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  • Mobilities and Neighbourhood Belonging in Cities and Suburbs

    Edited by P. Watt, P. Smets ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    Contemporary city and suburban dwellers are constantly on the move. Does this mean they lack a sense of belonging to their neighbourhoods, or does enhanced mobility co-exist with feelings of community and belonging? This collection examines these questions through a unique series of neighbourhood-based global case studies. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

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  • The South Side

    A Portrait of Chicago and American Segregation

    by Natalie Y. Moore ...
    **One of Buzzfeed's 18 Best Nonfiction Books Of 2016**A lyrical, intelligent, authentic, and necessary look at the intersection of race and class in Chicago, a Great American CityIn this intelligent and highly important narrative, Chicago-native Natalie Moore shines a light on contemporary segregation in the city's South Side; with a memoirist's eye, she showcases the lives of these communities ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

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  • Colonial Jerusalem

    The Spatial Construction of Identity and Difference in a City of Myth, 1948-2012

    by Colonial Jerusalem Thomas Philip Abowd ...
    In one of the few anthropological works focusing on a contemporary Middle Eastern city, Colonial Jerusalem explores a vibrant urban center at the core of the decades-long Palestinian-Israeli conflict. This book shows how colonialism, far from being simply a fixture of the past as is oftensuggested, remains a crucial component of Palestinian and Israeli realities today. Abowd deftly illuminates ... Read more

    $21.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • City

    Rediscovering the Center

    by William H. Whyte, Paco Underhill ...
    Named by Newsweek magazine to its list of "Fifty Books for Our Time."For sixteen years William Whyte walked the streets of New York and other major cities. With a group of young observers, camera and notebook in hand, he conducted pioneering studies of street life, pedestrian behavior, and city dynamics. City: Rediscovering the Center is the result of that research, a humane, often amusing view of ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Smack

    Heroin and the American City

    by Eric C. Schneider ...
    Series series Politics and Culture in Modern America
    Why do the vast majority of heroin users live in cities? In his provocative history of heroin in the United States, Eric C. Schneider explains what is distinctively urban about this undisputed king of underworld drugs.During the twentieth century, New York City was the nation's heroin capital—over half of all known addicts lived there, and underworld bosses like Vito Genovese, Nicky Barnes, and ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Port Cities and Global Legacies

    Urban Identity, Waterfront Work, and Radicalism

    by A. Mah ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    Port cities have distinctive global dynamics, with long histories of casual labour, large migrant communities, and international trade networks. This in-depth comparative study examines contradictory global legacies across themes of urban identity, waterfront work and radicalism in key post-industrial port cities worldwide. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Sustainable Future for Human Security

    Society, Cities and Governance

    Edited by Benjamin McLellan ...
    This book focuses on the human and societal aspects of sustainable development. Three major perspectives are considered: governance and its influence on sustainable development; urban environments and their broader human and environmental impacts; and disaster management. Each of these elements is critical in considering the current and prospective development of societies towards a sustainable ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • Eurostars and Eurocities

    Free Movement and Mobility in an Integrating Europe

    by Adrian Favell ...
    Series Book 56 - IJURR Studies in Urban and Social Change Book Series
    Eurostars and Eurocities: Free Movement and Mobility in an Integrating Europe examines intra-European Union migration in the cities of Amsterdam, London and Brussels.Based on sixty in-depth interviews of free moving European citizens, and more than five years of ethnographic and documentary research, it uncovers the rarely studied human dimension of European integrationExamines the mobility, ... Read more

    $33.00 USD

  • Eco-Cities and the Transition to Low Carbon Economies

    by Federico Caprotti ...
    The author examines the two most advanced eco-city projects: the Sino-Singapore Tianjin Eco-City in China, and Masdar City in Abu Dhabi. These are the most notable attempts at building new eco-cities to both face up to the 'crises' of the modern world and to use the city as an engine for transition to a low-carbon economy. ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Eco-Innovation and the Development of Business Models

    Lessons from Experience and New Frontiers in Theory and Practice

    Edited by Susana Garrido Azevedo, Marcus Brandenburg, Helena Carvalho, Virgílio Cruz-Machado ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    Environmental challenges such as pollution, climate change, water and natural resources depletion and dwindling bio-diversity are true threats to the survival of our civilization, forcing us to learn how to act now. Fortunately this is exactly what this book does: presenting real life cases, along with theory, methodologies and tools demonstrating how eco-innovation can support sustainable ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Smart Cities as Democratic Ecologies

    by Daniel Araya ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    The concept of the 'smart city' as the confluence of urban planning and technological innovation has become a predominant feature of public policy discourse. Despite its expanding influence, however, there is little consensus on the precise meaning of a 'smart city'. One reason for this ambiguity is that the term means different things to different disciplines. For some, the concept of the 'smart ... Read more

    $107.09 USD

  • Digital Cities: The Interdisciplinary Future of the Urban Geo-Humanities

    by Benjamin Fraser ...
    This book highlights an interdisciplinary terrain where the humanities and social sciences combine with digital methods. It argues that while disciplinary frictions still condition the potential of digital projects, the nature of the urban phenomenon pushes us toward an interdisciplinary and digital future where the primacy of cities is assured. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD