Skip to main content

Carrito de compra

¡Obtienes el tratamiento VIP!

Artículos no disponibles para compra.
Por favor revisa tu carrito. Puedes eliminar los artículos no disponibles ahora o los eliminaremos nosotros automáticamente al momento de pagar.
artículosartículo
artículosartículo

Recomendado para ti

Loading...
  • Suburban Planet

    Making the World Urban from the Outside In

    de Roger Keil ...
    Series series Urban Futures
    The urban century manifests itself at the peripheries. While the massive wave of present urbanization is often referred to as an 'urban revolution', most of this startling urban growth worldwide is happening at the margins of cities.This book is about the process that creates the global urban periphery – suburbanization – and the ways of life – suburbanisms – we encounter there. Richly detailed ... Leer más

    $23.00 USD

  • Infrastructural Times

    Temporality and the Making of Global Urban Worlds

    Whether waiting for the train or planning the future city, infrastructure orders—and depends on—multiple urban temporalities.This agenda-setting volume disrupts conventional notions of time through a robust examination of the relations between temporality, infrastructure, and urban society. Conceptually rich and empirically detailed, its interdisciplinary dialogue encompasses infrastructural ... Leer más

    $37.99 USD

  • New Developments in Urban Governance

    Rethinking Collaboration in the Age of Austerity

    This book presents the findings of a major Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) project into urban austerity governance in eight cities across the world (Athens, Baltimore, Barcelona, Melbourne, Dublin, Leicester, Montréal and Nantes). It offers comparative reflections on the myriad experiences of collaborative governance and its limitations.An international collaborative from across the ... Leer más

    $41.99 USD

  • Volume 4: Policy and Planning

    Series series Global Reflections on COVID-19 and Urban Inequalities
    Cities play a major role in tackling the COVID-19 pandemic as many measures are adopted at the scale of cities and involve adjustments to the way urban areas operate.Drawing from case studies across the globe, this book explores how the pandemic and the policies it has prompted have caused changes in the ways cities function. The contributors examine the advancing social inequality brought on by ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

  • Pandemic Urbanism

    Infectious Diseases on a Planet of Cities

    Series series Urban Futures
    Emerging infectious disease outbreaks have transformed the very nature of urban life worldwide, even as the extent and experience of pandemics are shaped by the planetary urban condition. Pandemic Urbanism critically investigates these relationships in a world faced with its first pandemic on a majority urban planet.The authors reveal the social and historical context of recent infectious disease ... Leer más

    $20.00 USD

  • Suburban Governance

    A Global View

    Edición de Roger Keil, Pierre Hamel ...
    Series series Global Suburbanisms
    North American gated communities, African squatter settlements, European housing estates, and Chinese urban villages all share one thing in common: they represent types of suburban space. As suburban growth becomes the dominant urban process of the twenty-first century, its governance poses an increasingly pressing set of global challenges.In Suburban Governance: A Global View, editors Pierre ... Leer más

    $35.99 USD

  • Editing and Special/Visual Effects

    Series series Behind the Silver Screen Series
    Most moviegoers think of editing and special effects as distinct components of the filmmaking process. We might even conceive of them as polar opposites, since effective film editing is often subtle and almost invisible, whereas special effects frequently call attention to themselves. Yet, film editors and visual effects artists have worked hand-in-hand from the dawn of cinema to the present day ... Leer más

    $22.99 USD

  • Peripheral Centralities

    The Lost and Past Urbanity of the Suburbs

    Series series Planning, History and Environment Series
    The term ‘peripheral centralities’ may seem something of an oxymoron and yet the spatial peripheries of cities have often been more central to urban development processes than is appreciated. To better understand the nature of peripheral centrality, Peripheral Centralities: The Lost and Past Urbanity of the Suburbs brings together a wide variety of examples of lost and forgotten peripheral ... Leer más

    $64.99 USD

  • After Suburbia

    Urbanization in the Twenty-First Century

    Edición de Roger Keil, Fulong Wu ...
    Series series Global Suburbanisms
    After Suburbia presents a cross-section of state-of-the-art scholarship in critical global suburban research and provides an in-depth study of the planet’s urban peripheries to grasp the forms of urbanization in the twenty-first century.Based on cutting-edge conceptual thought and steeped in richly detailed empirical work conducted over the past decade, After Suburbia draws on research from Asia, ... Leer más

    $32.99 USD

  • Governing Cities Through Regions

    Canadian and European Perspectives

    The region is back in town. Galloping urbanization has pushed beyond historical notions of metropolitanism. City-regions have experienced, in Edward Soja’s terms, “an epochal shift in the nature of the city and the urbanization process, marking the beginning of the end of the modern metropolis as we knew it.”Governing Cities Through Regions broadens and deepens our understanding of metropolitan ... Leer más

    $23.99 USD

  • Changing Asian Urban Geographies

    Urbanism and Peripheral Areas

    Edición de Fulong Wu, Roger Keil ...
    This book investigates changing geographies of fast growing Asian metropolitan regions, in particular their peripheral areas.Through examining the intersection of global suburbanisation and Asian urbanism, the book depicts a complex (sub)urban world in Asia. It explains how the forces of globalisation, the logic of capital accumulation, and the history of rural-urban divide and interaction, path ... Leer más

    $60.99 USD