Urban communities

This book focuses on the relationship between buildings and our health and wellbeing, and by extension our quality of life.

This comprehensive volume is an indispensable resource for researchers as well as general readers interested in the geography, history, and culture of London, examining all aspects of life in the United Kingdom's capital city.

Uncovers how people aged 60 and older struggle, survive, and thrive in twenty-first-century urban America.

A panoramic account of the urban politics and deep social divisions that gave rise to UberThe first city to fight back against Uber, Washington, D.

Urban Planning for Social Justice in Latin America explores how urban planning can be used as a tool for social equity.

The outbreak of plague in Surat in September 1994 brought to the fore the lopsided urban growth, inefficiency of the delivery system for basic services and incompetence of civic administration in urban India.

In 1997 the United Kingdom returned control of Hong Kong to China, ending the city's status as one of the last remnants of the British Empire and initiating a new phase for it as both a modern city and a hub for global migrations.

The Affective Agency of Public Space explores the pivotal role that public spaces play in fostering social inclusion and community cohesion within various settings, including Europe and the United States.

This book presents the proceedings of the Second International Conference on Technological Research - RITAM 2021.

This book reviews the recent evolutions of cities in the world according to entirely revised theoretical fundamentals of urban systems.

Completely updated guide to the laws governing homeowners associations in Florida.

A practical and popular guide to operating a successful condominium association in Florida.

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An acclaimed history of Harlem's journey from urban crisis to urban renaissanceWith its gleaming shopping centers and refurbished row houses, today's Harlem bears little resemblance to the neighborhood of the midcentury urban crisis.

China turned majority urban only in the recent decade, a dramatic leap given that less than 20 percent of its population lived in cities before 1980.

Nation's Metropolis describes how the national capital region functions as a metropolitan political economy.

Situated between the 1970s Soviet Union's invasion of Afghanistan and the post-2001 War on Terror, Refugee Cities tells the story of how global wars affect everyday life for Afghans who have been living as refugees in Pakistan.

A chronicle of neighborhood redevelopment politics in West Philadelphia over 60 yearsIn twenty-first-century American cities, policy makers increasingly celebrate university-sponsored innovation districts as engines of inclusive growth.

A partir del turismo, se han proyectado ciudades que nacieron prácticamente en lugares deshabitados, como la ciudad de Cancún, que nace después del boom mundial de los destinos de sol y playa (García de Fuentes, Jouault y Romero, 2019), como parte de las políticas de desarrollo regional del Estado mexicano para atraer inversiones en zonas poco desarrolladas del país e impulsar su proceso de colonización, lo que trajo como consecuencia su urbanización, así como el crecimiento de ciudades costeras de litoral, con impactos ambientales que acompañan al proceso (Bunicontro, 2019).

This book is concerned with developing an in-depth understanding of contemporary political and spatial analyses of cities.

Weiße Kreidefelsen mit rauschenden Buchenwäldern über smaragdgrüner Ostsee; Rapsfelder vor Boddenufern und endlose Sandstrände mit Strandkörben: Mit 1500 Küstenkilometern lädt Rügen, »Deutschlands größte Insel«, zur Mythenbildung ein.

Manche glauben, München bestehe nur aus Dallmayr und Maximilianstraße, Käfer-Zelt und Schickimicki, Freizeitspaß im Voralpenland und einer Stadtsilhouette ohne Hochhäuser.

Völlig aktualisierte NeuausgabeWissen Sie, wo die beste Köchin Österreichs zu finden ist?

This book investigates different aspects of the relationship between "e;healthy cities"e; and "e;urban planning"e;, examining various best practices in Europe.

Moskau für Einsteiger und Fortgeschrittene: Matthias Schepp zeigt uns, wie Russen ihre Kinder erziehen.

Viele Städte haben ihren ganz besonderen Reiz.

Washington ist das Zentrum der Macht.

Er ist so fahrrad- und umweltfreundlich wie sonst keiner, hat eine spannende Geschichte und wird von 50 000 Studenten jung gehalten: der Bischofssitz Münster.

»Dass Paris speziell ist, dämmerte mir schon als Achtjährigem.

The validity of certain critical reasoning steps carried out during or on the sidelines of the environmental science, public health survey, medical experiment, population risk assessment, or disease space-time mapping under conditions of in situ uncertainty and space-time heterogeneity, is often not given sufficient attention and may even be out of the investigator's line of thought.

This book shines a light on the meaning of happiness and how public perceptions of it have changed over time.

This book studies the production of urban culture in Tehran after 1979.

Most of us have heard of green belts - but how much do we really know about them?

Since the 1990s, city branding has become a key factor in urban development policies.

This highly original work examines the rise of the urban food planning movement in the Global North and provides insights into the new relationship between cities and food which has started developing over the past decade.

Sustainable development within urban and rural areas, transportation systems, logistics, supply chain management, urban health, social services, and architectural design are taken into consideration in the cohesive network models provided in this book.

The Routledge Handbook of Planning Theory presents key contemporary themes in planning theory through the views of some of the most innovative thinkers in planning.

Sustainability Policy, Planning and Gentrification in Cities explores the growing convergences between urban sustainability policy, planning practices and gentrification in cities.

America's public parks are in a golden age.

Our traditional image of Chicago-as a gritty metropolis carved into ethnically defined enclaves where the game of machine politics overshadows its ends-is such a powerful shaper of the city's identity that many of its closest observers fail to notice that a new Chicago has emerged over the past two decades.

Multi-owned properties make up an ever-increasing proportion of commercial, tourist and residential development, in both urban and rural landscapes around the world.

Visual Spatial Enquiry explores visual and textual ways of working within spatial research.

There is enormous current interest in urban food systems, with a wide array of policies and initiatives intended to increase food security, decrease ecological impacts and improve public health.

Sport is a geographic phenomenon.

Social justice is a concept which is widely touted and lauded as desirable, yet its meaning may differ depending on whether its focus is on the underlying values of social justice, the more specific objectives these entail, or the actual practices or policies which aim to achieve social justice.

The early nineteenth century witnessed the mass movement of people from Britain's countryside into its burgeoning towns and cities; people came to the city in search of work.

Place branding is often a response to inter-place competition and discussed as if it operated in a vacuum, ignoring the needs of local communities.

The Routledge Handbook of Community Development explores community development theory and practice across the world.

Winner of the Environmental Design Research Association's 2018 Achievement AwardThe pluralism of South Asia belies any singular reading of its heritage.