Urban communities

This book explores rhythmanalysis as a philosophy and as a research method for the study of cultural historical experiences.

A pilot's love letter to the world's greatest cities from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Skyfaring'A journey around both the author's mind and the planet's great cities that leaves us energised, open to new experiences and ready to return more hopefully to our lives' ALAIN DE BOTTONGrowing up in his small hometown, Mark Vanhoenacker spun the illuminated globe in his bedroom and dreamt of elsewhere - of distant, real cities, and a perfect metropolis that existed only in his imagination.

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.

The newly revised Globalizing Cities Reader reflects how the geographies of theory have recently shifted away from the western vantage points from which much of the classic work in this field was developed.

Originally published in 1979.

First published in 1984.

This book investigates cluster-life-cycle (CLC) analysis to inform the entrepreneurial discovery process (EDP), in order to support the effectiveness of the smart specialization strategy (S3).

Winner of the 2020 IPHS Koos Bosma PrizeAmerican Colonisation and the City Beautiful explores the history of city planning and the evolution of the built environment in the Philippines between 1916 and 1935.

Viewed as a symbol of urban blight and decline in the late 1970s and 1980s, Bushwick today is bustling and bursting with color, creativity, and commerce.

Helmut Holzapfel's Urbanism and Transport, a bestseller in its own country, now available in English, examines the history and the future of urban design for transport in major European cities.

This edited volume examines the current challenges to media freedom and democratisation in the Middle East.

Urbanization is one of the major challenges facing China.

This book challenges current views that public life is in decline and that contemporary urban design trends reliant on privatisation, control, events, and thematic designs are to be blamed.

Originally published in the tumult of 1996, in an era of new nativism and panic about the Latinization of America, Anything But Mexican solidified Rodolfo Acu,a's place as "e;the W.

According to some estimates, humanity has now passed the point at which city dwellers outnumber country dwellers.

In this study of exile, Sean Akerman chronicles the ways in which narrative approaches provide opportunities to understand and represent the lives of those who have been displaced after violence.

This manuscript focuses on the development of hybrid city-country (penurban) landscapes around large urban areas which mesh stylized countryside with functional links to the cities.

This book discusses the revitalization of decayed inner-city neighborhoods.

This book assesses various intelligent-city evaluation systems around the globe, and subsequently combines that assessment with local-government and enterprise practices to create an evaluation index system for quantifying the Intelligent City concept.

This study explores the various ways in which parental involvement can help to increase student academic success.

This book provides a unique foundation upon which to view how the involvement of the death care sector offers a potential route to take in practice and research in reaching urban communities of color dealing with gun-related deaths.

This book provides a user-friendly guide to the expanding scope of visual sociology, through a discussion of a broad range of visual material, and reflections on how such material can be studied sociologically.

Tourism Policy and Planning: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow offers an introduction to the tourism policy process and how policies link to the strategic tourism planning function as well as influence planning at the local, national, and international levels.

Since the 2011 Arab Spring street art has been a vehicle for political discourse in the Middle East, and has generated much discussion in both the popular media and academia.

This is the first book to address future informal settlements at the global scale.

This book seeks to understand culture through the lens of scenes, analyzing them aesthetically and culturally as well as understanding them through the frameworks of gender, social networks, and artworlds.

"e;Chekhov high on speed and Twinkies.

Der Titel bietet in seiner Kombination aus Text, Software und Übungsbeispielen eine ideale Grundlage für das (Selbst)studium.

Originally published in 1972, Minority Perspectives is the second in a series exploring metropolitan problems within the government structure.

A colourful tribute to one of the UK's most iconic cities with a foreword by Sir Paul McCartney.

This book highlights important but insufficiently documented dimensions of the experience of English-speaking Caribbean immigrants in the United States.

Rural Planning Futures charts the critical societal challenges that are reshaping rural places across the UK and Ireland.

Common Worlds: Paths Toward Sustainable Urbanism explores expert and lay approaches to sustainable urbanism, focusing on the politics and civic aesthetics of space and place; project-based learning and it consequences for the life chances of youth; and the prospect of intergenerational civic engagement.

In her study of the interactions between tools of urban sustainability governance in key cities, Lisa Pettibone argues that a new factor-sustainability-minded groups-may be critical to building momentum for sustainability.

Why, even in the same high-crime neighborhoods, do robbery, drug dealing, and assault occur much more frequently on some blocks than on others?

What is Manchester?

This book maps the interactions between informal workers and the law within the urban and spatial environment.

“A revelation .

This book presents interdisciplinary research to examine the ongoing debates around nonhuman animals in urban spaces.

Urban biodiversity is an increasingly popular topic among researchers.

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.

In the colonial era, Charleston, South Carolina, was the largest city in the American South.

Warenwelten – wir leben in einer Welt, in der Waren und der Konsum dieser Waren allgegenwärtig sind.

This book, first published in 1984, recounts the daily life, the politics, religion and leisure pursuits of Jamaicans in working- and middle-class Kingston.

In The City after Property, Sara Safransky examines how postindustrial decline generates new forms of urban land politics.