Urban communities

It is said that movies have encroached upon social realities creating tourism enclaves based on distortions of history and heritage, or simulations that disregard both.

Creating cities inclusive of immigrants in Southern Africa is both a balancing act and a protracted process that requires positive attitudes informed by accommodative institutional frameworks.

The city is a highly fragmented, heterogeneous subject; those who study, analyze and question it make a use of a variety of disciplines and methods and have different areas of expertise.

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

Near Eastern Cities from Alexander to the Successors of Muhammad compares the evolution of several cities in the Near East from the time of Alexander the Great until the beginning of the Islamic 'Abbasid Dynasty.

Ideal for students and practitioners working in spatial planning, the Europeanization of planning agendas and regional policy in general Spatial Planning Systems and Practices in Europe develops a systematic methodological framework to analyze changes in planning systems throughout Europe.

The ways that social advocates organize to fight unaffordable housing and homelessness in Los Angeles, illuminated by a new conceptual framework for studying collective actionHow Civic Action Works renews the tradition of inquiry into collective, social problem solving.

In 2009, Chicago spent millions of dollars to create programs to prevent gang violence in some of its most disadvantaged neighborhoods.

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

This innovative multidisciplinary study considers the concept of green from multiple perspectivesaesthetic, architectural, environmental, political, and socialin the Kingdom of Bahrain, where green has a long and deep history of appearing cooling, productive, and prosperousa radical contrast to the hot and hostile desert.

Around 1900 cities in Southern and Eastern Europe were persistently labeled "e;backward"e; and "e;delayed.

This collection seeks to expand the limits of current debates about urban commoning practices that imply a radical will to establish collaborative and solidarity networks based on anti-capitalist principles of economics, ecology and ethics.

This book aims to understand how the wellbeing benefits of urban green space (UGS) are analysed and valued and why they are interpreted and translated into action or inaction, into 'success' and/or 'failure'.

This study focuses on street art and large-scale murals in metropolitan Miami/Dade County, while also foregrounding the diasporic and aesthetic interventions made by migrant and second-generation artists whose families hail from the Caribbean and Latin America.

In an effort to create a secure urban environment in which residents can work, live, and prosper with minimal disruption, New York and London established a network of laws, policing, and municipal government in the nineteenth century aimed at building the confidence of the citizenry and creating stability for economic growth.

Who controls space?

This book systematically and comprehensively introduces concepts, theories, principles, and applications of Thermal Infrared (TIR) imaging spectral techniques and TIR remote sensing.

This book analyses the making of the Chinese middle class that started in the 1990s using a constructivist approach.

Since the American Revolution, African American women have served in every U.

A city of over one million people caught between volcanic eruptions and armed conflict, Goma has come to embody the 'tragedy' that is the Democratic Republic of Congo.

This book investigates how the state intervenes in the urban system in China in the post-reform period.

For nearly a century the Garden City movement has represented one end of a continuum in an ongoing debate about the future of the modern city.

This book is an introduction to cosplay as a subculture and community, built around playful spaces and the everyday practices of crafting costumes, identities, and performances.

Bill de Blasio's campaign rhetoric focused on a tale of two cities: rich and poor New York.

This book offers a concise and yet diverse study on the Chengzhongcun.

The spaces we inhabit- from homes and workspaces to city streets-mediate community, creativity, and our very identity.

Futuristische Architektur hier und alter Kaiserpalast da, die Verlockungen des Kapitalismus und eine junge Kulturszene: Adrian Geiges, lange in Shanghai und zuletzt fünf Jahre in Peking sesshaft, erzählt von zwei faszinierenden Gesichtern eines Weltreichs.

Mumbai / Bombay is a quintessential urban expression which represents the questions and puzzles related to Indian urbanity.

The baby boom generation were born between 1946 and 1964 and are the largest population cohort in US history.

This book engages with the thorny question of global urban political agency.

This book takes it as a given that the city is made of multiple partially localized assemblages built of heterogeneous networks, spaces, and practices.

Design Governance focuses on how we design the built environment where most of us live, work, and play and the role of government in that process.

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

Alternative urban spaces across civic, private, and public spheres emerge in response to the great challenges that urban actors are currently confronted with.

East Manchester has been the site of one of the most substantial regeneration projects internationally.

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.

Imagine shuffling down Broadway through the hustle and bustle right into the nonstop, neon heart of New York City: 42nd Street.

Through an exploration of emancipation in recent processes of capitalist urbanization, this book argues the political is enacted through the everyday practices of publics producing space.

How could Northern California, the wealthiest and most politically progressive region in the United States, become one of the earliest epicenters of the foreclosure crisis?

Smart Cities Policies and Financing: Approaches and Solutions is the definitive professional reference for harnessing the full potential of policy making and financial planning in smart cities.

Queer Sites in Global Contexts showcases a variety of cross-cultural perspectives that foreground the physical and online experiences of LGBTQ+ people living in the Caribbean, South and North America, the Middle East, Europe, and Asia.

This thought-provoking book takes readers on a captivating journey through the realms of green urbanism, urban regeneration, and urban design, development, and preservation, providing an exploration of innovative approaches to creating sustainable and thriving cities of the future.

The book focuses on the processes of urban restructuring, power relations and the political economy of touristic authenticity.

This book highlights the expansion of the influential Pentecostal Hillsong Church global megachurch network from Australia across global cities.

The interplay between smart urban technologies and city development is a relatively uncharted territory.

Bringing together leading researchers from geography, political science, sociology, public policy and technology studies, Disrupted Cities exposes the politics of well-known disruptions such as devastation of New Orleans in 2005, the global SARS outbreak in 2002-3, and the great power collapse in the North Eastern US in 2003.

This book aims to contribute to the current debate on how to integrate rural development policies and landscape planning in rural areas.

A volume of five parts, this book is a culmination of selected research papers from the second version of the international conferences on Urban Planning & Architectural Design for sustainable Development (UPADSD) and Urban Transit and Sustainable Networks (UTSN) of 2017 in Palermo and the first of the Resilient and Responsible Architecture and Urbanism Conference (RRAU) of 2018 in the Netherlands.

Social capital theorists have shown that some people do better than others in part because they enjoy larger, more supportive, or otherwise more useful networks.

This book shines a light on the meaning of happiness and how public perceptions of it have changed over time.