Urban communities

In today's world, towns and cities dynamically develop over time and that's why urban regeneration is a widely experienced phenomenon.

New urban forms characterizing contemporary metropolises reflect a certain continuity with the patterns of the past.

Residential Property Appraisal, Volumes 1 and 2, are handbooks not only for students studying residential surveying but also for those involved in the appraisal of residential property.

This book is the result of research into the considerable impacts the signing of the Schengen Agreement has had on the border regions of the signatory, in particular the Central European internal borders.

This book examines the formation of urban neighbourhoods in the Middle East, Africa, and South Asia.

The book explores social inclusion/exclusion from a socio-spatial perspective, highlighting the active role that space assumes in shaping social phenomena.

This book explores contemporary challenges of housing movement organizations, looking specifically at the case of Rome, Italy.

This book explores the hybridity of urban identities in multiple dimensions and at multiple scales, how they form as catalysts and mechanisms for urban transitions, and how they develop as city branding strategies and urban regeneration methods.

How we came to seek absolute good in religion and nature-and why that quest often leads us astrayPeople have long looked to nature and the divine as paths to the good.

This book interprets and explains contemporary population issues from historical and cultural perspectives.

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

This book examines the growing trend for housing models that shrink private living space and seeks to understand the implications of these shrinking domestic worlds.

This book examines the vast and largely uncharted world of cultural/creative city-making in Asia.

First published in 2000.

Originally published in 1987, this book is based on research concerned primarily with the Central Industrial Region.

This book provides comprehensive information on the rapidly developing field of urban horticulture for sustainable use of land resources and creating a better environment.

This book explores the built environment through aspects of spatial planning, ecology, infrastructure, and urban identity.

The last two decades have been an exciting and richly productive period for debate and academic research on the city.

Originally published in 1973 Knowledge, Education and Cultural Change surveys the present state of the field of the sociology of education.

This book offers a transdisciplinary perspective on the concept of "e;smart villages"e; Written by an authoritative group of scholars, it discusses various aspects that are essential to fostering the development of successful smart villages.

This book describes many of the unique contributions of the Food & Fitness program including a number of early successes, drawing lessons from efforts to form and maintain partnerships, and from the strategies employed to create structural change in communities.

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

The second edition of The Urban Design Reader draws together the very best of classic and contemporary writings to illuminate and expand the theory and practice of urban design.

The relationship between policing and the governance of society is an important and complex one, especially as it relates to destitute areas.

Depopulation, Deindustrialisation and Disasters are three of the biggest problems facing Japan today.

Conceptions of 'sustainable cities' in the pluralistic and multireligious urban settlements of developing nations need to develop out of local cultural, religious and historical contexts to be inclusive and accurately respond to the needs of the poor, ethnic and religious minorities, and women.

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.

In Squatter Life, sociologist Javier Auyero and anthropologist Sofia Servian detail the diverse and often precarious strategies that Argentina's urban poor rely on to survive.

There are growing waves of 'desirable' migrants from Asia moving to New Zealand, a place experiencing increasing ethnic diversity, particularly in its largest metropolitan region Auckland.

This book provides a unique foundation upon which to view how the involvement of the death care sector offers a potential route to take in practice and research in reaching urban communities of color dealing with gun-related deaths.

This book is the first survey of a new field in architecture theory: script writing.

This book provides a conceptual, historical and contemporary context to the relationships between gender, religion and cities.

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

This edited volume seeks to propose and examine different, though related, critical responses to modern cultures of war among other cultural practices of statecraft.

This book provides a survey of modern debates on Greek and Roman cities, and a sketch of the cities'' chief characteristics.

The Routledge Handbook of Housing Policy and Planning provides a comprehensive multidisciplinary overview of contemporary trends in housing studies, housing policies, planning for housing, and housing innovations in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Continental Europe.

David Grazian's riveting tour of downtown Philadelphia and its newly bustling nightlife scene reveals the city as an urban playground where everyone dabbles in games of chance and perpetrates elaborate cons.

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

Crime Unlimited: Questions for the Twenty-First Century comprises nine chapters contexualising crime and social control within debates about modernism, globalism, risk, and technological innovation.

This book critiques creativity as a 'keyword' in contemporary society.

In recent years, the rapidly growing field of community participation has promised to give people formerly excluded from decision making an influential voice about issues that affect their lives.

Readers of Global Gender Research will learn to compare and contrast feminist concerns globally, gain familiarity with the breadth of gender research, and understand the national contexts that produced it.

This collection offers a global perspective on the changing character of cities and the increasing importance that consumer culture plays in defining their symbolic economies.

Community Development for Social Change provides a comprehensive introduction to the theory and practice of community development and associated activities, discusses best practice from global experience and links that to the UK context.

This book investigates everyday life within Lebanese Australian homes, documenting how these homes integrate Lebanese Australian culture into suburban Australian life.

Men and women experience the city differently: in relation to housing assets, use of transport, relative mobility, spheres of employment and a host of domestic and caring responsibilities.