Global Urban Studies – serie
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24 produkter
Metropolis, Money and Markets
Brazilian Urban Financialization in Times of Re-emerging Global Finance
Av Jeroen Klink
Inbunden, 2020
2586 kr
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This book explores the impact of finance on urban spaces as well as cities' role in the social constitution and dissemination of financial logistics and techniques. It brings together literature from different disciplinary areas to increase our understanding of financialization.It observes how …
Animals in the City
Inbunden, 2021
2512 kr
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This book presents interdisciplinary research to examine the ongoing debates around nonhuman animals in urban spaces. It explores how we can better appreciate and accommodate animals in the city, while also exploring the ecological, health, ethical, and cultural implications of the same. The book …
Negative Neighbourhood Reputation and Place Attachment
The Production and Contestation of Territorial Stigma
Av Paul Kirkness, Andreas Tijé-Dra
Häftad, 2021
691 kr
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The concept of territorial stigma, as developed in large part by the urban sociologist Loïc Wacquant, contends that certain groups of people are devalued, discredited and tainted by the reputation of the place where they reside. This book argues that this theory is more relevant and comprehensive …
Millennial City
Trends, Implications, and Prospects for Urban Planning and Policy
Av Markus Moos, Deirdre Pfeiffer m. fl.
Häftad, 2019
718 kr
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Millennials have captured our imaginaries in recent years. The conventional wisdom is that this generation of young adults lives in downtown neighbourhoods near cafes, public transit and other amenities. Yet, this depiction is rarely unpacked nor problematized. Despite some commonalities, the …
Disassembled Cities
Social and Spatial Strategies to Reassemble Communities
Häftad, 2020
689 kr
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This book explores the urban, political, and economic effects of contemporary capitalism as well being concerned with a collective analytic that addresses these processes through the lens of disassembling and reassembling dynamics. The processes of contemporary globalization have resulted in the …
Twin Cities
Urban Communities, Borders and Relationships over Time
Av John Garrard, Ekaterina Mikhailova
Häftad, 2020
689 kr
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This dynamic international collection provides a comprehensive overview of twin cities on administrative and international borders across the world. Drawing on contemporary and historical examples, it documents constant and changing features of twinned communities over time. The chapters explore a …
Twin Cities across Five Continents
Interactions and Tensions on Urban Borders
Av Ekaterina Mikhailova, John Garrard
Inbunden, 2021
2504 kr
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This international collection provides a comprehensive overview of twin cities in different circumstances – from the emergent to the recently amalgamated, on 'soft' and 'hard' borders, with post-colonial heritage, in post-conflict environments and under strain. With examples from Europe, the Middle …
Twin Cities across Five Continents
Interactions and Tensions on Urban Borders
Av Ekaterina Mikhailova, John Garrard
Häftad, 2023
689 kr
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This international collection provides a comprehensive overview of twin cities in different circumstances – from the emergent to the recently amalgamated, on 'soft' and 'hard' borders, with post-colonial heritage, in post-conflict environments and under strain. With examples from Europe, the Middle …
City as Action
Retheorizing Urban Studies
Inbunden, 2022
2504 kr
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In constructing the urban as a set of interconnected actions, this book presents a less travelled route to understanding the city. It leads to a fresh perspective on several issues central to urban theory, including the uniqueness of a city alongside practices it shares with other urban places.This …
City as Action
Retheorizing Urban Studies
Häftad, 2023
689 kr
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In constructing the urban as a set of interconnected actions, this book presents a less travelled route to understanding the city. It leads to a fresh perspective on several issues central to urban theory, including the uniqueness of a city alongside practices it shares with other urban places.This …
Animals in the City
Häftad, 2023
691 kr
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This book presents interdisciplinary research to examine the ongoing debates around nonhuman animals in urban spaces. It explores how we can better appreciate and accommodate animals in the city, while also exploring the ecological, health, ethical, and cultural implications of the same. The book …
Metropolis, Money and Markets
Brazilian Urban Financialization in Times of Re-emerging Global Finance
Av Jeroen Klink
Häftad, 2021
689 kr
Lägg i varukorg
This book explores the impact of finance on urban spaces as well as cities' role in the social constitution and dissemination of financial logistics and techniques. It brings together literature from different disciplinary areas to increase our understanding of financialization.It observes how …
