Cities are often seen as helpless victims in a global flow of events and many view growing inequality in cities as inevitable. This engaging book rejects this gloomy prognosis and...
The politics of urban development is one of the most enduring, central themes of urban politics. In Resisting Redevelopment, Eleonora Pasotti explores the forces that enable residents of 'aspiring global...
Proposing an entirely new governance model to unleash innovation throughout local governmentAt a time when trust is dropping precipitously and American government at the national level has fallen into a...
More than half of the world's population lives in cities; by 2050, it will be more than three quarters. Projections suggest that megacities of 50 million or even 100 million...
With rapid increases in urban populations, there is an urgent need to transform our world's cities in keeping with ecological imperatives and democratic principles. A growing worldwide citizen movement is...
The County: The "Dark Continent" of American PoliticsThe American people have never ceased, nor do they give any signs of ceasing, in their effort to master the mechanics of political...
The Shame of the CitiesThis is not a book. It is a collection of articles reprinted from McClures Magazine. Done as journalism, they are journalism still, and no further pretensions...
Town Life in the Fifteenth Century, Volume 2 (of 2)The controversy concerning the bounds and limits of their freedom, which the English boroughs were forced to maintain with powerful organizations...
Town Life in the Fifteenth Century, Volume 1 (of 2)In the twenty years which have passed since Mr. Green drew his brilliant sketch of the early life of English towns,...
The Elizabethan Parish in its Ecclesiastical and Financial AspectsThese chapters are but part of a larger work on the Elizabethan parish designed to cover all the aspects of parish government....
The Communes of Lombardy from the VI. to the X. Century - An Investigation of the Causes Which Led to the Development of Municipal Unity Among the Lombard Communes.Before tracing...
The Corporation of London, Its Rights and PrivilegesSome apology is necessary on the part of one whose acquaintance with civic affairs is of such recent date, for presuming to stand...