Urban communities

This book investigates the dynamics and the role of green urban regeneration using nature-based solutions (NBS) in contributing to the cultural aspects of public spaces.

This book examines place and place-making in London's Borough Market.

This book is the first edited collection to bring together classic and contemporary writings on the urban grid in a single volume.

This edited collection provides an original and comprehensive take on retail crime and its prevention, by combining international data and multidisciplinary perspectives from criminologists, economists, geographers, police officers and other experts.

This book discusses the application of Geospatial data, Geographic Information System (GIS) and Remote Sensing (RS) technologies in analysis and modeling of urban growth process, and its pattern, with special focus on sprawl and compact form of urban development.

This book analyses the struggle for social justice in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

This book provides an up-to-date, critical review of theoretical concepts connecting artists and urban development.

This book discusses the critical contemporary issues of sustainability and integration of physical and information flow.

This bibliography offers valuable annotated references on housing for older population for those interested in these initiatives and discussions.

This book fills an existing academic literature gap by providing a sound and synthetic analysis on the process of European Territorial Cooperation over the last 30 years.

This book explores how digital platforms in the realm of tourism and hospitality have shaped social and material worlds.

This book gathers the latest advances, innovations, and applications in urban and regional planning processes and science, as presented by international researchers at the 11th International Conference on Innovation in Urban and Regional Planning (INPUT), held in Catania, Italy, on September 8-10, 2021.

At the foundations of our modern conception of open government are a handful of disgruntled citizens in the Progressive Era who demanded accountability from their local officials, were rebuffed, and then brought their cases to court.

This book is about ageing in Bulgaria.

This book tackles the challenges posed by accelerating urbanization, and demystifies Social Sustainability, the least understood of all the different areas of sustainable development.

This book provides an analysis of South African urban change over the past three decades.

This book discusses the impact of information and communication technologies, particularly social media, on the structure and landscape of contemporary cities.

The authors collected here address youth street cultures in different cities from the Ibero-American world, bringing together contributions on Brazil, Argentina, Mexico, Chile, Portugal, Spain, and beyond.

The study is aimed at reconstructing the historical process at the base of any significant theatre architecture.

This book explores the tenacity of Iran's informal settlements against the backdrop of the World Bank's USD 80 million loan for physical upgrading.

This book offers a European perspective on urban planning and spatial design by outlining housing policies in Southern Europe and their evolution.

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This book offers new perspectives through which to observe and interpret mega-events.

This book brings together geographers and literary scholars in a series of engagements near the boundaries of their disciplines.

This textbook examines strategies of investing in human health and investing in economic growth as distinct approaches to development.

This book explores the aesthetic practices used by Dickens to make the space which we have come to know as the Dickensian City.

Cities are experiencing unprecedented times.

This book is the second Volume of the INPUT2020 Conference Proceedings on 'Innovation in Urban and Regional Planning'.

Urban social movements are influential agents in shaping cityscapes to reflect values and needs of communities.

The city of Leh is located in the high mountain desert of Ladakh in the Indian Himalayas and access to water has always been limited there.

This book is a useful reference in the field of urbanism.

This book examines a range of practical developments that are happening in education as conducted in urban settings across different scales.

This book studies both the tangible benefits and substantial barriers to sustainable development in the city of Phoenix, Arizona.

This ethnographic study of a mixed-occupancy housing estate near the centre of London refocuses the scholarly conversation around social housing in the UK after the 1980 Housing Act.

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

This book presents an exploratory account of the origins and dynamics of cities.

The Urban Fantastic in Nineteenth-Century European Literature explores transnational perspectives of modern city life in Europe by engaging with the fantastic tropes and metaphors used by writers of short fiction.

This book examines the urban legacy of the 2014 football World Cup in Brazil across the seven cities that hosted matches.

This professional book introduces an analytical framework of urban informality perspectives in the Middle East that is aligned with the Global South.

This book looks at the UEFA European Championship (Euro 2012) as both a crowning achievement of, and a way to sustain, the urban entrepreneurial strategy of Poznan, Poland.

Who shapes our cities?

This book examines air pollution of a big city using multi-year and multi-season data from ground-based air monitoring stations and satellite sounding data, which provides more clear and detailed information on the main sources of air pollution, the long-term trend of pollution, the influence of meteorological parameters on pollution levels, and trajectories of polluted air masses.

This book analyzes the recent growth of Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Fuzhou, Shanghai, Hangzhou, Nanjing, and Hong Kong, seven major Chinese coastal cities.

In a series of essays, this book describes and analyzes the concept and theory of the recent smart city phenomenon from a global perspective, with a focus on its implementation around the world.

This book presents and discusses methodological approaches and operational tools aimed at increasing the awareness and skills necessary to face the social, economic and environmental challenges usually encountered in spatial planning.

This book provides a conceptual framework for understanding the inclusive city.

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This book provides an overview of the environmental problems that arise from construction activity, focusing on refurbishment as an alternative to the current crisis in the construction sector, as well as on measures designed to minimize the effects on the environment.

This book explores the application of service design to urban commons.

This book features ten high academically achieving, low-income, inner city students from Newark, New Jersey, who graduated from public high schools at or near the top of their class and continued to excel in college.