Urban category: 4425 books
Security in the Bubble
Navigating Crime in Urban South Africa
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2015
Focusing on the South African city of Durban, Security in the Bubble looks at spatialized security practices, engaging with strategies and dilemmas of urban security governance in cities around the world. While apartheid was spatial governance at its most brutal, postapartheid South African cities...
Urban Memory
History and Amnesia in the Modern City
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2005
Nine previously unpublished essays form an interdisciplinary assessment of urban memory in the modern city, analysing this burgeoning area of interest from the perspectives of sociology, architectural and art history, psychoanalysis, culture and critical theory. Featuring a wealth of illustrations,...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
This reissue, initially published in 1989, considers the upsurge of locally-based movements attempting to improve living conditions in Third-World cities throughout the 1980s. The book presents qualitative, comparative research on the dynamics and constraints of these urban social movements, in a...
The Lure of the City
From Slums to Suburbs
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2011
Cities, by their very nature, are a mass of contradictions. They can be at once visually stunning, culturally rich, exploitative and unforgiving. In The Lure of the City Austin Williams and Alastair Donald explore the potential of cities to meet the economic, social and political challenges of the...
Urban Regeneration Management
International Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2010
This book was born out of the need to ‘capture’ the experience and understanding of the regeneration management process that is neither UK centric nor centred exclusively on urban areas. Written by experts working in the USA, Holland, Greece, Jamaica, Turkey, Spain, Trinidad and the Czech Republic,...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
The Future of National Urban Policy brings together scholars, policymakers, and journalists to explore the condition of America's cities. The authors focus on policies of the previous five presidential administrations to examine the history of urban policy and offer suggestions for its future. Individual...
System of Open Spaces
Concrete Project Strategies for Urban Territories
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2012
In the current panorama of urban growth and planning in many urban territories of western societies, open spaces are residual spaces of urban occupation or are reserved for eventual occupation. Open spaces have been viewed in this manner in the earlier stages of the compact city and especially now,...
Big Daddy
Frederick G. Gardiner and the Building of Metropolitan Toronto
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1980
Frederick Gardiner's public life was rich and long, from his initiation into politics as a Toronto schoolboy before the First World War, through his involvement with the Ontario Conservative party and suburban politics in the 1930s and 1940s, on through his years as first chairman of Metropolitan...
Critical Small Schools
Beyond Privatization in New York City Urban Educational Reform
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
Critical Small Schools: Beyond Privatization in New York City Urban Educational Reform features the most current empirical research about the successes and challenges of the small schools movement and the implications of such for urban public educational policy. Situated in a climate of hierarchical...
The Politics of the Encounter
Urban Theory and Protest under Planetary Urbanization
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
The Politics of the Encounter is a spirited interrogation of the city as a site of both theoretical inquiry and global social struggle. The city, writes Andy Merrifield, remains "important, virtually and materially, for progressive politics." And yet, he notes, more than forty years have passed since...
Popular Housing and Urban Land Tenure in the Middle East
Case Studies from Egypt, Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, and Turkey
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Irregular or illegal housing constitutes the ordinary condition of popular urban housing in the Middle East. Considering the conditions of daily practices related to land and tenure mobilization and of housing, neighborhood shaping, transactions, and conflict resolution, this book offers a new reading...
by Vincent Kaufmann
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Conditions for travel have changed and are still changing the world – a world experiencing what John Urry calls the ‘mobility turn’. Since World War Two we have been moving faster and going further – a fact that has profoundly changed our way of experiencing both the world and ourselves. The...
Not Alms but Opportunity
The Urban League and the Politics of Racial Uplift, 1910-1950
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2009
Illuminating the class issues that shaped the racial uplift movement, Toure Reed explores the ideology and policies of the national, New York, and Chicago Urban Leagues during the first half of the twentieth century. Reed argues that racial uplift in the Urban League reflected many of the class biases...
Handbook of Religion and the Asian City
Aspiration and Urbanization in the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2015
Handbook of Religion and the Asian City highlights the creative and innovative role of urban aspirations in Asian world cities. It does not assume that religion is of the past and that the urban is secular, but instead points out that urban politics and governance often manifest religious boundaries...