The American Dream turned into a nightmare when the housing bubble burst, and people have been trying to figure out who to blame- Greedy bankers? Corrupt politicians? Ignorant homeowners? In American Nightmare: How Government Undermines the Dream of Homeownership, Randal O'Toole explores the forces at play in the housing market and shows how we can rebuild the American dream of homeownership by eliminating federal, state, and local policies that distort...

Drawn from the Hoover Institution's Shultz-Stephenson Task Force on Energy Policy January 2010 conference, this book discusses critical energy issues including, energy and synthetic biology, cap and trade and carbon tax policies, energy efficiency, international energy relationships, and other key topics. The contributors present a range of ideas and recommendations that might improve the performance of the United States in responding to the energy...

À la tombée de la nuit, Montréal scintille de mille feux. Le pont Jacques-Cartier, le Quartier des spectacles, la Biosphère et bien d'autres repères urbains bénéficient d'une mise en lumière qui magnifie leur présence dans l'obscurité. La constellation que forment ces illuminations confère à la ville une apparence « magique et féérique ». Or, serait-il possible que cet éclat camoufle, voire alimente, une réalité moins séduisante...

The Right to Buy has had a massive impact on Housing in the UK for 35 years and in 2015 there were proposals to extend it. But what is the Right to Buy policy, how has it developed and what has its impact been? What evidence is there about the wider and unintended consequences of the policy? How are the proposals to extend the policy in England likely to affect future housing provision and what alternatives are there? In The Right to Buy, Alan Murie...

El presente libro busca analizar la experiencia urbana y la religiosa para comprender su interacción fluida y compleja. Por medio de la geografía de ciudades de Argentina, Brasil, España, Estados Unidos, Francia y México establece sus coordenadas analíticas en el espacio público de la ciudad industrial, de las periferias, el barrio y la frontera. Las diversas formas de creer en la ciudad que se emplazan en esta obra ponen en juego las identidades,...

The construction of a new four-lane highway on the outskirts of Ithaca, NY created a rapidly growing commercial center in the previously rural Town of Lansing. The clash between the newcomers and the old-timers over the direction and pace of this change led to the formation of a new local government and the incorporation of the Village of Lansing. This is the story of that village, how and why it was formed, the problems it faced in its early years,...

Esta publicación pretende aportar elementos para el debate público sobre la asignación de los recursos provenientes de las rentas municipales, mediante los denominados presupuestos participativos, en particular en Bogotá, los cuales deben contar con mecanismos adecuados y eficientes para su redistribución, en pro del mejoramiento de la calidad de vida de todos los ciudadanos. El ejercicio de presupuestos participativos debe ir más allá de la...

Books about history using real life memories recorded specifically for the purpose are rare, 'Live, Work & Play' is just such a book. Created from the hundreds of reminiscences of the residents of the town gathered by the WGC Heritage Trust and put into historical context by Prof Mark Clapson, one of the UK's leading social historians, the book offers a unique insight into the creation of the UK's second garden city. Timed to appear at the start...

Como parte de un nuevo proyecto institucional, la Flacso México asume el reto de un debate renovado e innovador de las ciencias sociales en tanto eje transversal de su agenda de docencia e investigación. Renovado para hacer un corte de caja de las teorías tradicionales y dominantes a fin de valorar sus límites y avances descriptivos, explicativos y causales. Innovador porque construye e impulsa nuevas aplicaciones y coproducción del conocimiento...

Award-winning author and leading green thinker Alan Durning takes a hard look at urban housing and sees what many others have missed. Hidden in city regulations is a set of simple but powerful barriers to affordable housing for all. These rules criminalize history's answers to affordable dwellings: the rooming house, the roommate, the in-law apartment, and the backyard cottage. In effect, cities have banned what used to be the bottom end of the private...