Urban communities

On the sixtieth anniversary of the Dodgers' move to Los Angeles, the full story of the controversial building of Dodger Stadium and how it helped transform the city.

designing networks cities presents a sophisticated, multi-disciplinary, and multi-dimensional approach to urban design.

Time, the City, and the Literary Imagination explores the relationship between the constructions and representations of the relationship between time and the city in literature published between the late eighteenth century and the present.

This book stems from the seminal work of Robert Venturi and aims at re-projecting it in the current cultural debate by extending it to the scale of landscape and placing it in connection with representative issues.

This book presents cutting-edge work on innovative planning methodologies, tools and experiences aimed at supporting the transition of our cities and regions towards a more smart and sustainable dimension.

This book presents an overview of the challenges that cities in Latin America and Asia are facing regarding the preservation of their tangible and intangible heritage.

This book discusses cars of the future and the new socio-economic paradigm that they represent.

This edited volume discuses urban transport issues, policies, and initiatives in twelve of the world's major emerging economies - Brazil, China, Colombia, India, Indonesia, Iran, Mexico, Nigeria, Russia, South Africa, Turkey, and Vietnam - countries with large populations that have recently experienced large changes in urban structure, motorization and all the associated social, economic, and environmental impacts in positive and negative senses.

This book presents a compendium of the urban layout maps of 2-mile square downtown areas of more than one hundred cities in developed and developing countries-all drawn at the same scale using high-resolution satellite images of Google Maps.

This book discusses innovative responses and reforms developed in critical areas of urban governance in European countries.

This book examines the planning of cities in global transition, looking at Australia's Greater Sydney as a case example.

This book studies the transformation of modern maritimity practices in coastal areas (such as swimming, navigation and tourism) and their implications to the development of Brazilian coastal cities, with an emphasis on the Northeast part of the country.

This book draws on case examples of contemporary black activism in South Manchester and contrasts them with events that surrounded C.

This book analyses the social and cultural status of high streets in the age of recession and austerity.

This volume brings together the world's leading experts on urban and transport planning, environmental exposures, physical activity, health and health impact assessment to discuss challenges and solutions in cities.

This book explores new criteria and characteristics for integrating human psychology in the design of modern urban lighting.

This book analyses the housing and governance policies of the city of Surakarta, in Indonesia.

This edited collection examines the synergistic relationship between gender and urban space in post-millennium Spain.

Der Band befasst sich mit dem Verhältnis von Stadt und Infrastruktur, von Urbanisierung und Infrastrukturentwicklung.

The book critically reflects on some of the most important novelties and experimentations in the context of the European Union's renewed urban and regional policy in the last programming period, 2014-2020.

This book features expert contributions on key sustainability aspects of urban water management in Chinese agglomerations.

The book provides a critical and integrative analysis of value as it pertains to different aspects of creative and cultural industries.

This book examines Warren, a suburb of Detroit, Michigan, as a shrinking city facing a crisis of economic downturn, automotive restructuring, high unemployment, and real estate foreclosures.

The book offers a cross-disciplinary perspective on various aspects of precariousness in contemporary culture and society, concentrating on the topographical aspects of sources and causes of uncertainty and anxiety.

This book provides a state of the art approach to participatory planning, and generates innovative thought in planning theory and knowledge study.

This book brings together contributions from some of the foremost international experts in the field of urban morphology and addresses major questions such as: What exactly is urban morphology?

This book explores the geography of the everyday roadway and contemplates how regulation and design shape our streets.

Light pollution (light smog, light pollution or light emissions) is a fundamental problem in metropolises with effects on flora, fauna and people.

Nina Berding liefert eine dichte ethnografische Beschreibung von Alltagspraktiken in einem diversitätsgeprägten Quartier in Düsseldorf.

This book brings the insights of social geographers and cultural historians into a critical dialogue with literary narratives of urban culture and theories of literary cultural production.

Mi Rinconcito en el Cielo (My Little Corner of the Sky) tells the remarkable story of Alberto "e;Beto"e; Gonzales, who overcame a childhood of poverty, addiction, bigotry, and violence and went on to change the lives of thousands of children and adults as a mentor and gang prevention specialist.

This is the Proceedings of the 20th International Congress on Project Management and Engineering, that was held at the Technical University of Cartagena, Spain, from July 13 to 15, 2016.

This book is about the relation between scientific research and professional practice on the built environment.

This book follows on previous works addressing sustainable development research in the Asia-Pacific region.

Der Sammelband fasst wichtige Themen und Entwicklungen der Mobilitäts- und Verkehrsforschung der letzten Jahre zusammen.

World population and the number of city dwellers are steadily growing.

This book demonstrates how the creative industries are driving new sectoral and spatial dynamics in European cities, regions, and countries, and how these may be influenced by international and global dynamics.

The book investigates the relationship between ecosystem services (ES) and spatial planning, and explores potential means of integrating the two concepts to support the decision-making process.

This book addresses key issues across the field of sustainable urban planning, and provides a unique reference tool for planners, engineers, architects, public administrators, and other experts.

This book advances the reflexion into how temporary urbanism is shaping cities across the world.

This book explores and outlines the reference theoretical basis of ecological networks within the international debate, focusing on how protected areas should no longer be considered as the sum of different components but rather as a network.

This book explores the opportunities and challenges of the sharing economy and innovative transportation technologies with regard to urban mobility.

This work offers a nuanced perspective based on empirical evidence of the role of talent and creativity for economic growth, prosperity, social and spatial inequality, and precarity in creative cities by arguing that creativity and talent need to be valued and eventually rewarded to achieve sufficient conditions for individual economic success.

This book responds to the lack of Asian representation in creative cities literature.

These ethnographically-based studies of diverse urban experiences across the world present cutting edge research and stimulate an empirically-grounded theoretical reconceptualization.

This book contests the negative portrayal of African immigrants as people who are not valuable members of South African society.

This book paints an intimate portrait of an overlooked kind of city that neither grows nor declines drastically.