Urban communities

The volume explores the intricate relationship between urbanization, population dynamics, and the environment in the western Himalayas from a historical perspective.

This book explores the interwoven nature of place, Catholicism and violence in Caracas' barrios.

This handbook addresses issues around urban growth in early India.

This volume examines how urban stakeholders in China - particularly city governments and social actors - tackle China's urban environmental crisis.

This book investigates small cities - cities and towns that are not well known or internationally branded, but are facing structural economic and social issues after the Global Financial Crisis.

This book represents the latest research on urban forestry in a Malaysian context.

This book examines how mobile phones and the internet have become a vital part of the everyday lives of people experiencing homelessness.

This book examines the settlement space of special communities in China on the community scale from an interdisciplinary approach that combines perspectives from urban planning and sociology.

This book discusses the urbanization of China and identifies four major features of ethnic minority mobility partners over the last twenty years: the three-stage peripheral-to-core transition pattern; the escalating decline of the urban minority population in the central region of China, particularly since 2000; the city agglomerations located in the eastern region of China, which have begun playing a leading role in minority urbanization, especially in the Yangtze and Pearl River Delta; and lastly, the continuous beneficiaries of supportive policies that have led metropolises, such as provincial capitals, to be shaped into important regional minority population concentrations in both China's western region and its autonomous areas.

This book comprises the select proceedings of the International Conference on Emerging Global Trends in Engineering and Technology (EGTET 2020), held in Guwahati, India.

This book applies the Total Human Ecosystem as a guiding concept in coastal urban communities to achieve a mutually beneficial relationship between industrial parks and their surrounding wetlands.

This multidisciplinary book discusses and scientifically analyzes issues related to population, land use/cover (LULC) and environmental transformations in the seven most populated cities in India: Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Bangalore, Chennai, Hyderabad and Ahmedabad.

This book analyses and compares the development paths of five major cities in East and Southeast Asia since the early 1960s, including Ho Chi Minh City, Jakarta, Manila, Seoul, and Shanghai.

The book combs through extensively 32,231 urban agglomeration related works during the past 120 years to explore a theoretically supported and practically based definition of urban agglomeration.

This book interprets and explains contemporary population issues from historical and cultural perspectives.

The book examines the extent to which the sustained population growth of Australia's heartland regional centres has come at the expense of demographic decline in their own hinterlands, and, ultimately, of their entire regions.

This book examines the forced displacement of public housing residents in Sydney's Millers Point and The Rocks communities.

This volume examines how urban stakeholders in China - particularly city governments and social actors - tackle China's urban environmental crisis.

This book explores the leading role that cities can play in shaping progressive policies in collaboration with various stakeholders.

This book uses an Australian case study to shine a much-needed spotlight on discretionary police powers to punish, and their implications for justice and human rights.

This book highlights the relationship between the water sector and various other sectors in order to establish an improved understanding of the importance of water resources as an essential cross-cutting vector of socio-economic development.

The book embarks on the tasks to systematically analyze the macro background of the spatial patterns of China's urban development, the theoretical foundations and framework, and its changing trajectory.

This book highlights what are likely to be the future megatrends in the water sector and why and how they should be incorporated to improve water governance in the coming decades.

This book aims to present implications for China's urban development through international comparison of urbanization process from the perspective of spatio-temporal pattern, driving factors, rural-urban interactions, development trends and economic-ecological-social synergic development.

This book studies the historical changes of the cityscape of Nanjing from the point of view of geographical systems.

Thisbook provides a fresh look at measuring negative externalities in theurbanization process.

This book discusses Asia's rapid pace of urbanization, with a particular focus on new spaces created by and for everyday religiosity.

This book uses an Australian case study to shine a much-needed spotlight on discretionary police powers to punish, and their implications for justice and human rights.

This book explores the advantages of a linear model of planning in reducing regional inequalities.

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Seit längerem und mit wachsendem Nachdruck wird für die Raumplanung ein Übergang vom Denken in Zuständen zu einem Denken in Prozessen gefordert.

The book provides a multi-stage assessment of the changing housing opportunities of migrant workers in the three stages of Beijing's urban village development (emergence, erasure and preservation).

This book illuminates how the profound challenges faced by contemporary societies over the past few decades, encompassing climate change and other environmental risks, global health threats, warfare, and mass migration, manifest themselves in European cities.

This book offers a thorough review of studies on climate change and urban adaptation strategies and plans.

This book offers a thorough review of studies on climate change and urban adaptation strategies and plans.

Never before have our cities been as important as they are now.

This book presents a novel perspective on immobility, a topic often overlooked in urban planning and transport studies.

This book explores the interwoven nature of place, Catholicism and violence in Caracas' barrios.

This book provides a comprehensive manual for researchers, practitioners, policymakers as well as students striving to achieve environmental sustainment.

This book focuses on sustainable solid waste management in an urban context and gives an example of how a modern city can work with waste management for increased sustainability in close cooperation with the academy.

Calcium plays an enormous and varied role in living systems now widely appreciated by clinicians.

The book provides a multi-stage assessment of the changing housing opportunities of migrant workers in the three stages of Beijing's urban village development (emergence, erasure and preservation).

This book explores problems generated by the abandonment of mountain villages, which also represented strategic sites for guarding against environmental hazards, and proposes a process of regeneration and upgrade of the built environment, with a view to a circular economy and social and economic development.