This open access book is the first of its kind that examines the urban development trajectory, sustainability, and urban policies role across seven different countries in Asia and Africa. It offers theoretical and policy contributions emerging from...Loe edasi...
Get ready to be hooked by the fourth thrilling and atmospheric murder mystery from the million-copy-selling crime writer: DC Smith has solved hundreds of crimes, but hes never been accused of one. Until now... Pitch-perfect crime writin...Loe edasi...
Get ready to be hooked by the third thrilling and atmospheric murder mystery from the million-copy-selling crime writer: this time DC Smith is looking for a body, but what he finds is far more sinister... Pitch-perfect crime writing. DA...Loe edasi...
Get ready to be hooked by the fourth thrilling and atmospheric murder mystery from the million-copy bestselling crime writer: while other detectives are happy to connect the dots of a case, DC Smith paints a whole picture... Pitch-perfec...Loe edasi...
Get ready to be hooked by the second thrilling and atmospheric murder mystery from the million-copy-selling crime writer. Death in old age shouldnt be suspicious. DC Smith thinks this one is... Pitch-perfect crime writing. DAILY EXPRES...Loe edasi...
From the perspective of comprehensive analysis and understanding of Prof. Zheng Hangshengs sociological theories and notions, this book tries to explore his academic career to become a pioneer, advocate, forerunner and propellent of Theoretical Cons...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 04-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Mira Books, ISBN-13: 9781335219978)
Rule #1 on the Everly Fletcher Matchmaking Manifesto…Never fall for your best friend’s grumpy brother.Everly is the matchmaking mastermind of her family, but her own love life is a bit of a flop. Back from four years in Dubli...Loe edasi...
This book explores how modern cities are transforming through smart technologies and circular economy principles. The opening chapters introduce the concept of the smart city, explaining digital infrastructure, data-driven decision making, and conne...Loe edasi...
Mapping out the development of the great American restaurant, the author takes us on a nostalgic journey in From Boarding House to Bistro (originally published in 1990) through the history of a nations eating houses....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 02-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Stanford University Press, ISBN-13: 9781503646254)
In the decades after independence in 1947, architects in Pakistan were enlisted to build a postcolonial future - a new world after empire. But the debris of the past could not be so easily swept aside. The recalcitrance of local and regional histori...Loe edasi...
In the decades after independence in 1947, architects in Pakistan were enlisted to build a postcolonial future—a new world after empire. But the debris of the past could not be so easily swept aside. The recalcitrance of local and regional histori...Loe edasi...
Dive into the electrifying tale of a Brooklyn-born patriot turned radical activist, in an era when America was torn by its ideological extremes In the shadow of recent turmoil, Join the Conspiracy transports readers to a pivotal moment of...Loe edasi...
Karlas books hook me every time. Shes a mastermind of romance. Brittainy Cherry, USA Today bestselling author Theres only one course of action when your dad wants you to marry a clammy-handed wimp to make one of his board members hap...Loe edasi...
Improving Environmental and Human Health with Community Trees and Forests provides the latest and most comprehensive information on community forests globally, how these trees improve human health and well-being, the value of community trees,...Loe edasi...
This textbook offers an accessible overview of a century of planning theory, bringing a critical perspective rooted in contemporary research that will appeal to lecturers and to their students. Organised thematically, with a focus on institutional...Loe edasi...
Mega events are accelerators of urban transformation with lasting effects on urban environments. In the spotlight of the spectacle these crucial factors are often ignored, deliberately underestimated or underreported. They pertain every aspect of urb...Loe edasi...
Sari: Cambridge Studies in the History of the People's Republic of China
(Ilmumisaeg: 31-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009682435)
Lanza explores radical attempts to remake Chinese cities during the Great Leap Forward in the first English history of urban collectivization. Through the universalization of production, the collectivization of life, and womens liberation, he argue...Loe edasi...
Lanza explores radical attempts to remake Chinese cities during the Great Leap Forward in the first English history of urban collectivization. Through the universalization of production, the collectivization of life, and womens liberation, he argue...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 30-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Springer International Publishing AG, ISBN-13: 9783031859472)
This book is an in-depth and insightful exploration of the pivotal role Geographic Information Systems (GIS) play in understanding heritage changes and revitalizing urban identities amidst rapid urbanization and transformation. Geographic Info...Loe edasi...
This collection investigates how cities have become centres for media industries, examining how local operations are shaped by global flows of finance, technology, and creative labour, and how media industries contribute to urban identity and cult...Loe edasi...
This collection investigates how cities have become centres for media industries, examining how local operations are shaped by global flows of finance, technology, and creative labour, and how media industries contribute to urban identity and cult...Loe edasi...
