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Urban Spaces : Planning and Struggles for Land and Community.
Title:
Urban Spaces : Planning and Struggles for Land and Community.
Author:
DeFilippis, James.
ISBN:
9780739137468
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (127 pages)
Contents:
Foreword -- Introduction -- Chapter One Determining the Public Good and Evaluating Local Economic Development: Critique of the U.S. Supreme Court's Kelo v. New London Decision -- Chapter Two Pretexts, Paranoia, and Public Space: Rethinking the Right to the City after 9/11 -- Chapter Three Against the Tide: Mobilization and Community Planning in Asian Ethnic Enclaves, Contentious Sites between Capital and Community -- Chapter Four Playing Cape Town: Politics of Stadium Development for The 2010 World Cup -- Chapter Five Black Community Responses to Hurricanes Hugo and Andrew: Continuing Struggles for Land and Social Justice -- Chapter Six Revisiting the Roxbury Master Plan in Boston: Three Key Accomplishments for Equity Planning -- Chapter Seven The Procedural Fix in California and Its Implications for an Equitable Planning Theory -- Chapter Eight Contesting Community Development: Promoters and Critics -- Bibliography -- Contributors.
Abstract:
Urban Spaces is an interdisciplinary reader focusing on community-based versus corporate-based political and ideological struggles over the utilization of urban land and spaces.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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