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

• Author(s): Monica Montserrat Degen • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Urban & Land Use PlanningAs cities globally re-design their urban landscapes, they produce a different urban aesthetic and create n...

• Author(s): Camilla Perrone | Gabriele Manella | Lorenzo Tripodi • Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Emerald Group Publishing • BISAC: Sociology - UrbanThis volume of "Research in Urban Sociology" is composed of a selectio...

• Author(s): Giovanni Maciocco • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Public Policy - City Planning & Urban DevelopmentFrom the Back CoverThis book explores new forms and modalities of relations between people and space ...

• Author(s): Michael Bull • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC • Publisher Imprint: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialOn buses, trains, and streets over the past decade and more, youths in particular but inc...

• Author(s): Tilman Schwarze • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: Human GeographyThis Book develops a novel and innovative methodological framework for operationalising Henri Lefebvre's work for empirical researc...

• Author(s): H. Patricia McKenna • Publisher: IGI Global • Publisher Imprint: IGI Global • BISAC: Sociology - UrbanThe topic of urban life and the ambient in smart cities, learning cities, and future cities is a timely one, fitting as it does in ...

• Author(s): Keith Krawczynski • Publisher: Greenwood • Publisher Imprint: Greenwood • BISAC: United States - Colonial Period (1600-1775)An exploration of day-to-day urban life in colonial America. The American city was an integral part of the co...

• 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): Rana Almutawa • Publisher: University of California Press • Publisher Imprint: University of California Press • BISAC: Ethnic Studies - Middle Eastern StudiesEveryday Life in the Spectacular City is a groundbreaking urban ethnography...

• Author(s): Tone Huse • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Sociology - GeneralBased on ethnographic fieldwork conducted in Oslo, Everyday Life in the Gentrifying City offers an examination of gentrification f...

• Author(s): Mehru Jaffer • Publisher: Niyogi Books • Publisher Imprint: NiyogiBook • Subject: English Literature

• 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...

• Author(s): Edwin Hubbell Chapin • 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. ...

• Author(s): R. P. Dore • Publisher: University of California Press • Publisher Imprint: University of California Press • BISAC: Sociology - UrbanThis book offers an in-depth exploration of life in Shitayama-cho, a diverse neighborhood in Tokyo, ...

• Author(s): Claude S. Fischer • Publisher: University of Chicago Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Chicago Press • BISAC: Sociology - UrbanAn analysis of the influence of urban life on society compares and contrasts personal relationships...

• Author(s): Catharine Maria Sedgwick • Publisher: Nabu Press • Publisher Imprint: Nabu Press • BISAC: GeneralThis is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, po...

• Author(s): Byron Kilgour • Publisher: Nabu Press • Publisher Imprint: Nabu Press • BISAC: GeneralThis is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures...

• Author(s): John M. Merriman • Publisher: Oxford University Press • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press • BISAC: Europe - FranceThe Margins of Urban Life brings to life the "floating worlds of the periphery" in nineteenth-century French c...

• Author(s): Girmay Hamid • Publisher: Independently Published • Publisher Imprint: Independently Published • BISAC: Middle East - Turkey & Ottoman Empire

• Author(s): Carl Bridenbaugh • Publisher: Bridenbaugh Press • Publisher Imprint: Bridenbaugh Press • BISAC: GeneralToday more than half of all Americans make their homes in cities, and the ease of modern transportation causes the lives of many m...

• Author(s): Emily Greene Balch • 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. Th...

• Author(s): David C. Cooper • Publisher: DC Cooper • Publisher Imprint: DC Cooper • BISAC: Action & AdventureCity wakes in a desert with no memories, no past, and a power he doesn't understand. In a world ruled by immortal gods who can read ...

• Author(s): T. J. Cobden-Sanderson | W. R. Lethaby | Walter Crane • Publisher: Kessinger Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Kessinger Publishing • BISAC: GeneralArt And Life, And The Building And Decoration Of Cities: A Series Of Lectures By Member...

• 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): Isabelle Devos • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: Europe - GeneralBy taking on a long-term perspective, a large geographical scope and moving beyond the homogeneous treatment of single people, this...

• Author(s): Gouvernet Richard • Publisher: Les Impliques • Publisher Imprint: Les Impliques • BISAC: General

• Author(s): Dieter Reinisch • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialReports on the body of research on what qualities of cities and towns actually make people happy in their lives. L...

• Author(s): Carlo Ratti • Publisher: Yale University Press • Publisher Imprint: Yale University Press • BISAC: Urban & Land Use PlanningAn internationally renowned architect, urban planner, and scholar describes the major technological force...

• Author(s): David M. Nicholas • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Sociology - UrbanThe first part of David Nicholas's massive two-volume study of the medieval city, this book is a major achievement in its own right. (I...

• Author(s): William Purdy • Publisher: Kessinger Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Kessinger Publishing • BISAC: General""The City Life: Its Trade And Finance"" is a book written by William Purdy in 1876 that explores the trade and finance of the ...

• Author(s): E. H. Chapin • Publisher: Nabu Press • Publisher Imprint: Nabu Press • BISAC: EssaysThis is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, ...

• Author(s): R. P. Dore • Publisher: University of California Press • Publisher Imprint: University of California Press • BISAC: Sociology - UrbanThis book offers an in-depth exploration of life in Shitayama-cho, a diverse neighborhood in Tokyo, ...

• Author(s): Sadan Jha • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge Chapman & Hall • BISAC: Sociology - UrbanThis volume examines urban South Asia through the ideas of neighbourhood and neighbourliness. With a focus on the...

• Author(s): Edwin Hubbell Chapin • Publisher: Kessinger Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Kessinger Publishing • BISAC: Essays""Moral Aspects of City Life: A Series of Lectures"" is a book written by Edwin Hubbell Chapin and published in 1853. The...

• Author(s): Gilles N'Goala | Florence Paulhiac Scherrer | Fabien Durif • Publisher: Wiley-Iste • Publisher Imprint: Wiley-Iste • BISAC: Urban & Land Use PlanningWhile advanced technologies such as the Internet of Things (IoT), artificial int...

• Author(s): John Allen | Doreen Massey | Michael Pryke • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Sociology - UrbanThis text explores the mix of proximity and difference that exists in the rich and diverse texture of city lif...