Urban communities

This book offers a comparative study of state strategies in relation to urban redevelopment projects associated with sports mega-events in Brazil, South Africa and the United Kingdom.

This book presents original research findings of The Million Person Study of Low-Dose Radiation Health Effects (MPS), the largest and most comprehensive epidemiologic study of its kind to investigate the health effects of low-level chronic radiation exposure on American workers and veterans throughout the 20th century.

It is not lost on commercial organisations that where we live colours how we view ourselves and others.

It is not lost on commercial organisations that where we live colours how we view ourselves and others.

The last two decades have been an exciting and richly productive period for debate and academic research on the city.

The last two decades have been an exciting and richly productive period for debate and academic research on the city.

The economic and political situation of cities has shifted in recent years in light of rapid growth amidst infrastructure decline, the suburbanization of poverty and inner city revitalization.

The economic and political situation of cities has shifted in recent years in light of rapid growth amidst infrastructure decline, the suburbanization of poverty and inner city revitalization.

Whether you are an urban geographer, an urban sociologist or an urban political scientist, and whether you take a qualitative, quantitative or mixed methods approach, the challenge that confronts researchers of our increasingly "e;globalized"e; urban studies remains fundamentally the same-how to make sense of urban complexity.

Whether you are an urban geographer, an urban sociologist or an urban political scientist, and whether you take a qualitative, quantitative or mixed methods approach, the challenge that confronts researchers of our increasingly "e;globalized"e; urban studies remains fundamentally the same-how to make sense of urban complexity.

Circulation and Urbanization is a foundational investigation into the history of the urban.

Circulation and Urbanization is a foundational investigation into the history of the urban.

As the tragedy of the Grenfell tower fire has slowly revealed a shadowy background of outsourcing, private finance initiatives and a council turning a blind eye to health and safety concerns, many questions need answers.

Cairo is a city of collective exhaustion.

Cairo is a city of collective exhaustion.

What is Manchester?

What is Manchester?

This book explores contemporary urban experiences and how they are connected to practices of sharing and collaboration.

As the tragedy of the Grenfell tower fire has slowly revealed a shadowy background of outsourcing, private finance initiatives and a council turning a blind eye to health and safety concerns, many questions need answers.

Focusing on two cases of resettlement in rural Cundinamarca, Colombia, this book examines how displaced campesinos make sense of their displacement and how displacement shapes their everyday lives.

The book presents an in-depth and theoretically-grounded analysis of urban gardening practices (re)emerging worldwide as new forms of bottom-up socio-political participation.

The book presents an in-depth and theoretically-grounded analysis of urban gardening practices (re)emerging worldwide as new forms of bottom-up socio-political participation.

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.

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.

This new study examines how nineteenth-century industrial Lancashire became a leading national and international art centre.

This new study examines how nineteenth-century industrial Lancashire became a leading national and international art centre.

The saints' Lives in this book were written in Italy in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries.

Focusing on two cases of resettlement in rural Cundinamarca, Colombia, this book examines how displaced campesinos make sense of their displacement and how displacement shapes their everyday lives.

Today's home is a kind of fortress that tells us as much about our need for privacy as it does about ensuring our security.

Today's home is a kind of fortress that tells us as much about our need for privacy as it does about ensuring our security.

Decades before the emergence of a French self-styled 'hood' film around 1995, French filmmakers looked beyond the gates of the capital for inspiration and content.

Decades before the emergence of a French self-styled 'hood' film around 1995, French filmmakers looked beyond the gates of the capital for inspiration and content.

This book brings together studies of cultural institutions in Manchester from 1850 to the present day, giving an unprecedented account of the city's cultural evolution.

This book brings together studies of cultural institutions in Manchester from 1850 to the present day, giving an unprecedented account of the city's cultural evolution.

East Manchester has been the site of one of the most substantial regeneration projects internationally.

East Manchester has been the site of one of the most substantial regeneration projects internationally.

This book of essays on British social and cultural history since the eighteenth century draws attention to relatively neglected topics including personal and collective identities, the meanings of place, especially locality, and the significance of cultures of association.

This book of essays on British social and cultural history since the eighteenth century draws attention to relatively neglected topics including personal and collective identities, the meanings of place, especially locality, and the significance of cultures of association.

Os valores humanos como a outrora defendidos pela conhecida metodologia CHA (Competências, Habilidades e Atitudes), cederam lugar a um padrão esperado de resposta nos ambientes empresariais, transformando os profissionais numa nova plataforma cognitiva como a 'Siri' do Iphone ou 'Watson' da IBM.

A Invenção do trabalhismo está no palco de grandes debates e engloba várias correntes de pensadores e ideologias, bem como o trabalho de historiadores que têm a tarefa de desmistificar nosso entendimento a respeito da história do desenvolvimento político e econômico do nosso país, assim como nos levar a compreender um pouco dos importantes movimentos sociais, políticos e econômicos que contribuíram para a formação da Identidade do Trabalhador no Brasil.

Este livro reúne crônicas e pensamentos sobre a administração pública e especial sobre como construir politicas públicas eficientes convidando o leitor a pensar sobre nossas cidades e como torna-las um local melhor, mais humano e funcional.

This book uncovers the influence of racial and prejudicial stereotyping during police investigation of suspects from stigmatised communities.

During the 1890s many people in upper- and middle-class society were unaware of the dangerous conditions in the slums among poor immigrants.

In What''s Wrong With The World Chesterton rightly points out that what people see as "wrong with the world" are only the symptoms of a deeper problem.

China turned majority urban only in the recent decade, a dramatic leap given that less than 20 percent of its population lived in cities before 1980.

Nation's Metropolis describes how the national capital region functions as a metropolitan political economy.

A chronicle of neighborhood redevelopment politics in West Philadelphia over 60 yearsIn twenty-first-century American cities, policy makers increasingly celebrate university-sponsored innovation districts as engines of inclusive growth.

This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection.

Situated between the 1970s Soviet Union's invasion of Afghanistan and the post-2001 War on Terror, Refugee Cities tells the story of how global wars affect everyday life for Afghans who have been living as refugees in Pakistan.

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.