Urban communities

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).

The late 1970s and 1980s saw a process of mass factory closures in cities and regions across the Midwest of the United States.

The late 1970s and 1980s saw a process of mass factory closures in cities and regions across the Midwest of the United States.

Real Estate, Construction and Economic Development in Emerging Market Economies examines the relationships between real estate and construction sectors and explores how each sector, and the relationships between them, affect economic development in emerging market economies (EMEs).

Real Estate, Construction and Economic Development in Emerging Market Economies examines the relationships between real estate and construction sectors and explores how each sector, and the relationships between them, affect economic development in emerging market economies (EMEs).

This collection of reflective, critical, philosophical, and practical chapters represents the author's 60 years as a veterinarian, ethologist, and bioethicist.

Coal occupies a large share in the global energy basket.

Ecological Urbanism: The Nature of the City asks the questions that are important inside and outside the built environment professions: what are climate change, urbanisation and ecology doing to the theory and practice of urban design?

Ecological Urbanism: The Nature of the City asks the questions that are important inside and outside the built environment professions: what are climate change, urbanisation and ecology doing to the theory and practice of urban design?

This book aims to provide insight into the "e;soft"e; side of real estate research and the interesting results and implications of the real estate research outside the traditional realm of investment/financial aspects.

This book aims to provide insight into the "e;soft"e; side of real estate research and the interesting results and implications of the real estate research outside the traditional realm of investment/financial aspects.

Urban Theory: New Critical Perspectives provides an introduction to innovative critical contributions to the field of urban studies.

Urban Theory: New Critical Perspectives provides an introduction to innovative critical contributions to the field of urban studies.

Growing inequalities in Europe are a major challenge threatening the sustainability of urban communities and the competiveness of European cities.

Growing inequalities in Europe are a major challenge threatening the sustainability of urban communities and the competiveness of European cities.

As London sought to use the Olympics to achieve an ambitious programme of urban renewal in the relatively socially deprived East London it attracted global attention and sparked debate.

As London sought to use the Olympics to achieve an ambitious programme of urban renewal in the relatively socially deprived East London it attracted global attention and sparked debate.

The Cities of the Global South Reader adopts a fresh and critical approach to the fi eld of urbanization in the developing world.

The Cities of the Global South Reader adopts a fresh and critical approach to the fi eld of urbanization in the developing world.

This book discusses the tension, or even the contradiction, between ethno-cultural segregation and ethno-cultural mixing in the field of the arts.

This book discusses the tension, or even the contradiction, between ethno-cultural segregation and ethno-cultural mixing in the field of the arts.

Peter Hall and Colin Ward wrote Sociable Cities to celebrate the centenary of publication of Ebenezer Howard's To-morrow: A Peaceful Path to Real Reform in 1998 - an event they then marked by co-editing (with Dennis Hardy) the magnificent annotated facsimile edition of Howard's original, long lost and very scarce, in 2003.

Peter Hall and Colin Ward wrote Sociable Cities to celebrate the centenary of publication of Ebenezer Howard's To-morrow: A Peaceful Path to Real Reform in 1998 - an event they then marked by co-editing (with Dennis Hardy) the magnificent annotated facsimile edition of Howard's original, long lost and very scarce, in 2003.

The chapters in this volume examine the racial and ethnic landscape of Britain in a contemporary era of neoliberalism and financial crisis.

The chapters in this volume examine the racial and ethnic landscape of Britain in a contemporary era of neoliberalism and financial crisis.

Cities around the world are undergoing profound changes.

Cities around the world are undergoing profound changes.

Shrinking Cities: Understanding Shrinkage and Decline in the United States offers a contemporary look at patterns of shrinkage and decline in the United States.

Shrinking Cities: Understanding Shrinkage and Decline in the United States offers a contemporary look at patterns of shrinkage and decline in the United States.

Check out the author's video to find out more about the book: https://vimeo.

Check out the author's video to find out more about the book: https://vimeo.

This book links two fields of interest which are too seldom considered together: the production and critique of art in public space and social behaviour in the public realm.

This book links two fields of interest which are too seldom considered together: the production and critique of art in public space and social behaviour in the public realm.

Urban redevelopment in American cities is neither easy nor quick.

Urban redevelopment in American cities is neither easy nor quick.

Although the last decade has seen steady progress towards wider acceptance of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered, and queer (LGBTQ) individuals, LGBTQ residential and commercial areas have come under increasing pressure from gentrification and redevelopment initiatives.

Although the last decade has seen steady progress towards wider acceptance of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered, and queer (LGBTQ) individuals, LGBTQ residential and commercial areas have come under increasing pressure from gentrification and redevelopment initiatives.

Helmut Holzapfel's Urbanism and Transport, a bestseller in its own country, now available in English, examines the history and the future of urban design for transport in major European cities.

Helmut Holzapfel's Urbanism and Transport, a bestseller in its own country, now available in English, examines the history and the future of urban design for transport in major European cities.

Equity and Trusts: A Problem-Based Approach creates a fresh approach to learning through the use of integrated realistic case studies designed to simulate how the law works in practice.

Equity and Trusts: A Problem-Based Approach creates a fresh approach to learning through the use of integrated realistic case studies designed to simulate how the law works in practice.

In the years since publication of the first edition of Food Wars much has happened in the world of food policy.

In the years since publication of the first edition of Food Wars much has happened in the world of food policy.

The 21st century has been dominated by an almost compulsive race to find new pathways for city development.

The 21st century has been dominated by an almost compulsive race to find new pathways for city development.

After more than a century of heroic urban visions, urban dwellers today live in suburban subdivisions, gated communities, edge cities, apartment towers, and slums.

After more than a century of heroic urban visions, urban dwellers today live in suburban subdivisions, gated communities, edge cities, apartment towers, and slums.

Winner of the Gold Award in the Tenth Annual Robert Bruss Real Estate Book Competition24 Hour Cities is the very first full length book about America's cities that never sleep.

Winner of the Gold Award in the Tenth Annual Robert Bruss Real Estate Book Competition24 Hour Cities is the very first full length book about America's cities that never sleep.

Since the turn of the twenty first century, there has been a trend for urban "e;mega events"e; to be awarded to cities and nations in the East and Global South.