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Urbanization. City and country

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  • Triumph of the Cityby Edward Glaeser

    Penguin Group US 2011; US$ 9.99

    A pioneering urban economist presents a myth-shattering look at the majesty and greatness of cities. America is an urban nation, yet cities get a bad rap: they're dirty, poor, unhealthy, environmentally unfriendly . . . or are they? In this revelatory book, Edward Glaeser, a leading urban economist, declares that cities are actually the healthiest, greenest, and richest (in both cultural and economic terms) places to live. He travels through history and around the globe to reveal the hidden workings of cities and how they bring out the best in humankind. Using intrepid reportage, keen analysis, and cogent argument, Glaeser makes an urgent, eloquent case for the city's importance and splendor, offering inspiring proof that the city... more...

  • Urban and Regional Change in Southern Africaby David W. Smith

    Routledge 1992; US$ 228.00

    Why is Southern Africa more volatile than other developing regions? This book sets urban change in South Africa within its regional context, contrasting the impact that urbanization and political change has had in particular states. more...

  • Dynamics of Citiesby Dimitrios Dendrinos

    Routledge 1992; US$ 286.00

    Drawing on recorded evidence, this book argues that simple, general and powerful macrodynamic processes guide the growth and decline of present day urban agglomerations, as well as cities of the past. more...

  • Apartheid City and Beyondby David M. Smith

    Routledge 1992; US$ 65.95

    This book explains how apartheid changed South Africa's cities, how people responded to regain some control over urban life, and how the forces of urbanization held back under apartheid will affect the post-apartheid era. more...

  • Cities Without Citiesby Thomas Sieverts

    Spon Press 2003; US$ 59.95

    This book investigates the social, economic, environmental and formal characteristics of today's built environment. Providing a better understanding of this new type of urban form and argues for a change in planning sytems. more...

  • Global Metropolitanby John Rennie Short

    Routledge 2004; US$ 55.95

    This book explains the economic and social changes cities experience as they compete in a global world and explores how the discourse of globalizing has become a major narrative in the restructuring of cities around the world. more...

  • Cities and Consumptionby Mark Jayne

    Routledge 2005; US$ 51.95

    Cities and Consumption investigates the mutual and dynamic relationship between urban development and consumption: how are cities moulded by consumption, how is consumption moulded by cities? more...

  • Remaking the Modernby Farha Ghannam

    University of California Press 2002; US$ 15.95

    In an effort to restyle Cairo into a global capital that would meet the demands of tourists and investors and to achieve President Anwar Sadat's goal to modernize the housing conditions of the urban poor, the Egyptian government relocated residents from what was deemed valuable real estate in downtown Cairo to public housing on the outskirts of the city. Based on more than two years of ethnographic fieldwork among five thousand working-class families in the neighborhood of al-Zawyia al-Hamra, this study explores how these displaced residents have dealt with the stigma of public housing, the loss of their established community networks, and the diversity of the population in the new location. Until now, few anthropologists have delivered detailed... more...

  • Constructing Suburbsby Ann Forsyth

    Taylor & Francis 1999; US$ 40.95

    Examining the debate between activists and professional planners over the vision of the future of a large growth corridor in Sydney, Australia, this case study maps the history of development from the late-1960s to the mid-1990s, during which time serious environmental and financial problems arose. more...

  • Unsettling Citiesby John Allen

    Taylor & Francis 1999; US$ 67.95

    This text explores the mix of proximity and difference that exists in the rich and diverse texture of city life and reveals the association between the changing fortunes of cities and the power and influence of global networks. more...