Urban communities

This book describes what Fairbanks was like during trans-Alaska oil pipeline construction and how the community responded to the project, and assesses the unplanned negative effects that, in many cases, outweighed the positive ones.

This book describes what Fairbanks was like during trans-Alaska oil pipeline construction and how the community responded to the project, and assesses the unplanned negative effects that, in many cases, outweighed the positive ones.

This book focuses on fuzzy logic, a paradigm-shifting approach that challenges the binary simplicity of traditional logic systems.

This book unravels the complex mechanisms involved in global real estate capital markets, enabling the reader to understand how they have grown and evolved, how they function, what determines market pricing, and how the public and private debt and equity markets are linked to each other.

When we think of gangs, we are likely overcome with images of fear and violence.

What you wear.

Marking Time: Performance, archaeology and the city charts a genealogy of alternative practices of theatre-making since the 1960s in one particular city Cardiff.

Marking Time: Performance, archaeology and the city charts a genealogy of alternative practices of theatre-making since the 1960s in one particular city Cardiff.

This book examines the transformation of the Italian city from the 1950s to the present with particular attention to questions of identity, migration and changes in urban culture.

Cities are home to over fifty percent of the world's population, a figure which is expected to increase enormously by 2050.

Terrariums, aeriums and kokedama (Japanese for 'moss ball') have exploded in popularity and making them at home is surprisingly easy and a wonderful way to keep plants in our homes.

'This book is a love letter to the Mediterranean - full of flavours and the kind of wisdom that only a woman who travels with her own set of knives can impart.

The narratives of disease, hygiene, developments in medicine and the growth of urban environments are fundamental to the discipline of modern history.

Cities are responsible for three-quarters of the world s energy consumption.

Beirut is the cultural, commercial and economic hub of Lebanon.

As global climate change threatens to change radically both the political and physical climate with regard to water issues, so a reassessment of some of the fundamental principles of international water law is emerging.

We usually associate contemporary urban life with movement and speed.

The meanings and contexts of Shari'a are the subject of both curiosity and misunderstanding by non-Muslims.

Sustainable Cities is about the challenges faced by our urban environments and how these can be met.

To Henri Lefebvre, the space and 'lived everydayness' of the inter-dependent, multi-faceted city produces manifold possibilities of identifiction and realisation through often imperceptible interactions and practices.

The resulting cultural differences can often create problems and conflict.

The resulting cultural differences can often create problems and conflict.

The narratives of disease, hygiene, developments in medicine and the growth of urban environments are fundamental to the discipline of modern history.

We usually associate contemporary urban life with movement and speed.

Sustainable Cities is about the challenges faced by our urban environments and how these can be met.

The analysis of urban poverty has traditionally been dominated by economic approaches, often neglecting the social questions arising from poverty.

To Henri Lefebvre, the space and 'lived everydayness' of the inter-dependent, multi-faceted city produces manifold possibilities of identifiction and realisation through often imperceptible interactions and practices.

The enduring 'Town versus Country' debate lies at the root of modern British society.

The Eastern Mediterranean is one of the world's most vibrant and vital commercial centres and for centuries the region's cities and ports have been at the heart of East-West trade.

Children and youth, regardless of their ethnic backgrounds, are experiencing lifestyle choices their parents never imagined and contributing to the transformation of ideals, traditions, education and adult child power dynamics.

During the 1990s, Naples left-wing administration sought to tackle the city s infamous reputation of being poor, crime-ridden, chaotic and dirty by reclaiming the city s cultural and architectural heritage.

"e;A brave foray into the interdisciplinary and a serious attempt to cover city life in all its complexity.

Does the place where you lived as a child affect your health as an adult?

This edited volume portrays marketplaces from a mobility perspective as dynamic and open entities consisting of flows of people, goods and ideas.

England is an old country, more deeply conditioned by its past than perhaps any of us realise.

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In Uncivil Youth, Soo Ah Kwon explores youth of color activism as linked to the making of democratic citizen-subjects.

Cities and Citizenship is a prize-winning collection of essays that considers the importance of cities in the making of modern citizens.

Inhabitants of Phoenix tend to think small but live big.

In A New Deal for All?

Tijuana Dreaming is an unprecedented introduction to the arts, culture, politics, and economics of contemporary Tijuana, Mexico.

Go-go is the conga drum-inflected black popular music that emerged in Washington, D.

In The Mayan in the Mall, J.

In Havana beyond the Ruins, prominent architects, scholars, and writers based in and outside of Cuba analyze how Havana has been portrayed in literature, music, and the visual arts since Soviet subsidies of Cuba ceased, and the Cuban state has re-imagined Havana as a destination for international tourists and business ventures.

The lottery called the jogo do bicho, or "e;animal game,"e; originated as a raffle at a zoo in Rio de Janeiro in 1892.

Unprecedented crime rates have made Guatemala City one of the most dangerous cities in the world.

The punitive turn of penal policy in the United States after the acme of the Civil Rights movement responds not to rising criminal insecurity but to the social insecurity spawned by the fragmentation of wage labor and the shakeup of the ethnoracial hierarchy.

In The Environment and the People in American Cities, Dorceta E.

City of Extremes is a powerful critique of urban development in greater Johannesburg since the end of apartheid in 1994.

In this vivid ethnography of social movements in the barrios, or poor shantytowns, of Caracas, Sujatha Fernandes reveals a significant dimension of political life in Venezuela since President Hugo Chavez was elected.