Urban communities Books

Yards are not quite wild, yet rarely tamed. Across diverse residential landscapes in North America and beyond, yards are regulated by the state and markets, defined by imaginary property lines on maps, and sometimes central to privilege and exclusion.As...

""An Exposition Of The Weakness And Inefficiency Of The Government Of The United States Of North America"" is a book written by Charles Fenton Mercer in 1845. In this book, Mercer provides a critical analysis of the government of the United States,...

The book addresses critically the question: "What is the societal impact of urban and regional planning?". It begins with a theoretical discussion and then analyses, through a series of case studies, the intentions, contents,...

""Ein Jahrhundert des Despotismus in Neapel und Sizilien"" ist ein historisches Buch von Susan Horner, das im Jahr 1861 ver������ffentlicht wurde. Das Buch beschreibt die politische und soziale Geschichte der Regionen Neapel und Sizilien im Zeitraum von...

In dem Buch ""Die Wohnungen der Arbeitenden Klassen in London: Mit besonderer Ber�����cksichtigung der neueren englischen Gesetzgebung und ihrer Erfolge"" von Wilhelm Ruprecht aus dem Jahr 1884 wird die Wohnsituation der arbeitenden Klassen in London...

Das Buch ""Die Volkszahl Deutscher Stadte: Zu Ende Des Mittelalters Und Zu Beginn Der Neuzeit"" von J. Jastrow wurde im Jahr 1886 ver������ffentlicht. Es handelt sich um eine umfassende Studie �����ber die Bev������lkerungszahlen deutscher St�����dte am...

""Die Westf�����lischen Fehmgerichte"" ist ein historisches Buch von Bernhard Werneke, das 1861 ver������ffentlicht wurde. Das Buch besch�����ftigt sich mit den Westf�����lischen Fehmgerichten, die im Mittelalter in Westfalen als Gerichte der freien und...

""Die Weiterentwicklung der deutschen Arbeiterkolonien, 1886-1887"" ist ein Buch von Georg Berthold, das im Jahr 1889 ver������ffentlicht wurde. Das Buch besch�����ftigt sich mit der Weiterentwicklung der Arbeiterkolonien in Deutschland in den Jahren...

Das Buch ""Die Geschlechts-Vormundschaft In Ihrer Geschichtlichen Entwicklung"" von Johannes Winkler wurde 1868 ver������ffentlicht. Es besch�����ftigt sich mit der historischen Entwicklung der Geschlechtervormundschaft, also der rechtlichen Vertretung...

""Die Entstehung Der Reichsstadt Frankfurt Am Main, Und Der Verhaltnisse Ihrer Bewohner"" ist ein historisches Buch, das 1819 von Johann Carl Von Fichard ver������ffentlicht wurde. Es beschreibt die Entstehungsgeschichte der Reichsstadt Frankfurt am Main...

Das Buch ""Beschreibung Der Stadt Elbing Und Ihres Gebietes V3: In Topographischer, Geschichtlicher Und Statistischer Hinsicht (1832)"" von Michael Gottlieb Fuchs ist eine umfassende Beschreibung der Stadt Elbing und ihrer Umgebung. Es ist der dritte...

Das Buch ""Beschreibung des K������niglich Preu�����ischen, im F�����rstentum Bayreuth liegenden, Kirchspiels Goldkronach: In Statistischer, Topographischer (1800)"" von Johann Georg D�����rschmidt ist eine umfassende Beschreibung des Kirchspiels...

""Buffer Employment, Land, Housing: Addresses Delivered At The Reconstruction Conference Of The National Popular Government League (1919)"" is a book that features a series of speeches given by Franklin K. Lane at a conference in 1919. The conference was...

The Problem of the Aged Poor is a book written by Geoffrey Drage in 1895 that addresses the issue of poverty among elderly individuals in England during the late 19th century. The book explores the causes and consequences of this problem, as well as...

""The Problem of Greater New York and Its Solution"" is a book written by Harry Chase Brearley and published in 1914. The book explores the challenges faced by the rapidly growing city of New York at the turn of the 20th century and proposes solutions to...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as...

The First Forty Years of Washington Society is a non-fiction book written by Margaret Bayard Smith and published in 1906. The book is a detailed account of the social scene in Washington D.C. during the first forty years of the 19th century, from the...

This book narrates the ubiquitous relationship that international students have with their destination community, asking why students are not part of these communities despite being visible actors not only as students but as neighbours and as workers in...

This book offers a qualitative analysis of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on New York City and on the practices of the city's urban prepper subculture, exploring the lived experience of the pandemic in terms of class division and examining the...

This book disrupts the dominant underlying international norms informing urban development strategies across African cities. The book will interest practitioners, scholars and students of urban studies, development planning, urban governance, human...

