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Inclusion and Belonging in Cities of Tomorrow: Governance and Access by Design by Victor Santiago Pineda 9789819938551
RRP: €29.74€26.62This open access book uncovers the historical context and entrenched beliefs that have perpetuated exclusionary urban landscapes and disadvantage for marginalized groups. It offers an in-depth exploration of the intricate interplay of geographical space,... -
Toyota City in Transition: A Motor Town Facing Globalization and Social Changes by Nobuhiko Nibe 9789811698316
RRP: €142.79€130.36This informative monograph focuses on the city of Toyota, located in Aichi Prefecture, Japan. Aside from the fact that most Toyota passenger vehicles are produced there, generally little is known about its reality. Since the 1960s, the city has... -
The Greek City from Antiquity to Present: Historical Reality, Ideological Construction, Literary Representation by K. Demoen 9789042909717
€58.08The case studies in this book, by historians, archaeologists and literary scholars, draw a varied image of the protean Greek city. They cover all periods of Greek civilisation and deal not only with the iconic cities of Athens and Constantinople, but... -
The Urban Turn: Cities, Talent and Knowledge in Denmark by Hogni Kalso Hansen 9788779347007
RRP: €57.12€44.82Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788779347007Author Hogni Kalso HansenFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Aarhus University PressPublisher Aarhus University PressWeight(grams) 299g -
Social Innovation in Urban and Regional Development: Perspectives on an Emerging Field in Planning and Urban Studies by Hans-Heinrich Blotevobel 9783700183334
€27.05Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783700183334Author Hans-Heinrich BlotevobelFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint Austrian Academy of Sciences PressPublisher Austrian Academy of Sciences... -
Unravelling Complexities: Understanding Public Spaces by Yvonne Franz 9783700181330
€27.47Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783700181330Author Yvonne FranzFormat PaperbackPage Count 185Imprint Austrian Academy of Sciences PressPublisher Austrian Academy of Sciences... -
Housing and Residental Segregations of Migrants: A State-Of-The-Art Report by Wolgang Bosswick 9783700160427
RRP: €27.37€21.37Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783700160427Author Wolgang BosswickFormat PaperbackPage Count 82Imprint Austrian Academy of Sciences PressPublisher Austrian Academy of Sciences... -
Displacement City: Fighting for Health and Homes in a Pandemic by Greg Cook 9781487546496
RRP: €24.98€21.86Canada's major cities have faced the humanitarian disaster of homelessness for decades, but the COVID-19 pandemic laid bare a massive deficit in social programs and widespread inattention to human rights. Are municipal public services designed to... -
Housing Booms in Gateway Cities by David Ley 9781119853596
RRP: €71.40€62.71HOUSING BOOMS IN GATEWAY CITIES “David Ley examines the development of housing booms, and policies intended to stimulate or limit them. Utilising a comparative approach in five gateway cities, he provides a superb understanding of the politics of booms,... -
Reclaiming Democracy in Cities by Gülçin Coşkun 9781032519777
RRP: €44.02€38.71Effective urban governance is essential in responding to the challenges of inequality, migration, public health, housing, security, and climate change. Reclaiming Democracy in Cities frames the city as a political actor in its own right, exploring the... -
The City as Fulcrum of Global Sustainability by Ernest J. Yanarella 9780857287724
RRP: €83.30€80.34Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780857287724Author Ernest J. YanarellaFormat HardbackPage Count 318Imprint Anthem PressPublisher Anthem PressWeight(grams) 680g -
The Metaverse and Smart Cities: Urban Environments in the Age of Digital Connectivity by Zaheer Allam 9780443223518
RRP: €120.19€107.53The Metaverse and Smart Cities: Urban Environments in the Age of Digital Connectivity explores the intersection between the rapidly growing metaverse and the future of cities. The metaverse is a virtual world that is increasingly gaining attention as a... -
Structure and Transformation: Theory and Society in India by Susan Visvanathan 9780195655254
€35.02This title attempts to look at some of the key theoretical and empirical debates in the fields of urbanization, industrialization and stratification in India. It engages with the problems of typologies - tribal, peasant and industrial - in order to... -
Urban Dwellings, Haitian Citizenships: Housing, Memory, and Daily Life in Haiti by Vincent Joos 9781978820593
