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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783837651713Author Sandra KurfurstFormat PaperbackPage Count 294Imprint Transcript PublishingPublisher Transcript PublishingWeight(grams) 155g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781479890057Author Hava Rachel GordonFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint New York University PressPublisher New York University PressWeight(grams) 152g

Urban Resilience is seen by many as a tool to mitigate harm in times of extreme social, political, financial, and environmental stress. Despite its widespread usage, however, resilience is used in different ways by policy makers, activists, academics,...

i)Everyone has experienced trusted and betrayed in the past. Read this book to see how professionals analyze TRUST from a sociological perspective.ii)As the countryside life fades away, how can strangers in the city be trusted? Will enlarging discussion...

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices...

Since the late 1990s, city councils have become increasingly aware of the potential for information technologies (ICTs) to improve the management of cities and as an instrument for economic and social policy. This has resulted in a wave of urban ICT...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262543071Author Casey J. DawkinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 328Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

This book is an examination of neighborhood mobilization and engagement from the perspective of several disciplines: psychology, social work, political science, planning, and education. The essays included in the work examine both internal and external...

Bryan Roberts' study of two poor neighborhoods of Guatemala City is an important contribution to the understanding of the urban social and power organization of underdeveloped countries. It is the first major study of any Central American urban...

Sustainable and integrated regeneration in the context of culture and tourism is explored for the first time within this book. The text is enhanced by international case studies.Book InformationISBN 9781845931308Author Melanie SmithFormat PaperbackPage...

Dynamic processes and conflicts are at the core of the urban condition. Against the background of continuous change in cities, concepts and assumptions about spatial transformations have to be constantly re-examined and revised. Norbert Kling explores...

Historic preservation is typically regarded as an elitist practice. In this view, designating a neighborhood as historic is a project by and for affluent residents concerned with aesthetics, not affordability. It leads to gentrification and rising...

In Waste Works, Brenda Chalfin examines Ghana’s planned city of Tema, theorizing about the formative role of waste infrastructure in urban politics and public life. Chalfin argues that at Tema’s midcentury founding, a prime objective of governing...

Nearly half the 2.3 million residents of Queens, New York are foreign-born. Immigrants in Queens hail from more than 120 countries and speak more than 135 languages. As an epicenter of immigrant diversity, Queens is an urban gateway that exemplifies...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781978813625Author Molly Vollman MakrisFormat HardbackPage Count 228Imprint Rutgers University PressPublisher Rutgers University Press

"Seventy years of a car-only approach-not car-centric, it's car-only-is actually not just non-driver hostile, it's driver hostile. No one benefits." -Beth Osborne, Director, Transportation for America The car-only approach in transportation planning...

Temporary migration is a human response to uncertain economic, ecological, political and socio-cultural environments. This book provides an important contribution to the literature on the rights, lived experiences and trajectories of temporary migrants...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781479801862Author Clare ForstieFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint New York University PressPublisher New York University PressWeight(grams) 152g

Connolly draws on the recent changes in the Malaysian state of Penang to open up new perspectives on urban development, governance and the politics of place. Reviewing the role of residents, activists, planners and other experts in socio-natural changes...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781119540915Author HilbrandtFormat HardbackPage Count 216Imprint Wiley-Blackwell (an imprint of John Wiley & Sons Ltd)Publisher John Wiley and Sons...

Among government officials, urban planners, and development workers, Africa's burgeoning metropolises are frequently understood as failed cities, unable to provide even basic services. Whatever resourcefulness does exist is regarded as only temporary...

Through the lens of the city of Suzhou, this edited volume presents views on the complex interaction between the central state, market agents, local governments and individuals who have shaped the development of Chinese cities and urban life. Featuring a...

A journey through unexplored spaces that foreground new ways of inhabiting the urban  One of the fundamental dimensions of urbanization is its radical transformation of nature. Today domestic animals make up more than twice the biomass of people on the...

Questions increasingly dominant urban planning orthodoxies and whether they truly serve everyday city dwellers What makes some cities world class? Increasingly, that designation reflects the use of a toolkit of urban planning practices and policies that...

A 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...

The Sensation of Security explores how private security guards are a permanent, conspicuous fixture of everyday life in the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro. Drawing on long-term ethnographic research with security laborers, managers, company owners, and...

A comprehensive look into how Macau’s recent decades of gambling-related growth produced one of the wealthiest territories on the planetBetting on Macau delves into the radical transformation of what was formerly the last remaining European territory in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781439920824Author Roger BilesFormat PaperbackPage Count 362Imprint Radius BooksPublisher Radius BooksWeight(grams) 152g

The Promise of the City proposes a new theoretical framework for the study of cities and urban life. Finding the contemporary urban scene too complex to be captured by radical or conventional approaches, Kian Tajbakhsh offers a threefold,...

This landmark expose of the dark history of repressive police operations in American cities offers a richly detailed account of police misconduct and violations of protected freedoms over the past century. In an incisive examination of undercover work in...

A legendary figure in the realms of public policy and academia, John Gilderbloom is one of the foremost urban-planning researchers of our time, producing groundbreaking studies on housing markets, design, location, regulation, financing, and community...

Politicians, citizens, and police agencies have long embraced community policing, hoping to reduce crime and disorder by strengthening the ties between urban residents and the officers entrusted with their protection. That strategy seems to make sense,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781552661895Author Lawrence DeaneFormat PaperbackPage Count 190Imprint Fernwood PublishingPublisher Fernwood PublishingWeight(grams) 263g

A Plague on Your Houses is a scorching indictment of the decision to close fire companies in New York in the 1970s and a frightening study of the way misguided and malevolent social policy can spark a chain reaction of enormous and unforeseen urban...

Presenting social innovation initiatives that emerged from organized citizenry in Southern European cities, this book explores the response to austerity policies implemented after the 2008 economic crisis. Chapters look at the common aim of these...

A unique more-than-capitalist take on urban dynamics Vigilante action. Renegades. Human intrigue and the future at stake in New York City. In Urbanism without Guarantees, Christian M. Anderson offers a new perspective on urban dynamics and urban...

An investigation of the practice of "commoning" in urban housing and its necessity for challenging economic injustice in our rapidly gentrifying cities Provoked by mass evictions and the onset of gentrification in the 1970s, tenants in Washington, D.C.,...

EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Condominium and comparable legal architectures make vertical urban growth possible, but do we really understand the social implications of restructuring city land ownership in this way? ...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781119540939Author Hanna HilbrandtFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Wiley-BlackwellPublisher John Wiley and Sons LtdWeight(grams) 152g

In Uncivil Youth, Soo Ah Kwon explores youth of color activism as linked to the making of democratic citizen-subjects. Focusing attention on the relations of power that inform the social and political practices of youth of color, Kwon examines how...