Urban category: 4425 books
The Power of Urban Ethnic Places
Cultural Heritage and Community Life
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2010
The Power of Ethnic Places discusses the growing visibility of ethnic heritage places in U.S. society. The book examines a spectrum of case studies of Chinese, Latino and African American communities in the U.S., disagreeing with any perceptions that the rise of ethnic enclaves and heritage places...
Parkour and the City
Risk, Masculinity, and Meaning in a Postmodern Sport
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2017
In the increasingly popular sport of parkour, athletes run, jump, climb, flip, and vault through city streetscapes, resembling urban gymnasts to passersby and awestruck spectators. In Parkour and the City, cultural sociologist Jeffrey L. Kidder examines the ways in which this sport involves a creative...
Street Sex Work and Canadian Cities
Resisting a Dangerous Order
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2015
“Our voices scrubbed out and forgotten. There are those who research and write about sex workers who often forget we are human.” —Amy Lebovitch Shawna Ferris gives a voice to sex workers who are often pushed to the background, even by those who fight for them. In the name of urban safety and...
Political Barriers to Housebuilding in Britain
A Critical Case Study of Protectionism and its Industrial-Commercial Effects
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2013
Political Barriers to Housebuilding in Britain: A Critical Case Study of Protectionism and its Industrial-Commercial Effects
For decades, political barriers have hampered housebuilding in Britain. Governments have blocked urban expansion, stymied the introduction of new low-cost production...
by Alessandro Aurigi, Katharine S. Willis
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2017
Digital and Smart Cities presents an overview of how technologies shape our cities. There is a growing awareness in the fields of design and architecture of the need to address the way that technology affects the urban condition. This book aims to give an informative and definitive overview of the...
by Nabeel Hamdi
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2010
From the author of Small Change comes this engaging guide to placemaking, packed with practical skills and tools that architects, planners, urban designers and other built environment specialists need in order to engage effectively with development work in any context. Drawing on four decades of practical...
Creative Margins
Cultural Production in Canadian Suburbs
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2013
Suburbs can be incubators of creativity: innovative and complex, but all too often underappreciated. In Creative Margins, Alison L. Bain documents the unique role of Canadian artists and cultural workers in suburban place-formation and dismantles mischaracterizations of suburbs as cultural wastelands.
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Capital Spaces
The Multiple Complex Public Spaces of a Global City
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2013
In recent years it has become common-place to hear claims that public space in cities across the globe has become the exclusive preserve of the wealthy and privileged, at the expense of the needs of wider society. Whether it is the privatization of public space through commerical developments like...
Keepers of the Castle
Real Estate Executives on Leadership and Management
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2009
Examining what has always been America's largest industry, this helpful handbook analyzes the recent transformation of real estate investment and identifies the leadership attributes necessary for executives and board chairs as they guide their businesses through profound change.
by Various Authors
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2016
This book – result of an international conference – purposes to promote a discussion between researchers on issue concerning urban sprawl and the impacts that sprawl has on the environment, economy and society in general, as well as the costs that this urban form implies. PUBLISHER'S NOTE: the...
Fractured Cities
Social Exclusion, Urban Violence and Contested Spaces in Latin America
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013
As cities sprawl across Latin America, absorbing more and more of its people, crime and violence have become inescapable. From the paramilitary invasion of Medell¡n in Colombia, the booming wealth of crack dealers in Managua, Nicaragua and police corruption in Mexico City, to the glimmers of hope...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2016
As the global population continues to boom, particularly in the developing countries, it has become necessary to find ways to handle this increase through various policy tools that address population growth and urbanization problems. The urbanization process has both potentials issues as well as opportunities...
Global Cities, Governance and Diplomacy
The Urban Link
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2013
This book illustrates the importance of global cities for world politics and highlights the diplomatic connections between cities and global governance.
While there is a growing body of literature concerned with explaining the transformations of the international order, little theorisation...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
Sustainable development has been the basic goal of the European Union since the Treaty of Amsterdam. After an in-depth analysis of the concept, the book goes on to translate the concept into practicable and tangible opportunities for urban and regional sustainable development. Extensive lists of criteria...