Urban communities

The artist is dead.

From the 1870s to the 1950s, waves of immigrants to Toronto Irish, Jewish, Chinese and Italian, among others landed in The Ward in the centre of downtown.

Drained by a half-dozen major watersheds, cut by a network of deep ravines and fronting on a Great Lake, Toronto is dominated by water.

What do your Eggs Benedict say about your notions of class?

More trees.

Build to Rent (BTR) is a form of residential tenure which first emerged in the United States, where it is known as Multifamily Housing.

Living on the Boundaries: Urban Marginality in National and International Contexts examines the complex, often controversial issues impacting those who live on the margins of society in our densely populated cities.

In the '80s, when author/photographer Kurt Hollander lived in New York and published The Portable Lower East, life there was particularly rough, and cops often drove yellow cabs as a method to surprise and roust its residents.

Megacities of over 10 million inhabitants are unique entities in their own right, both challenging and supporting the policies, governance and cohesion of states.

The Residential Pathway - APC Essentials was written to facilitate and encourage candidates preparing for the RICS Assessment of Professional Competence (APC) to become Chartered Surveyors.

This book looks at slums and social exclusion in the four major megacities of India and Brazil, and analyzes the interrelationships between urban policies and housing and environmental issues.

This book crosses disciplinary boundaries to investigate how the benefits of green spaces can be further incorporated in public health.

This book examines urbanization and migration processes in South Asia.

This book discusses urban planning and regional development practices in the twentieth century, and ways in which they are currently being transformed.

This book explores how biotechnology can lead to the reimagination of cities.

This book presents 50 case studies of contemporary co-housing projects spread all over the world to show how communities of shared living have become a global phenomenon that can serve as a tool to promote social and urban sustainability.

This edited collection brings together feminist research on transport and planning from different epistemologies, with the intention to contribute to a more holistic transport planning practice.

Over recent decades, the historico-geographical approach to urban morphology has been prominent in the debate on the physical form of our cities and on the agents and processes shaping that form over time.

This book contains a selection of the best articles presented at the CUPUM (Computational Urban Planning and Urban Management) conference, held in the second week of July 2019 at the University of Wuhan, China.

Creative hubs have become a cornerstone of economic and cultural policy with only the barest amount of discussion or scrutiny.

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 book examines the interconnectedness of LGBT civil and political rights, bias, discrimination, homophobia, and LGBT health disparities both in the United States and globally.

This book gathers papers presented at the International Conference "e;Vision Zero for Sustainable Road Safety in Baltic Sea Region"e;, held on December 2018 at Vilnius Gediminas Technical University, in Vilnius, Lithuania.

This book intends to present the development of socio-spatial practices in the metropolitan coast of the Northeast of Brazil, highlighting the main urban, spa and tourist agglomerations: Salvador-BA, Recife-PE, Fortaleza-CE, and Natal-RN.

This edited collection examines the culture of surveillance as it is expressed in the built environment.

This book builds on case studies in depopulating and shrinking areas in Northern Europe.

This book provides solution for challenges facing engineers in urban environments looking towards smart development and IoT.

At a time dominated by the disappearance of Future, as claimed by the French anthropologist Marc Auge, Utopia and Religion seem to be two different ways of giving back an inner horizon to mankind.

This book presents a critical analysis of the power and opportunity created in the implementation of community engaged practices within art museums, by looking at the networks connecting art museums to community organizations, artists and residents.

This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the role of gateway cities in contemporary circuits of global production.

An ethnography of urban citizenship, global belonging, and queerness in a rapidly growing provincial city in the Global South, Queerly Cosmopolitan explores how people develop a sense of belonging in a city understood by many to be "e;unimportant"e; and "e;in the middle of nowhere.

This book offers an essential guide to IoT Security, Smart Cities, IoT Applications, etc.

Transit-Oriented Development (TOD) planning principles have informed Australian city planning for over two decades.

This book offers a comprehensive overview of several urban related aspects that are of central importance to successful territorial cohesion processes.

This book provides an overview of innovative and new directions being chartered in South African tourism geographies.

This book critically examines how the narrative of global economic competition was used to rationalize college preparatory curriculum for all high school students and promote charter schools in Detroit.

This book gathers the latest advances, innovations, and applications in the field of building design and construction, by focusing on new design solutions for buildings and new technologies creation for construction, as presented by researchers and engineers at the 2nd International Conference Building Innovations (ICBI), held in Poltava - Baku, Ukraine - Azerbaijan, on May 23-24, 2019.

This book aims to examine the characteristics, roles and social values of public spaces in the globalized territory of Hong Kong.

This book is the first to trace the genealogy of an indigenous grid-pattern settlement design practice in Africa, and more specifically in Senegal.

This book presents up-to-date information on the future digital and smart cities.

The recent rise of cities in global environmental politics has stimulated remarkable debates about sustainable urban development and the geopolitics of a changing world order no longer defined by tightly bordered national regimes.

This book sets the stage for understanding how the exponential escalation of digital ubiquity in the contemporary environment is being absorbed, modulated, processed and actively used for enhancing the performance of our built environment.

This book examines how relationships between guardians and companion animals were challenged during a large-scale disaster: the tsunami of March 2011 and the following nuclear disaster in Fukushima.

By now, planners everywhere know - more or less - what the ingredients of a sustainable city are, in theory.

This book reviews the social role of universities in their local urban contexts and describes a number of initiatives of major interest in terms of the impact achieved, the range of stakeholders involved, and the significance of the university campus and teachers as agents of change.

The book explores and discusses some of the changes, challenges and opportunities confronting local governance in the context of the new urban paradigm associated with the HABITAT III New Urban Agenda, a 20-year strategy for sustainable urbanization, adopted in October 2016 in Quito, Ecuador.

Recent years have seen the increasing valuation and promotion of 'creativity'.

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