Urban communities

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.

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.

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

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

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

This book deploys the concept of 'audiovisual tourism promotion' to account for the promotional functions performed by a vast array of diverse media texts including tourism films, feature films, digital videos conceived for online circulation, video games and TV commercials.

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

This book highlights the challenges and opportunities of (re)constructing a sustainable rural community on the outskirts of the urban community.

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

This book examines the changing nature of opposition to bidding for and hosting the Olympic Games in contemporary American cities.

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

This book investigates institutional dimensions of urban water supply in India, with a specific focus on institutional capabilities to provide drinking water to urban households in an efficient, equitable and sustainable manner.

Eating locally and developing an urban-rural food continuum is a rapidly evolving movement.

This book will fill an important gap in the knowledge of Middle Eastern cities by reconstructing the historical process of Sanandaj's formation and development until the rise of modernization in Iran.

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

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

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This report presents the outcomes of a survey project of the National Academy of Economic Strategy of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and the United Nations Human Settlements Programme.

This book, the second volume, highlights 7 out of a total of about 36 megacities in the World which by definition have 10 million inhabitants.

This book, the first volume, highlights 8 out of a total of about 36 megacities in the World which by definition have 10 million inhabitants.

This book looks at how young people get attracted to the Far Right, especially young white men.

This book highlights major quantitative and qualitative methods and approaches used in the field of urban analysis.

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

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.

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

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

This book addresses the mystery and diversity of urbanization in China, especially with regard to urban villages.

This book highlights the latest advancements in the use of automated systems in the design, construction, operation and future of the built environment and its occupants.

This book mainly analyzes the major issues at all phases of the transition of urban-rural relation, as well as measures adopted by the transition launcher in face of such issues, including not only the system and policy design of the national and local government, but the countermeasures of basic-level units at urban and rural areas and the people.

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

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

This book offers readers a comprehensive introduction to the functions of the government in contemporary 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 proposes a new interdisciplinary understanding of urban design in China based on a study of the transformative effects of socio-spatial design and planning on communities and their governance.

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

This book provides an overview of the rapid development Beijing has seen in a wide range of areas in 2018, both in itself and as an integral part of a larger region, as China's economic development continues to improve in overall quality and regional coordination.

Modernist urbanism seems progressive, even Utopian: design for a better world through a democratic and humane built environment.

This book is a collection of texts on one of China's boldest social experiments in recent years: the rural reconstruction project in Bishan.

This is a book about how cities occupy space.

This book discusses land and housing controversies in Hong Kong, which offer a point of reference for the comparison and analysis of similar or contrasting cases overseas from the perspective of social values.

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

This book focuses on probiotics and gut microbiota, as well as their roles in alleviating the toxicity of various environmental pollutants, presenting the latest research findings and explaining advanced research methods and tools.

This book offers one of the first detailed anthropological studies of emergent ecotopianism in urban contexts.

This book investigates institutional dimensions of urban water supply in India, with a specific focus on institutional capabilities to provide drinking water to urban households in an efficient, equitable and sustainable manner.

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

The chaotic proliferation of skyscrapers in many cities around the world is contributing to a decline in placemaking.

This book fills a major gap in academic research, by exploring 'urban resilience measures' and 'city management issues' during disruptive disease outbreak events.