Search results for “[subject: urban]”

• Author(s): Edward Glaeser • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Sociology - UrbanWe live in the 'urban century'. Cities all over the world - in both developing and developed countries - display complex evolut...

• Author(s): Brian T. Robson • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Reference Do large cities grow more or less rapidly than small ones? Why should the relationship between city size and population growth va...

• Author(s): Gordon C. C. Douglas • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA • BISAC: Sociology - UrbanWhen local governments neglect public services or community priorities, how do concerned citiz...

• Author(s): Eric Firley • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: Wiley • BISAC: Urban & Land Use PlanningA highly illustrated reference tool, this handbook provides comparative visual analysis of major urban extensions and masterplans around ...

• Author(s): Igor Vojnovic • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • Subject: Sociology and Anthropology • BISAC: Sociology - GeneralThrough interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary perspectives, and with an emphasis on ex...

• Author(s): Mickeal Milocco Borlini | Lelio Di Loreto • Publisher: Lulu.com • Publisher Imprint: Lulu.com • BISAC: GeneralThis pamphlet brings together the contributions of architects, researchers and artists from all over the world. The common ...

• Author(s): Zhen Zhang • Publisher: Duke University Press • Publisher Imprint: Duke University Press • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismSince the early 1990s, while mainland China's state-owned movie studios have struggled with financial and...

• Author(s): Michael Shapiro • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Sociology - UrbanThe Time of the City is a trans-disciplinary work with a focus on genre-city relationships as they articulate the micropolitic...

• Author(s): Ivor Samuels • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Design, Drafting, Drawing & PresentationThis popular and influential work, translated here into English for the first time, argues that modern...

• Author(s): Bernard Otoki Moirongo • Publisher: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing • Publisher Imprint: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing • BISAC: Urban & Land Use PlanningA "convex space" has been taken as the basic unit of urban space and with ...

• Author(s): Colin McFarlane • Publisher: University of California Press • Publisher Imprint: University of California Press • BISAC: Human GeographyCities are becoming increasingly fragmented materially, socially, and spatially. From broken toil...

• Author(s): Pádraig Carmody • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: Wiley • BISAC: Sociology - UrbanIlluminates the path to more generative urban transitions in Africa's cities and developing rural areas Africa is the world's most rapidly urbani...

• Author(s): Kelvin E. Y. Low • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: History & Theory - GeneralWhat does it require to critically investigate our sensory engagement with urban living? ...

• Author(s): Warren Magnusson • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: International Relations - GeneralTo see like a city, rather than seeing like a state, is the key to understanding modern politics. In this boo...

• Author(s): Tim Edensor | Mark Jayne • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Human GeographySince the late eighteenth century, academic engagement with political, economic, social, cultural and spatial changes in our citie...

• Author(s): Sarah Chaplin • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Study & TeachingAddressing the collection, representation and exhibition of architecture and the built environment, this book explores cu...

• Author(s): Minna Valjakka | Meiqin Wang • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Asian - GeneralThis edited volume provides a multifaceted investigation of the dynamic interrelations between visual arts and urbanization in...

• Author(s): Thomas A. Reiner • Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press Anniversary • Publisher Imprint: University of Pennsylvania Press Anniversary • BISAC: Public Policy - City Planning & Urban DevelopmentThis book is a volume in the P...

• Author(s): David Cannadine | H. J. Dyos | David Reeder • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: Western Europe - GeneralDuring the 1960s and 1970s, the growth of interest in the urban past...

• Author(s): Shane Ewen • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: Polity Pr • Subject: History • BISAC: Social HistoryUrban history is a well-established and flourishing field of historical research. Written by a leading scholar, this short introdu...

• Author(s): Sharon M. Meagher | Samantha Noll | Joseph S. Biehl • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: AestheticsThe Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of the City is an outstanding reference source to this exciting subject...

• Author(s): Massimo Santanicchia • Publisher: Grin Verlag • Publisher Imprint: Grin Verlag • BISAC: Urban & Land Use PlanningMaster's Thesis from the year 2011 in the subject Urban and Regional Planning, grade: Distinction, London School of ...

• Author(s): Gideon S. Golany • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: Wiley • BISAC: Urban & Land Use PlanningVisit any large metropolitan area in the world, and you'll feel theurgent need for innovative solutions to the many problems that fa...

• Author(s): Alastair M. Morrison • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • Subject: Tourism, Travel Guide & Hospitality • BISAC: Industries - Hospitality, Travel & TourismWorld Tourism Cities: A Systematic Approa...

• Author(s): Seth Royal • Publisher: Willford Press • Publisher Imprint: Willford Press • BISAC: GeneralUrban planning and transportation management attempts to understand the growth and development of metropolitan areas and correspondingly plan ...

• Author(s): Sean Fox • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Earth Sciences - GeographyFor the first time in human history more people now live and towns and cities than in rural areas. In the wealthier countrie...

• Author(s): Mould | Andrew • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • Subject: Earth-Science/Environment • BISAC: Life Sciences - EcologyThis second edition covers recent developments around the world with contributors fr...

• Author(s): Daniel A. Bell • Publisher: Princeton University Press • Publisher Imprint: Princeton University Press • BISAC: Sociology - UrbanFrom the Back Cover"In a field saturated with superficial rankings and business surveys, The Spirit of C...

• Author(s): Kevin J. Gaston • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: Life Sciences - EcologyThis is the urban century in which, for the first time, the majority of people live in towns and ...

• Author(s): Ely Chinoy • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Sociology - UrbanWhat is the future of the American city? What are the relevant contexts for the analysis of urban problems? Should attention be foc...

• Author(s): David Harvey • Publisher: Verso • Publisher Imprint: Verso • BISAC: Political Ideologies - Radicalism"David Harvey...has inspired a generation of radical intellectuals." --Naomi KleinA "forensic and ferocious" manifesto on the city a...

• Author(s): Andrew Blauvelt • Publisher: Walker Art Center • Publisher Imprint: Walker Art Center • BISAC: Urban & Land Use PlanningParallel Cities examines the history of the multilevel city with a focus on elevated pedestrian systems as a ...

• Author(s): Narendar Pani • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Earth Sciences - GeographyIn constructing the urban as a set of interconnected actions, this book presents a less travelled route to understanding the city....

• Author(s): Sarah Bell • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Environmental - Water SupplyThe provision of a safe and reliable water supply is a major challenge for the world's growing urban populations. This b...

• Author(s): Christopher Grant Kirwan | Fu Zhiyong • Publisher: Elsevier • Publisher Imprint: Elsevier • Subject: Computer Science and Information Technology • BISAC: Intelligence (Ai) & SemanticsSmart Cities and Artificial Intelligence: Conv...

• Author(s): Mark Abrahamson • Publisher: Oxford University Press • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press • BISAC: Sociology - UrbanGlobal Cities examines the distinctive commercial, residential, and spatial features of the major cities of t...