David R Godschalk

David R. Godschalk is professor emeritus of city and regional planning at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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Economy, Market & Trends
In Print: Everything in Its Place: Entrepreneurship and the Strategic Management of Cities, Regions, and States
David Audretsch is an unabashed advocate of place-based economic entrepreneurship. A distinguished professor and director of the Development Studies Institute at Indiana University, Audretsch argues that the economic performance of places (especially cities and regions) matters as much as that of commercial firms and industries.
November 5, 2015
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Infrastructure
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News
In Print: Railtown: The Fight for the Los Angeles Metro Rail and the Future of the City
Railtown chronicles the latest chapter in the Los Angeles saga—the city’s transition from a smoggy, car-loving, freeway-dominated megacity to an emerging cluster of walkable urban centers linked by public transit, including light and heavy rail as well as buses.
June 26, 2015
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Economy, Market & Trends
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News
In Print: Next Generation Infrastructure: Principles for Post-Industrial Public Works
Rather than picturing a nation scrambling for elusive funds to patch up these old facilities, author Hillary Brown envisions a smarter, less expensive, and more resilient way to build the next generation of U.S. infrastructure. The former director of New York City’s Office of Sustainable Design, the author is now principal in the firm New Civic Works and a professor at the City College of New York
June 22, 2015
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Design and Planning
In Print: Urban Acupuncture: Celebrating Pinpricks of Change that Enrich Urban Life
Jaime Lerner’s Urban Acupuncture delves deeply into urban life and what makes cities tick. Lerner is an architect and planner who served three terms as mayor of Curitiba, Brazil, a city renowned for creative urbanism projects, including its pioneering bus rapid transit system.
June 3, 2015
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Design and Planning
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Urban Design
In Print: Street Design: The Secret to Great Cities and Towns
In this book, authors John Massengale and Victor Dover analyze great urban streets from around the world in text, pictures, and drawings. These range from the iconic Champs-Élysées in Paris and Las Ramblas in Barcelona to important but lesser-known streets such as Main Street in Nantucket, Massachusetts, and Church Street in Charleston, South Carolina
October 13, 2014
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Economy, Market & Trends
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News
In Print: Land in Conflict: Managing and Resolving Land Use Disputes
Worthy land development projects can be torpedoed during contentious public hearings. The authors of this book argue that supplementing the standard public hearing process with consensus building can turn opposing stakeholders into problem solvers, generating better projects with wider public support.
August 18, 2014
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Industry Sectors
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Economy, Market & Trends
In Print: Landscape Urbanism and Its Discontents: Dissimulating the Sustainable City
This lively book describes a design war raging between the supporters of new urbanism and backers of landscape urbanism.
March 5, 2014
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Development and Construction
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News
In Print: Snob Zones: Fear, Prejudice, and Real Estate
From the Kennedys to the Kochs, the rich and powerful have been fighting to keep a massive wind farm from being built off the coast of Cape Cod. This is a perfect case for Lisa Prevost’s Snob Zones, a book that examines land use conflicts in the change-resistant small towns and suburbs of New England.
February 27, 2014
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Design and Planning
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News
In Print: Building the New Urbanism: Places, Professions, and Profits in the American Metropolitan Landscape
New urbanism’s rise has been a quiet revolution—a gradual introduction of walkability and outdoor rooms into the vocabulary of urban development. In his book Building the New Urbanism, Aaron Passell does a masterful job of explaining the growth of this approach to urban design.
February 20, 2014
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Development and Construction
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Economy, Market & Trends
In Print: A Country of Cities: A Manifesto for an Urban America
Envision dense and prosperous American cities consisting of skyscrapers built in parks and conveniently accessed by transit—places that are healthy, walkable, and affordable for everyone. This is the vision of A Country of Cities.
January 6, 2014
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