Urban category: 4425 books
Code of the Suburb
Inside the World of Young Middle-Class Drug Dealers
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2015
When we think about young people dealing drugs, we tend to picture it happening on urban streets, in disadvantaged, crime-ridden neighborhoods. But drugs are used everywhere—even in upscale suburbs and top-tier high schools—and teenage users in the suburbs tend to buy drugs from their peers, dealers...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2012
Global Downtowns reconsiders one of the defining features of urban life—the energy and exuberance that characterize downtown areas—within a framework of contemporary globalization and change. It analyzes the iconic centers of global cities through individual case studies from Europe, Asia, Africa,...
Tourism and Gentrification in Contemporary Metropolises
International Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2017
Tourism gentrification is a critical shaping force of socio-economic and contemporary urban landscapes. This book aims to be the first substantive text on this subject, explaining the multiple and complex relationships between tourism and gentrification and their outcomes and manifestations in contemporary...
SMH 2016
Removals on the Olympic city
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2015
The city of Rio de Janeiro has been an "Olympic champion" in housing prices over the past decade . The intense process of real estate appreciation in the city in recent years has primarily been sustained by the construction work associated with the urban reforms currently underway, and the...
Who Cleans the Park?
Public Work and Urban Governance in New York City
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2017
America’s public parks are in a golden age. Hundreds of millions of dollars—both public and private—fund urban jewels like Manhattan’s Central Park. Keeping the polish on landmark parks and in neighborhood playgrounds alike means that the trash must be picked up, benches painted, equipment...
by Michael B. Katz
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2012
At 1:27 on the morning of August 4, 2005, Herbert Manes fatally stabbed Robert Monroe, known as Shorty, in a dispute over five dollars. It was a horrific yet mundane incident for the poor, heavily African American neighborhood of North Philadelphia—one of seven homicides to occur in the city that...
Urban Flow
Bike Messengers and the City
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2011
Bike messengers are familiar figures in the downtown cores of major cities. Tasked with delivering time-sensitive materials within, at most, a few hours—and sometimes in as little as fifteen minutes—these couriers ride in all types of weather, weave in and out of dense traffic, dodging (or sometimes...
New Urban Worlds
Inhabiting Dissonant Times
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2017
It is well known that the world is transitioning to an irrevocable urban future whose epicentre has moved into the cities of Asia and Africa. What is less clear is how this will be managed and deployed as a multi-polar world system is being born. The full implications of this challenge cry out to...
Stuck in Place
Urban Neighborhoods and the End of Progress toward Racial Equality
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2013
In the 1960s, many believed that the civil rights movement’s successes would foster a new era of racial equality in America. Four decades later, the degree of racial inequality has barely changed. To understand what went wrong, Patrick Sharkey argues that we have to understand what has happened...
by 'Bola Ayeni
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2017
This book, first published in 1979, discusses the concepts, models and techniques used in urban analysis and planning. This study reviews many of the older concepts and models of urban spatial structure, laying the foundations of analysis carried out in the later parts of the book. Topics such as...
Urban Revolution Now
Henri Lefebvre in Social Research and Architecture
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
When Henri Lefebvre published The Urban Revolution in 1970, he sketched a research itinerary on the emerging tendency towards planetary urbanization. Today, when this tendency has become reality, Lefebvre’s ideas on everyday life, production of space, rhythmanalysis and the right to the city are...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2012
There is consensus in literature that urban areas have become increasingly vulnerable to the outcomes of economic restructuring under the neoliberal political economic ideology. The increased frequency and widening diversity of problems offer evidence that the socio-economic and spatial policies,...
by Bruce Hayllar, Tony Griffin, Deborah Edwards
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2010
Over the last decade, commentaries and research on urban tourism precincts have predominantly focused on: their role in the tourism attractions mix; their physical and functional forms; their economic significance; their role as a catalyst for urban renewal; their evolution and associated development...
Other Cities, Other Worlds
Urban Imaginaries in a Globalizing Age
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2008
Other Cities, Other Worlds brings together leading scholars of cultural theory, urban studies, art, anthropology, literature, film, architecture, and history to look at non-Western global cities. The contributors focus on urban imaginaries, the ways that city dwellers perceive or imagine their own...