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Bilden av miljonprogramsområden tecknas ofta i ensidigt dystra färger. Men exemplet Gårdsten i Göteborg visar att det går vända en till synes hopplös situation i ett eftersatt bostadsområde. Det visar att det krävs en uthållighet som varar i årtio...

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Situationen i landets förorter och särskilt för unga förortsbor har under det senaste decenniet blivit allt mer prekär. Från att ha beskrivits som en internationell förebild när det gäller välfärds- och integrationspolitik så har Sverige allt mer ...

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SKOLANS STÖKIGA pojkar har kanske aldrig diskuterats så flitigt som nu. Killen som inte sköter sina studier är ett hett ämne i den politiska debatten och på tidningarnas ledarsidor. Det talas om honom i klassrum, lärarrum och på föräldramöten. Det...

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En stad är en geografisk plats som består av byggnader, infrastruktur och administrativa institutioner. Men staden består också av de människor som genom tiderna har byggt, bott och levt i och mellan husen. Staden har inte blivit till av sig själv...

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Contemporary urbanisation has two faces: global flows of people, money and information, and that of localised social and economic disparities. Recent research has focused on the headlines of global cities as control centres of the world economy, a...

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Cities and Nature connects environmental processes with social and political actions. The book reconnects science and social science to demonstrate how the city is part of the environment and how it is subject to environmental constraints and oppo...

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Philosopher, sociologist and urban theorist, Henri Lefebvre is one of the great social theorists of the twentieth century. This accessible and innovative introduction to the work of Lefebvre combines biography and theory in a critical assessment o...

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Infrastructural Lives is the first book to describe the everyday experience and politics of urban infrastructures. It focuses on a range of infrastructures in both the global South and North. The book examines how day-to-day experience and percept...

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For over fifty years numerous public intellectuals and social theorists have insisted that community is dead. Some would have us believe that we act solely as individuals choosing our own fates regardless of our surroundings, while other theories ...

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Shaping Smart for Better Cities powerfully demonstrates the range of theoretical and practical challenges, opportunities and success factors involved in successfully deploying digital technologies in cities, focusing on the importance of recognizi...

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This edited volume defines and compares central aspects of governance and management related to urban open spaces (UOSs) such as long-term management, combined governance and management and strategic management of UOSs. Perspectives such as ethica...

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Vad är det som förenar näbbmusens hjärtfrekvens med utvecklingen av New Yorks tunnelbana? Varför går alla företag förr eller senare i konkurs? Och hur kan vi använda dessa insikter för att förutse framtiden? När Geoffrey West gav sig ut på jakt ef...

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In Rhythmanalysis, Henri Lefebvre put forward his ideas on the relationship between time and space, particularly how rhythms characterize space. Here, leading geographers advance and expand on Lefebvre's theories, examining how they intersect with...

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"Det är inte betongen som gör oss till dom vi e, det är vi som gör betongen till mer än sten. När vi talar om Orten syftar vi mer på gemensamma erfarenheter än på ett geografiskt område - vår gemensamma erfarenhet av att befinna oss långt frå...

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Since its initial publication, Loft Living has become the classic analysis of the emergence of artists as a force of gentrification and the related rise of ""creative city"" policies around the world. This 25th anniversary edit...

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Dagens snabba urbanisering och omvandlingen av urbana miljöer är en global trend, och det pågår en förändring av storstäderna även i Sverige. Men storstäderna är inte enbart möjligheternas domän; här finns också en koncentration och en mångfald av...

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The sixth edition of the highly successful The City Reader juxtaposes the very best classic and contemporary writings on the city to provide the comprehensive mapping of the terrain of Urban Studies and Planning old and new. The City Reader is the...

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Cities around the globe struggle to create better and more equitable access to important destinations and services, all the while reducing the energy consumption and environmental impacts of mobility. An Introduction to Sustainable Transportation ...

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The seventh edition of the highly successful The City Reader juxtaposes the very best classic and contemporary writings on the city. Sixty-three selections are included: forty-five from the sixth edition and eighteen new selections, including thre...

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The 6th edition of this highly respected text builds upon the successful structure, engaging writing style and clear presentation of previous editions. Examining urban social geography from a theoretical and historical perspective, it also explore...

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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 urban areas. In this book, part of the Ageing in...

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Contemporary critical studies have recently experienced a significant spatial turn. In what may eventually be seen as one of the most important intellectual and political developments in the late twentieth century, scholars have begun to interpret...

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This book addresses international research communities concerned with conceptual, scientific, and design approaches to urban land developments and biodiversity. The main focus is on the understanding of human-environment interactions analysed by m...

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What does it mean to belong in a place, or more than one place? This exciting new volume brings together work from cutting-edge interdisciplinary scholars researching home, migration and belonging, using their original research to argue for greate...

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Within the spatial design disciplines, research through design as a tool and practice has often been neglected. This book provides a much-needed companion to the theories, methods and processes involved in using design-based research in landscape,...

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A benchmark study in the changing field of urban anthropology, Berlin, Alexanderplatz is an ethnographic examination of the rapid transformation of the unified Berlin. Through a captivating account of the controversy around this symbolic public sq...

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Urbanisering är en mångfacetterad process som omfattar befolknings¿struktur, företagande, myndighetslokalisering, handel, medie¿bevakning, kulturliv och kommunal service. Allt detta urbaniseras såväl av stat och regioner som av kommunerna själva g...

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Urban living has dramatically changed over the past generation, refashioning children's relationships with the towns and cities in which they live, and the modes of living within them. Focusing on the global shift in urban planning towards sustain...

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Judith Kapferer and her collaborators present an insightful volume that interrogates relations between the state and the arts in diverse national and cultural settings. The authors critique the taken-for-granted assumption about the place of the a...

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

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