Urban

Smart Cities and Sustainable Manufacturing: Innovations for a Greener Future explores the intersection of these two essential disciplines, underscoring the transformative potential of their integration in sculpting sustainable urban landscapes. By...

The City of Hip-Hop positions a unique conceptualization of the history of Hip-Hop, that it was political, economic, and social forces that produced the environment for Hip-Hop to specifically grow in the geographies of New York City and its boroughs...

The City of Hip-Hop positions a unique conceptualization of the history of Hip-Hop, that it was political, economic, and social forces that produced the environment for Hip-Hop to specifically grow in the geographies of New York City and its boroughs...

The volume explores the intricate relationship between urbanization, population dynamics, and the environment in the western Himalayas from a historical perspective. It challenges the conventional link that urban development is solely tied to population...

Covid-19 has created trauma, death and destruction as well as challenged us for transformation of our existing society, economy and polity. The book engages with the challenges of transformations as a consequence of this. It brings reflections from...

Interdisciplinary in approach, this book employs the key concepts of fragmentation and reconfiguration to consider the ways in which human experience and artistic practice can engage with and respond to the dis-integration that characterises modern...

Öffentlichkeitsbeteiligung wurde viele Jahre als Allheilmittel für eine erfolgreiche Umsetzung von Stadtplanungs- und -entwicklungsprozessen angesehen. Immer deutlicher jedoch wird, dass die alltäglichen Erfahrungen auf kommunaler Ebene häufig stark von...

This open access book addresses the problem of global urban development that excludes various groups of people from the benefits of urban growth and sustainable development. Using the intersectionality and agency of urban dwellers and citizens, it...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780367677411Author Jesaus Manuel Gonzaalez PaerezPage Count 638Imprint RoutledgePublisher Taylor & Francis Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780367555917Author Jerzy BaanskiPage Count 425Imprint RoutledgePublisher Taylor & Francis Ltd

Das Buch leistet einen originellen Beitrag für eine leibphänomenologisch-soziologische Architekturforschung. Die Autorin schließt mit Helmuth Plessner und der Neuen Phänomenologie von Hermann Schmitz an theoretische Ansätze an, die von der Prämisse...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780367545741Author Maja GrabkowskaImprint RoutledgePublisher Taylor & Francis Ltd

Tackling a global and seismic problem such as climate change requires an equally extensive approach. Investigating current scientific knowledge about climate change in public and policy discussions, as well as the connections between social, economic,...

With reference to Singapore's smart urban initiatives, this book provides insights into how urban planning, digital technology and sustainability issues are impacting people and businesses.The chapters are loosely structured with regards to key...

We understand urban regeneration as all efforts managed, funded or at least guided to some extent by public authorities that aim at improving, stabilizing or revitalizing existing neighborhoods. This comprises area-based strategies, improvements of...

How can we build more accessible cities? Living Disability brings together vibrant perspectives on disability justice and urban systems. A musician and snow removal expert, a queer curator, a public pool aficionado, and a journalist turned city...

A chronicle of neighborhood redevelopment politics in West Philadelphia over 60 years In twenty-first-century American cities, policy makers increasingly celebrate university-sponsored innovation districts as engines of inclusive growth. But the story...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262049030Author Gabrielle Bendiner-VianiFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

Class Meets Land reveals something seemingly counterintuitive: that nineteenth-century class struggles over land are deeply implicated in twenty-first-century financial capitalism. Narrating the closely knit stories of Milan’s working class, industrial...

Multiple times a day, in cities across the US and beyond, a simple yet powerful message is repeated by the well-meaning, the ignorant, and the bigoted: “don’t go” – avoid at all costs those Black and Brown disinvested neighborhoods that have become...

Uncovers how people aged 60 and older struggle, survive, and thrive in twenty-first-century urban America. To understand elders' experiences of aging in place, sociologist Stacy Torres spent five years with longtime New York City residents as they coped...

In der aktuellen Stadtentwicklungsdebatte wird das Leitbild des vielfältigen Stadtquartiers häufig mit sozialer Kohäsion als Zielaspekt einer anzustrebenden günstigen Gemeinwesenentwicklung in Verbindung gebracht. Dieser zunächst euphemistisch anmutende...

Describes engagement that is more authentic, outreach that is expansive and effective, research that delves deeply into qualitative areas that uncover the soul of a community or an organization. These illustrated case stories in effective community...

Describes engagement that is more authentic, outreach that is expansive and effective, research that delves deeply into qualitative areas that uncover the soul of a community or an organization. These illustrated case stories in effective community...

Class Meets Land reveals something seemingly counterintuitive: that nineteenth-century class struggles over land are deeply implicated in twenty-first-century financial capitalism. Narrating the closely knit stories of Milan’s working class, industrial...

Exposing the carceral webs and weaponized data that shape Chicago’s police wars Chicago is a city with extreme concentrations of racialized poverty and inequity, one that relies on an extensive network of repressive agencies to police the poor and...

Why some cities are more effective than others at reducing inequalities in the built environmentFor the first time in history, most people live in cities. One in seven are living in slums, the most excluded parts of cities, in which the basics of urban...

Reimagining adaptation amidst climate change–driven mutations of urban space and life Between its susceptibility to flooding and an ever-expanding real estate market powered by global surges of people and capital, Miami is an epicenter of the urban...

Uncovers how people aged 60 and older struggle, survive, and thrive in twenty-first-century urban America. To understand elders' experiences of aging in place, sociologist Stacy Torres spent five years with longtime New York City residents as they coped...

Tracking Bengaluru’s dramatic urban transformation through the entanglements of finance, land frenzy, real estate volatility, and livelihood upheavals Over the past two decades, Bengaluru’s exploding real estate sector and massive infrastructure...

Smart City Standardization: International and National Implementations contains numerous existing standards that have emerged for smart cities and helps readers understanding their complex processes. It presents the current state of smart city standards...

Onda compares Japan’s traditional mutual help practices, an integral part of the nation’s societal fabric, with other countries across Asia including Korea, China, Taiwan, the Philippines, Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia, Vietnam, and in the Pacific...

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Zoning codes have become the most significant regulatory power of local government, determining how citizens experience their cities. Yet zoning remains invisible. In Key to the City, legal scholar and architect Sara C. Bronin reveals the impact of...

Increasingly, we think and act as if the divides between us are unbridgeable: rather than reaching out and finding paths to reconciliation, we bunker down, create filter bubbles, build walls and gentrify neighbourhoods in a great rush to find our tribe...

Drawing on urban and community resilience literature, Urban Preppers and the Pandemic in New York City: Class, Resilience and Sheltering in Place offers a detailed qualitative analysis of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on New York City and on the...

Reimagining adaptation amidst climate change–driven mutations of urban space and life Between its susceptibility to flooding and an ever-expanding real estate market powered by global surges of people and capital, Miami is an epicenter of the urban...

Tracking Bengaluru’s dramatic urban transformation through the entanglements of finance, land frenzy, real estate volatility, and livelihood upheavals Over the past two decades, Bengaluru’s exploding real estate sector and massive infrastructure...

This book is a case-study analysis of the public housing district of Lawrence Heights in North York, Toronto, a neighbourhood undergoing the largest revitalization in Canada. The book presents a chronological narrative of change and upheaval in Lawrence...