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Equitable access to decent housing remains a major global challenge, particularly for lower-income populations reliant on subsidised, affordable homes. This is exacerbated by the continued commodifi……続きを見る

Territorializing Democracy argues that the political control of space is key to understanding political participation in the city. Drawing on a decade of research in Buenos Aires, this book shows th……続きを見る

Great American City demonstrates the powerfully enduring impact of place. Based on one of the most ambitious studies in the history of social science, Robert J. Sampson's Great American City present……続きを見る

This book reframes street vending beyond depictions of marginality or disorder, exploring how informal street vending works as a situated, negotiated, diverse, relational, and gendered practice with……続きを見る

From parks and libraries to pubs and schools, social infrastructures are the everyday places that bring people together, support community life, and foster connection. As interest in the concept gro……続きを見る

The Cultural Matrix seeks to unravel a uniquely American paradox: the socioeconomic crisis, segregation, and social isolation of disadvantaged black youth, on the one hand, and their extraordinary i……続きを見る

A galvanizing story of how everyday people built a powerful anti-eviction movement in gentrified San Francisco. In the early 2010s, San Francisco experienced a tech boom that created both great weal……続きを見る

Living in the hood gives you an advantage because you see, hear, and experience things that you could not otherwise perceive or observe anywhere else within the city limits. Although few avoid polic……続きを見る

In The Afterlife of Utopia**, Samantha Maurer Fox traces the transformation of Eisenhüttenstadt, East Germany's first planned socialist city, from a Cold War showcase to a paragon of sustainable shr……続きを見る

A leading sociologist’s groundbreaking three-decade study challenges outdated views of crime and character, revealing that traditional risk factors alone poorly predict children’s futures. Between 1……続きを見る

EPUB and EPDF available open access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), commonly called the New Silk Road, is a huge infrastructure project currently revitalising or c……続きを見る

The country's leading transport expert describes how the driverless vehicle revolution will transform highways, cities, workplaces and laws not just here, but across the globe. Our time at the wheel……続きを見る

Considered to be sub-ordinated and sub-prime to the city, sub-urban areas receive little attention by researchers and designers. However, it´s the rapidly growing areas outside the central cities th……続きを見る

Twentieth anniversary edition of a landmark book that cataloged a vibrant but disappearing neighborhood in New York City In the two decades that preceded the original publication of Times Square Red……続きを見る

As the drive towards creating age-friendly cities grows, this important book provides a comprehensive survey of theories and policies aimed at improving the quality of life of older people living in……続きを見る

If we are to meet ‘Net Zero’ targets, both climate policies and our daily lives require significant change. The transition towards Net Zero will lead to inevitable trade-offs between social, economi……続きを見る

Brotherly Action: The Amen to Philadelphia's 341-Year-Old Prayer is a gripping, firsthand account of a grassroots movement born in the heat of Philadelphia's early 2020's gun violence crisis. Writte……続きを見る

In Freedomland**, Annemarie H. Sammartino tells Co-op City's story from the perspectives of those who built it and of the ordinary people who made their homes in this monument to imperfect liberal i……続きを見る

Featuring insights from influential figures like Pope Francis and Albert Gore alongside contributions from over thirty esteemed authors, Climate Chaos: Killing People, Places and the Planet charts a……続きを見る

‘Timely and urgent ... challenges how we come to think about property and homeownership while reminding us that there are other ways of inhabiting and transforming the city’ Alexander Vasudevan, aut……続きを見る

Argentina's path to economic prosperity is through efficient, sustainable and economically thriving cities. Not only are cities a spatial concentration of people, but also they generate agglomeratio……続きを見る

In the last third of the nineteenth century Boston grew from a crowded merchant town, in which nearly everybody walked to work, to the modern divided metropolis. The street railway created this divi……続きを見る

To the best of my knowledge understandably when I first saw the New Yorkers, I was in a state of euphoria concerning the awesome lifestyles of the great people on earth. I choked out a few words the……続きを見る

This book offers theoretical and practical insights into land use, transport, and national policies in one of world’s well-known urban concrete jungle, none other than the Singapore city. The emphas……続きを見る

Whether waiting for the train or planning the future city, infrastructure ordersーand depends onーmultiple urban temporalities. This agenda-setting volume disrupts conventional notions of time throu……続きを見る

A wide-ranging cultural history centered around the concepts of real estate, the family home, and the American dream, and how they evolved over the years, Home Ownership in America: A Socio-Cultural……続きを見る

Waste management has become a great challenge for cities and urban areas, especially in countries with a high population density. This book looks at the waste management apparatus of the city of Ind……続きを見る

Some lives unfold quietly. Others burn at the edges. Behind every polished facade is a life no one sees. Masks and Mirrors pulls back the curtain on a world few people ever glimpse - a life lived on……続きを見る

Well-designed infrastructure brings social value that far exceeds its initial construction expenditure, but competition for scarce government funds and a general public perception of infrastructure ……続きを見る

Arguably one of the most iconic mega-cities in Asia, Tokyo, the capital of Japan, plays an important economic and cultural role. It has been featured in various media as a liveable city with a well-……続きを見る