London's Urban Landscape is the first major study of a global city to adopt a materialist perspective and stress the significance of place and the built environment to the urban landscape.
Village Housing explores the housing challenge faced by England's amenity villages, rooted in post-war counter-urbanisation and a rising tide of investment demand for rural homes.
Little did Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin and other 'gentlemen scientists' know, when they were making their scientific discoveries, that some centuries later they would inspire a new field of scientific practice and innovation, called citizen science.
Participatory Planning for Climate Compatible Development in Maputo, Mozambique is a practitioners' handbook that builds upon the experience of a pilot project that was awarded the United Nations 'Lighthouse Activity' Award.
Comparative Approaches to Informal Housing Around the Globe brings together historians, anthropologists, political scientists, sociologists, urban planners and political activists to break new ground in the globalisation of knowledge about informal housing.
From a rare map of yellow fever in eighteenth-century New York, to Charles Booth's famous maps of poverty in nineteenth-century London, an Italian racial zoning map of early twentieth-century Asmara, to a map of wealth disparities in the banlieues of twenty-first-century Paris, Mapping Society traces the evolution of social cartography over the past two centuries.
Creating Chinese Urbanism describes the landscape of urbanisation in China, revealing the profound impacts of marketisation on Chinese society and the consequential governance changes at the grassroots level.
Cities Made of Boundaries presents the theoretical foundation and concepts for a new social scientific urban morphological mapping method, Boundary Line Type (BLT) Mapping.
Refuge in a Moving World draws together more than thirty contributions from multiple disciplines and fields of research and practice to discuss different ways of engaging with, and responding to, migration and displacement.
As the time-scales of natural change accelerate and converge with those of society, Routledge Handbook of Climate Change and Society takes the reader into largely uncharted territory in its exploration of anthropogenic climate change.
This collection contributes to the theoretical literature on social reproduction-defined by Marx as the necessary labor to arrive the next day at the factory gate-and extended by feminist geographers and others into complex understandings of the relationship between paid labor and the unpaid work of daily life.
Since the end of apartheid, South Africa has become an extreme yet unexceptional embodiment of forces at play in many other regions of the world: intensifying inequality alongside "e;wageless life,"e; proliferating forms of protest and populist politics that move in different directions, and official efforts at containment ranging from liberal interventions targeting specific populations to increasingly common police brutality.
Do, Die, or Get Along weaves together voices of twenty-six people who have intimate connections to two neighboring towns in the southwestern Virginia coal country.
These twelve original essays by geographers and anthropologists offer a deep critical understanding of Allan Pred's pathbreaking and eclectic cultural Marxist approach, with a focus on his concept of "e;situated ignorance"e;: the production and reproduction of power and inequality by regimes of truth through strategically deployed misinformation, diversions, and silences.
Dealing with narratives of vulnerable populations, this book looks at how they deal with dimensions of their social life, especially in regards to health.
Ces travaux sur la décentralisation outre-mer montrent que, sur fond d'incertitudes et d'interrogations quant au devenir institutionnel et statutaire de ces collectivités, les velléités de coopération et de coordination de l'action publique territoriale sont souvent contrariées par l'exacerbation de la concurrence et l'enchevêtrement des compétences entre les différents niveaux d'administration.
Through a series of talks presented by students belonging to different regions of Mauritania, the author strives to shed light on the ethnic and sociocultural diversity of the country.
Qualifiée de "science" en 1928 et aujourd'hui rentrée dans une phase de normalisation, la géographie musicale s'élargit à toutes les géographies - culturelle, humaniste, sociale, économique, politique, etc.
Dans un contexte où l'Afrique noire reste confrontée à de nombreuses contradictions qui retardent son développement, la réduction des naissances, surtout en milieu rural, devient un impératif.
En mêlant, de 1940 à nos jours, les témoignages de dizaines d’habitants de Pontlevoy, dans le Loir-et-Cher, avec des recherches documentaires approfondies, cet ouvrage montre comment l’existence des villageois, dans l’ensemble de leurs activités professionnelles, de leurs loisirs, de leurs croyances, de leur éducation, de leur santé, de leur vie culturelle, de leurs opinions politiques et même dans leurs prénoms, a évolué de manière comparable à celle qu’ont connue tous les autres Français, au point que, de nos jours, les ressemblances sociologiques l’emportent, et de loin, sur les différences considérables qui étaient le propre d’une commune rurale à la sortie de la Seconde guerre.
Ce livre permet au lecteur de découvrir ce qui fait la richesse de cette ville, unique par sa situation géographique, l'activité historique de son port, le charme de ses maisons victoriennes, sa population cosmopolite, ses ascenseurs à flanc de colline.
L'énergie est un enjeu majeur au XXIe siècle, s'inscrivant dans une problématique géopolitique plus large, dans la mesure où la géoénergie laisse apparaître, encore actuellement, une prédominance des énergies fossiles, au premier rang desquelles se situe le gaz.
La forme de protection moderne étatique « importée et imposée » de l'extérieur a ignoré les connaissances techniques locales et/ou les traditions collectives des communautés et a cherché à réduire à sa plus petite expression le système traditionnel pluriséculaire.
Fort de ses succès économiques passés - le fameux "miracle mauricien" - le pays affiche une solide volonté de s'ouvrir au monde et de "jouer dans la cour des grands".
