Urban communities

This book explores the topic of proximity and its relations in the design of contemporary urban fabrics and public spaces.

An authoritative addition to comparative housing research, adding to knowledge of housing policy in practice in China.

Moving Difference demonstrates how differences between migrants who share the same nationality travel with them and can impact on every aspect of their 'mobile lives'.

"e;There are places where history feels irrelevant, and America's inner cities are among them,"e; acknowledges Michael Katz, in expressing the tensions between activism and scholarship.

This edited collection is a major contribution to the current development of a 'material turn' in the social sciences and humanities.

Reviewing the limitations of various planning options, this book addresses the debate on how to preserve open space in the context of a growing metropolis.

Philosopher, sociologist and urban theorist, Henri Lefebvre is one of the great social theorists of the twentieth century.

Perinteisistä teollisuudenaloista eläneet paikat ovat uhanalaisia.

The inaction of nation states and international bodies has posed significant risks to the environment.

This edited volume offers a critical reflection on the failed experiment to redevelop the city of Rio de Janeiro according to the neoliberal strategy of entrepreneurial urban governance and mercantile regulatory transformations, which were leveraged by mega-sporting events.

This book is for the well-meaning idealists - city planners, urban designers, municipalities, and developers - who are frustrated working within the messy political environments of local democracies.

This book provides a comprehensive overview on micromobility, which is a mode of transportation that has become particularly popular among young people in recent years, due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, and supports public transport for short distances.

In Kids on the Street Joseph Plaster explores the informal support networks that enabled abandoned and runaway queer youth to survive in tenderloin districts across the United States.

This book focuses on the challenge that Australia faces in transitioning to renewable energy and regenerating its cities via a transformation of its built environment.

The book considers urban mobilities and immobilities in the Global South through an exploration of the theoretical and methodological entry points that can be used to further the agenda of transport planning.

In this fascinating and challenging work, the author analyses the way water for drinking is produced, distributed, owned, acquired, and consumed in contrasting ways in different settings.

New Islamist Architecture and Urbanism claims that, in today's world, a research agenda concerning the relation between Islam and space has to consider the role of Islamism rather than Islam in shaping - and in return being shaped by - the built environment.

By 2030, China's cities will be home to 1 billion people - one in every eight people on earth.

Seaports, as part of urban centers, play a major role in the cultural, social and economic life of the cities in which they are located, and through the links they provide to the outside world.

This textbook integrates GIS, spatial analysis, and computational methods for solving real-world problems in various policy-relevant social science applications.

Photographs play a hugely influential but largely unexamined role in the practice of landscape architecture and design.

On August 29th 2005, the headwaters of Hurricane Katrina's storm-surge arrived at New Orleans, the levees broke and the city was inundated.

Astana, the capital city of the post-Soviet Kazakhstan, has often been admired for the design and planning of its futuristic cityscape.

Exploring the Spatiality of the City across Cultural Texts: Narrating Spaces, Reading Urbanity explores the narrative formations of urbanity from an interdisciplinary perspective.

Community is a central idea in urban studies but remains conceptually vague and empirically difficult to work with.

This book proposes new methodological tools and approaches in order to tease out and elicit the different facets of urban fragmentation through the medium of cinema and the moving image, as a contribution to our understanding of cities and their topographies.

Writing regions, undertaking a regional study, was once a standard form of geographic communication and critique.

A compelling case can be made that violent crime, especially after the 1960s, was one of the most significant domestic issues in the United States.

The Shenzhen Phenomenon is a comprehensive and systematic study about how Shenzhen, the world's fastest growing city, has developed into an international metropolis from scratch within 40 years.

As COVID-19 took hold across local and international borders in 2020 and 2021, over 1.

This book focuses on the transformation of rural places, peoples, and land endemic to the contemporary manifestations of globalization.

This book interrogates how districts were used in British North America to inspect, and document indigenous people by the Hudson's Bay Company (HBC).

Originally published in 1987, Cost-Benefit Analysis in Urban and Regional Planning, outlines the theory and practice of cost-benefit analysis (CBA) in the context of urban and regional planning.

Die sozial- und raumwissenschaftliche, besonders aber die politische Diskussion um Segregation konzentriert sich vor allem auf die residenzielle, ethnische Segregation.

Riyadh has set its sights on becoming a world city befitting the twenty-first century.

The book unravels the entangled relationship between ascriptive identity (caste) and space (urban) and how this interaction (re)moulds urban stratification.

While technology is developing at a fast pace, urban planners and cities are still behind in finding effective ways to use technology to address citizen's needs.

Planning lies at the heart of successful and sustainable places, yet planning scholarship often appears stuck in routinised patterns of thought.

This book explores demographic changes in Functional Urban Areas (FUAs) in Poland since 1990.

The application of mixed methods research design in the built environment discipline by students and academics has continued to grow exponentially.

Despite increasing disaster risk in South Asian countries, exposure and vulnerability to natural hazards are not yet at the forefront of development agendas.

This book explores the growing role of cities and regions as sub-national actors in shaping global governance.

This book examines condominium, property, governance, and law in international and conceptual perspective and reveals this urban realm as complex and mutating.

This handbook brings together diverse perspectives, major topics, and multiple approaches to one of the biggest legal institutions in society: property.

In a world increasingly organised as networks of cities, this book offers the first full-length treatment of the subject of managing the city economy.

This book explains how and why cities on the African continent have grown at such a rapid pace, how municipal authorities have tried to cope with this massive influx of people, and how long-time urban residents and newcomers interact, negotiate, and struggle over access to limited resources.

This book presents a new paradigm of knowledge and action withrespect to urban waterfronts and the fluid city paradigm, explaining its methodological framework and describing an integrated andcreative planning approach in which waterfront regeneration is pursued as a keyurban-renewal strategy.

** Honorable Mention at the 2019 ERDA Great Places Awards ** Making Places for People explores twelve social questions in environmental design.