Urban category: 4425 books
The Romance of Culture in an Urban Civilisation
Robert E. Park on Race and Ethnic Relations in Cities
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2017
In this book, originally published in 1990, the author presents a general, critical overview of Robert E. Park and the Chicago school of American sociology. Lal concentrates on the contribution that Park and those working within the Chicago school tradition have made to the area of urban race and...
by Čedo Maksimović, Mathew Kurian, Reza Ardakanian
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2014
As we approach a historic tipping point in the global trend toward urbanisation – within two decades urban dwellers will increase from 49% to 60% of the planet’s population – this book identifies and addresses a critical problem: water. The editors show how cities can shift from being water...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2017
Originally published in 1983. Attention is focused in this book on the principal functional, spatial and morphological changes which had taken place within West Germany’s uniquely arranged mosaic of cities, towns and intervening rural areas during the postwar period. The topics covered here have...
Beijing Urban Memory
Historic Buildings and Historic Areas, Central Axes and City Walls
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2016
From the cross-disciplinary perspective of urban management and planning, geography and architecture, this book explores the theory and methods of urban memory, selecting Beijing's historic buildings, historic areas, central areas and city walls as research cases. It is divided into three parts: factors...
E-Governance in European and South African Cities
The Cases of Barcelona, Cape Town, Eindhoven, Johannesburg, Manchester, Tampere, The Hague and Venice
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2017
Since the late 1990s, city councils have become increasingly aware of the potential for information technologies (ICTs) to improve the management of cities and as an instrument for economic and social policy. This has resulted in a wave of urban ICT strategies and policies, such as the adoption of...
by Georgia Butina Watson
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
Can conservation of the built heritage be reconciled with the speed of urban change in cities of the developing world? What are the tools of sustainable design and how can communities participate in the design of the environments in which they live and work? These are some of the questions explored...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
The ways in which we travel have a huge impact on sustainability. This book addresses the relationship between travel patterns and the physical form of cities, and considers the role of spatial planning in that relationship. Three sections present empirical research and commentaries from leading academics...
Urbanism Without Effort
Reconnecting with First Principles of the City
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2019
How do you create inviting and authentic urban environments where people feel at home? Countless community engagement workshops, studies by consulting firms, and downtown revitalization campaigns have attempted to answer this age-old question. In Urbanism Without Effort, Chuck Wolfe argues that "unplanned”...
Olympic Cities
City Agendas, Planning, and the World’s Games, 1896 – 2020
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2016
The first edition of Olympic Cities, published in 2007, provided a pioneering overview of the changing relationship between cities and the modern Olympic Games. This substantially revised and enlarged third edition builds on the success of its predecessors. The first of its three parts provides overviews...
Bishkek Boys
Neighbourhood Youth and Urban Change in Kyrgyzstan’s Capital
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
In this pioneering ethnographic study of identity and integration, author Philipp Schröder explores urban change in Kyrgyzstan’s capital Bishkek from the vantage point of the male youth living in one neighbourhood. Touching on topics including authority, violence, social and imaginary geographies,...
Urban Multiculture
Youth, Politics and Cultural Transformation in a Global City
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2015
This book explores the transformation of youth and urban culture in neoliberal Britain. Focusing on the reconfiguration of urban culture in relation to race, marginalization and youth politics, James examines the shifting formations of memory, territory, cultural performance and politics.
Building American Cities
The Urban Real Estate Game
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2018
The startling story of how American cities emerge, grow, change, contract, decay, and become resuscitated. With keen insight, the authors analyze urban social processes, such as population migration to suburbia and the effect of foreign capital investment on U.S. real estate ventures. Examining patterns...
The Culture of Urban Control
Jail Overcrowding in the Crime Control Era
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2013
The Culture of Urban Control: Jail Overcrowding in the Crime Control Era explores and analyzes the growth and expansion of the United States’ largest single-site urban jail system. Through an analysis of a United States Federal Court initiated consent decree this research provides a narrative of...
Marginal Spaces
Ser Volume 5
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2017
The literature on modernist and postmodernist urban development is abundant, yet few researchers have taken up the challenge of studying the areas hi which marginalized people live as sources of resistance to continued modernization. In Marginal Spaces, Michael Smith has assembled case studies combining...