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Cover Being a Planner in Society
Being a Planner in Society
For People, Planet, Place
Nicholas Low
This timely book addresses what it is to be a planner in a changing world: a world in need of transformation in the way planning is done in order to tackle social problems and ecological crises. Nicholas Low argues for the need to revalue public planning, sensitive to the social context in which it takes place.
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Monograph Book
Publication Date:
07 Aug 2020
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788973793
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Social and Political Science 2020
Cover Handbook of Urban Segregation
Handbook of Urban Segregation
Editor:
Sako Musterd
The Handbook of Urban Segregation scrutinises key debates on spatial inequality in cities across the globe. It engages with multiple domains, including residential places, public spaces and the field of education. In addition it tackles crucial group-dimensions across race, class and culture as well as age groups, the urban rich, middle class, and gentrified households. This timely Handbook provides a key contribution to understanding what urban segregation is about, why it has developed, what its consequences are and how it is measured, conceptualised and framed.
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Handbook
Publication Date:
27 Mar 2020
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781788115605
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Social and Political Science 2020
Cover The Politics and Practices of Apartment Living
The Politics and Practices of Apartment Living
Hazel Easthope
The majority of people now live in cities and for many that means apartment living. Apartments are where we spend our time, make our homes, raise our families and invest our money. Apartment living requires that we try to get along with our neighbours and make decisions collectively about the management of our buildings. This book examines how different housing markets, development practices, planning regimes, legal structures and social and cultural norms affect people’s everyday experiences of apartment living.
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Monograph Book
Publication Date:
31 May 2019
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781786438089
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Social and Political Science 2019
Cover Rethinking Third Places
Rethinking Third Places
Informal Public Spaces and Community Building
Editors:
Joanne Dolley
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Caryl Bosman
Ray Oldenburg’s concept of third place is re-visited in this book through contemporary approaches and new examples of third places. Third place is not your home (first place), not your work (second place), but those informal public places in which we interact with the people. Readers will come to understand the importance of third places and how they can be incorporated into urban design to offer places of interaction – promoting togetherness in an urbanised world of mobility and rapid change.
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Monograph Book
Publication Date:
31 May 2019
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781786433916
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Social and Political Science 2019
Cover Handbook of Gentrification Studies
Handbook of Gentrification Studies
Editor:
Loretta Lees with Martin Phillips
It is now over 50 years since the term ‘gentrification’ was first coined by the British urbanist Ruth Glass in 1964, in which time gentrification studies has become a subject in its own right. This Handbook, the first ever in gentrification studies, is a critical and authoritative assessment of the field. Although the Handbook does not seek to rehearse the classic literature on gentrification from the 1970s to the 1990s in detail, it is referred to in the new assessments of the field gathered in this volume. The original chapters offer an important dialogue between existing theory and new conceptualisations of gentrification for new times and new places, in many cases offering novel empirical evidence.
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Handbook
Publication Date:
27 Apr 2018
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781785361746
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Social and Political Science 2018
Cover Extraordinary Cities
Extraordinary Cities
Millennia of Moral Syndromes, World-Systems and City/State Relations
Peter J. Taylor
In this innovative, ambitious and wide-ranging book, Peter Taylor demonstrates that cities are the epicenters of human advancement. In exploring cities as sites through which economies flourish, by harnessing the creative potential of myriad communication networks, the author considers cities from varying temporal and spatial perspectives. Four stories of cities are told: the origins of city networks; the domination of cities by world-empires; the genesis of a singular modern creative interval in which innovation culminates in today’s globalised cities; and finally, the need for cities to act as centres for human creativity to produce a more resilient global society in the current crisis century.
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Monograph Book
Publication Date:
28 Feb 2013
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781781954829
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Economics 2013
Cover A World in Emergence
A World in Emergence
Cities and Regions in the 21st Century
Allen J. Scott
Beginning with the recent history of capitalism and urbanization and moving into a thorough and complex discussion of the modern city, this book outlines the dynamics of what the author calls the third wave of urbanization, characterized by global capitalism’s increasing turn to forms of production revolving around technology-intensive artifacts, financial services, and creative commodities such as film, music, and fashion. The author explores how this shift toward a cognitive and cultural economy has caused dramatic changes in the modern economic landscape in general and in the form and function of world cities in particular. Armed with cutting-edge research and decades of expertise, Allen J. Scott breaks new ground in identifying and explaining how the cities of the past are being reshaped into a complex system of global economic spaces marked by intense relationships of competition and cooperation.
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Monograph Book
Publication Date:
30 Nov 2012
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781781009314
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Economics 2012