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History and Regional Area Studies of Hachioji
This book looks at the case study of Hachioji as a major transit hub with a world-class public transportation system in Japan. It tracks how Tokyo slowly expands into its suburban, rural or sub-rural districts. It also wants to profile the multiple identities of a city that is simultaneously an ecological asset, a heritage locale in addition to a logistics hub. The volume is probably the first …
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- 978-981-16-6178-5
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- xiii, 109p.:ill
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- 307.7 Lim h
Governing Cities
In our urban world, cities are where most of us experience how our economies and societies are organised and the inequalities which result. This textbook introduces ideas, theories, concepts and examples to help us understand the political and policy challenges of governing cities, centred on the principal challenge of how to make our cities more equitable. It poses critical questions –…
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- 978-3-030-72621-8
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- xi, 183p.:ill
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- 307.76 Pil g
Housing Movements in Rome
This book explores contemporary challenges of housing movement organizations, looking specifically at the case of Rome, Italy. The work identifies conditions that allow the re-composition of a class of housing dispossessed and, consequently, the features of its action in urban spaces. The book offers fresh analytical perspectives to understanding contemporary urban transformation via new spatia…
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- 978-981-16-2738-5
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- Palgrave Macmillan Singapore
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- Alternatives and Futures: Cultures, Practices, Activism and Utopias
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- 307.7 Cac h
Critical Landscape Planning during the Belt and Road Initiative
This open access book traces the development of landscapes along the 414-kilometer China–Laos Railway, one of the first infrastructure projects implemented under China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) and which is due for completion at the end of 2021. Written from the perspective of landscape architecture and intended for planners and related professionals engaged in the development and co…
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- 978-981-16-4067-4
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- xii, 249p.:ill
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- 307.7 Kel c
Gentrification
This essential presents the state of urban research on gentrification in a condensed form. This term, which has been used in the scientific community since the 1960s, has now also become established in the public debate. It describes how rising rents in the cities and the lack of affordable housing lead to poorer residents being driven out of their neighbourhoods. It becomes clear in what way g…
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- 978-3-658-32406-3
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- ix, 37p.:ill
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- essentials
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- 307.76 Eck g
A Social History of Sheffield Boxing, Volume I
A Social History of Sheffield Boxing combines urban ethnography and anthropology, sociological theory and place and life histories to explore the global phenomenon of boxing. Raising many issues pertinent to the social sciences, such as contestations around state regulation of violence, commerce and broadcasting, pedagogy and elite sport and how sport is delivered and narrated to the masses, th…
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- 978-3-030-63545-9
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- xv, 397p.:ill
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- Palgrave Studies in Urban Anthropology
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- 307.76 Bel a
Urban Memory in City Transitions
As a continuation of ‘Identity of Cities and City of Identities’, this book covers the arguments around the memory-experience-cognition nexus concerning palimpsests and urban places. As cities experience transitional phases of growth, development, decline, and decay, the author urges considering the notion of urban memory in place-making strategies and design decision-making processes. Thes…
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- 978-981-16-1003-5
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- xviii, 310p.:ill
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- 307.76 Che u
From Polarisation to Multispecies Relationships
This book explores the concept of multi-species relationships and suggests critical systemic pathways to protect shared habitats. This book discusses how the eradication of species as a result of rapid urbanisation places humanity at risk. This book demonstrates how narrow anthropocentrism has focused on the rights of human beings at the expense of other species and the environment. This bo…
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- 978-981-33-6884-2
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- xli, 777p.:ill
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- 339.5 Fro
The Rise of Autonomous Smart Cities
This book introduces the concept of the ‘autonomous city’- a concept that has been developed from the ‘smart cities’ model that is based on a city’s ability to gather data and taking it one step further. The digital revolution has brought about numerous changes in the urban realm, along with the understanding that technology can aid in increasing the performance and efficiency …
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- 978-3-030-59448-0
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- ix, 90p.:ill
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- 307.76 All t
Resilience of Informal Areas in Megacities – Magnitude, Challenges, and Pol…
This book focuses on the socio-economic and sustainability challenges facing megacities in dealing with the dramatic population increases of informal areas and settlements (or slums), especially when coupled with the impacts and risks of climate change. The authors examine informal urban areas globally and in developing countries utilizing strategic environmental assessment (SEA) as a tool to s…
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- 978-3-030-87794-1
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- xli, 327p.:ill
