Urban category: 4425 books
Seeking Talent for Creative Cities
The Social Dynamics of Innovation
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2014
With the growth of knowledge-based economies, cities across the globe must compete to attract and retain the most talented workers. Seeking Talent for Creative Cities offers a comprehensive and insightful analysis of the diverse, dynamic factors that affect cities’ ability to achieve this goal.
Based...
Tuff City
Urban Change and Contested Space in Central Naples
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
During the 1990s, Naples’ left-wing administration sought to tackle the city’s infamous reputation of being poor, crime-ridden, chaotic and dirty by reclaiming the city’s cultural and architectural heritage. This book examines the conflicts surrounding the reimaging and reordering of the city’s...
Changing Urban Landscapes
Eastern European and Post-Soviet Cities Since 1989
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2013
The vast territory from Asia to Eastern Europe that was part of or under the influence of the Soviet Union comprised cities, which have undergone profound changes in the last twenty years. The opening of borders combined with the affirmation of market dynamics, privatization and concentration of wealth,...
House by House, Block by Block
The Rebirth of America's Urban Neighborhoods
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2003
Not long ago, neighborhoods such as the South Bronx, South Central Los Angeles, and Boston's Roxbury were crime-ridden wastelands of vacant lots and burned-out buildings, notorious symbols of urban decay. In House by House, Block by Block, Alexander von Hoffman tells the remarkable stories of how...
A City on a Lake
Urban Political Ecology and the Growth of Mexico City
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2018
In A City on a Lake Matthew Vitz tracks the environmental and political history of Mexico City and explains its transformation from a forested, water-rich environment into a smog-infested megacity plagued by environmental problems and social inequality. Vitz shows how Mexico City's unequal urbanization...
A Study on Globalizing Cities
Theoretical Frameworks and China's Modes
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2014
A Study on Globalizing Cities is the latest masterpiece by Zhou Zhenhua, a famous Chinese economist, who closely tracks the theoretical study of global cities and is actively engaged in the strategic research of Shanghai's development.
With rich empirical data and an in-depth analysis, this...
Identity and Poverty
Defining a Sense of Self among Urban Adolescents
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2017
This book, first published in 1996, examines an important developmental transition: the formation of identity, as well as the influence that having a well-developed identity may have, on a sample of adolescents living in urban Chicago. This study proposes that identity commitment, exploration, and...
by Dulyapak Preecharushh
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2014
Naypyidaw: The New Capital of Burma examines the possible factors involved in the current relocation of the capital in order to enrich and enhance understanding about contemporary Burma/Myanmar in various aspects - including History, Geography, Political Science, Military Science, Economics, Sociology...
Diversity and Local Contexts
Urban Space, Borders, and Migration
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2017
In this book, an international team of urban anthropologists, sociologists, and ethnographers argue that politics, intergroup relations, and development in cities cannot be understood without reference to the local contexts that endow each city with specific characteristics. They also show how local...
Corridor Cultures
Mapping Student Resistance at an Urban School
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2008
For many students, the classroom is not the central focus of school. The school's corridors and doorways are areas largely given over to student control, and it is here that they negotiate their cultural identities and status among their peer groups. The flavor of this “corridor culture” tends...
The Rise and Fall of an Urban Sexual Community
Malate (Dis)placed
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016
This book examines how gay place-making challenged the juggernaut of neoliberal urbanization in the Malate district of Manila. In this ethnography, Collins explores the creation of place, characterized by neighborhood renewal, gay community and entrepreneurialism, and informal gay sexual labor. Malate...
The American City
A Sourcebook of Urban Imagery
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
This set of readings presents useful insights into urbanization and provides a fresh perspective on American cities and their inhabitants. Advancing the premise that it is not possible to understand how people live in cities without understanding how they think of them, the editor presents historical...
The City of the Senses
Urban Culture and Urban Space
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2011
Offers an innovative, interdisciplinary approach which opens up new ways of understanding urban culture and space. The author approaches the city as essentially a 'material' place where people live, work, and participate in social practices within historical limits set not by sensory experience or cultural meanings but material social conditions.
The Cities on the Hill
How Urban Institutions Transformed National Politics
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2018
Over the second half of the 20th century, American politics was reorganized around race as the tenuous New Deal coalition frayed and eventually collapsed. What drove this change? In The Cities on the Hill, Thomas Ogorzalek argues that the answer lies not in the sectional divide between North and South,...