Search results for “[subject: urban]”

• Author(s): Tora Holmberg • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Earth Sciences - GeographyThe city includes opportunities as well as constraints for humans and other animals alike. Urban animals are often subj...

• Author(s): Edgar Pieterse • Publisher: Zed Books • Publisher Imprint: Zed Books • BISAC: Sociology - UrbanCities are the future. In the past two decades, a global urban revolution has taken place, mainly in the South. The 'mega-cities' of the d...

• Author(s): Kevin R. McNamara • Publisher: Stanford University Press • Publisher Imprint: Stanford University Press • BISAC: GeneralSpeaking to the ongoing debate over the development of urban space and culture, this book demonstrates the centra...

• Author(s): Chayma Hamdani • Publisher: Willford Press • Publisher Imprint: Willford Press • BISAC: Public Policy - City Planning & Urban DevelopmentUrban studies and development is an interdisciplinary field. A primary aspect of this field ...

• Author(s): Kevin J. Gaston • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: Sociology - UrbanThis is the urban century in which, for the first time, the majority of people live in towns and cities...

• Author(s): Binti Singh • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge Chapman & Hall • BISAC: Urban & Land Use PlanningThis volume studies the urbanisation trends of medium-sized cities of India to develop a typology o...

• Author(s): Boehm | Lisa Krissoff • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • Subject: History • BISAC: United States - GeneralIn this second edition, America's Urban History now includes contemporary analysis of race, imm...

• Author(s): Martín Fernández-Prado • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan • BISAC: Public Policy - City Planning & Urban DevelopmentFrom the Back CoverDuring the next few years, most European and World cities will be d...

• Author(s): Alessandrini Adriano • Publisher: ELSEVIER • Publisher Imprint: Elsevier • Subject: Engineering • BISAC: GeneralImplementing Automated Road Transport Systems in Urban Settings provides valuable, objective, often difficult-to-obtain d...

• Author(s): Phil Hubbard • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Sociology - UrbanFrom the hotspots of commercial sex through to the suburbia of twitching curtains, urban life and sexualities appear inseparable....

• Author(s): Theresa Löwenstein • Publisher: Grin Verlag • Publisher Imprint: Grin Verlag • BISAC: GeneralSeminar paper from the year 2014 in the subject Landscape Management, grade: 1,3, course: City Planning, language: English, abstract: In mod...

• Author(s): Narendar Pani • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Earth Sciences - GeographyIn constructing the urban as a set of interconnected actions, this book presents a less travelled route to understanding the city....

• Author(s): Robert B. Potter • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Earth Sciences - GeographyA comprehensive introduction to urbanisation in developing countries. The goal of this text is to place an understan...

• Author(s): Smith • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • Subject: Sociology and Anthropology • BISAC: Sociology - UrbanThis compendium offers a textured historical and comparative examination of the significance of lo...

• Author(s): WENG • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: Wiley-IEEE • Subject: Earth-Science/Environment • BISAC: Remote Sensing & Geographic Information SystemsFrom the Back CoverAN AUTHORITATIVE GUIDE TO THE ESSENTIAL TECHNIQUES AND MOST R...

• Author(s): Peter M. J. Pol • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Human GeographyFirst published in 2006, as numerous local authorities of European cities invest in the attractiveness of their urban areas in the hope of ...

• Author(s): Allen J. Scott • Publisher: University of California Press • Publisher Imprint: University of California Press • BISAC: Sociology - UrbanHere is an extensive and highly original inquiry into the origins, dynamics, and internal order ...

• Author(s): The Late David W. Drakakis-Smith • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Development - Economic DevelopmentThis imformative book is a thoroughly revised and updated edition of the classic introduction to urbani...

• Author(s): Clark David • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Sociology - UrbanThis book identifies and accounts for the characteristics of the contemporary city and of urban society. It analyzes the distribution and gro...

• Author(s): BURRY • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: Wiley • Subject: Architecture & Interior Designs • BISAC: GeneralGiven the rapid evolution of concepts such as smart cities, who are the architects riding the wave of new possibilitie...

• Author(s): Amy Bridges | Michael Javen Fortner • Publisher: State University of New York Press • Publisher Imprint: State University of New York Press • BISAC: Public Policy - City Planning & Urban DevelopmentExamines city politics and poli...

• Author(s): Nick Fyfe | Judith Kenny • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Sociology - UrbanDrawing on a rich diversity of theoretical approaches and analytical strategies, urban geographers have been at the forefront of...

• Author(s): James A. Clapp • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Taylor & Francis • BISAC: QuotationsThe City is the best, funniest, saddest, and most thought-provoking compilation ever assembled on the urban scene. James A....

• Author(s): Edward Glaeser • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Sociology - UrbanWe live in the 'urban century'. Cities all over the world - in both developing and developed countries - display complex evolut...

• Author(s): Alex • Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd • Publisher Imprint: SAGE Publications Ltd • BISAC: Human GeographyThe economic and political situation of cities has shifted in recent years in light of rapid growth amidst infrastructure decl...

• Author(s): Constantine McLaug Green • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: GeneralThe rise of cities in the United States from the early seventeenth century to the 1960s is the subject of this sophisticated an...

• Author(s): Robin Visser • Publisher: Duke University Press • Publisher Imprint: Duke University Press • BISAC: Asia - ChinaDenounced as parasitical under Chairman Mao and devalued by the norms of traditional Chinese ethics, the city now functio...

• Author(s): Julie Ren • Publisher: Bristol University Press • Publisher Imprint: Bristol University Press • BISAC: Sociology - UrbanJulie Ren investigates the motivations and practices of making art spaces in Beijing and Berlin to engage with co...

• Author(s): Stephan Thernstrom | Richard Sennett • Publisher: Yale University Press • Publisher Imprint: Yale University Press • BISAC: GeneralResearch on the frontiers of urban studies was the subject of a conference on nineteenth-century citie...

• 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): Edgar Pieterse • Publisher: Zed Books • Publisher Imprint: Zed Books • BISAC: Sociology - UrbanCities are the future. In the past two decades, a global urban revolution has taken place, mainly in the South. The 'mega-cities' of the d...

• Author(s): Andrew Isenberg | Andrew Isenberg | Ari Kelman • Publisher: University of Rochester Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Rochester Press • BISAC: Sociology - UrbanThis volume explores the intersection of cities and the natural en...

• Author(s): Josiane Meier • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Public Policy - City Planning & Urban DevelopmentAfter decades "in the shadows", urban lighting is re-emerging as a matter of public debate. ...

• Author(s): Konstantinos Avramidis • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Sociology - UrbanGraffiti and street art images are ubiquitous, and they enjoy a very special place in collective imaginary due to their...

• Author(s): United Nations • Publisher: United Nations • Publisher Imprint: United Nations • BISAC: International Relations - General

• Author(s): Madsen Peter • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Taylor & Francis Ltd • BISAC: Urban & Land Use PlanningUrban conditions are crucial to our experience of modernity, and, as reflected by art, literature ...