This book is the first of its kind to analyse the myriad ways in which love and dissent constitute each other shaping the social, political, and cultural mores and movements of South Asia. The contributions are based on ethnographic research cutting...

This book provides an important contribution to the literature on the rights, lived experiences and trajectories of temporary migrants. It focuses on the precarity of temporary migrants at different scales in urban settings, varying from the household,...

This book explores in theory and practice how artificial intelligence (AI) intersects with and alters the city. Drawing upon a range of urban disciplines and case studies, the chapters reveal the multitude of repercussions that AI is having on urban...

This book explores the complex relationship between urban space and displacement in Turkey. It evaluates how the displacement of people and cultures has affected the spatiotemporal landscapes of the nation at different periods of contemporary Turkey.

New research in community development shows that institutions matter. Where the private sector disinvests from the inner city, public and nonprofit institutions step in and provide engines to economic revitalization and promote greater equity in society...

This book examines the politics behind, and the socio-economic and ecological repercussions of, the making of a new township, variously called New Town, Megacity or Jyoti Basu Nagar, in Rajarhat near Kolkata. Conceived by the West Bengal state government...

The marginalisation of Muslims in India has recently been the subject of heated public debate. In these discussions, however, Muslim women are often either overlooked or treated as a homogenous group with a common set of interests. Focusing on the...

This book probes into the marginalized communities of the Indian society through historical and contemporary societal perspectives.

This book introduces a comprehensive conceptual framework which examines the impact of ecological modernization on city branding, using Chinese megacity regions as examples.

Kim details a brief history of urban renewal in central Seoul through articulating urban planning paradigm shifts. A useful read for researchers on urban planning and policies who are keen to understand the complicated process of urban renewal and ways...

Examines some of the dramatic economic and social changes that have taken place in London over the last forty years, describing how this has had major consequences for both the social structure and the built environment of London.

Sustainable Urbanism in China explores the notion of "Sustainable Urbanism" by considering the role sustainable neighborhood planning plays in the larger picture of sustainable urbanism and suggests innovations and best practices that are either...

Originally published in 1986, this book focusses on life within global cities in the developing world, analysing on a city-level the circulation and consumption of goods and services within them. When the book was first published it was one of only a few...

Originally published in 1980, this book was written by consultants in urban development with wide experience in the developing world and is a source book aimed at advisers (often from developed countries) who assist with urban planning matters on behalf...

Originally published in 1979, this volume begins with an historical summary of housing development in Scotland. Scottish urban housing has always followed a unique and distinctive pattern from the rest of the UK, resembling more closely the flatted...

Originally published in 1969, this book summarizes the findings of a comprehensive survey of the successive roles played by the explosive constellations of cities in American history. The book examines how and in what respects the planting and developing...

When this book was first published in 1982, despite considerable research on 19th Century towns in Britain and America, there had been little attempt to search for links between these empirical studies and to relate them more to more general theories of...

Originally published in 1988, this book concentrates on urban land policy and was particularly significant when it was originally published because the 1980s were an era when the rich were getting richer and the poor poorer and in which changes in the...

Originally published in 1990 and unique in terms of diversity and extent, this book covers a wide geographical area, including Jamaica, Tunisia, Malaysia, India, Mauritius, Turkey, Jordan, Cyprus and Panama. Combining an emphasis on actual practice with...

Originally published in 1977, and now with an updated new Preface, this volume covers the question of Irish urban origins in the pre-Norman period, the character and development of the medieval towns, the changing forms and functions of towns and cities...

Urban Resettlements in the Global South provides new perspectives on resettlement through an urban studies lens. To date, resettlement has been theorised through development studies and refugee studies, but urban resettlement is also a major dimension of...

This book analyses community-owned businesses in countries around the world to show successful approaches and important strategies to improve access to essential services in vastly different economic contexts.Through eleven chapters, authors from various...

Through illustrated case studies and conceptual re-framings, this volume showcases ongoing transformations in public space, and its relationship to the public realm more broadly in the world's most populous urban megaregion-the Greater Bay Area of...

Around the world, researchers, policy makers, and practitioners are working to ensure cities and communities are prepared for the challenges and opportunities of aged and highly urbanised populations. Bringing together stakeholders from Asia, Australia,...

Life, liberty, and the pursuit of housing: an increasingly difficult quest in the contemporary urban United States, where crime, urban blight, and continuing capital decay undercut the advantages of city living. The American dream has moved to the...

The volume focuses on three countries - Egypt, Israel, and Turkey (earlier the Ottoman Empire) - in the period between the mid-nineteenth and the early Twenty-first-centuries. It studies the consumption of homes and domesticity as changing processes in...