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This book is about places - cities, suburbs and towns - and happiness of people living there. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, Okulicz-Kozaryn examines the relations between human happiness and the infrastructure of the places they live.This thought-provoking book...
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Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2015-07-23
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Exploring more than 80 big ideas and key theories in a clear and simple way, this is the perfect introduction to the study of how humans live and interact with one another.Covering diversity and equality, globalization, human rights, modern urban living, and the role of...
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Dk
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2015-07-01
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Jerusalem has for centuries been known as the spiritual center for the three largest monotheistic religions: Judaism, Christianity and Islam. Yet Jerusalem’s other-worldly transcendence is far from the daily reality of Jerusalem, a city bombarded by conflict. The battle...
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Polity
Parution :
2015-06-29
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The aftermath of Hurricane Katrina is one of the darkest chapters in American history.The storm caused unprecedented destruction, and a toxic combination of government neglect and socioeconomic inequality turned a crisis into a tragedy. But among the rubble, there is...
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Bold Type Books
Parution :
2015-06-09
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Through an analysis of Chinese migration to Europe, this volume examines the most pressing migration and integration issues facing many societies today, from the political and policy-based challenges of managing increasingly diverse communities, to individual lived...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-05-26
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Hannes Müller zeigt in seiner Studie auf, wie unter Berücksichtigung des Konzeptes Baugemeinschaft in Freiburg und Tübingen neue Areale entstanden sind, die als Musterlösungen einer nachhaltigen Quartiersentwicklung gelten. Das Konzept Baugemeinschaft verspricht ein...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2015-04-21
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From gang- and drug-related shootings to mass shootings in schools, shopping centers, and movie theatres, reports of gun crimes fill the headlines of newspapers and nightly news programs. At the same time, a different kind of headline has captured public attention: a...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2015-04-01
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In The Tumbleweed Society, Allison Pugh offers a moving exploration of sacrifice, betrayal, defiance, and resignation, as people cope in a society where relationships and jobs seem to change constantly. Based on eighty in-depth interviews with parents who have varied...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2015-04-01
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Diversities Old and New provides comparative analyses of new urban patterns that arise under conditions of rapid, migration-driven diversification, including transformations of social categories, social relations and public spaces. Ethnographic findings in...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-03-23
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Wie schreiben sich soziale Erinnerungsprozesse in urbane Topografien ein? Welche Räume und Imaginarios werden dabei generiert, welche Konflikte und „Risse“ entstehen?Wie koexistieren Ausnahmeorte, die an staatlichen Terror erinnern, mit dem städtischen Alltagsleben?...
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Springer VS
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2015-03-10
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'...a good bit of spice to give the critlings a flavour, and plenty of treacle to make the mince-meat look rich'Radical Victorian reformer Henry Mayhew walked the streets of London interviewing ordinary flower girls, market traders, piemen and costermongers to create...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2015-02-26
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Tamsin Barber addresses the experience of the British-born Vietnamese as an overlooked minority population in 'super-diverse' London, exploring the emergence of the pan-ethnic 'Oriental' category as a new form of collective consciousness and identity in Britain.
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-02-26
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Urban Geography a comprehensive introduction to a variety of issues relating to contemporary urban geography, including patterns and processes of urbanization, urban development, urban planning, and life experiences in modern cities. Reveals both the diversity of...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2015-01-23
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Critical Introductions to Geography
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Die Studie analysiert erstmals die Einführung einer gesetzlichen Unfallversicherung in China in den 2000er Jahren, basierend auf umfangreichen Feldforschungen. Mit der Unfallversicherung hat sich China für die Idee individueller sozialer Rechte geöffnet, die weder in...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-01-06
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In Argentina, Colombia, and Peru, there has been an out-pouring of popular-performative activities that have asked citizens to pose questions about the social order and about the memories of recent atrocities. Cala Buendía looks at ways in which cultural producers...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-12-03
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"An invaluable text for all those interested in cities and economic change. Empirically grounded, theoretically informed, and written in a highly accessible way to help students understand processes underlying the changing urban economy, urban governance, and the role...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2014-11-28
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This book investigates small cities - cities and towns that are not well known or internationally branded, but are facing structural economic and social issues after the Global Financial Crisis. They need to invent, develop and manage new reasons for their existence....
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2014-11-21
Collection :
SpringerBriefs in Geography
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This timely book provides a theoretical and empirical engagement with contemporary understandings of the governance of crime, safety and security. Using a Bourdieuian framework, Bowden explores concepts such as capital, habitus and symbolic power to present an analytic...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-11-20
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Community development has lately gained much prominence, but the emphasis has remained on the economic and social welfare of communities, rather than the environment. By focusing on 'sustainable' development in Kenya, this study shows the importance of integrating...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2014-11-13
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The struggle to create and sustain meaning in our everyday lives is fought using cultural ingredients to spin the webs of meaning that keep us going. To help reveal the complexity and intricacy of the webs of meaning in which they are suspended, Tom Inglis interviewed...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2014-11-06
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