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This book examines the roles that public space plays in gentrification. Considering both cultural norms of public behavior and the municipal regulation of behavior in public, it shows how commonplace acts in everyday public spaces like sidewalks, streets, and parks work...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-12-21
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Der Band befasst sich mit dem Verhältnis von Stadt und Infrastruktur, von Urbanisierung und Infrastrukturentwicklung. Je nach Konstellation symbolisieren und reproduzieren Infrastrukturen gesellschaftliche Beziehungen, können diese aber auch mit hervorbringen und...
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Springer VS
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2016-12-13
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This book examines the nature and regulation of the informal economy by means of a collective case study in a highly regulated Western country. The book, situated at the intersection of criminology and sociology, investigates the relation between formal, informal and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-12-10
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This book provides a wide range of studies on methods of assessing natural disaster risks and reducing those risks in the context of land use. A major benefit of the book is that it presents extensive research and practices from interdisciplinary perspectives through...
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Springer
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2016-12-05
Collection :
Disaster Risk Reduction
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This book examines smart growth entrepreneurs—innovators in government, development companies, architectural firms, and other organizations, who coalesce to shift policies and markets toward green planning and building practices. Cities across the world are trying...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-12-05
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This book examines the urban legacy of the 2014 football World Cup in Brazil across the seven cities that hosted matches. The authors, all experts and natives of South America, analyse the context and impacts of hosting the World Cup for each of the host cities....
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-11-23
Collection :
Mega Event Planning
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This book draws on case examples of contemporary black activism in South Manchester and contrasts them with events that surrounded C.L.R. James and his activism between 1935 and 1950. In doing so, the author considers what Brexit, the Labour Party and Theresa May’s...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-11-23
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This book provides a state of the art approach to participatory planning, and generates innovative thought in planning theory and knowledge study. The book introduces a new conceptual framework for participatory planning, one which redefines concepts that have been...
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Springer
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2016-11-22
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Der Band befasst sich mit Landschaft und Ästhetik als zwei komplexen Konzepten, die zunächst eindeutig zu sein scheinen, auf den zweiten Blick aber ihre Komplexität offenbaren, und zwar sowohl in der Alltagswelt als auch in Wissenschaft und Planung. Als Landschaft wird...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2016-11-17
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This book explores how modernity, the urban, and the sacred overlap in fundamental ways in contemporary Spain. Urban spaces have traditionally been seen as the original sites of modernity, history, progress, and a Weberian systematic disenchantment of the world, while...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-11-17
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This book analyses the making of the Chinese middle class that started in the 1990s using a constructivist approach. With the development of the Chinese economy, a new group of middle wage earners appeared. Chinese social scientists and state institutions promoted the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-11-07
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This book provides a significant new interpretation of China's rapid urbanization by analyzing its impact on the spread of Protestant Christianity in the People's Republic. Demonstrating how the transition from rural to urban churches has led to the creation of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-11-04
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This book is an ethnographic account of San Francisco’s most inner city neighborhood, the Tenderloin. Using its streets as campus and its people as teachers, Stannard-Friel uses storytelling as a way of explaining why inner city social problems, such as homelessness,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-11-04
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Der Sammelband liefert Befunde zu aktuellen Forschungsfeldern der (Un-)Sicherheit und Kriminalprävention in europäischen Städten. So lässt sich beobachten, dass insbesondere genuin urbane Formen abweichenden Verhaltens und abweichender Situationen zunehmend...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2016-11-03
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This book analyzes the recent growth of Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Fuzhou, Shanghai, Hangzhou, Nanjing, and Hong Kong, seven major Chinese coastal cities. The authors detail theoretical mechanisms, spatial and non-spatial models of development, all while exploring possible...
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Springer
Parution :
2016-11-03
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There is no denying that friendship, however narrow or broad the definition, is dynamic and highly responsive to socio-cultural and environmental factors. Urban Youth Friendships and Community Practice highlights the greater importance of friendships in circumstances...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2016-10-11
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This book introduces the latest thinking on the use of Big Data in the context of urban systems, including research and insights on human behavior, urban dynamics, resource use, sustainability and spatial disparities, where it promises improved planning, management and...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2016-10-07
Collection :
Springer Geography
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Inga Haese erweitert die stadtsoziologische Forschung um die Perspektive des Charismas. Sie zeigt, dass der Prozess von Stadtentwicklung nur über den Fokus auf handelnde Akteurinnen und Akteure verstanden werden kann. Auf der Grundlage einer ethnographischen Studie, die...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2016-10-06
Collection :
Stadt, Raum und Gesellschaft
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The study is set against the backdrop of the urbanization trend in present-day China, and focuses on the relationship between farmers who have lost their land (“land-lost farmers”) and local government. Particularly, it applies the extended case method to answer the...
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Springer
Parution :
2016-10-04
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This book makes a timely and engaging contribution to geography’s resurgent interest in art and artistic practice, as well as to growing geographical concerns with embodied or pre-reflective experience. It introduces Eugene Gendlin’s philosophical and methodological...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2016-09-29
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