Urban category: 4425 books
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Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
This collection deals with the transformation of urban movements in these new social, economic and political environments.
Street Therapists
Race, Affect, and Neoliberal Personhood in Latino Newark
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
Drawing from almost a decade of ethnographic research in largely Brazilian and Puerto Rican neighborhoods in Newark, New Jersey, Ana Y. Ramos-Zayas, in *Street Therapists,*examines how affect, emotion, and sentiment serve as waypoints for the navigation of interracial relationships among US-born...
Sports Mega-Events and Urban Legacies
The 2014 FIFA World Cup, Brazil
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2016
This book examines the urban legacy of the 2014 football World Cup in Brazil across the seven cities that hosted matches. The authors, all experts and natives of South America, analyse the context and impacts of hosting the World Cup for each of the host cities. The chapters use a range of background...
The History of Street Gangs in the United States
Their Origins and Transformations
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2015
This book is an historical account of the emergence of youth gangs and the transformation of these into street gangs in the United States. The author traces the emergence of these gangs in the four major geographical regions over the span of two centuries, from the early 1800s to 2012. The author’s...
Cinema and the City
Film and Urban Societies in a Global Context
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2011
This book brings together the literature of urban sociology and film studies to explore new analytical and theoretical approaches to the relationship between cinema and the city, and to show how these impact on the realities of life in urban societies.
Small Town China
Rural Labour and Social Inclusion
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2011
While much has been written about rural migrant workers’ experiences in the big cities, population movements into China’s vast network of towns and small cities has been largely neglected. This book presents a detailed case study of rural migrant workers experiences in a small town in a north...
by Mark Deakin
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
Illustrated with empirical case studies from Europe, Africa and North America, this book provides an overview of the wide range of innovative methodologies, models and instruments currently being applied in the formation of and implementation of land management strategies. It examines techniques such...
Earning Power
Women and Work in Los Angeles, 1880-1930
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2010
The half-century between 1880 and 1930 saw rampant growth in many American cities and an equally rapid movement of women into the work force. In Los Angeles, the city not only grew from a dusty cow town to a major American metropolis but also offered its residents myriad new opportunities and challenges.Earning...
Cities, Sagebrush, and Solitude
Urbanization and Cultural Conflict in the Great Basin
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2015
Cities, Sagebrush, and Solitude explores the transformation of the largest desert in North America, the Great Basin, into America’s last urban frontier. In recent decades Las Vegas, Reno, Salt Lake City, and Boise have become the anchors for sprawling metropolitan regions. This population explosion...
by Genie N. L. Stowers
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2017
We hear the term “sustainability” everywhere today. In the context of city management, the term often refers to environmental concerns, both locally and globally. Managing the Sustainable City examines not only how cities can prepare to weather the local effects of climate change, but also how...
Jobs and the Labor Force of Tomorrow
Migration, Training, Education
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2017
The new volume in the Urban Agenda series addresses the challenges shaping the development of human capital in metropolitan regions. The articles, products of the 2016 Urban Forum at the University of Illinois at Chicago, engage with the overarching idea that a dynamic metropolitan economy needs a...
Boom Town
The Fantastical Saga of Oklahoma City, Its Chaotic Founding... Its Purloined Basketball Team, and the Dream of Becoming a World-class Metropolis
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2018
**A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2018
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR, CHICAGO TRIBUNE, SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE, THE ECONOMIST AND DEADSPIN
Award-winning journalist Sam Anderson’s long-awaited debut is a brilliant, kaleidoscopic narrative of Oklahoma City—a great...
The Autonomous City
A History of Urban Squatting
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2017
A radical history of squatting and the struggle for the right to remake the city
The Autonomous City is the first popular history of squatting as practised in Europe and North America. Alex Vasudevan retraces the struggle for housing in Amsterdam, Berlin, Copenhagen, Detroit, Hamburg, London,...
Cities and the Politics of Difference
Multiculturalism and Diversity in Urban Planning
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2015
Demographic change and a growing sensitivity to the diversity of urban communities have increasingly led planners to recognize the necessity of planning for diversity. Edited by Michael A. Burayidi, Cities and the Politics of Difference offers a guide for making diversity a cornerstone of planning...