Urban category: 4425 books
Contested Landscapes of Poverty and Homelessness In Southern Europe
Reflections from Athens
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2017
The book uses Athens as a case study to identify the key features of urban anti-poverty policies in Greece and to discuss them in relation to policy developments in the crisis-ridden countries of Southern Europe. The idea of contested landscapes shapes the focus of the book on urban poverty and homelessness....
Urban Transportation Planning in the United States
History, Policy, and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2009
This comprehensive text examines the evolution of urban transportation planning in the United States, from early developments in highway planning in the 1930s to today’s concerns over sustainable development, security, and pollution control.
Steering Sustainability in an Urbanising World
Policy, Practice and Performance
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Sustainability has become the key challenge for urban planners, housing and infrastructure policy makers. Citizens are increasingly encouraged to live more compactly; in denser urban developments, to use less water and other natural resources and to choose public transport. While councils, government...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2014
How do young people with migration backgrounds take part in and shape urban leisure socialities in European cities? Presenting results of a long-term ethnographic research project carried out in ethnic club scenes in Paris, London and Berlin, this book challenges assumptions about migrant community...
Informal Markets, Livelihood and Politics
Street vendors in urban India
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2016
Low industrial growth, declining agricultural sector and limited expansion of formal sector employment in India have increasingly forced the poor to take recourse to informal sources of livelihoods. Street vending is one such thriving source of self-employment across cities.
This book delves...
by Georgiana Varna
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2016
In the rapidly expanding public space debate of the past few years, a recurring theme is the ’loss of publicness’ of contemporary urban public places. This book takes up the challenge to find an objective way to prove or disprove this phenomenon. By taking the reader through a systematic and multi-disciplinary...
New Metropolitan Perspectives
Local Knowledge and Innovation Dynamics Towards Territory Attractiveness Through the Implementation of Horizon/E2020/Agenda2030 – Volume 2
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2018
This book explores the role of cities and the urban–rural linkages in spurring innovation embedded in spatial planning, strategic and economic planning, and decision support systems. In particular, the contributions examine the complexity of the current transitional phase towards achieving smart,...
New Metropolitan Perspectives
Local Knowledge and Innovation Dynamics Towards Territory Attractiveness Through the Implementation of Horizon/E2020/Agenda2030 – Volume 1
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2018
This book explores the role of cities and the urban–rural linkages in spurring innovation embedded in spatial planning, strategic and economic planning, and decision support systems. In particular, the contributions examine the complexity of the current transitional phase towards achieving smart,...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2012
The volume highlights ongoing changes in the political economy of small cities in relation to the field of culture and leisure. Culture and leisure are focal points both to local entrepreneurship and to planning by city governments, which means that these developments are subject to market dynamics...
Eco-city Planning
Policies, Practice and Design
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2011
Eco-city planning is a key element of urban land use planning in perspective and of ongoing debate of environmental urban sustainable development with a spatial and practical dimension. The conceptual basis of ecological planning is that we can no longer afford to be merely human-centred in approach....
Urban Sustainability in the US
Cities Take Action
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2018
Cities are stepping forward to address the critical sustainability challenges of the 21st century. Meeting the demands of complex issues requires municipalities to evaluate problems and their solutions in more holistic, integrated, and collaborative ways. Drawn from plans and progress reports from...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2017
These ethnographically-based studies of diverse urban experiences across the world present cutting edge research and stimulate an empirically-grounded theoretical reconceptualization. The essays identify ethnography as a powerful tool for making sense of life in our rapidly changing, complex cities....
Remaking Sustainable Urbanism
Space, Scale and Governance in the New Urban Era
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2019
This book analyses the implications of eco-urbanism re-making for policy and practice under the transformational trends of economic decentralization and market reform in China. While the guiding themes are space, scale, and governance of cities, the book focuses on three interrelated prevailing processes...
Austerity & Democracy in Athens
Crisis and Community in Exarchia
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2017
This book, based on an empirical form of narration, outlines a short-medium term analysis of the social impact of austerity politics on urban life.. Set in Exarchia, a radical and anti-authoritarian neighbourhood located within the city centre of Athens, Greece, this is an ethnography examining the...