Offering a big picture view of disaster risk in cities, this book uses rich case studies and both technical and socioeconomic insights to demonstrate the role of urbanization in disaster risk. It will benefit students, researchers, and practitione...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 30-Sep-2025, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009633550)
Offering a big picture view of disaster risk in cities, this book uses rich case studies and both technical and socioeconomic insights to demonstrate the role of urbanization in disaster risk. It will benefit students, researchers, and practitione...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 04-Sep-2025, Hardback, Izdevniecība: University of Chicago Press, ISBN-13: 9780226835990)
An empirically rich reconstruction of how informality became an intrinsic part of urban life across three continents. Over a quarter of the worlds urban population lives in informal settlements. While informality as a concept has be...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 04-Sep-2025, Paperback / softback, Izdevniecība: University of Chicago Press, ISBN-13: 9780226836010)
An empirically rich reconstruction of how informality became an intrinsic part of urban life across three continents. Over a quarter of the worlds urban population lives in informal settlements. While informality as a concept has be...Lasīt vairāk
Planning for Sustainability presents a wide-ranging, intellectually well-grounded and accessible introduction to the concept of sustainability planning. How can humanity sustain itself and thrive on a small planet? This chal...Lasīt vairāk
How can humanity sustain itself and thrive on a small planet? This challenge deepens in an era of right-wing populism, high levels of inequality, and climate crisis.Planning for Sustainability presents a wide-ranging, intellectually...Lasīt vairāk
Amid its groundbreaking political reforms and largest mass migration ever seen in human history, China created over 3,800 new towns to accommodate its burgeoning urban population and sustain economic growth. Economic marketization, global trade, in...Lasīt vairāk
Amid its groundbreaking political reforms and largest mass migration ever seen in human history, China created over 3,800 new towns to accommodate its burgeoning urban population and sustain economic growth. Economic marketization, global trade, in...Lasīt vairāk
This Element weaves together literatures on autochthony and belonging and on African urbanism to shed new light on the ability of the African state to undertake development interventions in some of the important urban centers on the continent. It fo...Lasīt vairāk
This book investigates the role of private land developers in the development of Ruwa Town in post-colonial Zimbabwe. Whereas other post-colonial established towns in the country emerged from direct public investment through the Growth Point polic...Lasīt vairāk
Originally published in 1982, this book covers the unique spatial structure of society which was South Africa under apartheid. It brings together a cohesive set of research-based contributions to the understanding of this system which was w...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 31-Jul-2025, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Routledge India, ISBN-13: 9781032780184)
This book maps the new challenges and subsequent choices that emerge as India transitions into more urbanized situations, both spatially and culturally. It will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of urban studies, sociology and South...Lasīt vairāk
Geetha B. Nambissan, Nandini Manjrekar, Shivali Tukdeo, Indra Sengupta
Sērija : Metamorphoses of the Political: Multidisciplinary Approaches
(Izdošanas datums: 31-Jul-2025, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009596893)
A multidimensional exploration of urban education in the multiverse of India, this volume takes on an interdisciplinary approach to examine how the idea of the urban and that of urban education are co-constituted and, more specifically, how spatial a...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 31-Jul-2025, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009698375)
This Element weaves together literatures on autochthony and belonging and on African urbanism to shed new light on the ability of the African state to undertake development interventions in some of the important urban centers on the continent. It fo...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 29-Jul-2025, Hardback, Izdevniecība: University of Chicago Press, ISBN-13: 9780226836966)
Alexander Wood asks a deceptively simple question about New York City in its most iconic period of growth from the 1880s to the 1930s: Who did this? In chronicling the labor of architects, builders, contractors, and construction workers, Wood comp...Lasīt vairāk
Post-pandemic cities face new challenges in adapting to global changes, while also addressing the needs, practices, and capabilities of diverse populations. Resilience, as a key factor, enables cities to adapt and transform in response to these chal...Lasīt vairāk
International Development: Strategies and Legacies of Socio-Economic Development examines the multifaceted challenges and strategies underlying socio-economic progress in a globally interconnected world.Grounded in a thorough histori...Lasīt vairāk
International Development: Strategies and Legacies of Socio-Economic Development examines the multifaceted challenges and strategies underlying socio-economic progress in a globally interconnected world.Grounded in a thorough histori...Lasīt vairāk
Urban Mobility Development in Northeast India theoretically and empirically explores the interrelationship between and among city, transportation, economic growth and environment to contribute towards engendering green urbanization for gr...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 26-Jun-2025, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780198958116)
Despite the focus on urbanization, suburbanization in India has received relatively less research attention. This is the first comprehensive work on this topic, exploring the dynamics, regional variations, and impacts of suburbanization using granula...Lasīt vairāk
This first volume of a two-volume set on Song dynasty cities examines the innovative urban institutions and management practices that emerged during this period. This first volume of a two-volume set on Song dynasty cities ex...Lasīt vairāk
The second volume of the two-volume set on Song dynasty cities focuses on municipal development policies and population management strategies in urban areas. The second volume of the two-volume set on Song Dynasty cities focuses on...Lasīt vairāk
This two-volume set explores the urban development of Song dynasty cities, focusing on their design, governance and management, and situating them within the broader context of Chinese urban history....Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 05-Jun-2025, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009605496)
This book studies the intersection of neoliberalism and right-wing Hindu nationalism through smart city projects which are often advertised as solutions for sustainable development. Globally, the rise of right-wing nationalism has progressively shape...Lasīt vairāk
Tehran, the capital of Iran since the late eighteenth century, is now one of the largest cities in the Middle East. Exploring Tehrans development from the nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century, Ashkan Rezvani Naraghi paints a vibrant picture of a...Lasīt vairāk
