Urban communities

Since the DCMS Creative Industries Mapping Document highlighted the key role played by creative activities in the UK economy and society, the creative industries agenda has expanded across Europe and internationally.

This book presents methodological approaches that can help explore the ways in which people develop emotional attachments to historic urban places.

This book discusses the unknown and remote urban experiment of modernist social practices and dreams of a better tomorrow.

Traditionally, the study of 'power in the city' was confined to the institutions of urban government and the actors involved in contesting and making political decisions in and for metropolitan societies.

This book expands on the thought of Walter Benjamin by exploring the notion of modern mind, pointing to the mutual and ongoing feedback between mind and city-form.

This book explores the diverse immigrant experiences in urban West Africa, where some groups integrate seamlessly while others face exclusion and violence.

The sights, sounds, and smells of life on the streets and in the houses of eighteenth-century Paris rise from the pages of this marvelously anecdotal chronicle of a perpetually alluring city during one hundred years of extraordinary social and cultural change.

This new handbook brings together various views and experiences of the impacts of flooding and its management in Africa, Asia and Latin America by drawing from traditional and modern approaches adopted by communities, homeowners, academics, project managers, institutions and policy makers.

The fourth edition of Mark Hutter's Experiencing Cities examines cities and larger metropolitan areas within a truly global framework, lending readers much to understand and appreciate about the variety of urban structures and processes and their effect on the everyday lives of people residing in cities.

Perhaps the least appreciated dramatis personae in human history are plants.

Term limits enjoy broad popularity among Americans, yet scholarly literature has omitted two important questions from the study of municipal reform: Why are term limits so popular, and what are the causes of movements for term limits?

Originally published in 1972.

There is need for change in our currently unsustainable cities.

This is the story of teaching consciousness as a requirement for transformations in social justice.

The present book is based on the experience of the author.

New urban developments such as office blocks, warehouses and retail complexes are increasingly common in outer city regions across the world.

This book offers a comprehensive overview of the intellectual developments in urban conservation.

This book brings together a body of new research which looks both backwards and forwards to consider how far the London 2012 Olympic legacy has been delivered and how far it has been a hollow promise.

Städte waren im Mittelalter von überragender Bedeutung.

Following decades of neglect and decline, many US cities have undergone a dramatic renaissance.

As racially-based inequalities and spatial segregation deepen, further strained by emergent problems associated with climate change, ever-widening differences between wealth and poverty, and the economic crisis, this book issues a timely call for just, sustainable development.

Published in 1912 on the heels of Twenty Years at Hull-House and at the height of Jane Addams's popularity, A New Conscience and an Ancient Evil assesses the vulnerability of the rural and immigrant working-class girls who moved to Chicago and fell prey to the sexual bartering of what was known as the white slave trade.

Nandini Gooptu's magisterial 2001 history of the labouring poor in India represents a tour-de-force.

Drawing upon empirical research and critical literature review, Smart Tourism Destination Governance: Technology and Design-Based Approach provides a comprehensive overview and analysis of smart tourism destination governance and its related challenges.

In recent decades, Chinese cities have experienced profound social, economic and spatial transformations.

This book offers an interdisciplinary perspective on the precolonial to colonial transition in an urban context, by focusing on the changing distribution, character and role of public spaces and buildings.

[FOR HISTORY CATALOGS]Drawing on the pronouncements of public commentators, this book portrays the 20th century history of U.

This book presents comparative evidence and case-studies on poor urban youth, providing interventions that have proven successful.

This book investigates authenticity, an important but controversial cultural concept, and its relevance for urban socio-spatial processes.

Middle India and Rural-Urban Development explores the socio-economic conditions of an 'India' that falls between the cracks of macro-economic analysis, sectoral research and micro-level ethnography.

Das Buch befasst sich mit den komplexen Prozessen der Zusammenschau physischer Objekte zu Wald auf Grundlage eines sozialkonstruktivistischen Ansatzes.

Cities in South Asia are homes to one of the highest concentrations of people anywhere in the world and the allocation of land and urban resources and the benefits that can be derived from them in this region have become increasingly contested.

Exploring locales such as city streets, bus stops, parking lots, bars, retail establishments, and discussion groups, Together Alone ventures into what is often thought of as the realm of passing strangers to examine the nature of personal relationships conducted in public spaces.

Seit etlichen Jahrzehnten bin ich mit der internationalen Ich bin über diese Entwicklung sehr glücklich, denn so Föderation der Landschaftsarchitekten innig verbunden.

The book explores current characteristics of the urban built environment in view of possible future transformations.

An intimate portrait of the Big AppleAs a child growing up in Manhattan, William Helmreich played a game with his father called "e;Last Stop.

Illuminates how the city has shaped contemporary artistic practice in Southeast AsiaIn The City in Time, Pamela N.

Historically, we see the city as the cramped, crumbling core of development and culture, and the suburb as the vast outlying wasteland - convenient, but vacant.

The subject of how best to address the current and future health needs of older adult residents in this country's urban marginalized communities is one that has also received considerable attention in academic, policy, and practice arenas in the past decade.

This contributed volume considers the emergence of coworking as centered in labor issues.

This book serves as a hands-on guide to the "e;acs"e; R package for demographers, planners, and other researchers who work with American Community Survey (ACS) data.

The new edition of this well-established introductory cartography textbook is updated to respond to the demand for critical engagement with new technologies, the passion for inclusive design, and for preparing students to build competence in fundamental skills.

Peter Hall and Colin Ward wrote Sociable Cities to celebrate the centenary of publication of Ebenezer Howard's To-morrow: A Peaceful Path to Real Reform in 1998 - an event they then marked by co-editing (with Dennis Hardy) the magnificent annotated facsimile edition of Howard's original, long lost and very scarce, in 2003.

Claudia Hille untersucht in dem vorliegenden Buch die Auswirkungen berufsbedingter, residenzieller Multilokalität auf das Verkehrshandeln.

Migration is an enormously broad topic of academic enquiry engaging researchers from many different social science disciplines.

This book is an investigation of the cultural phenomenon of branding and its transformational effects on the contemporary spatial - and urban - reality.

Urban Planning's Philosophical Entanglements explores the long-held idea that urban planning is the link in moving from knowledge to action.

Speaking Memory evokes the complex "e;language-scapes"e; that form at the crossroads of culture and history in cities.

Since the publication of the bestselling second edition 5 years ago, vast and new globally-relevant geographic datasets have become available to cartography practitioners, and with this has come the need for new ways to visualize them in maps as well as new challenges in ethically disseminating the visualizations.