Urban communities

Cities, Change, and Conflict was one of the first texts to embrace the perspective of political economy as its main explanatory framework, and then complement it with the rich contributions of human ecology as well as perspectives derived from critical approaches to social theory.

Advances in artificial intelligence (AI), widespread mobile devices, internet technologies, multimedia data sources, and information processing have led to the emergence of multimedia processing.

This handbook provides a comprehensive global survey and assessment of the law and policy relating to homelessness prevention.

A thrilling and immersive work of speculative climate fiction.

About 15,000 people live permanently afloat on canals, rivers and coasts in Great Britain alone, but thousands more enjoy holidaying on boats or own them as weekend retreats in the UK and abroad.

This new handbook provides a platform to bring together multidisciplinary researchers focusing on greening high-density agglomerations from three perspectives: climate change, social implications, and people's health.

How crime and security are governed has become a critical issue in criminology over the first quarter of the twenty-first century.

This handbook provides a state-of-the-art, comprehensive overview of the expanding field of urban biodiversity.

This handbook provides a state-of-the-art, comprehensive overview of the expanding field of urban biodiversity.

This book provides unique perspectives into newly changed political and socioeconomic urban landscapes due to COVID-19 in diverse cities and aims to provide ways to improve the resilience of cities using a global perspective, especially in a post-pandemic era.

Transformations of Global Food Systems for Climate Change Resilience: Addressing Food Security, Nutrition, and Health provides poignant case studies of climate change resilience frameworks for nutrition-focused transformations of agriculture and food systems, food security, food sovereignty, and population health of underserved and marginalized communities from across the globe.

What are the challenges and potential of complex and emergent urban systems?

Recurring and worsening flood incidence around the world has necessitated the understanding and strengthening of community-based flood risk management from an international perspective.

Considering sustainability as a flawed and restrictive term in practice, Sustainable Futures for Climate Adaptation argues that we must radically adapt humanity and reform society, cities, buildings, and our approach to migration in order to coexist in harmony with our natural environments.

Chromium nutritional supplements are the second best selling mineral supplements after calcium as chromium is found in pills, sports drinks, chewing gums, smoothies, and numerous other products.

Ideas about matters of public concern are shaped by the spaces associated with them: Events occur in particular places, political regulations apply to specific territories, people in different locations are differentially affected by issues.

This book examines two civic initiatives in Europe and analyses their evolution through the institutionalisation of their practices, local public effects, and established models for action at broader scales.

Cultivated Therapeutic Landscapes provides an in-depth and critical exploration of the impact of gardens and gardening on health and wellbeing.

Cultivated Therapeutic Landscapes provides an in-depth and critical exploration of the impact of gardens and gardening on health and wellbeing.

This edited volume advances our understanding of urban activism beyond the social movement theorization dominated by thesis of political opportunity structure and resource mobilization, as well as by research based on experience from the global north.

This book examines two civic initiatives in Europe and analyses their evolution through the institutionalisation of their practices, local public effects, and established models for action at broader scales.

This book explores the built environment through aspects of spatial planning, ecology, infrastructure, and urban identity.

This book unveils the nexus between disaster, governance and development with a particular focus on Bangladesh and examines the legislative and institutional aspects in mainstreaming disaster risk reduction into development planning.

The Metaverse and Smart Cities: Urban Environments in the Age of Digital Connectivity explores the intersection between the rapidly growing metaverse and the future of cities.

The Metaverse and Smart Cities: Urban Environments in the Age of Digital Connectivity explores the intersection between the rapidly growing metaverse and the future of cities.

Against the background of unprecedented rates of urbanisation in the Global South, leading to massive social, economic and environmental transformations, this book engages with the dire need to understand the ecology of such settings as the foundation for fostering sustainable and resilient human settlements in contexts that are very different to the Global North.

An essential piece in California Studies, Redemptive Dreams: Engaging Kevin Starr's California offers the first critical engagement with the vision of California's most ambitious interpreter.

This book provides an introduction to food policy in the United Kingdom, examining policy development, implementation, influences and current issues.

Sub-Saharan Africa faces many development challenges, such as its size and diversity, rapid urban population growth, history of colonial exploitation, fragile states and conflicts over land and natural resources.

This book investigates the production of public space in contemporary urban contexts as conditioned by the suffusion of urban life with digital technologies.

This book argues that the relationship between cities and climate change is entering a new and more urgent phase.

This book provides insights and discusses human-centered urban design and placemaking, human activities and urban mobility in China.

This book explores the profound impacts of gentrification on public health, examining how this process reshapes socioeconomic and physical environments, exacerbates health disparities, and influences lived experiences.

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.

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Developing countries worldwide have been embarking on 'smart cities' programmes using new technology solutions to improve public services.

This book fills a unique gap in the research on the cultural history of vegetarianism and veganism, children's literature and Victorian periodicals, and it is the first publication to systematically describe the phenomenon of Victorian children's vegetarianism and its representations in literature and culture.

This book systematically and comprehensively introduces concepts, theories, principles, and applications of Thermal Infrared (TIR) imaging spectral techniques and TIR remote sensing.

A remarkable collection of artworks that shine a light on the city's grand edifices, quirky nooks, hidden quarters and modern architecture with equal affection and pride.

This book details the transformation processes that impinge on constitutionally ordained governance by drawing on the new theoretical approaches in the urban sciences.

Community Change in Action guides students through the process of turning their personal passion into goal-driven action for community development.

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This book maps the interactions between informal workers and the law within the urban and spatial environment.

San Francisco is a uniquely favored city, but its politics are beset with extraordinary problems.

This book includes a historic overview of urban planning in the Iberian Peninsula and Morocco from 700 AD until the 20th century.

This book explores the contemporary memory of the Ottoman conquest of Constantinople (now Istanbul) in 1453.

This vivid memoir captures how race, class, and privilege shaped a white boy's coming of age in 1970s New Yorknow with a new epilogue.

This book argues that close and disciplined scrutiny of the Asian megacity regions is of critical importance to understanding Asian urbanization.

This is the first interdisciplinary book on a holistic approach to Urban Facility Management (UFM) based on recent scientific insights and analysis over a defined period of eight years of research.

This is the first interdisciplinary book on a holistic approach to Urban Facility Management (UFM) based on recent scientific insights and analysis over a defined period of eight years of research.