This book presents a systematic analysis of challenges in the field of Geographical Information Systems and Science, geographical analysis, and regional science for Ontario, one of the fastest-changing provinces in Canada and one of North America's largest economic hubs.
This book presents a systematic analysis of challenges in the field of Geographical Information Systems and Science, geographical analysis, and regional science for Ontario, one of the fastest-changing provinces in Canada and one of North America's largest economic hubs.
In Waste Works, Brenda Chalfin examines Ghana's planned city of Tema, theorizing about the formative role of waste infrastructure in urban politics and public life.
Urban and Regional Policy and Its Effects, the second in a series, sets out to inform policymakers, practitioners, and scholars about the effectiveness of select policy approaches, reforms, and experiments in addressing key social and economic problems facing cities, suburbs, and metropolitan areas.
Die fiktive Welt, in der "Alice im Wunderland" angesiedelt ist, spielt so mit Logik, dass sich die Erzählung unter Mathematikern und Kindern gleichermaßen großer Beliebtheit erfreut.
To ensure a fair criminal trial, effective sentencing advocacy is needed in every stage of prosecution, from investigation through plea, trial and sentencing hearings.
"Stadtluft macht frei" – dieses mittelalterliche Rechtssprichwort,das den in die Stadt gekommenen LeibeigenenFreiheit versprach, bestimmt auch in der Neuzeit die Hoffnungauf mehr Freiheit in den Städten.
"Frankfurter Straßennamen erzählen", was Frankfurter schon immer über ihre Straßen wissen wollten "Kegelbahn", "Katzenpforte" und "Klappergasse" – was steckt hinter manchen Frankfurter Straßennamen?
Over the last several decades, life in Lahore has been undergoing profound transformations, from rapid and uneven urbanization to expanding state institutions and informal economies.
Adam writes like nobody else, his fierce poetic power as inescapable as the doom that waits for his charactershis touch is that of a master in the making.
The market places and street corners of Dar es Salaam are home to a thriving informal economy of street vendors selling secondhand clothing and other goods.
The application of artificial intelligence methods and the increasing digitalization of the processes in a supply chain contribute the more seamless flow of materials and information.
This book reconstructs and compares the social theories of modernity of Georg Simmel and Walter Benjamin, two classic thinkers in German social thought.
Das Konzept der Smart City wird in wissenschaftlicher, politischer, medialer und projektpraktischer Hinsicht bislang überwiegend in großen Städten bearbeitet.
India imposes stringent criminal penalties, including life imprisonment in some states, for cow slaughter, based on a Hindu ethic of revering the cow as sacred.
This book develops our understanding of the global literary field in the long nineteenth century by discussing nine different places outside the established metropoles.
This book provides an important overview of how climate-driven natural hazards like river or pluvial floods, droughts, heat waves or forest fires, continue to play a central role across the globe in the 21st century.
Música urbana, juventud y resistencia analiza algunos sonidos underground que resisten y coexisten en diferentes contextos geopolíticos urbanos de Latinoamérica.
Brennende Autos und eingeworfene Scheiben von Luxusimmobilien in Berlin, Demonstrationen und Hausbesetzungen in Paris: Die zunehmende sozialräumliche Spaltung der Bevölkerung entlädt sich immer häufiger in Protestaktionen.
