Urban communities books

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New Global Cities in Latin America and Asia: Welcome to the Twenty-first Century

New Global Cities in Latin America and Asia: Welcome...

Author: Pablo Baisotti
ISBN: 9780472055234
Format: Paperback
$118.67

Proposes new visions of global cities and regions historically considered ‘secondary’ in the international context....  Read More >>

The Acting MD - The greatest skill an Indian businessman needs is acting

The Acting MD - The greatest skill an Indian businessman...

Author: Vikram Mankal
ISBN: 9781636405292
Format: Paperback
$23.26

Pranav Rai never wanted to take over his father's company, Pyramid Housing. He wanted to be an actor. But little...  Read More >>

Urban Art and the City: Creating, Destroying, and Reclaiming the Sublime

Urban Art and the City: Creating, Destroying, and Reclaiming...

Author: Argyro Loukaki (Hellenic Open University, Greece)
ISBN: 9780367546984
Format: Paperback
$83.99

This book offers original interdisciplinary insights into cities as a diachronic creation of urban art. It engages...  Read More >>

Parking Regulation and Management: The Emerging Tool for a Sustainable City

Parking Regulation and Management: The Emerging Tool...

Author: Daniel Albalate ,  Albert Gragera
ISBN: 9780367560607
Format: Paperback
$83.99

Containing some of the most recent and cutting-edge original studies on parking regulation and management from different...  Read More >>

Mega-Events, City and Power

Mega-Events, City and Power

Author: Nelma Gusmão de Oliveira (Universidade Estadual do Sudoeste da Bahia, Brazil)
ISBN: 9780367563653
Format: Paperback
$83.99

This book examines the power relations that emerge from the convergence of the universe in which the sporting spectacle...  Read More >>

The Phenomenology of Traffic: Experiencing Mobility in Ho Chi Minh City

The Phenomenology of Traffic: Experiencing Mobility...

Author: Glenn Wyatt
ISBN: 9780367546557
Format: Paperback
$83.99

The book delves into the affective, embodied, and sensory dimensions of traffic and urban mobility. It brings together...  Read More >>

Power in the City: Decision Making in San Francisco

Power in the City: Decision Making in San Francisco...

Author: Frederick M. Wirt
ISBN: 9780520307155
Format: Paperback
$82.95

"San Francisco is a uniquely favored city, but its politics are beset with extraordinary problems. Power is divided...  Read More >>

Sustainable Energy Transition for Cities

Sustainable Energy Transition for Cities

Author: Miguel Amado (Associate Professor, IST University, Lisbon, Portugal) ,  Francesca Poggi (Senior Researcher, Nova University of Lisbon, Portugal)
ISBN: 9780128242773
Format: Paperback
$330.00

Sustainable Energy Transition for Cities brings together empirical and applied research in both urban planning and...  Read More >>

Affective Architectures: More-Than-Representational Geographies of Heritage

Affective Architectures: More-Than-Representational...

Author: Jacque Micieli-Voutsinas (Clark University, USA) ,  Angela M. Person (University of Oklahoma, USA)
ISBN: 9780367547134
Format: Paperback
$83.99

How do places manipulate our emotions? How are spaces affectious in their articulation and design? This book provides...  Read More >>

Understanding Urban Cycling: Exploring the Relationship Between Mobility, Sustainability and Capital

Understanding Urban Cycling: Exploring the Relationship...

Author: Justin Spinney
ISBN: 9780367567736
Format: Paperback
$83.99

Based upon primary research in a variety of contexts such as London, Shanghai and Taipei, this book demonstrates...  Read More >>

New Global Cities in Latin America and Asia: Welcome to the Twenty-first Century

New Global Cities in Latin America and Asia: Welcome...

Author: Pablo Baisotti
ISBN: 9780472075232
Format: Hardback
$237.60

Proposes new visions of global cities and regions historically considered ‘secondary’ in the international context....  Read More >>

Convivial Constellations in Latin America: From Colonial to Contemporary Times

Convivial Constellations in Latin America: From Colonial...

