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Art Intervention in the City (Paperback): Hadas Ophrat Art Intervention in the City (Paperback)
Hadas Ophrat
R1,122 Discovery Miles 11 220 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

The book combines an extensive review of art actions, classifying and anchoring them in contemporary urban theories. It reviews trends and describes numerous art projects in the public space, and is interspersed with multiple photographs, hence it may be attractive to any reader who wishes to become involved in his community and urban environment.

Reliability-Based Analysis and Design of Structures and Infrastructure (Hardcover): Ehsan Noroozinejad Farsangi, Mohammad... Reliability-Based Analysis and Design of Structures and Infrastructure (Hardcover)
Ehsan Noroozinejad Farsangi, Mohammad Noori, Paolo Gardoni, Izuru Takewaki, Humberto Varum, …
R3,166 Discovery Miles 31 660 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Increasing demand on improving the resiliency of modern structures and infrastructure requires ever more critical and complex designs. Therefore, the need for accurate and efficient approaches to assess uncertainties in loads, geometry, material properties, manufacturing processes, and operational environments has increased significantly. Reliability-based techniques help develop more accurate initial guidance for robust design and help to identify the sources of significant uncertainty in structural systems. Reliability-Based Analysis and Design of Structures and Infrastructure presents an overview of the methods of classical reliability analysis and design most associated with structural reliability. It also introduces more modern methods and advancements, and emphasizes the most useful methods and techniques used in reliability and risk studies, while elaborating their practical applications and limitations rather than detailed derivations. Features: Provides a practical and comprehensive overview of reliability and risk analysis and design techniques. Introduces resilient and smart structures/infrastructure that will lead to more reliable and sustainable societies. Considers loss elimination, risk management and life-cycle asset management as related to infrastructure projects. Introduces probability theory, statistical methods, and reliability analysis methods. Reliability-Based Analysis and Design of Structures and Infrastructure is suitable for researchers and practicing engineers, as well as upper-level students taking related courses in structural reliability analysis and design.

Cities and Partnerships for Sustainable Urban Development (Hardcover): Peter Karl Kresl Cities and Partnerships for Sustainable Urban Development (Hardcover)
Peter Karl Kresl
R3,477 Discovery Miles 34 770 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Over the past two decades, sustainability has become a principal concern for city administrators. It is more than just an environmental issue entailing economic, demographic, governance, social, and amenity aspects. After a short introduction to some theory, this book provides broad coverage of these aspects and their manifestations in Asia, Africa, Europe and North America. The contributors discuss, in detail, topics surrounding measurement, growth strategy, citizen participation, revitalization, and competitiveness. Though each of the cities discussed - ranging from Shanghai, to Barcelona, to Montreal - are distinct, there are similarities that connect them all. The book highlights their common elements to provide a feasible outcome for sustainable urban development. City administrators, academics and other researchers and consultants will find both the theory and principles discussed in this book of great interest. The individual contributions will be useful for students at all levels pursuing urban economics, environmental studies, planning and public policy. Contributors: L. Van den Berg, L. Bruzzo, D. Ietri, W. Jacobs, S. Jianfa, J.-L. Klein, P.K. Kresl, D. Maurrasse, W. Mittulah, M. Nijdam, I. Orihuela, N. Pengfei, J. Rochman, C. Shaopeng, J. Sobrino, D.-G. Tremblay, J. Trullen, E. van Tuijl

