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The Power of Collaborative Solutions: Six Principles and Effective Tools for Building Healthy Communities

by Tom Wolff

In this groundbreaking book, Tom Wolff spells out six proven principles for creating collaborative solutions for healthy communities. The Power of Collaborative Solutions addresses contemporary social problems...


The Road to Renewal: Private Investment in the U.S. Transportation Infrastructure

by R. Richard Geddes

In The Road to Renewal, R. Richard Geddes surveys the current state of U.S. ground transportation and finds that, like the roads themselves, transportation policy is in desperate need of repair. A shift toward...


Capital Spaces: The Multiple Complex Public Spaces of a Global City

by Matthew Carmona & Filipa Matos Wunderlich

In recent years it has become common-place to hear claims that public space in cities across the globe has become the exclusive preserve of the wealthy and privileged, at the expense of the needs of wider society....


Snob Zones: Fear, Prejudice, and Real Estate

by Lisa Prevost

An exploration of the corrosive effects of overpriced housing, exclusionary zoning, and the flight of the younger population in the Northeast

Towns with strict zoning are the best towns, aren't they? They're...


China's Disappearing Countryside: Towards Sustainable Land Governance for the Poor

by Yongjun Zhao

This book examines the linkages between land tenure, development and governance in the context of China's development transformation. Drawing on empirical studies, it advocates the exploration of innovative...


Transformative Policy for Poor Women: A New Feminist Framework

by Bina Fernandez

In this book, Bina Fernandez successfully presents a new feminist framework for policy analysis that can account for failures in policy processes to benefit poor women. Recognising that policy is a multiply...


Administrative Discretion in Action: A Narrative of Eminent Domain

by Amanda M. Olejarski

Given that this book is written for scholars, practitioners, students, and community members, it emphasizes praxis, the critical interface between public administration theory and the practice of eminent domain....


Mapping Women, Making Politics: Feminist Perspectives on Political Geography

by Lynn Staeheli, Eleonore Kofman & Linda Peake

Mapping Women, Making Politics demonstrates the multiple ways in which gender influences political processes and the politics of space. The book begins by addressing feminism's theoretical and conceptual challenges...


Sustainable Urban Development Volume 3: The Toolkit for Assessment

by Ron Vreeker, Mark Deakin & Stephen Curwell

The third volume of the Sustainable Urban Development Series outlines the BEQUEST toolkit that helps link protocol with the assessment methods currently available for evaluating the sustainability of urban...


Legitimacy and Urban Governance: A Cross-National Comparative Study

by Hubert Heinelt, David Sweeting & Panagiotis Getimis

A fresh examination of the relationship between two key issues in the on-going debate on urban governance - leadership and community involvement.

It explores the nature of the interaction between community...


The Politics of Exile

by Elizabeth Dauphinee

Written in both autoethnographical and narrative form, The Politics of Exile offers unique insight into the complex encounter of researcher with research subject in the context of the Bosnian War and its aftermath....


Public Policymaking in Hong Kong: Civic Engagement and State-Society Relations in a Semi-Democracy

by Eliza W.Y. Lee, Elaine Y.M. Chan & Joseph C.W. Chan

Why and how has civic engagement emerged in the policy process of Hong Kong as an Asian semi-democratic state? This book attempts to answer this question through examining six cases that straddle diverse policy...


From Rivalry to Partnership?: New Approaches to the Challenges of Africa

by Tony Chafer & Gordon Cumming

From Rivalry to Partnership is the first to study a potentially valuable way forward in tackling the challenges of Africa, namely bilateral partnerships. Written in a clear and accessible style, From Rivalry...


The Legal Empowerment Agenda: Poverty, Labour and the Informal Economy in Africa

by Dan Banik

Defined as a process which increases access to justice and the legal rights of the poor, 'legal empowerment' is increasingly being considered to be an important tool in anti-poverty efforts in developing countries....


The Development and Antidevelopment Debate: Critical Reflections on the Philosophical Foundations

by Martha Jalali Rabbani

This book reflects on the philosophical assumptions that sustain the development debate. Rabbani analyzes how the modern project of development and the antidevelopment discourse reduce the human condition to...


Small States in the European Union: Coping with Structural Disadvantages

by Diana Panke

No other study comprehensively analyzes small states in a comparative perspective, examines their activity levels in EU negotiations and outlines which conditions are needed for the effectiveness of a broad...


No Miracle: What Asia Can Teach All Countries About Growth

by Mitchell Wigdor

No Miracle examines the role of institutions in bridging the 'digital divide' between rich and poor nations and what that means for the country's integration into a global economy. Shifting the debate from whether...


Uncovering African Agency: Angola's Management of China's Credit Lines

by Lucy Corkin

In this thought provoking and original work Lucy Corkin demonstrates how Angola has been amongst the most successful of African nations to use China's involvement in the region to grow their economies and solicit...


Pedestrian- and Transit-Oriented Design

by Reid Ewing & Keith Bartholomew

Explaining how to design spaces for pedestrians while also accommodating transit needs, this book is an excellent reference for students, public sector planners and officials, and private sector designers and...


Affordable Housing and Public-Private Partnerships

by Nestor M. Davidson & Robin Paul Malloy

Leading experts on housing law and policy come together in this book to focus attention on the critical need for affordable housing, address key issues of concern and suggest appropriate responses for future...