Search results for “[subject: urban]”

• 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): Gary Gumpert | Giorgia Aiello | Matteo Tarantino • Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi • Publisher Imprint: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi • BISAC: Sociology - UrbanHow human meanings, practices an...

• 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 ...

• Author(s): Susan Parham • Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic • Publisher Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic • BISAC: Agriculture & Food (see also Political Science - Public PoliCities are home to over fifty percent of the world's population, a figure...

• Author(s): Jens Martin Gurr • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: GeneralGuided by the multifaceted relations between city and text, Charting Literary Urban Studies: Texts as Models of and for the City attemp...

• Author(s): Tanya O'Sullivan • Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Pittsburgh Press • BISAC: HistoryDublin at the turn of the twentieth century was both the second city of the British Empire and the soon-...

• Author(s): Shirley Jordan • Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic • Publisher Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic • BISAC: CriticismCities Interrupted explores the potential of visual culture - in the form of photography, film, performance, architecture, urb...

• 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): Rob Imrie • Publisher: Bristol University Press • Publisher Imprint: Bristol University Press • BISAC: Housing & Urban DevelopmentThis accessible critique of urban construction reimagines city development and life in an era of un...

• Author(s): P. Tiwari • Publisher: Macmillan • Publisher Imprint: Palgr Mac • Subject: Sociology and Anthropology • BISAC: Economics - TheoryThrough a close examination of India's policies, economic system, social systems and politics, this stud...

• Author(s): Andy Merrifield • Publisher: Pluto Press (UK) • Publisher Imprint: Pluto Press (UK) • BISAC: GeneralThe New Urban Question is an exuberant and illuminating adventure through our current global urban condition, tracing the connections...

• Author(s): Nicole Gurran • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: LandscapeDisruptive Urbanism examines how different forms and modes of the so called "sharing economy" are manifesting in cities and regions thro...

• Author(s): Douglas Kelbaugh • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Urban & Land Use PlanningCities are one of the most significant contributors to global climate change. The rapid speed at which urban cent...

• Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Public Policy - City Planning & Urban DevelopmentAmid a vast influx of rural migrants into urban areas, China has allowed cities wide latitude in ...

• Author(s): David Clark • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: RoutledgeThis book, first published in 1982, addressed the need for a fresh and comprehensive guide to the rapidly expanding area of urban geography. Drawing on examp...

• Author(s): Kevin Archer • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Earth Sciences - GeographyThe City: The Basics provides a brief yet compelling overview of the study of cities and city life. The book draws on a ...

• Author(s): Carl Nightingale • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: World - GeneralThis Element offers seven propositions toward a theory of 'Our Urban Planet' that is useful to global ur...

• Author(s): Liliana Gomez • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC • Publisher Imprint: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC • BISAC: Urban & Land Use PlanningThis book reflects the way in which the city interacts with the sacred in all its many guises, ...

• Author(s): Nicolas Whybrow • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Dance - GeneralUrban Sensographies views the human body as a highly nuanced sensor to explore how various performance-based methods can be impl...

• Author(s): Angela Storey | Megan Sheehan | Jessica Bodoh-Creed • Publisher: Lexington Books • Publisher Imprint: Lexington Books • BISAC: Sociology - UrbanThe Everyday Life of Urban Inequality explores urban inequality through detailed case stu...

• Author(s): Arun Jain • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: LandscapeThis book argues that the first step towards adaptive and resilient futures is making a fuller spectrum of the complexity of cities comprehensible to a...

• Author(s): Brian Robson • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Human GeographyThis book, first published in 1987, addresses questions which have gained new importance in the light of the continuing erosion of the economi...

• Author(s): Sarah Barns • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: Human GeographyFrom the Back CoverThis book reflects on what it means to live as urban citizens in a world increasingly shaped by the business and org...

• Author(s): Dianne Smith • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: ReferenceThere are many micro-habitats in built up areas, often subject to strong environmental pressures such as atmospheric and water pollution, frequent d...

• Author(s): Lakshmi Sivaramakrishnan | Sumana Bandyopdhyay • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge India • Subject: Earth-Science/EnvironmentThis volume discusses the patterns and trends of urbanization in West Bengal - ...

• Author(s): Andrés Luque-Ayala | Jonathan Silver • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: EnergyProviding a global overview of experiments around the transformation of cities' electricity networks and the social struggles a...

• Author(s): Daksh Jain • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge India • Subject: Earth-Science/EnvironmentCulture, Spaces and People: Urban Dynamics in Contemporary India explores the complex interplay between cultural pr...

• 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): Bernard Lepetit | Lepetit Bernard | Peter Clark • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: Sociology - UrbanHighly acclaimed in the original French edition, this landmark urban st...

• Author(s): Anne Lorentzen • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Sociology - UrbanThe volume highlights ongoing changes in the political economy of small cities in relation to the field of culture and leisure....

• Publisher: Bristol University Press • Publisher Imprint: Bristol University Press • BISAC: Human GeographySince the earliest days of civilization, streets have played an important role in shaping society - but what is a street? Is it a living ...

• Author(s): Gregory D. Andranovich • Publisher: Sage Publications • Publisher Imprint: Sage Publications • BISAC: ResearchWhat is the current spatial form and structure of our urban environment, and how can we study the factors and forces that a...

• Author(s): Christopher Grant Kirwan | Fu Zhiyong • Publisher: Elsevier • Publisher Imprint: Elsevier • Subject: Computer Science and Information Technology • BISAC: Intelligence (Ai) & SemanticsSmart Cities and Artificial Intelligence: Conv...

• Author(s): Philippe Hamman | Nadine Roudil • Publisher: de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter • BISAC: Power Resources - GeneralThe Future of Cities and Energies in Western Europe explores a variety of theoretical and empirical approaches ...

• Author(s): Wayne K. D. Davies • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Human GeographyFrom the Back CoverThis book reviews a series of new urban ideas or themes designed to help make cities more liveable, sustainable, safe a...