Insurgent Public Space - Guerrilla Urbanism and the Remaking of Contemporary Cities (Hardcover): Jeffrey Hou Insurgent Public Space - Guerrilla Urbanism and the Remaking of Contemporary Cities (Hardcover)
Jeffrey Hou
R5,245 Discovery Miles 52 450 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Winner of the EDRA book prize for 2012. In cities around the world, individuals and groups are reclaiming and creating urban sites, temporary spaces and informal gathering places. These 'insurgent public spaces' challenge conventional views of how urban areas are defined and used, and how they can transform the city environment. No longer confined to traditional public areas like neighbourhood parks and public plazas, these guerrilla spaces express the alternative social and spatial relationships in our changing cities. With nearly twenty illustrated case studies, this volume shows how instances of insurgent public space occur across the world. Examples range from community gardening in Seattle and Los Angeles, street dancing in Beijing, to the transformation of parking spaces into temporary parks in San Francisco. Drawing on the experiences and knowledge of individuals extensively engaged in the actual implementation of these spaces, Insurgent Public Space is a unique cross-disciplinary approach to the study of public space use, and how it is utilized in the contemporary, urban world. Appealing to professionals and students in both urban studies and more social courses, Hou has brought together valuable commentaries on an area of urbanism which has, up until now, been largely ignored.

Earthscan Library Collection (Hardcover, 2nd): Various Earthscan Library Collection (Hardcover, 2nd)
Various
R176,014 Discovery Miles 1 760 140 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

In the last two decades, environmental threats and the challenge of sustainability have moved to the very centre of political, business and, increasingly, personal agendas. The Earthscan Library Collection has been created to bring back into print the seminal texts in sustainability from the past twenty-five years. The Collection offers a unique opportunity to gain broad, archival coverage of all aspects of sustainability. It allows the individual as well as institutional purchaser the ability to acquire volumes by many of the most well-respected thinkers and authors across the subject. Available as a 115-volume collection, thematic sets and as individual volumes, the collection covers Sustainable Development, Environmental Resource Economics, Environmental Management, Natural Resource Management, Energy and Infrastructure, Environmentalism and Politics, International Environmental Governance, Aid and Development. Earthscan was originally founded by the International Institute for Environment and Development in 1987, and continues to publish in association with them and in partnership with a range of environmental and development organizations world wide.

Urban Regeneration and Renewal (Hardcover): Andrew Tallon Urban Regeneration and Renewal (Hardcover)
Andrew Tallon
R31,103 Discovery Miles 311 030 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The pursuit of regeneration and renewal has played an important role in the history and development of the world 's cities, and the theoretical and applied issues around these critical concepts are of increasing importance to governments and local populations, as well as to urban professionals and scholars. Particularly in postwar North America and Western Europe, this growing concern has often resulted from the decay and deterioration of cities associated with the decline in traditional industries and the associated loss of employment, and populations, to the suburbs and beyond.

This new title in the Routledge series, Critical Concepts in Urban Studies, meets the need for an authoritative reference work to make sense of the explosion in research output on regeneration and renewal as a significant historical and contemporary urban process of economic, social, cultural, and political importance. Edited by a leading scholar, this Routledge Major Work brings together in four volumes the canonical and the best cutting-edge scholarship on the topic.

The collection is divided into three principal parts. Part 1 ( Cities in Transition ) covers the wider social, economic, political, and urban geographical context for urban regeneration and renewal, and documents the nature of changing cities. These processes and changes are inextricably linked with urban regeneration and renewal initiatives, and an understanding of these transitions is essential to place Parts 2 and 3 in perspective. Part 2 ( Responses to Urban Change from National Governments ) brings together the best overviews and critiques of urban policy initiatives implemented by central governments in developed countries during the postwar period. The materials gathered here span experiences and city examples from advanced economies across the world.

The final part ( City Responses to Urban Change ) draws on the approaches taken by cities themselves in response to urban problems, particularly those designed to improve economic competitiveness and to combat social exclusion. Key research on the wide array of thematic approaches that have been followed is assembled in this part. Within the wider urban processes explored in Part 1, this part examines particular policy responses that have arisen in many cities, and considers a number of case-study cities from the UK, North America, continental Europe, and Australasia.

With a full index, together with a comprehensive introduction, newly written by the editor, which places the collected material in its historical and intellectual context, Urban Regeneration and Renewal is an essential work of reference. It is destined to be valued by scholars, students, and researchers as a vital research resource.

