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Perverse Cities
Hidden Subsidies, Wonky Policy, and Urban Sprawl
Pamela Blais
Contents
1 The Price of Sprawl
Pamela Blais is a city planner Part 1: The Planning Problem
and principal of Toronto-based 2 Sprawl: A Planning Problem
Metropole Consultants. 3 The Costs and Benefits of Sprawl
Part 2: The Problem with Planning
October 2010 4 The Costs and Benefits of Planning
978-0-7748-1895-7 hc $85.00 5 How Do Our Cities Grow? Plans versus Reality
July 2011 6 Prices Drive Sprawl
978-0-7748-1896-4 pb $39.95 Part 3: Subsidies, Cross-Subsidies, and Mis-Incentives:
288 pages, 6 x 9” How Public Policy Finances Sprawl
7 Municipal Services: Costs and Prices
2 figures, 8 tables
8 Network Services: Costs and Prices
Canadian Urban & Regional Politics
9 Housing, Infrastructure, and Energy: More
Sociology Mis-Pricing and Mis-Incentives
10 Driving Sprawl: Pricing and Policy Mis-Incentives
Part 4: What to Do
11 Pricing Principles
12 A Toolbox of Market-Oriented Instruments
13 Perverse Subsidies, Perverse Cities
Reconstructing Kobe
The Geography of Crisis and Opportunity
David W. Edgington
Contents
Introduction
1 Growing Up: Toronto’s Condominium Boom and
the Politics of Urban Revitalization
2 Troubling Tenure: Condominium Ownership,
Gender, and the Entrepreneurial Subject
3 Under Construction: The Place of Community in
the Neoliberal City
4 Securing Relations of Threat: The Intersection of
Gender, Fear, and Capital
5 A Date with the Big City: Gendering the Myth of
Urbanity
Conclusion
Appendices
Notes; References; Index
2009 Contents
Preface
978-0-7748-1536-9 pb $29.95
Introduction
240 pages, 6 x 9”
1 A Good Place to Live? Perceptions and Realities of
7 b&w photos, 7 tables, 5 maps Suburbs, Slums, and Urban Villages
Ontario Urban Studies 2 The Flowery Suburb: Parkdale’s Development,
Historical Geography 1875-1912
Canadian Social History 3 “Becoming a Serious Slum”: Decline in Parkdale,
1913-1966
4 From Bowery to Bohemia: The Urban Village,
1967-2002
5 Why Does Parkdale Matter?
Notes; References; Index
Contents
Preface
1 British Columbia: A Region of Regions
2 Physical Processes and Human Implications
Brett McGillivray taught British 3 Geophysical Hazards: Living with Risks
Columbia geography at Capilano 4 Modifying the Landscape: The Arrival of
College, North Vancouver. Europeans
5 First Nations and Their Territories: Reclaiming the
December 2010 Land
978-0-7748-2078-3 pb $45.00 6 The Geography of Racism: The Spatial Diffusion of
320 pages, 8 x 10” Asians
16 b&w photos, 144 maps and 7 Resource Management in a Changing Global
figures, 76 tables Economy
8 Forestry: A Dominant Export Industry in Difficult
BC Geography
Times
Environmental History
9 The Fishing Industry: Managing a Mobile Resource
Natural History 10 Metal Mining: The Opening and Closing of Mines
Historical Geography 11 Energy: Supply and Demand
12 Agriculture: The Land and What Is Produced
13 Water: An Essential Resource
14 Tourism: A New and Dynamic Industry
15 Single-Resource Communities: Fragile Settlements
16 Urbanization: A Summary of People and
Landscapes in Transition
Glossary; Index
Quebec
A Historical Geography
Serge Courville
Translated by Richard Howard
How does reshaping local government In Race and the City, Shanti Fernando
affect citizen involvement in public life? presents an elegant analysis of the
As cities move between centralized and mechanisms of political mobilization under
decentralized governance and conservative systemic racism that draws on case studies,
and progressive leadership, what brings out interviews, and a detailed understanding
the best and the worst in civic engagement? of the racialized legal and sociocultural
In this thought-provoking book, Sylvia histories of both the United States and
Bashevkin examines the consequences of Canada. She argues that while increasing
divergent restructuring experiences in diversity may be a challenge for systemic
London and Toronto. By focusing on the inclusiveness, it is one that must be met
forced amalgamation of local boroughs if Canada is to uphold its vision of a truly
in Toronto and the creation of a new democratic society.
metropolitan authority in London, she
Shanti Fernando is an assistant professor
explores the fallout for women as urban
of political science at York University.
citizens. Ultimately, context is crucial
to whether municipal change signals 2006, 978-0-7748-1346-4 pb $30.95
pessimism or promise. 192 pages, 6 x 9”
Asian Diaspora
Sylvia Bashevkin is principal of University
Multiculturalism & Transnationalism
College and a professor of political science
Race & Transnationalism in Politics
at the University of Toronto.
