Urban Press

Publisher: Imperial College PressNumber of pages: 332Collection: Air Pollution ReviewsPublication date: 2016Dimensions: 162 x 236 x 19Cover type: H...

This is a wide-ranging and internationally-focussed introduction to planning for the urban landscape. It provides an up-to-date account of planning...

This book contains papers presented by an extensive selection of international delegates at the 23rd International Conference on Urban Transport an...

The study of teenagers' interaction in the classroom can tell us a great deal about late-modern society. In this revealing account, Ben Rampton pre...

This volume addresses the relationship between the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Angkor (Cambodia), and the nearby town of Siem Reap, assessing the...

The history of the women who travelled through Liverpool in search of work and adventure, and the women who tried to stop them. Save the Womanhood ...

Publisher: Anthem PressAuthor(s): James Nguyen H. SpencerNumber of pages: 226Collection: Science Diplomacy: Managing Food, Energy and Water Sustain...

Daniel Mains explores the intersection of infrastructural development and governance in contemporary Ethiopia by examining the conflicts surroundin...

This book brings together scholars from across the globe and a range of disciplines to discuss the nature of African cities today. This groundbreak...

This edited collection explores what happens when a city administration tries to bring their vision for a city into being. It provides ethnographic...

Publisher: University of Washington PressAuthor(s): Smriti SrinivasIllustration(s): 61 b&w illus, 6 mapsNumber of pages: 224Collection: Global Sout...

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A counter-touristic guide to one of the world's fastest developing megacities, this book intervenes in global contemporary art discourse by explori...

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

Connolly draws on the recent changes in the Malaysian state of Penang to open up new perspectives on urban development, governance and the politics...

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Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Robin BartramIllustration(s): 8 halftones, 2 tablesNumber of pages: 224Publication date: 2022D...

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Claire DunningIllustration(s): 23 halftonesNumber of pages: 336Collection: Historical Studies ...

Reducere. In this accessible new study, Toby Lincoln offers the first history of Chinese cities from their origins to the present. Despite being an agricultu...

Reducere. Volume 6 of The First Urban Churches reexamines preconceived understandings of the early church within Rome and the port city of Ostia. James R. Ha...

Home economics provides the first comprehensive history of domestic service in southern Africa's post-colonial cities. Theoretically innovative and...

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...

Drawing on an extensive range of sources, from newspapers and institutional records to oral histories and autobiography, Dangerous amusements explo...

Open Design refers to a stakeholder-oriented approach in Architecture, Urban Planning, and Project Management, as developed by the Chair of Compute...

Publisher: Central European University PressAuthor(s): Alfrun (Professor of West Slavonic Literatures and Cultures, Humboldt University of Berlin) ...

This book traces the journey of new Muslims as they joined the early Islamic community and articulated their identities within it. It focuses on Mu...

DescriptionUrban Transformations is a theoretical and empirical account of the changing nature of urbanization in Germany. Where city planners and ...

Divided into three sections, this edition explores the societal context of land use planning and proposes a model for understanding and reconciling...

In Transforming the Urban University, Richard M. Freeland reviews how Northeastern University in Boston, historically an access-oriented, private u...

Reducere. Volume 6 of The First Urban Churches reexamines preconceived understandings of the early church within Rome and the port city of Ostia. James R. Ha...

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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 ...

DescriptionFor forty years, as New York's Lower East Side went from disinvested to gentrified, residents lived with a wound at the heart of the nei...

Reducere. The Oxford Handbook of Urban Planning is an authoritative volume on planning, a long-established professional social science discipline in the U.S....

This fully revised and up-to-date third edition provides an accessible introduction to urban and geographical economics with many real world exampl...

Reducere. Just over 180 years ago, the city of Houston was nothing more than an alligator-infested swamp along the Buffalo Bayou that spread onto a flat, end...

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A pioneering and richly illustrated book, highlighting powerful nature working in cities, suburbs, exurbs/peri-urbs, and presenting spatial pattern...

The second edition of this accessible text provides an integrated framework of the study of urban and regional economics. It offers a concise and u...

Contributor(s): Editor: Clifton EllisEditor: Rebecca GinsburgCountering the widespread misconception that slavery existed only on plantations, and ...

This work focuses on the creation of, and struggle over, urban order in four cities in Eastern and Southern Africa, namely Nairobi, Lusaka, Zanziba...

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...

As cities evolve and resources shift with time, spaces within those cities are often left fallow and abandoned. Cyclical City tells the stories beh...

Reducere. There is a continuing academic and policy interest in the potential for culture-based urban regeneration across the world. Such regeneration is int...

Urban Evolutionary Biology fills an important knowledge gap on wild organismal evolution in the urban environment, whilst offering a novel explorat...

Publisher: UCL PressIllustration(s): 56 Illustrations, colorPublication date: 2022Dimensions: 242 x 165 x 34Cover type: HardbackEditor(s): Ingrid M...

Through social movements that are both grassroots and global, young leaders in San Jos?, Costa Rica, have sought to create positive social change i...

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uses this noteworthy branch of the National Urban League to provide new insights into an organization that has often faced criticism for its social...

Publisher: UCL PressIllustration(s): 110 Illustrations, colorNumber of pages: 200Publication date: 2020Dimensions: 165 x 242 x 19Cover type: Hardba...

Seeking Urban Transformation. Alternative Urban Futures in Zimbabwe tells the stories of ordinary people's struggles to remake urban centres. It in...

An archaeological analysis of Asia Minor, the area equated with much of modern-day Turkey, often perceived as a bridge between Europe and Asia, fro...

The history of domestic labor markets in 19th century America From the era of Irish Famine migration to the passage of quota restrictions in the 19...

Publisher: MIT Press LtdAuthor(s): Luis M. A. BettencourtIllustration(s): 156 black and white illustrationsNumber of pages: 568Publication date: 20...

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

Reducere. The number of bicyclists is increasing in the United States, especially among the working class and people of color. In contrast to the demographic...

Focuses on the American city as a fantastic geography constrained neither by media nor rigid genre boundaries. The book builds on a mix of theoreti...

Publisher: Edinburgh University PressAuthor(s): Nezar (University of California Berkeley) AlsayyadIllustration(s): 92 Illustrations, colorNumber of...

Explores the ways in which educated, professional women experience living in Port Moresby, the burgeoning capital of Papua New Guinea. Drawing on p...

Following the creation of the viceroyalty of R o de la Plata in 1776, the elites of Buenos Aires, C rdoba, and Montevideo turned time and again to ...

This study offers a critical interpretation of literary representations of urban poverty and the sustained trauma associated with exploitation, hom...

Publisher: Princeton University PressAuthor(s): Esther da Costa MeyerIllustration(s): 60 color + 115 b/w illus.Number of pages: 416Publication date...

Reducere. DescriptionExamines the critical role of urban taverns in the social and political life of colonial and revolutionary America From exclusive "city ...

Carrot City is a collection of ideas, both conceptual and realized, that use design to enable sustainable food production, helping to reintroduce u...

DescriptionMost of the world's population lives in cities in developing countries, where access to basic public services, such as water, electricit...

The site of medieval Euchaïta, on the northern edge of the central Anatolian plateau, was the centre of the cult of St Theodore Tiro ('the Recruit'...

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Reducere. The urban condition is today being radically transformed. Urban restructuring is accelerating, new urban spaces are being consolidated, and new for...

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...

The story of crippling overdevelopment in Mexico's economic and social centerPublisher: Temple University Press, U.S.Author(s): Diane DavisNumber o...