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Understanding Cities Serie de eBooks

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  • Unruly Cities?

    Order/Disorder

    Edición de 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. ... Leer más

    $51,565 CLP

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  • Razing Africville

    A Geography of Racism

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $30,226 CLP

  • Cities and Consumption

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $88,699 CLP

  • Readings in Planning Theory

    Edición de 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 ... Leer más

    $49,723 CLP

  • The New Blackwell Companion to The City

    Edición de 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 ... Leer más

    Antes $49,737 CLP Ahora $43,039 CLP

  • Gentrification

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $76,321 CLP

  • History after Apartheid

    Visual Culture and Public Memory in a Democratic South Africa

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $33,420 CLP

  • Transforming Urban Transport

    The Ethics, Politics and Practices of Sustainable Mobility

    Edición de 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, ... Leer más

    $232,077 CLP

  • The New Economy of the Inner City

    Restructuring, Regeneration and Dislocation in the 21st Century Metropolis

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $47,438 CLP

  • Media and the City

    Cosmopolitanism and Difference

    de 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 ... Leer más

    Antes $19,704 CLP Ahora $17,639 CLP

  • The Intercultural City

    Planning for Diversity Advantage

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $68,069 CLP

  • Spatial Agency: Other Ways of Doing Architecture

    de Nishat Awan, Tatjana Schneider, Jeremy Till ...
    This book offers the first comprehensive overview of alternative approaches to architectural practice.At a time when many commentators are noting that alternative and richer approaches to architectural practice are required if the profession is to flourish, this book provides multiple examples from across the globe of how this has been achieved and how it might be achieved in the future ... Leer más

    $76,321 CLP