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For a city in India's northeast that has been embroiled in the everyday militarization and violence of Asia's longest-running separatist conflict, Dimapur remains 'off the map'. With no 'glorious' past or arenas where events of consequence to mainstream India have taken...
Editeur :
OUP India
Parution :
2020-11-30
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This book argues that the relationship between cities and climate change is entering a new and more urgent phase. Thirteen contributions from a range of leading scholars explore the need to rethink and reorient urban life in response to climatic change. Split into four...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-11-28
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This book presents an accessible overview of the seven key concepts of city diplomacy (development cooperation, peacekeeping, economy, innovation, environment, culture, and migration). The book discusses its scope and challenges, maps the actors involved along with...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-11-23
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This book is about ageing in Bulgaria. How do Bulgaria’s elderly—abandoned by the state and left behind by their adult children and grandchildren—adapt to their continuously shifting environment and a state of perpetual uncertainty? Drawing on dozens of interviews with...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-11-21
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Learn about key moments in New York City's development, starting with the history of the J.M. Kaplan Fund and its role in shaping the city from World War II to the present.The J.M. Kaplan Fund was established in 1945 by Jacob M. Kaplan, and would go on to play a...
Editeur :
Bold Type Books
Parution :
2020-11-10
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Die Digitalisierung festigt die bestehenden gesellschaftlichen Verhältnisse. Entgegen dem vorherrschenden Narrativ einer „digitalen Befähigung“ und den viel beschriebenen Chancen für jeden Einzelnen, macht dieses Buch deutlich, dass die Digitalisierung die sozialen...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2020-10-30
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This book looks at the historical and contemporary impact of minority immigrant and ethnic communities on the built and social environment in Australian cities, rural and regional areas. The emphasis is on the changing social use of these buildings – places of worship,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-10-23
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The book explores and discusses some of the changes, challenges and opportunities confronting local governance in the context of the new urban paradigm associated with the HABITAT III New Urban Agenda, a 20-year strategy for sustainable urbanization, adopted in October...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2020-10-19
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At a time when diversity is taking an increasingly prominent place in public and academic debate, Situational Diversity offers a new perspective by understanding diversity framed in the local context, characterised through different forms of social...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-10-12
Collection :
Global Diversities
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Music Downtown Eastside draws on two decades of research in one of North America's poorest urban areas to illustrate how human rights can be promoted through music. Harrison's examination of how gentrification, grant funding, and community organizations affect the...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2020-10-12
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Die etwa 2.000 Klein- und Mittelstädte in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland sind ein wichtiger Bestandteil unseres Siedlungsnetzes. In ihnen lebt etwa die Hälfte der Einwohner des Landes. Zentrale Herausforderungen der Stadterneuerung in ihnen, wie der Struk¬turwandel in...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2020-09-29
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?This book argues that, paradoxically, at their moment of triumph and fastest growth, cities need nature more than ever. Only if our urban world is full of biophilic cities will the coming urban century truly succeed. Cities are quintessentially human, the perfect forum...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2020-09-25
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Die Autoren des vorliegenden Sammelbandes präsentieren Beiträge zum Themenfeld der gruppenbezogenen Menschenfeindlichkeit aus transdisziplinärer Perspektive. Vorgestellt werden aktuelle theoretische und empirische Befunde aus unterschiedlichen wissenschaftlichen und...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2020-09-24
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This book applies the Total Human Ecosystem as a guiding concept in coastal urban communities to achieve a mutually beneficial relationship between industrial parks and their surrounding wetlands. The early 21st century has been shaped by a need for economic recovery,...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2020-09-09
Collection :
SpringerBriefs in Geography
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This book focuses on overlooked contextual factors that constitute the urban creative climate or innovative urban milieu in contemporary cities. Filled with reflections based on interviews with a diverse range of creative actors in various local neighborhoods in Tokyo,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-09-08
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Modernist urbanism seems progressive, even Utopian: design for a better world through a democratic and humane built environment. But two currents undermine this vision from within: an Arcadianism which turns to a rural idyll as retreat from change and the effects of...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2020-09-05
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Dieses Buch bietet eine außergewöhnliche Perspektive auf die nachhaltige, lebenswerte und humane Gestaltung urbaner Zukünfte, indem es sich dieser Herausforderung mit Blick auf das Science-Fiction-Kino sowie mit Bezügen zu Literatur, Architektur und Design nähert.Schon...
Editeur :
Springer Spektrum
Parution :
2020-08-26
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Diese Studie liefert eine differenzierte Analyse der Dynamiken, die dazu führen, dass junge Erwachsene wohnungslos werden. Sie gewährt einen Einblick in die Komplexität dieses sozialpolitisch brisanten und sozialpädagogisch herausfordernden sozialen Problems. Die...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2020-07-15
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This book examines how relationships between guardians and companion animals were challenged during a large-scale disaster: the tsunami of March 2011 and the following nuclear disaster in Fukushima. The author interrogates: 1) How did guardians and their companion...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-07-14
Collection :
Palgrave Studies in Animals and Social Problems
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Der Band ist das Ergebnis einer öffentlichen Lehrforschung im Kontext eines internationalen Echtzeitarchitekturfestivals in einer Plattenbausiedlung im Osten Deutschlands. Von Studierenden der Soziologie werden die Felderfahrungen der Zusammenarbeit mit...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2020-07-02
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