Urban communities

In neighbourhoods and public spaces across Britain, young working people walked out together, congregated in the streets, and paraded up and down on the 'monkey parades'.

The market places and street corners of Dar es Salaam are home to a thriving informal economy of street vendors selling secondhand clothing and other goods.

Environmental laws and regulations are extremely complex and difficult to understand.

This authoritative but concise guide describes the most significant cultural theories from the 19th to the 21st century and their originators, as well as the links between them and their mutual influences.

Cities, Change, and Conflict was one of the first texts to embrace the perspective of political economy as its main explanatory framework, and then complement it with the rich contributions of human ecology as well as perspectives derived from critical approaches to social theory.

This book provides a framework to rethink postcoloniality and urbanism from African perspectives.

A provocative examination of how systemic racism in education funding is sustained.

This book focuses on the implementation of slum upgrading projects and the last generation of citywide programmes that define the future urban configuration of informal settlements, from a citywide perspective, in the Earth's tropical region.

Originally published in 1970 Social Planning Techniques for Town Planners introduces social research methods for town planners.

We live in the 'urban century'.

In this study Alan Waterhouse draws on anthropological, social and cultural history, literature, and philosophy to reach an understanding of the roots of Western architecture and city building.

City walks enable us to think and feel more intricately, and by living through them – hopefully less ostentatiously - through experiences and relations that genuinely matter.

This book re-examines the role of urban policy and planning in relation to the housing market in an era of global uncertainty and change.

Festivals have always been part of city life, but their relationship with their host cities has continually changed.

This book explores how Japanese cities have transformed since the 1950s by describing housing and urban planning policies, urbanization processes, and maps with GIS analysis.

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The 1915 Rent Strikes in Glasgow, along with similar campaigns across the UK, catalysed rent restrictions and eventually public housing as a right, with a legacy of progressive improvement in UK housing through the central decades of the 20th century.

This book advances the trend toward field methods in rhetorical scholarship by collecting distinct chapters based on the same object of study - the University of Nevada, Reno's Masterplan that extends the University into the adjacent community.

This volume brings together the world's leading experts on urban and transport planning, environmental exposures, physical activity, health and health impact assessment to discuss challenges and solutions in cities.

This volume examines urban South Asia through the ideas of neighbourhood and neighbourliness.

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

After millions of migrants moved from China's countryside into its sprawling cities a unique kind of 'informal' urban enclave was born - 'villages in the city'.

This book is the culmination of the author's research on Urban Risk Management, based on research on practical applications on risk prevention and control practice in the industry.

Cities continue to be key sites for the production and contestation of inequalities generated by an ongoing but troubled neoliberal project.

The housing and human settlement sector is fast changing, and technology is making it more complex than ever before.

The Routledge Companion to Urban Media and Communication traces central debates within the burgeoning interdisciplinary research on mediated cities and urban communication.

Contemporary art, entertainment, and architecture cultures offer a growing amount of digitally mediated spatial experiences, situated either in the metaverse (e.

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

Exploring the ways in which an integrated landscape vision can help deliver regional, national, and international agendas, this book investigates how a new idea of landscape can reimagine governance, policy, economics, culture, identity, health, transport, and development priorities by connecting in a more powerful and meaningful way with local aspirations and demands.

Das Buch untersucht die sozialen Proteste gegen die Neoliberalisierung der Wohnraumversorgung, die sich angesichts steigender Mieten und Wohnungspreise  in den letzten Jahren vielerorts  formiert haben.

As America's fifth largest city and fourth largest metropolitan region, Philadelphia is tied to its surrounding counties and suburban neighborhoods.

Blackman draws on original material and the work of many earlier researchers to paint a verbal picture of the evolution of a remarkable city.

Cities and Cultures is a critical account of the relations between contemporary cities and the cultures they produce and which in turn shape them.

This book explores theatre and performance as participatory research practices for exploring the everyday of the city.

For more than 60 years, Times Square has reigned as one of New York's premiere tourist attractions.

Slums and Redevelopment (1992) moves between national policy formation and detailed local studies, particularly of London, studies involving landlords and property, tenants and rehousing, and the implementation of programmes.

This work offers a nuanced perspective based on empirical evidence of the role of talent and creativity for economic growth, prosperity, social and spatial inequality, and precarity in creative cities by arguing that creativity and talent need to be valued and eventually rewarded to achieve sufficient conditions for individual economic success.

This book showcases the diversity of ways in which urban residents from varying cultural contexts view, interact, engage with and give meaning to urban nature, aiming to counterbalance the dominance of Western depictions and values of urban nature and design.

Concerned with the relationship between Friday mosque and city in the Islamic context.

Urban motorways are among the greatest - and least forgiven - legacies of post-war planning in Britain.

This book presents a thorough discussion of utility cycling, cycling in the urban environment, and everyday mobility.

Alternative Urban Futures challenges existing models of urban development and promotes alternative paradigms, processes, and technologies designed to fulfill human needs and limit the harmful impacts of human activities on the environment.

This book proposes the idea of interstitial space as a theoretical framework to describe and understand the implications of in-between lands in urban studies and their profound transformative effects in cities and their urban character.

The study is set against the backdrop of the urbanization trend in present-day China, and focuses on the relationship between farmers who have lost their land ("e;land-lost farmers"e;) and local government.

This book illustrates and discusses the main characteristics of port-city development dynamics with a focus on the fast-growing city-states of the Middle East, which are emerging as key players in logistics and the global supply chain.

This two-volume set offers a comprehensive overview of major challenges faced by cities worldwide in the 21st century, and how cities in different geographic, economic, and political conditions are finding solutions to them.