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Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social groups & communities > Urban communities

The Relationship Between Trust and Social Capital of China's Urban Residents (Hardcover): Zou Yuchun The Relationship Between Trust and Social Capital of China's Urban Residents (Hardcover)
Zou Yuchun; Contributions by Qiusha Lv
R4,106 Discovery Miles 41 060 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

i)Everyone has experienced trusted and betrayed in the past. Read this book to see how professionals analyze TRUST from a sociological perspective. ii)As the countryside life fades away, how can strangers in the city be trusted? Will enlarging discussion group and sending greetings to friends in the New Year help to build trust relationship? Answers are in this book.

Community Development for Times of Crisis - Creating Caring Communities (Hardcover): Mark A. Brennan, Rhonda Phillips, Norman... Community Development for Times of Crisis - Creating Caring Communities (Hardcover)
Mark A. Brennan, Rhonda Phillips, Norman Walzer, Brent D. Hales
R4,124 Discovery Miles 41 240 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

1. This represents the first book to bring together a wide range of community development literature focusing on the theory, research, and application behind effective locally -driven disaster mitigation 2. This book will provide local governments, NGOs, citizen groups and others a body of knowledge to use as they prepare to respond to natural and manmade disasters. 3. This book will help to enhance government level responses to disaster by providing a companion structure for disaster response and recovery

Introducing Urban Anthropology (Hardcover, 2nd edition): Rivke Jaffe, Anouk De Koning Introducing Urban Anthropology (Hardcover, 2nd edition)
Rivke Jaffe, Anouk De Koning
R4,107 Discovery Miles 41 070 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Specifically designed for courses with an anthropology focus, as opposed to existing material that tends to derive from other disciplines e.g. urban sociology or urban geography. Each chapter contains pedagogic features to aid students' understanding and revision, including text boxes, images, discussion questions and further reading suggestions New edition material includes a new chapter on neoliberalism, more material on methods and applications, and fully updated to include the latest material on social movements.

Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Building Innovations - ICBI 2020 (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2022): Volodymyr... Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Building Innovations - ICBI 2020 (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2022)
Volodymyr Onyshchenko, Gulchohra Mammadova, Svitlana Sivitska, Akif Gasimov
R7,621 Discovery Miles 76 210 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book gathers the latest advances, innovations, and applications in the field of building design and construction, by focusing on new design solutions for buildings and new technologies creation for construction, as presented by researchers and engineers at the 3rd International Conference Building Innovations (ICBI), held in Poltava - Baku, Ukraine - Azerbaijan, on June 1-2, 2020. It covers highly diverse topics, including structures operation, repairing and thermal modernization in existing buildings and urban planning features, machines and mechanisms for construction, as well as efficient economy and energy conservation issues in construction. The contributions, which were selected by means of a rigorous international peer-review process, highlight numerous exciting ideas that will spur novel research directions and foster multidisciplinary collaborations.

Smart Economy in Smart African Cities - Sustainable, Inclusive, Resilient and Prosperous (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2019): Gora Mboup,... Smart Economy in Smart African Cities - Sustainable, Inclusive, Resilient and Prosperous (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2019)
Gora Mboup, Banji Oyelaran-Oyeyinka
R3,895 Discovery Miles 38 950 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book highlights the use of information and communication technology (ICT) infrastructures in order to develop smart cities and produce smart economies in Africa. It discusses a robust set of concepts, including smart planning, smart infrastructure development, smart economic development, smart environmental sustainability, smart social development, resilience, and smart peace and security in several African cities. By drawing on the accumulated knowledge on various conditions that make cities smart, green, livable and healthy, it helps in the planning, design and management of African urbanization. In turn, it fosters the development of e-commerce, e-education, e-governance, etc. The rapid development of ICT infrastructures facilitates the creation of smart economies in digitally served cities and towns through smart urban planning, smart infrastructures, smart land tenure and smart urban policies. In the long term, this can reduce emissions of CO2, promote the creation of low carbon cities, reduce land degradation and promote biodiversity.

