Urban category: 4425 books
Greater Portland
Urban Life and Landscape in the Pacific Northwest
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2015
Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title
It has been called one of the nation's most livable regions, ranked among the best managed cities in America, hailed as a top spot to work, and favored as a great place to do business, enjoy the arts, pursue outdoor recreation, and...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
This publication about the urban agenda in the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) is timely as the world economy embraces the region with accelerated growth. An important element of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations Economic Community, the GMS is expected to catch up with the rest of Asia by...
Noir Urbanisms
Dystopic Images of the Modern City
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2010
Dystopic imagery has figured prominently in modern depictions of the urban landscape. The city is often portrayed as a terrifying world of darkness, crisis, and catastrophe. Noir Urbanisms traces the history of the modern city through its critical representations in art, cinema, print journalism,...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2018
The knowledge economy has become an important part of contemporary development for cities in a time of globalization and expansion. Examining theories of knowledge transfer and urban advancement allows for better adaptation in a changing global society. Knowledge-Based Urban Development in the Middle...
Urban Spaces
Planning and Struggles for Land and Community
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2009
The control and utilization of urban spaces remains a highly contested issue. Much of the debate centers on issues of economic development versus the maintenance and support of already existing communities. As a number of urban areas are in the throes of gentrification and economic development projects,...
Designing the Urban Renaissance
Sustainable and competitive place making in England
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2013
This book is an academic essay about the urban regeneration policies which have been changing the physical - and partly social - outlook of many English cities during the last 10-15 years, eventually giving birth to a process which is also known as ‘Urban Renaissance’. The main focus is on urban...
by Josef W. Konvitz
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
Cities have been missing from analyses of the global economic crisis and debates about how to generate a sustainable recovery. Cities and crisis provides a fresh assessment of what has changed since 1990 and what has not, of policy assumptions about urban economies, and of lessons of experience. A...
by Un-Habitat
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2018
The future is urban. Indeed, the battle for sustainable development will be won or lost in cities. Not a moment too soon, then, that urbanization is suddenly at the centre of global policy making. In 2015 the governments of the UN adopted the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and in 2016 they...
The Politics of Civic Space in Asia
Building Urban Communities
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2008
This book explores how and why civic spaces are used by different communities in Asia and what role urban governance and public participation play in the support or demise of communities. Using case studies of contemporary city life throughout, the contributors provide insights into the importance...
Latino Placemaking and Planning
Cultural Resilience and Strategies for Reurbanization
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2018
Latinos are currently the second-largest ethnic group demographically within the United States. By the year 2050 they are projected to number nearly 133 million, or approximately one third of the country’s total population. As the urban component of this population increases, the need for resources...
by Ann Marie F. Murnaghan, Laura J. Shillington
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2016
Why does the way we think about urban children and urban nature matter? This volume explores how dichotomies between nature/culture, rural/urban, and child/adult have structured our understandings about the place of children and nature in the city. By placing children and youth at the center of re-theorising...
Ethnicity and Urban Life in China
A Comparative Study of Hui Muslims and Han Chinese
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2007
This much-needed work on ethnicity in Asia offers a major sociological analysis of Hui Muslims in contemporary China. Using both qualitative and quantitative data derived from fieldwork in Lanzhou between March 2001 and July 2004, it looks at the contrast between the urban life of the Han people,...
Urban Land Rent
Singapore as a Property State
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2015
In Urban Land Rent, Anne Haila uses Singapore as a case study to develop an original theory of urban land rent with important implications for urban studies and urban theory.
Provides a comprehensive analysis of land, rent theory, and the modern city
Examines the question of land from a variety...
Violent Acts and Urban Space in Contemporary Tel Aviv
Revisioning Moments
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2010
Violent acts over the past fifteen years have profoundly altered civil rituals, cultural identity, and the meaning of place in Tel Aviv. Three events in particular have shed light on the global rule of urban space in the struggle for territory, resources, and power: the assassination of Prime Minister...