Urban Agriculture - Diverse Activities and Benefits for City Society (Hardcover): Craig Pearson Urban Agriculture - Diverse Activities and Benefits for City Society (Hardcover)
Craig Pearson
R3,935 Discovery Miles 39 350 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Most of us live in cities. These are becoming increasingly complex and removed from broad-scale agriculture. Yet within cities there are many examples of greenspaces and local food production that bring multiple benefits that often go unnoticed. This book presents a collection of the latest thinking on the multiple dimensions of sustainable greenspace and food production within cities. It describes the diversity of 'urban agriculture' and seeks a balanced representation between the biophysical and the social. It deals with urban agriculture across scales - from indoor plants to farm-scale filtration of greywater. A range of examples and initiatives from both developed and developing countries is described and evaluated.

The Forgotten City - Rethinking Digital Living for Our People and the Planet (Hardcover): Phil Allmendinger The Forgotten City - Rethinking Digital Living for Our People and the Planet (Hardcover)
Phil Allmendinger
R309 Discovery Miles 3 090 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

We all want cities, where more than half of the world's population currently live, to be just, successful, clean, fair, green, sustainable, safe, healthy and affordable. Will 'smart cities' help achieve these aspirations or undermine them in the time of COVID-19? Phil Allmendinger, a world expert on cities, development, and urban governance, takes a critical approach to the role of 'smart' in future cities and the relationship with city development. Considering how technology can support active citizenship, he challenges the commercial drivers of big tech and warns that these, not developments for 'social good', may dominate. Focusing on the dangers posed by social media, the platform economy and AI, he sets out what those making decisions on city development need to understand in order to save the planet through active politics and healthy cities.

Energy and Infrastructure Set (Hardcover): Various Energy and Infrastructure Set (Hardcover)
Various
R17,688 Discovery Miles 176 880 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

From fuelwood in developing countries to the disposal of nuclear waste, energy issues have long been at the heart of the sustainability debate. Also taking in cities and transport, the Energy and Infrastructure set of volumes tackles a diverse array of questions with enduring relevance for current policy and technology. In the last two decades, environmental threats and the challenge of sustainability have moved to the very centre of political, business and, increasingly, personal agendas. The Earthscan Library Collection has been created to bring back into print the seminal texts in sustainability from the past 25 years. The Collection offers a unique opportunity to gain broad, archival coverage of all aspects of sustainability. It allows the individual as well as institutional purchaser the ability to acquire volumes by many of the most well-respected thinkers and authors across the subject.

Futureproof City - Ten Immediate Paths to Urban Resilience (Paperback): Barry D. Wilson Futureproof City - Ten Immediate Paths to Urban Resilience (Paperback)
Barry D. Wilson
R1,040 Discovery Miles 10 400 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

The Futureproof City creates adaptability and resiliency in the face of the unknown challenges resulting from technological change, population explosion, global pandemic, and environmental crisis. A paradigm shift is urgently required in the means of conceiving, delivering, and managing city development to create better places to live. This book brings to the fore many new solutions currently being proposed and piloted globally, identifying ten key areas affecting the physical fabric of our cities where governments, planners, investors, and the individuals responsible for shaping lives can refocus their understanding, priorities, and funding in order to more effectively utilise the limited financial, natural, and time resources available. It will be key reading for every policy maker and professional working in sustainability, development, technology, health and welfare, investment, and risk issues in cities today.

The Emerging Public Realm of the Greater Bay Area - Approaches to Public Space in a Chinese Megaregion (Paperback): Miodrag... The Emerging Public Realm of the Greater Bay Area - Approaches to Public Space in a Chinese Megaregion (Paperback)
Miodrag Mitrasinovic, Timothy Jachna
R1,215 Discovery Miles 12 150 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

1. Emerging Public Space in\of the Pearl River Delta employs the applied work of twenty, international scholars and practitioners to discover new and emerging models of urban public space as it is emerging as both a condition and product of contemporary urbanization in the Pearl River Delta in China; 2. The proposed book deals specifically with urban public space whereas the vast majority of existing books on the contemporary Chinese urban condition subsume this topic into the general theme of urbanization or urban development 3. The proposed book focuses on the Pearl River Delta, which is acknowledged as an exceptional urban phenomenon in China and in the world, but for which an individualized scholarly treatment of public space is lacking 4. Unlike the existing literature on the Pearl River Delta, the proposed book is taking an explicitly design-centered perspective, making for a unique set of approaches and insights, grounded in scholarly rigor and juxtaposed with pieces from sociological angles.

