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Enstice, Matt, author.
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307.12160974797 23ENG20220707
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2022
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Gomez, Marisela B., 1965- author.
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307.1416097526 23
Publication Date
2013
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Using the East Baltimore community as an example this book examines historical and current rebuilding practices in abandoned communities in urban America, their structural causes, and outcomes on the health of the place and the people. The role of community organizing as a necessary means to assure benefit during and after resident displacement, its challenges and successes, are described in the context of a current eminent domain-driven rebuilding project in East Baltimore.
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Condon, Patrick M.
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307.1216 22
Publication Date
2008
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DVD 631.5809943 CRY
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2009 2008 2007 2006 2005
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The video features how Crystal Waters Village transformed into a vibrant place to live with a multitude of businesses, food producing gardens and wilderness habitats. It is the first village in the world to be consciously designed using the principles of permaculture.
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Kromer, John, 1948-
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307.34160973 21
Publication Date
2000
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Calthorpe, Peter.
Call Number
307.14160973 22
Publication Date
2010
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Cities are green is becoming a common refrain. But Calthorpe argues that a more comprehensive understanding of urbanism at the regional scale provides a better platform to address climate change. In this groundbreaking new work, he shows how such regionally scaled urbanism can be combined with green technology to achieve not only needed reductions in carbon emissions but other critical economies and lifestyle benefits. Rather than just providing another checklist of new energy sources or one dimensional land use alternatives, he combines them into comprehensive national growth scenarios for 2050 and documents their potential impacts. In so doing he powerfully demonstrates that it will take an integrated approach of land use transformation, policy changes, and innovative technology to transition to a low carbon economy. To accomplish this Calthorpe synthesizes thirty years of experience, starting with his ground breaking work in sustainable community design in the 1980s following through to his current leadership in transit-oriented design, regional planning, and land use policy. Peter Calthorpe shows us what is possible using real world examples of innovative design strategies and forward-thinking policies that are already changing the way we live. This provocative and engaging work emerges from Calthorpes belief that, just as the last fifty years produced massive changes in our culture, economy and environment, the next fifty will generate changes of an even more profound nature. The book, enhanced by its superb four-color graphics, is a call to action and a road map for moving forward.
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Leinberger, Christopher B.
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307.760973 22
Publication Date
2008
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Zukin, Sharon.
Call Number
307.14164097471 22
Publication Date
2010
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As cities have gentrified, educated urbanites have come to prize what they regard as "authentic" urban life: aging buildings, art galleries, small boutiques, upscale food markets, neighborhood old-timers, funky ethnic restaurants, and old, family-owned shops. These signify a place's authenticity, in contrast to the bland standardization of the suburbs and exurbs. But as Sharon Zukin shows in Naked City, the rapid and pervasive demand for authenticity--evident in escalating real estate prices, expensive stores, and closely monitored urban streetscapes--has helped drive out the very people who first lent a neighborhood its authentic aura: immigrants, the working class, and artists. Zukin traces this economic and social evolution in six archetypal New York areas--Williamsburg, Harlem, the East Village, Union Square, Red Hook, and the city's community gardens--and travels to both the city's first IKEA store and the World Trade Center site. She shows that for followers of Jane Jacobs, this transformation is a perversion of what was supposed to happen. Indeed, Naked City is a sobering update of Jacobs' legendary 1962 book, The Death and Life of Great American Cities.
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Sharman, Russell Leigh, 1972-
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305.80097471 22
Publication Date
2006
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Rakow, Donald Andrew, 1951- author.
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635.091732 23
Publication Date
2020
Summary
"This book asserts that challenges related to improving the livability of communities are most effectively addressed in collaboration with other organizations, and that public gardens are a critical partner for interventions using plants as the means of bringing people and communities together"--
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Anderson, Alan B., 1939-
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305.8970712425 23
Publication Date
2013
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Immerwahr, Daniel, 1980- author.
Call Number
307.140973 23
Publication Date
2015
Summary
Daniel Immerwahr tells how the United States sought to rescue the world from poverty through small-scale, community-based approaches. He also sounds a warning: such strategies, now again in vogue, have been tried before, alongside grander moderization schemes--with often disastrous consequences as self-help gave way to crushing local oppression.
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