Offering a big picture view of disaster risk in cities, this book uses rich case studies and both technical and socioeconomic insights to demonstrate the role of urbanization in disaster risk. It will benefit students, researchers, and practitione...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 30-Sep-2025, Hardback, Leidėjas: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009633550)
Offering a big picture view of disaster risk in cities, this book uses rich case studies and both technical and socioeconomic insights to demonstrate the role of urbanization in disaster risk. It will benefit students, researchers, and practitione...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 04-Sep-2025, Hardback, Leidėjas: University of Chicago Press, ISBN-13: 9780226835990)
An empirically rich reconstruction of how informality became an intrinsic part of urban life across three continents. Over a quarter of the worlds urban population lives in informal settlements. While informality as a concept has be...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 04-Sep-2025, Paperback / softback, Leidėjas: University of Chicago Press, ISBN-13: 9780226836010)
An empirically rich reconstruction of how informality became an intrinsic part of urban life across three continents. Over a quarter of the worlds urban population lives in informal settlements. While informality as a concept has be...Daugiau...
Planning for Sustainability presents a wide-ranging, intellectually well-grounded and accessible introduction to the concept of sustainability planning. How can humanity sustain itself and thrive on a small planet? This chal...Daugiau...
How can humanity sustain itself and thrive on a small planet? This challenge deepens in an era of right-wing populism, high levels of inequality, and climate crisis.Planning for Sustainability presents a wide-ranging, intellectually...Daugiau...
Amid its groundbreaking political reforms and largest mass migration ever seen in human history, China created over 3,800 new towns to accommodate its burgeoning urban population and sustain economic growth. Economic marketization, global trade, in...Daugiau...
Amid its groundbreaking political reforms and largest mass migration ever seen in human history, China created over 3,800 new towns to accommodate its burgeoning urban population and sustain economic growth. Economic marketization, global trade, in...Daugiau...
This Element weaves together literatures on autochthony and belonging and on African urbanism to shed new light on the ability of the African state to undertake development interventions in some of the important urban centers on the continent. It fo...Daugiau...
This book investigates the role of private land developers in the development of Ruwa Town in post-colonial Zimbabwe. Whereas other post-colonial established towns in the country emerged from direct public investment through the Growth Point polic...Daugiau...
Originally published in 1982, this book covers the unique spatial structure of society which was South Africa under apartheid. It brings together a cohesive set of research-based contributions to the understanding of this system which was w...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 31-Jul-2025, Hardback, Leidėjas: Routledge India, ISBN-13: 9781032780184)
This book maps the new challenges and subsequent choices that emerge as India transitions into more urbanized situations, both spatially and culturally. It will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of urban studies, sociology and South...Daugiau...
Geetha B. Nambissan, Nandini Manjrekar, Shivali Tukdeo, Indra Sengupta
Serija: Metamorphoses of the Political: Multidisciplinary Approaches
(Išleidimo metai: 31-Jul-2025, Hardback, Leidėjas: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009596893)
A multidimensional exploration of urban education in the multiverse of India, this volume takes on an interdisciplinary approach to examine how the idea of the urban and that of urban education are co-constituted and, more specifically, how spatial a...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 31-Jul-2025, Hardback, Leidėjas: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009698375)
This Element weaves together literatures on autochthony and belonging and on African urbanism to shed new light on the ability of the African state to undertake development interventions in some of the important urban centers on the continent. It fo...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 29-Jul-2025, Hardback, Leidėjas: University of Chicago Press, ISBN-13: 9780226836966)
Alexander Wood asks a deceptively simple question about New York City in its most iconic period of growth from the 1880s to the 1930s: Who did this? In chronicling the labor of architects, builders, contractors, and construction workers, Wood comp...Daugiau...
Post-pandemic cities face new challenges in adapting to global changes, while also addressing the needs, practices, and capabilities of diverse populations. Resilience, as a key factor, enables cities to adapt and transform in response to these chal...Daugiau...
