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Brandellero, Sara, Kamila Krakowska Rodrigues, and Derek Pardue. Urban Nightlife and Contested Spaces. Amsterdam University Press, 2025. https://doi.org/10.5117/9789048558742.

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Urban Nightlife and Contested Spaces: Cultural Encounters after Dusk captures the multifarious nature of the urban night and how it is lived, structured, and reflected upon in diverse cultural and artistic expressions. The volume acknowledges the urban night as an often-overlooked key dimension necessary to understand the complexities of today’s urban spaces, including the often-polarizing question of migration. After dusk, urban social challenges are often magnified, as questions of who can be where and when - along ethnic, racial or gender lines, for example - gain an additional dimension. T

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Gurr, Jens Martin, Rolf Parr, and Dennis Hardt, eds. Metropolitan Research. transcript Verlag, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.14361/9783839463109.

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Metropolitan research requires multidisciplinary perspectives in order to do justice to the complexities of metropolitan regions. This volume provides a scholarly and accessible overview of key methods and approaches in metropolitan research from a uniquely broad range of disciplines including architectural history, art history, heritage conservation, literary and cultural studies, spatial planning and planning theory, geoinformatics, urban sociology, economic geography, operations research, technology studies, transport planning, aquatic ecosystems research and urban epidemiology. It is this

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Valjakka, Minna, and Meiqin Wang, eds. Visual Arts, Representations and Interventions in Contemporary China. Amsterdam University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.5117/9789462982239.

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This edited volume provides a multifaceted investigation of the dynamic interrelations between visual arts and urbanization in contemporary Mainland China with a focus on unseen representations and urban interventions brought about by the transformations of the urban space and the various problems associated with it. Through a wide range of illuminating case studies, the authors demonstrate how innovative artistic and creative practices initiated by various stakeholders not only raise critical awareness on socio-political issues of Chinese urbanization but also actively reshape the urban livin

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Bhatia, Kiran V. Children’s Digital Experiences in Indian Slums. Amsterdam University Press, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.5117/9789048559930.

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This book departs from the universalising and rescue narratives of poor children and technologies. It offers complex stories on how children’s social identities (gender, caste, and religion), cultural norms, and personal aspirations influence their digital experiences. How do children challenge, circumvent, or reinforce the dominant sociocultural norms in their engagements with digital technologies? What can we learn about digital technologies and poor children’s jugaad and aspirations in the urban sprawls of India? This book explores these questions ethnographically by focusing on how childre

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van Es, Karin, and Nanna Verhoeff. Situating Data. Amsterdam University Press, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.5117/9789463722971.

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Taking up the challenges of the datafication of culture, as well as of the scholarship of cultural inquiry itself, this collection contributes to the critical debate about data and algorithms. How can we understand the quality and significance of current socio-technical transformations that result from datafication and algorithmization? How can we explore the changing conditions and contours for living within such new and changing frameworks? How can, or should we, think and act within, but also in response to these conditions? This collection brings together various perspectives on the datafi

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Tan, Lee. Buddhist Revitalization and Chinese Religions in Malaysia. Amsterdam University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.5117/9789463726436.

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Buddhist Revitalization and Chinese Religions in Malaysia tells the story of how a minority community comes to grips with the challenges of modernity, history, globalization, and cultural assertion in an ever-changing Malaysia. It captures the religious connection, transformation, and tension within a complex traditional belief system in a multi-religious society. In particular, the book revolves around a discussion on the religious revitalization of Chinese Buddhism in modern Malaysia. This Buddhist revitalization movement is intertwined with various forces, such as colonialism, religious tra

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Paloscia, Raffaele, Simone Spellucci, and Luca Spitoni. La Habana del Este. Firenze University Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.36253/978-88-5518-503-5.

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The Atlas of Territorial Heritage in the Municipality of East Havana is a useful tool in order to reach a complete knowledge of an extended Cuban municipality belonging to Havana, Cuba. At the same time the atlas is useful to generate analytical bases for future urban planning interventions and transformations, which can be focused on the idea of territorial heritage as an essential resource for a self-sustaining development. The main objective is to explain the tangible and intangible components of the heritage and try to stimulate and strengthen the community’s awareness on the richness of t

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Bhushan, Megha, Sailesh Iyer, Ashok Kumar, Tanupriya Choudhury, and Arun Negi, eds. Artificial Intelligence for Smart Cities and Villages: Advanced Technologies, Development, and Challenges. BENTHAM SCIENCE PUBLISHERS, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.2174/97898150492511220101.

