Settlement, urban and rural geography

Originally published in 1980, this book draws together a wide range of studies dealing with various aspects of land use in a text specifically designed to guide students through the complexities of the subject.

First published in 1986, East Indians in a West Indian Town explores the complex geographical, sociological and anthropological dimensions of Trinidad society before and after its political independence, by employing three sets of materials - census data, questionnaires and participant-observation records.

First published in 1986, East Indians in a West Indian Town explores the complex geographical, sociological and anthropological dimensions of Trinidad society before and after its political independence, by employing three sets of materials - census data, questionnaires and participant-observation records.

No other city in the Indian subcontinent can lay claim to having so many lives as Delhi.

This book analyses the key livelihood and governance challenges that the urban poor experience while navigating public spaces in Dhaka, Bangladesh.

This book examines trends and determinants of economic inequality in cities in Latin America, the world's most unequal region.

This book examines trends and determinants of economic inequality in cities in Latin America, the world's most unequal region.

This book analyses the key livelihood and governance challenges that the urban poor experience while navigating public spaces in Dhaka, Bangladesh.

An eye-opening and urgent re-examination of nature in our cities, from the Sunday Times bestselling author.

This book critically examines the philosophy of the term 'transgression' and how it shapes the utopian vision of contemporary urban design scenarios.

This book critically examines the philosophy of the term 'transgression' and how it shapes the utopian vision of contemporary urban design scenarios.

COVID-19 in Brooklyn: Everyday Life During a Pandemic looks closely at the ways that the COVID-19 pandemic impacted the lives of ordinary people living in the super-gentrified Brooklyn neighborhoods of Park Slope and Greenpoint/Williamsburg, where the authors hunkered down during the 2020 lockdown.

Temporary migration is a human response to uncertain economic, ecological, political and socio-cultural environments.

COVID-19 in Brooklyn: Everyday Life During a Pandemic looks closely at the ways that the COVID-19 pandemic impacted the lives of ordinary people living in the super-gentrified Brooklyn neighborhoods of Park Slope and Greenpoint/Williamsburg, where the authors hunkered down during the 2020 lockdown.

Temporary migration is a human response to uncertain economic, ecological, political and socio-cultural environments.

Local enterprise, institutional quality and strategic location were of central importance in the growth of medieval towns.

Local enterprise, institutional quality and strategic location were of central importance in the growth of medieval towns.

Rapid urbanisation presents challenges such as inequality, informalisation and diversified, social needs for emerging cities.

Rapid urbanisation presents challenges such as inequality, informalisation and diversified, social needs for emerging cities.

Originally published in 1971, Homes in High Flats was written at a time when multi-storey flats were a popular solution to the world-wide need for mass housing because they could be produced with speed.

Increasing urbanisation and industrial development are occurring at the expense of shrinking forest cover and agricultural land in South Asia.

Increasing urbanisation and industrial development are occurring at the expense of shrinking forest cover and agricultural land in South Asia.

Creating cities inclusive of immigrants in Southern Africa is both a balancing act and a protracted process that requires positive attitudes informed by accommodative institutional frameworks.

Creating cities inclusive of immigrants in Southern Africa is both a balancing act and a protracted process that requires positive attitudes informed by accommodative institutional frameworks.

This book looks at alternative ways of analyzing traditional and contemporary architectural design and building practices in South Asia with a special focus on India.

This book looks at alternative ways of analyzing traditional and contemporary architectural design and building practices in South Asia with a special focus on India.

The Atmospheric City explores how people make sense of the feelings they get in and of urban spaces.

The Atmospheric City explores how people make sense of the feelings they get in and of urban spaces.

This book investigates changing geographies of fast growing Asian metropolitan regions, in particular their peripheral areas.

This book investigates changing geographies of fast growing Asian metropolitan regions, in particular their peripheral areas.

Focusing on the small island of Paama, Vanuatu, and the capital, Port Vila, this book presents a rare and recent study of the ongoing significance of urbanisation and internal migration in the Global South.

The nexus of urban governance and human migration was a crucial feature in the modernisation of cities in the Ottoman Empire of the nineteenth century.

Much city marketing and branding activity is future-oriented; aimed at achieving a forward-looking vision for places.

Originally published in 1971, this book is a systematic study of the major features and factors of the location and distribution of global agricultural enterprises.

In this second edition, Americas Urban History now includes contemporary analysis of race, immigration, and cities under the Trump administration and has been fully updated with new scholarship on early urbanization, mass incarceration and cities, the Great Society, the diversification of the suburbs, and environmental justice.

Originally published in 1971, this book is a systematic study of the major features and factors of the location and distribution of global agricultural enterprises.

In this second edition, Americas Urban History now includes contemporary analysis of race, immigration, and cities under the Trump administration and has been fully updated with new scholarship on early urbanization, mass incarceration and cities, the Great Society, the diversification of the suburbs, and environmental justice.

This volume examines how cities, migration, and urban governance are intertwined.

This volume discusses the nuances of cultural phenomena in the transforming urban landscape of Indian cities.

Moving beyond conventional accounts of gated communities and housing segregation, this book interrogates the moral politics of urban place-making in China's commodity housing enclaves.

The Power of Ethnic Places discusses the growing visibility of ethnic heritage places in U.

This book argues that modernity first arrived in late nineteenth-century Shanghai via a new spatial configuration.

Rights of Passage: Sidewalks and the Regulation of Public Flow documents a powerful and under-researched form of urban governance that focuses on pedestrian flow.

In port cities around the world, waterfront development projects have been hailed both as spaces of promise and as crucial territorial wedges in twenty-first century competitive growth strategies.

Cities, initially a product of the manufacturing era, have been thoroughly remade in the image of consumer society.

Winner of the EDRA book prize for 2012.

Neo-Bohemia brings the study of bohemian culture down to the street level, while maintaining a commitment to understanding broader historical and economic urban contexts.

During the decade of its existence in India, the multiplex cinema has been very much a sign of the times - both a symptom and a symbol of new social values.

The division of 'rural' and 'urban' is one of the oldest ideas in Geography and is deeply engrained in our culture.

Analyzing football as a cultural practice, this book investigates the connection between the sport and its built environment.