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This book applies a framework of 'trans vitalities' through an ethnographically-anchored exploration of trans coalitional labor and activism in Washington, DC.

In his compelling follow-up to The Rise of the CreativeClass, Richard Florida outlines how certain cities succeed in attracting members of the 'creative class' - the millions of people who work in information-age economic sectors and in industries driven by innovation and talent.

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 in-depth comparative studies of the two largest cities and metropolitan areas in the United States: New York City and Los Angeles.

Originally published in 1991.

Neoliberal Spatial Governance explores the changing nature of English town and city planning as it has slowly but clearly transformed.

How does news circulate in a major post-industrial city?

In this book on urban poverty in the Caribbean, Michel S.

Urban Design: A Typology of Procedures and Products, 2nd Edition provides a comprehensive and accessible introduction to urban design, defining the field and addressing the controversies and goals of urban design.

This book provides a unique ethnographic account of women living with polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) in India.

Within the spatial design disciplines, research through design as a tool and practice has often been neglected.

It is not lost on commercial organisations that where we live colours how we view ourselves and others.

The city below the hill is a detailed investigation of social conditions in a working class quarter of Montreal during the 1890s.

How the science of urban planning can make our cities healthier, safer, and more livableThe design of every aspect of the urban landscape-from streets and sidewalks to green spaces, mass transit, and housing-fundamentally influences the health and safety of the communities who live there.

This important new book presents an introduction to Environmental Neuroscience, an emerging field devoted to the study of brain-mediated bidirectional relationships between organisms and their physical environments.

Somewhere, between character and caricature, there exists an authentic-a truly unique-urban place, that blends global and local, old and new.

Metaphors are diversly and intricately embedded in architectural practice and discourse.

The American dream of a single family home on its own lot is still strong, but a different dream of living and prospering in a major city is beginning to take hold.

Old Beijing has become a subject of growing fascination in contemporary China since the 1980s.

This book considers the concept of resilience in a global society where coping with the consequence and long term impact of crisis and disaster challenges the capacity of communities to bounce back in the event of severe disruption.

This book argues the crucial role of culture and cultural policies in defining the notion of urban citizenship in Barcelona since 1979.

This book draws on a wide range of conceptual and empirical materials to identify and examine planning and policy approaches that move beyond the imperative of perpetual economic growth.

This important volume focuses on the sensitive issue of interrelationships between national parks situated near or within urban areas and their urban environment.

Go-go is the conga drum-inflected black popular music that emerged in Washington, D.

Examining urban heritage in twentieth-century Australia, James Lesh reveals how evolving ideas of value and significance shaped cities and places.

This book offers a systematic historical analysis of the relationships between migration and the development of cities, including their physical, economic, and cultural evolution.

The late 1970s and 1980s saw a process of mass factory closures in cities and regions across the Midwest of the United States.

This book represents a powerful analysis of the challenges of metropolitan governance in all its messiness and complexity.

This rich and accessible volume maps current debates within the expanded field of image-based, vertical analysis.

This book focuses on understanding urban vulnerability and risk mitigation, advancing good health and wellbeing, and analysing resilience measures for various Asian cities.

The Sacred Identity of Ephesos offers a full-length interpretation of one of the largest known bequests in the Classical world, made to the city of Ephesos in AD 104 by a wealthy Roman equestrian, and challenges some of the basic assumptions made about the significance of the Greek cultural renaissance known as the 'Second Sophistic'.

This book highlights an interdisciplinary terrain where the humanities and social sciences combine with digital methods.

The great migration of farmers leaving rural China to work and live in big cities as 'floaters' has been an on-going debate in China for the past three decades.

This is a challenging new approach to understanding ecological systems especially in urban and urbanised areas.

This book examines the "e;ethics in relation to city and urbanism"e; by evaluating the strengths and limitations of rights as a conceptual tool from the comparative East-West perspective in resolving urban controversies (involving conflicts of rights between different classes, different groups within the present generation, present vs future generations, human vs animals, human vs plants and nature), thereby facilitating urban policy-making and good urban governance.

Through historical and comparative research on the immigrant rights movements of the United States, France and the Netherlands, Cities and Social Movements examines how small resistances against restrictive immigration policies do or don t develop into large and sustained mobilizations.

This set of essays brings together studies that challenge interpretations of the development of modernist architecture in Third World countries during the Cold War.

This book discusses the revitalization of decayed inner-city neighborhoods.

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This book provides new and original insight on the senior living housing needs in Poland.

Originally published in 1986 at a time when Britain was facing a major housing crisis, this book, containing much original research, examines the crisis and analyses the reasons for it, providing foundations for the construction of effective new policies.

Since the 1990s, city branding has become a key factor in urban development policies.

Frederick Gardiner's public life was rich and long, from his initiation into politics as a Toronto schoolboy before the First World War, through his involvement with the Ontario Conservative party and suburban politics in the 1930s and 1940s, on through his years as first chairman of Metropolitan Toronto (1953-61), to the relinquishing of his last public office in 1979.

This Handbook presents a comprehensive and rigorous overview of the state-of-the-art on Smart Cities.

Visual Spatial Enquiry explores visual and textual ways of working within spatial research.

This book develops a morphodynamical approach of spatial networks with a particular emphasis on infrastructure networks such as streets, roads and transportation networks (subway, train).

Seattle Sports: Play, Identity, and Pursuit in the Emerald City, edited by Terry Anne Scott, explores the vast and varied history of sports in this city where diversity and social progress are reflected in and reinforced by play.

This book discusses land and housing controversies in Hong Kong, which offer a point of reference for the comparison and analysis of similar or contrasting cases overseas from the perspective of social values.

This book tells the story of Metropoliz, a vacant salami factory located in the Eastern periphery of Rome (Italy) that was squatted in 2009 by homeless households with the cooperation of the Housing Rights Movement Blocchi Precari Metropolitani, and progressively reconverted into the house and museum spaces that form the Citta Meticcia (the mestizo city).