Displaying the top 100 results that match your query. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/rssapi.jsp?Re=3295&N=3+5712+4294963396+7267 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1393980 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1293115 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=762035 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=715352 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=765985 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=690598 MetroGreen examines how open-space networks have fared in real scenarios in ten studios of U.S. and Canadian cities paired for comparative analysis - Toronto and Chicago, Calgary and Denver, and Vancouver and Portland among them. Planners, landscape architects, conservationists, and municipal officials will profit from this leading examination of the tension between the widespread desire for open space and the complexity of controversy over providing and protecting it. MetroGreen is the authoritative source for examining the political and social issues affecting implementation of open-space systems.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=650262 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=614774 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=616976 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=532153 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=590097 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=487756 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=475121 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=550962 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=470393 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=475805 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=339527 Comeback Cities shows how innovative, pragmatic tactics for ameliorating the nations urban ills have produced results beyond anyones expectations, reawakening Americas toughest neighborhoods. In the past, big government and business working separately were unable to solve the inner city crisis. Rather, a blend of public-private partnerships, grassroots nonprofit organizations, and a willingness to experiment characterize what is best among the new approaches to urban problem-solving. Pragmatism, not dogma, has produced the charter school movement and the polices new focus on quality-of-life issues. The new breed of big city mayors has welcomed business back into the city, stressed performance and results at city agencies, downplayed divisive racial politics, and cracked down on symptoms of social disorder. As a consequence, Americas inner cities are becoming vital communities once again.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=328389 24-hour cable news. Millions of Internet sites. Information overload. How can we sort through the information? Assess the analyses? Trust the sources? Contemporary World Issues provides a simple solution -- informed and readable authors offering concise yet thorough discussions of todays most talked-about topics as they affect America and the world. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=470397 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=340058 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=334788 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=334791 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=284181 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=334800 If you have had enough of endless growth, and want to do something about it, then Better NOT Bigger: How to Take Control of Urban Growth and Improve Your Community is the resource youve been searching for. Exploding the myth that growth is good for us, this book clearly and convincingly shows how urban growth can, in fact, leave our communities permanently scarred, and saddled with very high costs. Lively, accessible, and packed with insights, ideas, tools, and resources, Better NOT Bigger is for both the professional planner and the ordinary citizen.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=292197 American metropolitan areas today are divided into neighborhoods of privilege and poverty, often along lines of ethnicity and race. As Gerald Frug shows, this divided and inhospitable urban landscape is not simply the result of individual choices about where to live or start a business. It is the product of government policies - and, in particular, the policies embedded in legal rules. Frug presents the first ever analysis of how legal rules shape modern cities and outlines a set of alternatives to bring down the walls that now keep city dwellers apart. He describes how American law treats cities as subdivisions of states and shows how this arrangement has encouraged the separation of metropolitan residents into different, sometimes hostile groups. He explains the divisive impact of rules about zoning, redevelopment, land use, and the organization of such city services as education and policing. He pays special attention to the underlying role of anxiety about strangers, the widespread desire for good schools, and the pervasive fear of crime. Ultimately, Frug calls for replacing the current legal definition of cities with an alternative based on what he calls community building - an alternative that gives cities within the same metropolitan region incentives to forge closer links with each other.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=151070 Essayist Bettina Drew takes the reader on an in-depth exploration of several American cities - Stamford, Hilton Head, Las Vegas, Dallas, Celebration - to examine the consequences of built environments that fail to reflect regional, historic, aesthetic, and social values. Drew talks to the everyday people who live in these cities, along with the urban planners and developers who created them, about the cultural impact of big-business-inspired living. She concludes with an overview of the ways in which some architects and planners are now working to humanize American landscape development. Always searching for the impact of physical environment on human happiness, Drew focuses on what has gone so wrong with mass architecture and reflects on the possibilities for built environments in the future.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=138159 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=313666 Contents: Preface. Introduction. Part I: Planning and Government -- The Nature of Planning. Urbanization. Governing and Planning Urban Areas. Part II: Land Use Regulation -- The Evolution of Zoning. The Institutional and Legal Framework. The Techniques of Zoning. Development Changes. Part III: Quality of the Environment -- Aesthetics. Historic Preservation. Part IV: Growth Management -- Growth Management and Local Government. Urban Growth Management and the States. Part V: Development Issues -- Transportation. Housing. Community and Economic Development. Part VI: Environmental Planning -- Environmental Policies (Environmental Concerns. The National Environmental Protection Act. Clean Air. Clean Water. Waste). The Limits of Environmental Policy. Conclusion. Some Fiscal Questions. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=225436 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=92682 This book describes and analyzes growth, change, and spatial patterns in Mexico City, looking at urbanization, population, marriage and fertility, health and mortality, migration, environment and housing, social characteristics, the economy, labor force, and corporate structure. Applying modern techniques of geographic information systems and spatial analysis, the authors reveal many previously unknown or unrecognized trends and patterns. In a capstone chapter, they summarize the spatial patterns in a series of cluster analyses that identify distinctive zones, within the metropolis - a prosperous core, surrounding complex ring patterns, an impoverished zone, and semi-rural arms. They also compare the pattern of Mexico Citys cluster zones to the classical and developmental literature on cities. In closing, the authors suggest government policies that would foster optimal future development of an even larger metropolis.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=183899 This study of cities on Chinas inland frontiers from ancient times to the present charts new territory in both geography and Chinese studies. As a work of geography, it integrates the approaches of urban geography, cultural historical geography, and frontier studies to assess the form and function of cities on the Chinese frontiers. In Chinese studies, it is the first work to explore the nature of urbanism on Chinese frontiers, and the first work in English to present comparative case studies of a group of Chinese frontier cities. Beyond the Great Wall focuses on five cities, all originally established as frontier garrisons, which now flourish with populations of over a million as capitals of the ethnically diverse regions in which they are located. The cities are Kunming, Lanzhou, Xining, Hohhot, and Urumqi. The author explores how the urban ideals and practices of eastern China were adapted to the natural and human conditions of the frontier regions, and in the process she analyzes the interaction of Chinese and non-Chinese peoples in frontier cities in outlining the historical development of each city.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=212811 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=178078 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=93711 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=117326 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=188033 A direct and fundamentally optimistic indictment of the shortsightedness and intellectual arrogance that has characterized much of urban planning in this century, The Death and Life of Great American Cities has, since its first publication in 1961, become the standard against which all endeavors in that field are measured. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=112813 The population of ancient Rome at its peak exceeded that of any previous western city, or any that came after it until the Industrial Revolution. The requirements for its running--to keep inhabitants fed and provided with water, drainage and entertainment, to enable the people to move about freely and in relative safety, to facilitate a reasonable harmony with their neighbours--meant that a pragmatic system of administrative law was needed. This book describes the legal aspects of urbanism, of the functioning of Rome as a city. O. F. Robinson begins by introducing the purely physical aspect of Rome--its population and boundaries. An overview of town planning is followed by an in-depth treatment of building controls, public works, streets and traffic. The Tiber, the main river in Rome, was central to life in the City. Its bridges and sewers, its employment as a transport system, its relationship to the water supply, and its other uses are discussed in detail. This provides the background for an analysis of public health and safety. Additionally, the book focuses on services such as food distribution, entertainment such as the theatre and gladiatorial games, and the forces of law and order. Ancient Rome: City Planning and Administration is a comprehensive survey of the running of a great city without modern technology. 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