Global Urban Politics, Paperback

DescriptionHow finance and politics have caused the global housing crisisThe most comprehensive survey of the current crisis, Urban Warfare charts ...

How have local economic conditions been affected by the emergence of a global economy? What changes, if any, have local political authorities made ...

Publisher: SAGE Publications IncNumber of pages: 288Publication date: 1996Dimensions: 149 x 229 x 22Cover type: Paperback / softbackEditor(s): Mick...

Reducere. Reigning theories of urban power suggest that in a world dominated by footloose transnational capital, cities have little capacity to effect social...

Reducere. Heralded as America's quintessentially modern city, Chicago has attracted the gaze of journalists, novelists, essayists, and scholars. Yet few hist...

Contributor(s): Author: Susan S. FainsteinFor much of the twentieth century improvement in the situation of disadvantaged communities was a focus f...

Dengue fever is the world's most prevalent mosquito-borne illness, but Alex Nading argues that people in dengue-endemic communities do not always v...

The politics of food is changing fast. In rich countries, obesity is now a more serious problem than hunger. Consumers once satisfied with cheap an...

DescriptionIn his debut collection of hard-hitting poems, Albuquerque Poet Laureate Hakim Bellamy addresses the issues important to our day--politi...

Description"This superbly succinct and incisive book couldn't be more timely or urgent."--Michael Sorkin, author of All Over the Map Our cities are...

In Adi s Ni o: The Gangs of Guatemala City and the Politics of Death, Deborah T. Levenson examines transformations in the Guatemalan gangs called M...

This thought-provoking book offers a new global approach to understand how four social class structures have rocked our political systems, to the e...

Reducere. In Subversive Archaism, Michael Herzfeld explores how individuals and communities living at the margins of the modern nation-state use nationalist ...

DescriptionFrom urban farming to public feasting and sensuous tableware, and from edible insects to lab-grown meat, the future of food is a hot top...

Reducere. Global refugee numbers are at their highest levels since the end of World War II, but the system in place to deal with them, based upon a humanitar...

Reducere. Stitching the 24-Hour City reveals the intense speed of garment production and everyday life in Dongdaemun, a lively market in Seoul, South Korea. ...

From Miss Lou to Bob Marley and Usain Bolt to Kamala Harris, Jamaica has had an outsized reach in global mainstream culture. Yet many of its most i...

Reducere. The world was last designed seventy-five years ago, about the same time that Sam Pitroda was born. This design has outlived its utility. Hyperconne...

DescriptionMobility justice is one of the crucial political and ethical issues of our dayWe are in the midst of a global climate crisis and experie...