| 1. |  | India: The Emerging Giant
from Oxford University Press, USA
Price: $27.68
Customer Review:
Arvind Panagariya's "India: The Emerging Giant" is hands-down the most comprehensive and detailed study of post-independence Indian political economy written to date. There have been a number of excellent books on India written by economists on the post-reform period (A few notable examples: Suresh... more info | 5.0 / 5.0
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| 2. |  | Urban Economics (McGraw-Hill Series in Urban Economics)
from McGraw-Hill/Irwin
Price: $141.63
Customer Review:
It's not the perfect textbook for the subject, but it is good enough that I still use it in my class. I gave five stars to the 5th edition. The new edition has less material and it is organized in a more integrated way, which for some could be better, but I prefer to teach in a more focused way... more info | 5.0 / 5.0
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| 3. |  | Cities, Change, and Conflict: A Political Economy of Urban Life (with InfoTrac)
from Wadsworth Publishing
Customer Review:
I had used this book with a course I had taken in college. It is very interesting if you are unfamilair with urban problems. If you are slightly familiar(by living in the city) it is still informative if you have a good teacher. | 4.0 / 5.0
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| 4. |  | Urban Land Use Planning, Fifth Edition
from University of Illinois Press
Price: $59.13
Customer Review:
This is a perfect book for those who just entered this field, since the land types, land economy, land whatever will no longer be difficult to tackle with. | 4.5 / 5.0
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| 5. |  | Cities and the Wealth of Nations
from Vintage
Price: $11.01
Customer Review:
In The Death and Life of American Cities, Jane Jacobs demonstrated with clarity, intelligence and righteous indignation that city planners had for decades -- going on a century, in fact -- misunderstood the virtues that cities possessed, and hadn't understood why people wanted to live in them.... more info | 5.0 / 5.0
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| 6. |  | Green Cities: Urban Growth And the Environment
from Brookings Institution Press
Price: $17.05
Customer Review:
Ecological planning of cities is now assumed by many regulators to be a win-win proposition and numerous initiatives on the "greening of cities" are taking shape across the world. No longer are Curitiba in Brazil or Chatanooga in Tennessee the outlier case studies that frequented so many conference... more info | 4.0 / 5.0
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| 7. |  | PowerNomics : The National Plan to Empower Black America
from Powernomics Corporation of America
Price: $19.71
Customer Review:
PowerNomics should be required reading for every African American book club, community organization, church, and family. The book embodies tenents set forth from Marcus Garvey to Elijah Muhammed to DuBois and Washington. If you believe that "God helps those who help themselves," PowerNomics is an... more info | 4.5 / 5.0
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| 8. | ![]() | Managing Urban America
from Chatham House Publishers
Price: $39.95
Customer Review:
Love the book. The highlights are exellent for studying guidelines. Will do business anytime again. | 5.0 / 5.0
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| 9. |  | Sustainability Assessment: Criteria and Processes
from Earthscan Publications Ltd.
Price: $37.31
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| 10. |  | Urban Development: The Logic Of Making Plans
from Island Press
Price: $33.01
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