A Companion Guide to Handbook of Urban Educational Leadership - Theory to Practice (Hardcover): Rene O Guillaume, Noelle... A Companion Guide to Handbook of Urban Educational Leadership - Theory to Practice (Hardcover)
Rene O Guillaume, Noelle Witherspoon Arnold, Azadeh F. Osanloo
R1,673 Discovery Miles 16 730 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

A Companion Guide to Handbook of Urban Educational Leadership: Theory to Practice provides the reader with activities linked to the theoretical chapters, which no handbook has included to date. The overarching goal is the development of scholarly leaders who can lead change and improve the practice. The Companion Guide creates an important bridge to connecting the theoretical concepts with practical applications. The Companion Guide activities will help illuminate salient theoretical concepts related to urban education and leadership. This deliberate intertwining of theoretical bases with practical implications, allows the reader to gain understanding into the praxis of urban educational leadership. By bringing together philosophical and educational insights, we bridge theoretical gaps in the scholarship of the urban educational leadership in society, and offer tools for critically analyzing the undergirding concepts.

Gender in the European Town - Ancien Regime to the Modern (Hardcover): Deborah Simonton Gender in the European Town - Ancien Regime to the Modern (Hardcover)
Deborah Simonton
R4,136 Discovery Miles 41 360 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The first book to look at gender as a specific subject in urban history across Europe A great overview of a very broad timespan Will be of interested to gender historians as well as urban historians

Gender in the European Town - Ancien Regime to the Modern (Paperback): Deborah Simonton Gender in the European Town - Ancien Regime to the Modern (Paperback)
Deborah Simonton
R1,305 Discovery Miles 13 050 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The first book to look at gender as a specific subject in urban history across Europe A great overview of a very broad timespan Will be of interested to gender historians as well as urban historians

The Planetary Gentrification Reader (Paperback): Loretta Lees, Tom Slater, Elvin Wyly The Planetary Gentrification Reader (Paperback)
Loretta Lees, Tom Slater, Elvin Wyly
R1,153 Discovery Miles 11 530 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Gentrification is a global process that the United Nations now sees as a human rights issue. This new Planetary Gentrification Reader follows on from the editors' 2010 volume, The Gentrification Reader, and provides a more longitudinal (backward and forward in time) and broader (turning away from Anglo-/Euro-American hegemony) sense of developments in gentrification studies over time and space, drawing on key readings that reflect the development of cutting-edge debates. Revisiting new debates over the histories of gentrification, thinking through comparative urbanism on gentrification, considering new waves and types of gentrification, and giving much more focus to resistance to gentrification, this is a stellar collection of writings on this critical issue. Like in their 2010 Reader, the editors, who are internationally renowned experts in the field, include insightful commentary and suggested further reading. The book is essential reading for students and researchers in urban studies, urban planning, human geography, sociology, and housing studies and for those seeking to fight this socially unjust process.

Leisure, Activism, and the Animation of the Urban Environment (Hardcover): I R Lamond, Brett Lashua, Chelsea Reid Leisure, Activism, and the Animation of the Urban Environment (Hardcover)
I R Lamond, Brett Lashua, Chelsea Reid
R4,020 Discovery Miles 40 200 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

This book brings together chapters that address questions of leisure, activism, and the animation of urban environments. The authors share research that explores the meaning and making of activist practices, events of dissent, and the arts in everyday life. Situated in a growing body of activist scholarship and social justice research, within the field of leisure studies, the contributions spotlight understandings and disruptions of public spaces in cities. These range from overtly political practices such as protest marches to recreational practices such as skateboarding and bicycling that remake cities through their contestations of space. Across the collection the chapters raise broader questions of civil society, whether it is research on youth activism, historical uses of public spaces by rightwing or racist groups, or interrogating the absence of leisure and closure of public spaces for people experiencing homelessness. Some chapters explore events, such as festivals as sites of resistance and social change. In others, grassroots neighbourhood activism through arts is centralised, or mega-events are framed through protest campaigns against bids to host the Summer Olympic Games. A central thread running through the chapters is the question of whose voices count and whose remain unheard in events of dissent in the city. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Leisure Studies.

