Search results for “[subject: city-life]”

• Author(s): Ayşegül Akçay Kavakoğlu | Türkan Nihan Hacıömeroğlu | Lisa Landrum • Publisher: Intellect (UK) • Publisher Imprint: Intellect (UK) • BISAC: GeneralAnalysing a variety of international films and, ultimately, placing them in dialogue w...

• Author(s): Eduardo Lora | Andrew Powell | Bernard M. S. van Praag • Publisher: World Bank Publications • Publisher Imprint: World Bank Publications • BISAC: Sociology - UrbanA growing number of cities around the world have established systems f...

• Author(s): Robert W. Marans • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Urban & Land Use PlanningFrom the Back CoverThis volume synthesizes past and current, international research on the quality of urban life. It emphasize...

• Author(s): Steve Pile • Publisher: Sage Publications UK • Publisher Imprint: Sage Publications UK • BISAC: Sociology - UrbanDrawing inspiration from the work of Walter Benjamin, Sigmund Freud, Georg Simmel, this book explores the dream-like and...

• Author(s): T. De Witt (Thomas De Witt) Talmage • Publisher: University of Michigan Library • Publisher Imprint: University of Michigan Library • BISAC: United States - General

• Author(s): Netto Vinicius • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Public Policy - City Planning & Urban DevelopmentBringing together ideas from the fields of sociology, economics, human geography, ethics, political an...

• Author(s): Ross Beveridge • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: Sociology - UrbanWe live in an urban age. It is well known that urbanization is changing landscapes, built environments, social infrastructures and e...

• Author(s): Eric Fong | Brent Berry • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: Polity Pr • Subject: Sociology and Anthropology • BISAC: Emigration & ImmigrationAbout the Book The majority of immigrants settle in cities when they arrive, and few...

• Author(s): Steve • Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd • Publisher Imprint: SAGE Publications Ltd • BISAC: Sociology - UrbanWhat is real about city life? Real Cities shows why it is necessary to take seriously the more imaginary, fantastic and emo...

• Author(s): Lawrence Caudle • Publisher: Murphy & Moore Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Murphy & Moore Publishing • BISAC: Sociology - UrbanA city refers to a large human settlement which not only acts as a driver of economic growth but ...

• Author(s): Fran Tonkiss • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: Sociology - UrbanWho makes our cities, and what part do everyday users have in the design of cities? This book powerfully shows that city-making is a s...

• Author(s): Shane Epting • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Ethics & Moral PhilosophyThis book fleshes out the idea that everything about the city involves a fight for the good life. From how we conceptualize it-t...

• Author(s): Turner Bryan S. | Hannah Wolf | Gregor Fitzi • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Sociology - UrbanThe contributions to Urban neo- liberalisation bring together critical analyses of the dynamics and processe...

• Author(s): Nandita Mukand • Publisher: Grin Verlag • Publisher Imprint: Grin Verlag • BISAC: GeneralBachelor Thesis from the year 2014 in the subject Art - Miscellaneous, grade: 83%, course: BA (Hons) Fine Arts, language: English, abstract: Thi...

• Author(s): Sarah Hartmann • Publisher: Jovis Verlag • Publisher Imprint: Jovis Verlag • BISAC: Buildings - Landmarks & Monuments

• Author(s): Karen Evans | Penny Fraser | Ian Taylor • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialA Tale of Two Cities is a study of two major cities, Manchester and Sheffield. Drawing on the ...

• Author(s): Vittoria Di Palma | Diana Periton | Marina Lathouri • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: History - GeneralIntimate Metropolis explores connections between the modern city, its architecture, and its citizens,...

• Author(s): Thomas Frisch • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Human GeographyThis book explores the phenomena of the urban everyday and new urban tourism. It provides a systematic framework and draws on a mi...

• Author(s): Michael Bull • Publisher: Berg 3pl • Publisher Imprint: Berg 3pl • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialOn buses, trains, and streets over the past decade and more, youths in particular but increasingly older people as well tun...

• Author(s): Julian Brigstocke • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Public Policy - City Planning & Urban DevelopmentCould the vitality of embodied experience create a foundation for a new form of revoluti...

• Author(s): George William Sharp • Publisher: Wentworth Press • Publisher Imprint: Wentworth Press • BISAC: GeneralThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we kno...

• Author(s): Madhusree Dutta | Kaushik Bhowmik | Rohan Shivkumar • Publisher: Tulika Books • Publisher Imprint: Tulika Books • Subject: Music, Theatre & Films • BISAC: Film & VideoAbout the Book Project Cinema City is an anthology of text...

• Author(s): Steve Inskeep • Publisher: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr • BISAC: Regional StudiesMorning Edition cohost Steve Inskeep presents a riveting account of a single harrowing day in December 2009 that sheds l...

• Author(s): Abdoumaliq Simone • Publisher: Duke University Press • Publisher Imprint: Duke University Press • BISAC: Sociology - UrbanFrom the Back CoverFor the City Yet to Come is about much more than the planning and politics of cities in Afri...

• Author(s): Benjamin L. Saitluanga • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Human GeographyFrom the Back CoverThe book is a study of intra-urban inequality in quality of life (QOL) in Aizawl city. The main objectives of the s...

• Author(s): Anderson • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • Subject: Earth-Science/Environment • BISAC: Urban & Land Use PlanningMonumental in scale and epic in development, cities have become the most visible and...

• Author(s): Carl Smith • Publisher: University of Chicago Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Chicago Press • BISAC: Environmental - Water SupplyA city is more than a massing of citizens, a layout of buildings and streets, or an arrangement...

• Author(s): Joel Garreau • Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group • BISAC: Public Policy - City Planning & Urban DevelopmentFrom the Inside FlapFirst there was downtown. Then there w...

• Author(s): Ali Cheshmehzangi • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Urban & Land Use PlanningFrom the Back CoverThis book is an unusual attempt to study urban regeneration. First, it is based on mapping the realities o...

• Author(s): Anonymous • Publisher: Legare Street Press • Publisher Imprint: Legare Street Press • BISAC: United States - State & Local - Middle AtlanticThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the ...

• Author(s): Lígia Ferro • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer vs • BISAC: Sociology - UrbanFrom the Back CoverThe texts of the book focus on the problems and challenges of urban change, especially in Europe, in the contemporary con...

• Author(s): Seamus O'Hanlon • Publisher: NewSouth Books • Publisher Imprint: NewSouth Books • BISAC: Political EconomyRemember when our cities and inner-cities weren't dominated by high-rise apartments? This book documents the changes that have ...

• Author(s): John Lynch • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: Social HistoryThe city of Belfast tends to be discussed in terms of its distinctiveness from the rest of Ireland, an industrial city in an agricultural...

• Author(s): William Purdy • Publisher: Palala Press • Publisher Imprint: Palala Press • BISAC: GeneralThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This wo...

• Author(s): Richard Shusterman • Publisher: Brill • Publisher Imprint: Brill • BISAC: AestheticsThirteen original essays explore the qualities and challenges of urban life (in Europe, Asia, and the Americas) from a variety of disciplinary perspe...