Urban

Remember when our cities and inner-cities weren't dominated by high-rise apartments? This book documents the changes that have come with the globalisation of the Australian city since the 1970s. It tells the story of the major economic, social, cultural...

Racial capitalism, invisible but threaded throughout the world, shapes our lives. Focusing on the experiences of white, Black, and Latinx residents of Cincinnati, Sarah Mayorga argues that residents' interpretations of their circumstances, what she calls...

Racial capitalism, invisible but threaded throughout the world, shapes our lives. Focusing on the experiences of white, Black, and Latinx residents of Cincinnati, Sarah Mayorga argues that residents' interpretations of their circumstances, what she calls...

In the summer of 1972 a symposium on the City for Human Development was organized by the Athens Center of Ekistics. C. A. Doxiadis, an architect, and one of the planners of the symposium, prepared a set of goals and a proposal for discussion. His main...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789464262339Author Prof Dr Annette HaugFormat PaperbackPage Count 84Imprint Sidestone PressPublisher Sidestone Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781984881151Author Henry GrabarFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 283g

Argentina is one of the most urbanized countries in Latin America. Its path to economic prosperity is through efficient, sustainable and economically thriving cities. This book provides a conceptual framework, empirical data, and strategic directions for...

Cities, like people, may be best known by the way they party. For nearly a century and a half. San Antonio has partied well. In this look at late-nineteenth-century festivals in San Antonio, Judith Berg Sobre brings an art historian's sensibility to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780874220377Author Keith C PetersenFormat PaperbackPage Count 338Imprint Washington State University PressPublisher Washington State University...

This book is about the transformation of KwaMashu Hostel in Durban in the twenty-first century - from a single-sex men's hostel to family accommodation in community residential units. It presents the continuities and discontinuities that take place as...

In the age of decentralization, instant communications, and the subordination of locality to the demands of a globalizing market, contemporary cities have taken on place-less or a-geographic characters. They have become phantasmagorical landscapes...

We are in a bind,"" writes Evelyn M. Perry. While conventional wisdom asserts that residential racial and economic integration holds great promise for reducing inequality in the United States, Americans are demonstrably not very good at living...

Infrastructure and the Remaking of Asia offers a new understanding of how technological innovation, geopolitical ambitions, and social change converge and cross-fertilize one another through infrastructure projects in Asia. This volume powerfully...

Alesia Montgomery's Greening the Black Urban Regime: The Culture and Commerce of Sustainability in Detroit tells the story of the struggle to shape green redevelopment in Detroit. Cultural workers, envisioning a green city crafted by direct democracy,...

Alesia Montgomery's Greening the Black Urban Regime: The Culture and Commerce of Sustainability in Detroit tells the story of the struggle to shape green redevelopment in Detroit. Cultural workers, envisioning a green city crafted by direct democracy,...

Growing up in Birmingham, Alabama, a city that he loved, Jonathan Foster was forced to come to grips with its reputation for racial violence. In so doing, he began to question how other cities dealt with similar kinds of stigmas that resulted from...

Globalization, along with globalism, continues its unrelenting and accelerating march as it draws more countries, cities, and people closer into interdependent relationships. This volume attempts to tease out some of the salient elements of this process,...

Until the middle of the twentieth century, Chinese urban life revolved around courtyards. Whether for housing or retail, administration or religion, everyday activities took place in a field of pavilions and walls that shaped collective ways of living...

Looking at Kerala's demography, this book attempts to answer a range of questions regarding migration, unemployment, and ageing, including Could the Indian state of Kerala reap benefits from the demographic windows of opportunities? What are the emerging...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781464804816Author Helene GrandvoinnetFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint World Bank PublicationsPublisher World Bank Publications

Every state in the nation has geographic divisions-upstate/downstate, urban/rural, major city/rest of the state-that loom large as barriers to common cause. Toward One Oregon examines the prospects for uniting one geographically diverse state in the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789464261424Author Maaike De WaalFormat PaperbackPage Count 250Imprint Sidestone PressPublisher Sidestone Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781644212424Author Jeffrey WilsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Seven Stories Press,U.S.Publisher Seven Stories Press,U.S.

As America's fifth largest city and fourth largest metropolitan region, Philadelphia is tied to its surrounding counties and suburban neighborhoods. It is this vital relationship, suggests Steven Conn, that will make or break greater Philadelphia. The...

In this study of busy, complex Regional City -- and it is a real city -- the author has analyzed the power structure from top to bottom. He has searched out the men of power and, under fictitious names, has described them as they initiate policies in...

For millennia, urban centers were pivots of power and trade that ruled and linked rural majorities. After 1950, explosive urbanization led to unprecedented urban majorities around the world. That transformation-inextricably tied to rising...

In urban America, large-scale redevelopment is a frequent news item. Many proposals for such redevelopment are challenged-sometimes successfully, and other times to no avail. The Politics of Place considers the reasons for these outcomes by examining...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780816512874Author Daniel D. ArreolaFormat HardbackPage Count 258Imprint University of Arizona PressPublisher University of Arizona Press

The rapid evolution of Charlotte, North Carolina, from "regional backwater" to globally ascendant city provides stark contrasts of then and now. Once a regional manufacturing and textile centre, Charlotte stands today as one of the nation's...

This book brings together some of the most significant and influential recent work in French urban history. The trend of historical thinking and research today, typified by such books as Montaillou, is to focus on the surviving demographic and...

New to the city, Tallmadge saw only its concrete, glass, smog, and debris. Soon his interest, stirred by the wonder of his children at their new surroundings, focused Tallmadge to the ""buzzing, flapping, scurrying, chewing, photosynthesizing...

New to the city, Tallmadge saw only its concrete, glass, smog, and debris. Soon his interest, stirred by the wonder of his children at their new surroundings, focused Tallmadge to the ""buzzing, flapping, scurrying, chewing, photosynthesizing...

In Latin America, a region with a majority population in urban areas, criteria to prioritize policy actions for improving the quality of life in the region's rapidly growing cities is greatly needed. Although housing infrastructure has improved, a...

Globalization, along with globalism, continues its unrelenting and accelerating march as it draws more countries, cities, and people closer into interdependent relationships. This volume attempts to tease out some of the salient elements of this process,...

Exploring the rationale behind the physical structure and spatial patterns of traditional Iranian cities, this study examines cities built before the general modernization of Iran that began after World War II, in the light of specifically Iranian...

Published in 1950 at the conclusion of a major population study, The People of Atlanta provided a complete demographic analysis of the city as it was just emerging as a major city of the New South. The data and conclusions are compared with corresponding...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780816514410Author Daniel D. ArreolaFormat PaperbackPage Count 258Imprint University of Arizona PressPublisher University of Arizona Press

There is much talk these days about school and community relations for adolescents, and yet little is known about life at the borders, much less the stories of the youth who sojourn between. This work aims to offer an understanding of the range of spaces...

Eifler takes the reader on a journey into early western urbanisation with his study of Sacramento. He examines the earliest founding of the city by speculators looking to cash in on gold rush trade, uncovering the rampant competition between a handful of...

Social Tranformations in Scandinavian Cities highlights the changing face of social sustainability and social disintegration in Scandinavian cities against the backdrop of ongoing global societal transformations. It contributes to the literature on urban...