Urban Communities

Climate Adaptation and Resilience Across Scales provides professionals with guidance on adapting the built environment to a changing climate. This ...

Since the publication of the bestselling second edition 5 years ago, vast and new globally-relevant geographic datasets have become available to ca...

The overarching research topic addressed in this book is the complex and multifaceted interaction between infrastructural accessibility/connectivit...

How teachers can unlock the power of inclusivity and joy to transform their classroom and behavior management In Rooted in Joy: Creating a Classroo...

This book investigates changing geographies of fast growing Asian metropolitan regions, in particular their peripheral areas.Through examining the ...

This book describes a secondary analysis of survey data collected from a modified snowball sample of 96 homeless and runaway youth. The sample cont...

Who controls space? Powerful corporations, institutions, and individuals have great power to create physical and political space through income and...

Definitions of urban entities and urban typologies are changing constantly to reflect the growing physical extent of cities and their hinterlands. ...

There is a vast amount of information about a city which is invisible to the human eye crime levels, transportation patterns, cell phone use and a...

First published in 2000, this volume draws from the result of the fieldwork conducted in Yogyakarta Special Region in 1991 and 1992, with the aim o...

Challenging existing assumptions about how our towns and cities are structured and formed, Julian Hart provides an engaging and thought-provoking a...

What is the role of the university? Current systems may stress research output, but Wortham-Galvin, Allen, and Sherman seek to re-establish the imp...

This title was first published in 2002: The information revolution has deeply influenced the development of Europes large cities. They are faced wi...

Originally published in 1990, Soviet Urbanization provides an assessment of Soviet urban systems. Drawing on her personal experiences at the Soviet...

Construction Economics provides students with the principles underlying the relationship between economic theory and the construction industry. Its...

Writing the Materialities of the Past offers a close analysis of how the materiality of the built environment has been repressed in historical thin...

This book sets out to address some of the issues that a smart city needs to overcome to make use of both the data currently available to them and h...

As an evolving and contested field, urban design has been made, unmade, and remade at the intersections of multiple disciplines and professions. It...

With the demise of the Old Regionalist project of achieving good regional governance through amalgamation, voluntary collaboration has become the m...

This book examines new tenementsdense, medium-rise, multi-storey residences that have been the backbone of European inner-city regeneration since t...

Cities can be seen as geographical imaginaries: places have meanings attributed so that they are perceived, represented and interpreted in a partic...

Over the past two decades it has become widely recognized that housing issues have to be placed in a broader framework acknowledging that civil soc...

Profound transformations in residential practices are emerging in Europe as well as throughout the urban world. They can be observed in the unfoldi...