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Smart cities and villages have enhanced the quality of lives of residents. Various computer-assisted technologies have been harnessed for the development of smart cities and villages in order to provide solutions for common and niche urban problems. The development of smart environments has been possible due to advances in computing power and artificial intelligence (AI) that have allowed the deployment of scalable technologies. Artificial Intelligence for Smart Cities and Villages: Advanced Technologies, Development, and Challenges summarizes the role of AI in planning and designing smart sol

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Semi, Giovanni, Antonio La Spina, Mario Mirabile, and Edoardo Cabras, eds. GENTRIFICATION AND CRIME: New Configurations and Challenges for the City. TU Delft Bouwkunde, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.47982/bookrxiv.4.

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This volume is the editorial product of the project “Gentrification and Crime. New Configurations and Challenges for the City” started by a public conference held on May 6, 2019 at the Municipal Historical Archive of Palermo. This event was organized by Locus and endorsed by private and public bodies. During the conference, four presentations were given by distinguished academics of main fields investigated: Giovanni Semi, Marco Picone, Adam Asmundo, Antonio La Spina. Journalist Elvira Terranova moderated the event. This publication was born from the desire to investigate gentrification and cr

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Plack, Noelle. Challenges in the Countryside, 1790–2. Edited by David Andress. Oxford University Press, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199639748.013.020.

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The Revolution’s interaction with, and impact upon, the countryside during the years 1790–2 is the focus of this chapter. Rural unrest continued during these years and the relationship between legislators in Paris and a diverse peasantry evolved and often exhibited signs of conflict, tension, negotiation, and compromise. The chapter traces and addresses several key issues: the new laws on feudalism, taxation, and land holding as well as the religious schisms of 1791–2. Many of these had a different dynamic and outcome according to place and social structure, yet it is argued that the peasantry

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Bull, Michael. Remaking the Urban. Edited by John Richardson, Claudia Gorbman, and Carol Vernallis. Oxford University Press, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199733866.013.0023.

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This article appears in theOxford Handbook of New Audiovisual Aestheticsedited by John Richardson, Claudia Gorbman, and Carol Vernallis. This chapter explores the creation of an urban sonic aesthetic through a critical analysis of Apple iPod use. Based on original ethnographic material, it chapter explores the differing audiovisual ways in which urban space is mediated through communication technologies like the Apple iPod. It divides the experience of urban space into Fordist aesthetics and hyper-post-Fordist aesthetics and strategies and situates these aesthetic “moments” within a critical a

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Breault, Donna Adair, and Louise Anderson Allen. Urban Education. Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc., 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798216031055.

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This handbook is a resource for parents, community members, teachers, and administrators who want to make a difference in their urban schools. Breault and Allen provide a way for stakeholders to see the roles they can play in building civic capacity for change in urban schools and communities. It also offers critical background information to help stakeholders recognize the complexity and necessity of their efforts. The authors organized this book around the need for beginning, continuing, and enacting conversations to emphasize the need for stakeholders to build relationships with one another

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Volpi, Elena, Elena Cristiano, Marco Peli, Martina Siena, and Giulia Zuecco, eds. Innovations, Advances and Future Challenges for the Hydrological Community. IWA Publishing, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.2166/9781789064902.

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Abstract In the last decades, the hydrology and water management sectors have been dealing with global changes, proposing several innovative solutions. Climate changes are leading to an increase in long hot and dry periods, alternating with short and intense rainfall events. Urban areas are particularly vulnerable to these changes: rapid population growth and intense anthropic activity enhance the risk of extreme hydrological events. Several solutions have been proposed in the last years to monitor, prevent, forecast and mitigate rainfall extremes and their effects in natural and urban environ

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Dixon, Timothy J., and Mark Tewdwr-Jones. Urban Futures. Policy Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1332/policypress/9781447330936.001.0001.

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In these uncertain times of continuing climate change impact and the recent global pandemic, it is now more important than ever that we look long-term and provide the right tools for people to decide what sort of future they want for their cities across the world. ‘Urban futures’ thinking is based on the notion that we need a practical and formal framework to imagine what our cities could and should be like to live, work and play in, in the long term; how they will operate; what infrastructure is needed; and how governance systems will be required to help shape them and ensure their resilience

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McDougal, Topher L. Into an Urban World. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198792598.003.0009.

