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Survival of the City: The Future of Urban Life in an Age of Isolation by Edward Glaeser 9780593297704
RRP: €21.42€10.14One of our great urbanists and one of our great public health experts join forces to reckon with how cities are changing in the face of existential threats the pandemic has only accelerated Cities can make us sick. That's always been true-diseases... -
How to Build a Global City: Recognizing the Symbolic Power of a Global Urban Imagination by Michele Acuto 9781501759703
RRP: €128.52€111.15In How to Build a Global City, Michele Acuto considers the rise of a new generation of "global cities," Singapore, Sydney and Dubai, and the power that this idea had in their ascent, in order to analyze the general relationship between global... -
A Hope in the Unseen by Ron Suskind 9780767901260
RRP: €20.22€13.57Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780767901260Author Ron SuskindFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Broadway Books (A Division of Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc)Publisher... -
The Right to Be Counted: The Urban Poorand the Politics of Resettlement in Delhi by Sanjeev Routray 9781503630840
RRP: €96.39€76.70In the last 30 years, Delhi, the capital of India, has displaced over 1.5 million poor people. Resettlement and welfare services are available-but exclusively so, as the city deems much of the population ineligible for civic benefits. The Right to Be... -
Spatial Planning and the New Localism by Professor Graham Haughton 9780415683807
RRP: €160.65€139.56This book looks at the transition from New Labour's 'Spatial Planning' approach to the Coalition Government's preferred 'Localism' approach. Localism we are told will liberate local planners from the heavy hand of central government and allow planning to... -
African City Textualities by Ranka Primorac 9780415852531
RRP: €52.35€45.74The stereotype of Africa as a predominantly 'natural' space ignores the existence of vibrant and cosmopolitan urban environments on the continent. Far from merely embodying backwardness and lack, African cities are sites of complex and diverse cultural... -
India's Middle Class: New Forms of Urban Leisure, Consumption and Prosperity by Christiane Brosius 9780415544535
RRP: €160.65€140.04This book examines the complexities of lifestyles of the upwardly mobile middle classes in India in the context of economic liberalisation in the new millennium, by analysing new social formations and aspirations, modes of consumption and ways of being... -
African City Textualities by Ranka Primorac 9780415481557
RRP: €160.65€139.56The stereotype of Africa as a predominantly 'natural' space ignores the existence of vibrant and cosmopolitan urban environments on the continent. Far from merely embodying backwardness and lack, African cities are sites of complex and diverse cultural... -
Cosmopolitan Spaces: Europe, Globalization, Theory by Chris Rumford 9780415390675
RRP: €154.70€133.41Cosmopolitan Spaces: Europe, Globalization, Theory endeavors a highly innovative reading of both globalization theory and contemporary European transformations. Interpreting cosmopolitanism as a politics of space, Rumford positions his analysis at the... -
The Place You Love is Gone: Progress Hits Home by Melissa Holbrook Pierson 9780393329285
RRP: €19.64€16.65Has the futureever more people with their houses, stores, roads, and sprawlbeen wrecking your past? Melissa Holbrook Pierson, with unalloyed insight, elucidates how it feels to lose that landscape of home. In the past twenty years, like countless towns... -
India's Contemporary Urban Conundrum by Sujata Patel 9780367732394
RRP: €47.59€41.72This book lays out the different and complex dimensions of urbanisation in India. It brings together contributors with expertise in fields as varied as demography, geography, economics, political science, sociology, anthropology, architecture, planning... -
Urban Studies: Border and Mobility: Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Urban Studies (ICUS 2017), December 8-9, 2017, Universitas Airlangga, Surabaya, Indonesia by Thor Kerr 9780367732318
RRP: €54.73€47.75This work contains a selection of papers from the International Conference on Urban Studies (ICUS 2017) and is a bi-annual periodical publication containing articles on urban cultural studies based on the international conference organized by the Faculty... -
Class Formation, Social Inequality and the Nagas in North-East India by Andreas Kuchle 9780367731328
RRP: €47.59€41.72This book examines the question of class formation and social inequality within tribal groups in North-East India. Focussing on the Nagas, it analyses and challenges common perceptions about them as a class-less society with a uniform culture. It... -
