Urban category: 4425 books
Governing Cities Through Regions
Canadian and European Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2016
The region is back in town. Galloping urbanization has pushed beyond historical notions of metropolitanism. City-regions have experienced, in Edward Soja’s terms, “an epochal shift in the nature of the city and the urbanization process, marking the beginning of the end of the modern metropolis...
Building Resilient Neighbourhoods in Singapore
The Convergence of Policies, Research and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2019
This book examines how institutional and environmental features in neighbourhoods can contribute to social resilience, highlighting the related socio-demographic issues, as well as the infrastructure, planning, design and policies issues. It is divided into three themes – infrastructure, planning,...
Smart Economy in Smart African Cities
Sustainable, Inclusive, Resilient and Prosperous
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2019
This book highlights the use of information and communication technology (ICT) infrastructures in order to develop smart cities and produce smart economies in Africa. It discusses a robust set of concepts, including smart planning, smart infrastructure development, smart economic development, smart...
Slum Health
From the Cell to the Street
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2016
Urban slum dwellers—especially in emerging-economy countries—are often poor, live in squalor, and suffer unnecessarily from disease, disability, premature death, and reduced life expectancy. Yet living in a city can and should be healthy. *Slum Health *exposes how and why slums can be unhealthy;...
Cities of Europe
Changing Contexts, Local Arrangement and the Challenge to Urban Cohesion
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2011
Cities of Europe is a unique combination of book and CD-ROM examining the effects of recent socio-economic transformations on western European cities.
A unique combination of book and CD-ROM examining the effects of recent socio-economic transformations on western European cities.
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How States Shaped Postwar America
State Government and Urban Power
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2019
The history of public policy in postwar America tends to fixate on developments at the national level, overlooking the crucial work done by individual states in the 1960s and ’70s. In this book, Nicholas Dagen Bloom demonstrates the significant and enduring impact of activist states in five areas:...
by Eric Fong, Brent Berry
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2017
The majority of immigrants settle in cities when they arrive, and few can deny the dynamic influence migration has on cities. However, a "one-size-fits-all" approach cannot describe the activities and settlement patterns of immigrants in contemporary cities. The communities in which immigrants live...
by Bharati Mohapatra
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2016
Dr. Bharati Mohapatra examines the social, functional, physical and emotional aspects of neighborhood Open Space and the attitude of people for community participation in managing the Open Space, as well as development of a framework for community participation by integrating the social, psychological...
Transnational Ties
Cities, Migrations, and Identities
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
Cities are key sites of the transnational ties that increasingly connect people, places, and projects across the globe. They provide opportunities and constraints within which transnational actors and networks operate and nodes linking wider social formations traverse national borders. This book brings...
The People's Property?
Power, Politics, and the Public.
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2016
The People’s Property? is the first book-length scholarly examination of how negotiations over the ownership, control, and peopling of public space are central to the development of publicity, citizenship, and democracy in urban areas. The book asks the questions: Why does it matter who owns public...
New Urbanism
Life, Work, and Space in the New Downtown
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2016
The advent of the 21st century marks the unfolding of a new urbanism, of a new urban fabric in the making. Bringing together a range of leading scholars from a wide range of disciplines, this edited collection examines innovative urban redevelopment projects around Europe and North America which are...
Socialising with Diversity
Relational Diversity through a Superdiversity Lens
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2016
This book analyses post-migration social networks via the notion of superdiversity. Approaching diversity as relational and complexly configured through multiple migration-related differentiations, it challenges us to rethink how we talk about and classify migrant networks. Based on research in two...
The Insecure City
Space, Power, and Mobility in Beirut
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
Fifteen years after the end of a protracted civil and regional war, Beirut broke out in violence once again, forcing residents to contend with many forms of insecurity, amid an often violent political and economic landscape. Providing a picture of what ordinary life is like for urban dwellers surviving...
Urban Strategies for Culture-Driven Growth
Co-Creating a European Capital of Culture
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2016
Over the past three decades, the European Capital of Culture has grown into one of the most ambitious cultural programs in the world. Through the promotion of cultural diversity across the continent, the program fosters mutual understanding and intercultural dialogue among citizens, thereby increasing...