International Development: Strategies and Legacies of Socio-Economic Development examines the multifaceted challenges and strategies underlying socio-economic progress in a globally interconnected world.Grounded in a thorough histori...Daugiau...
International Development: Strategies and Legacies of Socio-Economic Development examines the multifaceted challenges and strategies underlying socio-economic progress in a globally interconnected world.Grounded in a thorough histori...Daugiau...
Urban Mobility Development in Northeast India theoretically and empirically explores the interrelationship between and among city, transportation, economic growth and environment to contribute towards engendering green urbanization for gr...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 26-Jun-2025, Hardback, Leidėjas: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780198958116)
Despite the focus on urbanization, suburbanization in India has received relatively less research attention. This is the first comprehensive work on this topic, exploring the dynamics, regional variations, and impacts of suburbanization using granula...Daugiau...
This first volume of a two-volume set on Song dynasty cities examines the innovative urban institutions and management practices that emerged during this period. This first volume of a two-volume set on Song dynasty cities ex...Daugiau...
The second volume of the two-volume set on Song dynasty cities focuses on municipal development policies and population management strategies in urban areas. The second volume of the two-volume set on Song Dynasty cities focuses on...Daugiau...
This two-volume set explores the urban development of Song dynasty cities, focusing on their design, governance and management, and situating them within the broader context of Chinese urban history....Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 05-Jun-2025, Hardback, Leidėjas: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009605496)
This book studies the intersection of neoliberalism and right-wing Hindu nationalism through smart city projects which are often advertised as solutions for sustainable development. Globally, the rise of right-wing nationalism has progressively shape...Daugiau...
Tehran, the capital of Iran since the late eighteenth century, is now one of the largest cities in the Middle East. Exploring Tehrans development from the nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century, Ashkan Rezvani Naraghi paints a vibrant picture of a...Daugiau...
This book investigates authenticity, an important but controversial cultural concept, and its relevance for urban socio-spatial processes. Defining authenticity as an evaluative relationship with an origin, it unpacks a range of origins from a cri...Daugiau...
This book investigates authenticity, an important but controversial cultural concept, and its relevance for urban socio-spatial processes. Defining authenticity as an evaluative relationship with an origin, it unpacks a range of origins from a cri...Daugiau...
Leslie M Harris, Clarence Lang, Rhonda Williams, Joe William Trotter
(Išleidimo metai: 31-May-2025, Hardback, Leidėjas: University of Pittsburgh Press, ISBN-13: 9780822948162)
Drawing on significant recent scholarship on African American urban life over three centuries, Black Urban History at the Crossroads bridges disparate chronological, regional, topical, and thematic perspectives on the Black urban experience be...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 31-May-2025, Hardback, Leidėjas: Ohio University Press, ISBN-13: 9780821426227)
A case study on how twentieth-century urban capitalism created a new food system for Mombasas working class. In the early twentieth century, East Africans lived primarily in rural areas, cultivating most of the food they consumed. By the start of t...Daugiau...
A case study on how urban capitalism created a new working-class food system in the port city of Mombasa during the twentieth century . In the early twentieth century, East Africans lived primarily in rural areas, cultivating m...Daugiau...
From Byzantium to Constantinople is an exploration of the generally accepted truth that the great city founded by Constantine on the shores of the Bosporus as a second Rome and new capital of the Roman empire was built upon the Graeco-Roman city tha...Daugiau...
This book takes the small rural town of La Calera, in the outskirts of the Colombian capital of Bogotį, as a case study to analyze how residents from different social classes wealthier ex-urban newcomers arriving to traditionally peasant and rural...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 06-May-2025, Hardback, Leidėjas: Fordham University Press, ISBN-13: 9781531508180)
Reimagining our cities for a sustainable and human-centric futureIn her groundbreaking book Wonder City, Lynn Ellsworth delves deep into the heart of modern urban life, casting a critical eye on the transformative changes swe...Daugiau...
The book focuses on the urban dimension of global China, especially regarding the impacts of its urbanising dynamics on the (re)imaginings and manifestations of global urban futures. This book was originally published as a special issue of...Daugiau...
