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Rural planning

July 2007

Decentralization and the Social Economics of Development

Lessons from Kenya

by Edited by Christopher B Barrett, Andrew G Mude, John M Omiti

There has been broad agreement in recent years that decentralization is key in achieving democracy at local level. Examining the successes, failures, possibilities and limitations of efforts across rural Kenya, this book analyses the socioeconomic and institutional prerequisites for successful decentralization, and the role of community groups and producer organizations in reducing poverty and promoting empowerment.Original empirical studies explore the fundamental elements of coherent, inclusive and ultimately effective decentralization, and how these can be applied to efforts across the African continent and beyond.

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Rural planning

February 2007

Global Supply Chains, Standards and the Poor

How the Globalization of Food Systems and Standards Affects Rural Development and Poverty

by Edited by Johan F M Swinnen,

Using original research from Asia, Africa, Europe and Latin America this book reviews the recent restructuring of the global agri-food industry and the dramatic rise of global retail chains in developing and transition countries. It focuses on the private standards and requirements imposed by multinational companies investing in these countries and the resulting changes to existing supply chains. It also examines the impact of these changes on local producers, particularly poor farmers, and considers the long-term policy implications in terms of growth and poverty.

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Rural planning

September 2005

Rural Change and Sustainability

Agriculture, the Environment and Communities

by Stephen J Essex, Andrew W Gilg, John Smithers, Randall Wilson. Edited by Richard Yarwood.

This book draws upon selected, revised and edited papers from a conference of rural geographers from the UK, USA and Canada, held at the Universities of Plymouth and Exeter. It focuses on rural regions, which are facing conflicting demands, pressures and challenges, which themselves have far-reaching implications for rural space and society. Themes that occur throughout the book include agricultural change, environmental issues, rural communities, governance and globalization, and rural responses to these.

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Rural planning

January 1992

Contemporary Rural Systems in Transition Volume 2

Economy and Society

by Ian R Bowler, Christopher Bryant, Duane Nellis

This is volume two of this series on contemporary rural systems in transition

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Humanities & Social Sciences

January 2018

Reconstructing modernity

Space, power and governance in mid-twentieth century British cities

by James Greenhalgh

Reconstructing modernity assesses the character of approaches to rebuilding British cities during the decades after the Second World War. It explores the strategies of spatial governance that sought to restructure society and looks at the cast of characters who shaped these processes. It challenges traditional views of urban modernism and sheds new light on the importance of the immediate post-war for the trajectory of planned urban renewal in twentieth century. It examines plans and policies designed to produce and govern lived spaces- shopping centers, housing estates, parks, schools and homes - and shows how and why they succeeded or failed. It demonstrates how the material space of the city and how people used and experienced it was crucial in understanding historical change in urban contexts. The book is aimed at those interested in urban modernism, the use of space in town planning, the urban histories of post-war Britain and of social housing.

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Humanities & Social Sciences

January 2018

Reconstructing modernity

Space, power and governance in mid-twentieth century British cities

by James Greenhalgh

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Humanities & Social Sciences

January 2018

Reconstructing modernity

Space, power and governance in mid-twentieth century British cities

by James Greenhalgh

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Humanities & Social Sciences

December 2017

Realising the city

Urban ethnography in Manchester

by Camilla Lewis, Jessica Symons

This book offers an inside view of Manchester, England demonstrating the complexity of urban dynamics from a range of ethnographic vantage points, including the city's football clubs, the airport, housing estates, the Gay Village and the city's annual civic parade. These perspectives help trace the multiple dynamics of a vibrant and rapidly changing post-industrial city, showing how people's decisions and actions co-produce the city and give it shape. Using the metaphor of the kaleidoscope, with each turn of the wheel, another aspect of the city is materialised. In doing so, the contributors complicate the dominant narrative of Manchester's renaissance as driven by the city administration's entrepreneurial ethos. By taking up civic space and resources with council-led cultural representations focused largely on generating financial income for the city, three decades of command-and-control politics has inhibited grassroots and spontaneous forms of emergent publics.

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Humanities & Social Sciences

December 2017

Realising the city

Urban ethnography in Manchester

by Camilla Lewis, Jessica Symons

This book offers an inside view of Manchester, England demonstrating the complexity of urban dynamics from a range of ethnographic vantage points, including the city's football clubs, the airport, housing estates, the Gay Village and the city's annual civic parade. These perspectives help trace the multiple dynamics of a vibrant and rapidly changing post-industrial city, showing how people's decisions and actions co-produce the city and give it shape. Using the metaphor of the kaleidoscope, with each turn of the wheel, another aspect of the city is materialised. In doing so, the contributors complicate the dominant narrative of Manchester's renaissance as driven by the city administration's entrepreneurial ethos. By taking up civic space and resources with council-led cultural representations focused largely on generating financial income for the city, three decades of command-and-control politics has inhibited grassroots and spontaneous forms of emergent publics.

