Urban communities

Street trade is a critical and highly visible component of the informal economy, linked to global systems of exchange.

Street trade is a critical and highly visible component of the informal economy, linked to global systems of exchange.

The Routledge Handbook of Housing Policy and Planning provides a comprehensive multidisciplinary overview of contemporary trends in housing studies, housing policies, planning for housing, and housing innovations in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Continental Europe.

The Routledge Handbook of Housing Policy and Planning provides a comprehensive multidisciplinary overview of contemporary trends in housing studies, housing policies, planning for housing, and housing innovations in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Continental Europe.

Cognition and the Built Environment argues that interacting with our built environment, as users and as architects, is a cognitive process.

Urban Design: A Typology of Procedures and Products, 2nd Edition provides a comprehensive and accessible introduction to urban design, defining the field and addressing the controversies and goals of urban design.

Urban Design: A Typology of Procedures and Products, 2nd Edition provides a comprehensive and accessible introduction to urban design, defining the field and addressing the controversies and goals of urban design.

In seeking to answer the question Whose Tradition?

In seeking to answer the question Whose Tradition?

Youth unemployment in the UK remains around the one million mark, with many young people from impoverished backgrounds becoming and remaining NEET (Not in Education, Employment, or Training).

Property is more diverse than is usually assumed.

Breaking the country-specific boundaries of traditional housing policy books, Remaking Housing Policy is the first introductory housing policy textbook designed to be used by students all around the world.

Breaking the country-specific boundaries of traditional housing policy books, Remaking Housing Policy is the first introductory housing policy textbook designed to be used by students all around the world.

This book explores how gentrification often reinforces traditional gender roles and spatial constructions during the process of reshaping the labour, housing, commercial and policy landscapes of the city.

This book explores how gentrification often reinforces traditional gender roles and spatial constructions during the process of reshaping the labour, housing, commercial and policy landscapes of the city.

This invaluable resource guides readers through the process of creating scholarly, publishable prose from the results of quantitative experiments and investigations.

This invaluable resource guides readers through the process of creating scholarly, publishable prose from the results of quantitative experiments and investigations.

Encounters in Planning Thought builds on the intellectual legacy of spatial planning through essays by leading scholars from around the world, including John Friedmann, Peter Marcuse, Patsy Healey, Andreas Faludi, Judith Innes, Rachelle Alterman and many more.

Encounters in Planning Thought builds on the intellectual legacy of spatial planning through essays by leading scholars from around the world, including John Friedmann, Peter Marcuse, Patsy Healey, Andreas Faludi, Judith Innes, Rachelle Alterman and many more.

Tourism gentrification is a critical shaping force of socio-economic and contemporary urban landscapes.

Tourism gentrification is a critical shaping force of socio-economic and contemporary urban landscapes.

The Rating and Council Tax Pocket Book is a concise, practical guide to the legal and practical issues surrounding non-domestic rates and council tax.

The Rating and Council Tax Pocket Book is a concise, practical guide to the legal and practical issues surrounding non-domestic rates and council tax.

Recent years have seen a growing interest in undetermined and unqualified urban spaces.

Recent years have seen a growing interest in undetermined and unqualified urban spaces.

We are used to thinking of human rights as a matter for state governments to deal with.

We are used to thinking of human rights as a matter for state governments to deal with.

On the eve of the financial crisis, the USA was inhabited by almost 70 percent homeowning households, in comparison to about 45 percent in Germany.

On the eve of the financial crisis, the USA was inhabited by almost 70 percent homeowning households, in comparison to about 45 percent in Germany.

How does order emerge out of the multiplicity of bodies, objects, ideas and practices that constitute the urban?

How does order emerge out of the multiplicity of bodies, objects, ideas and practices that constitute the urban?

The Dialogues in Urban and Regional Planning series offers a selection of some of the best scholarship in urban and regional planning from around the world.

The Dialogues in Urban and Regional Planning series offers a selection of some of the best scholarship in urban and regional planning from around the world.

Monumental in scale and epic in development, cities have become the most visible and significant symbol of human progress.

Monumental in scale and epic in development, cities have become the most visible and significant symbol of human progress.

This book describes many of the unique contributions of the Food & Fitness program including a number of early successes, drawing lessons from efforts to form and maintain partnerships, and from the strategies employed to create structural change in communities.

This book describes many of the unique contributions of the Food & Fitness program including a number of early successes, drawing lessons from efforts to form and maintain partnerships, and from the strategies employed to create structural change in communities.

In recent years, the United Kingdom has become a more and more divided society with inequality between the regions as marked as it has ever been.

In recent years, the United Kingdom has become a more and more divided society with inequality between the regions as marked as it has ever been.

There is enormous current interest in urban food systems, with a wide array of policies and initiatives intended to increase food security, decrease ecological impacts and improve public health.

More than half the world's population now lives in cities.

More than half the world's population now lives in cities.

First published in 1987.

First published in 1987.

While government enforcement of laws and regulations to control the production of chloroflurocarbons in 1987 has been hailed as exemplifying the precautionary principle, for almost two decades US companies failed to take precautionary measures to prevent chemical emissions, despite the probable risk of stratospheric ozone loss.

While government enforcement of laws and regulations to control the production of chloroflurocarbons in 1987 has been hailed as exemplifying the precautionary principle, for almost two decades US companies failed to take precautionary measures to prevent chemical emissions, despite the probable risk of stratospheric ozone loss.

This edited volume introduces readers to the relationship between higher education and transnational politics.

This edited volume introduces readers to the relationship between higher education and transnational politics.

In the twenty-first century technology has become global, and firms compete using knowledge and capital.

Processes of multi-scalar regional urbanization are occurring worldwide.