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The last decade has seen the rise of urban design which has taken a central position in the new agendas for urban regeneration and renaissance. Urban design has moved from marginality to mainstream.……続きを見る

SARS (Acute Respiratory Syndrome) first presented itself to the global medical community as a case of atypical pneumonia in one small Chinese village in November 2002. Three months later the mysteri……続きを見る

Historically, residential segregation of Latinos has generally been seen as a result of immigration and the process of self-segregation into ethnic enclaves. The only theoretical exception to ethnic……続きを見る

The Global Architect explores the increasing significance of globalization processes on urban change, architectural practice and the built environment. In what is primarily a critical sociological o……続きを見る

The wonderful and mysterious girls of Seattle, they model for the love of art, they do fetish performances, erotic art festivals, burlesque shows, bellydancing haflas, street photography, pleinair n……続きを見る

**"This is science writing as wonder and as inspiration." ーThe Wall Street Journal Wall Street Journal From one of the most influential scientists of our time, a dazzling exploration of the hidden ……続きを見る

城市永遠都在變幻中。 「城市漫遊者」漫無目的地浪蕩，甚至故意在城市迷路，細意觀察路上的變化，貪婪地用眼睛吸收，也儲起眼前所觸發的一切奇思妙想。 「你不能踏入同一座城市兩次」ーー享受完「看到更多」的趣味……続きを見る

The book explores and discusses some of the changes, challenges and opportunities confronting local governance in the context of the new urban paradigm associated with the HABITAT III New Urban Agen……続きを見る

Discussions of street culture exist in a variety of academic disciplines, yet a handbook that brings together the diversity of scholarship on this subject has yet to be produced. The Routledge Handb……続きを見る

This Must Be the Place explores how music can make cities better. This Must Be the Place introduces and examines music’s relationship to cities. Not the influence cities have on music, but the power……続きを見る

This is a Summary of Matthew Desmond’s New York Times Bestseller: EVICTED Poverty and Profit in the American City From Harvard sociologist and MacArthur "Genius" Matthew Desmond, a landmark work of ……続きを見る

Acid Detroit tells the story of Motor City through its revolutionary music past and present, in order to find the seeds of radical transformation among its ruins. Acid Detroit is an exhilarating, te……続きを見る

From a rare map of yellow fever in eighteenth-century New York, to Charles Booth’s famous maps of poverty in nineteenth-century London, an Italian racial zoning map of early twentieth-century Asmara……続きを見る

Spatial Microeconometrics introduces the reader to the basic concepts of spatial statistics, spatial econometrics and the spatial behavior of economic agents at the microeconomic level. Incorporatin……続きを見る

This Pivot book examines literary elements of urban topography that have animated Alan Moore, Peter Ackroyd, and Iain Sinclair’s respective representations of London-ness. Ann Tso argues these autho……続きを見る

This first textbook on the topic of gentrification is written for upper-level undergraduates in geography, sociology, and planning. The gentrification of urban areas has accelerated across the globe……続きを見る

This textbook is a comprehensive introduction to applied spatial data analysis using R. Each chapter walks the reader through a different method, explaining how to interpret the results and what con……続きを見る

This is NOT a traditional NYC Guidebook. In a regular NYC digital guide usually you find endless details about NYC buildings, NYC event spaces, NYC galleries, famous NYC places, or even some more th……続きを見る

The classic work that refutes the lies we tell ourselves about race, poverty and the poor. Here are three myths about poverty in America: – Minority children perform poorly in school because they ar……続きを見る

Mobility justice is one of the crucial political and ethical issues of our day. We are in the midst of a global climate crisis and extreme challenges of urbanization. At the same time it is difficul……続きを見る

A “vastly entertaining” history of urban centersーfrom the ancient world to today (Time). From the earliest example in the Ancient Near East to today’s teeming centers of compressed existence, such ……続きを見る

The punitive turn of penal policy in the United States after the acme of the Civil Rights movement responds not to rising criminal insecurity but to the social insecurity spawned by the fragmentatio……続きを見る

National bestselling author of APOCALYPSE NEVER skewers progressives for the mishandling of America’s faltering cities. Progressives claimed they knew how to solve homelessness, inequality, and crim……続きを見る

This book introduces the usage, functionality, and application of data in geographic information systems (GIS) for geo-spatial analysis. It offers knowledge on GIS tools and techniques and explains ……続きを見る

**Named a Best Book of the Year by NPR and Science Friday A quest to explore some of the most spectacular ancient cities in human historyーand figure out why people abandoned them.** In Four Lost Ci……続きを見る

Two hundred years ago, Sir Stamford Raffles established the modern settlement of Singapore with the intent of seeing it become ‘a great commercial emporium and fulcrum’. But by the time independence……続きを見る

Cosmopolitanismーthe genuine appreciation of cultural and racial diversityーis often associated with adult worldliness and sophistication. Yet, as this innovative new book suggests, children growing……続きを見る

It is a great honor for me to present a book on one of the world’s greatest champions of humanity. Malcolm X had principles that enabled him to see the true worth of people, especially the oppressed……続きを見る

The first edition of Architecture, Power, and National Identity, published in 1992, has become a classic, winning the prestigious Spiro Kostof award for the best book in architecture and urbanism. L……続きを見る

Reading Rodney King/Reading Urban Uprising keeps the public debate alive by exploring the connections between the Rodney King incidents and the ordinary workings of cultural, political, and economic……続きを見る