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This publication aims to investigate the nature of social life in public and urban spaces in the cities of the Middle East, considering the value of environmental approaches. It aims to develop a better understanding of the patterns of social interactions and activities...
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Springer
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2021-04-20
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Feng Shui and the City analyses the past and contemporary influences of traditional geomancy on Chinese built environments across three domains: domestic spaces, spaces of commercial development and the public realm. Using Lefebvre’s notion of absolute and abstract...
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Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2021-04-19
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>CLASSIFY, EXCLUDE, POLICE ‘Laurent Fourchard’s deep, first-hand knowledge of the history and contemporary politics of Nigeria and South Africa forms the basis of an insightful and compelling analysis of how states produce invidious distinctions among their people and...
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Wiley
Parution :
2021-04-14
Collection :
IJURR Studies in Urban and Social Change Book Series
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Urban planning is not just about applying a suite of systematic principles or plotting out pragmatic designs to satisfy the briefs of private developers or public bodies. Planning is also an activity of imagination, with a stock of wisdom and an array of useful methods...
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Polity
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2021-04-13
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20,40€
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Both theoretically informed and empirically rich, Youth Urban Worlds explores how urban cultures affect political action amongst youth. Argues that urban cultures challenge the very meaning and contours of the political process Includes ethnographies, delving into the...
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Wiley
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2021-03-31
Collection :
IJURR Studies in Urban and Social Change Book Series
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22,60€
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This open access book investigates the link between income inequality and socio-economic residential segregation in 24 large urban regions in Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America, and South America. It offers a unique global overview of segregation trends...
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Springer
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2021-03-29
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Today, as cities undergo rapid and dynamic transformations, riddled with uncertainties about the future, the roles of urban planning and urban planners lie in one of these new crossroad moments. Climate change, urban migration, social inclusion, health emergencies and...
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Wiley-ISTE
Parution :
2021-03-24
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154,95€
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How is it that America's cities remain almost as segregated as they were fifty years ago? In Race Brokers, Elizabeth Korver-Glenn examines how housing market professionals--including housing developers, real estate agents, mortgage lenders, and appraisers--construct...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2021-03-19
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Die Governance von Raum, Natur, Umwelt und Kultur ist von unterschiedlichen Landschaftsbildern und Verständnissen von Landschaft geprägt. So haben Bürger*innen, Grundbesitzer*innen, Landschaftsarchitekt*innen, Landbewirtschafter*innen, Naturschützer*innen,...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2021-02-24
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This book investigates how the state intervenes in the urban system in China in the post-reform period. To do so, it constructs a conceptual framework based on the perspective of political hierarchy, suggesting that the state power is hierarchically organized in China’s...
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Springer
Parution :
2021-02-13
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Killer Cities uses a combination of social theory, polemic and close attention to empirical detail to tell the story of how and why cities cause mass animal death and, in the process, hasten the destruction of the planet. This book is not just a lament, however. It is ...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2021-02-10
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Across all the boroughs, The Long Crisis shows, New Yorkers helped transform their broke and troubled city in the 1970s by taking the responsibilities of city governance into the private sector and market, steering the process of neoliberalism.
Newspaper headlines...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2021-02-01
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This book proposes a new interdisciplinary understanding of urban design in China based on a study of the transformative effects of socio-spatial design and planning on communities and their governance.This is framed by an examination of the social projects, spaces, and...
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Springer
Parution :
2021-01-18
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This book provides a user-friendly guide to the expanding scope of visual sociology, through a discussion of a broad range of visual material, and reflections on how such material can be studied sociologically. The chapters draw on specific case-study...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2021-01-04
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,Landschaft‘ gehört in Deutschland zu einem vielgenutzten und in unterschiedlichen Kontexten eingesetzten Begriff – sowohl alltagsweltlich als auch wissenschaftlich. Die Veränderlichkeit von Landschaft wird häufig als Wandel verstanden. Im Verhältnis dazu wird deren...
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Springer VS
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2021-01-04
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This book advances the reflexion into how temporary urbanism is shaping cities across the world. Temporary urbanism has become a core concept in urban development, and its application is increasingly crossing the borders of both the North and the Global South. There is...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2020-12-18
Collection :
The Urban Book Series
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This book mainly analyzes the major issues at all phases of the transition of urban-rural relation, as well as measures adopted by the transition launcher in face of such issues, including not only the system and policy design of the national and local government, but...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2020-12-18
Collection :
Social Development Experiences in China
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Der Sammelband fasst wichtige Themen und Entwicklungen der Mobilitäts- und Verkehrsforschung der letzten Jahre zusammen. Die Beiträge gehen auf das Instrumentarium empirischer Forschung ein und erläutern deren Einsatzbereiche anhand konkreter Anwendungsfälle. Genauso...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2020-12-14
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This book presents a thorough discussion of utility cycling, cycling in the urban environment, and everyday mobility. It is based on large survey answered by 14,000 participants in the bike to work action in Switzerland, and quantifies the various dimensions of utility...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2020-12-07
Collection :
SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology
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In der vorliegenden Studie bietet Annika Müller detaillierte Einblicke in die Lebenswelt Digitaler Nomaden. Diesen onlinebasiert arbeitenden und ortsflexibel lebenden Personen wurde in der sozialwissenschaftlichen Forschung bislang nur wenig Aufmerksamkeit geschenkt....
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2020-12-06
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