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Walkable City
Dimensions of Walking and Overlapping Walks of Life
Häftad, 2023
691 kr
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This book explores everyday walking in contemporary urban life. It brings together important theoretical and empirical insights to understand how the ‘walkability’ of urban spaces can be imagined, planned for, and experienced.The book focuses on the everyday experiences of the urban walker, the …
Urban Art and the City
Creating, Destroying, and Reclaiming the Sublime
Inbunden, 2020
2585 kr
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This book offers original interdisciplinary insights into cities as a diachronic creation of urban art. It engages in a sequence of historical perspectives to examine urban space as an object of apparent quasi-cycles and processes of constitution, exaltation, imitation, contestation and redemption …
Rebel Streets and the Informal Economy
Street Trade and the Law
Av Alison Brown
Häftad, 2018
689 kr
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Street trade is a critical and highly visible component of the informal economy, linked to global systems of exchange. Yet policy responses are dismissive and evictions commonplace. Despite being progressively marginalised from public space, street traders in the global south are engaged in spatial …
Mega-Events, City and Power
Inbunden, 2020
2510 kr
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This book examines the power relations that emerge from the convergence of the universe in which the sporting spectacle is produced and the universe in which a city is produced. It adopts Bourdieu's concept of field to explore the interests and disputes involved in the production of sports …
Neighbourhood Planning
Place, Space and Politics
Inbunden, 2019
2510 kr
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This book carries out an in-depth investigation of a neighborhood planning process that engages critically with the issues surrounding articulation of local concerns in a strategic manner and the prospects of implementing ‘bottom up’ community initiatives successfully.It highlights the dynamics …
Mega-City Region Development in China
Av Anthony G.O. Yeh, George C. S. Lin m. fl.
Inbunden, 2020
2510 kr
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This book sheds light on the mega-city region development in China as a new form of urbanization which plays a crucial role in the economic development of the country. It examines the challenges faced by the mega-city regions and opens up avenues for debates and further research.Economic reform of …
Planning and Managing Smaller Events
Downsizing the Urban Spectacle
Av Stefano Di Vita, Mark Wilson
Inbunden, 2020
2825 kr
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Planning and Managing Smaller Events: Downsizing the Urban Spectacle explores the role of smaller scale events in contributing to the renewal and development of urban societies. This book adopts a case study approach to examine a diverse range of events taking place in towns and cities in Europe, …
Urban Neighbourhood Formations
Boundaries, Narrations and Intimacies
Av Hilal Alkan, Nazan Maksudyan
Inbunden, 2020
2510 kr
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This book examines the formation of urban neighbourhoods in the Middle East, Africa, and South Asia. It departs from ‘neighbourhoods’ to consider identity, coexistence, solidarity, and violence in relations to a place.Urban Neighbourhood Formations revolves around three major aspects of making and …
Democracy Disconnected
Participation and Governance in a City of the South
Av Fiona Anciano, Laurence Piper
Häftad, 2019
720 kr
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Why is dissatisfaction with local democracy endemic, despite the spread of new participatory institutions? This book argues that a key reason is the limited power of elected local officials, especially to produce the City. City Hall lacks control over key aspects of city decision-making, especially …
Urban Ethics
Conflicts Over the Good and Proper Life in Cities
Inbunden, 2020
2510 kr
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This book delves into the ethical dimension of urban life: how should one live in the city? What constitutes a ‘good’ life under urban condition? Whose gets to live a ‘good’ life, and whose ideas of morality, propriety and ‘good’ prevail? What is the connection between the ‘good’ and the ‘just’ in …
Cities Without Capitalism
Av Hossein Sadri, Senem Zeybekoglu
Inbunden, 2021
2510 kr
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This book explores the interconnections between urbanization and capitalism to examine the current condition of cities due to capitalism. It brings together interdisciplinary insights from leading academics, activists and researchers to envision progressive, anti-capitalist changes for the future …
Visual Participatory Arts Based Research in the City
Ontology, Aesthetics and Ethics
Av Laura Trafí-Prats, Aurelio Castro-Varela
Inbunden, 2022
2585 kr
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Visual Participatory Arts Based Research in the Cities maps ontological, aesthetic and ethic differences between humanist and posthumanist arts-based research, while providing insight on methodological orientations to develop arts-based research with frameworks based on process-philosophies. It is …
Hegemony, Security Infrastructures and the Politics of Crime
Everyday Experiences in South Africa
Inbunden, 2021
2510 kr
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This book examines the politics of crime and the response to it in Potchefstroom, a small settler colonial city in South Africa. It draws on the city’s everyday practices and experiences to offer local bottom-up insights into security beyond the state.The book provides a comprehensive understanding …
Reflecting on the City Through Literature
Urban Spaces, Differences and Embodiments
Inbunden, 2023
2887 kr
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This book develops and demonstrates an interdisciplinary method that reads literary works as a way of thinking about the city. Literary works do not only provide reflections of the city – depictions of the city as an aesthetically compelling setting – but the literary reflection of the city also …
Eco and Low-Carbon New Towns in China
Sustainability Transformation in the Making
Inbunden, 2020
2510 kr
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This book examines the sustainability transition theory in the context of urbanization in China, tracing the development of eco and low-carbon cities. It examines how ideas on building eco-cities and low-carbon cities travel from nation to nation, how they are adopted in the Chinese administrative …
Planning and Managing Smaller Events
Downsizing the Urban Spectacle
