Urban communities books

This book analyses the particular nature, characteristics and current conditions of urbanization in China. It reviews...  Read More >>

This book explores urban futures in the making, as seen through the lens of urban infrastructure.  Read More >>

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This book presents an overview of the problem of urban violence in Caracas, and specifically in its barrios. It...  Read More >>

This volume presents a detailed synthesis of the historical, present-day and future state of service delivery in...  Read More >>

This book provides a detailed account of transnational practices undertaken by Indian ‘high-tech’ workers living...  Read More >>

This book discusses the unknown and remote urban experiment of modernist social practices and dreams of a better...  Read More >>

This book studies the principles of urban spatial organization of historic cities. Considering the comparative aspects...  Read More >>

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Cities of Ideas: Civil Society and Urban Governance in Britain 1800-2000 addresses the changing nature of individualism...  Read More >>

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With contributions from an international range of established and emerging scholars drawing upon real world examples,...  Read More >>

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This book brings the emerging nexus between community and entrepreneur to light by exploring the mutual impact that...  Read More >>

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This ethnographic exploration of contemporary spaces of homelessness takes an expanded view of homeless space, threading...  Read More >>

This volume explores the phenomenon and trend of cultural buildings by investigating 10 typical cities in China...  Read More >>

This book uses crime-science and traditional criminological approaches to explore urban crime in the rapidly urbanising...  Read More >>

Through a thick ethnography of the Fez medina in Morocco, a World Heritage site since 1981, Manon Istasse interrogates...  Read More >>

Written by members of the LORC (Research Centre for the Local Public Human Resources and Policy Development, Ryukoku...  Read More >>

The fate of towns and cities stands at the center of the environmental history of World War II. As the first major...  Read More >>

This book presents numerical and experimental research in the field of wind energy exploitation in urban environments....  Read More >>

Especially the shacks, still a visible presence in the city, represent the lieu of reproduction both of a class...  Read More >>

The book highlights these countries’ contribution to tackling climate change, emphasising the green building benefits...  Read More >>

This book explores the ways in which the broad range of technologies that make up the smart city infrastructure...  Read More >>