Urban category: 4425 books
The Housing Question
Tensions, Continuities, and Contingencies in the Modern City
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
In the wake of the Great Recession, housing and its financing suddenly re-emerged as questions of significant public concern. Yet both public and academic debates about housing have remained constricted, tending not to explore how the evolution of housing simultaneously entails basic forms of socio-spatial...
Introduction to Cities
How Place and Space Shape Human Experience
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
The revised and updated second edition of Introduction to Citiesexplores why cities are such a vital part of the human experience and how they shape our everyday lives. Written in engaging and accessible terms, Introduction to Citiesexamines the study of cities through two central concepts: that cities...
Swept Up Lives?
Re-envisioning the Homeless City
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2011
Utilizing innovative ethnographic research, Swept Up Lives? challenges conventional accounts of urban homelessness to trace the complex and varied attempts to care for homeless people
Presents innovative ethnographic research which suggests an important shift in perspective in the analysis and...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2017
Originally published in 1979. Phenomena such as high levels of unemployment, decaying and vandalised council estates, poor educational achievements by schoolchildren and the population decline in inner cities are just some of the problems challenged by this important work. The contributors from such...
Postcards from Rio
Favelas and the Contested Geographies of Citizenship
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
Through the analysis of a variety of favela-based visual cultural productions by young people and contemporary theorists, Postcards from Rio examines the complex relationship between citizenship and urban space in contemporary Rio de Janeiro.
By analyzing videos and photographs, Kátia da Costa...
Life in Poverty Neighbourhoods
European and American Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
In contemporary European and American urban policy and politics and in academic research it is typically assumed that spatial concentrations of poor households and/or ethnic minority households will have negative effects upon the opportunities to improve the social conditions of those who are living...
Smart Growth Entrepreneurs
Partners in Urban Sustainability
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
This book examines smart growth entrepreneurs—innovators in government, development companies, architectural firms, and other organizations, who coalesce to shift policies and markets toward green planning and building practices. Cities across the world are trying to manage their population and...
The Illegal City
Space, Law and Gender in a Delhi Squatter Settlement
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
The Illegal City explores the relationship between space, law and gendered subjectivity through a close look at an 'illegal' squatter settlement in Delhi. Since 2000, a series of judicial rulings in India have criminalised squatters as 'illegal' citizens, 'encroachers' and 'pickpockets' of urban land,...
Lansing at the Crossroads
A Partisan History of the Village of Lansing, New York
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2001
The construction of a new four-lane highway on the outskirts of Ithaca, NY created a rapidly growing commercial center in the previously rural Town of Lansing. The clash between the newcomers and the old-timers over the direction and pace of this change led to the formation of a new local government...
Rethinking sustainable cities
Accessible, green and fair
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2016
Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. Sustainable urbanisation has moved to the forefront of global debate, research and policy agendas over recent years. Rapid urbanisation throughout China, India and many other low and middle income countries poses new challenges both locally and internationally...
No Way Out
Precarious Living in the Shadow of Poverty and Drug Dealing
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2015
In 2005 Waverly Duck was called to a town he calls Bristol Hill to serve as an expert witness in the sentencing of drug dealer Jonathan Wilson. Convicted as an accessory to the murder of a federal witness and that of a fellow drug dealer, Jonathan faced the death penalty, and Duck was there to provide...
Revitalising Deprived Urban Neighbourhoods
An Assisted Self-Help Approach
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
Governments in Western Europe and North America have placed job creation initiatives at the heart of their policy for revitalizing deprived neighbourhoods. However, relying on this alone is problematic and these governments are becoming increasingly interested in finding ways of enabling communities...
Urban Geography in America, 1950-2000
Paradigms and Personalities
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
First published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2006
Mobile communications technologies are taking off across the world, while urban transportation and surveillance systems are also being rebuilt and updated. Emergent practices of physical, informational and communicational mobility are reconfiguring patterns of movement, co-presence, social exclusion...