Urban Spaces : Planning and Struggles for Land and Community.

Jennings, James.

Urban Spaces : Planning and Struggles for Land and Community. - Lanham : Lexington Books, 2009. - 1 online resource (166 pages)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Determining the public good and evaluating local economic development : critique of the U.S. Supreme Court's Kelo v. new London decision / James Jennings, J.S. Jordan-Zachery -- Pretexts, paranoia, and public space : rethinking the right to the city after 9/11 / Don Mitchell -- Changing neighborhood : mobilization and community planning in Asian ethnic enclaves / Michael Liu and Kim Geron -- Playing Cape Town : politics of stadium development for the 2010 World Cup / Tony Roshan Samara -- Black community responses to hurricanes Hugo and Andrew : continuing struggles for land and social justice / David McBride -- Revisiting the Roxbury master plan in Boston : key accomplishments for equity planning / James Jennings -- The procedural fix in California and its implications for an equitable planning theory / Robert W. Smith -- Contesting community development : promoters and critics / James DeFilippis, Robert Fisher, and Eric Shragge.

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.


English.

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City planning--United States.
Community development--United States.
Corporate power--United States.
Pouvoir économique--États-Unis.
POLITICAL SCIENCE--Public Policy--Regional Planning.
City planning.
Community development.
Corporate power.
Stadtplanung
Öffentlicher Raum
Stadtsoziologie


United States.
USA.


Electronic books.
Electronic books.

HT165.52 .J46 2009

307.1/2160973 307.12160973

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