By Mohammad A. Qadeer
October 09, 2024
Analysing the evolution of Lahore’s social organization, culture and ideologies since Pakistan’s independence in 1947, this book explores how social and cultural changes affect the social economy, spatial structure and the urban environment. It uncovers the internal dynamics and functional order ...
By Hangwelani Hope Magidimisha-Chipungu, Lovemore Chipungu
October 09, 2024
Creating cities inclusive of immigrants in Southern Africa is both a balancing act and a protracted process that requires positive attitudes informed by accommodative institutional frameworks. This book revolves around two key contemporary issues that cities around the globe are trying to achieve –...
By Martin Zerlang
October 09, 2024
The history of cities is also the history of city squares. The agora, the forum, the piazza, the plaza: All presuppose the idea of a center. It’s a material and mental phenomenon. Literature is an important part of this history, and the interplay between the square as physical space and the square ...
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By Raúl Acosta, Eveline Dürr, Moritz Ege, Ursula Prutsch, Clemens van Loyen, Gordon M. Winder
October 04, 2024
This book provides an outline for a multidisciplinary research agenda into urban ethics and offers insights into the various ways urban ethics can be configured. It explores practices and discourses through which individuals, collectives and institutions determine which developments and projects ...
By Francisco Vergara-Perucich, Carlos Aguirre-Nuñez, Felipe Encinas, Rodrigo Hidalgo-Dattwyler, Ricardo Truffello, Felipe Ladrón de Guevara
August 26, 2024
Through the lens of political economy, this book positions housing as a key factor in understanding social inequality. It does so by drawing on rich empirical evidence from the case of the Chilean housing market. This book provides insights on the articulation between real estate development, ...
By Frans-Willem Korsten, Anthony T. Albright
July 30, 2024
Imagining Urban Complexity introduces passionate and critical perspectives on the link between the humanities and urban studies. It emphasizes tropes, media, and genres as cultural techniques that shape complexity in urban environments by distributing affordances, modes of sensing, and modes of ...
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By Thomas Coggin, Roopa Madhav
July 30, 2024
This book maps the interactions between informal workers and the law within the urban and spatial environment. It focuses on access to physical space, revealing the punitive ways in which law regulates space and informal work which relies on space. Across various cities worldwide, the chapters in ...
By Marichela Sepe
May 27, 2024
In the last ten years, concepts such as urban health and liveability have become ever more present in urban planning studies. Many companies rank the most liveable city in the world or in a nation, and many indicators are used to try to measure factors which can report the health of a place by ...
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By Mika Hyötyläinen, Robert Beauregard
May 27, 2024
Recent years have seen a gathering interest in the importance of real estate development to the growth and development of cities. This has included theoretical work on such topics as land rent and property rights as well as empirical studies on property investments, assetization, securitization, ...
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By Ceren Sezer, Rianne van Melik
January 29, 2024
This edited volume portrays marketplaces from a mobility perspective as dynamic and open entities consisting of flows of people, goods and ideas. There is a renewed interest in research and policy arenas in marketplaces as the core of cities’ spatial and economic development and sociocultural life,...
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By Hanna A. Ruszczyk, Erwin Nugraha, Isolde de Villiers
January 29, 2024
Overlooked Cities reflects and impacts the changing landscape of urban studies and geography from the perspective of smaller and more regional cities in the urban South. It critically examines the ways in which cities are uniquely positioned within different urban and knowledge hierarchies. The ...
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By Laura Trafí-Prats, Aurelio Castro-Varela
January 29, 2024
Visual Participatory Arts Based Research in the Cities maps ontological, aesthetic and ethic differences between humanist and posthumanist arts-based research, while providing insight on methodological orientations to develop arts-based research with frameworks based on process-philosophies. It is...