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In a growing portion of the global South—starting with Latin America and the Caribbean—civil wars are on the decline. But rapid urbanization—much of it precipitated by the toll of earlier traditional civil wars—has transposed formerly rural and rural–urban conflicts to cities, shifting their dynamics and creating new dilemmas. In many regions, hyper-urbanization has outpaced the capacity of municipalities to provide basic public services; large swathes of many cities have become characterized by informal, gang-administered, or “hybrid” governance. These urban-based criminal networks have globa

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Yang Wang, Wilfred. Digital Media in Urban China. Published by Lexington Books, 2019. https://doi.org/10.5040/9798881811846.

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This book examines the use and culture of digital media in Chinese cities. By examining examples and data from Chinese and global social media platforms, the book argues that digital media facilitate Chinese people’s sense of local self and local identity. In doing so, the book moves on from the polarised debate regarding the democratic function of Chinese internet to instead examine the connection between digital technologies and the country’s history, culture and eventually, people and their everyday lives. It offers a rich analysis of a Chinese city in the digital age, and challenges the na

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Child, Phil. The Labour Party, Housing and Urban Transformation. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781350430259.

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The Labour Party, Housing and Urban Transformation explores how the urban transformation of Britain between 1945 and 1970 was understood politically by the Labour Party. Placing the Labour Party at the centre of the discussion, the book covers the most extensive period of state-led urban change in British history, from the end of the Second World War to the decline of high modernism in the late 1960s. Taking a particular focus on housing to explore the implementation of modernist ideas to drive a far-ranging process of urban transformation in Britain, it challenges conventional understandings

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Jaji, Rose. Deviant Destinations. Lexington Books, 2019. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781666990621.

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In Deviant Destinations: Zimbabwe and North to South Migration, Rose Jaji critiques and challenges assumptions made about migration between the global North and South. Zimbabwe does not conform to the conventional profile of a destination country, yet it is home to migrants from the global North. Jaji examines the dynamics and contradictions of transnational migration in Zimbabwe, how migrants challenge the migration lexicon in which countries and mobile populations are categorized, and the socioeconomic division of urban space. This book is recommended for students and scholars of migration s

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Lens, Piet N. L., and Xuan-Thanh Bui, eds. Nature-Based Solutions for Urban Sustainability. IWA Publishing, 2025. https://doi.org/10.2166/9781789065015.

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Abstract Nature-Based Solutions for Urban Sustainability provides comprehensive insights on existing technologies and up-to-date advances in the field of water, wastewater and waste treatment using nature-based approaches and systems. This book highlights: Process fundamentals of nature-based solutions, including hydrodynamics, media, bacteria/media interactions and phytoremediation for pollution control, resource recovery and energy generation.Critical insights on the status, major challenges and modern engineering solutions in nature-based solutions for the treatment of rainwater, storm wate

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Cohen, Boyd, and Pablo Muñoz. The Emergence of the Urban Entrepreneur. ABC-CLIO, LLC, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798400644962.

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Combining emerging trends in collaboration, democratization, and urbanization, this book examines the emergence of entrepreneurship and innovation as a primarily urban phenomenon, explains why urban environments are rapidly attracting global innovators across three distinct forms of "urbanpreneurship," and lights the path forward for entrepreneurs, innovators, and city governments. The world is urbanizing rapidly. Currently, 600 cities account for 60 percent of the global economy; by 2025, it is predicted that the top 100 cities will account for 35 percent of the world's economy. Emerging tren

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Launchbury, Claire, and Megan C. MacDonald, eds. Urban Bridges, Global Capital(s). Liverpool University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/liverpool/9781789628111.001.0001.

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This book on Trans-Mediterranean Francospheres offers an examination of cultural production and the flows between urban capitals and “capital” in and of a selection of Mediterranean cities and sites. In three parts, the book covers both familiar and overlooked terrain, in chapters which examine writing the city, the transit between different poles, film and EU-designated cultural capitals. The book brings together texts and their critical readings in new comparative ways. Following Jacques Derrida's peregrinations in L'Autre Cap, the book interrogates the what of Europe; the when or where of P

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Bhugra, Dinesh, Antonio Ventriglio, João Castaldelli-Maia, and Layla McCay, eds. Urban Mental Health (Oxford Cultural Psychiatry series). Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780198804949.001.0001.

