This insightful book examines the role of an urban contingencies approach in understanding contemporary urban sustainability planning, emphasising the importance of context and place sensitivity and offering a crucial alternative to existing best practice planning ideas.
This volume revisits contemporary cultural and artistic imaginaries of African cities through a focus on their manifold connections with rural hinterlands.
This volume revisits contemporary cultural and artistic imaginaries of African cities through a focus on their manifold connections with rural hinterlands.
Maritime transport is a key factor in the globalisation process where port cities play an essential role as edges of economic, technological, cultural, and institutional diffusion.
Maritime transport is a key factor in the globalisation process where port cities play an essential role as edges of economic, technological, cultural, and institutional diffusion.
Urban Dynamics in Africa explores how African cities are being transformed and how that change can be understood through diverse methods and perspectives.
Urban Dynamics in Africa explores how African cities are being transformed and how that change can be understood through diverse methods and perspectives.
Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2020 im Fachbereich Geowissenschaften / Geographie - Regionalgeographie, Note: 1,3, Bayerische Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, Veranstaltung: Regionale Geographie Spanien, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Die Geschichte der spanischen Stadtentwicklung sowie die Bauformen, Grundrisse und Stadtstrukturen sind durch drastische Herrschaftswechsel, einhergehend mit vielfältigen Stilen von Religionen und Kulturen, geprägt.
Bachelor Thesis from the year 2017 in the subject Geography / Earth Science - Demographics, Urban Management, Planning, grade: 62, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, language: English, abstract: The high rate of urbanization and fast growing population of cities have impacted on land management.
This innovative book addresses a critical gap in smart city research by focusing on smart living, an often overlooked aspect in comparison to technological and infrastructure development.
This innovative book addresses a critical gap in smart city research by focusing on smart living, an often overlooked aspect in comparison to technological and infrastructure development.
A new "e;bulldozer politics"e; has taken hold in many Indian cities, destroying neighborhoods and displacing city residents as it pursues a global city aesthetic.
A new "e;bulldozer politics"e; has taken hold in many Indian cities, destroying neighborhoods and displacing city residents as it pursues a global city aesthetic.
Over several decades, the influx of wealthy, white lifestyle migrants has transformed the economic, social, and ecological fabric of many rural communities across the United Statesfrom alpine towns of the Rockies to forest and lake communities of the Southeastin a process akin to urban gentrification.
How a Slum is (Re)Produced: An Ethnography of Kibera and Korogocho in Nairobi offers an in-depth ethnographic analysis of how slums are produced and reproduced as physical, symbolic, and socio-political formations.
How a Slum is (Re)Produced: An Ethnography of Kibera and Korogocho in Nairobi offers an in-depth ethnographic analysis of how slums are produced and reproduced as physical, symbolic, and socio-political formations.
Since the birth of Airbnb in 2008, many of the worlds cities have been transformed by platform-mediated short-term accommodationa phenomenon suspected of disturbing local life and removing dwellings from local housing inventories.
Since the birth of Airbnb in 2008, many of the worlds cities have been transformed by platform-mediated short-term accommodationa phenomenon suspected of disturbing local life and removing dwellings from local housing inventories.
Over several decades, the influx of wealthy, white lifestyle migrants has transformed the economic, social, and ecological fabric of many rural communities across the United Statesfrom alpine towns of the Rockies to forest and lake communities of the Southeastin a process akin to urban gentrification.
This book reframes street vending beyond depictions of marginality or disorder, exploring how informal street vending works as a situated, negotiated, diverse, relational, and gendered practice within contested public spaces.
This book reframes street vending beyond depictions of marginality or disorder, exploring how informal street vending works as a situated, negotiated, diverse, relational, and gendered practice within contested public spaces.
A NEW YORK TIMES MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2026 'AFFECTING' TELEGRAPH'ENGROSSING' ECONOMIST'MIRACULOUS' WIRED'MORE THAN CRIME REPORTAGE' WALL STREET JOURNAL When his mother fell for an 'American soldier' who promised to send gold bars to their Madrid apartment, Carlos Barrag n found himself with an unexpected window into the shadowy world of online romance fraud.
Street vendors often face disproportionate state violence not simply for their use of public space, but because of who they are as users of public space.
Street vendors often face disproportionate state violence not simply for their use of public space, but because of who they are as users of public space.
This innovative book applies the metaphor of Dracula to understand a highly controversial reality that marks so many cities today: how the rage of smart city development and growth proceeds, is organized, and produces benefits for some and afflicts others.
This innovative book applies the metaphor of Dracula to understand a highly controversial reality that marks so many cities today: how the rage of smart city development and growth proceeds, is organized, and produces benefits for some and afflicts others.
This timely and interdisciplinary book deals with urban marginality as a multi-faceted process of urban transformation that engenders a wide range of experiences world-wide.
This timely and interdisciplinary book deals with urban marginality as a multi-faceted process of urban transformation that engenders a wide range of experiences world-wide.
The term 'peripheral centralities' may seem something of an oxymoron and yet the spatial peripheries of cities have often been more central to urban development processes than is appreciated.
This timely and innovative book argues that queer film festivals reclaim urban space for queer women and other marginalised queer subjects through the mobilisation of both material and diegetic space.
This timely and innovative book argues that queer film festivals reclaim urban space for queer women and other marginalised queer subjects through the mobilisation of both material and diegetic space.
This book will benefit readers by revealing how urban existence is a multifaceted affair that, once examined, will forever change the way they think about their place in the city and what it means to live in one.
The term 'peripheral centralities' may seem something of an oxymoron and yet the spatial peripheries of cities have often been more central to urban development processes than is appreciated.
The Death and Life of Southern Soviet Cities discussed on New Books Network podcast with Ernest LeeWhat does it mean, three decades after the demise of the USSR, to inhabit cities built for a future that has never arrived?
The Death and Life of Southern Soviet Cities discussed on New Books Network podcast with Ernest LeeWhat does it mean, three decades after the demise of the USSR, to inhabit cities built for a future that has never arrived?