Winner, 2005
Outstanding
Academic Title,
Choice Magazine
In Taking the Air, Paul Kopas takes a The contributors to this volume draw on
comprehensive approach to the policy their experience in a variety of disciplines to
aspects of the management of parks explore the origins, promise, and relevance
and protected areas. He scrutinizes the of the emerging field of industrial ecology.
policy-making process for national parks They situate industrial ecology within
since the mid-1950s and interrogates the the broader range of environmental
rationale and policies that have governed management strategies and concepts,
their administration. He argues that from the practices of pollution prevention
national parks and park policy reflect not through life cycle management, to the more
only environmental concerns but also the fundamental shift toward dematerialization
political and social attitudes of bureaucrats, and ecological design. This book makes a
citizens, interest groups, Aboriginal peoples, compelling argument for the need to think
and legal authorities. He explores how ecologically to develop innovative and
the goals of each group have been shaped competitive industrial policy.
by the historical context of park policy,
Ray Côté is a professor of resource
influencing the shape and weight of their
and environmental studies at Dalhousie
contributions.
University. James Tansey is James Martin
Paul Kopas teaches political science at the Lecturer in Science and Technology Studies
University of British Columbia. at Saïd Business School at the University
of Oxford. Ann Dale is a professor in the
2007, 978-0-7748-1330-3 pb $34.95
Science, Technology, and Environment
256 pages, 6 x 9”
Division at Royal Roads University.
Canadian Regions
Environmental Politics 2005, 978-0-7748-1214-6 pb $34.95
Environmental Policy 288 pages, 6 x 9”
Resource Mangement 36 b&w illustrations and photographs
Environmental Business & Economics
Environmental Policy
Resource Mangement
Sustainability
Sustainability and the Environment
Series
Modern city dwellers are largely detached A green approach to neighborhood design,
from the environmental effects of their Light Imprint employs New Urbanist
daily lives. The sources of the water they principles to create compact, walkable,
drink, the food they eat, and the energy mixed-use neighborhoods. To this, it
they consume are all but invisible, and adds a tool box of techniques to manage
their waste ends up in places beyond their stormwater and natural drainage – an
city boundaries. Cities as Sustainable ever-present environmental challenge that
Ecosystems shows how cities and their plays a major role in shaping cities and
residents can begin to reintegrate into their towns. In this little book, you will find more
bioregional environment and how cities than sixty techniques for paving streets
themselves can be planned with nature’s and walkways, channeling and storing
organizing principles in mind. Taking cues water, and filtering surface runoff before
from living systems for sustainability release into the underground water table.
strategies, Newman and Jennings reassess Done thoughtfully, this seemingly mundane
urban design by exploring flows of energy, engineering work not only improves
materials, and information, along with the environment but also can make
the interactions between human and neighborhoods more beautiful and livable.
non-human parts of the system.
Thomas E. Low is the director of town
Peter Newman is professor of city planning at Duany Plater-Zyberk & Company,
policy and director of the Institute for Charlotte, North Carolina, and chair of Civic
Sustainability and Technology Policy at By Design Forum, Charlotte, North Carolina.
Murdoch University in Perth, Australia.
January 2010, 978-1-9318-7109-9 pb $72.00
Isabella Jennings is a graduate student
350 pages, 5.5 x 8”
in the School of Environmental Science at
Resource Mangement
Murdoch University.
Water
2008, 978-1-5972-6188-3 pb $35.00 Island Press
296 pages, 7 x 10” Canadian rights only
Environmental Politics
Sustainability
Island Press
Canadian rights only
Compact living is sustainable living. The new scale for considering economic
High-density cities can support closer strength and growth opportunities is the
amenities, encourage reduced trip lengths “megaregion,” a network of metropolitan
and the use of public transport and centres and their surrounding areas linked
therefore reduce transport energy costs through environmental, economic, and
and carbon emissions. High-density planning infrastructure interactions. By the year
also helps to control the spread of urban 2050, megaregions will contain two-thirds
suburbs into open lands, improves efficiency of the US population. What are the spatial
in urban infrastructure and services, and implications of this trend within the context
results in environmental improvements of sustainability, economic competitiveness,
that support higher quality of life. However, and social equity? How can we address
such density creates design challenges and housing, transportation, and infrastructure
problems. A collection of experts in each of needs? How can we develop and implement
the related architectural and planning areas the policy changes necessary to make viable,
examines these environmental and social livable megaregions? In this book, leading
issues, and argues that high-density cities academics and professionals address the
are a sustainable solution. most critical issues confronting the US over
Edward Ng is a professor at the School of the next fifty years. Together these essays
Architecture, the Chinese University of Hong define the theoretical and operational
Kong, and an environmental consultant to underpinnings of a new structure that could
organizations and governments. respond to anticipated upheavals in US
population and living patterns.
January 2010, 978-1-8440-7460-0 hc $132.95
396 pages, 7.75 x 9.25” Catherine L. Ross is Harry West Professor
Maps, figures, tables, index and the director of the Center for Quality
Architecture, Art & Design Growth and Regional Development at the
Political Science Georgia Institute of Technology.
Earthscan Publishers 2009, 978-1-5972-6586-7 pb $35.00
Canadian rights only 336 pages, 7 x 10”
Environmental Politics
Environmental Policy
Island Press
Canadian rights only
Modeling the Environment was the first Written by a practitioner for practitioners,
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advance the consequences of actions and environmental assessment (SEA) process.
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fundamental principles of this approach with a discussion of resources and capacity
are demonstrated here with a wide range building. Appendices provide a wealth of
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population biology, epidemiology, and SEA Directive and the UNECE Protocol on
economics. The applications demonstrate SEA, and a “toolkit” of SEA techniques. This
the transferability of the systems approach new edition incorporates five years’ worth
across disciplines, across spatial scales, and of practical application of the SEA Directive
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