... central city slums and threatening to perturb the whole established order of urban life. In view of the seriously compromised functional rationality of inner city areas in the United States in the immediate post-World War 11 period, ...
This book is a valuable resource for students of planning who want to understand planning as it is. Urban planners and engineers will also find this book useful.
These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions.
Capital City explains the role of planners in the real estate state, as well as the remarkable power of planning to reclaim urban life.
This book explores the interconnections between urbanization and capitalism to examine the current condition of cities due to capitalism.
Urbanization and Conflict in Market Societies
The Urban Land Nexus and the State
A review of the original French edition of this book in the American Journal of Sociology hailed it as "the most finished product yet to emerge from the new (Marxist)...
This book contributes analyses intended to be useful for efforts to roll back contemporary profit-based forms of urbanization, and to promote alternative, radically democratic and sustainable forms of urbanism.
Recent years have witnessed a surge in public awareness concerning the impact of world economic forces on cities. In this challenging book, the author argues that though the consciousness is new the phenomena themselves are not.