Planning in an Uncanny World - Australian Urban Planning in an International Context (Hardcover): Nicholas A. Phelps, Judy... Planning in an Uncanny World - Australian Urban Planning in an International Context (Hardcover)
Nicholas A. Phelps, Judy Bush, Anna Hurlimann
R4,105 Discovery Miles 41 050 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

A distinctive argument of the relevance of Australia to the rest of the world - one which places it more centrally than existing contributions Offers one of the first major contributions on reconstructing what urban planning might draw from indigenous perspectives and relationships to place Unique contributions on the topics of connected cities and zombie suburbs

Urban Emotions and the Making of the City - Interdisciplinary Perspectives (Paperback): Katie Barclay, Jade Riddle Urban Emotions and the Making of the City - Interdisciplinary Perspectives (Paperback)
Katie Barclay, Jade Riddle
R1,346 Discovery Miles 13 460 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book brings together a vibrant interdisciplinary mix of scholars - from anthropology, architecture, art history, film studies, fine art, history, literature, linguistics and urban studies - to explore the role of emotions in the making and remaking of the city. By asking how urban boundaries are produced through and with emotion; how emotional communities form and define themselves through urban space; and how the emotional imaginings of urban spaces impact on histories, identities and communities, the volume advances our understanding of 'urban emotions' into discussions of materiality, power and embodiment across time and space.

Landscape and Utopia (Hardcover): Jody Beck Landscape and Utopia (Hardcover)
Jody Beck
R4,102 Discovery Miles 41 020 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book examines three landmark utopian visions central to 20th century landscape architectural, planning, and architectural theory. The period between the 1890s and the 1940s was a fertile time for utopian thinking. Significant geographic shifts of large populations; radically altered relations between capital and labor; rapid technological developments; large investments in transportation and energy infrastructure; and repetitive economic disruptions motivated many individuals to wholly reimagine society - including the connections between social relations and the built environment. Landscape and Utopia examines the role of landscapes in the political imaginations of the Garden City, the Radiant City, and Broadacre City. Each project uses landscapes to propose a reconstruction of the relationships between land, labor, and capital but - while the projects are well-known - the role played by landscapes has been largely left unexamined. Similarly, the radical anti-capitalism that underpinned each project has similarly been, for the most part, left out of contemporary discussions. This book sets these projects within a historical and philosophical context and opens a discussion on the role of landscapes in society today. This book will be a must-read for instructors, students, and researchers of the history and theory of landscape architecture, planning, and architecture as well as utopian studies, cultural and social history, and environmental theory.

Working Class Experiences of Social Inequalities in (Post-) Industrial Landscapes - Feelings of Class (Paperback): Lars Meier Working Class Experiences of Social Inequalities in (Post-) Industrial Landscapes - Feelings of Class (Paperback)
Lars Meier
R1,332 Discovery Miles 13 320 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Based on qualitative research among industrial workers in a region that has undergone deindustrialisation and transformation to a service-based economy, this book examines the loss of status among former manual labourers. Focus lies on their emotional experiences, nostalgic memories, hauntings from the past and attachments to their former places of work, to transformed neighbourhoods, as well as to public space. Against this background the book explores the continued importance of class as workers attempt to manage the declining recognition of their skills and a loss of power in an "established-outsider figuration". A study of the transformation of everyday life and social positions wrought by changes in the social structure, in urban landscapes and in the "structures of feeling", this examination of the dynamic of social identity will appeal to scholars of sociology, anthropology and geography with interests in post-industrial societies, social inequality, class and social identity.

The Routledge Companion to Actor-Network Theory (Paperback): Anders Blok, Celia Roberts, Ignacio Farias The Routledge Companion to Actor-Network Theory (Paperback)
Anders Blok, Celia Roberts, Ignacio Farias
R1,495 Discovery Miles 14 950 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This companion explores ANT as an intellectual practice, tracking its movements and engagements with a wide range of other academic and activist projects. Showcasing the work of a diverse set of 'second generation' ANT scholars from around the world, it highlights the exciting depth and breadth of contemporary ANT and its future possibilities. The companion has 38 chapters, each answering a key question about ANT and its capacities. Early chapters explore ANT as an intellectual practice and highlight ANT's dialogues with other fields and key theorists. Others open critical, provocative discussions of its limitations. Later sections explore how ANT has been developed in a range of social scientific fields and how it has been used to explore a wide range of scales and sites. Chapters in the final section discuss ANT's involvement in 'real world' endeavours such as disability and environmental activism, and even running a Chilean hospital. Each chapter contains an overview of relevant work and introduces original examples and ideas from the authors' recent research. The chapters orient readers in rich, complex fields and can be read in any order or combination. Throughout the volume, authors mobilise ANT to explore and account for a range of exciting case studies: from wheelchair activism to parliamentary decision-making; from racial profiling to energy consumption monitoring; from queer sex to Korean cities. A comprehensive introduction by the editors explores the significance of ANT more broadly and provides an overview of the volume. The Routledge Companion to Actor-Network Theory will be an inspiring and lively companion to academics and advanced undergraduates and postgraduates from across many disciplines across the social sciences, including Sociology, Geography, Politics and Urban Studies, Environmental Studies and STS, and anyone wishing to engage with ANT, to understand what it has already been used to do and to imagine what it might do in the future.

