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Hybrid Urbanism
ABC-CLIO 2001; US$ 175.00Despite strong forces toward globalization, much of late 20th century urbanism demonstrates a movement toward cultural differentiation. Such factors as ethnicity and religious and cultural heritages have led to the concept of hybridity as a shaper of identity. Challenging the common assumption that hybrid peoples create hybrid places and hybrid places... more...
How Cities Won the West
University of New Mexico Press 2010; US$ 29.95The author traces the evolution of early frontier towns at the beginning of Western expansion to the thriving urban centers they have become today. more...
Green Infrastructure for Sustainable Urban Development in Africa
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 130.00This book shows for the first time how green infrastructure can work in an African urban context. On one level it provides a major rethinking of the role of infrastructure in urban society since the creation of networked infrastructure in the early twentieth century. On another, it explores the changing paradigms of urban development through the fundamental... more...
Urban Spaces after Socialism
Campus Verlag 2011; US$ 34.77Hauptbeschreibung Was geschieht in eurasischen Städten seit dem Ende der Sowjetunion? Wie werden periphere urbane Räume neu konstruiert, angeordnet und reflektiert in Stimmen der Subkulturen und im Alltag der postsozialistischen Stadt? Bei politischen Ungewissheiten und begleitet von Phänomenen der Globalisierung entsteht hier ein Labor spezifischer... more...
Culture and Planning
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2011; US$ 54.95Illustrated by a wide range of case studies from planning contexts, this book examines culture as a socio-historically situated concept, introducing a line of scholarship, both established and recent, to show what 'culture' does and why. It addresses the materialisation of abstract concepts, performance and embodiment, and social categorisation... more...
Cities between Competitiveness and Cohesion
Springer 2008; US$ 69.99The central aim of many analyses in population studies and demography is to explain cause-effect relationships among variables or events. For decades, population scientists have concentrated their efforts on estimating the a oecauses of effectsa (e.g. a oeWhat accounts for the decline of fertility rates?a ) by applying standard cross-sectional and... more...
Global Cities, Governance and Diplomacy
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 135.00This book illustrates the importance of global cities for world politics and highlights the diplomatic connections between cities and global governance. While there is a growing body of literature concerned with explaining the transformations of the international order, little theorisation has taken into account the key metropolises of our time... more...
Urban Planning And The Development Process
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 62.95This text is about the very essence of urban planning in a market economy. It is concerned with people - landowners, developers, investors, politicians and ordinary members of the public - who produce change in towns and cities as they relate to each other and react to development Pressure. Whether Such Change Occurs Slowly And Is Almost Unnoticed,... more...
Shaping Places
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 53.95Shaping Places explains how towns and cities can turn real estate development to their advantage to create the kind of places where people want to live, work, relax and invest. It contends that the production of quality places which enhance economic prosperity, social cohesion and environmental sustainability require a transformation of market outcomes.... more...
Regional Development and Spatial Planning in an Enlarged European Union
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2007; US$ 130.00A team of academics and policy makers is brought together in this volume to discuss regional development and spatial planning in post-expansion Europe. Providing insights into different approaches from across the new Europe, it offers a valuable opportunity to compare experiences across borders. more...









