Mega-Urbanization in the Global South. Fast cities and new urban utopias of the postcolonial state, Paperback - ***

With contributions from an international range of established and emerging scholars drawing upon real world examples, this title is the first to us...

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Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Publisher: Verso BooksAuthor(s): Goeran TherbornIllustration(s): 8pp b&w plate sectionNumber of pages: 416Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 130 x 1...

Welcome to the world's first urban century. How will you respond?

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This book explores cities and intra-regional relational dynamics to challenge common representations of urban development 'success' and 'failure'. ...

Evaluates the complex ways that Madrid has served as the political, economic, and cultural capital of the Global South from the end of the Franco d...

From Australia to North America, we need to rethink how our cities resist environmental change in the age of climate catastropheIllustrations: 3 Ta...

Underground City explores how new ideas and technologies are transforming the ways we build and inhabit underground space and how these innovations...

Publisher: Lit VerlagAuthor(s): Rudolf Von SinnerNumber of pages: 294Collection: Theology in the Public Square/ TheologiePublication date: 2022Dime...

Young-Old examines contemporary architectural and urban mutations that have emerged as a consequence of one of the key demographic transformations ...

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdAuthor(s): David SatterthwaiteNumber of pages: 368Publication date: 2012Dimensions: 235 x 156 x 19Cover type: Paperb...

Beginning in the 1950s, an explosion in rural-urban migration dramatically increased the population of cities throughout Peru, leading to an acute ...

Warfare in the twenty-first century goes well beyond conventional armies and nation-states. In a world of diffuse conflicts taking place across spr...

Part of the Critical Perspectives on Work and Employment series, this edited collection brings together contributions from leading international sc...

DescriptionCities of the Arabian Peninsula reveal contradictions of contemporary urbanization The fast-growing cities of the Persian Gulf are, what...

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The Global South is the epicentre of workers' struggles todayIllustrations: 4 Graphs

Reducere. Can the cinema imagine a different way of developing, using, and living in the city? Is it possible to do so using images of the extant city? Seein...

As Robert Fishman writes of three of urban planning's greatest visionaries, Ebenezer Howard, Frank Lloyd Wright and Le Corbusier, they 'hated the c...

There are many initiatives using mobiles, tablets and other devices that have promise to help farmers and improve livelihoods in the developing wor...

While the impact of rapid technological change is often discussed in relation to the Global North, this book explores its effects on the developmen...

Reducere. Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Reducere. Rooting itself in Kashmir Shaivism, Srividya became a force in South India no later than the seventh century, and eventually supplanted the Trika a...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

By exploring themes of fragility, mobility and turmoil, anxieties and agency, and pedagogy, this book shows how colonialism shaped postcolonial pro...

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

This volume uncovers the relations between globalization and dirty dealings in urban settings, focusing on some capital cities and on the relations...

Publisher: Princeton University PressAuthor(s): Mark R. BeissingerIllustration(s): 77 b/w illus. 14 tables.Number of pages: 592Publication date: 20...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Eduardo DuranAuthor: Bonnie DuranThis book presents a theoretical discussion of problems and issues encountered in the Nati...

This topical volume deals with the major challenges of migration in the Global South and their governance, which are traditionally much less consid...

DescriptionThis book is a collection of work on aging and development from authors from the global south. Aging is steadily evolving as a public he...

Reducere. One of the largest and fastest-growing cities in the South, Charlotte, North Carolina, came of age in the New South decades of the late nineteenth ...

Reducere. Urban Migrants in Rural Japan provides a fresh perspective on theoretical notions of rurality and emerging modes of working and living in post-grow...

Global Governance in Question. Empire, Class and the New Common Sense in Managing North-South Relations - Susanne Soederberg

Beyond the Megacity reconnects to the Latin American tradition of theorizing urbanization from the margins, moving urban theory closer to the compl...

Publisher: Lund Humphries Publishers LtdAuthor(s): Andreas HuyssenIllustration(s): 25 Illustrations, black and whiteNumber of pages: 184Collection:...

DescriptionContemporary adaptations of Shakespeare's plays have brought into sharp focus the legacies of slavery, racism and colonial dispossession...

With empirical case studies of Walmart's entry into Latin America, Africa, and Asia, this book reveals how the world's largest private employer has...

Offers a look at how nature has been culturally constructed in South and Southeast Asia. This book looks at how social and natural landscapes are c...

As cities from Cape Town to La Paz face acute water shortages, citizens need to know how urban water systems evolved to understand their vulnerabil...