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Urban Political Ecology in the Anthropo-obscene
Interruptions and Possibilities
Av Henrik Ernstson, Erik Swyngedouw
Häftad, 2018
647 kr
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Urban Political Ecology in the Anthropo-obscene: Interruptions and Possibilities centres on how to organize anew the articulation between emancipatory theory and political activism. Across its theoretical and empirical chapters, written by leading scholars from anthropology, geography, urban …
Why Transportation Fails
Critiques from South Africa and Beyond
Av Astrid Wood
Inbunden, 2025
2510 kr
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Why Transportation Fails offers an in-depth critique of transportation failures in South Africa and beyond. Minibus taxis are unreliable and overcrowded; buses and trains are old and poorly maintained; and new services are derailed by spiraling capital and operational costs, protracted and …
Between Bohemia and Suburbia
Boburbia in the USA
Häftad, 2020
720 kr
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This book identifies a distinctive kind of urban neighborhood that is on the rise throughout the USA, the dense, walkable, mixed-use bourgeois-bohemian suburb or the "boburb."It looks at case studies of areas to live in Louisville, Kentucky. Based on scores of interviews with college graduates, …
Reason in the City of Difference
Av Gary Bridge
Inbunden, 2004
2510 kr
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In the modernist city rationality ruled and subsumed difference in a logic of identity. In the postmodern city, reason is abandoned for an endless play of difference. Reason in the City of Difference poses an alternative to these extremes by drawing on classical American philosophical pragmatism …
Reason in the City of Difference
Av Gary Bridge
Häftad, 2004
749 kr
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In the modernist city rationality ruled and subsumed difference in a logic of identity. In the postmodern city, reason is abandoned for an endless play of difference. Reason in the City of Difference poses an alternative to these extremes by drawing on classical American philosophical pragmatism …
Ordinary Cities
Between Modernity and Development
Inbunden, 2005
2510 kr
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With the urbanization of the world's population proceeding apace and the equally rapid urbanization of poverty, urban theory has an urgent challenge to meet if it is to remain relevant to the majority of cities and their populations, many of which are outside the West.This groundbreaking book …
Ordinary Cities
Between Modernity and Development
Häftad, 2005
647 kr
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With the urbanization of the world's population proceeding apace and the equally rapid urbanization of poverty, urban theory has an urgent challenge to meet if it is to remain relevant to the majority of cities and their populations, many of which are outside the West.This groundbreaking book …
Global Metropolitan
Globalizing Cities in a Capitalist World
Inbunden, 2004
2510 kr
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Exploring the connections between globalization and urbanization, this notable book places particular emphasis on understanding the economic function of global cities, the political process of globalizing cities, and the cultural significance of cosmopolitan cities. The book explores the meaning of …
Global Metropolitan
Globalizing Cities in a Capitalist World
Häftad, 2004
749 kr
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Exploring the connections between globalization and urbanization, this notable book places particular emphasis on understanding the economic function of global cities, the political process of globalizing cities, and the cultural significance of cosmopolitan cities. The book explores the meaning of …
City Publics
The (Dis)enchantments of Urban Encounters
Inbunden, 2006
2743 kr
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Some cities have grown into mega cities and some into uncontrolled sprawl; others have seen their centres decline with populations moving to the suburbs. In such times, questions of the public realm and public space in cities warrant even greater attention than previously received.Concerned with …
City Publics
The (Dis)enchantments of Urban Encounters
Häftad, 2006
822 kr
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Some cities have grown into mega cities and some into uncontrolled sprawl; others have seen their centres decline with populations moving to the suburbs. In such times, questions of the public realm and public space in cities warrant even greater attention than previously received.Concerned with …
Cities and Race
America's New Black Ghetto
Av David Wilson
Inbunden, 2006
2510 kr
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This fascinating book examines the 1990s rise of a new black ghetto in rust belt America, 'the global ghetto'. It uses the emergent perspective of 'racial economy' to delineate a fundamental proposition; historically neglected and marginalized black ghettos, in a 1990s era of societal boom and …
Cities and Race
America's New Black Ghetto
Av David Wilson
Häftad, 2006
822 kr
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This fascinating book examines the 1990s rise of a new black ghetto in rust belt America, 'the global ghetto'. It uses the emergent perspective of 'racial economy' to delineate a fundamental proposition; historically neglected and marginalized black ghettos, in a 1990s era of societal boom and …
Urban Space and Cityscapes
Perspectives from Modern and Contemporary Culture
Häftad, 2006
782 kr
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From the verticals of New York, Hong Kong and Singapore to the sprawls of London, Paris and Jakarta, this interdisciplinary volume of new writing examines constructions, representations, imaginations and theorizations of 'cityscapes' in modern and contemporary culture. With specially-commissioned …
Small Cities
Urban Experience Beyond the Metropolis
Av David Bell, Mark Jayne
Inbunden, 2006
1826 kr
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Until now, much research in the field of urban planning and change has focused on the economic, political, social, cultural and spatial transformations of global cities and larger metropolitan areas. In this topical new volume, David Bell and Mark Jayne redress this balance, focusing on urban …
Small Cities
Urban Experience Beyond the Metropolis
Av David Bell, Mark Jayne
Häftad, 2006
560 kr
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Until now, much research in the field of urban planning and change has focused on the economic, political, social, cultural and spatial transformations of global cities and larger metropolitan areas. In this topical new volume, David Bell and Mark Jayne redress this balance, focusing on urban …
In the Nature of Cities
Urban Political Ecology and the Politics of Urban Metabolism
Av Nik Heynen, Maria Kaika m. fl.
