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  • London's Olympic Legacy

    The Inside Track

    by Gillian Evans ...
    This book provides a unique perspective on the behind the scenes planning of London's Olympic legacy. The author had unprecedented access to the legacy organisations, institutions, and individuals involved with the 2012 Games. This has allowed her, in a highly accessible and engaging style, to capture a sense of the unfolding drama as attempts were made in London to harness the juggernaut of ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Las Vegas

    A Centennial History

    Series series Shepperson Series in Nevada History
    The meteoric rise of Las Vegas from a remote Mormon outpost to an international entertainment center was never a sure thing. In its first decades, the town languished, but when Nevada legalized casino gambling in 1931, Las Vegas met its destiny. This act—combined with the growing popularity of the automobile, cheap land and electricity, and changing national attitudes toward gambling—led to the ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Cities and Fascination

    Beyond the Surplus of Meaning

    Bringing together leading urban scholars, this book discusses the linkages between the economic, social and psychological factors of the urban environment. It focuses on the growth of private urbanity that has led to a 'spectactularization' of the city, the most extreme component of attention being the fascination which is aroused by attractions and state-managed events. The complex ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Complexity, Cognition, Urban Planning and Design

    Post-Proceedings of the 2nd Delft International Conference

    Edited by Juval Portugali, Egbert Stolk ...
    Series series Springer Proceedings in Complexity
    This book, which resulted from an intensive discourse between experts from several disciplines – complexity theorists, cognitive scientists, philosophers, urban planners and urban designers, as well as a zoologist and a physiologist – addresses various issues regarding cities. It is a first step in responding to the challenge of generating just such a discourse, based on a dilemma identified in ... Read more

    $188.99 USD

  • Space, Planning and Everyday Contestations in Delhi

    Series series Exploring Urban Change in South Asia
    This insightful volume examines the politics and contestations around urban space in India’s national capital, Delhi. Moving beyond spectacular megaprojects and sites of consumption, this book engages with ordinary space and everyday life. Sites and communities analysed in this volume reveal the processes, relations, and logics through which the city’s grand plans are executed. The contributors ... Read more

    $107.99 USD

  • Gender, Work and Community After De-Industrialisation

    A Psychosocial Approach to Affect

    Series series Identity Studies in the Social Sciences
    How does an industrial community cope when they are told that closure is inevitable? What if this is only the last in a 200 year long line of threats, insecurities and closure? How did people weather the storms and how do they face the future now? While attempts to regenerate communities are everywhere, we do not often hear from the people themselves just how they managed to create safe collective ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • The Arts of Citizenship in African Cities

    Infrastructures and Spaces of Belonging

    Edited by M. Diouf, R. Fredericks ...
    Series series Africa Connects
    The Arts of Citizenship in African Cities pushes the frontiers of how we understand cities and citizenship and offers new perspectives on African urbanism. Nuanced ethnographic analyses of life in an array of African cities illuminate the emergent infrastructures and spaces of belonging through which urban lives and politics are being forged. ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Cityscape in the Era of Information and Communication Technologies

    Series series The Urban Book Series
    This book discusses the impact of information and communication technologies, particularly social media, on the structure and landscape of contemporary cities. It presents a multidisciplinary range of theories and practical case studies and addresses a broad readership, from graduate students to practitioners active in the fields of urbanism and the architectural design of urban space. The book ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Urban Sustainability Transitions

    Australian Cases- International Perspectives

    Series series Theory and Practice of Urban Sustainability Transitions
    This book contributes to current debates regarding purposive transitions to sustainable cities, providing an accessible but critical exploration of sustainability transitions in urban settings. We have now entered the urban century, which is not without its own challenges, as discussed in the preceding book of this series. Urbanization is accompanied by a myriad of complex and overlapping ... Read more

    $107.99 USD

  • Re-activation of Vacant Retail Spaces

    Strategies, Policies and Guidelines

    by Luca Tamini ...
    Series series SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology
    This book presents an original methodology for analyzing urban retail systems, addressing the strong retail meltdown (increase in closed corner-shops and dead malls) that is severely affecting cities and suburban areas in Europe and the USA. Taking into account both spatial and regulative aspects, it offers a new approach to retailing and retail spaces developed within the urban planning field. ... Read more

    $62.99 USD $49.99 USD

  • Wind Energy Exploitation in Urban Environment

    TUrbWind 2018 Colloquium

    Edited by Lorenzo Battisti ...
    Series Book 8 - Research Topics in Wind Energy
    This book presents numerical and experimental research in the field of wind energy exploitation in urban environments. It comprises a selection of the best papers from the international colloquium “Research and Innovation on Wind Energy Exploitation in Urban Environment” (TUrbWind), held in Riva del Garda, Italy in September 2018. The book includes contributions from different research fields in ... Read more

    $143.99 USD

  • Contemporary Bohemia: A Case Study of an Artistic Community in Philadelphia

    Series series SpringerBriefs in Sociology
    This book presents an investigation and assessment of an artistic community that emerged within Philadelphia’s Fishtown and the nearby neighborhood of Kensington. The book starts out by examining historical and sociological work on bohemia, and then provides a detailed history of greater Philadelphia and the Fishtown/Kensington region. After analyzing the ways in which Fishtown/Kensington’s ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Belgrade

