Urban communities

This book critically examines 'smart city' discourse in terms of governance initiatives, citizen participation and policies which place emphasis on the 'citizen' as an active recipient and co-producer of technological solutions to urban problems.

With the spread of capitalism - a socio-economic system that produces both wealth and poverty simultaneously - the spatial dynamics of the "e;global(izing)"e; city are creating more division between social classes, not less.

This book details the transformation processes that impinge on constitutionally ordained governance by drawing on the new theoretical approaches in the urban sciences.

**Please note this is an unedited paperback reprint of the hardback, originally published in 2003**The British system of universal development control celebrated its 50th anniversary in 1997.

Point Saint-Charles, a historically white working-class neighbourhood with a strong Irish and French presence, and Little Burgundy, a multiracial neighbourhood that is home to the city's English-speaking Black community, face each other across Montreal's Lachine Canal, once an artery around which work and industry in Montreal were clustered and by which these two communities were formed and divided.

Gentrification is one of the most debilitating-and least understood-issues in American cities today.

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.

Reshaping Youth Participation reframes discussions around youth political, social, civic, and cultural participation.

This book focuses on water pollution, water management and water structures.

The City: The Basics provides a brief yet compelling overview of the study of cities and city life.

One of the defining characteristics of many large cities in the rapidly urbanizing global South is the high degree of informality of shelter, services and economic livelihoods.

In the eyes of the global media, modern Mexico has become synonymous with crime, violence and insecurity.

This edited collection investigates the human dimension of urban renewal, using a range of case studies from Africa, Asia, Europe, India and North America, to explore how the conception and delivery of regeneration initiatives can strengthen or undermine local communities.

This book examines the everyday functioning and impact of international law and the development project, particularly across cities in emergent nations.

The majority of the world's population is now urban, and for most this will mean a life lived in the suburbs.

This book analyses the social and cultural status of high streets in the age of recession and austerity.

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.

Creative hubs have become a cornerstone of economic and cultural policy with only the barest amount of discussion or scrutiny.

This book examines the current state of, and emerging issues in relation to, the Torrens and other systems of land registration, and the process of automation of land registration systems in jurisdictions where this is occurring worldwide.

A comprehensive consolidation of data for the world, this book gives a short precis of each nation, each nation's history, its topography and a chronology of the development of geodetic surveying and coordinate systems for that specific nation.

This book provides insights and discusses human-centered urban design and placemaking, human activities and urban mobility in China.

A Coming of Age: Geospatial Analysis and Modelling in the Early Twenty First Century Forty years ago when spatial analysis first emerged as a distinct theme within geography's quantitative revolution, the focus was largely on consistent methods for measuring spatial correlation.

Disruptive Urbanism examines how different forms and modes of the so called "e;sharing economy"e; are manifesting in cities and regions throughout the world, and how policy makers are responding to these disruptions.

How do trees help reduce violence?

Aesthetics and the Revolutionary City engages in alternative ways of reading foreign visual representations of Havana through analysis of advertising images, documentary films, and photographic texts.

The global south is entering an 'Urban Age' where, for the first time in history, more people will be living in cities than in the countryside.

This book aims to examine the characteristics, roles and social values of public spaces in the globalized territory of Hong Kong.

"e;[An] epic, atomic history of the Steel City .

Originally published in 1987, Forecasting Techniques for Urban and Regional Planning is an introduction to the various analytical techniques which have been developed and applied in urban and regional analysis in planning practice.

This book evaluates the impact of 20 years of urban policies in six Latin American countries: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador and Mexico.

This book explores how environmental urban design can benefit from established and emerging representation and simulation techniques that meet the need for a multisensory approach.

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

The ten years before this book was originally published in 1986 saw major restructuring in the economies of the developed world.

Before the interstates, Main Street America was the small town's commercial spine and served as the linchpin for community social solidarity.

Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic TitleIt has been called one of the nation's most livable regions, ranked among the best managed cities in America, hailed as a top spot to work, and favored as a great place to do business, enjoy the arts, pursue outdoor recreation, and make one's home.

At a time dominated by the disappearance of Future, as claimed by the French anthropologist Marc Auge, Utopia and Religion seem to be two different ways of giving back an inner horizon to mankind.

This book explores the interconnections between urbanization and capitalism to examine the current condition of cities due to capitalism.

Originally published in 1985, this book analyses the development of private rented housing in Britain, France, the former West Germany, the Netherlands and the USA.

Implementing Urban Design: Green, Civic, and Community Strategies addresses a central urban design issue: how to bring an urban design from concept to reality.

This Element examines urban imaginaries during the expansion of international news between the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

This book represents a compilation of research in sustainable architecture and planning.

This book initiates a fresh discussion of affordability in rural housing set in the context of the rapidly shifting balance between rural and urban populations.

This book reconsiders the fundamental principles of zoning and city planning over the course of the past one-hundred years, and the lessons that can be learned for the future of cities.

This book approaches cultural landscape as a driver for societal challenges, economic development, social inclusion, place assessment and heritage conservation.

Winner of the Immigration and Ethnic History Society's First Book Award: an exploration of how the Windy City became a postwar Latinx metropolis in the face of white resistance.

Rebuilding Afghanistan in Times of Crisis provides academics and researchers interested in planning, urbanism and conflict studies with a multidisciplinary, international assessment of the reconstruction and foreign aid efforts in Afghanistan.

Shaping Jerusalem: Spatial planning, politics and the conflict focuses on a hidden facet of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict; the relentless reshaping of the Holy City by the Israeli authorities through urban policies, spatial plans, infrastructural and architectural projects, land use and building regulations.

Immigrants in the United States send more than $20 billion every year back to Mexico-one of the largest flows of such remittances in the world.