Sustaining cities
Subtitle: urban policies, practices, and perceptions
By: edited by Linda Krause
Series: New directions in international studies
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: New Brunswick, NJ
Language: eng
Number of pages: 167
ISBN-13: 9780813554167; 9780813554150; 9780813554174
Subjects: City planning; Environmental aspects; Growth; Cities and town; Urban Sociology
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Acknowledgments; title: Introduction; title: Urban policies : market rules; title: Sustainable city : crisis and opportunity in Mexico / Alfonso Iracheta; title: Hostage cities : unsustainable competition for corporate investment / Linda McCarthy; title: Reframing housing value / Sherry Ahrentzen; title: Urban practices : connecting communities; title: Notes toward a history of agrarian urbanism / Charles Waldheim; title: The art of place-making / Georgia Butina Watson; title: Beyond boundaries / Mo Zell; title: Urban perceptions : tigers, tricksters, and other urban legends; title: Chinese cities : design and disappearance / Ackbar Abbas; title: From "the dead" to the dead : the disposable bodies and disposable culture of Celtic Tiger Noir / Andrew Kincaid; title: Imagining and re-imagining a promised land : the gangster genre and Harlem's mythic past, present, and future / Paula J. Massood; title: Notes on contributors; title: Index.