Urban communities

This book examines the relationship between social practices and built space, focusing on current cooperative/participative and posthuman approaches to its production and management.

Reconfiguring the lines between literature and psychoanalysis, this book argues that to alleviate poverty we engage with its psychic life.

Reconfiguring the lines between literature and psychoanalysis, this book argues that to alleviate poverty we engage with its psychic life.

Examines interrelations between flood management, flooding, and environmental change, for advanced students, researchers, and practitioners.

Colossus unpacks the intricacies and inequalities of economic, social and political life in India''s capital, Delhi.

Explores new geographies of urban poverty, examining the citizenship, legal status and politics of the rehabilitated poor.

This book offers a new perspective on French architecture, describing the impact of political history on the architectural development of Paris.

This book offers a new perspective on French architecture, describing the impact of political history on the architectural development of Paris.

Why and how local coffee bars in Italythose distinctively Italian social and cultural spaceshave been increasingly managed by Chinese baristas since the Great Recession of 2008Italians regard espresso as a quintessentially Italian cultural productso much so that Italy has applied to add Italian espresso to UNESCO's official list of intangible heritages of humanity.

This book addresses key issues in housing policy through the lens of the philosophical concepts that underpin them.

This book provides an up-to-date introduction to the important field of urban anthropology.

This book provides an up-to-date introduction to the important field of urban anthropology.

Mapping Possibility traces the intertwined intellectual, professional, and emotional life of Leonie Sandercock.

Mapping Possibility traces the intertwined intellectual, professional, and emotional life of Leonie Sandercock.

This book addresses key issues in housing policy through the lens of the philosophical concepts that underpin them.

Disneyization of Drug Use offers an innovative, ground-up understanding of the atypical patterns of illegal drug use that often permeate multi-day party zones such as nightlife tourist resorts and music festivals.

Disneyization of Drug Use offers an innovative, ground-up understanding of the atypical patterns of illegal drug use that often permeate multi-day party zones such as nightlife tourist resorts and music festivals.

This book breaks new ground in demystifying the relationship between architecture, nationhood, and other forms of collective identity.

This book breaks new ground in demystifying the relationship between architecture, nationhood, and other forms of collective identity.

This book explores environments where art, imagination, and creative practice meet urban spaces at the point where they connect to the digital world.

This book explores environments where art, imagination, and creative practice meet urban spaces at the point where they connect to the digital world.

This book examines the digitalization of longstanding problems of technological advance that produce inequalities and automated governance, which relieves subjects of agency and critical thought, and prompts a need to weaponize thoughtfulness against technocratic designs.

This book examines the digitalization of longstanding problems of technological advance that produce inequalities and automated governance, which relieves subjects of agency and critical thought, and prompts a need to weaponize thoughtfulness against technocratic designs.

The Environmental Impact of Cities assesses the environmental impact that comes from cities and their inhabitants, demonstrating that our current political and economic systems are not environmentally sustainable because they are designed for endless growth in a system which is finite.

The Environmental Impact of Cities assesses the environmental impact that comes from cities and their inhabitants, demonstrating that our current political and economic systems are not environmentally sustainable because they are designed for endless growth in a system which is finite.

Moving from the mid-seventeenth century to the near present, this book marks physical and conceptual changes across European towns and examines how gender was implicated and imbricated in those changes.

Moving from the mid-seventeenth century to the near present, this book marks physical and conceptual changes across European towns and examines how gender was implicated and imbricated in those changes.

Housing is a fundamental need and universal part of human living that shapes our lives in profound ways that go far beyond basic sheltering.

Housing is a fundamental need and universal part of human living that shapes our lives in profound ways that go far beyond basic sheltering.

This book explores how houses are created, maintained and conceptualized in southern Oman.

This book explores how houses are created, maintained and conceptualized in southern Oman.

This thoroughly revised and updated fourth edition of The Sustainable Urban Development Reader combines classic and contemporary readings to provide a broad introduction to the topic that is accessible to general and undergraduate audiences.

This thoroughly revised and updated fourth edition of The Sustainable Urban Development Reader combines classic and contemporary readings to provide a broad introduction to the topic that is accessible to general and undergraduate audiences.

This book presents a systematic analysis of the differential implementation of the urban reforms in two Indian cities, Ahmedabad and Kanpur.

This book presents a systematic analysis of the differential implementation of the urban reforms in two Indian cities, Ahmedabad and Kanpur.

The aim of this book is to provide a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of the law relating to houses in multiple occupation (HMOs) in part 2 of the Housing Act 2004 that local authorities environmental health practitioners use to regulate this sector.

The aim of this book is to provide a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of the law relating to houses in multiple occupation (HMOs) in part 2 of the Housing Act 2004 that local authorities environmental health practitioners use to regulate this sector.

This is the first textbook to adopt an integrated perspective of climate change in Australia, drawing on research from the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (2021, 2022) Sixth Assessment Reports to make it the most up-to-date resource available.

This is the first textbook to adopt an integrated perspective of climate change in Australia, drawing on research from the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (2021, 2022) Sixth Assessment Reports to make it the most up-to-date resource available.

Landscape architecture is one of the key professions dedicated to making cities hospitable and healthy places to live, work and play, while respecting and enhancing the natural environments and landscapes we inhabit.

Landscape architecture is one of the key professions dedicated to making cities hospitable and healthy places to live, work and play, while respecting and enhancing the natural environments and landscapes we inhabit.

This book brings together chapters that address questions of leisure, activism, and the animation of urban environments.

This book brings together chapters that address questions of leisure, activism, and the animation of urban environments.

This book engages with evolving definitions of borders and citizenship in the public discourse in the South Asia region.

This book engages with evolving definitions of borders and citizenship in the public discourse in the South Asia region.

Originally published in 1979 and 1990 the 2 volumes in this set: Analyse the economic and social rationale of housing improvement in London Review the progress of improvement legislation as applied to London Identifies the connection between grant distribution and socio-economic change within Housing Action Areas in the 1960s and 70s Provide introductory background to regional imbalance and policy in Britain Examine the economic and social data suggestive of a North-South divide Question well-known assumptions about regional imbalance

This book is part of an ongoing transnational turn in cultural history.

This book is part of an ongoing transnational turn in cultural history.

This book includes twelve newly commissioned and carefully curated chapters each of which presents an alternative planning history and theory written from the perspective of groups that have been historically marginalized or neglected.