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  • Urban Resilience for Risk and Adaptation Governance

    Theory and Practice

    Modifié par Grazia Brunetta, Ombretta Caldarice, Nicola Tollin, Marti Rosas-Casals, Jordi Morató ...
    Collections series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book brings together a series of theory and practice essays on risk management and adaptation in urban contexts within a resilient and multidimensional perspective. The book proposes a transversal approach with regard to the role of spatial planning in promoting and fostering risk management as well as institutions’ challenges for governing risk, particularly in relation to new forms of multi ... En savoir plus

    $217.99 CAD

  • Reconsidering Welfare Policies in Times of Crisis

    Perspectives for European Cities

    par Ombretta Caldarice ...
    Collections series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book offers a European perspective on spatial planning and welfare policies in relation to the new conditions derived from the current urban crisis. The book deals with research and policy issues stemming from the fact that in the last ten years European cities have been affected by a structural crisis, not only financial but also a social, environmental and spatial, leading to an economic ... En savoir plus

    $76.99 CAD

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  • Other Cities, Other Worlds

    Urban Imaginaries in a Globalizing Age

    Modifié par Andreas Huyssen ...
    Other Cities, Other Worlds brings together leading scholars of cultural theory, urban studies, art, anthropology, literature, film, architecture, and history to look at non-Western global cities. The contributors focus on urban imaginaries, the ways that city dwellers perceive or imagine their own cities. Paying particular attention to the historical and cultural dimensions of urban life, they ... En savoir plus

    $38.99 CAD

  • Arab Dawn

    Arab Youth and the Demographic Dividend They Will Bring

    par Bessma Momani ...
    Collections series UTP Insights
    In the West, news about the Middle East is dominated by an endless stream of reports and commentary about civil war, sectarian violence, religious extremism, and economic stagnation. But do they tell the full story? For instance, who knew that university enrolment in the war-torn Palestinian territories exceeds that of Hong Kong, or that more than a third of Lebanese entrepreneurs are women?Change ... En savoir plus

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  • The Slow Boil

    Street Food, Rights and Public Space in Mumbai

    par Jonathan Shapiro Anjaria ...
    Collections series South Asia in Motion
    Street food vendors are both a symbol and a scourge of Mumbai: cheap roadside snacks are enjoyed by all, but the people who make them dance on a razor's edge of legality. While neighborhood associations want the vendors off cluttered sidewalks, many Mumbaikers appreciate the convenient bargains they offer. In The Slow Boil, Jonathan Shapiro Anjaria draws on his long-term fieldwork with these ... En savoir plus

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  • African Cities

    Alternative Visions of Urban Theory and Practice

    par Professor Garth Myers ...
    In this groundbreaking book, Garth Myers uses African urban concepts and experiences to speak back to theoretical and practical concerns. He argues for a re-visioning - a seeing again, and a revising - of how cities in Africa are discussed and written about in both urban studies and African studies.Cities in Africa are still either ignored - banished to a different, other, lesser category of not ... En savoir plus

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  • Urban Theory Beyond the West

    A World of Cities

    Modifié par Tim Edensor, Mark Jayne ...
    Since the late eighteenth century, academic engagement with political, economic, social, cultural and spatial changes in our cities has been dominated by theoretical frameworks crafted with reference to just a small number of cities. This book offers an important antidote to the continuing focus of urban studies on cities in ‘the Global North’.Urban Theory Beyond the West contains twenty chapters ... En savoir plus

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  • Shadow Cities

    A Billion Squatters, A New Urban World

    par Robert Neuwirth ...
    In almost every country of the developing world, the most active builders are squatters, creating complex local economies with high rises, shopping strips, banks, and self-government. As they invent new social structures, Neuwirth argues, squatters are at the forefront of the worldwide movement to develop new visions of what constitutes property and community.Visit Robert Neuwirth's blog at: http: ... En savoir plus

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  • Gendered Paradoxes

    Women's Movements, State Restructuring, and Global Development in Ecuador

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  • Africa's Urban Revolution

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  • Professions and Power (Routledge Revivals)

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    First published in 1972, this book rejects as inadequate the ‘trait’ and ‘functionalist’ theories of the professions and instead presents an alternative framework to analyse the contemporaneous occupational change in industrial societies. The author describes how occupational specialisation creates varying degrees of social distance between producers and consumers of goods or services, thus ... En savoir plus

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