Books in the Cities and Planning series

An analysis of the promise and limits of grass-roots strategies for community organization, development and planning. Through an analysis of a number of case studies from the United States, William Peterman explores the way such strategies can be used in the revitalization and maintenance of urban neighbourhoods.

This book focuses on the author's experience in Minnesota where a design team of architects, planners, economic and community development practitioners provided planning and design assistance to local communities. The book explores the advantages of a systems approach to community design.

The politics and economics of the United States are wedded in the political economy of the nation state and the nationalist economic policies. This book proposes that political jurisdictions are not economies but polities, and explores the complex and important economic implications of this thesis.

This book reports on progress in the fight against the ingrained poverty and social problems of many of the USA's most devastated areas.

Christensen presents a new theory of the underlying structure and dynamics of the US intergovernmental system. It is designed to help planners and policy makers clarify the obstacles to effective action on behalf of the public good.