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The internal migration in countries around the globe as a result of rapid urbanization and related to industrialization as a consequence of globalization has been truly remarkable. The past 50 years have seen a massive rise in the numbers of people moving and creating megapolis in many parts of the world. It is inevitable that with such massive internal migration come stressors such as pollution, lack of space, overcrowding, unemployment, and increased likelihood of infectious diseases, all of which contribute to an increase in psychiatric disorders. Furthermore, such migration can also lead t

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Douglas, Gordon C. C. Constructive Deviance. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190691332.003.0002.

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This chapter defines do-it-yourself urban design in detail. It does so first in contrast to existing social science perspectives (in sociology, criminology, art criticism, psychology, and critical theory) on unauthorized urban space interventions more generally: place-based direct actions that challenge normative uses of particular urban spaces. It argues that DIY urban design is distinct in its intentions and its form. The chapter describes the process of inquiry and discovery at the outset of the research and initial observations. Definitions for other key terms, including informality and fo

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Sikorski, Michał, Stefan Jackowski, and Karolina Matysiak, eds. Przestrzenie uniwersytetu. Trendy. Wizje. Standardy projektowania. University of Warsaw Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.31338/uw.9788323543718.

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The publication comprehensively covers the issues of designing various university spaces (didactic, research, office, social) and the related challenges. It analyzes the most important trends in architecture and urban planning, presents specific solutions used throughout the world. One of the chapters is devoted to the individual conditions and urban planning of the University of Warsaw. The chapters on spatial design standards were inspired by the experiences of the Office of Innovations in the Academic Space of the University of Warsaw.

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McDougal, Topher L. The Political Economy of Rural-Urban Conflict. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198792598.001.0001.

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In some cases of insurgency, the combat frontier is contested and erratic, as rebels target cities as their economic prey. In other cases, it is tidy and stable, seemingly representing an equilibrium in which cities are effectively protected from violent non-state actors. What factors account for these differences in the interface urban-based states and rural-based challengers? To explore this question, this book examines two regions representing two dramatically different outcomes. In West Africa (Liberia and Sierra Leone), capital cities became economic targets for rebels, who posed dire thr

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Forrest, Ray, Julie Ren, and Bart Wissink, eds. The City in China. Policy Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1332/policypress/9781529205473.001.0001.

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In 2015, one hundred years passed since Robert Park penned his seminal article “The City: Suggestions for the investigation of human behaviour in the city environment” in the American Journal of Sociology. It provided an agenda for the Chicago school of urban sociology, which came to shape urban research for decades to come. Since 1915 much has changed, both in the urban world itself and in the urban research that reflects on those transformations. In today’s world of global cities, cities around the world have undergone dramatic development, and nowhere as dramatic as in China. In the world o

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Pendras, Mark, and Charles Williams, eds. Secondary Cities. Bristol University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.46692/9781529212082.

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This book explores cities and intra-regional relational dynamics to challenge common representations of urban development 'success' and 'failure'. It provides innovative alternative relations and development strategies that reimagine the subordinate status of secondary cities.

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Gold, Roberta. “A Lot of Investment, a Lot of Roots”. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252038181.003.0006.

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This chapter examines two neighborhood-based movements that challenged redevelopment: Morningside Heights and Cooper Square. It considers how the two areas became policy battlegrounds in the early 1960s as tenants mounted a second round of struggle against urban renewal schemes in New York City. Tenant mobilizations in both areas shared some features with the strike movement, namely tangible contributions from Old Left activists and complicated relations among left and liberal players. But Cooper Square and Morningside Heights tenants employed different ideological tools. They articulated a co

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Hardt, Mark D. History of Infectious Disease Pandemics in Urban Societies. by Lexington Books, 2015. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781666999662.

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Beginning in the mid-19th century tremendous gains were made in the historical struggle with infectious diseases. The emergence of modern medicine and epidemiology, and the establishment of public health measures, helped urban populations overcome a historical death penalty. The conquest of infectious disease has created a human hubris. It is a collective self-delusion that infectious diseases, once exposed to the light of modern medicine, science, and public health would inevitably become eradicated. When these advances began in the mid-19th century the world’s population was under two billio

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McCann, James. Ecology and Environment. Edited by John Parker and Richard Reid. Oxford University Press, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199572472.013.0001.

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This chapter examines the ecological and environmental history of modern Africa. It explores the range of environmental challenges faced by Africa’s peoples over the past two centuries of imperialism and globalization and considers the extent to which these challenges were particular to the African continent. After setting out the diversity of Africa’s environments and climatic patterns, it examines levels of biodiversity and endemism, the creation of the forest fallow agricultural system in West Africa, the impact of New World crops, the interaction between disease and landscape in East Afric

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Esser, Helena. Steampunk London. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781350433939.

