Urban communities books

Through a thick ethnography of the Fez medina in Morocco, a World Heritage site since 1981, Manon Istasse interrogates...  Read More >>

The fate of towns and cities stands at the center of the environmental history of World War II. As the first major...  Read More >>

This book presents numerical and experimental research in the field of wind energy exploitation in urban environments....  Read More >>

The book highlights these countries’ contribution to tackling climate change, emphasising the green building benefits...  Read More >>

Especially the shacks, still a visible presence in the city, represent the lieu of reproduction both of a class...  Read More >>

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This book examines the lives and society of a marginalised urban community of waste-pickers living within the city...  Read More >>

This book uses crime-science and traditional criminological approaches to explore urban crime in the rapidly urbanising...  Read More >>

Written by members of the LORC (Research Centre for the Local Public Human Resources and Policy Development, Ryukoku...  Read More >>

This book is a fascinating, wide-reaching interdisciplinary examination of urbanism in the context of humanities...  Read More >>

This book brings the emerging nexus between community and entrepreneur to light by exploring the mutual impact that...  Read More >>

Cities of Ideas: Civil Society and Urban Governance in Britain 1800-2000 addresses the changing nature of individualism...  Read More >>

Including chapters written by contributors who have lived and worked in Jakarta for years, this book shows how urban...  Read More >>

With contributions from an international range of established and emerging scholars drawing upon real world examples,...  Read More >>

This book will be of interest to practitioners and researchers in public administration/management, public administration...  Read More >>

This ethnographic exploration of contemporary spaces of homelessness takes an expanded view of homeless space, threading...  Read More >>

This collection is an interdisciplinary inquiry into the changing modes of representation of nature in the city...  Read More >>

Will vacation love survive in the real world? Or will life be our undoing? My French fling with Chris was only...  Read More >>

This book offers an essential introduction to a new urban planning and design methodology called Data Augmented...  Read More >>

Today, we know cities as shared spaces with the potential to both threaten and promote human health: while urban...  Read More >>

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This book is a collection of essays exploring different aspects of health and wellbeing in cities today. With contributions...  Read More >>

Neue Auflage erhaltlich unter: ISBN 978-3947734023 Die surreale Stadt (2018) ist eine Fundgrube fur Kultur- und...  Read More >>

This volume presents the town of Kavala in northern Greece as an example of Ottoman urban and residential development,...  Read More >>

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