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• Author(s): Ranabir Samaddar | Enrica Morlicchio | Sandro Mezzadra • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Sociology - UrbanThis innovative edited volume places global urbanism in the context of the phenomenal growth of ci...

• Author(s): Lucia Capanema Alvares • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Human GeographyFrom the Back CoverThis book is about understanding, contextualizing and carrying out critical analyzes of the policies intended and/o...

• Author(s): Richard E. Ocejo • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Sociology - UrbanThe only collection of its kind on the market, this reader gathers the work of some of the most esteemed urban ethnographers ...

• Author(s): Toby Lincoln • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: Asia - GeneralIn this accessible new study, Toby Lincoln offers the first history of Chinese cities from their origins to t...

• Author(s): Hall Tim | Malcolm Miles • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: GeneralUrban Futures brings together commentaries from a wide range of contemporary disciplines and fields relevant to urban culture, form and so...

• Author(s): André Viljoen | Katrin Bohn • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Urban & Land Use Planning Winner of the 2015 RIBA President's Award for Outstanding University Located Research This book is the long awai...

• Author(s): Scott McQuire • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: Media StudiesGeomedia offers critical analysis of the new possibilities and power relations emerging in the public space of contemporary cities. As ub...

• Author(s): Neil Brenner • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Urban & Land Use PlanningThe worldwide financial crisis has sent shock-waves of accelerated economic restructuring, regulatory reorganization ...

• Author(s): Ian Thomas MacDonald • Publisher: ILR Press • Publisher Imprint: ILR Press • BISAC: Labor & Industrial RelationsLabor unions remain the largest membership-based organizations in major North American cities, even after years of de...

• Author(s): Mark Deakin • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Urban & Land Use PlanningSmart city development has emerged a major issue over the past 5 years. Since the launch of IBM's Smart Planet and CIS...

• Author(s): George Martine | George Martine • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • Subject: Economics • BISAC: Development - Economic DevelopmentAlong with globalization, urban transitions have been central in the sou...

• Author(s): Emily Talen | Sungduck Lee • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • Subject: Earth-Science/Environment • BISAC: Urban & Land Use PlanningThe most successful urban communities are very often those that ar...

• Author(s): Melissa Kennedy | Andrew Butt | Marco Amati • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Sociology - UrbanIn an era of rapid urbanization, peri-urban areas are emerging as the fastest-growing regions in many countri...

• Author(s): Gillian Evans • Publisher: Vernon Press • Publisher Imprint: Vernon Press • BISAC: Anthropology - GeneralThe United Nations predicts that by the year 2050 almost 70% of the planet's population will be living in cities. The onus on so...

• Author(s): K.R. Gupta | Intro. by Prasenjit Maiti • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Atlantic • Subject: EconomicsThis collection of essays by academics and practitioners from around the world underscores issues and concerns of sustaina...

• Author(s): Nicholas Wise • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: RoutledgeEconomic restructuring and demographic change have in recent years placed much strain on urban areas with the effects falling disproportionately on neighbo...

• Author(s): Tigran Haas | Hans Westlund • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Development - Business DevelopmentIn the last few decades, many global cities and towns have experienced unprecedented economic, social, and s...

• 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): 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): Eamonn Canniffe • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Sociology - UrbanAlthough contemporary practice in urbanism has many sources of design guidelines, it lacks theory to provide a flexible approach to the c...

• Author(s): Paul L. Knox • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Design, Drafting, Drawing & PresentationCities, initially a product of the manufacturing era, have been thoroughly remade in the image of consumer societ...

• Author(s): Julian Hart • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Sociology - UrbanChallenging existing assumptions about how our towns and cities are structured and formed, Julian Hart provides an engaging and th...

• Author(s): Christian Borch • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Housing & Urban DevelopmentThis book rethinks the city by examining its various forms of collectivity - their atmospheres, modes of exclusi...

• Author(s): Oriol Nel-lo • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Urban & Land Use PlanningCities in the 21st Century provides an overview of contemporary urban development. Written by more than thirty major ...

• Author(s): Ian Scargill • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Earth Sciences - GeographyOriginally published in 1983, Urban France examines the rapid growth in French cities between 1950-1980, and the serious consequenc...

• Author(s): Peter J. M. Nas | Annemarie Samuels • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Sociology - UrbanFirst published in 2006. Cities are sites of multiple meanings and symbols, ranging from statues and street names to ...

• 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): Joseph Persky | Wim Wiewel • Publisher: Wayne State University Press • Publisher Imprint: Wayne State University Press • BISAC: Industries - GeneralNew suburban communities have sprung up all over America, while industrial plants and...

• Author(s): Jacqueline Tatom • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: LandscapeThe American landscape is an extremely complex terrain born from a history of collective and individual experiences. These create...

• Author(s): Roberto Rocco • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Urban & Land Use PlanningThe Routledge Handbook on Informal Urbanization investigates the mutual relationship between the struggle for politi...

• Author(s): Miko Flohr • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Ancient - RomeThis volume investigates how urban growth and prosperity transformed the cities of the Roman Mediterranean in the last centuries BCE a...

• Author(s): Yan Zhang • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Environmental - GeneralFrom the Back CoverThis book provides the basic theory, method framework and application results of urban metabolism. Urban metabolism is a...

• Author(s): Barbara Oomen | Martha F. Davis | Michele Grigolo • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: Human RightsCities increasingly base their local policies on human rights. Human right...

• Author(s): Andrew Millington • Publisher: Mdpi AG • Publisher Imprint: Mdpi AG • BISAC: Earth Sciences - GeneralGlobal urbanization creates challenges towards sustainability and human well-being. Urban areas are dependent on the ecosystems beyo...

• Author(s): Hebatalla Abouelfadl • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Human GeographyFrom the Back CoverThis book explores the consequences of change in the urban form, the amalgam of the urban space and buildings and on ...

• Author(s): Preben Kaarsholm • Publisher: Seagull Books • Publisher Imprint: Seagull Books • Subject: Music, Theatre & Films • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismAbout the Book The relationship between cinema and modernity in the Indian co...