Search results for “[Subject: urban-community]”

• Author(s): Saswat Samay Das • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: ReferenceFrom the Back CoverThis collection stages a dynamic scholarly debate about the ambivalent workings of technocapitalism and humanism in u...

• Author(s): Herman Eugene Rohrs • Publisher: Hassell Street Press • Publisher Imprint: Hassell Street Press • BISAC: Organizations & InstitutionsThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowled...

• Author(s): Nicole Foletta • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Urban & Land Use PlanningWith increasing awareness of the urgent need to respond to global warming by reducing carbon emissions and recognition of the ...

• Author(s): Mark Scott | Niamh Moore • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Public Policy - City Planning & Urban DevelopmentIreland is now an urban society, and both parts of the island have experienced rapid urban-g...

• Author(s): James Scorer • Publisher: State University of New York Press • Publisher Imprint: State University of New York Press • BISAC: Latin America - South AmericaAddresses ways that cultural imaginaries point toward alternative urban future...

• Author(s): Im Sik Cho • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Public Policy - City Planning & Urban DevelopmentFrom the Back CoverThe book compares different approaches to urban development in Singapore and Seoul over t...

• Author(s): Helen Traill • Publisher: Bristol University Press • Publisher Imprint: Bristol University Press • BISAC: Human GeographyEscape is an enticing idea in contemporary cities across the world. Austerity, climate breakdown and spatial sti...

• Author(s): Bin Jiang | Lan Luo | Xueming Liu • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Sociology - UrbanThis book responds to the need for a comprehensive and detailed theoretical framework and systemic design guidelines to...

• Author(s): Peter Dirksmeier | Angelina Göb | Liza Griffin • Publisher: Bristol University Press • Publisher Imprint: Bristol University Press • BISAC: Public Policy - City Planning & Urban DevelopmentFrom parks and libraries to pubs and sch...

• Author(s): J. Pierson • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: Sociology - UrbanOur poorest urban neighbourhoods experience economic and social difficulties that uniquely affect the lives of those who live there. T...

• Author(s): June Manning Thomas • Publisher: Sage Publications • Publisher Imprint: Sage Publications • BISAC: Urban & Land Use PlanningClarifying the historical connections between the African-American population in the United States and th...

• Author(s): Robert F. Pecorella • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: American Government - StateThis book represents the culmination of several years of research on community politics in New York City.

• Author(s): Laura Lawson • Publisher: University of California Press • Publisher Imprint: University of California Press • BISAC: GeneralSince the 1890s, providing places for people to garden has been an inventive strategy to improve American ur...

• Author(s): Gerald A. Fisher • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Public Policy - City Planning & Urban DevelopmentLocal Government Law provides a unique resource with concise, easy-to-understand explanat...

• Author(s): Paul J. Maginn • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Earth Sciences - GeographyThe concepts of community consultation and participation have come to dominate academic and policy debate about urban regeneratio...

• Author(s): Ritanjan Das • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: World - AsianThis book explores the relationship between the production of new urban spaces and illiberal community-making in contemporary India. ...

• Author(s): Helen Traill • Publisher: Bristol University Press • Publisher Imprint: Bristol University Press • BISAC: Human GeographyEscape is an enticing idea in contemporary cities across the world. Austerity, climate breakdown and spatial sti...

• Author(s): Katherine Giuffre • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: Sociology - UrbanIn Communities and Networks, Katherine Giuffre takes the science of social network analysis and applies it to key issues of liv...

• Author(s): Choon-Piew Pow • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Anthropology - GeneralMoving beyond conventional accounts of gated communities and housing segregation, this book interrogates the moral politics of urban ...

• Author(s): Carolin Mees • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Agriculture - GeneralFrom the Back CoverThe book investigates the development of community gardens with self-built structures, which have existed as a shared p...

• Author(s): L. Hancock • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: CriminologyThis book fills a number of gaps in the 'community and crime' literature, makes important theoretical contributions, and is based on origina...

• Author(s): David Walters • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Urban & Land Use PlanningGreenfield sites around towns and cities, and redevelopment infill sites in existing urban areas often become battlegrounds bet...

• Author(s): Sara Stoutland • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Inc • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Sociology - General

• Author(s): Daniel Skinner | Jonathan R. Wynn | Berkeley Franz • Publisher: University of Chicago Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Chicago Press • BISAC: Sociology - UrbanA surprising look at how hospitals affect and are affected by thei...

• Author(s): Justin Colson • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Europe - MedievalCities and Solidarities charts the ways in which the study of individuals and places can revitalise our understanding of urban c...

• Author(s): Baby Professor • Publisher: Baby Professor • Publisher Imprint: Baby Professor • BISAC: Lifestyles - City & Town LifeThere are three types of communities. Do you know what they are? Don't worry if you don't because this book will...

• Author(s): Howard Lune • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • BISAC: Health Care DeliveryUrban Action Networks is a study of how communities organize in response to threats to...

• Author(s): Fabian Kümmeler | Judit Majorossy | Eirik Hovden • Publisher: Brill • Publisher Imprint: Brill • BISAC: Asia - GeneralThis volume explores social practices of framing, building and enacting community in urban-rural relations across m...

• Author(s): Shigeru Satoh • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: LandscapeOver the past few decades, Japan has faced severe earthquake disasters, an increasing aging population, declining birth rates, and widening social ...

• Author(s): Katherine Melcher • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Urban & Land Use PlanningThroughout history and around the world, community members have come together to build places, be it settlers co...

• Author(s): Jenny Donovan • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Urban & Land Use PlanningThe experiences we enjoy, endure, or miss out on are influenced by what our surroundings allow and invite us to do. Just like o...

• Author(s): James G. Banks | Peter Banks • Publisher: University Press of America • Publisher Imprint: University Press of America • BISAC: Sociology - UrbanThe Unintended Consequences describes the tremendous impact of housing policy, which oft...

• Author(s): Wei Li • Publisher: University of Hawaii Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Hawaii Press • BISAC: Human GeographyWinner of the 2009 Book Award in Social Sciences, Association for Asian American Studies This innovative work prov...

• Author(s): S. David Stamps | Miriam Stamps • Publisher: Syracuse University Press • Publisher Imprint: Syracuse University Press • BISAC: Cultural & Ethnic Studies - American - African American & BlA robust black professional class has ...

• Author(s): James Scorer • Publisher: State University of New York Press • Publisher Imprint: State University of New York Press • BISAC: Latin America - South AmericaAddresses ways that cultural imaginaries point toward alternative urban future...

• Author(s): Norman Walzer • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Urban & Land Use PlanningCommunities have practiced strategic planning for decades using a variety of tools and programs based on the initial...