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Tracing the genre through fiction, visual art, film and videogames from the 1980s to the present, this book offers a comprehensive exploration of the intersection between neo-Victorianism, urban spaces and Steampunk. Characterised by its interplay between past and present and its anachronistic retro-speculation, Neo-Victorian-infused Steampunk remixes modern collective memory to produce a re-imagined vision of Victorian London. Investigating how Steampunk’s re-calibrated Londons both source from and subvert Victorian discourse about the city, Steampunk London offers a deeper understanding of h

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Afsar, Rita, and Mahabub Hossain. Dhaka's Changing Landscape. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190121112.001.0001.

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Between 1991 and 2010, Dhaka’s population more than doubled to 15 million. Simultaneously, the city’s contribution to the national economy almost trebled. Clearly, population growth was accompanied by an unmistakable trend of economic growth, and a significant decline in urban poverty and income inequality. On the other hand, Dhaka’s high population density exacerbated serious environmental challenges, and it was soon ranked as one of the world’s least livable cities. In the context of these contradictory signals of rapid urbanization, Dhaka’s Changing Landscape sets to answer three most intri

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Scholar, Richard, ed. Divided Cities. Oxford University Press, 2006. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192807083.001.0001.

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Cities, at their best, are cradles of diversity, opportunity, and citizenship. Why, then, do so many cities today seem scarred by divisions separating the powerful and privileged from the victims of deprivation and injustice? What is it like to live on the wrong side of the divide in Paris, London, New York, Sao Paolo, and other cities all over the world? In this book, based on the internationally renowned Oxford Amnesty Lectures, eight leading urban thinkers argue about why divisions arise in cities and about what could and should be done to bring those divisions to an end. The book features

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Beeson, Geoff. Water Story. CSIRO Publishing, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/9781486311309.

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Freshwater scarcity is a critical challenge, with social, economic, political and environmental consequences. Water crises in Australia have already led to severe restrictions being applied in cities, drought ravaging farmlands, and the near-terminal decline of some rivers and wetlands. A Water Story provides an account of Australian water management practices, set against important historical precedents and the contemporary experience of other countries. It describes the nature and distribution of the country's natural water resources, management of these resources by Indigenous Austral

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Acuto, Michele. How to Build a Global City. Cornell University Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501759703.001.0001.

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This book considers the rise of a new generation of so-called global cities—Singapore, Sydney, and Dubai—and the power that this concept had in their ascent, in order to analyze the general relationship between global city theory and its urban public policy practice. The global city is often invoked in theory and practice as an ideal model of development and a logic of internationalization for cities the world over. But the global city also creates deep social polarization and challenges how much local planning can achieve in a world economy. Presenting a unique elite ethnography in Singapore,

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Shelton, Jon. The “Fed-up Taxpayer”. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252040870.003.0007.

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This chapter chronicles the new reality faced by urban teacher unions after the emergence of austerity regimes in many American cities. It charts teacher strikes in St. Louis (1979) and Philadelphia (1980 and 1981). In each case, teacher unions faced staunch taxpayer resistance to salary increases, and in the case of Philadelphia, a mayor who dealt with massive budget deficits by reneging on a collectively-bargained contract. As importantly, in Philadelphia, opponents of the “unproductive” urban poor and unionized teachers began to imagine market reforms of the public education system. The cha

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James, Philip. A new relationship. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198827238.003.0012.

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If the health and well-being benefits attributable to contact with nature are to be realized, there needs to be a change in the framing of nature within urban environments. The way nature is perceived and valued and the way that it is incorporated in policy and practice need to be re-positioned. The discourse around that challenge and the resulting re-framing are set out. There is a discussion of the changing relationship between humans and the natural environment. Ideas around nature apart from, or in spite of, or for, or and people are considered. These paradigm shifts affect conservation po

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Bonnet, Francois, and Sudhir Venkatesh. Poverty and Informal Economies. Edited by David Brady and Linda M. Burton. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199914050.013.29.