Reducing Urban Violence in the Global South: Towards Safe and Inclusive Cities by Jennifer Erin Salahub 9780367728632
RRP: €47.59€41.72Reducing Urban Violence in the Global South seeks to identify the drivers of urban violence in the cities of the Global South and how they relate to and interact with poverty and inequalities. Drawing on the findings of an ambitious 5-year, 15-project... -
City, Space and Politics in the Global South by Bikramaditya K. Choudhary 9780367499679
RRP: €160.65€139.56Cities are centres of exciting events, flows, movements and contradictions that produce both opportunities and challenges. Evolved through the centuries, they display layers of spatial, cultural and socio-economic diversity and contestations, which are... -
Food and Nutrition Security in Southern African Cities by Bruce Frayne 9780367403737
RRP: €49.97€43.73Urban population growth is extremely rapid across Africa and this book places urban food and nutrition security firmly on the development and policy agenda. It shows that current efforts to address food poverty in Africa that focus entirely on... -
Margins of Citizenship: Muslim Experiences in Urban India by Anasua Chatterjee 9780367279707
RRP: €44.02€38.71Part of the 'Religion and Citizenship' series, this book is an ethnographic study of marginality of Muslims in urban India. It explores the realities and consequences of socio-spatial segregation faced by Muslim communities and the various ways in which... -
Transforming Society: Strategies for Social Development from Singapore, Asia and Around the World by Ngoh Tiong Tan 9780367141950
RRP: €52.35€45.74Social change affects all quarters of life and human society whether in individual neighbourhoods, communities or nations, or in the world as a whole - encompassing many issues of gender, age, social class and ethnicity. This book examines both the... -
The Illusion of Civil Society: Democratization and Community Mobilization in Low-Income Mexico by Jon Shefner 9780271033846
RRP: €68.96€59.40Much has been written about how civil society challenges authoritarian governments and helps lead the way to democratization. These studies show that neoliberal economic policies have harmed many sectors of society, weakening the state and undermining... -
The Patchwork City: Class, Space, and Politics in Metro Manila by Marco Z Garrido 9780226643007
RRP: €92.82€28.76In contemporary Manila, slums and squatter settlements are peppered throughout the city, often pushing right up against the walled enclaves of the privileged, creating the complex geopolitical pattern of Marco Garrido's "patchwork city."... -
Who Cleans the Park?: Public Work and Urban Governance in New York City by John Krinsky 9780226435589
RRP: €36.89€35.93America's public parks are in a golden age. Hundreds of millions of dollars both public and private fund urban jewels like Manhattan's Central Park. Keeping the polish on landmark parks and in neighborhood playgrounds alike means that the trash must be... -
Evicted from Eternity: The Restructuring of Modern Rome by Michael Herzfeld 9780226329116
RRP: €95.20€91.64Modern Rome is a city rife with contradictions. Once the seat of ancient glory, it is now often the object of national contempt. It plays a significant part on the world stage, but the concerns of its residents are often deeply parochial. And while they... -
Shanghai Nightscapes: A Nocturnal Biography of a Global City by James Farrer 9780226262741
RRP: €95.20€91.17The pulsing beat of its nightlife has long drawn travelers to the streets of Shanghai, where the night scene is a crucial component of the city's image as a global metropolis. In Shanghai Nightscapes, sociologist James Farrer and historian Andrew David... -
The Politics of Incremental Progressivism: Governments, Governances and Urban Policy Changes in Sao Paulo by Eduardo Cesar Leao Marques 9781119647829
RRP: €71.40€62.30Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781119647829Author Eduardo Cesar Leao MarquesFormat HardbackImprint Wiley-BlackwellPublisher John Wiley and Sons LtdWeight(grams) 152g -
Urban Life in Contemporary China by William L. Parish 9780226895499
RRP: €51.17€49.21Through interviews with city residents, Martin King Whyte and William L. Parish provide a unique survey of urban life in the last decade of Mao Zedong's rule. They conclude that changes in society produced under communism were truly revolutionary and... -
Degrowth in the Suburbs: A Radical Urban Imaginary by Samuel Alexander 9789811321306
RRP: €95.19€85.87This book addresses a central dilemma of the urban age: how to make the vast suburban landscapes that ring the globe safe and sustainable in the face of planetary ecological crisis. The authors argue that degrowth, a planned contraction of economic... -