Public Places Urban Spaces - The Dimensions of Urban Design (Hardcover, 3rd edition): Matthew Carmona Public Places Urban Spaces - The Dimensions of Urban Design (Hardcover, 3rd edition)
Matthew Carmona
R4,648 Discovery Miles 46 480 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

-A simple clear structure based on urban design course structures -A comprehensive discussion of the field -Well illustrated throughout with examples, tables and images that explain and illuminate the text

Environmental Compliance Handbook, Volume 3 - Land (Hardcover): Daniel T. Rogers Environmental Compliance Handbook, Volume 3 - Land (Hardcover)
Daniel T. Rogers
R3,824 Discovery Miles 38 240 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

1. Introduces all land pollution control regulations and the requirements of any land pollution control permits available up to date. 2. Answers in depth all practical questions that arise when working on compliance projects in a "how to" method. 3. Addresses a wider spectrum of issues that go beyond chemical-based contamination and environmental regulations and examines the impacts of climate change. 4. Includes many real-life examples and case studies from industry and institutions that comply with land use regulations. 5. It is global in coverage and very useful to companies that have expanded operations outside their country of origin.

David Harvey - A Critical Introduction to His Thought (Hardcover): Noel Castree, Greig Charnock, Brett Christophers David Harvey - A Critical Introduction to His Thought (Hardcover)
Noel Castree, Greig Charnock, Brett Christophers
R4,116 Discovery Miles 41 160 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book will be the first text that critically synthesises and makes accessible Harvey's voluminous and influential literature. Authors are well placed to guide us through Harvey's large and complex theoretical corpus with careful contextualization and assessment, all in relatively accessible and clear prose. While there are many papers and chapters about Harvey's writings, most focus on one or other aspect of them and do not paint a more complete picture.

Hovels to High Rise - State Housing in Europe Since 1850 (Paperback): Anne Power Hovels to High Rise - State Housing in Europe Since 1850 (Paperback)
Anne Power
R1,159 Discovery Miles 11 590 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Originally published in 1993, this book traces how governments in France, Germany, Britain, Denmark and Ireland became involved in replacing industrial revolution urban slums with mass high-rise, high-density concrete estates. As the book considers each country's housing history and traditions, and analyses the contrasting structures and systems, it finds convergence of problems in the growing tensions of their most disadvantaged communities. The book underlines the continuing drift towards deeper polarization, an issue which has become ever more important in the multi-lingual, ethnically diverse urban societies of the 21st Century. The book's detailed coverage of the historical, political and social changes relating to housing within the various countries make it an important text for students and practitioners concerned with housing, urban affairs, social policy and administration.

Public Housing in Europe and America (Paperback): J. S. Fuerst Public Housing in Europe and America (Paperback)
J. S. Fuerst; Foreword by Philip Hauser
R1,000 Discovery Miles 10 000 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Originally published in 1974, this book surveys the experience of public and quasi public housing in the UK, USA, France, Germany, the former USSR, Israel, Denmark, Sweden, Hungary and Puerto Rico. Each country's housing policy is set in a broad social and historical context, showing how the policy developed and how effective it was. Administrative problems encountered in different countries are evaluated and compared and many similarities emerge. The relationship of housing to transport, education and employment is discussed and special attention is focused on the role of new towns in Sweden, the former USSR, the UK, Israel and the USA.

Twenty Minutes in Manhattan (Paperback): Michael Sorkin Twenty Minutes in Manhattan (Paperback)
Michael Sorkin
R487 R453 Discovery Miles 4 530 Save R34 (7%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Every morning, the architect and writer Michael Sorkin walks downtown from his Greenwich Village apartment through Washington Square to his Tribeca office. Sorkin isn't in a hurry, and he never ignores his surroundings. Instead, he pays careful, close attention. And in "Twenty""Minutes in Manhattan," he explains what he sees, what he imagines, what he knows--giving us extraordinary access to the layers of history, the feats of engineering and artistry, and the intense social drama that take place along a simple twenty-minute walk.

