Urban category: 4425 books
by Herbert Girardet
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2014
Large, modern cities have effectively declared their independence from nature. But while they take up only three percent of the world’s land surface, their ecological footprints actually cover the entire globe. Humanity is building an urban future, yet urban resource use is threatening the future...
Planning Support Methods
Urban and Regional Analysis and Projection
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2018
Planning Support Methods offers the only practical guide to the key methods of urban and regional planning. The authors apply and critically assess the most important methods for demographic and economic analysis and projection and land suitability analysis, providing an essential resource for practicing...
Barrio Rising
Urban Popular Politics and the Making of Modern Venezuela
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2015
Beginning in the late 1950s political leaders in Venezuela built what they celebrated as Latin America’s most stable democracy. But outside the staid halls of power, in the gritty barrios of a rapidly urbanizing country, another politics was rising—unruly, contentious, and clamoring for inclusion.
Based...
Mainstreaming Climate Co-Benefits in Indian Cities
Post-Habitat III Innovations and Reforms
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
This volume presents a novel framework to understand urban climate co-benefits in India, that is, tackling climate change and achieving sustainable development goals in cities. It utilizes methods and tools from several assessment frameworks to scientifically evaluate sector co-benefits for informed...
Food Consumption in the City
Practices and patterns in urban Asia and the Pacific
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Food consumption patterns and practices are rapidly changing in Asia and the Pacific, and nowhere are these changes more striking than in urban areas. This book brings together scholars from anthropology, sociology, environmental studies, tourism, architecture and development studies to provide...
by Malcolm Miles
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2018
This book offers a critical introduction to the relation between cities and literature (fiction, poetry and literary criticism) from the late eighteenth to twenty-first centuries. It examines examples of writing from Europe, North America and post-colonial countries, juxtaposed with key ideas from...
by Bernice Neugarten
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2017
"Social Status in the City presents a scientific method for measuring social status in urban settings - the Index of Urban Status (IUS). The authors show how the index and the concepts of status on which it is based were derived by describing the procedures used in studying the social structure...
Communities and Networks
Using Social Network Analysis to Rethink Urban and Community Studies
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2013
In Communities and Networks, Katherine Giuffre takes the science of social network analysis and applies it to key issues of living in communities, especially in urban areas, exploring questions such as: How do communities shape our lives and identities? How do they foster either conformity or innovation?...
Social Transformations in Scandinavian Cities
Nordic Perspectives on Urban Marginalisation and Social Sustainability
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2016
The Social Tranformations of Scandinavian Cities highlights the changing face of social sustainability and social disintegration in Scandinavian cities against the backdrop of ongoing global societal transformations. It contributes to the literature on urban development in advanced societies by bringing...
Reclaiming Backlanes
Design Vision for Increasing Building Performance and Reprogramming Common Spaces
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2015
Take a shortcut! Explore the pop-up market! Breathe the fresh scents of flowers in a secret garden! What if backlanes were far from the state they are in today — lively chatter and laughter replacing the heat and noise of air-conditioning condensers and foul smells from trash bins?
Reclaiming...
The Politics of Latino Faith
Religion, Identity, and Urban Community
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2008
Pundits and commentators are constantly striving to understand the political behavior of Latinos—the largest minority in the United States and a key voting block. As Catherine E. Wilson makes clear in The Politics of Latino Faith, not only are Latinos a religious community, but their religious institutions,...
by Phil Hubbard
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2017
City provides an accessible yet critical introduction to one of the key ideas in human geography. While most of the world’s population now lives in cities, the definition and theoretical specification of the city nonetheless remains elusive. In this extensively updated second edition, Phil Hubbard...
by Mary Manjikian
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2013
Housing is no longer about having a place to live – but about state pressures to conform, norms and policies regarding citizenship, and practices of surveillance and security. Breaking new ground in the field of urban politics and international relations, Securitization of Property Squatting in...
by Asian Development Bank
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Over the past 30 years, rapid urbanization and economic growth have transformed the cities of the People's Republic of China (PRC). But this unprecedented urbanization has highlighted challenges that demand significant changes to basic urban management and planning policies. This report is based on...