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  • Organizing Insurgency

    Workers' Movements in the Global South

    de Immanuel Ness ...
    Series series Wildcat
    'A breath of fresh air' - Norman FinklesteinWorkers in the Global South are doomed through economic imperialism to carry the burden of the entire world. While these workers appear isolated from the Global North, they are in fact deeply integrated into global commodity chains and essential to the maintenance of global capitalism.Looking at contemporary case studies in India, the Philippines and ... Leer más

    $14,540 CLP o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Friendship and Diversity

    Class, Ethnicity and Social Relationships in the City

    Do people make friends with those who are culturally and socially different to themselves? Friendship and Diversity explores the social relationships of adults and children living in highly diverse localities in London. The authors examine how social class and ethnic difference affects the friendships of children in primary schools and their parents. The book draws on original and in-depth ... Leer más

    $122,668 CLP

  • The Horizontal Metropolis Between Urbanism and Urbanization

    This book provides an overview of the Horizontal Metropolis concept, and of the theoretical, methodological and political implications for the interdisciplinary field in which it operates. The book investigates the contemporary emergence of a new type of extended urbanity across regions, territories and continents, up to the global scale. Further, it explores the diffusion of contemporary urban ... Leer más

    $275,003 CLP

  • A IDENTIDADE DO TRABALHADOR BRASILEIRO

    Um Olhar Sobre a Invenção do Trabalhismo

    A Invenção do trabalhismo está no palco de grandes debates e engloba várias correntes de pensadores e ideologias, bem como o trabalho de historiadores que têm a tarefa de desmistificar nosso entendimento a respeito da história do desenvolvimento político e econômico do nosso país, assim como nos levar a compreender um pouco dos importantes movimentos sociais, políticos e econômicos que ... Leer más

    $2,447 CLP o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Against Urbanism

    Traducido por Mairin O’Mahony ...
    Series series Green Arcade
    After demolishing the myth of the rock star architect with his book Against Architecture, Franco La Cecla now explores the decisive challenges that cities are going to have to confront in the near future. Urban planning and development has become increasingly inadequate in response to the daily realities of life in our cities. Human, economic, ethnic, and environmental factors are systematically ... Leer más

    $8,898 CLP o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Building the Inclusive City

    Governance, Access, and the Urban Transformation of Dubai

    This Open Access book is an anthropological urban study of the Emirate of Dubai, its institutions, and their evolution. It provides a contemporary history of disability in city planning from a non-Western perspective and explores the cultural context for its positioning. Three insights inform the author’s approach. First, disability research, much like other urban or social issues, must be ... Leer más

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  • At Home with Ivan Vladislavić

    An African Flaneur Greens the Postcolonial City

    Series series Routledge Studies in Contemporary Literature
    At Home With Ivan Vladislavić is the first comprehensive analysis of the works of Ivan Vladislavić. Bringing a flaneur’s "internal GPS" to postcolonial Johannesburg, Vladislavić established a critical sense of home via an intimate knowledge of geography and history. This sense of belonging can have positive ecological effects as we tend to protect what we know. The flaneur’s deep word hoard also ... Leer más

    $56,296 CLP

  • Value Construction in the Creative Economy

    Negotiating Innovation and Transformation

    Edición de Rachel Granger ...
    Series series Palgrave Studies in Business, Arts and Humanities
    The book provides a critical and integrative analysis of value as it pertains to different aspects of creative and cultural industries. The notion of 'value' – a frequently used but rarely considered term – is deconstructed and considered as a spatial and structural impact, an active resource and process, and as soft institutions and embodied forms which collectively create a space through which ... Leer más

    $143,114 CLP

  • 3rd EAI International Conference on IoT in Urban Space

    Series series EAI/Springer Innovations in Communication and Computing
    This proceedings presents the papers from Urb-IoT 2018 - 3rd EAI International Conference on IoT in Urban Space, which took place in Guimarães, Portugal on 21-22 November 2018. The conference aims to explore the emerging dynamics within the scope of the Internet of Things (IoT) and the new science of cities.The papers discuss fusion of heterogeneous urban sources, understanding urban data using ... Leer más

    $143,114 CLP

  • Perception, Design and Ecology of the Built Environment

    A Focus on the Global South

    Edición de Mainak Ghosh ...
    Series series Springer Geography
    This edited volume is a compilation of the ‘built environment’ in response to many investigations, analyses and sometimes mere observations of the various dialogues and interactions of the built, in context to its ecology, perception and design. The chapters concentrate on various independent issues, integrated as a holistic approach, both in terms of theoretical perspectives and practical ... Leer más

    $122,668 CLP

  • Solved

    How the World’s Great Cities Are Fixing the Climate Crisis

    de David Miller ...
    If our planet is going to survive the climate crisis, we need to act rapidly.Taking cues from progressive cities around the world, including Los Angeles, New York, Toronto, Oslo, Shenzhen, and Sydney, this book is a summons to every city to make small but significant changes that can drastically reduce our carbon footprint.We cannot wait for national governments to agree on how to reduce ... Leer más

    $25,762 CLP

  • Teorias da cidade

    Obra que apresenta um panorama multidisciplinar que abrange 500 anos de reflexão sobre as cidades do velho e do novo mundo, em que historiadores, filósofos, sociólogos, geógrafos, arquitetos e urbanistas têm voz e vez. Nos capítulos iniciais, Barbara Freitag se debruça sobre quatro escolas do pensamento urbano: a alemã, a francesa, a inglesa e a americana, fazendo uma seleção de autores que, de ... Leer más

