Urban Communities

Urban Informatics: Using Big Data to Understand and Serve Communities introduces the reader to the tools of data management, analysis, and manipula...

Urban Informatics: Using Big Data to Understand and Serve Communities introduces the reader to the tools of data management, analysis, and manipula...

The adoption of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by the UN General Assembly in 2015 represents the latest attempt by the international comm...

Geoffrey Pearson, who died in 2013, was one of the outstanding social scientists of the post second world war era. His work spanned social work, so...

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

Reducing Urban Violence in the Global South seeks to identify the drivers of urban violence in the cities of the Global South and how they relate t...

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...

Night is a foundational element of human and animal life on earth, but its interaction with the social world has undergone significant transformati...

Uncertain Regional Urbanism in Venezuela explores the changes cities face when they become metropolises, forming expanding regions which create bot...

Riyadh has set its sights on becoming a world city befitting the twenty-first century. To that end it has embarked on a massive construction drive ...

Riyadh has set its sights on becoming a world city befitting the twenty-first century. To that end it has embarked on a massive construction drive ...

New Islamist Architecture and Urbanism claims that, in todays world, a research agenda concerning the relation between Islam and space has to consi...

Civic Spaces and Desire presents an original and critical appraisal of civic spaces for a novel theoretical intersection of architecture and human ...

Conventional services, such as water, energy and waste services, have been for a long time physically networked and centrally managed. Today, this ...

Chinas extraordinary economic boom since the late 1970s has been accompanied by massive urbanization, with the proportion of the population living ...

How have immigration and diversity shaped urban life and local governance?The Routledge Handbook to the Governance of Migration and Diversity in Ci...

Civic Spaces and Desire presents an original and critical appraisal of civic spaces for a novel theoretical intersection of architecture and human ...

The Aesthetics of Neighborhood Change explores cultural shifts that result from gentrification and redevelopment, showing how cultures of racially ...

In the past decade, urban regeneration policy makers and practitioners have faced a number of difficult challenges, such as sustainability, budgeta...

Based on the authors long experience in academic life and the public realm, especially in foreign policy, this book argues that a single categoric ...

How were space and movement in Roman cities affected by economic life? What can the study of Roman urban landscapes tell us about the nature of the...

This book explores the notion of mapping in architectural discourse. First locating, positioning and theorizing mapping, it then makes explicit the...

The Opening of the Cybernetic Frontier is the third in-J. stallment in the Cities of the Prairie project. It completes an ongoing multi-generationa...

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