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Fortune Mangara, Nirmala Dorasamy
Sustainable Urban Development in Southern Africa

This book examines how economic resilience and sustainable development can be achieved within Southern African cities through the integration of Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) into urban planning. It comba…

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Hans R a Koster, Stef Proost, Jacques-François Thisse
Spatial Economics

An authoritative and cutting-edge exploration of how land, transportation, and economic forces shape cities, regions, and the distribution of economic activities from a local to a global scale. Land, by i…

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J C Bradbury
This One Will Be Different

For more than a century, America's sports stadiums have evolved from modest, private ballparks into billion-dollar play-palaces for the rich-built increasingly on the backs of taxpayers. Government commit…

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Ryan Short
The Civic Brand

The Civic Brand: The Power & Responsibility of Place is a bold and practical book that challenges conventional thinking about city-building, tourism, economic development, and community engagement. Au…

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Briem
Beyond Steel

Learning from one Rust Belt city's postindustrial transitionWhile Pittsburgh is sometimes held up as a successful example of urban reinvention in the era after heavy industry (think "eds and meds&quo…

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Henry Cisneros, Robert Rivard, David Hendricks
The Austin-San Antonio Megaregion

A cascade of recent reports has described unprecedented growth in every category measured---population, employment, new business starts, manufacturing indices, traffic counts, in-migration, school attenda…

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Ming Hu
Embodied Carbon

The global implications surrounding embodied carbon - the total greenhouse gas emissions associated with the production, transportation, assembly, and deconstruction of building materials - are often over…

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Peter F Burns, Matthew O Thomas, Max R Bieganski
Disneyland Politics

When Walt Disney decided to build Disneyland in Anaheim, CA in the 1950s, the move presented a puzzle for Anaheim's government: How would the city balance the interests of private investors against those …

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Peter F Burns, Matthew O Thomas, Max R Bieganski
Disneyland Politics

When Walt Disney decided to build Disneyland in Anaheim, CA in the 1950s, the move presented a puzzle for Anaheim's government: How would the city balance the interests of private investors against those …

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Tanzil Shafique
City of Desire

In this major open access contribution to Global South urban studies, Tanzil Shafique offers a new way of knowing and engaging with the most common urban environment in the Global South - informal settlem…

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Alena Kimakova
The Political Economy of Public Policy

This book is a practical toolkit for mastering political economy analysis. It focuses on key economic and political concepts while fostering research skills and teaching frameworks that can be applied in …

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Katie J Wells, Kafui Attoh, Declan Cullen
Disrupting D.C.

A panoramic account of the urban politics and deep social divisions that gave rise to UberThe first city to fight back against Uber, Washington, D.C., was also the first city where such resistance was def…

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Marco Di Nunzio
Unjust Developments

Why does injustice often deepen during moments of rapid urban growth? And what does the pursuit of more just urban futures look like when the realization of alternatives seems impossible?African cities ha…

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Marco Di Nunzio
Unjust Developments

Why does injustice often deepen during moments of rapid urban growth? And what does the pursuit of more just urban futures look like when the realization of alternatives seems impossible?African cities ha…

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Rita Kesselring
Extraction, Global Commodity Trade, and Urban Development in Zambia's Northwestern Province

Rita Kesselring provides a compelling ethnographic account of the wildly uneven, deeply interconnected development trajectories of Solwezi, a copper mining town in Zambia, and Zug, an urban hub for metal …

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