wired - Urban 4

This book explores the hopeful possibility that emerging geographies of postsecularity are able to contribute significantly to the understanding of how common life may be shared, and how caring for ……続きを見る

Christa Reicher gibt einen Überblick über die Grundbegriffe und die historischen Phasen des Städtebaus sowie unterschiedliche Theorien. Das städtische Gefüge setzt sich aus verschiedenen Bausteinen ……続きを見る

Coping with Adversity addresses the question of why some metropolitan-area regional economies are resilient in the face of economic shocks and chronic distress while others are not. It is particular……続きを見る

From 1971 to 1985, battles raged over Westway, a multibillion-dollar highway, development, and park project slated for placement in New York City. It would have projected far into the Hudson River, ……続きを見る

As the tragedy of the Grenfell tower fire has slowly revealed a shadowy background of outsourcing, private finance initiatives and a council turning a blind eye to health and safety concerns, many q……続きを見る

This book focuses on the strict orthodox Jewish (Haredi) community, which comprises many sects whose communal identity plays a central role in everyday life and spatial organization. The research re……続きを見る

It’s widely accepted that our environment is in crisis. Less widely recognized is that three quarters of environmental damage is due to cities – the places where most of us live. As this powerful ne……続きを見る

Im Begriff Fluchtort Stadt ist die der Studie zugrunde liegende These ausgedrückt, dass fluchtfolgebedingte Prozesse als ein integraler Bestandteil von Stadtentwicklung betrachtet werden müssen. Bez……続きを見る

In 1970, Kenneth Gibson was elected as Newark, New Jersey’s first African-American mayor, a position he held for an impressive sixteen years. Yet even as Gibson served as a trailblazer for black pol……続きを見る

This book is concerned with the spatial aspects of the distributive trades. It provides a comprehensive insight into the relationship between consumer demand and retail supply in the context of both……続きを見る

This book brings together the emerging body of work on age-friendly neighbourhoods in Singapore, the Asia-Pacific region, Europe and North America. It begins with an overview chapter on the current ……続きを見る

First released in 2007, the bestselling Transport Revolutions argued that land transport in the first half of the 21st century will feature at least two revolutions. One will involve the use of elec……続きを見る

East of East: The Making of Greater El Monte, is an edited collection of thirty-one essays that trace the experience of a California community over three centuries, from eighteenth-century Spanish c……続きを見る

This book provides a multi-level and multi-dimensional insight into urban water and sanitation development by analyzing sector reforms in Africa. With the recent events in mind - water shortages in ……続きを見る

The understanding of landscape in the German-speaking area has some similarities with the discussions of the topic in other European languages and scientific communities, but there are some specific……続きを見る

The book offers a cross-disciplinary perspective on various aspects of precariousness in contemporary culture and society, concentrating on the topographical aspects of sources and causes of uncerta……続きを見る

Generation Priced Out is a call to action on one of the most talked-about issues of our time: how skyrocketing rents and home values are pricing the working and middle classes out of urban America. ……続きを見る

**In a captivating tour of cities famous and forgotten, acclaimed historian Ben Wilson tells the glorious, millennia-spanning story how urban living sparked humankind's greatest innovations. “A towe……続きを見る

This book interrogates contemporary processes of neoliberal urban renewal in the Global South by studying the model of chawl redevelopment in Mumbai, India. The model of chawl redevelopment is used ……続きを見る

Housing. Water. Energy. Transport. Food. Education. Health care. These are the core systems which make human life possible in the 21st century. Few of us are truly self-sufficient – we rely on the s……続きを見る

This book examines the use and culture of digital media in Chinese cities. By examining examples and data from Chinese and global social media platforms, the book argues that digital media facilitat……続きを見る

‘Chinatowns’ are familiar places in almost all major cities in the world. In popular Western wisdom, the restaurants, pagodas, and red lanterns are intrinsically equated with a self-contained, immig……続きを見る

Management & Workplace Culture Book of the Year, 2020 Porchlight Business Book Awards A Publishers Weekly Fall 2020 Big Indie Book The dark side of the gig economy (Uber, Airbnb, etc.) and how to ma……続きを見る

Architektur, sichtbar und anschaulich, gestaltet baulich-technisch und räumlich unsere Lebensumwelt und stellt in dieser genuinen Eigenschaft eine besondere Herausforderung an die Wissenschaft(en) d……続きを見る

This book critically engages with the contemporary challenges and opportunities of wild cities in a climate of change. A key focus of the book is exploring the nexus of possibilities for wild cities……続きを見る

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 brisan……続きを見る

Reflective Planning Practice: Theory, Cases, and Methods uses structured, first-person reflection to reveal the artistry of planning practice. The value of professional reflection is widely recogniz……続きを見る

Die Digitalisierung festigt die bestehenden gesellschaftlichen Verhältnisse. Entgegen dem vorherrschenden Narrativ einer „digitalen Befähigung“ und den viel beschriebenen Chancen für jeden Einzelnen……続きを見る

Der vorliegende Band vereint aktuelle, interdisziplinäre Forschungen, welche sich im Kern mit dem Handeln der Polizei als soziales Phänomen beschäftigen. In diesem Zusammenhang greifen die Autoren/i……続きを見る

This work is an ethnographic investigation into the everyday lives of young people growing up and living in contemporary Bangalore. Moving beyond the hype of the Indian ‘knowledge society’, it exami……続きを見る