Eco-Urbanity - Towards Well-Mannered Built Environments (Hardcover): Darko Radovic Eco-Urbanity - Towards Well-Mannered Built Environments (Hardcover)
Darko Radovic
R5,250 Discovery Miles 52 500 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

There is need for change in our currently unsustainable cities. Carefully outlining paths towards better, sustainable ways of urban living, this book proposes a radical change in the ways we conceive and live our urban environments.

Bringing together diverse cultural and disciplinary views on urban sustainability, eighteen leading academics and practitioners in sustainable architecture and urbanism explore global concerns of sustainability and urbanity.

This broad range of issues are clearly articulated and linked to concrete places and projects, merging research and cutting-edge design investigations to promote environmentally and culturally sensitive urban futures.

Sustainable Digital Technologies for Smart Cities - Healthcare, Communication, and Transportation (Hardcover): L Ashok Kumar,... Sustainable Digital Technologies for Smart Cities - Healthcare, Communication, and Transportation (Hardcover)
L Ashok Kumar, R. Manivel, Eyal Ben Dor
R3,778 Discovery Miles 37 780 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Covers three important aspects of smart cities i.e., healthcare, smart communication and information, and smart transportation technologies Discusses on various security aspects of medical documents and the data preserving mechanisms Provides better solution using IoT techniques for healthcare, transportation, and communication systems Includes the implementation example, various datasets, experimental results, and simulation procedures Offers solution for various disease prediction systems with intelligent techniques

Housing and Life Course Dynamics - Changing Lives, Places and Inequalities (Hardcover): Rory Coulter Housing and Life Course Dynamics - Changing Lives, Places and Inequalities (Hardcover)
Rory Coulter
R2,096 Discovery Miles 20 960 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Deepening inequalities and wider processes of demographic, economic and social change are altering how people across the Global North move between homes and neighbourhoods over the lifespan. This book presents a life course framework for understanding how the changing dynamics of people's family, education, employment and health experiences are deeply intertwined with ongoing shifts in housing behaviour and residential pathways. Particular attention is paid to how these processes help to drive uneven patterns of population change within and across neighbourhoods and localities. Integrating the latest research from multiple disciplines, the author shows how housing and life course dynamics are together reshaping 21st-century inequalities in ways that demand greater attention from scholars and public policymakers.

The Urbanism of Metabolism - Visions, Scenarios and Models for the Mutant City of Tomorrow (Paperback): Raffaele Pernice The Urbanism of Metabolism - Visions, Scenarios and Models for the Mutant City of Tomorrow (Paperback)
Raffaele Pernice
R1,129 Discovery Miles 11 290 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Written by experienced scholars and renowned academics from Japan, Australia, Europe, S. Korea and the US. Provides a critical, intellectual, and up-to-date account of the Metabolism projects and ideas in the context of current evolution of architectural and urbanism discourse in a global context. Timed to coincide with the 60th anniversary of the publication of the Metabolist manifesto.

