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• Author(s): Wolf-Dietrich Sahr | Heiko Schmid | John Urry • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Sociology - UrbanBringing together leading urban scholars, this book discusses the linkages between the economic, social and...

• Author(s): Sharit Bhowmik • Publisher: Routledge India • Publisher Imprint: Routledge India • BISAC: Ethnic Studies - GeneralThis volume looks at the living and working conditions of street vendors in different cities of the world. It examines ...

• Author(s): Jesus Gonzalez-Feliu | Mario Chong | Jorge Vargas Florez • Publisher: Information Science Reference • Publisher Imprint: Information Science Reference • BISAC: GeneralCity logistics is one of the most popular fields of transportation...

• Author(s): Sadan Jha • Publisher: Bloomsbury India • Publisher Imprint: Bloomsbury India • Subject: Earth-Science/Environment • BISAC: Social Science‘…A brilliant exploration of urbanism between the concept city and the lived city.… The volume ...

• Author(s): Donald Williams • Publisher: ABC-CLIO • Publisher Imprint: ABC-CLIO • BISAC: GeneralThis book examines the rapid expansion of urban areas worldwide, especially within the previous 50 years, identifying the factors that have contribut...

• Author(s): Jose Brandao • Publisher: VDM Verlag • Publisher Imprint: VDM Verlag • BISAC: Urban & Land Use PlanningThe general argument of this book is that a new model of urban project has recently been implemented in the city of Rio de Jan...

• Author(s): Dominic Davies • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: GeneralUrban Comics: Infrastructure and the Global City in Contemporary Graphic Narratives makes an important and timely contribution both to co...

• Author(s): Penelope Goodman • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: ArchaeologyThe first and only monograph available on the subject, The Roman City and its Periphery offers a full and detailed treatment of the little-inv...

• Author(s): Gillian Evans • Publisher: Vernon Press • Publisher Imprint: Vernon Press • BISAC: Anthropology - GeneralThe United Nations predicts that by the year 2050 almost 70% of the planet's population will be living in cities. The onus on so...

• Author(s): Susan Parham • Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic • Publisher Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic • BISAC: Agriculture & Food (see also Political Science - Public PoliCities are home to over fifty percent of the world's population, a figure...

• Author(s): Iain White • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Urban & Land Use PlanningAs a vital human need, water has been absolutely critical to decisions as to where cities originate, how much they grow...

• Author(s): William H. Whyte • Publisher: Project for Public Spaces, Inc • Publisher Imprint: Project for Public Spaces, Inc • BISAC: Public Policy - City Planning & Urban DevelopmentIn 1980, William H. Whyte published the findings from his ...

• Author(s): Luc Pauwels • Publisher: Emerald Publishing Limited • Publisher Imprint: Emerald Publishing Limited • BISAC: Sociology - UrbanMore extensive methodology is required to study the complexities of everyday life in the rapidly expanding ...

• Author(s): Nicholas Freeman • Publisher: OUP Oxford • Publisher Imprint: OUP Oxford • BISAC: English, Irish, Scottish, WelshConceiving the City is an innovative study of the ways in which a generation of late-Victorian novelists, poets, painter...

• Author(s): Helen Meller | Maurice Kirby • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: GeneralThis concise survey explores the interaction of the social and physical environment of cities. Helen...

• Author(s): Debra Benita Shaw • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialPosthuman Urbanism explores what it means to live in an urban en...

• Author(s): Bennetta Jules-Rosette • Publisher: Ablex Publishing Corporation • Publisher Imprint: Ablex Publishing Corporation • BISAC: Sociology - UrbanBased on a four-year longitudinal study of urban adaptation in Lusaka, Zambia, this book off...

• Author(s): Harold Wolman | Michael Goldsmith • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: Wiley-Blac • Subject: Politics and Current AffairsIn this refreshing and much needed text, Michael Goldsmith and Harold Wolman present a new approach to the st...

• Author(s): Anna K. Hodgkinson • Publisher: Oxford University Press • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press • BISAC: Ancient - EgyptThis book provides the first systematic and comprehensive discussion of the intra-urban distribution of high...

• Author(s): Rob Roggema • Publisher: Springer Verlag • Publisher Imprint: Springer • Subject: Earth-Science/Environment • BISAC: Public Policy - City Planning & Urban DevelopmentFrom the Back CoverThis book brings together the papers present...

• Author(s): Johannes Fiedler • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Public Policy - City Planning & Urban DevelopmentFrom the Back CoverIn a series of essays, the process of urbanisation - a human mega-trend acquiring u...

• Author(s): Sophie Body-Gendrot | Jacques Carré • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: American Government - StateThis book highlights the citizens' continuous participation in a wide range of urban affairs, especially ou...

• Author(s): Leerink | Faye • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • Subject: Tourism, Travel Guide & Hospitality • BISAC: Industries - Hospitality, Travel & TourismAbout the Book The Routledge Handbook of Touris...

• Author(s): Gillian Evans • Publisher: Vernon Press • Publisher Imprint: Vernon Press • BISAC: Anthropology - GeneralThe United Nations predicts that by the year 2050 almost 70% of the planet's population will be living in cities. The onus on so...

• Author(s): Steven G. Koven • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • Subject: Architecture & Interior Designs • BISAC: Sociology - UrbanGrowth, Decline, and Regeneration in Large Cities sheds light on why some citie...

• Author(s): Stuart Sinclair • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Labor - GeneralUrbanization and Labour Markets provides a simple guide to the subject of labour in cities in underdeveloped countries.

• Author(s): Ugo Rossi • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: Polity Pr • Subject: Economics • BISAC: Urban & RegionalAbout the Book In what ways are cities central to the evolution of contemporary global capitalism? And in what ways is glob...

• Author(s): S. J. Ulijaszek | L. M. Schell • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: Public HealthOver 70% of the population in industrialized nations live in cities; in the next decade so w...

• Author(s): Hans Andersen | Ronald Kempen • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Sociology - GeneralThis title was first published in 2001. This volume is a result of the action COST A9 "Civitas - Transformation of Europe...

• Author(s): MENNEL • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • Subject: Earth-Science/Environment • BISAC: Human Geography The second edition of Cities and Cinema provides an updated survey of films about cities from their...

• Author(s): Dr Pam Hazelton • Publisher: CABI • Publisher Imprint: CABI Publishing • Subject: Earth-Science/Environment • BISAC: Agriculture - Agronomy - Soil ScienceUnderstanding Soils in Urban Environments is a concise book explaining how urba...

• Author(s): Alessandra Michelangeli • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Development - Business DevelopmentIn the last few decades, urban quality of life has received increasing interest from policy makers wh...

• Author(s): Smriti Singh • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge Chapman & Hall • BISAC: Sociology - UrbanThis book critically examines the new middle class and the emergence of neo-urban spaces in India within the c...

• Author(s): John A. Agnew | John Mercer | David E. Sopher • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: ReferenceRoutledge Library Editions: The City reprints some of the most important works in urban studies publ...

• Publisher: WIJCK.B.V • Publisher Imprint: WIJCK.B.VEmbark on an inspiring journey with Urbanist: The World''s Most Iconic Cities & Buildings. This illustrated book by WIJCK. delves into 25 world-renowned cities, featuring intricately craft...

• Author(s): Mari Paz Balibrea • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: Sociology - UrbanFrom the Back CoverThis book argues the crucial role of culture and cultural policies in defining the notion of urban citizensh...