Disassembled Cities
Social and Spatial Strategies to Reassemble Communities
Inbunden, 2018
2504 kr
Lägg i varukorg
This book explores the urban, political, and economic effects of contemporary capitalism as well being concerned with a collective analytic that addresses these processes through the lens of disassembling and reassembling dynamics. The processes of contemporary globalization have resulted in the …
Twin Cities
Urban Communities, Borders and Relationships over Time
Av John Garrard, Ekaterina Mikhailova
Inbunden, 2018
2504 kr
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This dynamic international collection provides a comprehensive overview of twin cities on administrative and international borders across the world. Drawing on contemporary and historical examples, it documents constant and changing features of twinned communities over time. The chapters explore a …
Housing Question
Tensions, Continuities, and Contingencies in the Modern City
Av Edward Murphy, Najib B. Hourani
Häftad, 2016
919 kr
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In the wake of the Great Recession, housing and its financing suddenly re-emerged as questions of significant public concern. Yet both public and academic debates about housing have remained constricted, tending not to explore how the evolution of housing simultaneously entails basic forms of …
Governing Urban Regions Through Collaboration
A View from North America
Av Joël Thibert
Häftad, 2018
791 kr
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With the demise of the Old Regionalist project of achieving good regional governance through amalgamation, voluntary collaboration has become the modus operandi of a large number of North American metropolitan regions. Although many researchers have become interested in regional collaboration and …
From Local Action to Global Networks: Housing the Urban Poor
Häftad, 2018
820 kr
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Over the past two decades it has become widely recognized that housing issues have to be placed in a broader framework acknowledging that civil society in the form of Community Based Organizations (CBOs) and their allies are increasingly networking and emerging as strong players that cannot easily …
Cities at Risk
Planning for and Recovering from Natural Disasters
Häftad, 2018
791 kr
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As levels of urbanization increase around the world, the growing concentrations of population and economic activity increases vulnerability to natural disasters. Interdependencies among urban populations mean that damage to the built environment, including water, sewer and energy infrastructure, …
Millennial City
Trends, Implications, and Prospects for Urban Planning and Policy
Av Markus Moos, Deirdre Pfeiffer m. fl.
Inbunden, 2017
2504 kr
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Millennials have captured our imaginaries in recent years. The conventional wisdom is that this generation of young adults lives in downtown neighbourhoods near cafes, public transit and other amenities. Yet, this depiction is rarely unpacked nor problematized. Despite some commonalities, the …
Housing Question
Tensions, Continuities, and Contingencies in the Modern City
Av Edward Murphy, Najib B. Hourani
Inbunden, 2013
2578 kr
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In the wake of the Great Recession, housing and its financing suddenly re-emerged as questions of significant public concern. Yet both public and academic debates about housing have remained constricted, tending not to explore how the evolution of housing simultaneously entails basic forms of …
Governing Urban Regions Through Collaboration
A View from North America
Av Joël Thibert
Inbunden, 2015
2504 kr
Lägg i varukorg
With the demise of the Old Regionalist project of achieving good regional governance through amalgamation, voluntary collaboration has become the modus operandi of a large number of North American metropolitan regions. Although many researchers have become interested in regional collaboration and …
Cities at Risk
Planning for and Recovering from Natural Disasters
Inbunden, 2015
2504 kr
Lägg i varukorg
As levels of urbanization increase around the world, the growing concentrations of population and economic activity increases vulnerability to natural disasters. Interdependencies among urban populations mean that damage to the built environment, including water, sewer and energy infrastructure, …
From Local Action to Global Networks: Housing the Urban Poor
Inbunden, 2015
2504 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Over the past two decades it has become widely recognized that housing issues have to be placed in a broader framework acknowledging that civil society in the form of Community Based Organizations (CBOs) and their allies are increasingly networking and emerging as strong players that cannot easily …
Negative Neighbourhood Reputation and Place Attachment
The Production and Contestation of Territorial Stigma
Av Paul Kirkness, Andreas Tijé-Dra
Inbunden, 2017
2504 kr
Lägg i varukorg
The concept of territorial stigma, as developed in large part by the urban sociologist Loïc Wacquant, contends that certain groups of people are devalued, discredited and tainted by the reputation of the place where they reside. This book argues that this theory is more relevant and comprehensive …
