsuk

Cover of Life Among Urban Planners

Publication September 16, 2020 Life Among Urban Planners: Practice, Professionalism, and Expertise in the Making of the City A collection of ethnographic case studies of urban planners and their practices Jennifer Mack Michael Herzfeld

Cover of How Ideas Shape Urban Political Development

Publication September 16, 2020 How Ideas Shape Urban Political Development A collection of international case studies that demonstrate the importance of ideas to urban political development Richardson Dilworth Timothy P. R. Weaver

Cover of Shareholder Cities

Publication October 25, 2019 Shareholder Cities Land Transformations Along Urban Corridors in India Sai Balakrishnan

Cover of Iconic Planned Communities and the Challenge of Change

Publication August 23, 2019 Iconic Planned Communities and the Challenge of Change

Cover of Transforming the Urban University

Publication May 22, 2019 Transforming the Urban University Richard Freeland

Cover of Smarter Growth

Publication October 22, 2018 Smarter Growth: Activism and Environmental Policy in Metropolitan Washington John H. Spiers argues that metropolitan Washington, D.C. laid the foundations for a smart growth movement that blossomed in the late twentieth century John H. Spiers

Cover of Immigration and Metropolitan Revitalization

Publication July 6, 2017 Immigration and Metropolitan Revitalization in the United States In Immigration and Metropolitan Revitalization in the United States, edited by Domenic Vitiello and Thomas J. Sugrue, write that in the past decade, policy makers and scholars across the United States have come to understand that immigrants are driving metropolitan revitalization at least as much and belong at the center of the story. Immigrants have repopulated central city neighborhoods and older suburbs, reopening shuttered storefronts and boosting housing and labor markets, in every region of the United States. Domenic Vitiello Thomas J. Sugrue

Cover of Governing the Fragmented Metropolis

Publication December 13, 2016 Governing the Fragmented Metropolis Christina D. Rosan observes that policy-makers and scholars have long agreed that we need metropolitan governance, but they have debated the best approach. Christina D. Rosan

Cover of Principles of Housing Finance Reform

Publication December 13, 2016 Principles of Housing Finance Reform Susan Wachter Joseph Tracy

Cover of Slums

Publication April 13, 2016 Slums: How Informal Real Estate Markets Work Large numbers of people in urbanizing regions in the developing world live and work in unplanned settlements that grow through incremental processes of squatting and self-building. Eugénie L. Birch Shahana Chattaraj Susan Wachter

Cover of Shared Prosperity in America's Communities

Publication March 8, 2016 Shared Prosperity in America's Communities Shared Prosperity in America's Communities, in the City in the 21st Century Book Series, authored by Susan M. Wachter and Lei Ding, examines this place-based disparity of opportunity and suggests what can be done to ensure that the benefits of economic growth are widely shared. Susan Wachter Lei Ding

Cover of Public Pensions and City Solvency

Publication February 10, 2016 Public Pensions and City Solvency Underfunded pension liabilities threaten the fiscal stability of many cities. While Detroit's bankruptcy has dominated the headlines, the problem is widespread. Susan Wachter

Cover of How Real Estate Developers Think

Publication May 18, 2015 How Real Estate Developers Think Penn IUR Scholar Peter Hendee Brown writes about real estate development business in Chicago, Miami, Portland (Oregon), and the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul. Peter Hendee Brown

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