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Questioning Cities Serie de eBooks

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  • Global Metropolitan

    Globalizing Cities in a Capitalist World

    de John Rennie-Short ...
    Series series Questioning Cities
    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 the globalizing project in cities:the maintaining, securing and increasing of urban economic ... Leer más

    $68.99 USD

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  • The Just City

    de Susan S. Fainstein ...
    "The just city is one in which equity, democracy, and diversity are important considerations. This is in contrast with the city as growth machine. Fainstein examines three cities: New York, London, and Amsterdam. She provides a history of post–World War II planning and then focuses on fairly recent cases of development in each. Her goals, though modest, are important if growing inequality in urban ... Leer más

    $18.99 USD

  • Gentrification Is Inevitable and Other Lies

    de Leslie Kern ...
    From the author of the best-selling Feminist City, this urbanite’s guide to gentrification knocks down the myths and exposes the forces behind the most urgent housing crisis of our time.Gentrification is no longer a phenomenon to be debated by geographers or downplayed by urban planners—it’s an experience lived and felt by working-class people everywhere. Leslie Kern travels to Toronto, Vancouver, ... Leer más

    $16.59 USD

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  • Rebel Cities

    From the Right to the City to the Urban Revolution

    de David Harvey ...
    "David Harvey...has inspired a generation of radical intellectuals." —Naomi KleinA "forensic and ferocious" manifesto on the city as a center for anti-capitalist resistance from an acclaimed theorist (The Guardian)Long before the Occupy movement, modern cities had already become the central sites of revolutionary politics, where the deeper currents of social and political change rise to the ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD

  • The Human City

    Urbanism for the Rest of Us

    de Joel Kotkin ...
    The author of The Coming of Neo-Feudalism and The New Class Conflict challenges conventions of urban planning.Around the globe, most new urban development has adhered to similar tenets: tall structures, small units, and high density. In The Human City, Joel Kotkin―called "America's uber-geographer" by David Brooks of the New York Times―questions these nearly ubiquitous practices, suggesting that ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Urban Sociology

    A Global Introduction

    de Mark Abrahamson ...
    This concise yet comprehensive overview of the political and economic development of the world's cities offers a unique emphasis on its cultural impacts. The book emphasizes the transition from modern (industrial) to post-modern (post-industrial) eras and its effect on established and developing global cities, and arguments are supported with case studies for each of the main concepts of urban ... Leer más

    $47.59 USD

  • Urban Geography

    de Tim Hall, Heather Barrett ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary Human Geography Series
    This revised fifth edition not only examines the new geographical patterns forming within and between cities, but also investigates the way geographers have sought to make sense of this urban transformation. It is structured into three sections: 'contexts', 'themes' and 'issues' that move students from a foundation in urban geography through its major themes to contemporary and pressing issues. ... Leer más

    Antes $68.99 USD Ahora $61.99 USD

  • The Historic Urban Landscape

    Managing Heritage in an Urban Century

    de Francesco Bandarin, Ron van Oers ...
    This book offers a comprehensive overview of the intellectual developments in urban conservation. The authors offer unique insights from UNESCO's World Heritage Centre and the book is richly illustrated with colour photographs. Examples are drawn from urban heritage sites worldwide from Timbuktu to Liverpool to demonstrate key issues and best practice in urban conservation today. The book offers ... Leer más

    $62.00 USD

  • Imagining Resistance

    Visual Culture and Activism in Canada

    Edición de J. Keri Cronin, Kirsty Robertson ...
    Series series Cultural Studies
    Imagining Resistance: Visual Culture and Activism in Canada offers two separate but interconnected strategies for reading alternative culture in Canada from the 1940s through to the present: first, a history of radical artistic practice in Canada and, second, a collection of eleven essays that focus on a range of institutions, artists, events, and actions. The history of radical practice is spread ... Leer más

    $40.39 USD

  • Cities and Economies

    de Yeong-Hyun Kim, John Rennie Short ...
    Series series Routledge Critical Introductions to Urbanism and the City
    Cities and Economies explores the complex and subtle connections between cities and economies. The rise of the merchant city, the development of the industrial city and the creation of the service-dominated urban economy are all explored, along with economic globalization and its effects on cities in both developed and developing economies. This book provides a thorough examination of the role of ... Leer más

    $68.99 USD

  • What is Urban History?

    de Shane Ewen ...
    Series series What is History?
    Urban history is a well-established and flourishing field of historical research. Written by a leading scholar, this short introduction demonstrates how urban history draws upon a wide variety of methodologies and sources, and has been integral to the rise of interdisciplinary and comparative approaches to history since the second half of the twentieth century. Shane Ewen offers an accessible and ... Leer más

    $18.00 USD

  • Encyclopedia of the City

    Edición de Roger W. Caves ...
    The Encyclopedia of the City focuses on the key topics encountered by undergraduates and scholars in urban studies and allied fields. Contributors include major theoreticians and practitioners, and on other individuals, groups, and organizations which study the city or practice in a field that directly or indirectly affects the city, the Encyclopedia necessarily adopts an interdisciplinary and ... Leer más

    $76.99 USD