Designing the Global City: Design Excellence, Competitions and the Remaking of Central Sydney by Robert Freestone 9789811320552
RRP: €107.09€96.88This text explores how architectural and urban design values have been co-opted by global cities to enhance their economic competitiveness by creating a superior built environment that is not just aesthetically memorable but more productive and... -
Closer Together: This is the Future of Cities by Alexander Stahle 9789185639786
RRP: €28.55€18.91Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789185639786Author Alexander StahleFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint Dokument PressPublisher Dokument Forlag -
Small Towns in Europe in the 20th and 21st Centuries: Heritage and Development Strategies by Luda Klusakova 9788024636450
RRP: €17.85€17.70Always in the shadow of their more famous urban neighbors, small towns are consistently overlooked in historical research, especially in Europe. This book investigates the ramifications of that tendency for development initiatives. Paying particular... -
Moving Cities - Contested Views on Urban Life by Patricia Pereira 9783658184612
RRP: €71.39€70.94The texts of the book focus on the problems and challenges of urban change, especially in Europe, in the contemporary context of intense mobility. The main topics are mobility, urban social structure, migrations, urban inequalities, urban activism,... -
Public and Civic Leisure in Quebec: Dynamic, Democratic, Passion-driven, and Fragile by Andree Thibault 9782760515758
€40.40Through more than 50 case studies that provide a compelling portrait of leisure in Quebec, this work illustrates that public and civic leisure model that Quebecers use in their recreational pursuits. It presents the model's mission, its values, certain... -
Wounded Cities by Ida Susser 9781859736838
RRP: €160.65€139.56Although the seemingly apocalyptic scale of the World Trade Center disaster continues to haunt people across the globe, it is only the most recent example of a city tragically wounded. Cities are, in fact, perpetually caught up in cycles of degeneration... -
Dispatches Against Displacement: Field Notes from San Francisco's Housing Wars by James Tracy 9781849352055
RRP: €13.09€8.88Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781849352055Author James TracyFormat PaperbackPage Count 150Imprint AK PressPublisher AK PressWeight(grams) 219g -
Comparative Approaches to Informal Housing Around the Globe by Udo Grashoff 9781787355231
RRP: €47.60€41.91Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781787355231Author Udo GrashoffFormat HardbackPage Count 286Imprint UCL PressPublisher UCL Press -
Social Mobilisation in Post-Industrial China: The Case of Rural Urbanisation by Jia Gao 9781786432582
€119.73In recent years China has experienced intense economic development. Previously a rapidly urbanising industrial economy, the country has become a post-industrial economy with a service sector that accounts for almost half the nation's GDP. This... -
Advanced Introduction to Social Innovation by Frank Moulaert 9781785360374
€107.83Elgar Advanced Introductions are stimulating and thoughtful introductions to major fields in the social sciences and law, expertly written by the world's leading scholars. Designed to be accessible yet rigorous, they offer concise and lucid surveys of... -
Globalization And Urbanization In Africa by Toyin Falola 9781592211937
RRP: €35.64€23.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781592211937Author Toyin FalolaFormat PaperbackPage Count 306Imprint Africa Research & PublicationsPublisher Africa World PressWeight(grams) 427g -
Global Urban Growth: A Reference Handbook by Donald C. Williams 9781598844412
€75.81This book examines the rapid expansion of urban areas worldwide, especially within the previous 50 years, identifying the factors that have contributed to this phenomenon and exploring its many consequences. Global Urban Growth: A Reference Handbook... -
The American City: Civic Culture in Sociohistorical Perspective by Daniel Monti 9781557869180
RRP: €59.44€53.20Does America have a sense of community and a vital civic culture? Are disparate groups capable of uniting as a single people who can call themselves Americans? Do Americans help each other for the common good? Daniel J. Monti, Jr. addresses these... -
Thirdspace: Journeys to Los Angeles and Other Real-and-Imagined Places by Edward W. Soja 9781557866745
RRP: €117.75€102.49Contemporary critical studies have recently experienced a significant spatial turn. In what may eventually be seen as one of the most important intellectual and political developments in the late twentieth century, scholars have begun to interpret space...