Urban communities

This book examines the urban growth trends and patterns of various rapidly growing metropolitan regions in developing Asian and African nations from the perspective of geography.

What makes a good city?

Gardening during times of crisis can have significant benefits to individuals and populations in terms of health, well-being, social and economic outcomes.

Global Asian City provides a unique theoretical framework for studying the growth of cities and migration focused on the notion of desire as a major driver of international migration to Asian cities.

This book investigates the political implications of country promotion through practices of 'nation-branding' by drawing on contemporary examples from the sports, urban development and higher education sector in Kazakhstan and Qatar.

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Originally published in 1973 Knowledge, Education and Cultural Change surveys the present state of the field of the sociology of education.

Grit and Hopetells the story of five inner-city Hispanic students who start their college applications in the midst of the country's worst recession and of Reality Changers, the program that aims to help them become the first in their families to go college.

How does order emerge out of the multiplicity of bodies, objects, ideas and practices that constitute the urban?

Since the early times of travelling architecture does constitute an important force of attraction and a vital element in marketing.

A new history of human intelligence that argues that humans know themselves by knowing their machines.

This book argues that urban outcomes are better understood as the result of the interactions between policies from distinct policy domains rather than from any single policy silo.

This edited book emerges from the observation that the current literatures on migration in China are constrained by a series of shortfalls, including a relative topical homogeneity centred on domestic labour migration; relatively narrowly conceived and institutionalist conceptions of migration and migrants, without adequate attention paid to the identities, agencies and everyday experiences of migrants; and finally a lack of engagement with theoretical models and paradigms in the broad discipline of migration studies.

This book provides an accessible and up-to-date overview of the current debates and discussions in housing policy and practice.

Our understanding of hazards and disasters is rapidly changing, and it is unclear as to whether our existing management systems are adequate to adapt to current and future disasters.

Religious Pluralism and the City challenges the notion that the city is a secular place, and calls for an analysis of how religion and the city are intertwined.

This fourteenth edition of Law Made Simple marks the fiftieth year of the publication for one of the best-selling UK Law books.

Housing is a fundamental need and universal part of human living that shapes our lives in profound ways that go far beyond basic sheltering.

This collection calls for improved technical communication for the public through an embodied, situated understanding of environmental risk that promotes social justice.

The edited volume explores the topic of experiential walks, which is the practice of multi- or mono-sensory and in-motion immersion into an urban or natural environment.

Urban Geography in America offers a comprehensive historiography of this major field.

This book deals with the development of cities and regions in times of decisive transformation in Europe throughout these past twenty years.

The volumes in this set, originally published between 1970 and 1998, draw together research by leading academics in the area of urban planning, and provide a rigorous examination of related key issues.

Studying the relation of architecture to society, this book explains the manner in which the discipline of architecture adjusted itself in order to satisfy new pressures by society.

Intellectual Property, Cultural Property and Intangible Cultural Heritage examines various notions of property in relation to intangible cultural heritage and discusses how these ideas are employed in rights discourses by governments and indigenous and local communities around the world.

This book examines sustainability in European environmental policy and explores the related challenges of governance and knowledge.

The Illegality Defence posits that a cause of action cannot arise from a wrongful act.

Drawing on years of research experience and keen observations of the triumphs and problems in China's cities, the authors provide a foundational understanding of China's urbanization and cities that is grounded in history and geography and challenges readers to consider Chinese urbanization through multiple disciplinary and thematic lenses.

The Routledge Handbook of Planning Theory presents key contemporary themes in planning theory through the views of some of the most innovative thinkers in planning.

Economy and Architecture addresses a timely, critical, and much-debated topic in both its historical and contemporary dimensions.

American cities are increasingly turning to revitalization strategies that embrace the ideas of new urbanism and the so-called creative class in an attempt to boost economic growth and prosperity to downtown areas.

Conveyancing Practice in Scotland is the only comprehensive practical guide to managing conveyancing transactions in Scotland.

This book attempts to advance critical knowledge and practices for fostering a variety of entrepreneurship at a city level.

What does it mean to belong in a place, or more than one place?

Planning and Managing Smaller Events: Downsizing the Urban Spectacle explores the role of smaller scale events in contributing to the renewal and development of urban societies.

Recent years have seen a gathering interest in the importance of real estate development to the growth and development of cities.

In 1997 the United Kingdom returned control of Hong Kong to China, ending the city's status as one of the last remnants of the British Empire and initiating a new phase for it as both a modern city and a hub for global migrations.

In the West, news about the Middle East is dominated by an endless stream of reports and commentary about civil war, sectarian violence, religious extremism, and economic stagnation.

With over one billion people worldwide living in informal settlements and enduring substandard housing conditions, these areas present one of the greatest urban challenges of our time.

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The urban attentions of Pritzker Laureate Sverre Fehn (1924-2009) are extensive, but as yet virtually unexplored.

A classic work advocating ecological urban planning-from a civic visionary and former architecture critic for the New Yorker.

Do people make friends with those who are culturally and socially different to themselves?

Originally published in 1990, Economic Growth and Urbanization in Developing Areas is a wide-ranging collection of research studies focused on urban economic growth at various levels of urban and national development.

First published in 1935, this book provides a comprehensive overview of the 1934 Nepal-Bihar earthquake, giving a background to the earthquake zone, describing the event itself and surveying the ensuing devastation.

Gecekondu settlements-or shanty towns-in large Turkish cities are mostly populated by low-income families, many of which have migrated from the villages of Central Anatolia.

This book is a comparative, sector-based study of the changing character of governance in Indian metropolises in the 2000s.

Der Band stellt den Unterricht in verschiedenen Fächern der philosophischen und der theologischen Fakultät vor, indem vor allem das Wirken bislang vernachlässigter Hallenser Professoren veranschaulicht wird.