Search results for “[Subject: urban-community]”

• Author(s): Leonie Sandercock • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • Subject: Earth-Science/Environment • BISAC: EcologyMapping Possibility traces the intertwined intellectual, professional, and emotional life of Leon...

• Author(s): Laura Lawson • Publisher: University of California Press • Publisher Imprint: University of California Press • BISAC: GeneralSince the 1890s, providing places for people to garden has been an inventive strategy to improve American ur...

• Author(s): Taha Chaiechi • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Public Policy - Economic PolicyFrom the Back CoverThis edited volume presents the conference papers from the 1st International Conference on Business, Economi...

• Author(s): Megan E. Heim Lafrombois | Jay Mittal • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Public Policy - City Planning & Urban DevelopmentThis handbook explores two guiding questions - how can university-community par...

• Author(s): Hilary J. Bernstein • Publisher: Brill • Publisher Imprint: Brill • BISAC: Europe - RenaissanceHistorical Communities reveals the importance of urban history writing in early modern France, from the 1560s to the 1660s, both for indiv...

• Author(s): Shih-Lung Shaw • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Human GeographyFrom the Back CoverThis book addresses how accelerating advances in information and communication technology, mobile technology, and location-...

• Author(s): Francesca de Filippi • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Public Policy - City Planning & Urban DevelopmentFrom the Back CoverThis book deals with the issue of Digital Participatory Platforms (DPPs) for ur...

• Author(s): Janet Foster • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Sociology - GeneralThis text is a sociological study of a community in transition and the impact of urban regeneration. The process of change ...

• Author(s): Leo Van Den Berg | Willem Van Winden • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Earth Sciences - GeographyThis title was first published in 2002: The information revolution has deeply influenced the development of...

• Author(s): Suzanne Goldsmith • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Public Policy - City Planning & Urban DevelopmentIn his inaugural address in 1993, President Clinton said: "I challenge a new generation of young Am...

• Author(s): Keng Hua Chong • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: InfrastructureThis book couples data analytics with social behavioural studies and participatory design to derive deeper insights on city dwelle...

• Author(s): Daniel Skinner | Jonathan R. Wynn | Berkeley Franz • Publisher: University of Chicago Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Chicago Press • BISAC: Sociology - UrbanA surprising look at how hospitals affect and are affected by thei...

• Author(s): James Defilippis | Robert Fisher | Eric Shragge • Publisher: Rutgers University Press • Publisher Imprint: Rutgers University Press • BISAC: Public Policy - City Planning & Urban DevelopmentWhat do community organizations and org...

• Author(s): Aditya Mohanty • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Taylor & Francis • Subject: Sociology and Anthropology

• Author(s): Derya Özkan • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: EnvironmentalThis collection seeks to expand the limits of current debates about urban commoning practices that imply a radical will to establish c...

• Author(s): Sara Stoutland • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Sociology - UrbanFirst published in 1997. This is part of the Children of Poverty series, a collection of works on the effects of single parenth...

• Author(s): Carl A. Maida • Publisher: Altamira Press • Publisher Imprint: Altamira Press • BISAC: Sociology - UrbanWhen densely populated urban areas face severe crises-natural disasters, epidemics, sudden unemployment, massive immigration-they...

• Author(s): Anna Steigemann • Publisher: Saint Philip Street Press • Publisher Imprint: Saint Philip Street Press • BISAC: Human GeographyIn this open access publication, the social cohesion of urban neighborhoods and their residents is examined...

• Author(s): Kosta Mathéy • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Sociology - UrbanUrban violence has become a major threat in big cities of the world. Where the orthodox protection through t...

• Author(s): Yasser Arafat Tackie | Josepth Mawuewe Demanye | Salomey Korkor Aperkor • Publisher: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing • Publisher Imprint: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing • BISAC: Labor & EmploymentOver the past decades, there hav...

• Author(s): Salvatore Iaconesi • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Public Policy - City Planning & Urban DevelopmentThis book explores the possibility to observe the lives of cities through ubiquitous information obt...

• Author(s): Irwin Altman • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Sociology - GeneralThis ninth volume in the series deals with a fascinating and complex topic in the environment and behavior field. Neighborhoods and com- mun...

• Author(s): David C. Soule | Neal Peirce • Publisher: University of Nebraska Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Nebraska Press • BISAC: Public Policy - City Planning & Urban DevelopmentUrban sprawl has gained much national attention in...

• Author(s): Illsoo Kim • Publisher: Princeton University Press • Publisher Imprint: Princeton University Press • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialInsofar as the new immigration is both structurally and functionally distinct from the ol...

• Author(s): Edward P. Eichler | Marshall Kaplan • Publisher: University of California Press • Publisher Imprint: University of California Press • BISAC: Sociology - Urban

• Author(s): Casey Man Kong Lum | Marc de Ferrière Le Vayer • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • BISAC: HistoryUrban Foodways and Communication is a collection of ethnographic...

• Author(s): Tooba Naseer Ahmed • Publisher: Eliva Press • Publisher Imprint: Eliva Press • BISAC: GeneralThis study examines the socioeconomic and psychological impact of street crime on community peace and victim resilience in an urban context....

• Author(s): Suzan Folkerts • Publisher: Brepols Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Brepols Publishers • BISAC: Europe - MedievalThe boundaries between sacred and secular in the late Middle Ages, traditionally perceived as separate domains, are nowa...

• Author(s): Steve Herbert • Publisher: University of Chicago Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Chicago Press • BISAC: Sociology - UrbanPoliticians, citizens, and police agencies have long embraced community policing, hoping to reduce crim...

• Author(s): James Scorer • Publisher: State University of New York Press • Publisher Imprint: State University of New York Press • BISAC: Latin America - South AmericaAddresses ways that cultural imaginaries point toward alternative urban future...

• Author(s): Vanita Naidoo • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Schools - Levels - HigherThis book presents a rich case study examining physical and spatial factors of urban campus design that influence studen...

• Author(s): Scott McQuire • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: LandscapeCities have long been recognized as key sites for fostering new communication practices. However, as contemporary cities experience majo...

• Author(s): S. Sutton • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: Public Policy - City Planning & Urban DevelopmentAs racially-based inequalities and spatial segregation deepen, further strained by emergent problem...

• Author(s): Edward Taehan Chang | Jeannette Diaz-Veizades • Publisher: New York University Press • Publisher Imprint: New York University Press • BISAC: Minority StudiesThe Los Angeles riot of 1992 marked America's first high-profile multiethnic...

• Author(s): Andrea Rigon • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Public Policy - City Planning & Urban DevelopmentInclusive Urban Development in the Global South emphasizes the importance of the neighbourhoo...

• Author(s): John Newson | Elizabeth Newson • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Sociology - Marriage & FamilyJohn and Elizabeth Newson work from the conviction that the causes and the consequences of child-rearing a...