Urban communities

What does it mean to belong in a place, or more than one place?

This book presents a critical analysis of the 'resource curse' doctrine and a review of the international evidence on oil and urban development to examine the role of oil on property development and rights in West Africa's new oil metropolis - Sekondi-Takoradi, Ghana.

This book presents a critical analysis of the 'resource curse' doctrine and a review of the international evidence on oil and urban development to examine the role of oil on property development and rights in West Africa's new oil metropolis - Sekondi-Takoradi, Ghana.

Sustainable communities raise questions about the compatibility of capitalism and environmentalism and how we can green our way of life in a capitalist economy that values short-term production and consumption over long-term conservation and simple living.

Drawing upon a variety of empirical and theoretical perspectives, The Urban Climate Challenge provides a hands-on perspective about the political and technical challenges now facing cities and transnational urban networks in the global climate regime.

Drawing upon a variety of empirical and theoretical perspectives, The Urban Climate Challenge provides a hands-on perspective about the political and technical challenges now facing cities and transnational urban networks in the global climate regime.

After the 1960s, rapid urbanization in developing regions in Latin America, Africa, and Asia was marked by the expansion of low-income "e;irregular"e; settlements that developed informally and which, by the 2000s, often constituted between 20-60 percent of the built-up area of metropolitan areas and other large cities.

After the 1960s, rapid urbanization in developing regions in Latin America, Africa, and Asia was marked by the expansion of low-income "e;irregular"e; settlements that developed informally and which, by the 2000s, often constituted between 20-60 percent of the built-up area of metropolitan areas and other large cities.

European cities are contributing to the development of a more sustainable urban system that is capable of coping with economic crises, ecological challenges and social disparities in different nation-states and regions throughout Europe.

European cities are contributing to the development of a more sustainable urban system that is capable of coping with economic crises, ecological challenges and social disparities in different nation-states and regions throughout Europe.

This book explores cultural sustainability and its relationships to heritage from a wide interdisciplinary perspective.

This book explores cultural sustainability and its relationships to heritage from a wide interdisciplinary perspective.

Mobilities has become an important framework to understand and analyze contemporary social, spatial, economic and political practices.

Mobilities has become an important framework to understand and analyze contemporary social, spatial, economic and political practices.

Routledge Q&As give you the tools to practice and refine your exam technique, showing you how to apply your knowledge to maximum effect in an exam situation.

Routledge Q&As give you the tools to practice and refine your exam technique, showing you how to apply your knowledge to maximum effect in an exam situation.

UCLG's Third Global Report on Local Democracy and Decentralization (GOLD III) examines basic service provision and the current state-of-play of the local governance of basic services around the world.

UCLG's Third Global Report on Local Democracy and Decentralization (GOLD III) examines basic service provision and the current state-of-play of the local governance of basic services around the world.

The global demand for clean, renewable energy has rapidly expanded in recent years and will likely continue to escalate in the decades to come.

The global demand for clean, renewable energy has rapidly expanded in recent years and will likely continue to escalate in the decades to come.

This book concludes a trilogy that began with Intelligent Cities: Innovation, Knowledge Systems and digital spaces (Routledge 2002) and Intelligent Cities and Globalisation of Innovation Networks (Routledge 2008).

This book concludes a trilogy that began with Intelligent Cities: Innovation, Knowledge Systems and digital spaces (Routledge 2002) and Intelligent Cities and Globalisation of Innovation Networks (Routledge 2008).

Routledge Q&As give you the tools to practice and refine your exam technique, showing you how to apply your knowledge to maximum effect in an exam situation.

Routledge Q&As give you the tools to practice and refine your exam technique, showing you how to apply your knowledge to maximum effect in an exam situation.

Analysing the transformation of Berlin's former Allied border control point, "e;Checkpoint Charlie,"e; into a global heritage industry, this volume provides an introduction to, and a theoretically informed structuring of, the interdisciplinary international heritage debate.

Analysing the transformation of Berlin's former Allied border control point, "e;Checkpoint Charlie,"e; into a global heritage industry, this volume provides an introduction to, and a theoretically informed structuring of, the interdisciplinary international heritage debate.

Urban India is undergoing a rapid transformation, which also encompasses the educational sector.

Urban India is undergoing a rapid transformation, which also encompasses the educational sector.

Urban redevelopment plays a major part in the growth strategy of the modern city, and the goal of this book is to examine the various aspects of redevelopment, its principles and practices in the North American context.

Urban redevelopment plays a major part in the growth strategy of the modern city, and the goal of this book is to examine the various aspects of redevelopment, its principles and practices in the North American context.

Just how resilient are our urban societies to social, energy, environmental and/or financial shocks, and how does this vary among cities and nations?

Just how resilient are our urban societies to social, energy, environmental and/or financial shocks, and how does this vary among cities and nations?

Research on gated communities is moving away from the hard concept of a 'gated community' to the more fluid one of urban gating.

Research on gated communities is moving away from the hard concept of a 'gated community' to the more fluid one of urban gating.

This is the first book to address future informal settlements at the global scale.

This is the first book to address future informal settlements at the global scale.

Deeper City is the first major application of new thinking on 'deeper complexity', applied to grand challenges such as runaway urbanization, climate change and rising inequality.

Deeper City is the first major application of new thinking on 'deeper complexity', applied to grand challenges such as runaway urbanization, climate change and rising inequality.

Cities are home to the most consequential current attempts at human adaptation and they provide one possible focus for the flourishing of life on this planet.

Cities are home to the most consequential current attempts at human adaptation and they provide one possible focus for the flourishing of life on this planet.

To subvert the metronormativity of queer urban studies and re-place queer suburbanism, Queerburbia examines LGBTQ2S place-making/unmaking/remaking on the peripheries of Canada's three largest city-regions (Vancouver, Toronto, and Montreal), investigating print media and census representations, civic and para-public allyship, individual and collective activism, and everyday practices of living and dreaming as revealed through photo-elicitation interviews and collective counter-mapping that together unmake and remake suburban places as queer.

Cities are staging more events than ever.

Cities are staging more events than ever.

China's rapid urbanization has restructured the great socialist cities Beijing, Shanghai, and Guangzhou into mega cities that embrace global capitalism.

China's rapid urbanization has restructured the great socialist cities Beijing, Shanghai, and Guangzhou into mega cities that embrace global capitalism.

As global warming advances, regions around the world are engaging in revolutionary sustainability planning - but with social equity as an afterthought.

As global warming advances, regions around the world are engaging in revolutionary sustainability planning - but with social equity as an afterthought.

In the last few decades, urban quality of life has received increasing interest from policy makers who aim to make cities better places to live.

In the last few decades, urban quality of life has received increasing interest from policy makers who aim to make cities better places to live.

The confluence of global climate change, growing levels of energy consumption and rapid urbanization has led the international policy community to regard urban responses to climate change as 'an urgent agenda' (World Bank 2010).