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• Author(s): Eunice Mei Feng Seng • Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company • Publisher Imprint: World Scientific Publishing Company • BISAC: Sustainability & Green DesignThis vivid book is an inquiry into the stagnation between the de...

• Author(s): Janelle Plummer • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Earthscan • Subject: Business Management • BISAC: Sociology - UrbanAbout the Book Despite the increasing occurrence of policies aimed at mobilising the financial ...

• Author(s): Katrin Bohn • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: LandscapeWith cities becoming so vast, so entangled and perhaps so critically unsustainable, there is an urgent need for clarity around the subject...

• Author(s): Sonja Lakic • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: Sociology - UrbanBuilding on the notion of everyday(ness) as a conceptual tool and a study object in urban research, this book presents 10 case-studie...

• Author(s): Michael A. Von Hausen • Publisher: iUniverse • Publisher Imprint: iUniverse • BISAC: Design, Drafting, Drawing & PresentationAdvance Praise for Dynamic Urban Design "Finally, in one book a complete guide to the theory, practice, ...

• Author(s): René Kreichauf • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Earth Sciences - GeographyThis edited volume draws attention to the interlinked yet understudied relationship between the role of cities in deal...

• Author(s): Andrew Karvonen • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Public Policy - City Planning & Urban DevelopmentThe era of the smart city has arrived. Only a decade ago, the promise of optimising urban ...

• Author(s): Boehm | Lisa Krissoff • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • Subject: History • BISAC: United States - GeneralIn this second edition, America's Urban History now includes contemporary analysis of race, imm...

• Author(s): Scott Baum • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: System TheoryFrom the Back CoverThis book highlights major quantitative and qualitative methods and approaches used in the field of urban analysis. The respectiv...

• Author(s): Kirsten M. Parris • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: Blackwell • Subject: Earth-Science/Environment • BISAC: Life Sciences - Zoology - GeneralFrom the Back CoverUrban environments are expanding globally as the number and proport...

• Author(s): Ramachandran M. • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: History • BISAC: Railroads - GeneralThe metro rail system introduced in major Indian cities in recent years has resulted in significant improvements in ...

• Author(s): Paul Chatterton | Robert Hollands • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Life Stages - AdolescenceIn many western cities, urban nightlife is experiencing a 'McDonaldisation', where big branded names are taking...

• Author(s): Institut Für Städtebau | Aglaée Degros | Eva Schwab • Publisher: Jovis Verlag • Publisher Imprint: Jovis Verlag • BISAC: Urban & Land Use PlanningWas, wenn die unbebaute Umwelt im Städtebau an erster Stelle stünde, anstatt nur mi...

• Author(s): Molly Slavin • Publisher: University of Virginia Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Virginia Press • BISAC: Subjects & Themes - GeneralWhy does crime feature at the center of so many postcolonial novels set in major cities?...

• Author(s): Conrad Kickert | Camden Miller | Robert Shibley • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: LandscapeThis book focuses on the importance of place and the multifaceted process of placemaking to the creation of durab...

• Author(s): Weijun Gao • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Life Sciences - EcologyFrom the Back CoverThis book provides new information to understand the relationship between urban development and environmental change to...

• Author(s): Stephan Thernstrom | Richard Sennett • Publisher: Yale University Press • Publisher Imprint: Yale University Press • BISAC: GeneralResearch on the frontiers of urban studies was the subject of a conference on nineteenth-century citie...

• Author(s): Michael Edema Leary-Owhin • Publisher: Policy Press • Publisher Imprint: Policy Press • BISAC: Sociology - UrbanThe ideas of Henri Lefebvre on the production of urban space have become increasingly useful for understanding worldwide ...

• Author(s): Joan Busquets | Dingliang Yang | Michael Keller • Publisher: Oro Editions • Publisher Imprint: Oro Editions • BISAC: Buildings - Public, Commercial & IndustrialExpos as Great Urban Projects, Present and Future is the outcome of a...

• Author(s): Francis Vergara Perucich • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Earth Sciences - GeographyThis book discusses the status of urban design as a disciplinary field and as a practice under the current a...

• Author(s): Peter Cookson Smith • Publisher: Oro Editions • Publisher Imprint: Oro Editions • BISAC: CriticismThe book examines the contemporary Asian city through the prism of urban design in assimilating new and established drivers of growth. ...

• Author(s): Peter M. J. Pol • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Human GeographyFirst published in 2006, this book examines the role of security in urban development and its local policy implications. It analyses how ac...

• Author(s): Choplin | Armelle • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: Wiley • Subject: Earth-Science/Environment • BISAC: Sociology - UrbanFrom the Back Cover"Armelle Choplin's Concrete City weaves a novel and engaging analysis of urbanization b...

• 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): Guerrieri Pilar Maria • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: Sociology and Anthropology • BISAC: History - GeneralAbout the Book This work is about the city of Delhi and its architectural and urban design st...

• Author(s): William Siew Wai Lim • Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company • Publisher Imprint: World Scientific Publishing Company • BISAC: Urban & Land Use PlanningOver the past few decades, rapid urbanisation has threatened to erod...

• Author(s): Liam Wong • Publisher: MIXGD • Publisher Imprint: MIXGD • Subject: Photography • BISAC: Individual Photographers - MonographsNo matter how different or far apart, cities at night share particular features: neon lights and lonely figu...

• 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): David Halle | Andrew A. Beveridge • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA • BISAC: Sociology - UrbanThis book provides in-depth comparative studies of the two largest cities and met...

• Author(s): Arlex Sanchez Torres • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: CRC Press • Subject: Earth-Science/Environment • BISAC: Environmental Science (see also Chemistry - Environmental)About the Book Many cities around the world...

• Author(s): Sumana Bandyopadhyay • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge India • Subject: Sociology and AnthropologyThis book explores the spatial characteristics of the city of Kolkata in India and the socio-political a...

• Author(s): Phil Hubbard • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Sociology - UrbanFrom the hotspots of commercial sex through to the suburbia of twitching curtains, urban life and sexualities appear inseparable....

• Author(s): Leandro Medrano • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: CriticismThis book explores new architectural and design perspectives on the contemporary urban condition. While architects and urban designers...

• Author(s): Malcolm Miles • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Human GeographyUrban Avant-Gardes presents original research on a range of recent contemporary practices in and between art and architecture giving perspect...

• Author(s): The Late David W. Drakakis-Smith • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Development - Economic DevelopmentThis imformative book is a thoroughly revised and updated edition of the classic introduction to urbani...

• Author(s): Renard Teipelke • Publisher: Grin Verlag • Publisher Imprint: Grin Verlag • BISAC: Earth Sciences - GeographyEssay from the year 2012 in the subject Geography / Earth Science - Economic Geography, grade: 1,0, University of Frankfurt ...