Inbunden, 2005
2743 kr
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The social and material production of urban nature has recently emerged as an important area in urban studies, human/environmental interactions and social studies. This has been prompted by the recognition that the material conditions that comprise urban environments are not independent from …
In the Nature of Cities
Urban Political Ecology and the Politics of Urban Metabolism
Av Nik Heynen, Maria Kaika m. fl.
Häftad, 2005
1171 kr
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The social and material production of urban nature has recently emerged as an important area in urban studies, human/environmental interactions and social studies. This has been prompted by the recognition that the material conditions that comprise urban environments are not independent from …
Life in the Megalopolis
Mexico City and Sao Paulo
Av Lucia Sa
Inbunden, 2007
2132 kr
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The modern metropolis has been called 'the symbol of our times', and life in it epitomizes, for many, modernity itself. But what to make of inherited ideas of modernity when faced with life in Mexico City and São Paulo, two of the largest metropolises in the world? Is their fractured reality, their …
Life in the Megalopolis
Mexico City and Sao Paulo
Av Lucia Sa
Häftad, 2007
633 kr
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The modern metropolis has been called 'the symbol of our times', and life in it epitomizes, for many, modernity itself. But what to make of inherited ideas of modernity when faced with life in Mexico City and São Paulo, two of the largest metropolises in the world? Is their fractured reality, their …
Cities in Globalization
Practices, Policies and Theories
Av Peter Taylor, Ben Derudder m. fl.
Inbunden, 2006
3063 kr
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Despite traditionally being a strong research topic in urban studies, inter-city relations had become grossly neglected until recently, when it was placed back on the research agenda with the advent of studies of world/global cities. More recently the ‘external relations’ of cities have taken their …
Cities, Nationalism and Democratization
Inbunden, 2007
1521 kr
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Cities, Nationalism, and Democratization provides a theoretically informed, practice-oriented account of intercultural conflict and co-existence in cities. Bollens uses a wide-ranging set of over 100 interviews with local political and community leaders to investigate how popular urban policies can …
Globalization, Violence and the Visual Culture of Cities
Inbunden, 2009
2510 kr
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What connects garbage dumps in New York, bomb sites in Baghdad, and skyscrapers in São Paulo? How is contemporary visual culture – extending from art and architecture to film and digital media – responding to new forms of violence associated with global and globalizing cities? Addressing such …
Urban Assemblages
How Actor-Network Theory Changes Urban Studies
Av Ignacio Farías, Thomas Bender
Inbunden, 2009
2743 kr
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This book takes it as a given that the city is made of multiple partially localized assemblages built of heterogeneous networks, spaces, and practices. The past century of urban studies has focused on various aspects—space, culture, politics, economy—but these too often address each domain and the …
Cities in Globalization
Practices, Policies and Theories
Av Peter Taylor, Ben Derudder m. fl.
Häftad, 2012
909 kr
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Despite traditionally being a strong research topic in urban studies, inter-city relations had become grossly neglected until recently, when it was placed back on the research agenda with the advent of studies of world/global cities. More recently the ‘external relations’ of cities have taken their …
Searching for the Just City
Debates in Urban Theory and Practice
Av Peter Marcuse, James Connolly m. fl.
Häftad, 2011
749 kr
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Cities are many things. Among their least appealing aspects, cities are frequently characterized by concentrations of insecurity and exploitation. Cities have also long represented promises of opportunity and liberation. Public decision-making in contemporary cities is full of conflict, and …
Urban Assemblages
How Actor-Network Theory Changes Urban Studies
Av Ignacio Farías, Thomas Bender
Häftad, 2011
749 kr
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This book takes it as a given that the city is made of multiple partially localized assemblages built of heterogeneous networks, spaces, and practices. The past century of urban studies has focused on various aspects—space, culture, politics, economy—but these too often address each domain and the …
Searching for the Just City
Debates in Urban Theory and Practice
Av Peter Marcuse, James Connolly m. fl.
Inbunden, 2009
2510 kr
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Cities are many things. Among their least appealing aspects, cities are frequently characterized by concentrations of insecurity and exploitation. Cities have also long represented promises of opportunity and liberation. Public decision-making in contemporary cities is full of conflict, and …
Urban Condition
Inbunden, 2014
2510 kr
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This book will speak to the new human epoch, the Urban Age. A majority of humanity now lives for the first time in cities. The city, the highest invention of the modern age, is now the human heartland. And yet the same process that brought us the city and its wonders, modernisation, has also thrown …
Why Transportation Fails
Critiques from South Africa and Beyond
Av Astrid Wood
Häftad, 2026
706 kr
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Why Transportation Fails offers an in-depth critique of transportation failures in South Africa and beyond. Minibus taxis are unreliable and overcrowded; buses and trains are old and poorly maintained; and new services are derailed by spiraling capital and operational costs, protracted and …