A Research Agenda for Regeneration Economies - Reading City-Regions (Hardcover): John R. Bryson, Lauren Andres, Rachel Mulhall A Research Agenda for Regeneration Economies - Reading City-Regions (Hardcover)
John R. Bryson, Lauren Andres, Rachel Mulhall
R2,844 Discovery Miles 28 440 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Elgar Research Agendas outline the future of research in a given area. Leading scholars are given the space to explore their subject in provocative ways, and map out the potential directions of travel. They are relevant but also visionary. City-regions are regeneration economies, or in other words, places that are experiencing on-going processes of recovery, adaptation or transformation. This Research Agenda provides both a state-of-the-art review of existing research on city-regions, and expands on new research approaches. Expert contributors from across the globe explore key areas of research for reading city-regions, including: trade, services and people, regional differentiation, big data, global production networks, governance and policy, and regional development. The book focuses on developing a more integrated and systematic approach to reading city-regions as part of regeneration economics by identifying conceptual and methodological developments in this field of study. Students in geography, urban studies and city and regional planning will greatly benefit from reading this, as it provides a wealth of stimuli for essays and dissertation topics. Advanced business and public policy students will also benefit from the focus on translating research into practice, an approach that this Research Agenda takes in several chapters. Contributors include: L. Andres, J.R. Bryson, J. Clark, G.J.D. Hewings, N. Kreston, M. Nathan, P. Nijkamp, J. Steenbruggen, R.J. Stimson, E. Tranos, A. Weaver, D. Wojcik, G. Yeung

Himalayan Quality of Life - A Study of Aizawl City (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017): Benjamin L. Saitluanga Himalayan Quality of Life - A Study of Aizawl City (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)
Benjamin L. Saitluanga
R3,585 Discovery Miles 35 850 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The book is a study of intra-urban inequality in quality of life (QOL) in Aizawl city. The main objectives of the study include analysis of processes and patterns of social differentiation along the three-dimensional space of Aizawl city as well as analysis of spatial inequality in QOL at the lowest administrative structure of the city. An investigation into spatial pattern of residential differentiation was done at both horizontal and vertical spaces. Spatial variation in well-being of residents of Aizawl city and the quality of their immediate environment was also studied by taking both objective and subjective indicators. The study employed a number of descriptive, inferential and multivariate statistical techniques including correlation, factor analysis, principal component analysis, cluster analysis and spatial autocorrelation methods like Moran's I and Local Indicators of Spatial Association (LISA). Mapping techniques and graphical methods like Choropleth map, histogram and line graph were also used. With the help of factor analysis, the social space of Aizawl city was found to be differentiated along socio-economic status, family status, household size status, workers status and ethnic status. The most important factor determining residential differentiation was socio-economic status. Choropleth map of factor scores reveals that the inner city localities were dominated by high socio-economic class while poorer people dominated the peripheries. Non-local ethnic minorities were few but concentrated in some adjoining peripheral localities as well as in inner city localities which have been inhabited by their ancestors since the colonial period. Vertical pattern of residential differentiation was also analyzed by taking income variable as a proxy of socio-economic status. Multi-storey buildings in Aizawl city were co-inhabited by both richer people and poorer people. The richer people were found at the top floors while the poorer people occupied the basement floors. Normally, the owners of the buildings were found at the top floors while the basement floors were dominated by the renters. Spatial variation in QOL was measured with the help of principal component analysis as a weighting technique by taking variables pertaining to both objective and subjective QOL dimensions. The values of composite QOL index showed that the central localities have scored better than their peripheral counterparts. Correlation analysis of the relationship between objective indicators and subjective indicators provided a low positive value indicating the absence of relationship between the two dimensions of quality of life. Spatial autocorrelation analysis was also performed to see the pattern of clustering of spatially weighted QOL variables across Local Councils. With the help of Global Moran's I, spatial clusters and spatial outliers were observed for objective dimension of QOL within the study area. The value of Moran's I was found to be insignificant for subjective QOL dimension indicating the absence of significant pattern of clustering. The study also identified 7 social areas of Aizawl city on the basis of factor scores and composite scores of QOL variables calculated for all Local Councils. The identification of clusters was taken out with the help of hierarchical clustering method of cluster analysis. These clusters were labeled appropriate names and their characteristics were described in detail. The thesis concluded with recommendation of designating these social areas as 'social development planning zones' for obtaining inclusive development.

