Urban communities

This volume brings together a variety of studies on the question of cities, ethnicity and diversity.

This book explores contemporary urban experiences and how they are connected to practices of sharing and collaboration.

Cities are responsible for three-quarters of the world s energy consumption.

Cities house the majority of the world's population and are the dynamic centres of 21st century life, at the heart of economic, social and environmental change.

Community activist Carolyn McLaughlin takes us on a journey of the South Bronx through the eyes of its community members.

Urban ethnography is the firsthand study of city life by investigators who immerse themselves in the worlds of the people about whom they write.

This book combines in a single volume numerous studies concerning the use of arts and culture to enhance quality of life, health and wellbeing among older people, especially in Singapore.

Appeals to the 'common good' or 'public interest' have long been used to justify planning as an activity.

In dealing with scarce land, planners often need to interact with, and sometimes confront, property right-holders to address complex property rights situations.

First published in 1984.

Which public and whose space?

In the southern German city of Stuttgart lives a pious Muslim population that has merged with the local population to create a meaningful shared existence.

This book provides a representative selection of the highest quality papers submitted to the IAPS 13 conference held in Manchester in 1994.

This book focuses on the relationship between gastronomy and urban space.

Urban Theory and the Urban Experience brings together classic and contemporary approaches to urban research in order to reveal the intellectual origins of urban studies and the often unacknowledged debt that empirical and theoretical perspectives on the city owe one another.

The Routledge Handbook of Institutions and Planning in Action contains a selection of 25 chapters prepared by specialized international scholars of urban planning and urban studies focusing on the question of how institutional innovation occurs in practices of action.

The current climate crisis and the rapid transformation of the natural environments will inevitably pose a threat to human settlements around the world.

This book explores the complex relationship between societies, architecture, and urbanism of market halls, traditional souqs, bazaars, and speciality street markets in the Middle East and North Africa.

By questioning the widely accepted picture of suburban society which has been developed by many sociologists, social psychologists, and other serious students of social science, as well as by popular writers, this book will challenge much of our thinking about certain trends and developments in present-day society.

This book investigates policies for the promotion of housing affordability in the rental sector of attractive cities in Europe.

Disclosing elite ecologies: Methodologies for "e;Doing"e; Urban Elite Research offers a set of methodologies to chart urban elites.

Originally published in 1981, Urban Transport Planning explains how the systems approach has been applied in the planning of multi-modal transport planning and to demonstrate how a city may be represented by land use zones superimposed with a transport network.

Although strategies to prevent global warming - such as by conserving energy, relying on solar and wind power, and reducing motor vehicle use - are well-known, societies have proved unable to implement these measures with the necessary speed.

Invoking the notion of 'cosmopolitics' from Bruno Latour and Isabelle Stengers, this volume shows how and why cities constitute privileged sites for studying the search for and composition of common worlds of cohabitation.

This collection illustrates the evolving role of housing as a symbol of modernity, a tool for economic recovery and a response to societal transitions.

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.

Cities across the world have been resorting to star architects to brand their projects, spark urban regeneration and market the city image internationally.

This book discusses the application of Geospatial data, Geographic Information System (GIS) and Remote Sensing (RS) technologies in analysis and modeling of urban growth process, and its pattern, with special focus on sprawl and compact form of urban development.

European-East Asian Borders is an international, trans-disciplinary volume that breaks new ground in the study of borders and bordering practices in global politics.

This study, first published in 1968, was one of the first books on Canada's urban development, bringing together the viewpoints of professionals who had studied various aspects of city growth - economic, social, geographic, political.

Paris, Jerusalem and Belfast are cities that are shaped by political violence, death and the injustices caused by segregated living.

This book reconceptualizes migration studies in India and brings back the idea of citizenship to the center of the contested relationship between the state and internal migrants in the country.

This book provides insights into commercial and residential real estate markets in one of the world's fastest growing regions: South Asia.

Urban Design: A Typology of Procedures and Products, 2nd Edition provides a comprehensive and accessible introduction to urban design, defining the field and addressing the controversies and goals of urban design.

This book includes papers presented at the 6th Arte-Polis International Conference.

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.

Cities are home to over fifty percent of the world's population, a figure which is expected to increase enormously by 2050.

Urban slum dwellersespecially in emerging-economy countriesare often poor, live in squalor, and suffer unnecessarily from disease, disability, premature death, and reduced life expectancy.

This unique book examines theatre practice that takes place within a range of health and care settings from medical training to advocacy projects for service users.

Encompassing the legal systems of over a dozen independent countries, the authors of this book bring together a wealth of diverse sources to present a coherent picture of the law of property as it exists today, and offer some thoughts on the challenges and legal difficulties facing the region.

This book critically examines the making and persistence of impoverished areas at the margins of Romanian cities since the late 1980s.

Examining the restitution of cultural property to Indigenous Peoples in human rights law, this book offers a detailed analysis of the opportunities and constraints of international law as a tool of resistance and social transformation for marginalized groups.

This book combines film studies with urban theory in a spatial exploration of twentieth century Los Angeles.

In this sequel to Kingston, Jamaica: Urban Development and Social Change, 1692 to 1962 (1975) Colin Clarke investigates the role of class, colour, race, and culture in the changing social stratification and spatial patterning of Kingston, Jamaica since independence in 1962.

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COVID-19 has stressed the condition of radical uncertainty that increasingly characterises our times and compels cities to learn new ways to cope with unexpected global urban challenges.

Digital technologies promise efficiency and comfort, but the smoothness of platform services relies on the hidden social labour of those who keep the gig economy running.

This book draws together classic and contemporary texts on the "e;Horizontal Metropolis"e; concept.