Urban communities

This book explores the human right to housing, presenting the findings of a global discourse analysis to analyse the right to housing from the perspective of theories on land policy and social citizenship.

This book contributes to current debates on the relationship between architecture and the social sciences, highlighting current interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary teaching as well as research and practice in architecture and urbanism.

This book provides an up-to-date, critical review of theoretical concepts connecting artists and urban development.

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

This book investigates the gender revolution in urban planning and public policy.

This book looks at the UEFA European Championship (Euro 2012) as both a crowning achievement of, and a way to sustain, the urban entrepreneurial strategy of Poznan, Poland.

This book provides an overview of urban transformations taking place in the city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in the last three decades.

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 Warren, a suburb of Detroit, Michigan, as a shrinking city facing a crisis of economic downturn, automotive restructuring, high unemployment, and real estate foreclosures.

This book explores the opportunities and challenges of the sharing economy and innovative transportation technologies with regard to urban mobility.

This book provides an overview of the environmental problems that arise from construction activity, focusing on refurbishment as an alternative to the current crisis in the construction sector, as well as on measures designed to minimize the effects on the environment.

This book analyses the struggle for social justice in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

This book presents multi-sector practical cases based on the author's own research.

This is a challenging new approach to understanding ecological systems especially in urban and urbanised areas.

This book documents the state of the art and the emerging operational perspectives in the field of the appraisal discipline.

This book offers a selection of the best papers presented during the International conference on Mitigating and Adapting Built Environments for Climate Change in the Tropics, held at Tanri Abeng University (TAU), Jakarta, Indonesia, March 2015.

This book analyses the housing and governance policies of the city of Surakarta, in Indonesia.

This interdisciplinary guide offers background, research findings, and practical strategies for assessing and improving air quality in hospitals and other healthcare settings.

This book explores how to tackle the challenges of urbanization through international lessons in sustainable development and smart growth strategies.

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

This proceedings volume focuses on different aspects of environmental assessment, monitoring, and management of urban and technogenic soils.

This collection explores the emergence of new spatialities and subjectivities in Brazilian films produced from the 1990s onwards, a period that became known as the retomada, but especially in the cinema of the new millennium.

This book provides a state of the art approach to participatory planning, and generates innovative thought in planning theory and knowledge study.

This book analyzes the ongoing transformation in the "e;smart city"e; paradigm and explores the possibilities that technological innovations offer for the effective involvement of ordinary citizens in collective knowledge production and decision-making processes within the context of urban planning and management.

This book presents fundamental and applied research aimed at the development of smart cities across India.

This book brings anthropologists and critical theorists together in order to investigate utopian visions of the future in the neoliberal cities of India and Sri Lanka.

This book draws on case examples of contemporary black activism in South Manchester and contrasts them with events that surrounded C.

The book discusses the concept of the smart city, and is based on a multi-service and multi-sectoral approach to urban planning, including various urban functions and the human capital of cities.

This edited collection examines the synergistic relationship between gender and urban space in post-millennium Spain.

This book analyzes the recent growth of Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Fuzhou, Shanghai, Hangzhou, Nanjing, and Hong Kong, seven major Chinese coastal cities.

This book explores the consequences of change in the urban form, the amalgam of the urban space and buildings and on the processes leading to planning and design.

This book discusses cars of the future and the new socio-economic paradigm that they represent.

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.

In a series of essays, this book describes and analyzes the concept and theory of the recent smart city phenomenon from a global perspective, with a focus on its implementation around the world.

This book offers a critical account of studies of local immigration policy and a relational approach to explain its emergence, variation, and effects in a context of interdependence and globalization.

This book discusses how smart cities strive to deploy and interconnect infrastructures and services to guarantee that authorities and citizens have access to reliable and global customized services.

This book presents cutting-edge work on innovative planning methodologies, tools and experiences aimed at supporting the transition of our cities and regions towards a more smart and sustainable dimension.

This bibliography offers valuable annotated references on housing for older population for those interested in these initiatives and discussions.

This book examines the urban legacy of the 2014 football World Cup in Brazil across the seven cities that hosted matches.

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

This edited volume discuses urban transport issues, policies, and initiatives in twelve of the world's major emerging economies - Brazil, China, Colombia, India, Indonesia, Iran, Mexico, Nigeria, Russia, South Africa, Turkey, and Vietnam - countries with large populations that have recently experienced large changes in urban structure, motorization and all the associated social, economic, and environmental impacts in positive and negative senses.

This book presents an overview of the challenges that cities in Latin America and Asia are facing regarding the preservation of their tangible and intangible heritage.

This book investigates food security and the implications of hyper-urbanisation and rapid growth of urban populations in Africa.

This book examines the nature and regulation of the informal economy by means of a collective case study in a highly regulated Western country.

This book presents recent efforts and new approaches to improve our understanding of the evolution of health and mortality in urban environments in the long run, looking at transformation and adaptations during the process of rapid population growth.

Water is an essential element in the future of cities.

This book offers a European perspective on urban planning and spatial design by outlining housing policies in Southern Europe and their evolution.

This book examines the roles that public space plays in gentrification.

This book demonstrates the pivotal role played by state confines in the geography of Balkan countries through powerful GIS and remote sensing analyses.

This book introduces the latest thinking on the use of Big Data in the context of urban systems, including research and insights on human behavior, urban dynamics, resource use, sustainability and spatial disparities, where it promises improved planning, management and governance in the urban sectors (e.