Posturban reveals why the future cannot remain urban. Linking climate breakdown, inequality, and democratic erosion to an urban paradigm rooted in a patriarchal, discriminative divide, it calls for a radical shift towards resilient, decentralised, a...Loe edasi...
This book explores how communities worldwide are rethinking the relationship between mobility, place, and belonging. It traces how walkable environments support environmental goals while fostering social connection and cultural vitality, demonstrati...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 26-Jan-2026, Kirjastus: Routledge India, ISBN-13: 9780429329463)
This book critically examines the methodology of visual perception of urban places. Based on systematic study of different parameters derived from investigative research and on empirical analysis of Kolkata as a case, it discusses generic issues of...Loe edasi...
Mobility Injustice by Design examines the social exclusion of vulnerable people in urban spaces, revealing how millions of citizens have their right to roam curbed by design and planning decisions made either intentionally to facilitate immobility o...Loe edasi...
This innovative edited volume places global urbanism in the context of the phenomenal growth of cities of the South, investigating their colonial contentiousness and asking how their history plays out in the twenty-first century phenomenon of urbani...Loe edasi...
Real Estate Economics introduces the main tools and concepts of real estate (RE) economics. It covers areas such as the relation between RE and the macro-economy, RE finance, investment appraisal, taxation, demand and supply, market dynamics and pri...Loe edasi...
Mapping has evolved beyond navigation into a method for interpreting spatial, ephemeral, and sociopolitical dimensions of contemporary life. This volume explores how cartographic practices are being reimagined across disciplines to understand and re...Loe edasi...
New York City: The Basics offers an accessible look at the dynamic and diverse hub of New York City. Written in a clear, engaging style, the book discusses geographic, historic, demographic, socioeconomic, housing, and governmental aspects in the Bi...Loe edasi...
Kassim and Ibrahim characterise a series of sites whose historic urban-architectural core forms reflecta graded spectrum following past models of indigenous urbanism and architecture....Loe edasi...
Energy Efficiency Applications in Buildings presents an investigation into the energy use and measures to improve the energy efficiency of existing building stock in the UK....Loe edasi...
Detroit: A City Imagined in Film is a survey of prominent feature films depicting or referring to Detroit, and how they have captured and fed popular perceptions about the Motor City....Loe edasi...
In this translation and editing of the four books by Mohammad Fawaz, Director of Lebanons Directorate General of Urbanism from 1974 to 1993, Christine Mady provides a unique insight into the development and urban planning of Lebanon and its capital...Loe edasi...
Vacant Land Regeneration provides readers with a comprehensive and transformative understanding of vacant land regeneration. Through the lens of influential research, groundbreaking case studies, and future trends, the book equips readers with the k...Loe edasi...
This book reconceptualizes tall buildings as civic agents that deliver spatial legibility, cultural significance, and vibrant social interaction by embedding placemaking at the heart of vertical development. It articulates ten pragmatic planning and...Loe edasi...
Construct introduces a new category of architecture and engineering in our cities. These structures are highly visible, large-scale and built without traditional designers. These constructions represent an overlooked but significant aspect of our ur...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 08-Dec-2025, Kirjastus: Routledge India, ISBN-13: 9781003600466)
This book examines the concept of smart cities in the context of the UNs sustainable development goals, through three Mediterranean port cities....Loe edasi...
This book explores how privately owned public spaces (POPS) are presented today as desirable additions to urban redevelopment projects, regardless of their inherently divisive social impact, usually delivered through, amongst other factors, carefull...Loe edasi...
The book explores the multiple and changing ideas, concepts, and representations that shape contemporary cities in Asia in a historical perspective....Loe edasi...
This volume addresses the relationship between the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Angkor (Cambodia), and the nearby town of Siem Reap, assessing the margins of heritage sites where detrimental, tourism-driven urban development may take place....Loe edasi...
This book offers a critical exploration of the emergence and establishment of temporary urbanism, as a seductive discourse and as an entangled field of practice encompassing architecture, visual and performative arts, urban regeneration policies and...Loe edasi...
This book deals with the 1980s the golden decade of Hong Kong pop culture in which a cosmopolitan lifestyle of pop and chic emerged in the city....Loe edasi...
Contemporary Practices of Citizenship in Asia and the West: Care of the Self examines urban communities and societies in Asia and the West to shed much-needed light on issues that have emerged as the world experiences its new urban turn. One thing t...Loe edasi...
The contributions in this volume provide critical insights into how the changing statecivil society relationship affects the recent surge of civic urbanism in Hong Kong, Seoul, Singapore, and Taipei....Loe edasi...
This book is an ethnographic analysis of the familial life worlds of fans of a movie star named Rajinikanth as well as his appropriation into networks of patronage, praise and social mobility via images....Loe edasi...
This book examines Singapore through its imaginative representations, revealing a vital perceptual layer beyond physical structures and engineered spaces....Loe edasi...
Explores the literary imaginings of Shanghai, its past, present, and future, in order to understand the effects of that urban transformation on both the psychological state of Shanghais citizens and their perception of the spaces they inhabit....Loe edasi...
This book looks at local collective action and city government responses and its impact on the neighbourhood and the city in Pacific Asia....Loe edasi...
This book provides a systematic overview of the global city debate and competing theoretical notions, as well as an argument for the need to test the frameworks empirical validity before the unresolved questions can be fruitfully addressed....Loe edasi...
Explores the rise of Asian cities, dealing with history, geography, culture, architecture, urbanism, and other topics, and attempts to formulate a new understanding of what makes Asian cities such global leaders....Loe edasi...
This book is a collection of papers originally presented at a conference of the same name in the International Institute for Asian Studies, Leiden in 2016....Loe edasi...
