Search results for “[subject: urban]”

• 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...

• Author(s): Jennifer Robinson • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Human GeographyThis book presents an incisive outline of the historical development and geography of cities. It focuses on three themes that constitute es...

• Author(s): Jiang Xu | Anthony G.O. Yeh • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • Subject: Earth-Science/Environment • BISAC: Sociology - UrbanNeoliberalism's market revolution has had a tremendous effect on contemporary...

• 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): Roger w. Caves • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • Subject: Architecture & Interior Designs • BISAC: Urban & Land Use PlanningAbout the Book Livable Cities from a Global Perspective offers case ...

• Author(s): The World Bank • Publisher: World Bank Publications • Publisher Imprint: World Bank Publications • Subject: Politics and Current Affairs • BISAC: Business And EconomicsThis study identifies three priority areas for India's policymake...

• Author(s): Nancy Kleniewski • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Sociology - UrbanCities, Change, and Conflict was one of the first texts to embrace the perspective of political economy as its main explanato...

• Author(s): Malcolm Cross | Michael Keith • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Sociology - GeneralDoes the concept of ethnicity divide the oppressed or unite minorities? Is the term community' a dangerous fiction? What...

• Author(s): Mark J. McDonnell | Amy K. Hahs | Jurgen H. Breuste • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: Life Sciences - EcologyThe unprecedented growth of cities and towns around the world...

• Author(s): David Hawkey • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Development - Sustainable DevelopmentMinimising the most severe risks of climate change means ending societal dependence on fossil fuels, and radi...

• Author(s): Mike Jenks | Daniel Kozak | Pattaranan Takkanon • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: LandscapeThis book presents new research and theory at the regional scale showing the forms metropolitan regions might tak...

• Author(s): Richard T. Legates | Frederic Stout | Roger W. Caves • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Urban & Land Use PlanningThe eighth edition of the highly successful The City Reader juxtaposes the very best cla...

• Author(s): Wikstrom Et Al • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: Law and Criminology • BISAC: CriminologyAbout the Book Why do certain people commit acts of crime? Why does crime happen in certain places? Presenting an...

• Author(s): Alexander C. Diener | Joshua Hagen • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • BISAC: Human GeographyThis timely interdisciplinary book considers national identity throu...

• Author(s): Galea • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA • BISAC: Health Risk AssessmentAn essential collection that advances our understanding of how cities influence our health Urban Health...

• Author(s): Lofland Lyn H. • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Sociology - UrbanThis book is about the "public realm," defined as a particular kind of social territory that is found almost exclusively in large settleme...

• Author(s): Alavi • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Auerbach P • Subject: Computer Science and Information Technology • BISAC: Sociology - UrbanThe development of smart cities is one of the most important challenges over the...

• Author(s): Alessandra Michelangeli • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Development - Business DevelopmentIn the last few decades, urban quality of life has received increasing interest from policy makers who aim to ma...

• Author(s): Celine Rozenblat • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Human GeographyFrom the Back CoverThis book reviews the recent evolutions of cities in the world according to entirely revised theoretical fundamentals of ...

• Author(s): Mari Paz Balibrea • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: Human GeographyFrom the Back CoverThis book argues the crucial role of culture and cultural policies in defining the notion of urban citizenship...

• Author(s): Eamonn Canniffe • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Urban & Land Use PlanningAlthough contemporary practice in urbanism has many sources of design guidelines, it lacks theory to provide a...

• Author(s): Anton Zijderveld • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Sociology - UrbanCities provide for people, not just functionally in terms of jobs, obligations and practical pursuits, but also, and above all, emotiona...

• 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): Alan Marcus | Dietrich Neumann • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Film - GeneralThis anthology presents a range of interdisciplinary explorations into the urban environment, through film, photography, digi...

• Author(s): Katherine Beckett | Steve Herbert • Publisher: Oxford University Press • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press • BISAC: PovertyWith urban poverty rising and affordable housing disappearing, the homeless and other "disorderly" pe...

• Author(s): Alan Wilson • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: GeneralThe study of cities is one of the grand challenges of twenty-first-century science, and mathematical modelling--in this case, urban modellin...

• Author(s): Nels Andersen • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Urban & Land Use PlanningPart of the Sociology of the City series, originally published in 1959, this volume looks at the urban community bri...

• Author(s): Oleg Pachenkov • Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der W • Publisher Imprint: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der W • BISAC: GeneralUrban public space continues to be the focus of debate regarding its concept...

• Author(s): Shovan Ghosh • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Environmental Science (see also Chemistry - Environmental)From the Back CoverThis book takes a comprehensive and forward-looking approach to urban resilience a...

• Author(s): Kon Kim • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Environmental Science (see also Chemistry - Environmental)From the Back CoverThis edited collection provides an alternative discourse on cities evolving with physic...

• Author(s): Jeroen De Kloet | Lena Scheen • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Sociology - UrbanChina is urbanizing at an unprecedented speed. Filmmakers, artists, musicians, and writers all try to come to terms with th...

• Author(s): Debra Benita Shaw • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialPosthuman Urbanism explores what it means to live in an urban en...

• Author(s): Timms | Duncan Timms • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: Earth Sciences - GeographyThe concept of the city as a mosaic of social worlds has achieved wide currency: the resi...

• Author(s): T. J. Ravenscroft • Publisher: Revival Waves of Glory Ministries • Publisher Imprint: Revival Waves of Glory Ministries • BISAC: Urban & Land Use PlanningDive into the heart and soul of urban life with "The Soul of a City: Deep D...

• Author(s): Federico Cugurullo • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Sociology - UrbanThis book explores in theory and practice how artificial intelligence (AI) intersects with and alters the city. Drawing upo...