As the second volume of this trilogy focused on nature in cities, this book focuses on global case study examples relevant to nature-based urbanism. As a relatively newer field of research, nature-based urbanism encompasses the integration of ecolog...Loe edasi...
Explores the role of design-based thinking and practice in the construction of cultural common spaces Commons and Public Partnership explores the creative production of the commons as a third political sphere that occupies the sp...Loe edasi...
This book offers an exploration of how cities can become engines of equity and well-being. As urbanization accelerates globally, this book argues, the future of truly sustainable, resilient cities depends on making them more equitable by design. It...Loe edasi...
Peter Dirksmeier, Liz Cox, Angelina Göb, Liza Griffin, Kay Pallaris, Hannah Widmer, Lee Crookes, Beth Perry, Irene Manzini Ceinar, Regan Koch...
(Ilmumisaeg: 28-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Bristol University Press, ISBN-13: 9781529241594)
From parks and libraries to pubs and schools, social infrastructures are the everyday places that bring people together, support community life and foster connection. As interest in the concept grows, this timely and accessible edited collection o...Loe edasi...
This book provides an up to date overview of Mediterranean port cities and their challenges in a ‘liquid’ world. It interrogates emerging cultural narratives of these places, new morphological approaches to understand their transformation, and the...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 27-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Bristol University Press, ISBN-13: 9781529245738)
This book offers a vivid, critical exploration of young adults’ experiences of the contemporary night-time economy, drawing on rich ethnographic research from Stoke-on-Trent. Adopting recent conceptual advancements in ultra-realism, critical crimi...Loe edasi...
This book uses Berlin as a pivotal case study to analyse the transformation of urban spaces under the combined influences of financialisation and platformisation. By examining Airbnb’s impact on housing and the development of coworking spaces, it...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 26-May-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: The Story Plant, ISBN-13: 9781611884272)
Blue Smoke Rises is the thrilling sequel to the coming-of-age story Mendel, set in the mid 1980’s on Chicago’s Southside. After being discharged from the hospital, Brandon James Jr. (BJ) is eager to pick up the pieces of his fractured life. He secure...Loe edasi...
A reclusive graduate student is forced into a friendship that destabilizes her life in this surreal, allegorical romance. In a famed but crumbling university city overrun by nature, where power is held in a fragile balance between...Loe edasi...
This Open Access book explores the development of contemporary urban struggles in Sweden, offering a comprehensive and critical perspective on collective action in cities. It examines the practices of collective urban actors, highlighting both visib...Loe edasi...
This book presents how urban megaprojects uniquely expose the complexities of competitive authoritarianism. Through an analysis of Skopje 2014, it argues that accelerated, symbolically charged urban transformation reveals how such regimes govern s...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 04-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Springer International Publishing AG, ISBN-13: 9783031962196)
The book will be different and new in relation to the available books in the market, such as Urban Green utilizing Innovative Parks for Resurgent Cities, Green and Ecological Technologies for Urban Planning in relation to Creating Smart Citie...Loe edasi...
Although transformations in retailing are of tremendous current interest, there is no single broad-ranging account of the evolution of retailing formats. This book fills this gap, providing a chronological presentation of changes in retail businesse...Loe edasi...
Interdisciplinary in approach, this book employs the key concepts of fragmentation and reconfiguration to consider the ways in which human experience and artistic practice can engage with and respond to the dis-integration that characterises modern...Loe edasi...
What does it mean, three decades after the demise of the USSR, to inhabit cities built for a future that has never arrived? In pursuit of the question – what is left of the socialist city? – this book aims not only to trace the material and mnemon...Loe edasi...
In pursuit of the question – what is left of the socialist city? – the aim of this book project is not only to trace the material and mnemonic remains of the socialist city but to show how the Soviet discourse of the city would at times engender r...Loe edasi...
Using a unique data-rich study of Newcastle’s becoming of a metropolitan city-region in the 19th century, this book explores a new understanding of how successful cities attain a metropolitan status. Using a unique data-rich...Loe edasi...
Municipalities around the world have increasingly used inclusionary housing programs to address their housing shortages. This book problematizes those programs in London and New York City by offering an empirical, research-based perspective on the s...Loe edasi...
This book reveals how the 19th Century modernisation of Bogotá led to a transformation in the social role of plants showing how this city located in the high altitudes of the tropical Andes turned into a floristic island formed by native, introduce...Loe edasi...
What are the challenges and potential of complex and emergent urban systems? This book answers this question by shedding new light on the topics of emergence, complexity, and self-organisation and showing their interconnectedness with other concepts...Loe edasi...
This book examines the creation of extreme poverty in East Europe. It will be of interest to researchers studying Central and Eastern Europe, political economy of socialism, political economy of capitalist transformations, poverty studies, welfare a...Loe edasi...
