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• Author(s): Howard P. Chudacoff • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Pearson • BISAC: United States - GeneralThis interesting and informative book shows how different groups of urban residents with different social, economic, a...

• Author(s): Mary Anne Alabanza Akers • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: GeneralUrban Environments and Health in the Philippines offers a retrospective view of women street vendors and their urban environmen...

• Author(s): Max Lambert | Christopher Schell • Publisher: Oxford University Press • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press • BISAC: Life Sciences - EcologyThis advanced textbook moves beyond a basic scientific comprehension of urban ecosyste...

• Author(s): Bryan S. Turner | Hannah Wolf | Gregor Fitzi • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Sociology - GeneralAt times of triumphant neo-liberalism cities increasingly become objects of financial speculation. Formall...

• Author(s): Jonathan Darling | Helen F. Wilson • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Sociology - UrbanEncountering the City provides a new and sustained engagement with the concept of encounter. Drawing on cutting-edge t...

• Author(s): Antoine Picon • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: Wiley • BISAC: Urban & Land Use PlanningAs cities compete globally, the Smart City has been touted as the important new strategic driver for regeneration and growth. Smart Cit...

• Author(s): Jeffrey G. Williamson • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: Sociology - UrbanCoping With City Growth assesses British performance with city growth during the First Industrial...

• Author(s): Antonella Contin • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: LandscapeFrom the Back CoverThis edited volume covers many aspects of the Metropolitan Landscapes. Solutions are needed to meet the demand of the citizens ...

• Author(s): David C. Thorns • Publisher: Palgrave • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave • BISAC: Sociology - UrbanThe aim of the book is to examine the transformation of the city in the late 20th century and explore the ways in which city life is struct...

• 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): Wowo Ding | Arie Graafland | Andong Lu • Publisher: Nai010 Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Nai010 Publishers • BISAC: Urban & Land Use PlanningHalf of the world's population currently lives in cities, and within two decades, this...

• Author(s): Massimo Sargolini • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Public Policy - City Planning & Urban DevelopmentFrom the Back CoverToday, more than 50% of the world's population lives in cities and is subject to p...

• Author(s): Donald McNeill • Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Sage Publications Ltd • BISAC: Human GeographyA cutting edge examination of urban theory as related to the realities of social and economic change in today's glob...

• Author(s): Shao Yisheng • Publisher: Paths Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Paths Publishing GroupSince 2002 the United Nations Development Programme has been running ‘City Planning, Management and Development in the 21st Century’ across C...

• Author(s): John Allen | Doreen Massey | Steve Pile • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Sociology - UrbanFor the first time in history, half of the worlds population is living in mega-cities. Never before have we confr...

• Author(s): Mark Baldassare • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Sociology - Urban-- Richard Evans Schultes, Botanical Museum of Harvard University

• Author(s): Michael Ian Borer | Lyn H. Lofland | Rhys H. Williams • Publisher: University Press of America • Publisher Imprint: University Press of America • BISAC: Sociology - UrbanCities play an important role in contemporary American culture ...

• Author(s): Christopher Schliephake • Publisher: Lexington Books • Publisher Imprint: Lexington Books • BISAC: EcologyThis book provides a reflection on urban ecocriticism, a subject that has yet to be fully researched and appreciated within the...

• Author(s): Kristin Stapleton • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: World - GeneralKristin Stapleton analyzes how concepts and practices associated with the 'modern city' were received, ...

• Author(s): Ray Forrest | Julie Ren | Bart Wissink • Publisher: Bristol University Press • Publisher Imprint: Bristol University Press • BISAC: Sociology - UrbanIn 1915 Robert Park penned his seminal paper "The City: Suggestions for the investig...

• Author(s): Patrice Petro | Linda Krause • Publisher: Rutgers University Press • Publisher Imprint: Rutgers University Press • BISAC: Sociology - UrbanIn Global Cities, scholars from an impressive array of disciplines critique the growing body o...

• Author(s): Rob Kitchin | Tracey P. Lauriault | Gavin Mcardle • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Economics - GeneralThere is a long history of governments, businesses, science and citizens producing and utilizing data...

• Author(s): Joong-Hwan Oh • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: Sociology - UrbanFrom the Back Cover"In A Public Encounter in New York City Joong-Hwan Oh provides readers with an innovative excursion into urban e...

• Author(s): Tomitsch, Martin • Publisher: Jovis • Publisher Imprint: Jovis • Subject: Architecture & Interior Designs • BISAC: Urban & Land Use PlanningMore than half of the world's population is now living in cities, and this number is ...

• Author(s): Jill Steward • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Sociology - UrbanThe essays in this volume take an interdisciplinary and wide ranging look at urban history through the five senses of sight, soun...

• Author(s): Quill R. Kukla • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA • BISAC: PoliticalCity Living is about urban spaces, urban dwellers, and how these spaces and people make, shape, and change o...

• Author(s): Jens Kaae Fisker | Letizia Chiappini | Lee Pugalis • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Development - Economic DevelopmentAlternative urban spaces across civic, private, and public spheres emerge in response...

• 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): Ernest W. Burgess • Publisher: Tradd Street Press • Publisher Imprint: Tradd Street Press • BISAC: Sociology - Urban"The Urban Community" is a foundational text in the field of urban sociology, featuring contributions and editorial d...

• Author(s): Emily Talen • Publisher: Oxford University Press • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press • BISAC: Public Policy - City Planning & Urban DevelopmentCities come in all shapes and sizes, with different patterns and forms. Stree...

• Author(s): Pile Steve • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Taylor & Francis Ltd • BISAC: Sociology - UrbanFeaturing a fantastic line up of contributors, The City A-Z introduces students to a refreshingly new way of thi...

• Author(s): Rebecca Biron • Publisher: Duke University Press • Publisher Imprint: Duke University Press • BISAC: American - GeneralIn City/Art, anthropologists, literary and cultural critics, a philosopher, and an architect explore how creative ...

• Author(s): Weifeng Li • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Human GeographyFrom the Back CoverThis book provides insights and discusses human-centered urban design and placemaking, human activities and urban mobility in C...

• Author(s): Charles R. Wolfe • Publisher: Island Press • Publisher Imprint: Island Press • BISAC: Urban & Land Use PlanningHow do you create inviting and authentic urban environments where people feel at home? Countless community engagement ...

• Author(s): Ying Long • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Public Policy - City Planning & Urban DevelopmentFrom the Back CoverThis book offers an essential introduction to the phenomenon of shrinking cities in China,...

• Author(s): Richard V. Crume • Publisher: Greenwood • Publisher Imprint: Greenwood • BISAC: Public HealthLiving in an urban environment can have a major influence--both positive and negative--on one's physical health and mental well-being. This ...