Search results for “[subject: urban]”

• Author(s): Graciela H. Tonon • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Earth Sciences - GeographyThis book proposes an interdisciplinary and multidimensional perspective of urban inequalities based on a range of theoretical, ...

• Author(s): Kari Spencer • Publisher: 5m Publishing • Publisher Imprint: 5m Publishing • BISAC: Agriculture - GeneralFarming in cities and small spaces is becoming increasingly popular, but it has its challenges. City Farming addresses the probl...

• Author(s): Michele Lancione • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: ReferenceGlobal Urbanism is an experimental examination of how urban scholars and activists make sense of, and act upon, the foundational rela...

• Author(s): Lawrence M. Schell | Malcolm Smith | Alan Bilsborough • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: Health Risk AssessmentThis volume looks at the relationship between specific aspec...

• Author(s): Frank Jones • Publisher: University of Toronto Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Toronto Press • BISAC: Sociology - UrbanThe physical segregation of social groups in industrial cities has long attracted the attention of social...

• Author(s): Patricia Aelbrecht • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Urban & Land Use PlanningSocial cohesion is often perceived as being under threat from the increasing cultural and economic differences ...

• Author(s): David Bell • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Human GeographyUntil now, much research in the field of urban planning and change has focused on the economic, political, social, cultural and s...

• Author(s): Shaw Annapurna • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: Economics • BISAC: Public Policy - Economic PolicyCapturing the immense importance of India's cities to its economy, polity, and society, this short intr...

• Author(s): Michael Love | Julia Guernsey • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: ArchaeologyUrbanization is a phenomenon that brings into focus a range of topics of broad interest to scho...

• Author(s): Evyatar Erell • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Sustainability & Green DesignThe quality of life of millions of people living in cities could be improved if the form of the city were to evo...

• Author(s): Alistair Fraser • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA • BISAC: CriminologyAs the youth gang phenomenon becomes an important and sensitive public issue, communities from Los Angele...

• Author(s): Michel S. Laguerre • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: Urban & Land Use PlanningIn this book, Michel S.Laguerre argues that there exists an informal city located just beneath and in the intersti...

• Author(s): Ministry Of Housing And Urban Poverty • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: Earth-Science/Environment • BISAC: Public Policy - City Planning & Urban DevelopmentAbout the Book A flagship document of the ...

• Author(s): Hongshan Yang • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Public Policy - City Planning & Urban DevelopmentThis book offers readers a comprehensive introduction to the functions of the government in contemporary ...

• Author(s): Ruth H. Finnegan • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialHow do we picture urban life and formulate our experience of it? Tales of the City ...

• Author(s): Henrik Reeh | John Irons • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Urban & Land Use PlanningVariations on the theme of the ornament in Kracauer's urban writings, suggesting ways in which the subjective can re...

• Author(s): Peter Roberts • Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Sage Publications Ltd • BISAC: Public Policy - City Planning & Urban DevelopmentIn this new edition of the standard text on the theory and practice of urban re...

• Author(s): Michael Pacione • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Human GeographyA substantial proportion of the world's population now live in towns and cities, so it is not surprising that urban geography has emerged a...

• Author(s): David R. Diaz • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Public Policy - City Planning & Urban DevelopmentThis, the first book on Latinos in America from an urban planning/policy perspective, covers the last c...

• Author(s): Duncan McLaren | Julian Agyeman • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • Subject: Earth-Science/EnvironmentHow cities can build on the "sharing economy" and smart technology to deliver a "sharing paradigm" that support...

• Author(s): Darko Radovic • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: LandscapeThere is need for change in our currently unsustainable cities. Carefully outlining paths towards better, sustainable ways of urban living, this bo...

• 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): Robert A. McCleery • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Life Sciences - EcologyFrom the Back CoverIn the past, wildlife living in urban areas was ignored by wildlife professionalsand urban planners because cit...

• Author(s): William B. Meyer • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • Subject: Earth-Science/Environment • BISAC: Environmental Science (see also Chemistry - Environmental)An analysis that offers evidence to challenge the widely h...

• Author(s): Antonios M. Karvounis • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Sociology - UrbanThis book examines the theoretical, historical, and practical dimensions of how a city operates internationally. It explores the va...

• Author(s): Robert C. Brears • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: Wiley • Subject: Earth-Science/Environment • BISAC: Environmental - Water SupplyAbout the Book In the 21st Century, the world will see an unprecedented migration of people movi...

• Author(s): Pineo • Publisher: Macmillan • Publisher Imprint: Palgr Mac • Subject: Earth-Science/Environment • BISAC: Sociology - UrbanThe globally distributed health impacts of environmental degradation and widening inequalities require a funda...

• Author(s): Georgiou | Myria • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: Polity Pr • Subject: Sociology and Anthropology • BISAC: Media StudiesHow is life in digital cities changing what it means to be human?In this perceptive book, Myria Georgiou s...

• Author(s): Debora Anelli | Pierluigi Morano | Marco Locurcio • Publisher: Mdpi AG • Publisher Imprint: Mdpi AG • BISAC: GeneralThe COVID-19 health emergency after the occurrence of the subprime crisis of 2007 has highlighted the economic, socia...

• Author(s): Peter Saunders • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Sociology - GeneralFirst published in 1986. For this new edition of Social Theory and the Urban Question Peter Saunders has updated the text to take accoun...

• 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): Caponio Tiziana • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • Subject: Politics and Current Affairs • BISAC: Public Policy - City Planning & Urban DevelopmentHow have immigration and diversity shaped urban li...

• Author(s): Katie Barclay • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Social HistoryThis book brings together a vibrant interdisciplinary mix of scholars - from anthropology, architecture, art history, film studies,...

• Author(s): Robert Thomas • Publisher: Kruger Brentt Publisher Uk. Ltd. • Publisher Imprint: Kruger Brentt Publisher Uk. Ltd. • BISAC: Earth Sciences - GeographyIt provides an up-to-date account of planning, reflecting throughout on the need for...

• Author(s): Khalid Madhi • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Public Policy - City Planning & Urban DevelopmentThe book focuses on the processes of urban restructuring, power relations and the political e...

• Author(s): Un-Habitat • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Public Policy - City Planning & Urban DevelopmentThe world's urban population now exceeds the world's rural population. What does this mean for ...