Hakutulokset: Hakutulos
yhteensä 39 hakutulosta
Hegemony, Security Infrastructures and the Politics of Crime
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 …
New Master-Planned Cities, Islam, and Identity
This book explores the diverse ways in which Islam as a religious philosophy currently shapes urban planning ideas. Focusing on cities in Africa, the Middle East, Central Asia, and …
Mega-events and Urban Image Construction
While societies shape the way their cities look and are represented, urban images, in turn, nurture and structure social relations in multiple ways. Nowhere is this dialectical …
Neighbourhood Planning
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 …
Cities Without Capitalism
This book explores the interconnections between urbanization and capitalism to examine the current condition of cities due to capitalism. It brings together interdisciplinary …
Contested Markets, Contested Cities
Markets are at the origin of urban life as places for social, cultural and economic encounter evolving over centuries. Today, they have a particular value as mostly independent, …
Pedagogies of Urban Mobilities
This is the first book to explore pedagogies of urban movement and their transformative potential for current habits and practices of travel and transport. It argues that mobility …
Urban Geopolitics
In the last decade a new wave of urban research has emerged, putting comparative perspectives back on the urban studies agenda. However, this research is frequently based on …
Cities and Inequalities in a Global and Neoliberal World
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 …
Technologies for Sustainable Urban Design and Bioregionalist Regeneration
This book explores the role of technology in ecological urban design and regeneration. Part I provides theoretical and methodological insights into technological approaches that …
Health, Wellbeing and Sustainability in the Mediterranean City
This book provides a model for the creation of sustainable and healthy cities in the Mediterranean region. It uses the coastal city of L’Alfàs del Pi in Spain as an example for …
Ethnic Spatial Segregation in European Cities
This book provides the first in depth interpretation of how to understand the causes of ethnic residential segregation across Western European countries and the USA. In many …