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• Author(s): Kary Coimbra • Publisher: Our Knowledge Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Our Knowledge Publishing • BISAC: Sociology - UrbanThe purpose of this book is to think about the city, the urban and the public space delineated by popular cult...

• Author(s): Alessandro Balducci • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Development - Business DevelopmentProcesses of multi-scalar regional urbanization are occurring worldwide. Such processes are clearly disti...

• Author(s): Lisa Benton-Short • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Urban & Land Use PlanningCities and Nature connects environmental processes with social and political actions. The book reconnects scienc...

• Author(s): Tridib Banerjee | Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • Subject: Earth-Science/Environment • BISAC: Public Policy - City Planning & Urban DevelopmentThe New Companion to Ur...

• Author(s): Mark Jayne • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Sociology - UrbanIn investigating the mutual and dynamic relationship between urban development and consumption, this book asks: how are cities moulded by cons...

• Author(s): Sophie Watson • Publisher: Springer Verlag • Publisher Imprint: Springer • Subject: Earth-Science/Environment • BISAC: Sociology - UrbanChapter 1. City Water matters: Cultures, Practices and Entanglements of Urban Water: An Introduct...

• Author(s): Rossi • Publisher: Sage Publications • Publisher Imprint: Sage Publications • Subject: Earth-Science/Environment • BISAC: GeneralThis compelling new textbook scrutinizes urban politics through a theoretical and empirical lens to prov...

• Author(s): Daniel Joseph Monti • Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc • Publisher Imprint: Sage Publications, Inc • BISAC: Sociology - UrbanDaniel Monti, Michael Ian Borer, and Lyn C. Macgregor provide a thorough and comprehensive survey of the co...

• Author(s): Stein | Erica • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • Subject: Communication, Mass Media and Journalism • BISAC: Media StudiesBringing together leading scholars from around the world and across scholarly di...

• Author(s): Bryan S. Turner • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Sociology - Social TheoryUrban Change and Citizenship in Times of Crisis addresses the fact that in the beginning of the twenty-first century t...

• Author(s): Alan Harding • Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Sage Publications Ltd • BISAC: Sociology - UrbanThis interdisciplinary introduction to urban theory explains how the concepts that help us understand the contempora...

• Author(s): Mark David Major • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Urban & Land Use PlanningMany people see American cities as a radical departure in the history of town planning because of their planned n...

• Author(s): Christopher B.R. Smith • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Public Policy - City Planning & Urban DevelopmentExamining the interdependent nature of substance, space, and subjectivity, this boo...

• Author(s): Anthony M. Orum • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Sociology - UrbanWhy do some cities grow and expand, while others dwindle and decline? Why is Milwaukee a town of the past, while Minneapolis-St. Paul see...

• Author(s): Mickeal Milocco Borlini | Lelio Di Loreto • Publisher: Lulu.com • Publisher Imprint: Lulu.com • BISAC: GeneralThis pamphlet brings together the contributions of architects, researchers and artists from all over the world. The common ...

• Author(s): Mark Jayne • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • Subject: Sociology and Anthropology • BISAC: Sociology - UrbanIn cities throughout the world, there is an increasingly ubiquitous presence of distinct social and spat...

• Author(s): Deborah Stevenson • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: Sociology - UrbanThis book is a fresh and engaging analysis of the city as a central concept in contemporary social thought. It probes the contest...

• Author(s): Luca S. D'Acci • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Urban & RegionalThis interdisciplinary book lays the foundations for a new critique of human societies examining how humans, as a species, are suited t...

• Author(s): David Pinder • Publisher: Edinburgh UP • Publisher Imprint: Edinburgh • Subject: Politics and Current Affairs • BISAC: Public Policy - City Planning & Urban DevelopmentAbout the Book This text is a dramatic account of utopian vis...

• Author(s): Alberto Vanolo • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Urban & Land Use PlanningSince the 1990s, city branding has become a key factor in urban development policies. Cities all over the world tak...

• Author(s): Robert E. Park • Publisher: MIXGD • Publisher Imprint: MIXGD • Subject: Sociology and Anthropology • BISAC: Sociology - UrbanFirst published in 1925, The City is a trailblazing text in the fields of urban history, urban sociology, an...

• Author(s): Varkey | Amrutha Mary • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • Subject: Earth-Science/Environment • BISAC: Urban & RegionalIncreasing urbanisation and industrial development are occurring at the expense ...

• Author(s): Tim Hall • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Earth Sciences - GeographyThis revised fifth edition not only examines the new geographical patterns forming within and between cities, but also inves...

• Author(s): David Byrne • Publisher: Palgrave • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave • BISAC: Sociology - UrbanFrom the Back CoverCities are changing at a rate unparalleled since the industrial revolution and more than half the population of the world no...

• Author(s): Aidan W. Southall • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: Sociology - UrbanThis ambitious study treats urbanization and urbanism all over the world, and from the earliest times...

• Author(s): Sullivan Rob • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Human GeographyThis volume argues that the city cannot be captured by any one mode of analysis but instead is composed of the mobile, relational, efficient, ...

• 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): Filip de Boeck • Publisher: Leuven University Press • Publisher Imprint: Leuven University Press • BISAC: Subjects & Themes - Street PhotographyAn ethnographic and photographic investigation into the complex meanings of living in...

• Author(s): Colin Jones • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • Subject: Economics • BISAC: Urban & RegionalUrban Economy: Real Estate Economics and Public Policy analyses urban economic change and public policy in...

• Author(s): Peter Taylor | Ben Derudder • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Networking - GeneralWith the advent of multinational corporations, the traditional urban service function has 'gone global'. In order to provi...

• Author(s): Kelvin Low • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Sociology - UrbanUrban landscapes are usually thought of first and foremost as engineered formations designed for functionality. It is quite clear, ...

• Author(s): Alan Turley • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Sociology - UrbanFor courses in Urban Sociology, Urban Culture, or Urban Anthropology. This innovative text examines the various theoretical perspectives and ...

• Author(s): John Lorinc • Publisher: Groundwood Books • Publisher Imprint: Groundwood Books • BISAC: Sociology - UrbanA thought-provoking look at the demands and expectations we place on our growing cities in the twenty-first century. An excelle...

• Author(s): Steve Whitford • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Urban & Land Use Planningdesigning networks cities presents a sophisticated, multi-disciplinary, and multi-dimensional approach to urban des...

• Author(s): Paul Knox | Steven Pinch • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Sociology - UrbanThe 6th edition of this highly respected text builds upon the successful structure, engaging writing style and clear presentatio...

• Author(s): Wolf-Dietrich Sahr • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Sociology - UrbanBringing together leading urban scholars, this book discusses the linkages between the economic, social and psychological f...