Urban Communities

Global Urban Politics: Informalization of the State In what ways has global urbanization affected the political process? This book offers a reflect...

At the beginning of the 20th century an estimated five percent of the world's population lived in cities. Today, half the world's population is urb...

Traces and measures the material impact of Dickens' fiction in London's built environmentDickens and Demolition examines how tropes, characters, or...

Global Urban Politics: Informalization of the State In what ways has global urbanization affected the political process? This book offers a reflect...

This handbook provides the most comprehensive examination of Asian citiesdeveloped and developing, large and smalland their urban development. Inve...

This book uncovers, explores and analyses the cultural and social factors and values that lie behind waste making, recycling and disposal in the As...

Metaphors are diversly and intricately embedded in architectural practice and discourse. Precisely for this reason, this volume argues and sets out...

Medium-Sized Cities in the Age of Globalisation provides a brand-new perspective on academic discussions of globalisation through exploring urban d...

designing networks cities presents a sophisticated, multi-disciplinary, and multi-dimensional approach to urban design. Emerging from years of prac...

This book discusses the role of digital technologies in the growth and development of cultural organizations and the creative sector. It includes c...

This study focuses on street art and large-scale murals in metropolitan Miami/Dade County, while also foregrounding the diasporic and aesthetic int...

Architecture and Choreography: Collaborations in Dance, Space and Time examines the field of archi-choreographic experimentsunique interdisciplinar...

How do we provide for and nurture millions of people without destroying the planet in the process? Author Doug Kent, an environmental specialist, b...

The transformative power of urban design in shaping our experiences within high-rise cities takes center stage in Humanizing the High-Rise City: Po...

Tourism Policy and Planning: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow offers an introduction to the tourism policy process and how policies link to the strat...

This book is a guide to computational design for landscape architects replete with extensive tutorials. It introduces algorithmic approaches for mo...

The transformative power of urban design in shaping our experiences within high-rise cities takes center stage in Humanizing the High-Rise City: Po...

This book is an interdisciplinary study that draws on a combination of archaeological evidence, building archaeological analysis, archival sources ...

The Platform of Those Affected by Mortgages (the PAH, by its Spanish acronym) has left an important mark in the history of Spanish social movements...

This book on urban water bodies, catchment areas and drainage pattern is set against the backdrop of the unprecedented heavy rainfall that severely...

The urban attentions of Pritzker Laureate Sverre Fehn (19242009) are extensive, but as yet virtually unexplored. This book examines ten select proj...

Splintering Towers of Babel focuses on and redefines soft infrastructures and critical infrastructure projects. It explores key issues in contempor...