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- 307.76 Abo r
Emergent Spaces
This book explores different emergent spaces where diverse urbanites spontaneously negotiate, make and remake urban spaces, create opportunities, produce social change, challenge urban life, culture, and politics, or simply ask for their right to the city. The focus of this book is on spaces and contexts where change is seeded, regardless of whether it was planned and whether it was or will be …
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- 978-3-030-84379-3
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- xiv, 282p.:ill
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- -
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- 307.76 Eme
A Theory and History of Rural–urban Governance in China
This book divides the history of China's rural-urban relations into three stages: antagonism, integration and re-antagonism, and demonstrates that the two coupled variables i.e., policy-culture and coast-trade are the most crucial to urbanization and rural-urban governance in China from ancient times till now. From the perspective of a combination of history and geography, this book puts forwar…
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- 978-981-16-1201-5
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- xix, 220p.:ill
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- 307.76 Cha a
Urban Inequalities
This collection brings together leading thinkers on human beings in urban spaces and inequalities therein. The contributors eschew conceptual confusion between equality — of opportunity, of access, of the right to compete for whatever goal one chooses to pursue — and levelling. The discussions develop in the belief that old and emerging forms of inequality in urban settings need to be under…
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- 978-3-030-51724-3
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- xiii, 311p.:ill
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- 307.76 Urb
Property Price Impacts of Environment-Friendly Transport Accessibility in Chi…
This book seeks to shed light on the role of environment-friendly transport accessibility in determining property prices in Chinese cities. Many environment-friendly transport modes, including walking, metro, bus rapid transit (BRT), and bus are examined. Spatial econometric models, quantile regression models, and machine learning techniques are used. This book contributes to people's understan…
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- 978-981-16-8833-1
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- xii, 182p.:ill
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- -
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- 307.76 Yan p
Electronic Cities
This book examines Electronic Dance Music (EDM) scenes in 18 cities across Africa, the Middle East, Europe, Asia, North America and Australia. It focuses on the historical development of these scenes, with an emphasis on the post-2000 context, including the COVID-19 pandemic and its far-reaching effects. Expert contributors highlight the influence of geographical contexts, as well as cultural a…
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- 978-981-33-4741-0
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- xx, 303p.:ill
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- -
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- 307.76 Ele
Digital Social Innovation
This book engages the reader in exploring the relationships between digital social innovation initiatives and the city. It delivers a fresh, accessible and case-based discussion on the emergence of digitally-enabled social innovation practices in Europe that are redesigning the urban space and challenging the consolidated urban governance processes. By adopting a critical geography perspecti…
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- 978-3-030-80451-0
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- xiii, 169p.:ill
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- -
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- 307.76 Cer d
Spatial Tensions in Urban Design
This book provides an original research perspective to the field of contemporary urban conflicts. Even though violent conflicts have transformed cities during the XX century, it is nowadays possible to identify the phenomenon of “Tensions” as a specific contemporary both social and spatial urban changes catalyst. Through a collection of essays from various disciplines focusing on inter…
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- 978-3-030-84083-9
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- vi, 229p.:ill
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- 307.76 Spa
Biophilic Cities for an Urban Century
This book argues that, paradoxically, at their moment of triumph and fastest growth, cities need nature more than ever. Only if our urban world is full of biophilic cities will the coming urban century truly succeed. Cities are quintessentially human, the perfect forum for interaction, and we are entering what could justly be called the urban century, the fastest period of urban growth in hu…
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- 978-3-030-51665-9
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- xi, 124p.:ill
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- 307.76 Mcd b
Urban Growth and Environmental Issues in India
This book examines the interplay between urban growth and the environmental issues in India. The contributors, who are coming from diverse disciplines, examine socioeconomic, administrative, and environmental threats emanating from urbanization (e.g. climate change, health governance, energy issues, pollution, and e-waste management) and suggest various measures for dealing with the challenges …
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- 978-981-16-4273-9
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- xxii, 337p.:ill
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- 307.76 Urb
Housing, Urban Commons and the Right to the City in Post-Crisis Rome
This book tells the story of Metropoliz, a vacant salami factory located in the Eastern periphery of Rome (Italy) that was squatted in 2009 by homeless households with the cooperation of the Housing Rights Movement Blocchi Precari Metropolitani, and progressively reconverted into the house and museum spaces that form the Città Meticcia (the mestizo city). Through a vivid activist-ethnographic …
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- 978-3-030-70849-8
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- XIV, 166p.:ill
