Urban communities

As the crises of capitalism continue to intensify, radical thinkers must conjure realistic and inspirational alternative futures beyond this failing social order.

This book looks at the historical and contemporary impact of minority immigrant and ethnic communities on the built and social environment in Australian cities, rural and regional areas.

This book is a compilation of the policy briefs produced by the International Science Council's program on Urban Health and Wellbeing: A Systems Approach over the past five years.

This book analyzes decades of immigration-population growth and rapid urbanization as political-demography and urban-governance issues in French Guyana.

Placemaking Sandbox offers a valuable collection of placemaking case studies, designed for teachers and students to build expertise in shaping and creating thriving public places.

This book considers urban development in China, highlighting links between China's history and civilization and the rapid evolution of its urban forms.

This book explores China's urban development, examining the history and culture of Chinese cities and providing a cultural background to the rapid urban development of contemporary China.

This book provides a multidisciplinary analysis of the many socio-economic challenges posed by COVID-19 pandemic across international boundaries, disrupting the economic system and life styles globally.

Richard Lowenstein's 1986 masterpiece Dogs in Space was and remains controversial, divisive, compelling and inspirational.

This report was jointly launched by the National Academy of Economic Strategy of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and UN-HABITAT.

This book investigates resource-constrained environments in the tropics and subtropics where people's lives and businesses are affected, and adaptations occur periodically.

This book describes the concept, characteristics, methodology, design, management, business, recent advances and future technologies of plant factories with artificial lighting (PFAL) and indoor vertical farms.

This book presents a series of urban investigations undertaken in the metropolis of Melbourne.

This book focuses on the challenge that Australia faces in transitioning to renewable energy and regenerating its cities via a transformation of its built environment.

This book is a pioneering work to position the creative city concept within Malaysian urban development discourse.

This book addresses a central dilemma of the urban age: how to make the vast suburban landscapes that ring the globe safe and sustainable in the face of planetary ecological crisis.

This book focuses on overlooked contextual factors that constitute the urban creative climate or innovative urban milieu in contemporary cities.

Increasingly, we live in an environment of our own making: a 'world as design' over the natural world.

This book is about skateboard video and experimental ways of thinking about cities.

This book integrates planning, policy, economics, and urban design into an approach to crafting innovative places.

This book is about urban infrastructuring as the processes linking infrastructural configurations and their components with other social, ecological, political, or otherwise defined systems as part of urbanisation and globalisation in the Global South.

Power, Glamour and Angst is about the social and cultural life of three Australian neighbourhoods - Toorak (Melbourne), Mosman (Sydney) and Cottesloe (Perth) - which are home to some of the nation's wealthiest and most powerful citizens.

Understanding Urbanism presents built environment students with the latest approaches to studying urbanism.

This book looks at the case study of Hachioji as a major transit hub with a world-class public transportation system in Japan.

As a continuation of 'Identity of Cities and City of Identities', this book covers the arguments around the memory-experience-cognition nexus concerning palimpsests and urban places.

Public transport in low-income Asian (LIA) cities fails to meet people's mobility needs, generates high greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and worsens social exclusion.

This book examines regional integration in Africa, with a particular focus on the Southern African Development Community (SADC).

This book proposes the concept of urban multiple habitats and then analyzes its corresponding classification, function and potential supply capability.

This book provides a broad survey of Chinese rural households at a time of rapid change in China s rural economy, examining the dual identity of households as consumers as well as producers of goods in terms of supply and demand.

This book examines the changing influences of diversity in American higher education.

This book is a product of the joint efforts of interdisciplinary academic fields under the integrative framework of human geoscience.

Feng Shui and the City analyses the past and contemporary influences of traditional geomancy on Chinese built environments across three domains: domestic spaces, spaces of commercial development and the public realm.

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.

This book is about Clarksdale, a small town in Mississippi, USA, and how the local community has revitalised the long-dilapidated downtown, with the renewal based on the town's intimate association with Blues music and the culture that flows through the Mississippi Delta.

This book is for all those actively working in the built environment.

The globally distributed health impacts of environmental degradation and widening inequalities require a fundamental shift in understandings of healthy urbanism.

This book is about containment, life, work, and restart regions affected by COVID 19, using selected empirical case studies.

In undertaking a systematic analysis of urban materiality, this book investigates one kind of material in Melbourne: stone.

This is the story of teaching consciousness as a requirement for transformations in social justice.

This book is a fascinating, wide-reaching interdisciplinary examination of urbanism in the context of humanities and social sciences research, comprising cutting-edge theoretical and empirical investigations of urban livability and sustainability.

In this book Krzysztof Nawratek explores the possibility of a post-capitalist city, and in so doing, reclaims and develops the idea of total mobilisation as originally formulated by Ernst Junger.

This ground-breaking book is the first to bring an ecological focus to theatre and performance design, both in scholarship and in practice.

This book analyses the implications of eco-urbanism re-making for policy and practice under the transformational trends of economic decentralization and market reform in China.

In this book, retired banking CEO Bruce VonCannon considers the past, present and future of Hong Kong, the dynamic finance-driven autonomous city that is beset by global issues- US-China tension, income inequality, housing scarcity, climate change- within the microcosm of a small island archipelago and a hyper-specific local culture.

This book provides a comprehensive view of the quality of life of older people from culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) backgrounds living in Australia.

This book focuses on the relationship between urban land redevelopment and traffic systems and discusses the related research.

This book discusses the challenges faced by the homo resaliens and his need for a transition to a more sustainable social, economic, and environmental system.

This book examines the interplay between urban growth and the environmental issues in India.

In this sweeping appraisal of the urban condition, David Wadley argues that anything less that high-level resolution in modelling the well-being of inhabitants is wasting precious time.

This book addresses a wide range of social issues in connection with urbanization, which is providing new momentum for China's economic restructuring and social progress, including the educational gap; the middle class in urbanization; consumption; division of labor; and social integration.