Violent Utopia - Dispossession and Black Restoration in Tulsa (Hardcover): Jovan Scott Lewis Violent Utopia - Dispossession and Black Restoration in Tulsa (Hardcover)
Jovan Scott Lewis
R2,342 Discovery Miles 23 420 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

In Violent Utopia Jovan Scott Lewis retells the history and afterlife of the 1921 Tulsa race massacre, from the post-Reconstruction migration of Black people to Oklahoma Indian Territory to contemporary efforts to rebuild Black prosperity. He focuses on how the massacre in Tulsa's Greenwood neighborhood-colloquially known as Black Wall Street-curtailed the freedom built there. Rather than framing the massacre as a one-off event, Lewis places it in a larger historical and social context of widespread patterns of anti-Black racism, segregation, and dispossession in Tulsa and beyond. He shows how the processes that led to the massacre, subsequent urban renewal, and intergenerational poverty shored up by nonprofits constitute a form of continuous slow violence. Now, in their attempts to redevelop resources for self-determination, Black Tulsans must reconcile a double inheritance: the massacre's violence and the historical freedom and prosperity that Greenwood represented. Their future is tied to their geography, which is the foundation from which they will repair and fulfill Greenwood's promise.

The Spatial Scale of Crime - How Physical and Social Distance Drive the Spatial Location of Crime (Hardcover): John R. Hipp The Spatial Scale of Crime - How Physical and Social Distance Drive the Spatial Location of Crime (Hardcover)
John R. Hipp
R4,115 Discovery Miles 41 150 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

* Provides a unique perspective on how to consider the spatial patterns of where and when crime occurs * Offers a cutting-edge perspective on the plethora of data produced by the growing number of studies of crime in neighborhoods * Bridges the areas of Crime and Place and the area of Communities and Crime

The Firm and Territory - An Organizational Perspective (Hardcover): Roberta Troisi The Firm and Territory - An Organizational Perspective (Hardcover)
Roberta Troisi
R4,093 Discovery Miles 40 930 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book investigates the relationship between the firm and the territory, emphasizing the micro-organizational dimension and the interactions between actors at territorial levels. First, the book examines the particular features of the firm considering three key factors - structural design, power configuration and organizational culture - and the characteristics of the surrounding territory as a specific spatial ecosystem with its own institutions, agents, history and objectives. Second, it analyses organizational tenets at the micro- and meso levels with a view to explaining various relational models and their implications at the level of the firm and the territory. Although previous studies have focused on the territory as a geographical space in which firms procure resources and promote development, this book presents an innovative approach and makes a key contribution to the literature by dealing with the firm and the territory from an organizational perspective. The relationship is analysed as bidirectional: a key question concerns how the territory can impact the organizational dimension of the firm, and how the firm can characterize the territory. This will be considered in connection with various effects. The positive effects of the relationship with the territory are investigated in terms of territorial identity, territorial resilience and territorial sustainability. The negative effects include the role of criminal networks rooted in the territory, with firms acting as key agents.

Understanding Street Culture - Poverty, Crime, Youth and Cool (Hardcover): Jonathan Ilan Understanding Street Culture - Poverty, Crime, Youth and Cool (Hardcover)
Jonathan Ilan
R4,510 Discovery Miles 45 100 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

How do poverty, youth and crime relate to the concept of being 'cool'? Jonathan Ilan presents a unique, theoretically informed overview of street culture in various parts of the world - its origins, functions, manifestations and appeal - examining both its bearing on criminal lifestyles and on the cultivation of 'cool.' Drawing on contemporary research and original examples to evidence new ways of thinking about street culture - from the favelas of Brazil to housing projects in the USA - the text locates street culture within its particular social, cultural and economic contexts. Covering diverse subjects from brutal violence to contemporary fashion it explores the ways in which street culture is intertwined with processes of social exclusion and inclusion. An in-depth and even-handed guide to understanding the practices, styles and struggles associated with a particular section of the socio-economically disadvantaged, this text stands as an invaluable resource for students and academics across a range of disciplines, including youth studies, urban studies, criminology, sociology, cultural studies and geography.

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