Sharing Mobilities - New Perspectives for the Mobile Risk Society (Paperback): Sven Kesselring, Malene Freudendal-Pedersen,... Sharing Mobilities - New Perspectives for the Mobile Risk Society (Paperback)
Sven Kesselring, Malene Freudendal-Pedersen, Dennis Zuev
R1,151 Discovery Miles 11 510 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Sharing Mobilities focuses on the emergence of future sustainable and collaborative mobility cultures. At the intersection of physical and virtual capacity and access to people, goods, ideas, and services, this book poses fundamental challenges and opportunities for governance, economy, planning, and identity. The future of new collaborative forms of consumption and sharing would play a key role in the organization of everyday life and business. Sharing mobilities is more than simply sharing transport, and its diverse impacts on society and the environment demand thorough theory-led sociological research. With an extensive global range, the contributors present radical manifestations of sharing capacities throughout diverse countries, including Germany, Denmark, Japan, and Vietnam. The phenomenon of mobility is highly actual and social as well as politically relevant and urging. This collection focuses on open questions from the perspective of the mobilities turn while presenting state-of-the-art theory-based articles with applied perspectives. An ideal read for scholars based in social science and the interdisciplinary research on mobility, transports, and sharing economy. Sociologists, geographers, economists, urban governance researchers, and research students would also find this book of interest.

True Urbanism - Living In and Near the Center (Hardcover): Mark Hinshaw True Urbanism - Living In and Near the Center (Hardcover)
Mark Hinshaw
R3,919 Discovery Miles 39 190 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Mark Hinshaw has a proposition for Americans: Come out of the bunker, throw open the gates, and meet the neighborhood. In this passionate appeal, he introduces those who have already done just that and explains what cities can do to make true urbanism possible. He rejoices in the growing number of people rejecting sterile, paint-by-numbers subdivisions in favor of vibrant and unpredictable urban neighborhoods. This vivid account of cities small and large emerging from the cobwebs of late 20th century development will show communities with lingering antiurban tendencies how to embrace density as destiny. A must-read urban design book for anyone who cares about cities.

Heat Islands - Understanding and Mitigating Heat in Urban Areas (Hardcover): Lisa Mummery Gartland Heat Islands - Understanding and Mitigating Heat in Urban Areas (Hardcover)
Lisa Mummery Gartland
R4,062 Discovery Miles 40 620 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Heat islands are urban and suburban areas that are significantly warmer than their surroundings. Traditional, highly absorptive construction materials and a lack of effective landscaping are their main causes. Heat island problems, in terms of increased energy consumption, reduced air quality and effects on human health and mortality, are becoming more pressing as cities continue to grow and sprawl. This comprehensive book brings together the latest information about heat islands and their mitigation. The book describes how heat islands are formed, what problems they cause, which technologies mitigate heat island effects and what policies and actions can be taken to cool communities. Internationally renowned expert Lisa Gartland offers a comprehensive source of information for turning heat islands into cool communities. The author includes sections on cool roofing and cool paving, explains their benefits in detail and provides practical guidelines for their selection and installation. The book also reviews how and why to incorporate trees and vegetation around buildings, in parking lots and on green roofs.

Open Space: People Space (Hardcover): Catharine Ward Thompson, Penny Travlou Open Space: People Space (Hardcover)
Catharine Ward Thompson, Penny Travlou
R5,089 Discovery Miles 50 890 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Highly visual and containing contributions from leading names in landscape, architecture and design, this volume provides a rare insight into people's engagement with the outdoor environment; looking at the ways in which the design of spaces and places meets people's needs and desires in the twenty-first century. Embracing issues of social inclusion, recreation, and environmental quality, the editors explore innovative ways to develop an understanding of how the landscape, urban or rural, can contribute to health and quality of life. Open Space: People Space examines the nature and value of people's access to outdoor environments. Led by Edinburgh's OPENspace research centre, the debate focuses on current research to support good design for open space and brings expertise from a range of disciplines to look at: an analysis of policy and planning issues and challenges understanding the nature and experience of exclusion the development of evidence-based inclusive design innovative research approaches which focus on people's access to open space and the implications of that experience. Invaluable to policy makers, researchers, urban designers, landscape architects, planners, managers and students, it is also essential reading for those working in child development, health care and community development.

