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Who controls space? Powerful corporations, institutions, and individuals have great power to create physical and political space through income and influence. People’s Spaces attempts to understand the struggle between people and institutions in the spaces they make. Current literature on cities…
Paperback – 2015-11-10
Routledge
Efforts to teach students pursuing graduate degrees in urban and regional planning are often frustrated by the "case books" that have been prepared for use by law professors teaching similar courses. Dawn Jourdan and Eric J. Strauss have attempted to take their concerns to heart in the design of…
Paperback – 2015-11-10
Routledge
This book provides an up-to-date introduction to the important and growing field of urban anthropology. This is an increasingly critical area of study, as more than half of the world's population now lives in cities and anthropological research is increasingly done in an urban context. Exploring…
Paperback – 2015-11-09
Routledge
Real Estate, Construction and Economic Development in Emerging Market Economies examines the relationships between real estate and construction sectors and explores how each sector, and the relationships between them, affect economic development in emerging market economies (EMEs). Throughout the…
Hardback – 2015-11-09
Routledge
Routledge Studies in International Real Estate
More than half of the world’s population now lives in urban areas, and cities provide the setting for a number of significant contemporary challenges such as population growth, mass tourism, and unequal access to socio-economic opportunities. Urban Heritage, Development and Sustainability examines…
Paperback – 2015-10-29
Routledge
Key Issues in Cultural Heritage
Originally published in 1972, Minority Perspectives is the second in a series exploring metropolitan problems within the government structure. The 1960’s were a period of civils rights movements as well as poverty in the United States and in the 70’s, it became clear that poverty was closely linked…
Hardback – 2015-10-29
Routledge
Routledge Revivals
With an increase in urban crises arising from a growing population and rising affluence, and the inadequacy of conventional theories to predict the future states of the environment, Resources for the Future laid out a series of studies on the resource base of the urban environment. Originally…
Hardback – 2015-07-23
Routledge
Routledge Revivals
Economy and Architecture addresses a timely, critical, and much-debated topic in both its historical and contemporary dimensions. From the Apple Store in New York City, to the street markets of the Pan American Highway; from commercial Dubai to the public schools of Australia, this book takes a…
Paperback – 2015-07-21
Routledge
With more than half of the world's population now living in urban areas, it is vitally important that towns and cities are healthy places to live. The principal aim of this book is to synthesize the disparate literature on the use of vegetation in the built environment and its multifunctional…
Paperback – 2015-07-20
Routledge
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Sonia Hirt, co-editor of The Urban Wisdom of Jane Jacobs, discusses her recently published book and the influence of Jacobs in 20th-century urban design and planning thought.
Josiane Meier, co-editor of Urban Lighting, Light Pollution and Society, discusses Milan, Italy's impending shift to LED street light technology and how her recent book uncovers some of the implications of changing urban lighting systems.
Editors Stephen Zavestoski and Julian Agyeman discuss their new title, Incomplete Streets: Processes, practices, and possibilities.
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