Urban Communities

There are several different definitions of smart cities based on the various characteristics related to the adjective Smart and the noun City. The ...

The volume explores the intricate relationship between urbanization, population dynamics, and the environment in the western Himalayas from a histo...

Highly informalized cities of the global South are often portrayed as chaotic and out of control - this book reveals a spatial logic of informal ur...

This book examines smart cities through the lens of the information and communication technology (ICT)-driven transformation of the economy and eco...

Tracking Bengalurus dramatic urban transformation through the entanglements of finance, land frenzy, real estate volatility, and livelihood upheava...

The entangled human and more-than-human histories of one of the worlds iconic urban green spacesFrom deer and beavers to free range pigs and goats ...

How do we plan for a better Oregon in 2050? What will the state be like in that year for five million Oregonians, particularly for the least privil...

This book provides a cross-urban account on murals, street art, and public art in cities around the globe. It reviews the rules, policies, and regu...

This book provides an analysis of nature satisfaction, nature relatedness, and the motivations for using urban green spaces. It explores the use of...

Ageing and Urban Planning provides a critical analysis of urban planning in the face of demographic change. It emphasises the importance of interna...

Rio as Method provides a new set of lenses for apprehending and transforming the world at critical junctures. Challenging trends that position glob...

Rio as Method provides a new set of lenses for apprehending and transforming the world at critical junctures. Challenging trends that position glob...

In an age in which more than half of the Earth population lives in cities, and living conditions worldwide suffer from a steady increase in environ...

Morning brings new and old faces to Hai Ruos teashop. The premium leaves she sells to Xijings high society keep the doors open, however its her Sis...

Exquisitely detailed drawings offer a field guide to ubiquitous but overlooked elements of Vancouvers urban landscape. Three series of intricate gr...

This handbook addresses issues around urban growth in early India. It provides theoretical and empirical insights from the perspective of the diffe...

Translation of the 1969 Marathi classic Maran Swasta Hot Aahe (Death is becoming cheap)A brothel exposes the intricate mechanisms of power and expl...

PROSE Award Finalist 2019Association of American Publishers Award for Professional and Scholarly ExcellenceAs a follow up to his widely acclaimed S...

This book explores some of the common socio-economic and environmental challenges faced by the cities of South Asia, which remain highly under-rese...

In our fast-changing urban world, the impacts of social and environmental change on children are often overlooked. Children and their Urban Environ...

The Routledge Companion to Urban Media and Communication traces central debates within the burgeoning interdisciplinary research on mediated cities...

There is little doubt that in recent years, enterprise has been considered an essential approach in the alleviation of deprivation existing in the ...

This collection explores the significance of New York City in childrens literature, stressing literary, political, and societal influences on writi...

The city is a place to find shelter, a market place, and an elevator for social mobility and success. But the city is also a place that frightens p...

This book looks at the transition from New Labours Spatial Planning approach to the Coalition Governments preferred Localism approach. Localism we ...

This book develops tools and techniques that will help urban residents gain access to urban computing. Metaphorically speaking, it is taking comput...

Based on ethnographic research, this book explores the ways in which elite women use and view money in order to construct identities of class, sta...

A contribution to the field of urban music studies, this book presents new interdisciplinary approaches to the study of music in urban social life....

Germany was the most powerful kingdom in the medieval West from the mid-tenth to the mid-thirteenth century. However, its history remains largely u...

Building upon presentations given during the conference on Disaster Risk Reduction for Natural Hazards: Putting Research into Practice, held at Uni...