Urban communities

"e;A balanced, well-written account which provides the best overall understanding of these events.

The Embrace of Buildings provides an overview of the key factors, topics, and issues in Anglo-American urbanism: the origins and development of the suburban ideal, the role of federal policies and spending priorities in shaping the built environment, the rise of the private automobile as the primary mode of transportation, the effects of functional zoning laws, the relation between the public realm and the quality of civic discourse, the influence of modernism on city planning, the impact of low-density development on public health, the connection between development and city budgets, the impact of urbanism on the environment, and the problem of gentrification.

An Occupy-era New York City novel following three women.

In the '80s, when author/photographer Kurt Hollander lived in New York and published The Portable Lower East, life there was particularly rough, and cops often drove yellow cabs as a method to surprise and roust its residents.

Havana without Makeup is the ultimate insiders view of Havana, a wide-ranging exploration of its complex facets as seen by few.

Honorable mention in the Global Humanities Translation PrizeWhen five-year-old Kampol is told by his father to wait for him in front of some run-down apartment buildings, the confused boy does as told-he waits, and waits, and waits, until he realizes his father isn't coming back anytime soon.

Case studies of metropolitan cities in nine African countries - from Egypt in the north to three in West and Central Africa, two in East Africa and three in Southern Africa - make up the empirical foundation of this publication.

Case studies of metropolitan cities in nine African countries - from Egypt in the north to three in West and Central Africa, two in East Africa and three in Southern Africa - make up the empirical foundation of this publication.

The persistence of indigenous African markets in the context of a hostile or neglectful business and policy environment makes them worthy of analysis.

Modello is the true story from beginning to end of how Dr.

Uncovers how people aged 60 and older struggle, survive, and thrive in twenty-first-century urban America.

Just a little way down Collins Street, beside Henry Buck's, is a perpetually dark but sheltered laneway called Equitable Place.

"e;Old landmarks fall in nearly every block .

Trading Places is about urban land markets in African cities.

This is the first research report to examine the nature and drivers of food insecurity in the northern Namibian towns of Oshakati, Ongwediva, and Ondangwa.

This report marks the first stage of AFSUN,s goal of expanding knowledge about urban food systems and experiences of household food insecurity in secondary African cities.

This report argues that it is essential to understand the dynamics of the informal food retail sector because of its vital role in ensuring greater access to food by the urban poor.

This report examines the food security status of Zimbabwean migrant households in the poorer areas of two major South African cities, Johannesburg and Cape Town.

The nadir of Zimbabwe,s political and economic crisis in 2008 coincided with the implementation of a baseline household food security survey in Harare by AFSUN.

This report compares the business operations of over 2,000 South Africans and refugees in the urban informal economy and systematically dispels some of the myths that have grown up around their activities.

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.

This report provides a rich view of the activities of migrant entrepreneurs in the informal economy of Johannesburg.

Faced with a global threat to food security, it is perfectly possible that society will respond, not by a dystopian disintegration, but rather by reasserting co-operative traditions.

What is it like growing up Black and gay in the inner city?

Suburban space has traditionally been understood as a formless remnant of physical city expansion, without a dynamic or logic of its own.

The conference on "e;Innovative Synergies: Business, Agriculture, Technology and Resource Management for Sustainable Development (CVBSG2024)"e; is designed to drive sustainable development across various sectors.

This book looks at slums and social exclusion in the four major megacities of India and Brazil, and analyzes the interrelationships between urban policies and housing and environmental issues.

The validity of certain critical reasoning steps carried out during or on the sidelines of the environmental science, public health survey, medical experiment, population risk assessment, or disease space-time mapping under conditions of in situ uncertainty and space-time heterogeneity, is often not given sufficient attention and may even be out of the investigator's line of thought.

As the dynamo of South Africa's economy, Johannesburg commands a central position in the nation's imagination, and scholars throughout the world monitor the city as an exemplar of urbanity in the global South.

As the dynamo of South Africa's economy, Johannesburg commands a central position in the nation's imagination, and scholars throughout the world monitor the city as an exemplar of urbanity in the global South.

What does it really mean to reconstruct a city after a natural, biological or man-made disaster?

Cities, by their very nature, are a mass of contradictions.

We are constantly being told that communities are under threat, that we are losing a 'sense of community'.

Paris, Jerusalem and Belfast are cities that are shaped by political violence, death and the injustices caused by segregated living.

Urban environments in the 21st Century are faced with unprecedented challenges.

The complex relationship between violence and nonviolence in social movements.

San Francisco is being eroded by waves of cash flowing north from Silicon Valley.

"e;Millions of foreclosed homes and abandoned buildings on one hand; millions of Americans desperate for decent shelter on the other.

A wonderful collection of questions and reflections on the state of the movement today, where we came from, and where we might be going.

As cities all over the world have urbanized rapidly after the industrial revolution, most cities have confronted environmental problems such as poor air and water quality, high levels of traffic congestion and ambient noise, poor-quality built environment, derelict land, greenhouse gas emissions, urban sprawl, generation of waste and waste-water.

Over the last 20 years, New York City has been convulsed by enormous challenges: terrorist attack, blackout, hurricane, recession, pandemic.

For the first time in history, the majority of the world's population lives in cities, the result of a rapid process of urbanization that started in the second half of the twentieth century.

Cities are the future.

In this groundbreaking book, Garth Myers uses African urban concepts and experiences to speak back to theoretical and practical concerns.

For the first time in history, the majority of the world's population lives in cities, the result of a rapid process of urbanization that started in the second half of the twentieth century.

Cities are the future.

Cultural theorist Mica Nava makes an original and significant contribution to the study of cosmopolitanism by exploring everyday English urban cosmopolitanism and foregrounding the gendered, imaginative and empathetic aspects of positive engagement with cultural and racial difference.

'Weak market cities' across European and America, or 'core cities' as they were in their heyday, went from being 'industrial giants' dominating their national, and eventually the global, economy, to being 'devastation zones'.

East London has undergone dramatic changes over the last 30 years, primarily as a result of London's large scale de-industrialisation and the rise in its financial sector.

This book provides, in a single volume, a review of the findings of the largest ever programme of cities research in the UK, the Economic and Social Research Council's 'Cities: Competitiveness and Cohesion programme'.