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Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 1166
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Canadiana
Author: Francis bibliographie géographique internationale
Author: Bibliographie Géographique Internationale
Author: The Homevoter Hypothesis
Author: William A. FischelPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674036901
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
Just as investors want the companies they hold equity in to do well, homeowners have a financial interest in the success of their communities. If neighborhood schools are good, if property taxes and crime rates are low, then the value of the homeowner’s principal asset—his home—will rise. Thus, as William Fischel shows, homeowners become watchful citizens of local government, not merely to improve their quality of life, but also to counteract the risk to their largest asset, a risk that cannot be diversified. Meanwhile, their vigilance promotes a municipal governance that provides services more efficiently than do the state or national government. Fischel has coined the portmanteau word “homevoter” to crystallize the connection between homeownership and political involvement. The link neatly explains several vexing puzzles, such as why displacement of local taxation by state funds reduces school quality and why local governments are more likely to be efficient providers of environmental amenities. The Homevoter Hypothesis thereby makes a strong case for decentralization of the fiscal and regulatory functions of government.
Contribution à l'étude de la rente foncière urbaine
Author: Miguel DechervoisPublisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3112322053
Category : History
Languages : fr
Pages : 296
Book Description
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Real Estate and Global Urban History
Author: Alexia YatesPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108851762
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
Capitalist private property in land and buildings – real estate – is the ground of modern cities, materially, politically, and economically. It is foundational to their development and core to much theoretical work on the urban environment. It is also a central, pressing matter of political contestation in contemporary cities. Yet it remains largely without a history. This Element examines the modern city as a propertied space, defining real estate as a technology of (dis)possession and using it to move across scales of analysis, from the local spatiality of particular built spaces to the networks of legal, political, and economic imperatives that constitute property and operate at national and international levels. This combination of territorial embeddedness with more wide-ranging institutional relationships charts a route to an urban history that allows the city to speak as a global agent and artefact without dispensing with the role of states and local circumstance.
Mathematical Land Use Theory
Author: G. J. PapageorgiouPublisher: Lexington, Mass. ; Toronto : Lexington Books
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Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
Industrial Heritage Sites in Transformation
Author: Harald A. MiegPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317755219
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
The management of industrial heritage sites requires rethinking in the context of urban change, and the issue of how to balance protection, preservation/conservation, and development becomes all the more crucial as industrial heritage sites grow in number. This brings into play new challenges—not only through the known conflicts between monument preservation and contemporary architecture, but also with the increasing demand for economic urban development by reusing the built heritage of former industrial sites. This book explores the conservation and change of industrial heritage sites in transformation, presenting and examining ten European and Asian case studies. The interdisciplinary approach of the book connects a diversity of rationales and discourses, including monument protection, World Heritage conventions, urban regeneration, urban planning and design, architecture, and politics. This is the first book to deepen the understanding of industrial heritage site management as a networked, multi-dimensional task involving diverse social agents and societal discourses.
French books in print, anglais
Author: ElectrePublisher:
ISBN: 9782765407881
Category :
Languages : fr
Pages : 1844
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Minerva's Message
Author: Martin S. StaumPublisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0773566244
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 359
Book Description
In theory the CMPS was set up to enshrine the human and social studies that were at the heart of Enlightenment culture. Staum illustrates, however, that the Institute helped transform key ideas of the Enlightenment in order to maintain civil rights while upholding social stability, and that the social and political assumptions on which it was based affected notions of social science. He traces the careers of individual members and the factions within the Institute, arguing that the discord within the CMPS reflects the unravelling of Enlightenment culture. Minerva's Message presents a valuable overview of the intellectual life of the period and brings together new evidence about the social sciences in their nascent period.