Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.Banal warfare describes the ways in which the vision of the cityridden with conflicts, terrorist attacks and diseaseinfuses everyday urban life, to the point of becoming invisibl...Lasīt vairāk
This innovative and insightful book critically explores how to recognize and generate the social, cultural, political and economic values of the heritage of urban peripheries and encourage new metropolitan development scenarios that protect and bu...Lasīt vairāk
Fragmenting Cities offers a conceptionally innovative and empirically detailed analysis of the surprising acceptance and normalization of state-based stigmatization and discrimination based on place. It does this by drawing on the example of f...Lasīt vairāk
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, it depicts a complex (sub)urban world in...Lasīt vairāk
This book explores the spatial characteristics of the city of Kolkata in India and the socio-political and physio-climatological events and processes that impact its transformation. It examines key issues in urban geography through the study of th...Lasīt vairāk
The book poses key questions on the contemporary practices of experience-oriented urbanism from the perspective of the affective turn. Departing from a critique of the imposition of the experience economy on contemporary urbanism, the book seeks a...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 01-Aug-2024, Paperback / softback, Izdevniecība: John Wiley & Sons Inc, ISBN-13: 9781119930273)
Urban Geography is an established textbook for undergraduate students with strong sales record. In August 2021 the authors approached us with the idea of updating the title, and a new edition survey was run to explore its potential. All instructors...Lasīt vairāk
This book examines the potential for cities, states and regions to take decisive action on climate change at the local level. Focusing on three green municipal leaders - New York, Boston and Paris - this volume examines their multilevel interactions...Lasīt vairāk
This volume documents research illustrating public dissents and interventions to injustice in modern-day cities. Authors present everyday occurrences of city life and place making; still, they show how the ordinary city grows from historical dimen...Lasīt vairāk
The book explores the implications that research-density has on the people and places researched, on the researchers, on the data collected and knowledge produced, and on the theories that are developed. The book explores the impli...Lasīt vairāk
With 70 of the worlds population expected to live in urban environments by 2050, cities are poised to become the most significant spaces to shape personal and communal identity. As contemporary cities become event destinations a dialogue is emer...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 12-Dec-2023, Hardback, Izdevniecība: University of Texas Press, ISBN-13: 9781477328224)
Historian Georgina Hickey investigates challenges to the code of urban gender segregation in the 20th century, focusing on organized advocacy to make the public spaces of American cities accessible to women. She traces waves of activism from the Pro...Lasīt vairāk
Earth Observation in Urban Monitoring: Techniques and Challenges presents the latest techniques of remote sensing in urban monitoring, and methods for quantitative and qualitative assessment using state-of-the-art Earth observation technolo...Lasīt vairāk
The interconnection between town and country is the central theme in this new volume. It is based on a seminar held in 2021 where contributors used and compared historic town atlases to understand how the urban landscape interacted with its suburban...Lasīt vairāk
This edited collection examines the political economy and cultural politics of urban place naming and considers how the commodification of naming rights is transforming the cultural landscapes of contemporary cities. In recent decad...Lasīt vairāk
The 21st century has been called the century of the city. Unprecedented and uneven urban growth and expansion coupled with climate change have compounded concerns that current urbanization pathways are not sustainable. Calls for scholarship on u...Lasīt vairāk
This book examines the potential for cities, states and regions to take decisive action on climate change at the local level. Focusing on three green municipal leaders - New York, Boston and Paris - this volume examines their multilevel interactions...Lasīt vairāk
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)ur...Lasīt vairāk
