Search results for “[Subject: urban]”

• Author(s): Bell Sarah • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Urban & Land Use PlanningThe provision of a safe and reliable water supply is a major challenge for the world's growing urban populations. This book invest...

• Author(s): Fanis Grammenos | G. R. Lovegrove • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General Of all the elements of a neighborhood, the pattern of streets and their infrastructure is the most e...

• Author(s): Chayma Hamdani • Publisher: Clanrye International • Publisher Imprint: Clanrye International • BISAC: Urban & Land Use PlanningThe objective of this book is to give a general view of the different areas of urban development and i...

• Author(s): Suptendu P. Biswas • Publisher: Sage Publications • Publisher Imprint: SAGE India • Subject: Politics and Current Affairs • BISAC: Public Policy - City Planning & Urban DevelopmentA rare piece of research on the game of urban ser...

• Author(s): Eric Fong | Brent Berry • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: Polity Pr • Subject: Sociology and Anthropology • BISAC: Emigration & ImmigrationAbout the Book The majority of immigrants settle in cities when they arrive, and few...

• Author(s): Hilal Alkan • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Earth Sciences - GeographyThis book examines the formation of urban neighbourhoods in the Middle East, Africa, and South Asia. It departs from 'nei...

• Author(s): David H. Fleming • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: Film - GeneralThis book dives into the mise-en-scène of contemporary China to explore the "becoming cinema" of Chinese cities, societies, and su...

• Author(s): Davarian L. Baldwin • Publisher: MixBZ • Publisher Imprint: MixBZ • Subject: Sociology and Anthropology • BISAC: Sociology - UrbanAcross America, universities have become big businesses--and our cities their company towns. But there ...

• Author(s): Mary Dellenbaugh-Losse | Nils-Eyk Zimmermann | Nicole de Vries • Publisher: Mary Dellenbaugh-Losse • Publisher Imprint: Mary Dellenbaugh-Losse • BISAC: Public Policy - City Planning & Urban DevelopmentWhich ingredients of a coope...

• Author(s): Nico Larco • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Urban & Land Use PlanningThe Sustainable Urban Design Handbook gathers the best sustainability practices and latest research from the fields of ...

• Author(s): Vinod Kumar • Publisher: Springer Verlag • Publisher Imprint: Springer • Subject: Earth-Science/Environment • BISAC: Public Policy - City Planning & Urban DevelopmentFrom the Back CoverThis book discusses the design and practice ...

• Author(s): Kristian Ruming • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Earth Sciences - GeographyDrawing together leading urban academics, this book provides the first detailed and cohesive exploration of contempor...

• Author(s): Julian Hart • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Sociology - UrbanChallenging existing assumptions about how our towns and cities are structured and formed, Julian Hart provides an engaging and th...

• Author(s): Mohan • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: CRC Press • Subject: Engineering • BISAC: Civil - TransportationAbout the Book As cities become increasingly congested, current transport patterns are unsustainable: heavy ...

• Author(s): Nirantar Trust • Publisher: Sage Publications • Publisher Imprint: SAGEYODAPress • Subject: Sociology and Anthropology • BISAC: Sociology - GeneralRestless in the City gives us access to the unfiltered voices of young people from urb...

• Author(s): Stefan Krätke | Kathrin Wildner | Stephan Lanz • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • Subject: Sociology and Anthropology • BISAC: Human GeographyThis volume gathers a global array of scholars from a range...

• Author(s): Duncan McDuie-Ra • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: Human GeographyFrom the Back Cover'In crisp, engaging prose, McDuie-Ra recognizes the rich resource that skateboarding video provides for tracing...

• Author(s): Ken Tamminga • Publisher: Mdpi AG • Publisher Imprint: Mdpi AG • BISAC: GeneralStreets are an integral part of every city on Earth. They channel the people, vehicles, and materials that help make urban life what it is. They are condu...

• Author(s): Smriti Singh • Publisher: Routledge India • Publisher Imprint: Routledge India • BISAC: Sociology - UrbanThis book critically examines the new middle class and the emergence of neo-urban spaces in India within the context of rapid ur...

• Author(s): Mora Luca • Publisher: Elsevier • Publisher Imprint: Elsevier • Subject: Engineering • BISAC: Networking - GeneralUntangling Smart Cities: From Utopian Dreams to Innovation Systems for a Technology-Enabled Urban Sustainability helps ...

• Author(s): Graham Squires • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Construction - GeneralThe importance of the built environment to environmental protection is well established, with strict environmental regulat...

• Author(s): Malcolm Miles • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Sociology - UrbanThis book offers a critical introduction to the relation between cities and literature (fiction, poetry and literary criticism) from the la...

• Author(s): Dora Francese • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Earth Sciences - GeographyThis book explores the role of technology in ecological urban design and regeneration. Part I provides theoretical and methodologi...

• Author(s): David Walters | Linda Brown • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Urban & Land Use PlanningWell-grounded in the history and theory of Anglo-American urbanism, this illustrated textbook sets out objectives...

• Author(s): Kathleen Sheldon • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Women's StudiesThis book brings women into the center of the urban landscape, using case studies to illustrate their contributions to family, ...

• Author(s): Alexander R. Thomas | Gregory M. Fulkerson • Publisher: Lexington Books • Publisher Imprint: Lexington Books • BISAC: Anthropology - GeneralCity and Country traces the evolution of urban-rural systems 7,000 years ago into the modern ...

• Author(s): Elizabeth Strom | John H. Mollenkopf • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Sociology - UrbanThis Reader provides an essential resource for students of urban politics by drawing together important but widely d...

• Author(s): Eric Joseph Urban • Publisher: Independently Published • Publisher Imprint: Independently Published • BISAC: Subjects & Themes - Human FigureAnother look at poems through the authors creative mindset.

• Author(s): Darshini Mahadevia And Sandip Sarkar | Others • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: Economics • BISAC: Development - Economic DevelopmentNearly all urban data used for the purpose of economic analysis, urba...

• Author(s): Simon Bell • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Urban & CommunityAlthough urban allotment gardening dates back to the nineteenth century, it has recently undergone a renaissance of interest an...

• Author(s): Jonathan Rokem • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Earth Sciences - GeographyIn the last decade a new wave of urban research has emerged, putting comparative perspectives back on the urban studie...

• Author(s): Socrates Stratis • Publisher: Jovis Verlag • Publisher Imprint: Jovis Verlag • BISAC: CriticismMit Hilfe der Latour'schen Akteur-Netzwerk-Theorie verfolgt Urban Design on the Move die transformative Reise eines jungen Planungsteams b...

• Author(s): Ritajyoti Bandyopadhyay • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: Political EconomyThe book studies the social production of motion in a capitalist urban context. In the city of ...

• Author(s): Paola Favaro | Konstantina Vasilakopoulou • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Urban & Land Use PlanningUrban Heat Mitigation Strategies: An Architecture Perspective explores heat mitigation strategies i...

• Author(s): Pengfei Ni • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Urban & RegionalFrom the Back CoverThis report presents the outcomes of a survey project of the National Academy of Economic Strategy of the Chinese Academy ...

• Author(s): Ali Madanipour • Publisher: Palgrave • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave • BISAC: Design, Drafting, Drawing & PresentationPlacing the practice of urban design in its political, economic and cultural context, this book sets out a clear ...