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In a very short time America has realized that global warming poses real challenges to the nation's future. The Agile City engages the fundamental question: what to do about it? Journalist and urban analyst James S. Russell argues that we'll more quickly slow global-warming -and blunt its effects- by retrofitting cities, suburbs, and towns.The Agile City shows that change undertaken at the building and community level can reach carbon-reduction goals rapidly. Russell highlights tactics that create multiplier effects, which means that ecologically driven change can shore-up economic opportunity

Regulating migration in early modern cities : an introduction / Bert De Munck and Anne Winter -- Repertoires of inclusion and exclusion : guilds and citizenship -- Migrant workers and illicit labour : regulating the immigration of building workers in sixteenth-century Antwerp / Jan De Meester -- Craft guilds and immigration : Huguenots in German and English cities / Ulrich Niggemann -- Heresy, war, vagrancy, and labour needs : dealing with temporary migrants in the textile towns of Flanders, Artois and Hainaut in the wake of the Dutch revolt (1566-1609) / Yves Junot -- Local categories of residence redefined : the former imperial city of Strasbourg and the politics of the French crown (1681-1789) / Hanna Sonkajärvi -- Instruments of regulation: policies and policing -- Who is not welcome? : reception and rejection of migrants in early modern Italian cities / Eleonora Canepari -- Immigration policy in eighteenth-century Trieste / Aleksej Kalc -- Urban police and the regulation of migration in eighteenth-century France / Vincent Milliot -- Crossing the lines : begging and poor relief -- Magistrates, beggars, and labourers : migration and regulation in sixteenth-century Ulm / Jason P. Coy -- Regulating urban migration and relief entitlements in eighteenth-century Brabant / Anne Winter -- Rough lives : autobiography and migration in eighteenth-century England / Tim Hitchcock -- Comparisons and conclusions -- Cities, states and migration control in western Europe : comparing then and now / Leo Lucassen

Resilience is increasingly becoming a catchword in current discussions about urban and regional development. While there has been a strong research focus on sustainability, there is a lack of understanding of the processes and factors that make cities and regions more vulnerable and others more resilient, for example, when dealing with climate change, demographic decline and ageing, as well as economic crises. The German Annual of Spatial Research and Policy 2010 sheds some light on this by discussing examples of how actors deal with change. On the one hand, concepts are described and analysed which are oriented towards increasing urban regional resilience, for example regarding energy consumption, climate change, and urban decline. Moreover, institutional aspects are discussed. On the other hand, barriers for using the concept of resilience in planning are described and suggestions are made about how to deal with these barriers in strategic planning.

Nearly two decades after the dismantling of apartheid in South Africa, how different does the nation look? In Cape Town, is hardening inequality under conditions of neoliberal globalization actually reproducing the repressive governance of the apartheid era? By exploring issues of urban security and development, Tony Roshan Samara brings to light the features of urban apartheid that increasingly mark not only Cape Town but also the global cities of our day--cities as diverse as Los Angeles, Rio de Janeiro, Paris, and Beijing.--From publisher description