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by Loretta Lees, Hyun Bang Shin, Ernesto López-Morales
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2016
This is the first book in Polity's new 'Urban Futures' series.
At the beginning of the twenty-first century, proclamations rang out that gentrification had gone global. But what do we mean by 'gentrification' today? How can we compare 'gentrification' in New York and London with that in Shanghai,...
Food Roofs of Rio de Janeiro
The Pavao-Pavaozinho and Cantagalo Case Study
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2017
One important change in the Brazilian policies is the Pacification. In recent years the government has invested in creating safer and more livable favelas. This generally starts with creating a UPP, a police post at a central location, from where the safety is maintained. Once this has been established...
Cities Beyond Borders
Comparative and Transnational Approaches to Urban History
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2016
Drawing on a body of research covering primarily Europe and the Americas, but stretching also to Asia and Africa, from the mid-eighteenth century to the present, this book explores the methodological and heuristic implications of studying cities in relation to one another. Moving fluidly between comparative...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2006
Knowledge Cities are cities that possess an economy driven by high value-added exports created through research, technology, and brainpower. In other words, these are cities in which both the private and the public sectors value knowledge, nurture knowledge, spend money on supporting knowledge dissemination...
by Nan Ellin
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
Integral Urbanism is an ambitious and forward-looking theory of urbanism that offers a new model of urban life. Nan Ellin's model stands as an antidote to the pervasive problems engendered by modern and postmodern urban planning and architecture: sprawl, anomie, a pervasive culture - and architecture...
by Marion Roberts, Adam Eldridge
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
The night-time economy represents a particular challenge for planners and town centre managers. In the context of liberalised licensing and a growing culture around the '24-hour city', the desire to foster economic growth and to achieve urban regeneration has been set on a collision course with the...
Endangered City
The Politics of Security and Risk in Bogotá
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2016
Security and risk have become central to how cities are planned, built, governed, and inhabited in the twenty-first century. In Endangered City, Austin Zeiderman focuses on this new political imperative to govern the present in anticipation of future harm. Through ethnographic fieldwork and archival...
The Anti-Black City
Police Terror and Black Urban Life in Brazil
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2018
An important new ethnographic study of São Paulo’s favelas revealing the widespread use of race-based police repression in Brazil
While Black Lives Matter still resonates in the United States, the movement has also become a potent rallying call worldwide, with harsh police tactics and repressive...
Securing the City
Neoliberalism, Space, and Insecurity in Postwar Guatemala
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2011
Unprecedented crime rates have made Guatemala City one of the most dangerous cities in the world. Following a peace process that ended Central America’s longest and bloodiest civil war and impelled the transition from a state-centric economy to the global free market, Guatemala’s neoliberal moment...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2017
This book draws upon the expertise of academic researchers, urban planners and architects to explore the challenge of building the sustainable cities of the future. It addresses this challenge by considering current cities and those of the near future, and creates a picture of the sustainable city...
The Creative City
A Toolkit for Urban Innovators
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2012
The Creative City is a clarion call for imaginative action in developing and running urban life. It shows how to think, plan and act creatively in addressing urban issues, with remarkable examples of innovation and regeneration from around the world. This revised edition of Charles Landry's highly influential text has been updated with a new, extensive overview.
City Dreams, Country Schemes
Community and Identity in the American West
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2013
The American West, from the beginning of Euro-American settlement, has been shaped by diverse ideas about how to utilize physical space and natural environments to create cohesive, sometimes exclusive community identities. When westerners developed their towns, they constructed spaces and cultural...
Cairo Cosmopolitan
Politics, Culture, and Urban Space in the New Middle East
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2009
Bringing together a distinguished interdisciplinary group of scholars, this volume explores what happens when new forms of privatization meet collectivist pasts, public space is sold off to satisfy investor needs and tourist gazes, and the state plans for Egypt's future in desert cities while stigmatizing...
The Ville
Cops and Kids in Urban America, Updated Edition
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
In Brownsville’s twenty-one housing projects, the young cops and the teenagers who stand solemnly on the street corners are bitter and familiar enemies. The Ville, as the Brownsville–East New York section of Brooklyn is called by the locals, is one of the most dangerous places on earth—a place...