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Migrants' (Im)mobilities in Three European Urban Contexts

This book analyses the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on three ethnic minorities in three European cities: Bangladeshi in London, Turks in Stuttgart and Peruvians in Milan. Considerable debate has eme…

Urban Migrant Inclusion and Refugee Protection - Volume 1

This open access book, the first of two volumes, offers novel insights into the resilience of migrants and refugees and challenges Eurocentric and colonial perspectives of urban solidarity, sanctuary, and…

Arja Vainio-Mattila, Miriam R. Grant

The Translocal Geography of Lodging in Urban Zimbabwe

This book will argue that lodging is a hugely ignored, largely invisible but critical sector of housing provision and economic contributor of burgeoning African cities. It further connects the rural and t…

Ian Morley

The City Beautiful and the Globalization of Urban Planning

During the past one hundred or so years, urbanists have composed grand narratives regarding the development of urban design and the international dissemination of planning models. Yet, building upon this …

Ian Morley

The City Beautiful and the Globalization of Urban Planning

During the past one hundred or so years, urbanists have composed grand narratives regarding the development of urban design and the international dissemination of planning models. Yet, building upon this …

Bruno Sergio Portela, Paulo H. T Zannin

Whole Body Vibration in Urban Bus Drivers

Exposure to whole-body vibration in bus drivers is a risk factor for low back pain, and the level of physical fitness is seen as a protective factor for working in a seated position. Therefore, this study…

Clé Lesger

Power and Urban Space in Pre-Modern Holland

Cities and urban societies have many faces. In this study, the pre-modern cities of Holland are presented as arenas where power relations between social classes are expressed in a more or less permanent a…

Youth Language Practices and Urban Language Contact in Africa

An up-to-date, theoretically informed study of male, in-group, street-aligned, youth language practice in various urban centres in Africa.

Melvin Delgado

The Death Care Industry and Urban Gun Violence

This book provides a unique foundation upon which to view how the involvement of the death care sector offers a potential route to take in practice and research in reaching urban communities of color deal…

Mohammad Ali Chaichian

The Transformative Power of Architecture and Urban Design

Informed by urban political economy and critical social analysis, this book provides a critical comparative analysis of macro- and micro-level spatial design processes in architecture and urban planning. …

Maxwell

Maxwell's Urban Hang Suite (20th Anniversary Edition) (140g) (Limited Edition) (Metallic Gold Vinyl)

Nature-based Solutions for Circular Management of Urban Water

Despite the strong economic growth of the last decades, our modern global society is facing the existential threat of climate change. It is now realized that the linear economic model is not sustainable i…

Artificial Intelligence (Ai) for Smart and Sustainable Urban Transportation

Exploration of how cutting-edge digital technologies can power humanity's collective efforts towards urban transport environmental sustainabilityArtificial Intelligence (AI) for Smart and Sustainable Urba…

Christophe Providence

Urban Solidarity, Local Governance and Territorial Resilience in Haiti

This book examines urbanization in Haiti as a laboratory of crisis and resilience, where the absence of state capacity collides with the creativity of grassroots actors. It reveals how communities, women,…

Art Ensemble Of Chicago

Urban Bushmen

Die Bandbreite des Art Ensemble of Chicago ist sicherlich erstaunlich, aber was die Gruppe von so vielen anderen unterscheidet, ist nicht eine Frage der Quantität, sondern des Schrittes. Wie sein Akronym …

Local Climate Zone Application in Sustainable Urban Development

Chapter 1. Urbanization and urban climate in high-density cities.- Chapter 2. Origins and evolution of the Local Climate Zone classification system.- Chapter 3. Current popular methods for LCZ mapping.- C…

Ulrike Steffen

Colour in the city - Mein urbanes Ausmalbuch

Mal dich in deine Lieblingsstadt - ob Amsterdam, Berlin oder Paris!Das Buch liefert nicht nur wundervolle Ansichten von Shops, Wohnhäusern und Sehenswürdigkeiten , sondern gibt auch andere Einblicke in da…

Planning for Equitable Urban Agriculture in the United States

This open access book, building on the legacy of food systems scholar and advocate, Jerome Kaufman, examines the potential and pitfalls of planning for urban agriculture (UA) in the United States, especia…

Darshini Mahadevia, Gian C. Delgado-Ramos, Janice Barnes

Learning from COVID-19 for Climate-Ready Urban Transformation

This Element focuses on understanding COVID-19's impact on city systems related to climate change mitigation and adaptation, and vice versa, in terms of warnings, lessons learned, and calls to action. Thi…