    $10,115 CLP o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The Soul of a City

    Deep Dives into Urban Culture

    Dive into the heart and soul of urban life with "The Soul of a City: Deep Dives into Urban Culture" by T.J. Ravenscroft. This compelling exploration transcends conventional boundaries to examine the intricate tapestry of human interactions within the built environment. Ravenscroft navigates the dynamic interplay between social, economic, and political elements that shape urban spaces. Through ... Leer más

    $1,125 CLP

  • Ageing and Urban Planning

    Series series Regions and Cities
    Ageing and Urban Planning provides a critical analysis of urban planning in the face of demographic change. It emphasises the importance of international approaches and practices to address age-friendly planning. This process requires collaboration between professionals and the community, going beyond mere functionality to connect the micro and macro scales at the city, region, nation, and the ... Leer más

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  • From Sustainable to Resilient Cities

    Global Concerns and Urban Efforts

    Edición de William G. Holt ...
    Series Libro 14 - Research in Urban Sociology
    The United Nations Brundtland Report defines sustainable development as one "that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs." Embedded in this concept of sustainable development are the needs of the world's poor as well as the limits of environmental technology and social organizations to meet these needs. Urban centers, home to ... Leer más

    $182,012 CLP

  • Love Our Cities

    How a city-wide volunteer day can unite and transform your community

    Love Our Cities operates from a simple idea: come alongside those who want to make a difference in their cities so they can come alongside individuals in their communities to make things better.Founding members of the nonprofit organization Love Our Cities, Jeff Pishney and Eric Jung have seen how a city-wide volunteer day can catalyze community improvement—by engaging individuals with the city ... Leer más

    $12,188 CLP o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Urban Tomographies

    Series series The City in the Twenty-First Century
    Tomography is a method of exploring a phenomenon through a large number of examples or perspectives. In medical tomography, such as a CAT scan, two-dimensional slices or images of a three-dimensional organ are used to envision the organ itself. Urban tomography applies the same approach to the study of city life. To appreciate different aspects of a community, from infrastructure to work to ... Leer más

    $42,916 CLP

  • Divided Cities

    Belfast, Beirut, Jerusalem, Mostar, and Nicosia

    Series series The City in the Twenty-First Century
    In Jerusalem, Israeli and Jordanian militias patrolled a fortified, impassable Green Line from 1948 until 1967. In Nicosia, two walls and a buffer zone have segregated Turkish and Greek Cypriots since 1963. In Belfast, "peaceline" barricades have separated working-class Catholics and Protestants since 1969. In Beirut, civil war from 1974 until 1990 turned a cosmopolitan city into a lethal ... Leer más

    $26,448 CLP

  • Death of a Suburban Dream

    Race and Schools in Compton, California

    Series series Politics and Culture in Modern America
    Compton, California, is often associated in the public mind with urban America's toughest problems, including economic disinvestment, gang violence, and failing public schools. Before it became synonymous with inner-city decay, however, Compton's affordability, proximity to manufacturing jobs, and location ten miles outside downtown Los Angeles made it attractive to aspiring suburbanites seeking ... Leer más

    $50,074 CLP

  • Nihilism on the Highway with the War Fighters Motorcycle Club Veteran Bikers

    The Untold Story

    de Edward Scarr ...
    This book tells the untold story of Australia’s veteran bikers. Like other motorcycle clubs, the Australian War Fighters (pseudonym) are a fringe-dwelling subculture that provokes strong opinions. Newspaper editors have been salivating over motorcycle club imagery since the subculture emerged in California in the middle of the twentieth century. Motorcycle clubs remain the subject of persisting ... Leer más

    $118,381 CLP

  • The Meaningful City

    Reading Barcelona’s Urban Landscape

    de James Douet ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book presents a new way of examining cities to reveal the many and varied meanings which are written into urban landscapes. As the title suggests, urban areas are full of messages and communications, with signs and symbols incorporated into buildings, structures and plans. Taking the rich architectural and urbanistic chronicle of Barcelona as a model, the author shows how different social ... Leer más

    $48,134 CLP

  • Squatters in the Capitalist City

    Housing, Justice, and Urban Politics

    Series series Housing and Society Series
    To date, there has been no comprehensive analysis of the disperse research on the squatters’ movement in Europe. In Squatters in the Capitalist City, Miguel A. Martínez López presents a critical review of the current research on squatting and of the historical development of the movements in European cities according to their major social, political and spatial dimensions.Comparing cities, ... Leer más

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  • Harlem Is Nowhere

    A Journey to the Mecca of Black America

    A National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist and New York Times Notable Book of the Year, Harlem Is Nowhere brilliantly captures the essence of Harlem at a crucial moment in the neighborhood's history.For a century Harlem has been celebrated as the capital of black America, a thriving center of cultural achievement and political action. As gentrification encroaches, Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts untangles ... Leer más

    $13,164 CLP

  • GIS and the 2020 Census

    Modernizing Official Statistics

    Census workers need to capture and analyze information at the finest geographic level with mobile and geospatial-based technology.GIS and the 2020 Census: Modernizing Official Statistics guides statistical organizations with the most recent GIS methodologies and technological tools to support census workers’ needs at all the stages of a census. Learn how to plan and carry out census work with GIS ... Leer más

    $49,422 CLP