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Found 4 from your keywords: subject="urban; cities"
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Resilience of Informal Areas in Megacities – Magnitude, Challenges, and Pol…
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Aboulnaga, Mohsen M.Badran, Mona F.Barakat, Mai M.

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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1
ISBN/ISSN
978-3-030-87794-1
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xli, 327p.:ill
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Call Number
307.76 Abo r
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A Theory and History of Rural–urban Governance in China
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Chao Ye, Chao Ye

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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1
ISBN/ISSN
978-981-16-1201-5
Collation
xix, 220p.:ill
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307.76 Cha a
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Urban Inequalities
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Pardo, ItaloPrato, Giuliana B.

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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1
ISBN/ISSN
978-3-030-51724-3
Collation
xiii, 311p.:ill
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Call Number
307.76 Urb
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Electronic Cities
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Charrieras, DamienDarchen, SébastienWillsteed, John

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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1
ISBN/ISSN
978-981-33-4741-0
Collation
xx, 303p.:ill
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Call Number
307.76 Ele