Rising income inequality and concentrated poverty threaten the social sustainability of North American cities. Suburban growth endangers sensitive ecosystems, water supplies, and food security. Existing urban infrastructure is crumbling...
Municipal government
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Auteur:Taylor, ZackSommaire: - Auteur:Sommaire:
Rights and the City takes stock of rights struggles and progress in cities by exploring the tensions that exist between different concepts of rights. Sandeep Agrawal and the volume's contributors expose the paradoxes that planners and...
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Home to one of the largest oil refineries in the state, Richmond, California, was once a typical company town, dominated by Chevron. This largely nonwhite, working-class city of one hundred thousand suffered from poverty, pollution, and...
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Municipal Boundary Battles explores the motivations, land use effects, and financial implications of municipal boundary adjustments across Canada, focusing mainly on annexations and amalgamations - the most frequent means to adjust...
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Auteur:Furlong, KathrynSommaire:Municipalities face important water supply challenges. One response has been to render utilities independent from municipal government through alternative service delivery (ASD). For its proponents, ASD provides needed autonomy from...
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Auteur:Carrel, AndreSommaire:Based on years of practical experience in small towns, Carrel argues for municipal autonomy--for turning what are now "colonies" of the federal and provincial orders of government into independent, mature, and fully democratic...
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Auteur:Michel BrûléSommaire:Dans ce livre, Michel Brûlé, animé de l'ambition sincère d'améliorer le Québec, propose soixante-cinq mesures, voire davantage, puisque certaines idées ne sont encore qu'esquissées et s'inscrivent dans une...