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Humanities & Social Sciences

December 2017

Realising the city

Urban ethnography in Manchester

by Camilla Lewis, Jessica Symons

This book offers an inside view of Manchester, England demonstrating the complexity of urban dynamics from a range of ethnographic vantage points, including the city's football clubs, the airport, housing estates, the Gay Village and the city's annual civic parade. These perspectives help trace the multiple dynamics of a vibrant and rapidly changing post-industrial city, showing how people's decisions and actions co-produce the city and give it shape. Using the metaphor of the kaleidoscope, with each turn of the wheel, another aspect of the city is materialised. In doing so, the contributors complicate the dominant narrative of Manchester's renaissance as driven by the city administration's entrepreneurial ethos. By taking up civic space and resources with council-led cultural representations focused largely on generating financial income for the city, three decades of command-and-control politics has inhibited grassroots and spontaneous forms of emergent publics.

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Geography & the Environment

November 2013

1 Angel Square

The Co-operative Group's new head office

by Len Grant

This book charts the building of 1 Angel Square, the remarkable new head office for The Co-operative Group in Manchester's new NOMA district. Combining text and photographs to illustrate the building from commissioning to completion, Len Grant has interviewed the whole project team - clients, architects, engineers, project managers and builders - and has had unreserved access to document the creation of this already award-winning structure. The design of 1 Angel Square by the architects 3DReid, is currently the UK's highest BREEAM (Building Research Establishment's Environmental Assessment Method) rated office building to date, and it is set to be one of the most sustainable buildings in Europe. 1 Angel Square, the book, is an intimate record of this fascinating building. Some of the impressive facts include: 3,157 internal and external window panels make up the façade; there are 10,500 data and power outlets; it sits on 539 foundation piles, with an average depth of 18 metres below ground; and there are approximately 22km of power cables. This book will be required reading for students of architecture and construction, sustainability studies and urban planning, and for those with an interest in the history of one of the world's great businesses. ;

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Geography & the Environment

December 2018

Architectures of survival

Air war and urbanism in Britain, 1935–52

by Adam Page

Architectures of survival is an original and innovative work of history that investigates the relationship between air war and urbanism in modern Britain. It asks how the development of airpower and the targeting of cities influenced perceptions of urban spaces and visions of urban futures from the interwar period into the Cold War, highlighting the importance of war and the anticipation of war in modern urban history. Airpower created a permanent threat to cities and civilians, and this book considers how architects, planners and government officials reframed bombing as an ongoing urban problem, rather than one contingent to a particular conflict. It draws on archival material from local and national government, architectural and town planning journals and cultural texts, to demonstrate how cities were recast as targets, and planning for defence and planning for development became increasingly entangled.

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Humanities & Social Sciences

July 2019

Common spaces of urban emancipation

by Stavros Stavrides

This book explores contemporary urban experiences and how they are connected to practices of sharing and collaboration. There is a growing discussion on the cultural meaning and politics of urban commons, and Stavrides uses examples from Europe and Latin America to support the view that a world of mutual support and urban solidarity emerges today in, against and beyond existing societies of inequality. The concept of space commoning is discussed and considered in terms of its potential to promote emancipation. This is an exciting book, which explores the cultural meaning and politics of common spaces in conjunction with ideas connected with neighbourhood and community, justice and resistance, in order to trace elements of a different emancipating future.

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Humanities & Social Sciences

July 2019

Common spaces of urban emancipation

by Stavros Stavrides

This book explores contemporary urban experiences and how they are connected to practices of sharing and collaboration. There is a growing discussion on the cultural meaning and politics of urban commons, and Stavrides uses examples from Europe and Latin America to support the view that a world of mutual support and urban solidarity emerges today in, against and beyond existing societies of inequality. The concept of space commoning is discussed and considered in terms of its potential to promote emancipation. This is an exciting book, which explores the cultural meaning and politics of common spaces in conjunction with ideas connected with neighbourhood and community, justice and resistance, in order to trace elements of a different emancipating future.

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Humanities & Social Sciences

July 2019

Common spaces of urban emancipation

by Stavros Stavrides

Introduction and acknowledgements 1 Space as potential 2 Commoning architectures 3 Territorialities of emancipation 4 Reclaiming public space as commons: the squares movement and its legacy Interview with Zeyno Perkunlu 5 Commoning neighborhoods: resisting urban renewal in Barcelona's periphery Interview with Stefano Portelli 6 Commoning neighborhoods: the mutual help practices of Brazilian homeless movements Interview with Pedro Arantes 7 Commoning neighborhoods: building autonomy in Mexico City 8 Objects in common: objects for commoning 9 Emancipating commoning? Index

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Geography & the Environment

March 2019

Urban gardening and the struggle for social and spatial justice

by Chiara Certomà, Susan Noori, Martin Sondermann

The book presents an in-depth and theoretically-grounded analysis of urban gardening practices (re)emerging worldwide as new forms of bottom-up socio-political participation. By complementing the scholarly perspectives through posing real cases, it focuses on how these practices are able to address - together with environmental and planning questions - the most fundamental issues of spatial justice, social cohesion, inclusiveness, social innovations and equity in cities. This collection of contributes critically exploring worldwide cases and models investigates whether and how gardeners are actually willing and able to contrast these urban spatial arrangement that produces peculiar forms of social organisation, and structures for inclusion and exclusion characterised by pervasive inequalities in the access to space, natural resources and services, as well as considerable disparities in living conditions.

