Search results for “[subject: urban]”

• Author(s): Orum • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: Blackwell • Subject: Earth-Science/Environment • BISAC: Sociology - UrbanAbout the Book Unter der Leitung des Herausgebers Anthony Orum besch�ftigt sich dieses Referenzwerk mit zentralen...

• Author(s): Peter W. Daniels • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Human GeographyThe dynamics of national and international urban systems, as well as individual metropolitan areas, are closely connected with the decisio...

• Author(s): Henri Lefebvre • Publisher: Minnesota UP • Publisher Imprint: Minnesota • Subject: Sociology and Anthropology • BISAC: Sociology - UrbanOriginally published in 1970, The Urban Revolution marked Henri Lefebvre's first sustained critiq...

• Author(s): Daniel A. Bell • Publisher: Princeton University Press • Publisher Imprint: Princeton University Press • BISAC: Sociology - UrbanFrom the Back Cover"In a field saturated with superficial rankings and business surveys, The Spirit of C...

• Author(s): Victor F. S. Sit • Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company • Publisher Imprint: World Scientific Publishing Company • BISAC: Asia - ChinaThe purpose of this volume is to treat the progress of history, civilization and urban de...

• Author(s): Julius Margoli • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Environmental EconomicsOriginally published in 1965, Margolis brings together a wide variety of papers on a multitude of subjects relating to th...

• Author(s): Puneet Sharma • Publisher: Notion Press • Publisher Imprint: Notion Press • BISAC: ResearchUrban design is the art of creating spaces which are public in nature and intended to be used by all. Derived from the idea of civic design at...

• 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): Vojnovic Igor • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • Subject: Sociology and Anthropology • BISAC: Sociology - GeneralThrough interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary perspectives, and with an emphasis on ex...

• Author(s): Robert A. Beauregard | Sophie Body-Gendrot | Line Beauregard • Publisher: Sage Publications • Publisher Imprint: Sage Publications • BISAC: Sociology - UrbanThe modern city extends beyond its physical borders, pervading all aspects o...

• Author(s): Bonnie J. Leadbeater | Niobe Way • Publisher: New York University Press • Publisher Imprint: New York University Press • BISAC: Life Stages - AdolescenceOne of the first volumes to showcase the lives of girls growing up in urban pove...

• 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): Kes McCormick | Bernadett Kiss | Yuliya Voytenko Palgan • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: EnvironmentalThis introductory textbook with a global scope provides training fo...

• 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): Siegrun Fox Freyss • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Public Affairs & AdministrationThe local public sector is deeply steeped in history. Studying the historic patterns of urban settlements...

• Author(s): Meagher Sharon • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • Subject: Religion and Philosophy • BISAC: AestheticsThe Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of the City is an outstanding reference source to this excitin...

• Author(s): Ana Morcillo Pallarés • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: LandscapeManhattan's Public Spaces: Production, Revitalization, Commodification analyzes a series of architectural works and their contri...

• Author(s): Eric Avila | Timothy M. Collins | Daniel Czitrom • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • BISAC: United States - GeneralThe revised and updated third edition of The M...

• Author(s): David R • Publisher: SAGE Publications Inc • Publisher Imprint: SAGE Publications Inc • BISAC: Sociology - UrbanAfter a generation of pathbreaking scholarship that has reoriented and enlightened our perception of the American city, t...

• Author(s): Rita Schneider-Sliwa • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Public Policy - City Planning & Urban DevelopmentThis book was written with the aim of showing that even in the era of globalization developments a...

• Author(s): Jutta K. Dikshit • Publisher: Rawat Publication • Publisher Imprint: Rawat Publication • BISAC: Sociology - UrbanUrban fringe is the most sought after and at the same time most problematic area of a periurban region. This is the area...

• Author(s): Mustafa Ergen • Publisher: Intechopen • Publisher Imprint: Intechopen • BISAC: Earth Sciences - GeographyPeople living in rural areas migrate to urban areas to secure better qualities of life, education, and health facilities and als...

• Author(s): Wacquant • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: Polity Pr • Subject: Sociology and Anthropology • BISAC: Sociology - UrbanBuilding on three decades of comparative research on marginality, ethnicity, and penality in the postindustria...

• Author(s): Barry Bluestone | Mary Huff Stevenson | Russell E. Williams • Publisher: Oxford University Press • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press • BISAC: Economics - GeneralThe Urban Experience provides a fresh approach to the study of ...

• Author(s): Robert Saliba • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Public Policy - City Planning & Urban DevelopmentThe Arab World is perceived to be a region rampant with constructed and ambiguous national i...

• Author(s): Maurice Mitchell • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Urban & Land Use PlanningDrawn from a lifetime's experience of shared city-making from the bottom up, within rapidly expanding urban metab...

• Author(s): Fran Tonkiss • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: Sociology - UrbanSpace, the City and Social Theory offers a clear and critical account of key approaches to cities and urban space within social theory...

• 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): Theresa Heath • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Industries - Hospitality, Travel & TourismThis timely and innovative book argues that queer film festivals reclaim urban space for queer women and other...

• Author(s): Matthew Carmona • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Urban & Land Use PlanningPublic Places Urban Spaces provides a comprehensive overview of the principles, theory and practices of urban design for thos...

• Author(s): Quazi Mahtab Zaman • Publisher: Springer • Publisher Imprint: Springer • BISAC: Earth Sciences - GeographyFrom the Back CoverBorder Urbanism presents a global array of authors' research that tackles the perception, interpretation, an...

• 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): 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): Helen Jarvis | Jonathan Cloke | Paula Kantor • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Public Policy - City Planning & Urban DevelopmentMen and women experience the city differently: in relation to housing as...

• Author(s): Paul Jenkins • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Urban & Land Use PlanningThe global application of Enlightenment-derived concepts to create social order through urban form suggests that we b...

• Author(s): Jo Beall | Basudeb Guha-Khasnobis | Ravi Kanbur • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA • BISAC: Urban & RegionalBy many estimates, the world has recently crossed the point wher...