    The 21st Century Metropolis of Southeast Europe

    Series series The Urban Book Series
    This book highlights Belgrade, reviewing its recent and historical developments and emphasizing its major ongoing planning projects. The book is divided into eight chapters. The first, entitled The urban, political and socioeconomic rise and fall of Belgrade through its history, introduces the reader to the city, and is followed by a chapter on Belgrade’s urban plans through history. The book ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Polizeiarbeit zwischen Praxishandeln und Rechtsordnung

    Empirische Polizeiforschungen zur polizeipraktischen Ausgestaltung des Rechts

    Edited by Daniela Hunold, Andreas Ruch ...
    Series series Edition Forschung und Entwicklung in der Strafrechtspflege
    Der vorliegende Band vereint aktuelle, interdisziplinäre Forschungen, welche sich im Kern mit dem Handeln der Polizei als soziales Phänomen beschäftigen. In diesem Zusammenhang greifen die Autoren/innen auch Fragen nach den rechtlichen Rahmenbedingungen polizeilichen Handelns sowie Einflüssen polizeilicher Praktiken auf Ausgestaltungen des Rechts auf. Ziel des Buches ist es, einen breiten ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Ghetto Images in Twentieth-Century American Literature

    Writing Apartheid

    Series series Future of Minority Studies
    This book explores how six American writers have artistically responded to the racialization of U.S. frostbelt cities in the twentieth century. Using the critical tools of spatial theory, critical race theory, urban history and sociology, Simpson explains how these writers imagine the subjective response to the race-making power of space. ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • The Divided City and the Grassroots

    The (Un)making of Ethnic Divisions in Mostar

    Series series The Contemporary City
    Focusing on Mostar, a city in Bosnia Herzegovina that became the epitome of ethnic divisions during the Yugoslav wars, this cutting edge book considers processes of violent partitioning in cities. Providing an in-depth understanding of the social, political, and mundane dynamics that keep cities polarized, it examines the potential that moments of inter-ethnic collaboration hold in re-imaging ... Read more

    $71.99 USD

  • Market Cities, People Cities

    The Shape of Our Urban Future

    An in-depth look at the urban environments of Houston and CopenhagenHow are modern cities changing, and what implications do those changes have for city inhabitants? What kinds of cities do people want to live in, and what cities do people want to create in the future? Michael Oluf Emerson and Kevin T. Smiley argue that western cities have diverged into two specific and different types: market ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Urban Public Spaces

    From Planned Policies to Everyday Politics (Illustrated with Brazilian Case Studies)

    Series series The Urban Book Series
    This book is about understanding, contextualizing and carrying out critical analyzes of the policies intended and/or implemented by the various public and private actors in urban public spaces, as well as the daily, or eventual, politics exercised by the organized civil society and by citizens. It presents a collection of contributions about the public space in different theoretical, conceptual ... Read more

    $107.99 USD

  • Eastern Mediterranean Port Cities

    A Study of Mersin, Turkey—From Antiquity to Modernity

    Series series The Urban Book Series
    This book surveys the historical development, current problems and likely prospects for Eastern Mediterranean port cities, providing contributions from scholars from various disciplines, such as archaeologists, historians, economists, urban planners and architects. By studying the city of Mersin and the surrounding area, it offers insights into the changing nature of Eastern Mediterranean port ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • China’s Development Under a Differential Urbanization Model

    by Qiang Li ...
    Series series Research Series on the Chinese Dream and China’s Development Path
    This book analyses the particular nature, characteristics and current conditions of urbanization in China. It reviews the theory of “urbanization with a diversified process” and puts forward the basic principles for promoting urbanization on the basis of a perspective reflecting the diversified sizes of towns and cities. Further, it assesses the overall strategic planning for advancing ... Read more

    $71.99 USD $49.99 USD

  • Zero Tolerance

    Quality of Life and the New Police Brutality in New York City

    Edited by Andrea Mcardle, Tanya Erzen ...
    Amadou Diallo, Abner Louima, Anthony Baez, Patrick Dorismond. New York City has been rocked in recent years by the fate of these four men at the hands of the police. But police brutality in New York City is a multi-dimensional phenomenon that refers not only to the hyperviolent response of white male police officers as in these cases, but to an entire set of practices that target homeless people, ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • The Ghost Cities of Australia

    A survey of New City Proposals and Their Lessons for Australia’s 21st Century Development

    Series series SpringerBriefs in Geography
    This book examines failed new city proposals in Australia to understand the hurdles – environmental, societal, and economic – that have curtailed such visions. The lessons from these relative failures are important because, if projections for Australia’s 21st century population growth are borne out, we will need to build new cities this century. This is particularly the case in northern Australia, ... Read more

    $62.99 USD $49.99 USD

  • Contested Cities and Urban Activism

    Series series The Contemporary City
    This edited volume advances our understanding of urban activism beyond the social movement theorization dominated by thesis of political opportunity structure and resource mobilization, as well as by research based on experience from the global north. Covering a diversity of urban actions from a broad range of countries in both hemispheres as well as the global north and global south, this unique ... Read more

    $98.99 USD

  • Urban Climate Resilience in Southeast Asia

    Series series The Urban Book Series
    This volume explores how climate change impacts interact with poverty and vulnerability to increase the risk for urban residents in Southeast Asia. It combines knowledge from both academic literature and action research to explore the creation of climate resilient urban governance that is both inclusive and equitable.The book contains contributions from researchers in different cities in Southeast ... Read more

    $170.99 USD