Search results for “[subject: urban]”

• Author(s): Lauren Marino | Timothy Moss | Olivier Coutard • Publisher: Bristol University Press • Publisher Imprint: Bristol University Press • BISAC: Human GeographyWhether waiting for the train or planning the future city, infrastructure orde...

• Author(s): Neil Brenner | Peter Marcuse | Margit Mayer • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Urban & Land Use PlanningThe worldwide financial crisis has sent shock-waves of accelerated economic restructuring, regula...

• Author(s): Felix Scheinberger • Publisher: Watson-Guptill Publications • Publisher Imprint: Watson-Guptill Publications • BISAC: Techniques - Painting - WatercolorA guide that shows painters, drawers, doodlers, and urban sketchers how to bring ...

• Author(s): Jonathan Rokem • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Earth Sciences - GeographyIn the last decade a new wave of urban research has emerged, putting comparative perspectives back on the urban studie...

• 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): Moisés Kopper | Matthew A. Richmond • Publisher: Berghahn Books • Publisher Imprint: Berghahn Books • BISAC: Sociology - UrbanExtreme inequalities, uneven planning, and unruly environments have long shaped individual and collective s...

• Author(s): Rita Schneider-Sliwa • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Earth Sciences - GeographyThis book was written with the aim of showing that even in the era of globalization developments appearing in cities are not ...

• Author(s): Julie-Anne Boudreau • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: Sociology - UrbanGlobal Urban Politics: Informalization of the State In what ways has global urbanization affected the political process? This b...

• Author(s): Jeffey Huber • Publisher: Oro Editions • Publisher Imprint: Oro Editions • BISAC: Urban & Land Use PlanningSalty Urbanism is a concept that refers to the ways in which cities and urban areas will respond and adapt to rising sea l...

• Author(s): Richard Schragger • Publisher: Oxford University Press • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press • BISAC: American Government - LocalReigning theories of urban power suggest that in a world dominated by footloose transnational cap...

• 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): Giuseppe Salvia • Publisher: Mdpi AG • Publisher Imprint: Mdpi AG • BISAC: GeneralThe sharing economy and collaborative consumption are attracting a great deal of interest due to their business, legal and civic implications. The cons...

• Author(s): Alex Krieger | William S. Saunders • Publisher: University of Minnesota Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Minnesota Press • BISAC: Urban & Land Use PlanningHighlights key issues in contemporary urban design through a discu...

• Author(s): Charles Landry • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Sociology - UrbanCity-making is an art, not a formula. The skills required to re-enchant the city are far wider than the conventional ones l...

• Author(s): William H. Whyte • Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Pennsylvania Press • BISAC: Sociology - UrbanCity Rediscovering the Center William H. Whyte. Foreword by Paco Underhill "Informal, spon...

• Author(s): Lena Hommes • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: EcologyRural-Urban Water Struggles compiles diverse analyses of rural-urban water connections, discourses, identities and struggles evolving in the...

• Author(s): Jose Brandao • Publisher: VDM Verlag • Publisher Imprint: VDM Verlag • BISAC: Urban & Land Use PlanningThe general argument of this book is that a new model of urban project has recently been implemented in the city of Rio de Jan...

• Author(s): Michael Boughn • Publisher: Spuyten Duyvil • Publisher Imprint: Spuyten Duyvil • BISAC: Subjects & Themes - PlacesMichael Boughn's City is explicit in its celebration of the urban as a pumping heart with architecture. Boughn appr...

• Author(s): Bishop Kate • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • Subject: Earth-Science/Environment • BISAC: LandscapeIncreasing urbanization and increasing urban density put enormous pressure on the relationships betwe...

• Author(s): Anthony King • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Human GeographySince the late 1970s the role of key world cities such as Los Angeles, New York and London as centres of global control and co-ordi...

• Author(s): Donald Williams • Publisher: ABC-CLIO • Publisher Imprint: ABC-CLIO • BISAC: GeneralThis book examines the rapid expansion of urban areas worldwide, especially within the previous 50 years, identifying the factors that have contribut...

• Author(s): Marta Szulkin | Jason Munshi-South | Anne Charmantier • Publisher: Oxford University Press • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press • BISAC: Life Sciences - TaxonomyUrban Evolutionary Biology fills an important knowledge gap on w...

• Author(s): Vania Ceccato • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: CriminologyFrom the Back CoverHow does the city's urban fabric relate to crime and fear, and how is that fabric affected by crime and fear? Does the urban env...

• Author(s): David H. Fleming • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: Film - GeneralThis book dives into the mise-en-scène of contemporary China to explore the "becoming cinema" of Chinese cities, societies, and su...

• Author(s): Alessandro Aurigi • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Urban & Land Use PlanningSince the late 1990s, Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) have been hailed as a potentially revolutionary fea...

• Author(s): Martin H. Krieger • Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Pennsylvania Press • BISAC: Sociology - UrbanTomography is a method of exploring a phenomenon through a large number of examples or pe...

• Author(s): Thakuriah • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Human GeographyFrom the Back CoverThis book introduces the latest thinking on the use of Big Data in the context of urban systems, including research and insights...

• Author(s): Ed Wall • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: LandscapeThis book explores concerns for spatial justice as streets, squares, and neighbourhoods are continuously made and remade through planning proc...

• Author(s): Sadan Jha • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge Chapman & Hall • BISAC: Social HistoryThis book examines urban experience from the vantage point of the global South. Drawing upon narratives coming from ...

• Author(s): Mohan • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: CRC Press • Subject: Engineering • BISAC: Civil - TransportationAbout the Book As cities become increasingly congested, current transport patterns are unsustainable: heavy ...

• Author(s): Alexandre Apsan Frediani • Publisher: Practical Action Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Practical Action Publishing • BISAC: Developing & Emerging CountriesFor the last 30 years, the idea of 'cities as engines of growth' has playe...

• Author(s): Ariva Sugandi Permana • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Civil - GeneralUrban engineers provide a physical definition of the urban habitat by planning, designing, building and constructing, operating, and ...

• Author(s): Sandro Galea | Catherine K. Ettman | David Vlahov • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA • BISAC: Health Risk AssessmentAn essential collection that advances our understanding of h...

• Author(s): John N. Jackson • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Sociology - UrbanUrbanization, everywhere, is of pressing concern to society. It is now appreciated that politicies for urban growth cannot be ...

• Author(s): Bashir A. Kazimee • Publisher: Cognella Academic Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Cognella Academic Publishing • BISAC: General"Sustainable Urban Forms: Theory, Design, and Application explores the latest research and practice regardi...

• 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...