Av Stefano Di Vita, Mark Wilson
Häftad, 2022
691 kr
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Planning and Managing Smaller Events: Downsizing the Urban Spectacle explores the role of smaller scale events in contributing to the renewal and development of urban societies. This book adopts a case study approach to examine a diverse range of events taking place in towns and cities in Europe, …
Urban Ethics
Conflicts Over the Good and Proper Life in Cities
Häftad, 2022
691 kr
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This book delves into the ethical dimension of urban life: how should one live in the city? What constitutes a ‘good’ life under urban condition? Whose gets to live a ‘good’ life, and whose ideas of morality, propriety and ‘good’ prevail? What is the connection between the ‘good’ and the ‘just’ in …
Urban Art and the City
Creating, Destroying, and Reclaiming the Sublime
Häftad, 2022
712 kr
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This book offers original interdisciplinary insights into cities as a diachronic creation of urban art. It engages in a sequence of historical perspectives to examine urban space as an object of apparent quasi-cycles and processes of constitution, exaltation, imitation, contestation and redemption …
Citizens in the 'Smart City'
Participation, Co-production, Governance
Häftad, 2022
691 kr
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This book critically examines ‘smart city’ discourse in terms of governance initiatives, citizen participation and policies which place emphasis on the ‘citizen’ as an active recipient and co-producer of technological solutions to urban problems.The current hype around smart cities and digital …
Mega-Events, City and Power
Häftad, 2022
691 kr
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This book examines the power relations that emerge from the convergence of the universe in which the sporting spectacle is produced and the universe in which a city is produced. It adopts Bourdieu's concept of field to explore the interests and disputes involved in the production of sports …
Designing Healthy and Liveable Cities
Creating Sustainable Urban Regeneration
Inbunden, 2022
2132 kr
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In the last ten years, concepts such as urban health and liveability have become ever more present in urban planning studies. Many companies rank the most liveable city in the world or in a nation, and many indicators are used to try to measure factors which can report the health of a place by …
Designing Healthy and Liveable Cities
Creating Sustainable Urban Regeneration
Häftad, 2024
647 kr
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In the last ten years, concepts such as urban health and liveability have become ever more present in urban planning studies. Many companies rank the most liveable city in the world or in a nation, and many indicators are used to try to measure factors which can report the health of a place by …
City as a Global Political Actor
Av Stijn Oosterlynck, Luce Beeckmans m. fl.
Häftad, 2020
720 kr
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This book engages with the thorny question of global urban political agency. It critically assesses the now popular statement that in the context of paralysed and failing nation state governments, cities can and will provide leadership in addressing global challenges. Cities can act politically on …
Mega-Urbanization in the Global South
Fast cities and new urban utopias of the postcolonial state
Häftad, 2020
720 kr
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The global south is entering an ‘Urban Age’ where, for the first time in history, more people will be living in cities than in the countryside. The logics of this prediction have a dominant framing - rapid urbanization, uncontrolled migration, resource depletion, severe fuel shortages and the …
Cities and Inequalities in a Global and Neoliberal World
Av Faranak Miraftab, David Wilson m. fl.
Häftad, 2020
691 kr
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Cities continue to be key sites for the production and contestation of inequalities generated by an ongoing but troubled neoliberal project. Neoliberalism’s onslaught across the globe now shapes diverse inequalities -- poverty, segregation, racism, social exclusion, homelessness -- as city …
Mega-City Region Development in China
Av Anthony G.O. Yeh, George C. S. Lin m. fl.
Häftad, 2022
691 kr
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This book sheds light on the mega-city region development in China as a new form of urbanization which plays a crucial role in the economic development of the country. It examines the challenges faced by the mega-city regions and opens up avenues for debates and further research.Economic reform of …
Overlooked Cities
Power, Politics and Knowledge Beyond the Urban South
Av Hanna A. Ruszczyk, Erwin Nugraha m. fl.
Inbunden, 2020
2510 kr
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Overlooked Cities reflects and impacts the changing landscape of urban studies and geography from the perspective of smaller and more regional cities in the urban South. It critically examines the ways in which cities are uniquely positioned within different urban and knowledge hierarchies.The book …
Public Participation Process in Urban Planning
Evaluation Approaches of Fairness and Effectiveness Criteria of Planning Advisory Committees
Av Kamal Uddin, Bhuiyan Monwar Alam
Inbunden, 2021
2510 kr
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This book critically examines the public participation processes in urban planning and development by evaluating the operations of Planning Advisory Committees (PACs) through two meta-criteria of fairness and effectiveness. Traditional models of public participation in planning have long been …
Public Participation Process in Urban Planning
Evaluation Approaches of Fairness and Effectiveness Criteria of Planning Advisory Committees
Av Kamal Uddin, Bhuiyan Monwar Alam
Häftad, 2023
691 kr
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This book critically examines the public participation processes in urban planning and development by evaluating the operations of Planning Advisory Committees (PACs) through two meta-criteria of fairness and effectiveness. Traditional models of public participation in planning have long been …
Overlooked Cities
Power, Politics and Knowledge Beyond the Urban South
Av Hanna A. Ruszczyk, Erwin Nugraha m. fl.
Häftad, 2024
691 kr
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Overlooked Cities reflects and impacts the changing landscape of urban studies and geography from the perspective of smaller and more regional cities in the urban South. It critically examines the ways in which cities are uniquely positioned within different urban and knowledge hierarchies.The book …
