Search results for “[subject: urban]”

• Author(s): Stephanie Pincetl • Publisher: Springer Verlag • Publisher Imprint: Springer • Subject: Earth-Science/Environment • BISAC: Public Policy - Environmental PolicyIn an era of big data and smart cities, this book is an innovative and cre...

• Author(s): Alexander Cuthbert • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: LandscapeFor too long urban design has been seen as a subsidiary to architecture and urban planning, sitting somewhere between the two witho...

• Author(s): Dick Smakman • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Linguistics - SociolinguisticsFrom Los Angeles to Tokyo, Urban Sociolinguistics is a sociolinguistic study of twelve urban settings around the wor...

• Author(s): Duncan McLaren | Julian Agyeman • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • Subject: Earth-Science/EnvironmentHow cities can build on the "sharing economy" and smart technology to deliver a "sharing paradigm" that support...

• Author(s): Bentley Ian • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Sociology - UrbanCities affect every person's life, yet across the traditional divides of class, age, gender and political affiliation, armies of people are u...

• Author(s): Kari Spencer • Publisher: 5m Publishing • Publisher Imprint: 5m Publishing • BISAC: Agriculture - GeneralFarming in cities and small spaces is becoming increasingly popular, but it has its challenges. City Farming addresses the probl...

• Author(s): Jeffery Gilbert • Publisher: States Academic Press • Publisher Imprint: States Academic Press • BISAC: Sociology - UrbanUrban agglomerations, simply known as urban areas, are human settlements with a high population density and infra...

• Author(s): Katie Barclay • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Social HistoryThis book brings together a vibrant interdisciplinary mix of scholars - from anthropology, architecture, art history, film studies,...

• Author(s): Victoria Henshaw • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Sociology - UrbanWe see the city, we hear the city, but above all: we smell the city. Scent has unique qualities: ubiquity, persistence, and a...

• 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): Dr John Rich • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Teaching - Subjects - Arts & HumanitiesThe city was the nexus of the Roman Empire in its early centuries. The City in Late Antiquity charts th...

• Author(s): Steffen Wippel • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Public Policy - City Planning & Urban DevelopmentInterdisciplinary in approach, this volume explores and deciphers the symbolic value and ic...

• Author(s): Bert De Munck • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Sociology - UrbanThis book uses 'politics of urban knowledge' as a lens to understand how professionals, administrations, scholars, and social mo...

• Author(s): Monika Pietrzak-Franger | Nora Plesske | Eckart Voigts • Publisher: Universitatsverlag Winter Gmbh Heidelberg • Publisher Imprint: Universitatsverlag Winter Gmbh Heidelberg • BISAC: GeneralToday, the majority of people worldwide live...

• Author(s): Jane Tormey • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Human GeographyCities and Photography discusses the relationship between people and the city, visualized in photographs. It explores how photograph...

• Author(s): Ignacio Farías • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Sociology - UrbanThis book takes it as a given that the city is made of multiple partially localized assemblages built of heterogeneous networks...

• 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): Stefan Rabitsch | Michael Fuchs | Stefan L. Brandt • Publisher: University Press of Mississippi • Publisher Imprint: University Press of Mississippi • BISAC: Popular CultureContributions by Carl Abbott, Jacob Babb, Marleen S. Barr, M...

• Author(s): Nina Peršak • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: CriminologyBringing together an international group of authors, this book addresses the important issues lying at the intersection between urban sp...

• Author(s): Claudio Coletta • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Sociology - UrbanBy focusing on the interplay between material, social and narrative dimensions of the city, this book examines urban complexit...

• Author(s): John Diamond | Others • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • Subject: Business Management • BISAC: Management - GeneralThis book was born out of the need to 'capture' the experience and understanding of th...

• Author(s): Rodolphe El-Khoury • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Urban & Land Use PlanningTaking on the key issues in urban design, Shaping the City examines the critical ideas that have driven these t...

• Author(s): Moshe Safdie • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Individual Architects & Firms - GeneralIn an age of virtual offices, urban flight, and planned gated communities, are cities becoming obsolete...

• Author(s): Zlatan Krajina • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Sociology - UrbanThe Routledge Companion to Urban Media and Communication traces central debates within the burgeoning interdisciplinary researc...

• Author(s): Nanke Verloo | Luca Bertolini • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Urban & RegionalThe city is a complex object. Some researchers look at its shape, others at its people, animals, ecology, policy, infras...

• Author(s): Talja Blokland • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Labor & Industrial RelationsDespite considerable interest in social capital amongst urban policy makers and academics alike, there is curren...

• Author(s): Huaili, MA • Publisher: Paths Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Paths Publishing Group • BISAC: Public Policy - City Planning & Urban DevelopmentChina is in transition from an agricultural society to a newly industrialized on...

• Author(s): Ministry Of Housing And Urban Poverty • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: Earth-Science/Environment • BISAC: Public Policy - City Planning & Urban DevelopmentAbout the Book A flagship document of the ...

• Author(s): John Rennie Short • Publisher: Palgrave • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave • BISAC: Sociology - UrbanThis wide-ranging and state-of-the-art new edition reviews the classic contributions to understanding modern and post-modern cities, and ...

• Author(s): Farid Al-Qeeq • Publisher: VDM Verlag • Publisher Imprint: VDM Verlag • BISAC: Urban & Land Use PlanningIt is evident that the geometry of the urban form as an urban design parameter is crucial. The layout of the structure can mo...

• Author(s): Anasua Chatterjee • Publisher: Routledge India • Publisher Imprint: Routledge India • BISAC: Sociology - UrbanPart of the 'Religion and Citizenship' series, this book is an ethnographic study of marginality of Muslims in urban India....

• Author(s): Ulrike Freitag | Nelida Fuccaro | Claudia Ghrawi • Publisher: Berghahn Books • Publisher Imprint: Berghahn Books • BISAC: Violence in Society Covering a period from the late eighteenth century to today, this volume explores the pheno...

• Author(s): Patricia García | David Pike • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Comparative LiteratureResearch in urban development has increasingly emphasized the importance of underground infrastructure for envisaging s...

• Author(s): Marcus Foth • Publisher: Information Science Reference • Publisher Imprint: Information Science Reference • BISAC: Sociology - UrbanAlive with movement and excitement, cities transmit a rapid flow of exchange facilitated by a meshwor...

• Author(s): Robert Thomas • Publisher: Kruger Brentt Publisher Uk. Ltd. • Publisher Imprint: Kruger Brentt Publisher Uk. Ltd. • BISAC: Earth Sciences - GeographyIt provides an up-to-date account of planning, reflecting throughout on the need for...

• Author(s): Nicolas Kenny • Publisher: University of Toronto Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Toronto Press • BISAC: Sociology - UrbanAt the start of the twentieth century, the modern metropolis was a riot of sensation. City dwellers liv...