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Geography & the Environment

March 2019

Urban gardening and the struggle for social and spatial justice

by Chiara Certomà, Susan Noori, Martin Sondermann

The book presents an in-depth and theoretically-grounded analysis of urban gardening practices (re)emerging worldwide as new forms of bottom-up socio-political participation. By complementing the scholarly perspectives through posing real cases, it focuses on how these practices are able to address - together with environmental and planning questions - the most fundamental issues of spatial justice, social cohesion, inclusiveness, social innovations and equity in cities. This collection of contributes critically exploring worldwide cases and models investigates whether and how gardeners are actually willing and able to contrast these urban spatial arrangement that produces peculiar forms of social organisation, and structures for inclusion and exclusion characterised by pervasive inequalities in the access to space, natural resources and services, as well as considerable disparities in living conditions.

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Geography & the Environment

March 2019

Urban gardening and the struggle for social and spatial justice

by Chiara Certomà, Susan Noori, Martin Sondermann

The book presents an in-depth and theoretically-grounded analysis of urban gardening practices (re)emerging worldwide as new forms of bottom-up socio-political participation. By complementing the scholarly perspectives through posing real cases, it focuses on how these practices are able to address - together with environmental and planning questions - the most fundamental issues of spatial justice, social cohesion, inclusiveness, social innovations and equity in cities. This collection of contributes critically exploring worldwide cases and models investigates whether and how gardeners are actually willing and able to contrast these urban spatial arrangement that produces peculiar forms of social organisation, and structures for inclusion and exclusion characterised by pervasive inequalities in the access to space, natural resources and services, as well as considerable disparities in living conditions.

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Geography & the Environment

December 2018

Architectures of survival

Air war and urbanism in Britain, 1935–52

by Adam Page

Architectures of survival is an original and innovative work of history that investigates the relationship between air war and urbanism in modern Britain. It asks how the development of airpower and the targeting of cities influenced perceptions of urban spaces and visions of urban futures from the interwar period into the Cold War, highlighting the importance of war and the anticipation of war in modern urban history. Airpower created a permanent threat to cities and civilians, and this book considers how architects, planners and government officials reframed bombing as an ongoing urban problem, rather than one contingent to a particular conflict. It draws on archival material from local and national government, architectural and town planning journals and cultural texts, to demonstrate how cities were recast as targets, and planning for defence and planning for development became increasingly entangled.

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Trusted Partner

Geography & the Environment

December 2018

Architectures of survival

Air war and urbanism in Britain, 1935–52

by Adam Page

Architectures of survival is an original and innovative work of history that investigates the relationship between air war and urbanism in modern Britain. It asks how the development of airpower and the targeting of cities influenced perceptions of urban spaces and visions of urban futures from the interwar period into the Cold War, highlighting the importance of war and the anticipation of war in modern urban history. Airpower created a permanent threat to cities and civilians, and this book considers how architects, planners and government officials reframed bombing as an ongoing urban problem, rather than one contingent to a particular conflict. It draws on archival material from local and national government, architectural and town planning journals and cultural texts, to demonstrate how cities were recast as targets, and planning for defence and planning for development became increasingly entangled.

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Lessons from Kenya

by Edited by Christopher B Barrett, Andrew G Mude, John M Omiti

How the Globalization of Food Systems and Standards Affects Rural Development and Poverty

by Edited by Johan F M Swinnen,

Agriculture, the Environment and Communities

by Stephen J Essex, Andrew W Gilg, John Smithers, Randall Wilson. Edited by Richard Yarwood.

Economy and Society

by Ian R Bowler, Christopher Bryant, Duane Nellis

Space, power and governance in mid-twentieth century British cities

by James Greenhalgh

Space, power and governance in mid-twentieth century British cities

by James Greenhalgh

Space, power and governance in mid-twentieth century British cities

by James Greenhalgh

Urban ethnography in Manchester

by Camilla Lewis, Jessica Symons

Urban ethnography in Manchester

by Camilla Lewis, Jessica Symons

Urban ethnography in Manchester

by Camilla Lewis, Jessica Symons

The Co-operative Group's new head office

by Len Grant

Air war and urbanism in Britain, 1935–52

by Adam Page

by Stavros Stavrides

by Stavros Stavrides

by Stavros Stavrides

by Chiara Certomà, Susan Noori, Martin Sondermann

by Chiara Certomà, Susan Noori, Martin Sondermann

by Chiara Certomà, Susan Noori, Martin Sondermann

Air war and urbanism in Britain, 1935–52

by Adam Page

Air war and urbanism in Britain, 1935–52

by Adam Page

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