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AiREAS: Sustainocracy for a Healthy City : Phase 3: Civilian Participation – Including the Global Health Deal Proposition

This volume describes phase 3 of the AiREAS multidisciplinary cocreation effort to produce a Healthy City. Phase 1 referred ...

Building the Inclusive City Governance, Access, and the Urban Transformation of Dubai

This book is an anthropological urban study of the Emirate of Dubai, its institutions, and their evolution. It provides ...

Chasing the Chinese Dream Four Decades of Following China’s War on Poverty

This book explores the historical, cultural and philosophical contexts that have made anti-poverty the core of Chinese society ...

Contemporary Housing Struggles : A Structural Field of Contention Approach

This book provides a comparative study of housing contention in Budapest and Bucharest in 2008-2021. The financialization ...

European Metropolitan Housing Markets

This book provides a comprehensive analysis of housing theory and policy with a focus on metropolitan regions. The results ...

Hot Property : The Housing Market in Major Cities

This book discusses booming housing markets in cities around the globe, and the resulting challenges for policymakers and ...

Housing Estates in the Baltic Countries

This book focuses on the formation and later socio-spatial trajectories of large housing estates in the Baltic countries—Estonia, ...

Innovation Capacity and the City

This book represents one of the key milestones of DESIGNSCAPES: value creation through design-enabled innovation”. The ...

Innovative Models for Sustainable Development in Emerging African Countries

This book explores key issues and presents recent case studies in areas of importance for the transition to a circular model ...

Introduction to Space Syntax in Urban Studies

This textbook is a comprehensive introduction to space syntax method and theory for graduate students and researchers. It ...

Migration, Urbanity and Cosmopolitanism in a Globalized World

This book draws a theoretically productive triangle between urban studies, theories of cosmopolitanism, and migration studies ...

Neighbourhoods in Transition : Brownfield Regeneration in European Metropolitan Areas

This book is focused on the intersection between urban brownfields and the sustainability transitions of metreopolitan areas, ...

Participatory Research and Planning in Practice

This book provides in-depth insights into participatory research and planning by presenting practical examples of its use. ...

Regeneration of the Built Environment from a Circular Economy Perspective

This book explores the strategic importance and advantages of adopting multidisciplinary and multiscalar approaches of inquiry ...

Regional and Local Development in Times of Polarisation

This volume contributes to the debates about polarisation and regional development by focussing on questions of spatial justice, ...

Representing Landscapes : One Hundred Years of Visual Communication / Nadia Amoroso, Martin Holland

Provides an in-depth historical overview of graphic and visual communication styles, techniques and outputs from key landscape ...

Science of Societal Safety

This book covers comprehensive but fundamental principles and concepts of disaster and accident prevention and mitigation, ...

The Data Shake Opportunities and Obstacles for Urban Policy Making

This book represents one of the key milestones of PoliVisu, an H2020 research and innovation project funded by the European ...

The Places Where Community Is Practiced

In this book the social cohesion of urban neighborhoods and their residents is examined, which is often viewed as vulnerable ...

Urban Planning Against Poverty How to Think and Do Better Cities in the Global South

This book revisits the theoretical foundations of urban planning and the application of these concepts and methods in the ...

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