RRP: €159.46€138.59Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781978820593Author Vincent JoosFormat HardbackPage Count 226Imprint Rutgers University PressPublisher Rutgers University PressWeight(grams) 156g -
Gentrification Down the Shore by Molly Vollman Makris 9781978813618
RRP: €38.08€34.66Makris and Gatta engage in a rich ethnographic investigation of Asbury Park to better understand the connection between jobs and seasonal gentrification and the experiences of longtime residents in this beach-community city. They demonstrate how the... -
Suburban Affiliations: Social Relations in the Greater Dublin Area by Mary P. Corcoran 9781906359478
RRP: €28.56€27.69"Suburban Affiliations" presents the reader with a thorough and engaging study of the everyday civic and social relations that are observed in suburban localities, in this case in Dublin, Ireland. It provides insight into the ways in which... -
Cities and Social Change: Encounters with Contemporary Urbanism by Ronan Paddison 9781848601093
€121.21"This textbook of essays by leading critical urbanists is a compelling introduction to an important field of study; it interrogates contemporary conflicts and contradictions inherent in the social experience of living in cities that are undergoing... -
Consumption, Cities and States: Comparing Singapore with Asian and Western Cities by Ann Brooks 9781783084265
RRP: €29.75€28.30Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781783084265Author Ann BrooksFormat PaperbackPage Count 210Imprint Anthem PressPublisher Anthem PressWeight(grams) 454g -
Consumption, Cities and States: Comparing Singapore with Asian and Western Cities by Ann Brooks 9781783082261
RRP: €83.30€79.86Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781783082261Author Ann BrooksFormat HardbackPage Count 220Imprint Anthem PressPublisher Anthem PressWeight(grams) 454g -
Big Mall by Kate Black 9781552454725
RRP: €16.65€11.02A phenomenology of the mall: If the mall makes us feel bad, why do we keep going back? In a world poisoned by capitalism, is shopping what makes life worth living?In less than a century, the shopping mall has morphed from a blueprint for a socialist... -
European Cities: Modernity, Race and Colonialism by Noa K. Ha 9781526178718
RRP: €29.75€26.22This multidisciplinary collection of scholarship rethinks European urban modernity from a race-conscious perspective, being aware of (post)colonial entanglements. The twelve original contributions empirically focus on such varied cities as Barcelona,... -
Developing a Sense of Place: The Role of the Arts in Regenerating Communities by Tamara Ashley 9781787357761
RRP: €29.75€25.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781787357761Author Tamara AshleyFormat PaperbackImprint UCL PressPublisher UCL PressWeight(grams) 450g -
Comparative Approaches to Informal Housing Around the Globe by Udo Grashoff 9781787355224
RRP: €27.36€23.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781787355224Author Udo GrashoffFormat PaperbackPage Count 286Imprint UCL PressPublisher UCL Press -
Radical Space: Exploring Politics and Practice by Fae Brauer 9781783481521
RRP: €53.55€49.31The spatial turn in the Humanities and Social Sciences has produced a considerable body of work which re-assesses space beyond the fixed Cartesian co-ordinates of Modernity and the nation state. In the process, space has been revealed as a productively... -
Radical Space: Exploring Politics and Practice by Fae Brauer 9781783481514
RRP: €153.51€138.96The spatial turn in the Humanities and Social Sciences has produced a considerable body of work which re-assesses space beyond the fixed Cartesian co-ordinates of Modernity and the nation state. In the process, space has been revealed as a productively... -
Little Vast Rooms of Undoing: Exploring Identity and Embodiment through Public Toilet Spaces by Dara Blumenthal 9781783480340
RRP: €153.51€138.96Public toilets are places where individual identity is put to the test through experiences of fear, anxiety, shame, and embarrassment, yet also places where we shore up, confirm, and check the status of our gendered identities. In these highly gendered... -
Community in Urban-Rural Systems: Theory, Planning, and Development by Gregory M. Fulkerson 9781666917536
RRP: €101.15€88.67Gregory M. Fulkerson offers a complete portrait of what communities are, how they work, and how they are embedded in urban-rural systems at regional, national, and global scales. After explaining the concept of urban-rural systems, Fulkerson walks... -
Country Teachers in City Schools: The Challenge of Negotiating Identity and Place by Chea Parton 9781666909012