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- 307.76 Gra h
African Cities Through Local Eyes
This book provides readers with a wide overview of place-based planning and design experiments addressing such powerful transformations in the African built environment. This continent is currently undergoing fast paced urban, institutional and environmental changes, which have stimulated an increasing interest for alternative architectural solutions, urban designs and comprehensive planning ex…
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- 978-3-030-84906-1
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- xix, 320p.:ill
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- -
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- 307.76 Afr
Urban Climate Science for Planning Healthy Cities
This volume demonstrates how urban climate science can provide valuable information for planning healthy cities. The book illustrates the idea of "Science in Time, Science in Place" by providing worldwide case-based urban climatic planning applications for a variety of regions and countries, utilizing relevant climatic-spatial planning experiences to address local climatic and environmental hea…
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- 978-3-030-87598-5
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- LIV, 406p.:ill
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- 307.76 Urb
Theory in Planning Research
Doing research is an essential element of almost all programmes in planning studies as well as related areas such as geography and urban studies, from undergraduate, through Masters to doctoral programmes. While most texts on such research emphasise methodologies, this book is unique in addressing how theoretical frameworks and perspectives can inform research activity. Providing both a concise…
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- 978-981-33-6568-1
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- XI, 216p.:ill
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- 307.76 Ryd t
Hillsong Church
This book highlights the expansion of the influential Pentecostal Hillsong Church global megachurch network from Australia across global cities. Ethnographic research in Amsterdam and New York City shows that global cities harbor nodes in transnational religious networks in which media play a crucial role. By taking a lived religion approach, media is regarded as integral part of everyday pract…
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- 978-3-030-74299-7
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- ix, 236p.:ill
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- 307.76 Kla h
Contesting the Olympics in American Cities
This book examines the changing nature of opposition to bidding for and hosting the Olympic Games in contemporary American cities. It explores and critiques the process by which cities bid for the Olympics in the current context of the International Olympic Committee’s changing bid requirements and from the social justice perspectives of Olympics opponents. Using detailed case studies of the …
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- 978-981-16-5094-9
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- IX, 113p.:ill
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- 307.76 And c
The Private Rental Sector in Australia
This book explores the decline and growth of the private rental sector in Australia delving into the changing dynamics of landlord investment and tenant profile over the course of the twentieth century and into the present period. It explains why over one in four Australian households are now private renters and investigates the contemporary legal and regulatory frameworks governing the sector.…
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- 978-981-33-6672-5
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- xvii, 169p.:ill
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- 307.76 Mor t
Street-Level Bureaucrats' Impact on the Emergence of Local Governance Networks
This book focusses on the emergence of local governance networks and examines the role of street-level bureaucrats during this process. It aims to identify whether some organizations are favored as state partners, whereas others have a lower chance of becoming part of such networks. Four different potential logics explaining such divergencies are developed. To find out how street-level bureaucr…
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- 978-3-658-36153-2
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- xiii, 146p.:ill
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- 307.76 Fis s
The Role of the State in China’s Urban System Development
This book investigates how the state intervenes in the urban system in China in the post-reform period. To do so, it constructs a conceptual framework based on the perspective of political hierarchy, suggesting that the state power is hierarchically organized in China’s urban system, leading to variations in urban government capacities among cities. The book reveals that the state has la…
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- 978-981-33-6362-5
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- xvi, 213p.:ill
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- 307.76 Wan t
Settlement Spaces: Urban Survival Prospects of China’s Special Communities
This book examines the settlement space of special communities in China on the community scale from an interdisciplinary approach that combines perspectives from urban planning and sociology. Using the framework of integration response, it theoretically and empirically explores the approaches these communities adopt to survive and evolve. Empirically, this discussion centers on four particular …
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- 978-981-16-4892-2
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- xxiii, 677p.:ill
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- 307.76 Xia s
Building a traditional Kurdish City
This book will fill an important gap in the knowledge of Middle Eastern cities by reconstructing the historical process of Sanandaj's formation and development until the rise of modernization in Iran. It discusses the nature of Kurdish settlements and the interaction between the social and spatial forces that have conditioned the processes and patterns of city formation and development over tim…
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- 978-981-16-3634-9
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- xviii, 218p.:ill
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- -
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- 307.76 Ali b
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