Urban communities

This book introduces the latest thinking on the use of Big Data in the context of urban systems, including research and insights on human behavior, urban dynamics, resource use, sustainability and spatial disparities, where it promises improved planning, management and governance in the urban sectors (e.

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 presents fundamental and applied research aimed at the development of smart cities across India.

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.

This book gives an overview of frameworks, methods, and case studies useful for the analysis of the relations between agriculture and the city, in Europe and the Mediterranean.

The book deals with urban reactivation, a particular form of regeneration intervention which in addition to the physical-spatial dimension of the places also-and above all-considers the social and relational dynamics that the intervention is able to activate.

This book critically examines the making and persistence of impoverished areas at the margins of Romanian cities since the late 1980s.

This book explores the concept of cyberplace as a mode of inhabiting the contemporary world.

This edited collection critically discusses the relevance of, and the potential for identifying conceptual common ground between dominant urban theory projects - namely Neo-Marxian accounts on planetary urbanization and alternative 'Southern' post-colonial and post-structuralist projects.

This book explores the growing spatial inequality in contemporary cities, and the opportunity of reframing the role of public open space as a tool of inclusion in a context of an increasing economic gap between the urban poor and rich.

This book explores a more human-centered development pathway associated with the ideological shift from "e;quantity"e; to "e;quality"e; growth in the new era of Chinese urbanization.

This book offers a critical account of studies of local immigration policy and a relational approach to explain its emergence, variation, and effects in a context of interdependence and globalization.

This book is a sociological description and analysis of urban collective actions, protests, resistance, and riots that started in the 1990s and continue in different forms to this date in Rome, Italy.

This book is an empirically rich case-study of what is currently the most popular alternative-fuel vehicle in the history of motorization - the electric two-wheeler (e-bike).

In our urban world, cities are where most of us experience how our economies and societies are organised and the inequalities which result.

This book offers an overview of geospatial technologies in land resources mapping, monitoring and management.

This book deals with important issues related to urban housing in South Asia.