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This book is about Clarksdale, a small town in Mississippi, USA, and how the local community has revitalised the long-dilapidated downtown, with the renewal based on the town’s intimate association with Blues music and the culture that flows through the Mississippi...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-11-15
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This book provides a comprehensive view of the quality of life of older people from culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) backgrounds living in Australia.The book is unique and significant because the descriptions and arguments presented are based on the lived...
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Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2018-11-04
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This collection is the first to examine how the city is written in modern Irish fiction. Focusing on the multi-faceted, layered, and ever-changing topography of the city in Irish writing, it brings together studies of Irish and Northern Irish fictions which contribute...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-11-01
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Using quantitative research, this volume investigates the characteristics, problems and trends of the automobile society in China’s mega cities and large cities. It also addresses topics related to cars and cities, traffic safety and cars’ consumption.China has...
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Springer
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2018-11-01
Collection :
Research Series on the Chinese Dream and China’s Development Path
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This book examines urban development and its role in planning in China and other Asian cities. Starting with a substantial narrative on the history, development philosophy, and urban form of ancient Asian cities, it then identifies the characteristics of urban society...
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Springer
Parution :
2018-10-29
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This book draws from a rich history of scholarship about the relations between music and cities, and the global flows between music and urban experience. The contributions in this collection comment on the global city as a nexus of moving people, changing places,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-10-24
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Transforming Urban Transport brings into focus the origins and implementation pathways of significant urban transport innovations that have recently been adopted in major, democratically governed world cities that are seeking to advance sustainability aims. It documents...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2018-10-17
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This edited volume advances our understanding of urban activism beyond the social movement theorization dominated by thesis of political opportunity structure and resource mobilization, as well as by research based on experience from the global north. Covering a...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-10-13
Collection :
The Contemporary City
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This volume explores the governance patterns of three cities of the Americas, Seattle, Montreal, and Curitiba, which all present different but interesting cases in dealing with sustainable urban transport challenges. The authors study...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2018-09-29
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This comparative study examines the processes of development and the configurations of export industries in northern Morocco and on the northern border of Mexico. As the contributors explore the similar characteristics of these two borders, they also examine how the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-09-26
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The recent rise of cities in global environmental politics has stimulated remarkable debates about sustainable urban development and the geopolitics of a changing world order no longer defined by tightly bordered national regimes. This book explores this major...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-09-25
Collection :
Cities and the Global Politics of the Environment
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This book addresses a central dilemma of the urban age: how to make the vast suburban landscapes that ring the globe safe and sustainable in the face of planetary ecological crisis. The authors argue that degrowth, a planned contraction of economic overshoot, is...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-09-21
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This book examines how non-economic inter- and intra-group relationships were reflected in residential patterns around the first decade of the 21st century in Whitechapel, an old yet attractive absorption neighbourhood in east London, UK. It sheds light on different...
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Springer
Parution :
2018-09-14
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Der Band versammelt die zentralen Texte von Markus Schroer zur soziologischen Raumtheorie aus den letzten zehn Jahren. Alle Beiträge widmen sich dem engen Zusammenhang von Raum und Gesellschaft. Sie zeigen die vielfältige Verwendung des Begriffs auf und werben dafür,...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2018-09-11
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Die gesellschaftliche Konstruktion der „Jugend am Rande der Stadt“ wird in einem vielschichtigen Prozess hergestellt. In der vergleichenden Studie zu Deutschland und Frankreich untersucht die Autorin, wie unterschiedliche Akteurinnen und Akteure der Sozialen Arbeit,...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2018-09-07
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This book examines the forced displacement of public housing residents in Sydney’s Millers Point and The Rocks communities. It considers the strategies deployed by the government to pressure tenants to move, and the social and personal impacts of the displacement on the...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2018-09-03
Collection :
SpringerBriefs in Sociology
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Cities are stepping forward to address the critical sustainability challenges of the 21st century. Meeting the demands of complex issues requires municipalities to evaluate problems and their solutions in more holistic, integrated, and collaborative ways. Drawn from...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-08-31
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This book analyzes the history and development of settlements—from the earliest periods in human history to the present day—from a Darwinian evolutionary perspective. At the foundation of the evolutionary model is the argument that the human capacity for complex...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-08-03
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In this book Krzysztof Nawratek explores the possibility of a post-capitalist city, and in so doing, reclaims and develops the idea of total mobilisation as originally formulated by Ernst Ju¨nger. Nawratek formulates the idea of ‘accumulation of agency’ the ability...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2018-07-27
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This book reports on the latest, cutting-edge scholarship on integrating social network and spatial analyses in the built environment. It sheds light on conceptualization and Implementation of such integration, integration for intra-city level analysis, as well as...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2018-07-24
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