ｒｅＹ - Urban 1

Dans les sociétés postindustrielles contemporaines, les migrants ont généralement des risques de décès inférieurs aux populations des pays d’accueil bien qu’ils soient tendanciellement plus vulnérab……続きを見る

Malaise dans la ville s’inscrit dans la continuité de Ville infectée, ville déshumanisée, paru dans cette même collection. Tout en poursuivant l’entreprise pluridisciplinaire du premier ouvrage, le ……続きを見る

Les diverses facettes de la ville se donnent à voir non seulement à travers les travaux des sociologues, des historiens, des géographes, mais également à travers la littérature. En croisant ces appr……続きを見る

Le programme de recherche Reconstructions littéraires françaises et francophones des espaces sociopolitiques, historiques et scientifiques de l’extrême contemporain a réuni des chercheurs européens ……続きを見る

Bike messengers are familiar figures in the downtown cores of major cities. Tasked with delivering time-sensitive materials within, at most, a few hoursーand sometimes in as little as fifteen minute……続きを見る

Urban agriculture is increasingly considered an important part of creating just and sustainable cities. Yet the benefits that many people attribute to urban agricultureーfresh food, green space, edu……続きを見る

WINNER, COLLEGE THEOLOGY SOCIETY 2024 BEST BOOK AWARD What does it mean to be a community of difference? St. Mary of the Angels is a tiny underground Catholic parish in the heart of Boston’s Eglesto……続きを見る

This open access book is focused on the intersection between urban brownfields and the sustainability transitions of metreopolitan areas, cities and neighbourhoods. It provides both a theoretical an……続きを見る

This powerful work of gonzo journalism, predating the widespread acknowledgement of the opioid epidemic as such, immerses the reader in the world of homelessness and drug and alcohol abuse in the co……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

Doing Research in Urban and Regional Planning provides a basic introduction to methodology and methods in planning research. It brings together the methods most commonly used in planning, explaining……続きを見る

The inspirational true story about the trials and victories of the Hope High School basketball team in inner-city Providence, Rhode Island. Hope High School in Providence, Rhode Island was once a mo……続きを見る

Ground Control: A Design History of Technical Lands and NASA’s Space Complex explores the infrastructural history of the United States rocket launch complex. Working primarily between 1950, the year……続きを見る

This book provides a unique perspective on urban mobility focusing on past challenges and future trends. The book enables discussions of pathways towards sustainable and people-centred urban mobilit……続きを見る

“This well-written volume makes clear that the Harlem Jewish community significantly influenced American Jewry as a whole . . . a must-read” (Publishers Weekly). During World War I, Harlem was home ……続きを見る

Claims on the City: Situated Narratives of the Urban captures a snapshot of the events, protests, and movements that disrupt a city’s existing rhythms across cultures and nationalities and compels u……続きを見る

Barista in the City examines the impact of paid employment and the contemporary neoliberal context on the subcultural lives of hipsters who are employed as baristas. This book’s analysis of Philadel……続きを見る

In this second edition, America’s Urban History now includes contemporary analysis of race, immigration, and cities under the Trump administration and has been fully updated with new scholarship on ……続きを見る

Collected in one volume, here are the true life stories of London ambulance driver, Tom Reynolds. *Previously published as Sirens, after the Channel 4 TV show inspired by the book* On any given day ……続きを見る

What happens behind closed (ambulance) doors Meet Tom, an Emergency Medical Technician for the London Ambulance service. It is Tom who shows up to pick up the drunk tramp, the heart attack victim an……続きを見る

A graphic novel featuring uplifting stories of combattingーand beatingーcalls for their eviction in Detroit, showing how everyday people are fighting to stay in their homes, organizing with their co……続きを見る

Britain was the first country in the world to become an essentially urban county. And England is still one of the most urbanized countries in the world. The town and the city is the world that most ……続きを見る

Few cities are so dramatically identified with their environment as San Franciscoーthe landscape of hills, the expansive bay, the engulfing fog, and even the deadly fault line shifting below. Yet mo……続きを見る

In The City in Time, Pamela N. Corey provides new ways of understanding contemporary artistic practices in a region that continues to linger in international perceptions as perpetually “postwar.” Fo……続きを見る

The roles of race and racism in explaining current controversies related to public schools in America is both understudied and misunderstood. Part of the problem is the absence of a critical paradig……続きを見る

The book is divided into two major sections: (1) “Reclaiming Integration”; (2) “Reclaiming the Language of Race.” Both sections are located in the context of the “post-racial” era and analyzed by na……続きを見る

Utilizing the results of a case study on the Gare-Lac sector in the city of Yverdon-les-Bains – the site is currently a large urban brownfield, intended to host ca. 3,800 additional inhabitants and ……続きを見る

From Chinese factories making cheap toys for export, to sweatshops in Bangladesh where name-brand garments are sewnーstudies on the impact of globalization on workers have tended to focus on the wor……続きを見る

We have been living and working in the information society for decades, yet still we struggle to understand and keep up in the face of its constant flux and vast scope. In this unique interdisciplin……続きを見る

'Resilience' has become one of the first fully fledged academic and political buzzwords of the 21st century. Within this context, Geoffrey DeVerteuil proposes a more critically engaged and conceptua……続きを見る