Urban communities

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.

A fascinating look into the mind of H.

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.

Artificial Intelligence in Smart Cities presents an interdisciplinary and comprehensive analysis of how AI reengineers urban life, governance, and infrastructure.

In a world where people are predominantly on the move, mobility has not received as much attention as sedentism.

Artificial Intelligence in Smart Cities presents an interdisciplinary and comprehensive analysis of how AI reengineers urban life, governance, and infrastructure.

In a world where people are predominantly on the move, mobility has not received as much attention as sedentism.

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.

Ideal for students taking law modules on construction, surveying, real estate, planning and civil engineering courses, Galbraith's Construction and Land Management Law for Students is an excellent overview of the key legal issues in the built environment.

This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the lives, challenges, and aspirations of street children across different regions of Nigeria.

Ideal for students taking law modules on construction, surveying, real estate, planning and civil engineering courses, Galbraith's Construction and Land Management Law for Students is an excellent overview of the key legal issues in the built environment.

Everyday Life in the Old City of Jerusalem: Historical Transformations and Biographical Emplacements offers an intimate, ground-level exploration of everyday life in one of the world's most contested and symbolically charged urban spaces.

Everyday Life in the Old City of Jerusalem: Historical Transformations and Biographical Emplacements offers an intimate, ground-level exploration of everyday life in one of the world's most contested and symbolically charged urban spaces.

This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the lives, challenges, and aspirations of street children across different regions of Nigeria.

Spatial Justice: The Basics offers a concise and accessible introduction to spatial justice as both a theoretical framework and a practical agenda for urban transformation.

Fundamentals of Community Design for Wellbeing addresses the need to rethink the philosophy and form of residential environments due to recent social, economic, environmental, and cultural shifts, including depletion of non-renewable resources, elevated levels of greenhouse gas emissions, and climate change.

Posturban reveals why the future cannot remain urban.

Posturban reveals why the future cannot remain urban.

Mapping has evolved beyond navigation into a method for interpreting spatial, ephemeral, and sociopolitical dimensions of contemporary life.

This book examines the pressing challenges of urbanization and ecological degradation through the lens of circular economy principles.

Spatial Justice: The Basics offers a concise and accessible introduction to spatial justice as both a theoretical framework and a practical agenda for urban transformation.

As cities grapple with climate change and social inequality, a growing movement recognizes walking as fundamental to urban sustainability.

This innovative edited volume places global urbanism in the context of the phenomenal growth of cities of the South, investigating their colonial contentiousness and asking how their history plays out in the twenty-first-century phenomenon of urbanisation.

This innovative edited volume places global urbanism in the context of the phenomenal growth of cities of the South, investigating their colonial contentiousness and asking how their history plays out in the twenty-first-century phenomenon of urbanisation.

Through qualitative interviews with formerly incarcerated veterans, this book focuses on the lived experiences, and behaviors associated with the incarceration of veterans.

Fundamentals of Community Design for Wellbeing addresses the need to rethink the philosophy and form of residential environments due to recent social, economic, environmental, and cultural shifts, including depletion of non-renewable resources, elevated levels of greenhouse gas emissions, and climate change.

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Arab Modernism(s) is an exploration of how the Arab world encountered modernism - sometimes inadvertently, sometimes deliberately - and how those encounters continue to shape the built environment of its cities today.

This book examines the pressing challenges of urbanization and ecological degradation through the lens of circular economy principles.

Through qualitative interviews with formerly incarcerated veterans, this book focuses on the lived experiences, and behaviors associated with the incarceration of veterans.

As cities grapple with climate change and social inequality, a growing movement recognizes walking as fundamental to urban sustainability.

Arab Modernism(s) is an exploration of how the Arab world encountered modernism - sometimes inadvertently, sometimes deliberately - and how those encounters continue to shape the built environment of its cities today.