Urban communities

This book offers various soil and water treatment technologies due to increasing global soil and water pollution.

This book examines the formation of urban neighbourhoods in the Middle East, Africa, and South Asia.

This book examines the formation of urban neighbourhoods in the Middle East, Africa, and South Asia.

Social Capital for a Child-Friendly City argues for the importance of relationship networks (social capital) in children's growth and socialization, and explores how child-friendly social capital can be cultivated through urban planning and community development.

Social Capital for a Child-Friendly City argues for the importance of relationship networks (social capital) in children's growth and socialization, and explores how child-friendly social capital can be cultivated through urban planning and community development.

Revolutions have gripped many countries, leading to the destruction of buildings, places, and artifacts; climate change is threatening the ancestral homes of many, the increasingly uneven distribution of resources has made the poor vulnerable to the coercive efforts by the rich, and social uncertainty has led to the romanticizing of the past.

Revolutions have gripped many countries, leading to the destruction of buildings, places, and artifacts; climate change is threatening the ancestral homes of many, the increasingly uneven distribution of resources has made the poor vulnerable to the coercive efforts by the rich, and social uncertainty has led to the romanticizing of the past.

Human beings are getting fatter and sicker.

Human beings are getting fatter and sicker.

Advanced Quantitative Research Methods for Urban Planners provides fundamental knowledge and hands-on techniques about research, such as research topics and key journals in the planning field, advice for technical writing, and advanced quantitative methodologies.

Advanced Quantitative Research Methods for Urban Planners provides fundamental knowledge and hands-on techniques about research, such as research topics and key journals in the planning field, advice for technical writing, and advanced quantitative methodologies.

Concerns about immigration and the rising visibility of minorities have triggered a lively scholarly debate on the consequences of ethnic diversity for trust, cooperation, and other aspects of social cohesion.

This book draws upon domestication science to undertake a radical reappraisal of the jurisprudence of property and intellectual property.

This book draws upon domestication science to undertake a radical reappraisal of the jurisprudence of property and intellectual property.

With disappearing music venues, and arts and culture communities at constant risk of displacement in our urban centers, the preservation of intangible cultural heritage is of growing concern to global cities.

With disappearing music venues, and arts and culture communities at constant risk of displacement in our urban centers, the preservation of intangible cultural heritage is of growing concern to global cities.

Urban centres are at the heart of the dynamics of war and peace, of stability and violence: as 'safe havens' for those seeking protection, as concentrations of public administrative and military apparatus, and as symbolic bases of state sovereignty and public authority.

Disputes and dispossession of property rights in the mining sector are causes of injustice, violence, and forced resettlement around the world.

This book provides the first in depth interpretation of how to understand the causes of ethnic residential segregation across Western European countries and the USA.

Urban centres are at the heart of the dynamics of war and peace, of stability and violence: as 'safe havens' for those seeking protection, as concentrations of public administrative and military apparatus, and as symbolic bases of state sovereignty and public authority.

Disputes and dispossession of property rights in the mining sector are causes of injustice, violence, and forced resettlement around the world.

This book focuses on fuzzy logic, a paradigm-shifting approach that challenges the binary simplicity of traditional logic systems.

This book provides the first in depth interpretation of how to understand the causes of ethnic residential segregation across Western European countries and the USA.

This book explores the topic of architecture as a component of public discourse, focussing on the reception of four high-profile developments in the City of London (the UK capital's financial district) dating from the final years of the twentieth century.

When we think of gangs, we are likely overcome with images of fear and violence.

This book demonstrates how the various legal efforts employed to eradicate global urban poverty also play a significant role in shaping it.

Community Responses to Disasters in the Pacific Rim presents different aspects of place-making in displacement in the Pacific Rim region.

Build to Rent (BTR) is a form of residential tenure which first emerged in the United States, where it is known as Multifamily Housing.

How do ambiances shape our sensory, social, and built environments?

What you wear.

Marking Time: Performance, archaeology and the city charts a genealogy of alternative practices of theatre-making since the 1960s in one particular city Cardiff.

Marking Time: Performance, archaeology and the city charts a genealogy of alternative practices of theatre-making since the 1960s in one particular city Cardiff.

This book examines the transformation of the Italian city from the 1950s to the present with particular attention to questions of identity, migration and changes in urban culture.

Cities are home to over fifty percent of the world's population, a figure which is expected to increase enormously by 2050.

The narratives of disease, hygiene, developments in medicine and the growth of urban environments are fundamental to the discipline of modern history.

Cities are responsible for three-quarters of the world s energy consumption.

Beirut is the cultural, commercial and economic hub of Lebanon.

As global climate change threatens to change radically both the political and physical climate with regard to water issues, so a reassessment of some of the fundamental principles of international water law is emerging.

We usually associate contemporary urban life with movement and speed.

The meanings and contexts of Shari'a are the subject of both curiosity and misunderstanding by non-Muslims.

Sustainable Cities is about the challenges faced by our urban environments and how these can be met.

To Henri Lefebvre, the space and 'lived everydayness' of the inter-dependent, multi-faceted city produces manifold possibilities of identifiction and realisation through often imperceptible interactions and practices.

The resulting cultural differences can often create problems and conflict.

The resulting cultural differences can often create problems and conflict.

The narratives of disease, hygiene, developments in medicine and the growth of urban environments are fundamental to the discipline of modern history.

We usually associate contemporary urban life with movement and speed.

Sustainable Cities is about the challenges faced by our urban environments and how these can be met.

The analysis of urban poverty has traditionally been dominated by economic approaches, often neglecting the social questions arising from poverty.

To Henri Lefebvre, the space and 'lived everydayness' of the inter-dependent, multi-faceted city produces manifold possibilities of identifiction and realisation through often imperceptible interactions and practices.

The enduring 'Town versus Country' debate lies at the root of modern British society.