Urban communities

The Routledge Handbook of Anthropology and the City provides a comprehensive study of current and future urban issues on a global and local scale.

First published in 2004.

As the historic capital of the country and the stronghold of the nation's most celebrated traditions, the city of Kyoto holds a unique place in the Japanese imagination.

Extending current scholarship on South Asian Urban and Literary Studies, this volume examines the role of the discontents of the South Asian city.

Originally published in 1986.

In the past decade, urban regeneration policy makers and practitioners have faced a number of difficult challenges, such as sustainability, budgetary constraints, demands for community involvement and rapid urbanization in the Global South.

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.

Canada's last experience with national urban policy-making was in the 1970s.

Fear is ingrained in the history of cities but our short-sightedness prevents us from grasping its evolution over time.

A Social History of Sheffield Boxing combines urban ethnography and anthropology, sociological theory and place and life histories to explore the global phenomenon of boxing.

This book offers an inside view of Manchester, England demonstrating the complexity of urban dynamics from a range of ethnographic vantage points, including the city's football clubs, the airport, housing estates, the Gay Village and the city's annual civic parade.

Equity and Trusts is an ideal choice for all undergraduate and GDL students looking for a comprehensive yet accessible textbook on this complex area of law.

This book examines racial and ethnic politics outside of the traditional context and questions the models used to understand mobility and government responsiveness.

This book is the second installment of a trilogy that explores the spatial dimensions of music.

This book investigates the influence of self-organisation processes on the commuting of the poor workers in urban China.

This book is an ethnographic account of San Francisco's most inner city neighborhood, the Tenderloin.

The building and management of public housing is often seen as a signal failure of American public policy, but this is a vastly oversimplified view.

Violence sabotages development, both children's development and the development of the communities and neighbourhoods they rely on.

This book discusses innovative responses and reforms developed in critical areas of urban governance in European countries.

Poverty, Gender and Health in the Slums of Bangladesh provides comprehensive ethnographic accounts that depict the daily life experiences and health hardships encountered by young women and their families living in the slums of Dhaka city and the injustices they face.

A rising proportion of the global population are moving to cities in search of a better standard of living.

Many countries in the developing world are facing a rapid acceleration in population ageing.

** Honorable Mention at the 2019 ERDA Great Places Awards ** Making Places for People explores twelve social questions in environmental design.

This book investigates resource-constrained environments in the tropics and subtropics where people's lives and businesses are affected, and adaptations occur periodically.

This book provides an important overview of how climate-driven natural hazards like river or pluvial floods, droughts, heat waves or forest fires,  continue to play a central role across the globe in the 21st century.

This book offers fresh insights into how companies can engage with, and make use of, the modern metropolis.

The Third World cities have been reinvented by the forces of globalization as the destinations of new investments, causing the migration of a teeming million to the major urban centers without any corresponding increase in the creation of new jobs and other basic amenities required for decent living.

In 1945 Germany's cities lay in ruins, destroyed by Allied bombers `hat left major architectural monuments badly damaged and much of the housing stock reduced to rubble.

Originally published in 1966 and written at a time when UK housing policy was undergoing major changes, this volume provides a substantial historical introduction which outlines the development of housing policy in the UK from the mid 19th - mid 20th Centuries.

Henri Lefebvre and the Spanish Urban Experience is the first book to thoroughly apply the French urban philosopher's thought on cities to the culture and literature of Spain.

This book is about urban terror - its meaning, its ramifications, and its impact on city life.

This book investigates the success story of the fast fashion industry-mainly owned by Chinese migrants-in Prato, Italy.

To generate opportunities for transformative learning, educators must create learning environments that help students feel safe and encourage them to grapple with potentially difficult material.

First published in 2004.

This book addresses the future of urbanisation on the Galapagos Islands from a systems, governance and design perspective with the competing parameters of liveability, economic and ecological, using the Galapagos as a laboratory for the theoretical and postulative understanding of evolving settlement and habitation.

This textbook examines strategies of investing in human health and investing in economic growth as distinct approaches to development.

The fourth edition of Housing Policy in the United States refreshes its classic, foundational coverage of the field with new data, analysis, and comparative focus.

Aus einer soziologischen Perspektive widmet sich die Arbeit dem Konzept der Community Resilience, mit dem wesentliche Anpassungs- und Bewältigungsressourcen gesellschaftlicher Herausforderungen - wie Krisen, Katastrophen und sozialen Umbruchsphasen - in sozialen Prozessen und der kollektiven Leistungsfähigkeit der Bevölkerung verortet werden.

Worldwide, disasters and climate change pose a serious risk to sustainable urban development, resulting in escalating human and economic costs.

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

This book provides a unique perspective on the behind the scenes planning of London's Olympic legacy.

This book explores Patrick Geddes' significant contributions to urban planning and sociology.

The Canadian model of diversity management is considered a success in the international community, yet the methods by which these policies are adopted by local governments have seldom been studied.

This comprehensive volume contributes to the existing and emerging body of literature on contemporary urbanization and the interactions between cities and the environment.

This book analyses the cultural politics of urban development in Gwangju, South Korea, and illustrates the implementation of state-led arts-based urban boosterism efforts in the context of political trauma and the desire for economic growth.

Die Texte des Bandes befassen sich schwerpunktmäßig mit den Erfahrungen der Quartiersentwicklung im Globalen Süden und der Frage, wie es gelingen kann, selbst in Situationen geringster Ressourcenverfügbarkeit und größter Not menschenwürdige Lebensbedingungen auf der Quartiersebene zu verwirklichen.

This book discusses the role of digital technologies in the growth and development of cultural organizations and the creative sector.

This book defines the processes used for delivering a range of food items to the city of Rome and its hinterland from the first century AD using modern supply chain modelling techniques.