RRP: €91.63€81.04Country Teachers in City Schools: The Challenge of Negotiating Identity and Place explores what it’s like to be a country teacher in a city school. Through conversations with teachers who grew up one place and ended up teaching in another, Chea Parton... -
Talking to the Girls: Intimate and Political Essays on the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire by Edvige Giunta 9781613321515
RRP: €95.20€83.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781613321515Author Edvige GiuntaFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint New Village PressPublisher New Village PressWeight(grams) 152g -
How Spaces Become Places: Place Makers Tell Their Stories by John F. Forester 9781613321430
RRP: €95.20€83.25Useful and inspiring cases illustrate participatory placemaking practices and strategies These are stories of community members acting together to transform empty, contested, or unsafe spaces into functional, safe, convivial places. A diverse set of... -
Urbanisation Process in Cameroon: Patterns, Implications and Prospects by Lawrence Fon 9781608769186
RRP: €171.35€113.00The book takes off with a general overview which is an introduction to urban studies and urbanisation. The next chapter is an analysis of the patterns of urbanisation which are essential for an understanding of the internal structure and development of... -
Focus on Urbanization Trends by Laura M. De Smet 9781604561098
RRP: €205.86€135.90Urbanisation refers to a process in which an increasing proportion of an entire population lives in cities and the suburbs of cities. Historically, it has been closely connected with industrialisation. When more and more inanimate sources of energy were... -
Pedagogy of a Beloved Commons: Pursuing Democracy’s Promise through Place-Based Activism by Sharon Egretta Sutton 9781531502812
RRP: €128.52€111.15A rare and powerful illustration of what it takes to become a sustainable, community-embedded organization that continually grows the next generation of compassionate leaders. This essential, timely book meets us at our current moment of crisis to offer... -
Beyond the Neoliberal Creative City: Critique and Alternatives in the Urban Cultural Economy by Robert G. Hollands 9781529233124
RRP: €95.20€72.44A buoyant, creative economy can be seen as the saviour of many cities, but behind such ‘urban makeovers’ lie serious problems such as widening inequalities, job precarity, gentrification and environmental issues. In light of the pandemic and climate... -
Cyclescapes of the Unequal City: Bicycle Infrastructure and Uneven Development by John G. Stehlin 9781517903800
RRP: €115.43€100.00A critical look at the political economy of urban bicycle infrastructure in the United States Not long ago, bicycling in the city was considered a radical statement or a last resort, and few cyclists braved the inhospitable streets of most American... -
The Anti-Black City: Police Terror and Black Urban Life in Brazil by Jaime Amparo Alves 9781517901554
RRP: €115.43€100.00An important new ethnographic study of Sao Paulo's favelas revealing the widespread use of race-based police repression in Brazil While Black Lives Matter still resonates in the United States, the movement has also become a potent rallying call... -
Health Colonialism: Urban Wastelands and Hospital Frontiers by Shiloh Krupar 9781517915421
RRP: €10.71€9.50The role of American hospital expansions in health disparities and medical apartheidHealth Colonialism considers how U.S. urban development policies contribute to the uneven and unjust distribution of health care in this country. Here, Shiloh Krupar... -
Fearing the Immigrant: Racialization and Urban Policy in Toronto by Parastou Saberi 9781517909840
RRP: €29.74€25.79A fascinating deep dive into one city's urban policy-and the anxiety over immigrants that informs it The city of Toronto is often held up as a leader in diversity and inclusion. In Fearing the Immigrant, however, Parastou Saberi argues that... -
Fearing the Immigrant: Racialization and Urban Policy in Toronto by Parastou Saberi 9781517909833
RRP: €123.76€107.10A fascinating deep dive into one city's urban policy-and the anxiety over immigrants that informs it The city of Toronto is often held up as a leader in diversity and inclusion. In Fearing the Immigrant, however, Parastou Saberi argues that... -
American Indians and the American Dream: Policies, Place, and Property in Minnesota by Kasey R. Keeler 9781517909253
RRP: €26.17€22.84Understanding the processes and policies of urbanization and suburbanization in American Indian communities Nearly seven out of ten American Indians live in urban areas, yet studies of urban Indian experiences remain scant. Studies of suburban Natives...