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Understanding Cities eBook Series

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  • Unruly Cities?

    Order/Disorder

    Edited by Chris Brook, Gerry Mooney, Steve Pile ...
    Series series Understanding Cities
    The text argues that cities are open to many forms of order and disorder both from within the city and outside. They represent cities potentials as well as their problems. It challenges the assumption that cities are threatened by disorder from below and that they might be ruled by 'order' imposed from above. ... Read more

    $61.59 CAD

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  • Razing Africville

    A Geography of Racism

    by Jennifer Nelson ...
    In the 1960s, the city of Halifax razed the black community of Africville under a program of urban renewal and 'slum clearance.' The city defended its actions by citing the deplorable living conditions in Africville, ignoring its own role in the creation of these conditions through years of neglect and the refusal of essential services. In the 1980s, the city created a park on Africville's former ... Read more

    $29.51 CAD

  • How to Think Seriously About the Planet

    The Case for an Environmental Conservatism

    by Roger Scruton ...
    The environment has long been the undisputed territory of the political Left, which casts international capitalism, consumerism, and the over-exploitation of natural resources as the principle threats to the planet, and sees top-down interventions as the most effective solution. In How to Think Seriously About the Planet, Roger Scruton rejects this view and offers a fresh approach to tackling the ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

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  • Cities and Consumption

    by Mark Jayne ...
    Series series Routledge Critical Introductions to Urbanism and the City
    In investigating the mutual and dynamic relationship between urban development and consumption, this book asks: how are cities moulded by consumption, and how is consumption moulded by cities?Consumption stands at the intersection of different spheres of everyday life: between the public and the private, the political and the personal, the individual and the social. It is considered to be a means ... Read more

    $105.94 CAD

  • Readings in Planning Theory

    Edited by Susan S. Fainstein, James DeFilippis ...
    Featuring updates and revisions to reflect rapid changes in an increasingly globalized world, Readings in Planning Theory remains the definitive resource for the latest theoretical and practical debates within the field of planning theory.Represents the newest edition of the leading text in planning theory that brings together the essential classic and cutting-edge readingsFeatures 20 completely ... Read more

    $58.99 CAD

  • The New Blackwell Companion to The City

    Edited by Gary Bridge, Sophie Watson ...
    Series series Wiley Blackwell Companions to Geography
    This book considers the state of the city and contemporary urbanisation from a range of intellectual and international perspectives.The most interdisciplinary collection of its kindProvides a contemporary update on urban thinking that builds on well established debates in the fieldUses the city to explore economic, social, cultural, environmental and political issues more broadlyIncludes ... Read more

    $59.99 CAD

  • Gentrification

    by Loretta Lees, Tom Slater, Elvin Wyly ...
    This first textbook on the topic of gentrification is written for upper-level undergraduates in geography, sociology, and planning. The gentrification of urban areas has accelerated across the globe to become a central engine of urban development, and it is a topic that has attracted a great deal of interest in both academia and the popular press. Gentrification presents major theoretical ideas ... Read more

    $91.16 CAD

  • History after Apartheid

    Visual Culture and Public Memory in a Democratic South Africa

    by Annie E. Coombes ...
    The democratic election of Nelson Mandela as president of South Africa in 1994 marked the demise of apartheid and the beginning of a new struggle to define the nation’s past. History after Apartheid analyzes how, in the midst of the momentous shift to an inclusive democracy, South Africa’s visual and material culture represented the past while at the same time contributing to the process of social ... Read more

    $44.36 CAD

  • Transforming Urban Transport

    The Ethics, Politics and Practices of Sustainable Mobility

    Edited by Nicholas Low ...
    Transforming Urban Transport confronts head-on the dilemma faced by a world wedded to mobility: the danger of continuing along the fossil-fuelled path and the real paucity of viable technological alternatives which can be deployed in time. To respond to the dilemma, the ideal of urban transport must be changed from auto-based mobility to systems of sustainable transport in which public transport, ... Read more

    $277.20 CAD

  • The New Economy of the Inner City

    Restructuring, Regeneration and Dislocation in the 21st Century Metropolis

    by Thomas A. Hutton ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Economic Geography
    Following the restructuring process which swept away the traditional manufacturing economy of the inner city 25 years ago, new industries are transforming these former post-industrial landscapes. These creative, technology-intensive industries include Internet services, computer graphics and imaging, and video game production. The development dynamics of these new sectors are volatile in ... Read more

    $56.66 CAD

  • Media and the City

    Cosmopolitanism and Difference

    by Myria Georgiou ...
    Series series Global Media and Communication
    With the majority of the world's population now living in cities, questions about the cultural and political trajectories of urban societies are increasingly urgent. Media and the City explores the global city as the site where these questions become most prominent. As a space of intense communication and difference, the global city forces us to think about the challenges of living in close ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • The Intercultural City

    Planning for Diversity Advantage

    by Charles Landry, Phil Wood ...
    In a world of increasing mobility, how people of different cultures live together is a key issue of our age, especially for those responsible for planning and running cities. New thinking is needed on how diverse communities can cooperate in productive harmony instead of leading parallel or antagonistic lives. Policy is often dominated by mitigating the perceived negative effects of diversity, and ... Read more

    $81.30 CAD