Bringing Home the Housing Crisis - Politics, Precarity and Domicide in Austerity London (Hardcover): Mel Nowicki Bringing Home the Housing Crisis - Politics, Precarity and Domicide in Austerity London (Hardcover)
Mel Nowicki
R2,092 Discovery Miles 20 920 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Often portrayed as an apolitical space, this book demonstrates that home is in fact a highly political concept, with a range of groups in society excluded from a 'right to home' under current UK policies. Drawing on resident interviews and analysis of political and media attitudes across three case studies - the criminalisation of squatting, the bedroom tax, and family homelessness - it explores the ways in which legislative and policy changes dismantle people's rights to secure, decent and affordable housing by framing them as undeserving. The book includes practical lessons for housing academics, activists and policymakers.

Planning Power - Town Planning and Social Control in Colonial Africa (Hardcover): Ambe Njoh Planning Power - Town Planning and Social Control in Colonial Africa (Hardcover)
Ambe Njoh
R4,363 Discovery Miles 43 630 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

With a multidisciplinary perspective, Planning Power examines British and French colonial town and country planning efforts in Africa. Drawing out similarities in the colonial administrative and economic strategies of the two powers, rather than emphasizing the differences, the book offers an unusually nuanced view of African planning systems in a time of upheaval and political change. In showing how the colonial authorities sought to gain political and social control in Africa, it can be seen how their will to exert political power influenced every area of planning practice during this era. This unique comparative analysis of British and French colonial town planning - covering the entire sub-Saharan African region - takes theories from a wide range of disciplines, including political science, history, urban and regional planning, economics and geography to paint a comprehensive picture of the subject. Written by a prolific researcher and writer in the political-economy of urban and regional planning in Africa, Planning Power is valuable reading for students and academics in a range of disciplines.

Power and Party in an English City - An account of single-party rule (Hardcover, New Ed): David G. Green Power and Party in an English City - An account of single-party rule (Hardcover, New Ed)
David G. Green
R1,867 Discovery Miles 18 670 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Power and Party in an English City provides an account of how decisions are taken by the state at the level of locality. More specifically, it is an account of the private policy-making activities of a ruling Labour group of councillors in the major English city of Newcastle-Upon-Tyne. Despite the fact that local government in most of the towns and cities of England is one-party government, very little is known abotu the private behaviour of ruling party groups. In this book David Green provides a penetrating empirical study of the realities of local government. The author seeks to examine and analyse the importance of party discipline, the relationship between the Labour group of councillors and the party outside the council, the power of the committee chairmen, the role of local patronage and the openness of the local policy-making process. The government of Newcastle is perhaps the most closely association in the public mind with T. Dan Smith, the corrupt local politician. In fact, Smith had left local politics in Newcastle in teh mid-1960s. How was the city being run a decade or so later? This study is however much more than an inside view of the affairs of a single authority. The last part of the book is devoted to a discussion of aspects of some traditional and modern theories of democracy and specifically to what author sees as the inadequate advocacy of participatory democracy in recent years. Green makes a major contribution to our thinking about the kind of democracy that is possible in modern large-scale societies, explores weaknesses of moder theories and puts forward some original modifications to modern democratic theory, in the light of a theory of knowledge which is seen as more appropriate for modern natural and social scientific activity. This book was first published in 1981.

Inner City Regeneration (Hardcover, New Ed): Robert K Home Inner City Regeneration (Hardcover, New Ed)
Robert K Home
R1,861 Discovery Miles 18 610 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book covers all the main aspects of government policy and practice in British inner city regeneration. Chapters deal with the development of policy, agencies for regeneration, housing, social issues. The UK edxperience is compared with that of other countries, particularly the USA, and past achievements and future prospects are considered. This book was first published in 1982.

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