Urban Communities

Throughout the world, the threat of climate change is pressing governments to accelerate the deployment of technologies to generate low carbon elec...

International maritime transport is the backbone of the world globalized economy. It is a significant contributor to global CO2 emissions but also ...

The notion of 'creative cities' - where cultural activities and creative and cultural industries play a crucial role in supporting urban creativity...

Widely recognized as a groundbreaking text, The New Urban Sociology is a broad and expert introduction to urban sociology that is both relevant and...

Alternative urban spaces across civic, private, and public spheres emerge in response to the great challenges that urban actors are currently confr...

This book introduces students, practitioners, and laypeople to a comfortable approach to learning landscape architectural design free of design jar...

Urban Comics: Infrastructure and the Global City in Contemporary Graphic Narratives makes an important and timely contribution both to comics studi...

Recognised by the UNs Sustainable Development Goals as a measure to make cities inclusive, safe and resilient, conservation of natural and cultural...

This book on the regional development theory analyzes the institutional environment, singling out three factors: the textile industry; government t...

Mobilities has become an important framework to understand and analyze contemporary social, spatial, economic and political practices. Especially a...

This book will prove a unique source of information and instruction for anyone seeking to make better human-oriented policy, whether urban planner,...

This ground breaking volume raises radical critiques and proposes innovative solutions for social sustainability in the built environment. Urban So...

This book features thirteen essays by the late architect, philosopher and teacher Dalibor Vesely (19342015). Vesely was a leading authority on phil...

This book brings together insights from leading urban scholars and explicitly develops the connections between infrastructure and citizenship.It de...

Urbanism for a Difficult Future: Practical Responses to the Climate Crisis is a much-needed guide to launching the next generation of land use plan...

In the twenty-first century technology has become global, and firms compete using knowledge and capital. The traditional firm has a need for innova...

The Metaphysical City examines the metaphorical existence of the city as an entity to further understand its significance on urban planning and geo...

This book investigates the history of Arabian sqs from their pre-Islamic beginnings to the present. Collecting evidence from archaeological ruins, ...

The second edition of Cities and Cinema provides an updated survey of films about cities, from their significance for modernity at the beginning of...

Spa resorts were a favoured destination for affluent seekers after health and comfortable leisure in opulent surroundings from the seventeenth to t...

This book offers an ethnographic exploration of the role that atmosphere plays in work processes undertaken within an urban design studio. It provi...

Politics and Conflict in Governance and Planning offers a critical evaluation of manifold ways in which the political dimension is reflected in con...

This book is about the role played by architects, engineers and planners in transforming France during the three post-war decades of growing prospe...

The Architecture and Landscape of Health explores buildings and landscapes that were designed to treat or prevent disease in the era before pharmac...

This book offers an empirically-grounded account of the emergence and political activities of a new collective actor in Berlins art field. Investig...

This book outlines the history of squatting in Sweden and analyzes the conditions under which squatting has intensified and declined in the country...

In the last few decades, urban quality of life has received increasing interest from policy makers who aim to make cities better places to live. In...

Cities the world over and in particular developing countries suffer from uneven development and inequality. This is often coupled with the view tha...

The book considers urban mobilities and immobilities in the Global South through an exploration of the theoretical and methodological entry points ...

As urban populations in developing countries continue to grew rapidly, one of the most critical issues in the Third World has become providing shel...

Focusing on a series of policy initiatives from the late 1960s through to the end of the 1970s, this book looks at how successive governments tried...

This book delves into neighborhood branding by looking at the City of Orlando and the identities that set each neighborhood apart from others.Orlan...

This book introduces students, practitioners, and laypeople to a comfortable approach to learning landscape architectural design free of design jar...

Through an exploration of emancipation in recent processes of capitalist urbanization, this book argues the political is enacted through the everyd...

This second edition covers recent developments around the world with contributors from 33 different countries. It widens the handbooks scope by inc...

This book prompts architects and anthropologists to think and act together. In order to fully grasp the relationship between human beings and their...

Urban Heritage in Divided Cities explores the role of contested urban heritage in mediating, subverting and overcoming sociopolitical conflict in d...

Like so many of the coastal cities in Southeast Asia (and other regions) established during European colonialism, there has been an ongoing challen...

This book is a collection of selected papers presented in the 2012 annual meeting of the Association of American Geographers in New York honoring J...

Over the past few decades and throughout the world, numerous government-initiated experiments and attempts at directly engaging and including citiz...

As urban populatiCC'lS in developing countries oootinue to grow rapidly, cne of the nest critical issues in the Third W:lrld has beoane p:rovidirYJ...

Through interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary perspectives, and with an emphasis on exploring patterns as well as distinct and unique conditions ...

The book focuses on the processes of urban restructuring, power relations and the political economy of touristic authenticity.Through an in-depth a...

Amidst the soot, stink and splendour of Victorian London, a coterie of citizen-sociologists set out to break up the British Empire. They were the f...

As COVID-19 took hold across local and international borders in 2020 and 2021, over 1.6 billion informal workers were estimated to have been advers...

Planning for a City of Culture gives us a new way to understand how cities use arts and culture in planning, fostering livable communities and crea...

The Handbook of Local and Regional Development provides a comprehensive statement and reference point for local and regional development. The scope...

First published in 2006, as numerous local authorities of European cities invest in the attractiveness of their urban areas in the hope of attracti...