Urban communities

In the twentieth century, the urban settings of the wealthy nations were largely associated with opportunity, accumulation of wealth, and better health than their rural counterparts.

In an urbanizing world, the majority of people live in urban settlements predominantly on the coastal edge.

This interdisciplinary collection explores the diverse relationships between the frequently ignored and inherently ambiguous hinterlands and their manifestations in literature and culture.

While traditional welfare efforts have waned, a new style of social policy implementation has emerged dramatically in recent decades.

This is a timely work on a very dynamic field.

This handbook takes on one of the most pressing issues of today's society - the question of housing.

Er ist so fahrrad- und umweltfreundlich wie sonst keiner, hat eine spannende Geschichte und wird von 50 000 Studenten jung gehalten: der Bischofssitz Münster.

This book brings together an international group of artists and writers to respond to the question of how our new world orders force us to reconsider urban walking and urban spaces in ways which extend into the digital sphere of online dialogue and screen sharing.

First published in 2006.

This book offers an ethnographic exploration of the role that atmosphere plays in work processes undertaken within an urban design studio.

'This is a textbook about cities or, more precisely, about the physical form of cities.

This book explores the diverse immigrant experiences in urban West Africa, where some groups integrate seamlessly while others face exclusion and violence.

The Routledge Handbook of Institutions and Planning in Action contains a selection of 25 chapters prepared by specialized international scholars of urban planning and urban studies focusing on the question of how institutional innovation occurs in practices of action.

This book uses international case studies to present insights on the policies, actors, and institutions that are critical to successful transit-oriented development (TOD).

Social Infrastructure and Vulnerability in the Suburbs examines how the combination of the low-density, car-centric geography of outer suburbs and neoliberal governance in the past several decades has affected disadvantaged populations in North American metro areas.

This book explores the perplexing question of how to increase sustainable energy technology use in the developing world, and specifically focuses on two megacities within Latin America.

It redraws, rewrites and relooks at Bangalore from the perspectives of the city''s female, male, and transgender street-based sex workers.

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

Cities in South Asia are homes to one of the highest concentrations of people anywhere in the world and the allocation of land and urban resources and the benefits that can be derived from them in this region have become increasingly contested.

This book provides a detailed account of transnational practices undertaken by Indian 'high-tech' workers living in the United States.

We like to think of ourselves as possessing an essential self, a core identity that is who we really are, regardless of where we live, work, or play.

The task of modelling the evolution of cities - the dynamics - is one of the major challenges of the social sciences.

This book presents essential new governance structures to embrace and regulate smart mobility modes.

Kim details a brief history of urban renewal in central Seoul through articulating urban planning paradigm shifts.

This double-volume work focuses on socio-demographics and the use of such data to support strategic resource management and planning initiatives.

Urban High-Technology Zones offers essential planning insights for our increasingly high-tech economy and society, looking at the role the built environment plays, the policy factors that contribute to their formation and growth, quality-of-life impacts of high tech clusters on their surrounding communities, and economic geography.

Interdisciplinary in approach, this book employs the key concepts of fragmentation and reconfiguration to consider the ways in which human experience and artistic practice can engage with and respond to the disintegration that characterises modern cities.

In the years following its near-bankruptcy in 1976 until the end of the 1980s, New York City came to epitomize the debt-driven, deal-oriented, economic boom of the Reagan era.

In TheDiaspora Strikes Back the eminent ethnic and cultural studies scholar Juan Flores flips the process on its head: what happens to the home country when it is being constantly fed by emigrants returning from abroad?

Community foundations bring together the resources of individuals, families, and businesses to support effective nonprofits in their communities.

Martin examines the environment of policing, a profoundly urban enterprise that has been greatly influenced by the pace and nature of urbanization.

Splintering Towers of Babel focuses on and redefines soft infrastructures and critical infrastructure projects.

THETORONTO STAR'S 30 BOOKS WE CAN'T WAIT TO READ THIS SPRINGThe updated edition of a Toronto favourite meanders around some of the citys unique neighborhoods and considers what makes a city walkableWhat is the 'Toronto look'?

Evictions in the UK examines the relationships between tenants, landlords, housing providers and government agencies and the tensions and conflicts that characterise these relations.

Diversities Old and New provides comparative analyses of new urban patterns that arise under conditions of rapid, migration-driven diversification, including transformations of social categories, social relations and public spaces.

A critical examination of urban policies and management practices used to make cities sustainable.

The Routledge Handbook of Law and the Anthropocene provides a critical survey into the function of law and governance during a time when humans have the power to impact the Earth system.

This book studies the principles of urban spatial organization of historic cities.

Although all advanced industrial societies have urban and regional development policies, such policy in the United States historically has taken on a very distinct form.

Evolution, biology, and society is a catch-all phrase encompassing any scholarly work that utilizes evolutionary theory and/or biological or behavioral genetic methods in the study of the human social group, and The Oxford Handbook of Evolution, Biology, and Society contains an much needed overview of research in the area by sociologists and other social scientists.

This book presents an original interpretation of the building history of London in terms of its evolving political economy.

This book presents a multifaceted perspective on regional development and corresponding processes of adaptation and response, focusing on the concepts of polarization and peripheralization.

Fixing Broken Cities explores the planning, execution, and impact of urban repopulation and investment strategies that were launched in the wake of two crises: late twentieth-century economic disinvestment and the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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

This book provides a bold vision and roadmap for creating great places.

The past decade brought forth a wave of excitement and promise for researchers and practitioners interested in community practice as an approach based on social justice principles and an embrace of community participatory actions.

The understanding of landscape in the German-speaking area has some similarities with the discussions of the topic in other European languages and scientific communities, but there are some specifics.

Rural-Urban Relationships in the Nineteenth Century is a collection of 12 new essays, presented in four sections which highlight key examples of these rural/urban encounters.