Search results for “[Subject: urban]”

• Author(s): Javier Auyero | Philippe Bourgois | Nancy Scheper-Hughes • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA • BISAC: Sociology - UrbanIn the Americas, debates around issues of citizen's public...

• Author(s): Arundhati Virmani • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Public Policy - City Planning & Urban DevelopmentTo what extent do urban dwellers relate to their lived and imagined environment through ...

• Author(s): Mat Santamouris • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Urban & Land Use PlanningThis book provides a review of environmental and energy research with respect to urban building projects. It descr...

• Author(s): Elena Valdez • Publisher: Purdue University Press • Publisher Imprint: Purdue University Press • BISAC: Caribbean & Latin AmericanLas ciudades del deseo explores the representations of gender, sexuality, and urban space in contem...

• Author(s): Richard J. Arnott • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: Wiley-Blac • Subject: Economics • BISAC: Economics - MicroeconomicsA Companion to Urban Economics provides a state-of-the-art overview of this field, communicating its intelle...

• Author(s): Jun Wu • Publisher: Mdpi AG • Publisher Imprint: Mdpi AG • BISAC: Computer ScienceAs urban landscapes become increasingly congested, the exploration and utilization of underground spaces offer transformative solutions for sustainable...

• Author(s): Mike Savage • Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: Sociology - UrbanThe long-awaited second edition of this highly successful text on urban sociology retains the distinctive character and foc...

• Author(s): Sonia Bookman • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Sociology - UrbanFrom commercial retail environments to branded urban villages, brands are now a salient feature of contemporary cityscapes and a...

• Author(s): David Driskell • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Public Policy - City Planning & Urban DevelopmentCreating Better Cities with Children and Youth is a practical manual on how to conceptualize, structur...

• Author(s): Gregor H. Mews • Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: Human GeographyAs our larger life-giving systems that sustain livelihoods continue to erode at an unprecedented rate, and urban complexit...

• Author(s): Konstantinos Avramidis • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Sociology - UrbanGraffiti and street art images are ubiquitous, and they enjoy a very special place in collective imaginary due to their...

• Author(s): Nadia Alaily-Mattar | Alain Thierstein • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Design, Drafting, Drawing & PresentationUrban Transformations through Exceptional Architecture focusses on the nexus between ar...

• Author(s): Claudia Yamu • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Design, Drafting, Drawing & PresentationThe Virtual and the Real in Planning and Urban Design: Perspectives, Practices and Applications explor...

• Author(s): Frank Bruinsma | Eric Pels | Hugo Priemus • Publisher: Physica-Verlag • Publisher Imprint: Physica-Verlag • BISAC: Urban & RegionalThe revitalisation of railway station areas has been a hot issue in policy making in Europe in rec...

• Author(s): Chester Hartman • Publisher: University of California Press • Publisher Imprint: University of California Press • BISAC: GeneralSan Francisco is perhaps the most exhilarating of all American cities--its beauty, cultural and political...

• 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): Fabricio Chicca • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • Subject: Earth-Science/Environment • BISAC: EcologyThe Environmental Impact of Cities assesses the environmental impact that comes from cities and the...

• Author(s): Thomas Ermacora • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Urban & Land Use PlanningRecoded City examines alternative urban design, planning and architecture for the other 90%: namely the practice o...

• Author(s): Richard Hu • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Urban & Land Use PlanningThis book tackles the emerging smart urbanism to advance a new way of urban thinking and to explore a new design approa...

• Author(s): Kristene Unsworth • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Library & Information Science - GeneralInformation shapes urban spaces in ways that most people rarely stop to consider. From data-driven...

• Author(s): Robert W. Marans • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Urban & Land Use PlanningFrom the Back CoverThis volume synthesizes past and current, international research on the quality of urban life. It emphasize...

• 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): Dilip Nandwani • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Life Sciences - EcologyFrom the Back CoverThis book provides comprehensive information on the rapidly developing field of urban horticulture for sustainable ...

• Author(s): Dilip Nandwani • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Life Sciences - EcologyFrom the Back CoverThis book provides comprehensive information on the rapidly developing field of urban horticulture for sustainable ...

• Author(s): Paul M. Hohenberg | Lynn Hollen Lees • Publisher: Harvard University Press • Publisher Imprint: Harvard University Press • BISAC: Sociology - UrbanEurope became a land of cities during the last millennium. The story told in this book...

• Author(s): Joong-Hwan Oh • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: Sociology - UrbanThis book examines the essence of a particular personal experience within a New York City public space. The principal approach, bot...

• Author(s): Anna Catalani | Zeinab Nour | Antonella Versaci • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Human Resources & Personnel ManagementEvery city has its unique and valuable identity, this identity is revealed throu...

• Author(s): Juan Mullerat • Publisher: Plusurbia Press • Publisher Imprint: Plusurbia Press • BISAC: AlmanacsDiscover the Events That Built the Cities We Live In.The Urban Calendar: 365 Days That Shaped the Urban World is a daily urban almanac t...

• Author(s): Bill Freund • Publisher: Cambridge UP • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge • Subject: History • BISAC: Africa - GeneralThis book is comprehensive both in terms of time coverage, from before the Pharaohs to the present moment and in that it...

• Author(s): Alexandre Apsan Frediani • Publisher: Practical Action Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Practical Action Publishing • BISAC: Developing & Emerging CountriesFor the last 30 years, the idea of 'cities as engines of growth' has playe...

• Author(s): Shirley Peter | J. C. Moughtin • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Urban & Land Use PlanningIn Green Dimensions, Cliff Moughtin relates sustainable development and green design to the realm of urban des...

• Author(s): Concha Francisco • Publisher: Elsevier • Publisher Imprint: Acad Pr • Subject: Economics • BISAC: Urban & RegionalMicroeconomic Modeling in Urban Science proposes an interdisciplinary framework for the analysis of urban systems. ...

• Author(s): Su Lin Lewis • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: Asia - Southeast AsiaIn the 1920s and 1930s, the port-cities of Southeast Asia were staging grounds for diverse groups of o...

• Author(s): Daniel Wandera C. Naku • Publisher: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing • Publisher Imprint: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing • BISAC: Earth Sciences - GeographyThis book views transition to sustainable urbanism as a new urban agenda for ...

• Author(s): Jörg Dürrschmidt • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Sociology - UrbanRejecting simplifying notions of globalisation as a macro-economic force, this book provides a grounded picture of the various ways in w...

• 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...