Urban communities

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

A richly textured account of what it means to be poor in AmericaBaltimore was once a vibrant manufacturing town, but today, with factory closings and steady job loss since the 1970s, it is home to some of the most impoverished neighborhoods in America.

The Land Registration Act 2002 has been in force for almost fifteen years.

The Land Registration Act 2002 has been in force for almost fifteen years.

Jonathan Raban's Soft City is a compelling exploration of urban life: a classic in the literature of the city.

"e;One afternoon in January 1995, as I drove along Western Avenue, I did what I had never done before: i parked the car in a side-street and walked on to the road.

Seeing like a city means recognizing that cities are living things made up of a tangle of networks, built up from the agency of countless actors.

Seeing like a city means recognizing that cities are living things made up of a tangle of networks, built up from the agency of countless actors.

The poor and working people in cities of the South find themselves in urban spaces that are conventionally construed as places to reside or inhabit.

The poor and working people in cities of the South find themselves in urban spaces that are conventionally construed as places to reside or inhabit.

Geomedia offers critical analysis of the new possibilities and power relations emerging in the public space of contemporary cities.

Geomedia offers critical analysis of the new possibilities and power relations emerging in the public space of contemporary cities.

This is the first book in Polity's new 'Urban Futures' series.

This is the first book in Polity's new 'Urban Futures' series.

This book presents a rigorously designed framework for city diplomacy as a tool to enhance a nation's international appeal, attraction, and influence.

Community is a central idea in urban studies but remains conceptually vague and empirically difficult to work with.

World Christianity, Urbanization and Identity argues that urban centers, particularly the largest cities, do not only offer places for people to live, shop, and seek entertainment, but deeply shape people's ethics, behavior, sense of justice, and how they learn to become human.

This book analyzes the mechanism of transnational private regulations (TPRs) in the global property investment market and the conditions of their effectiveness for sustainable urban development.

Examining the fundamental relationship between housing and health, this perceptive volume illuminates how the health of those living with housing instability is affected by the day-to-day issues they face.

This book analyzes the mechanism of transnational private regulations (TPRs) in the global property investment market and the conditions of their effectiveness for sustainable urban development.

The real story behind the murder of a Manhattan schoolteacher that became a symbol of the dangers of casual sex: "e;A first-rate achievement"e; (Truman Capote).

A classic work advocating ecological urban planning-from a civic visionary and former architecture critic for the New Yorker.

A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist's groundbreaking account of the crime that shocked New York City-and the worldIn the early hours of March 13, 1964, twenty-eight-year-old Catherine "e;Kitty"e; Genovese was stabbed to death in the middle-class neighborhood of Kew Gardens, Queens.

When discussing health, we talk about ailments and afflictions, the potential of modern medicine and the behaviours that affect our health.

From the 1970s on, Los Angeles was transformed into a center for entertainment, consumption, and commerce for the affluent.

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The inside story of political protest in Saudi Arabia-on the ground, in the suburbs, and in the face of increasing state repression.

Despite the end of white minority rule and the transition to parliamentary democracy, Johannesburg remains haunted by its tortured history of racial segregation and burdened by enduring inequalities in income, opportunities for stable work, and access to decent housing.

Following the recent global housing boom, tract housing development became a billion-dollar industry in Mexico.

Staggering skylines and boastful architecture make Dubai famous-this book traces them back to a twentieth-century plan for survival.

"e;[A] compelling ethnographic account of middle class Blacks in New York City.

As the twentieth century roared on, transformative technologies-from trains, trams, and automobiles to radios and loudspeakers-fundamentally changed the sounds of the Egyptian streets.

In the poorest neighborhoods of Santiago, Chile, low-income residents known as pobladores have long lived at the margins-and have long advocated for the right to housing as part of la vida digna (a life with dignity).

A National Endowment for Democracy Notable Book of 2022Protest has been a key method of political claim-making in Jordan from the late Ottoman period to the present day.

In the last 30 years, Delhi, the capital of India, has displaced over 1.

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San Francisco has always had an affordable housing problem.

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Drawing on participatory action research conducted in Italy and Spain among feminist spaces, this book examines the production of safer spaces and the underlying infrastructure of affect and emotions that shape, enable, and support collective action.

This established textbook offers a one-stop, comprehensive coverage of air pollution, all in an easy-reading and accessible style.

This established textbook offers a one-stop, comprehensive coverage of air pollution, all in an easy-reading and accessible style.

In its first edition, Principles of Clinical Medicine for Space Flight established itself as the authoritative reference on the contemporary knowledge base of space medicine and standards of care for space flyers.

This volume in the Encyclopedia of Complexity and Systems Science (ECSS) covers such fascinating and practical topics as (i) Vehicular traffic flow theory, (ii) Studies of real field traffic data, (iii) Complex phenomena of self-organization in vehicular traffic, (iv) Effect of automatic driving (self-driving vehicles) on traffic flow, v) Complex dynamics of city traffic, (vi) Dynamic control and optimization of traffic and transportation networks, including dynamic traffic assignment in the network, (vii) Pedestrian traffic, (viii) Evacuation scenarios, and (ix) Network characteristics of air control.

This forward-looking resource recasts the concept of healthy cities as not only a safe, pleasant, and green built environment, but also one that creates and sustains health by addressing social, economic, and political conditions.

This book explores the discourse on urban and regional inequality within the framework of neoliberalism.

Using the lens of nutrition security and equity for the living beings and living systems of the planet, Nutrition Security for Planetary Health takes an integrated, systems approach that not only delineates the antecedents of the multifaceted environmental crises-but offers solutions including the extensive co-benefits of whole plant foods nutrition as the foundational dietary pattern for improving planetary health.

The influence of educational associations is often overlooked in treatises on Ontario's educational system because these groups tend to operate in an informal manner.

The physical segregation of social groups in industrial cities has long attracted the attention of social scientist and casual observer alike.

Esperanza Speaks examines a century-long process of socioeconomic change in rural Panama through the experiences of one woman, Esperanza Ruiz, and four generations of her family.