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This book re-examines the role of urban policy and planning in relation to the housing market in an era of global uncertainty and change. The relationship between planning and the housing market is a contested problem across research, policy, and practice. Problems with...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-05-31
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Seeing like a city means recognizing that cities are living things made up of a tangle of networks, built up from the agency of countless actors. Cities must not be considered as expressions of larger paradigms or sites of human effort and organization alone. Within...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2017-05-23
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Key Thinkers on Cities provides an engaging introduction to the dynamic intellectual field of urban studies. It profiles the work of 40 innovative thinkers who represent the broad reach of contemporary urban scholarship and whose ideas have shaped the way cities around...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
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2017-05-22
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'Magisterial . . . you reach the end of this profound, revealing book rewarded. West shows how scientific method helps to peel back the hidden reality of our world' MATTHEW SYED, THE TIMESGeoffrey West's research centres on a quest to find unifying principles and...
Editeur :
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution :
2017-05-18
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What we can learn from Atlanta's struggle to reinvent itself in the 21st Century Atlanta is on the verge of tremendous rebirth-or inexorable decline. A kind of Petri dish for cities struggling to reinvent themselves, Atlanta has the highest income inequality in the...
Editeur :
Basic Books
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2017-05-16
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Community is a central idea in urban studies but remains conceptually vague and empirically difficult to work with. Building on existing theories of community, Talja Blokland offers an important contribution to defining and understanding this key theme. Blokland...
Editeur :
Polity
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2017-05-11
Collection :
Urban Futures
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The last two decades have been an exciting and richly productive period for debate and academic research on the city. The SAGE Handbook of New Urban Studies offers comprehensive coverage of this modern re-thinking of urban theory, both gathering together the best of...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2017-05-01
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This work offers a nuanced perspective based on empirical evidence of the role of talent and creativity for economic growth, prosperity, social and spatial inequality, and precarity in creative cities by arguing that creativity and talent need to be valued and...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2017-03-30
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In what ways are cities central to the evolution of contemporary global capitalism? And in what ways is global capitalism forged by the urban experience? This book provides a response to these questions, exploring the multifaceted dimensions of the city-capitalism...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2017-03-16
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The majority of immigrants settle in cities when they arrive, and few can deny the dynamic influence migration has on cities. However, a "one-size-fits-all" approach cannot describe the activities and settlement patterns of immigrants in contemporary cities.The...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2017-03-16
Collection :
Immigration and Society
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Thomas Klinger analysiert das Verhalten von Menschen, die nach einem Wohnumzug mit einer andersartigen Mobilitätskultur in Kontakt kommen, also etwa aus einem autoorientierten in ein fahrradfreundliches Umfeld wechseln. Dabei steht die Frage im Mittelpunkt, ob die...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2017-02-20
Collection :
Studien zur Mobilitäts- und Verkehrsforschung
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This forward-looking resource recasts the concept of healthy cities as not only a safe, pleasant, and green built environment, but also one that creates and sustains health by addressing social, economic, and political conditions. It describes collaborations between...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2017-02-16
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This book examines the nature of protest and the way in which the police and state respond to the activities associated with this term. Protest is explored within the context of the perceived decline in public engagement with recent general election contests. It is...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-02-06
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This book analyses the social and cultural status of high streets in the age of recession and austerity. High streets are shown to have long been regarded as the heart of many communities, but have declined to a state where boarded-up and vacant retail units are a...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-02-01
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This book shows how suburban sprawl is at least partially a consequence of government spending and regulation, and suggests anti-sprawl policies that can make government smaller and/or less intrusive. Thus, the book responds to the widely held view that...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-01-20
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This book explores the growing role of cities and regions as sub-national actors in shaping global governance. Far from being merely carried along by global forces, cities have become active players in making and maintaining the networks and connections that give shape...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-01-20
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This collection examines the event of Fukushima in Japan in terms of urban sociology and cultural politics to portray the triple catastrophe of March 2011 as both a planetary event and a dual economic and environmental crisis which indelibly marked Japan and the wider...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2017-01-13
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Global Urban Politics: Informalization of the State In what ways has global urbanization affected the political process? This book offers a reflection on the transformations of urban politics worldwide in the past four decades, from interpersonal street-level politics...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2016-12-27
Collection :
Urban Futures
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Through historical and comparative research on the immigrant rights movements of the United States, France and the Netherlands, Cities and Social Movements examines how small resistances against restrictive immigration policies do – or don’t – develop into large and...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2016-12-27
Collection :
IJURR Studies in Urban and Social Change Book Series
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This book provides an interdisciplinary analysis of the correlates and consequences of residential relocation. Drawing on multiple nationally representative data sets, the book explores historic patterns and current trends in household mobility; individuals’...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-12-22
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