Urban category: 4425 books
The Divided City and the Grassroots
The (Un)making of Ethnic Divisions in Mostar
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2018
Focusing on Mostar, a city in Bosnia Herzegovina that became the epitome of ethnic divisions during the Yugoslav wars, this cutting edge book considers processes of violent partitioning in cities. Providing an in-depth understanding of the social, political, and mundane dynamics that keep cities polarized,...
Coping with Adversity
Regional Economic Resilience and Public Policy
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017
Coping with Adversity addresses the question of why some metropolitan-area regional economies are resilient in the face of economic shocks and chronic distress while others are not. It is particularly concerned with what public policies make a difference in whether a region is resilient. The authors...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2017
Critiques of traditional urban planning are numerous. The debate about direction within the profession and why urban planning seems to be in a state of despair continues. However, and as Milan J. Dluhy and Kan Chen note, the more critical issue is the future direction of planning, particularly interdisciplinary...
by Paul Barter
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
Most Asian cities are facing an acute parking crisis as a result of rapid urbanization and motorization, and high urban densities. Parking policy is an important component of a holistic approach to sustainable urban transport across the region. The report provides an international comparative perspective...
by Peter Herrle, Astrid Ley
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
Over the past two decades it has become widely recognized that housing issues have to be placed in a broader framework acknowledging that civil society in the form of Community Based Organizations (CBOs) and their allies are increasingly networking and emerging as strong players that cannot easily...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2017
This book reconsiders the fundamental principles of zoning and city planning over the course of the past one-hundred years, and the lessons that can be learned for the future of cities. Bringing together the contributions of leading scholars, representing diverse methodologies and academic disciplines,...
Migrant Friendships in a Super-Diverse City
Russian-Speakers and their Social Relationships in London in the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
This timely book offers an integrative and critical approach to the conceptualization of diversity of social ties in contemporary urban migrant populations. It explores the informal relationships of migrants in London and how the construction and the dynamics of their social ties function as a part...
by Ellen Boccuzzi
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
With the acceleration of global migration, literature by migrant writers has emerged as a powerful medium for describing the ways in which global forces are experienced at the personal level. Migrant literature offers a compelling counter‐narrative to abstract visions of globalization, grounding...
Regeneration Songs
Sounds of Investment and Loss in East London
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2018
Twenty-seven leading artists, writers and academics come together to tackle one of the most drastic urban regeneration programmes in world history - the "Regeneration Supernova" of East London.
The impact of global capital and foreign investment on local communities is being felt...
Expansive Discourses
Urban Sprawl in Calgary, 1945-1978
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2009
A groundbreaking study of urban sprawl in Calgary after the Second World War. The interactions of land developers and the local government influenced how the pattern grew: developers met market demands and optimized profits by building houses as efficiently as possible, while the City had to consider...
Women, Urbanization and Sustainability
Practices of Survival, Adaptation and Resistance
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2017
This work considers the city as a gendered space and examines women’s experiences and engagement in both urbanization and sustainability. Such a focus offers distinctive insights into the question of what it means for a city to be sustainable, asking further how sustainability needs to work with...
Cities and Fascination
Beyond the Surplus of Meaning
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2016
Bringing together leading urban scholars, this book discusses the linkages between the economic, social and psychological factors of the urban environment. It focuses on the growth of private urbanity that has led to a 'spectactularization' of the city, the most extreme component of attention being...
Mobility Justice
The Politics of Movement in an Age of Extremes
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2018
Mobility justice is one of the crucial political and ethical issues of our day
We are in the midst of a global climate crisis and experiencing the extreme challenges of urbanization. In Mobility Justice, Mimi Sheller makes a passionate argument for a new understanding of the contemporary crisis...
The Suburban Land Question
A Global Survey
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2018
As part of the urbanization process, suburban development involves the conversion of rural land to urban use. When discussing the suburbs, most writers focus on particular countries in the northern hemisphere, implying that patterns and processes elsewhere are fundamentally different. The purpose...