Author: Luciane Scarato (University of Cologne, Germany) ,  Fernando Baldraia (Freie Universität Berlin, Germany)
ISBN: 9780367522018
Format: Paperback
$83.99

Drawing on diverse theoretical perspectives on conviviality, this volume considers the ways in which Latin America...  Read More >>

Network Governance and Energy Transitions in European Cities

Network Governance and Energy Transitions in European...

Author: Timea Nochta
ISBN: 9780367547523
Format: Paperback
$41.99

Network Governance and Energy Transitions in European Cities investigates and evaluates the opportunities and limitations...  Read More >>

Urban Ethics: Conflicts Over the Good and Proper Life in Cities

Urban Ethics: Conflicts Over the Good and Proper Life...

Author: Moritz Ege ,  Johannes Moser
ISBN: 9780367545949
Format: Paperback
$83.99

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Housing Displacement: Conceptual and Methodological Issues

Housing Displacement: Conceptual and Methodological...

Author: Guy Baeten (Malmo University, Sweden) ,  Carina Listerborn (Malmo University, Sweden)
ISBN: 9780367564537
Format: Paperback
$83.99

This book examines reasons, processes and consequences of housing displacement in different geographical contexts....  Read More >>

Urban Competitiveness in Developing Economies

Urban Competitiveness in Developing Economies

Author: Peter Karl Kresl (Bucknell University, USA)
ISBN: 9780367516840
Format: Paperback
$83.99

Plenty has been written on the competitiveness of megacities, capital cities and regional hubs. Cities in developing...  Read More >>

Policing Nightlife: Security, Transgression and Urban Order

Policing Nightlife: Security, Transgression and Urban...

Author: Phillip Wadds (University of New South Wales, Australia)
ISBN: 9780367513665
Format: Paperback
$83.99

This book explores Sydney’s contemporary night-time economy as the product of an intersection of both local and...  Read More >>

Macau 20 Years after the Handover: Changes and Challenges under “One Country, Two Systems”

Macau 20 Years after the Handover: Changes and Challenges...

Author: Meng U Ieong (University of Macau, Macau)
ISBN: 9780367514761
Format: Paperback
$83.99

This book outlines the major social and political changes in the city of Macau during its first 20 years under the...  Read More >>

Planning Wild Cities: Human–Nature Relationships in the Urban Age

Planning Wild Cities: Human–Nature Relationships in...

Author: Wendy Steele (RMIT University, Australia)
ISBN: 9780367551575
Format: Paperback
$41.99

This book critically engages with the contemporary challenges of planning wild cities in a climate of change and...  Read More >>

Power in the City: Decision Making in San Francisco

Power in the City: Decision Making in San Francisco...

Author: Frederick M. Wirt
ISBN: 9780520358409
Format: Hardback
$157.95

"San Francisco is a uniquely favored city, but its politics are beset with extraordinary problems. Power is divided...  Read More >>

Urban Informality: Experiences and Urban Sustainability Transitions in Middle East Cities

Urban Informality: Experiences and Urban Sustainability...

Author: Ahmed M. Soliman ,  Hernando De Soto
ISBN: 9783030689902
Format: Paperback
$116.41

"This professional book introduces an analytical framework of urban informality perspectives in the Middle East...  Read More >>

The Caring City: Ethics of Urban Design

The Caring City: Ethics of Urban Design

Author: Juliet Davis
ISBN: 9781529201215
Format: Hardback
$175.00

This original study makes a compelling case for a more ethical approach to urban development and management. Countering...  Read More >>

Neighbourhoods and Neighbourliness in Urban South Asia: Subjectivities and Spatiality

Neighbourhoods and Neighbourliness in Urban South Asia:...

Author: Sadan Jha (Centre for Social Studies, Surat, India) ,  Dev Nath Pathak (South Asian University, New Delhi, India)
ISBN: 9781032233109
Format: Paperback
$77.99

This volume examines urban South Asia through the ideas of neighbourhood and neighbourliness. With a focus on the...  Read More >>

The Right to Dignity: Housing Struggles, City Making, and Citizenship in Urban Chile

The Right to Dignity: Housing Struggles, City Making,...

Author: Miguel Pérez
ISBN: 9781503631526
Format: Paperback
$57.95

In the poorest neighborhoods of Santiago, Chile, low-income residents known as pobladores have long lived at the...  Read More >>

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