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Urban Development eBook Series

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  • Financing Transit-Oriented Development with Land Values

    Adapting Land Value Capture in Developing Countries

    by Hiroaki Suzuki, Jin Murakami, Yu-Hung Hong, Beth Tamayose ...
    Series series Urban Development
    Cities in developing countries are experiencing unprecedented urban growth. Unfortunately, this is often accompanied by the negative impacts of sprawl as a result of rapid motorization such as congestion, air pollution, greenhouse gas emissions, inefficient use of energy and time, and unequal accessibility. As these cities are often under severe fiscal constraints, they face great challenges in ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Transforming Cities with Transit

    Transit and Land-Use Integration for Sustainable Urban Development

    by Hiroaki Suzuki, Robert Cervero, Kanako Iuchi ...
    Series series Urban Development
    'Transforming Cities with Transit' explores the complex process of transit and land-use integration in rapidly growing cities in developing countries. As one of the most promising strategies for advancing environmental sustainability, economic competitiveness, and socially inclusive development in fast-growing cities, transit and land-use integration is increasingly being embraced by policy-makers ... Read more

    $17.72 CAD

  • Financing Transit-Oriented Development with Land Values

    Adapting Land Value Capture in Developing Countries

    by Hiroaki Suzuki, Jin Murakami, Yu-Hung Hong, Beth Tamayose ...
    Series series Urban Development
    Cities in developing countries are experiencing unprecedented urban growth. Unfortunately, this is often accompanied by the negative impacts of sprawl as a result of rapid motorization such as congestion, air pollution, greenhouse gas emissions, inefficient use of energy and time, and unequal accessibility. As these cities are often under severe fiscal constraints, they face great challenges in ... Read more

    $22.49 CAD

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  • The New Urban Crisis

    How Our Cities Are Increasing Inequality, Deepening Segregation, and Failing the Middle Class-and What We Can Do About It

    by Richard Florida ...
    In recent years, the young, educated, and affluent have surged back into cities, reversing decades of suburban flight and urban decline. And yet all is not well, Richard Florida argues in The New Urban Crisis. Florida, one of the first scholars to anticipate this back-to-the-city movement in his groundbreaking The Rise of the Creative Class, demonstrates how the same forces that power the growth ... Read more

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  • World 3.0

    Global Prosperity and How to Achieve It

    by Pankaj Ghemawat ...
    Since the financial crisis of 2008, many of us have had to reexamine our beliefs about markets and globalization. How integrated should economies really be? How much regulation is right?Many people fuse these two dimensions of choice into one, either favoring both globalization and deregulation-or opposing both of them.It doesn’t have to be that way.In World 3.0, award-winning author and economist ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Urban Nation

    Why We Need to Give Power Back to the Cities to Make Canada Strong

    by Alan Broadbent ...
    Canada’s cities are crippled by a lack of financial and governing clout. Their infrastructures are crumbling and their citizens are disaffected by the inability of municipal government—or any government, for that matter—to act on the issues that influence their constituents’ lives. Cities generate a disproportionate amount of Canada’s wealth and are home to the majority of the population, yet they ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Transport for Suburbia

    Beyond the Automobile Age

    by Paul Mees ...
    The need for effective public transport is greater than ever in the 21st century. With countries like China and India moving towards mass-automobility, we face the prospects of an environmental and urban health disaster unless alternatives are found. It is time to move beyond the automobile age. But while public transport has worked well in the dense cores of some big cities, the problem is that ... Read more

    $277.20 CAD

  • Welcome to the Urban Revolution

    How Cities Are Changing The World

    by Jeb Brugmann ...
    In Welcome to the Urban Revolution, internationally recognized urbanist Jeb Brugmann turns traditional thinking about globalization on its head to show that the city isn't a backdrop to global change; it is a central driver of change—political, economic, social, and environmental. This powerful reappraisal of the global role of cities brilliantly synthesizes urban studies, economics, and sociology ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • Millionaire Migrants

    Trans-Pacific Life Lines

    by David Ley ...
    Series Book 97 - RGS-IBG Book Series
    Based on extensive interviewing and access to a wide range of databases, this is an examination of the migration career of wealthy migrants who left East Asia and relocated to Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and the United States, in the 1980s and 1990s.An interdisciplinary project based on over 15 years of research in Vancouver, Toronto, and Hong Kong, with additional comparative visits and ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • Women and the Informal Economy in Urban Africa

    From the Margins to the Centre

    by Mary Njeri Kinyanjui ...
    Series series Africa Now
    In this highly original work, Mary Njeri Kinyanjui explores the trajectory of women's movement from the margins of urbanization into the centres of business activities in Nairobi and its accompanying implications for urban planning.While women in much of Africa have struggled to gain urban citizenship and continue to be weighed down by poor education, low income and confinement to domestic ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • Local and Global

    The Management of Cities in the Information Age

    by Jordi Borja, Manuel Castells ...
    This text challenges the belief that cities will eventually disappear as territorial forms of social organization as new information technologies permit the articulation of social processes without regard for distance, arguing that the specific role of cities will become more important, and proposing that a dynamic and creative relationship be built up between the local and the global. In this way ... Read more

    $91.16 CAD

  • World City Syndrome

    Neoliberalism and Inequality in Cape Town

    by David A. McDonald ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Human Geography
    The literature on ‘world cities’ has had an enormous influence on urban theory and planning alike. From Manila to London, academics and policy makers have attempted to understand, and to some extent strive for, world city status. This book is a study of Cape Town’s standing in this network of urban centres, and an investigation of the conceptual appropriateness of this world city hypothesis. ... Read more

    $87.46 CAD