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This book analyses the implications of eco-urbanism re-making for policy and practice under the transformational trends of economic decentralization and market reform in China. While the guiding themes are space, scale, and governance of cities, the book focuses on...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-02-25
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Public transport in low-income Asian (LIA) cities fails to meet people’s mobility needs, generates high greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and worsens social exclusion. Following successful Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) projects in Bogota and Curitibá, LIA countries promoted BRT...
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Springer
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2019-02-25
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In this open access publication, the social cohesion of urban neighborhoods and their residents is examined, which is often viewed as vulnerable since increased mobility, individualization, wider socio-economic and demographic changes have fundamentally altered the...
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Springer VS
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2019-02-25
Collection :
Stadt, Raum und Gesellschaft
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This book aims to examine the characteristics, roles and social values of public spaces in the globalized territory of Hong Kong. Choi focuses on the usage of public space by marginalised communities, particularly the foreign domestic helpers of Hong Kong. By examining...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2019-01-30
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Erstmals in Deutschland wird hier eine Studie vorgelegt, die Strukturen, Bedingungen und Potenziale informeller – privater – nachbarschaftlicher Unterstützungen detailliert und repräsentativ für eine Kommune untersucht und darüber hinaus ihr Potenzial für soziale...
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Springer VS
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2019-01-09
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This book integrates planning, policy, economics, and urban design into an approach to crafting innovative places. Exploring new paradigms of innovative places under the framework of globalisation, urbanisation, and new technology, it argues against state-centric...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-01-07
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This book offers an engaging and unique view of the governance of Chinese rural migrants in non-factory areas of manufacturing towns. By asking how authorities govern migrants as an ongoing source of cheap labor, this book demonstrates and interprets authorities’ power...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-12-29
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This book examines the increasing marginalization of and response by people living in urban areas throughout the Western Hemisphere, and both the local and global implications of continued colonial racial hierarchies and the often-dire consequences they have for people...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-12-22
Collection :
Neighborhoods, Communities, and Urban Marginality
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This book investigates the transnational experiences of Chinese Singaporeans who lived in one of four global cities: Hong Kong, London, New York, or Singapore. Plüss argues that these middle-class, well-educated, and often highly skilled migrants mostly experienced a...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-12-21
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Recent years have seen the increasing valuation and promotion of ‘creativity’. Future success, we are often assured, will rest on the creativity of our endeavours, often aligned specifically with ‘cultural’ activity. This book considers the emergence and persistence of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-12-17
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This book focuses on the relationship between the auto industry and the built environment at multiple scales, a topic of particular interest now as the industry is going through a period of major transformation. Drawing from multiple perspectives, including...
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Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2018-12-13
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This book asks how thinking, governing, performing, and producing the urban differently can assist in enabling the creation of alternative urban futures. It is a timely response to the ongoing crises and pressing challenges that inhabitants of cities, towns, and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-12-08
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Die Texte des Bandes befassen sich schwerpunktmäßig mit den Erfahrungen der Quartiersentwicklung im Globalen Süden und der Frage, wie es gelingen kann, selbst in Situationen geringster Ressourcenverfügbarkeit und größter Not menschenwürdige Lebensbedingungen auf der...
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Springer VS
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2018-12-08
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Stephanie Weiß untersucht erstmals das Konzept Design für Alle als Strategie sozialer Inklusion auf der Quartiersebene. Das Inklusionskonzept wird von der Autorin empirisch anhand von drei Fallstudien zu Wohnquartieren in Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2018-12-06
Collection :
Quartiersforschung
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All over the world immigration is one of the most urgent political issues, creating tensions and unrest as well as questions of justice and fairness. Academics as well as politicians have been relating to the question of how states should cope with immigrants; but 96%...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2018-12-06
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The poor and working people in cities of the South find themselves in urban spaces that are conventionally construed as places to reside or inhabit. But what if we thought of popular districts in more expansive ways that capture what really goes on within them? In such...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2018-12-05
Collection :
After the Postcolonial
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Circulation and Urbanization is a foundational investigation into the history of the urban. Moving beyond both canonical and empirical portrayals, the book approaches the urban through a genealogy of circulation – a concept central to Western political thought and its...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2018-12-03
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All over the world immigration is one of the most urgent political issues, creating tensions and unrest as well as questions of justice and fairness. Academics as well as politicians have been relating to the question of how states should cope with immigrants; but 96%...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2018-11-30
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Lena Sterzer analysiert die Handlungsspielräume einkommensschwacher Haushalte auf einem angespannten Wohnungsmarkt und die Herausforderungen, vor welchen die Haushalte bei ihrer Wohnstandortwahl stehen. Die Wohnungssuche und der darauf folgende Einbettungsprozess am...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2018-11-27
Collection :
Studien zur Mobilitäts- und Verkehrsforschung
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America is in the midst of a rental housing affordability crisis. More than a quarter of those that rent their homes spend more than half of their income for housing, even as city leaders across the United States have been busily dismantling the nation's urban public...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2018-11-20
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