Urban communities

Die Klimafrage gewinnt immer mehr an Bedeutung.

In a world increasingly organised as networks of cities, this book offers the first full-length treatment of the subject of managing the city economy.

This study recovers Italo Calvino's central place in a lost history of interdisciplinary thought, politics, and literary philosophy in the 1960s.

Winner of a Lewis Mumford Prize: "e;Extremely engaging reading for those interested in the history of cities and urban experience.

The New Localism provides a roadmap for change that starts in the communities where most people live and work.

In the last ten years, concepts such as urban health and liveability have become ever more present in urban planning studies.

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.

Municipalities around the world have increasingly used inclusionary housing programs to address their housing shortages.

Green Blockchain Technology for Sustainable Smart Cities presents a detailed exploration of the adaptation and implementation of green blockchain technology for sustainable and eco-friendly smart city applications.

This book examines how young people's experiences of inclusion and exclusion are shaped by extended social relations, coordinating thought and conduct across time and space.

Understanding the politics of security in city-regions is increasingly important for the study of contemporary policing.

How do fashions in drinks work, and how are drinks fashions related to changing trends in clothes and apparel?

How can human communities sustain a long-term existence on a small planet?

This book focusses on the emergence of local governance networks and examines the role of street-level bureaucrats during this process.

In a world of increasingly mixed identities, what does it mean to belong?

Wildness and Wellbeing explores the dynamic relationships between urban nature and mental health, offering practical strategies for urban design.

This book is an ethnographic and sociolinguistic study of Uzbek migrants in the capital city of Uzbekistan.

The integration of land use and transport planning is key to making cities sustainable and liveable.

This book provides an invaluable overview of neoliberalising trends in urban policies and governance by presenting novel perspectives on municipal entrepreneurship support policies.

This book explores different theories of justice and explains how these connect to broader geographical questions and inform our understanding of urban problems.

Political meaning in architecture has been a subject of interest to many critics and writers.

An attempt to reveal, recover and reconsider the roles, positions, and actions of Ottoman women, this volume reconsiders the negotiations, alliances, and agency of women in asserting themselves in the public domain in late- and post-Ottoman cities.

This book explores China's eco-development strategies and practices from a multi-scalar perspective, discussing the importance of interplay between multi spatial levels of the built environment, as well as the stakeholders who are key players for China's eco-development.

Seattle Sports: Play, Identity, and Pursuit in the Emerald City, edited by Terry Anne Scott, explores the vast and varied history of sports in this city where diversity and social progress are reflected in and reinforced by play.

In many respects, New York City is an unnatural wonder, quite unlike any other American city and also unlike megacities in other industrial countries.

The aim of this book is to provide a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of the law relating to houses in multiple occupation (HMOs) in part 2 of the Housing Act 2004 that local authorities environmental health practitioners use to regulate this sector.

This book explores rhythmanalysis as a philosophy and as a research method for the study of cultural historical experiences.

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.

Many people characterize urban renewal projects and the power of eminent domain as two of the most widely despised and often racist tools for reshaping American cities in the postwar period.

Housing in the Margins offers a theoretically informed and empirically detailed exploration of unruly housing practices and their governance at the periphery of Berlin.

Neighbours are a lively topic of everyday conversation and interest.

This book explores what games and play can tell us about contemporary processes of urbanization and examines how the dynamics of gaming can help us understand the interurban competition that underpins the entrepreneurialism of the smart and creative city.

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

Some of the most populated and storied American cities had mayoral elections in 2013.

This book highlights various dimensions of human habitats in 21st Century India.

Against John Ogbu's oppositional culture theory and Claude Steele's disidentification hypothesis, Jesus and the Streets offers a more appropriate structural Marxian hermeneutical framework for contextualizing, conceptualizing, and evaluating the locus of causality for the black male/female intra-racial gender academic achievement gap in the United States of America and the United Kingdom.

Urban land is an environmental key topic considering the increasing urbani- sation of our world.

Uses interviews with evacuees and service provider reports to analyse the response to the human crisis that was Hurricane Katrina.

This book identifies the barriers between social work intervention in education and government-funded programs that impact African American students.

Managed Integration: Dilemmas of Doing Good in the City by Harvey Luskin Molotch is a groundbreaking sociological study of how urban communities navigated racial transition in mid-twentieth-century Chicago.

This 5th edition of Commonwealth Caribbean Property Law sets out clearly and concisely the central principles of the law of real property in the region, guiding students through this core but often complex subject area.

Foregrounding an innovative and radical perspective on food planning, this book makes the case for an agroecological urbanism in which food is a key component in the reinvention of new and just social arrangements and ecological practices.

Mapping Possibility traces the intertwined intellectual, professional, and emotional life of Leonie Sandercock.

In recent years, Baghdad has been viewed as a battleground for political conflicts; this interpretation has heavily influenced writings on the city.

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