Urban category: 4425 books
Urban Regeneration in the UK
Boom, Bust and Recovery
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
"A thorough update of what was already an excellently written, accessible and well-used book. Coverage of the key issues to impact on regeneration in the UK since the 2008 financial crisis is comprehensive, and ensures that this latest edition will remain a key reference work for students and...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2017
The newly revised Globalizing Cities Reader reflects how the geographies of theory have recently shifted away from the western vantage points from which much of the classic work in this field was developed.
The expanded volume continues to make available many of the original and foundational...
Urban and Regional Planning in India
A Handbook for Professional Practice
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2012
The scope of professional practice in planning has now become very vast-in addition to traditional land-use planning at urban, regional and national levels, it includes development management; real-estate development; advice, arbitration and legal services; education and training; and research.
In...
Neoliberal Urban Policy and the Transformation of the City
Reshaping Dublin
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2014
This book reviews the character and impacts of 'actually-existing' neoliberalism in Ireland. It examines the property-development boom and its legacy, the impacts of neoliberal urban policy in reshaping the city, public resistance to the new urban policy and highlights salient points to be drawn from the Irish experience of neoliberalism.
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Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2015
This book explores mobilities as a key to understanding the practices that both frame and generate contemporary everyday life in the urban context. At the same time, it investigates the challenges arising from the interpretation of mobility as a socio-spatial phenomenon both in the social sciences...
Sound Moves
iPod Culture and Urban Experience
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2015
This innovative study opens up a new area in sociological and urban studies: the aural experience of the social, mediated through mobile technologies of communication.
Whilst we live in a world dominated by visual epistemologies of urban experience, Michael Bull argues that it is not surprising...
The Smart Enough City
Putting Technology in Its Place to Reclaim Our Urban Future
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2019
Why technology is not an end in itself, and how cities can be “smart enough,” using technology to promote democracy and equity.
Smart cities, where technology is used to solve every problem, are hailed as futuristic urban utopias. We are promised that apps, algorithms, and artificial intelligence...
Sustainable Urban Development Volume 3
The Toolkit for Assessment
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2009
The third volume of the Sustainable Urban Development Series outlines the BEQUEST toolkit that helps link protocol with the assessment methods currently available for evaluating the sustainability of urban development. It details the decision support mechanisms developed for users of the system to...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2017
This volume sheds light on the development of squatting practices and movements in nine European cities (Madrid, Barcelona, Seville, Rome, Paris, Berlin, Copenhagen, Rotterdam and Brighton) by examining the numbers, variations and significant contexts in their life course. It reveals how and why squatting...
Suburb, Slum, Urban Village
Transformations in Toronto’s Parkdale Neighbourhood, 1875-2002
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2010
Suburb, Slum, Urban Village examines the relationship between image and reality for one city neighbourhood – Toronto’s Parkdale. Carolyn Whitzman tracks Parkdale’s story across three eras: its early decades as a politically independent suburb of the industrial city; its half-century of ostensible...
Making Diaspora in a Global City
South Asian Youth Cultures in London
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2014
The exciting diasporic sounds of the London Asian urban music scene are a cross-section of the various genres of urban music that include bhangra "remix," R&B and hip hop styles, as well as dubstep and other "urban" sample-oriented electronic music. This book brings together a unique analysis of urban...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2015
This book focuses on ethnic and minority communities in urban contexts and the ways in which their cultures are represented in tourism development. It offers a multi-disciplinary approach which draws on examples and case studies of ethnic and minority communities and cultural tourism development from...
Reconsidering Welfare Policies in Times of Crisis
Perspectives for European Cities
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2017
This book offers a European perspective on spatial planning and welfare policies in relation to the new conditions derived from the current urban crisis. The book deals with research and policy issues stemming from the fact that in the last ten years European cities have been affected by a structural...
Hell's Kitchen and the Battle for Urban Space
Class Struggle and Progressive Reform in New York City, 1894-1914
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
Hell’s Kitchen is among Manhattan’s most storied and studied neighborhoods. A working-class district situated next to the West Side’s middle- and upper-class residential districts, it has long attracted the focus of artists and urban planners, writers and reformers. Now, Joseph Varga...