Urban communities

This book gathers the proceedings of the INPUT2023 Conference on 'Innovation in Urban and Regional Planning.

The complex diffusion processes affecting the flow of planning ideas and practices across the globe are illustrated in this book.

This edited book approaches the threat and impact of environmental disasters on Asia's urban populations from a governance perspective.

This book explores the relationship between the ongoing urbanization in China and the production of contemporary Chinese art since the beginning of the twenty-first century.

This book addresses how to estimate substance use and thereby evaluate policies intended to reduce the harms caused by drugs and other substances.

A new understanding of rural-urban migration and inequality in contemporary ChinaMany of the millions of workers streaming in from rural China to jobs at urban factories soon find themselves in new kinds of poverty and oppression.

This book explores intelligent systems in computing and informatics, focusing specifically on their role in advancing Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) No.

This book addresses the climate change crisis through scientific, historical, and spiritual lenses.

This book explores the decline and growth of the private rental sector in Australia delving into the changing dynamics of landlord investment and tenant profile over the course of the twentieth century and into the present period.

Between 1890 and 1914 the City of London was all dominant as Britain's legendary gold standard reigned supreme across the globe.

Is it truly the "e;end"e; of public space?

In their book, the authors introduce the topic of urban development from a systems (theoretical) perspective and provide explanatory approaches, tips and methodological instructions for dealing with urban complexity.

China has witnessed a dramatic development of tourism in urban context in the past thirty years, especially with its success in hosting the Beijing Olympic Games in 2008 and the Shanghai World Exposition in 2010.

Food consumption patterns and practices are rapidly changing in Asia and the Pacific, and nowhere are these changes more striking than in urban areas.

Cities are possibly the most dynamic and important administrative units today.

Community Change in Action guides students through the process of turning their personal passion into goal-driven action for community development.

An examination of environmental revitalization efforts in low-income communities in Boston, Barcelona, and Havana that help heal traumatized urban neighborhoods.

The book examines the extent to which the sustained population growth of Australia's heartland regional centres has come at the expense of demographic decline in their own hinterlands, and, ultimately, of their entire regions.

Deficient urban schooling remains one of America's most pressing and stubborn public policy problems.

We face two global threats: the climate crisis and a crisis of democracy.

As an undergraduate at Brown University, Tyler Denmead founded New Urban Arts, a nationally recognized arts and humanities program primarily for young people of color in Providence, Rhode Island.

As bicycle commuting grows in the United States, the profile of the white, middle-class cyclist has emerged.

First published in 1991, Metropolitan Government provides an in-depth study of metropolitan government and outlines the need for a unit of government at the metropolitan level.

One important change in the Brazilian policies is the Pacification.

This volume explores how climate change impacts interact with poverty and vulnerability to increase the risk for urban residents in Southeast Asia.

How do we include and represent all people in cities?

Despite the end of white minority rule and the transition to parliamentary democracy, Johannesburg remains haunted by its tortured history of racial segregation and burdened by enduring inequalities in income, opportunities for stable work, and access to decent housing.

This landmark expose of the dark history of repressive police operations in American cities offers a richly detailed account of police misconduct and violations of protected freedoms over the past century.

The Routledge Companion to Modernity, Space and Gender reframes the discussion of modernity, space and gender by examining how "e;modernity"e; has been defined in various cultural contexts of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, how this definition has been expressed spatially and architecturally, and what effect this has had on women in their everyday lives.

This book provides an overview of urban transformations taking place in the city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in the last three decades.

Advances in artificial intelligence (AI), widespread mobile devices, internet technologies, multimedia data sources, and information processing have led to the emergence of multimedia processing.

This book elaborates the need, in a rapidly urbanizing world, for recognition of the ecological communities we inhabit in cities and for the development of an ethics for all entities (human and non-human) in this context.

This book investigates small town tourism development in South Africa taking into account the most common strategies: branding, promotion, festivals and theming.

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

In an era of big data and smart cities, this book is an innovative and creative contribution to our understanding of urban energy use.

The Routledge Handbook of International Planning Education is the first comprehensive handbook with a unique focus on planning education.

How did so many Punjabi immigrants come to find themselves behind the wheels of so many New York City taxi cabs, and what do their stories have to teach us about how immigrants must navigate life in a new society?

This book outlines the major social and political changes in the city of Macau during its first 20 years under the "e;One Country, Two Systems"e; arrangement with Mainland China.

In the twenty-first century technology has become global, and firms compete using knowledge and capital.

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.

This book offers an essential introduction to the phenomenon of shrinking cities in China, highlighting several case studies, qualitative and quantitative methods, and planning responses.

How ordinary urban objects influence our behavior, exacerbate inequality, and encourage social changeAssumptions about human behavior lie hidden in plain sight all around us, programmed into the design and regulation of the material objects we encounter on a daily basis.

Andrew Sancton combines his own broad knowledge of global changes with an outline and comparison of the viewpoints of prominent social scientists to argue that city regions in western liberal democracies will not and cannot be self-governing.

Municipal elections in Canada don't look much like those held at the federal and provincial levels.

Urban Events, Place Branding and Promotion explores the phenomenon of place event marketing, examining the ways in which events are used to brand and disseminate information about a place.

Across the world, cities are being reshaped in myriad ways by neoliberal forms of globalization, a process of urban restructuring with significant implications for educational policy and practices.