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This article examines how the informal economy matters in the context of poverty and social inequality. It first presents a brief history of the concept and related theoretical perspectives and controversies before discussing the informal economic activities among the urban poor. In particular, it considers the informal economy between informal activities and the informal sector and describes three types of informal economies, along with their corresponding problems: the informal economy in the third world, to which corresponds a problem of development; the “second economy” in the Soviet Union

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Pearson, Michael, and Jane Lennon. Pastoral Australia. CSIRO Publishing, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/9780643100503.

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Pastoral Australia tells the story of the expansion of Australia's pastoral industry, how it drove European settlement and involved Aboriginal people in the new settler society. The rural life that once saw Australia 'ride on the sheep's back' is no longer what defines us, yet it is largely our history as a pastoral nation that has endured in heritage places and which is embedded in our self-image as Australians. The challenges of sustaining a pastoral industry in Australia make a compelling story of their own. Developing livestock breeds able to prosper in the Australian environme

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Newcomb, John Timberman. Gutter and Skyline. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252036798.003.0007.

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This chapter examines the little magazines' shift to a poetry of modern life between 1910 and 1925 by discarding long-standing generic strictures of style and subject matter in favor of themes dealing with the industrialized metropolis. Soon after 1910, many poets such as T. S. Eliot, Claude McKay, and Carl Sandburg began to write verses about life in the modern city. This turn toward urban subject matter marked a decisive change in American poetry's relationship to modernity and an epochal departure from national traditions. This chapter considers the integral connection between verse and the

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Douglas, Gordon C. C. “I’m an Expert on Public Space”. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190691332.003.0004.

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Chapter 4 focuses on the personal and professional background of many do-it-yourselfers who employ sophisticated knowledge of professional planning and scholarly urbanism in their interventions. In doing so, it begins to challenge binary notions of formality and informality in urbanism. The chapter includes discussion of the history of informality in cities and the development of professionalized urban planning and placemaking practices. It then discusses how many do-it-yourself urban designers have professional design training that they to use in their projects. Where others lack such a backg

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Kintrea, Keith, and Rebecca Madgin, eds. Transforming Glasgow. Policy Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1332/policypress/9781447349778.001.0001.

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“Transforming Glasgow is designed to become an essential book for academics, students, and urban practitioners. The book explores how the city of Glasgow is coming to terms with its post-industrial status and the challenges it still faces to reposition itself as an economically competitive and socially just modern city. The ways in which Glasgow is navigating its transition from a de-industrial to a post-industrial city and beyond will be critically examined through 14 thematic chapters along with an introduction and conclusion. The chapters cover the fundamental elements of urban transformati

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Edyvane, Derek. The Politics of Politeness. Oxford University PressOxford, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1093/9780198904793.001.0001.

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Abstract Politically inactive ‘ordinary citizens’ are often disparaged for their apathy and seen as a blight on democracy. This book argues that, on the contrary, the everyday activities of those ordinary citizens are vital to a healthy democratic order. It focuses specifically on the practice of politeness in day-to-day urban interactions. Usually seen as a problem of sociology or of morality and ethics, this book asks what it would mean to regard politeness as a problem of democratic politics. In so doing, it proposes an interpretation of politeness as civility. Against prevailing conceptual

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Hearne, Siobhán. Policing Prostitution. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198837916.001.0001.

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Policing Prostitution examines the complex world of commercial sex in the final two decades of the Russian Empire before its collapse in 1917. From the 1840s until 1917, prostitution was legally tolerated across the Empire under a system known as regulation. Medical-police were in charge of compiling information about registered prostitutes and ensuring that they followed the strict rules prescribed by the imperial state governing their visibility and behaviour. The vast majority of women who sold sex hailed from the lower classes, as did their managers and clients. Official interest in prosti

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Husain, Husam R., ed. Heritage and the City: Values and Beyond. Cinius Yayınları Publication, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.38027/2022_362598.362.

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Values bind us together which makes our communities stronger and united. Communities are built upon our tolerance and understanding of the value of our ties, and ties pave our cities towards a bright future. The structure of this book is constructed around the concept of value”. It contains a collection of readings about the Challenges we face in Cities, Culture, and Heritage. The book is divided into three Parts. The first part focuses on aesthetical values; the second contains articles on cultural values in cities, and the third part is a specialized theme on water values and urban areas. Co

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Hughes, Sara. Repowering Cities. Cornell University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501740411.001.0001.

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City governments are rapidly becoming society's problem solvers. As this book shows, nowhere is this more evident than in New York City, Los Angeles, and Toronto, where the cities' governments are taking on the challenge of addressing climate change. This book focuses on the specific issue of reducing urban greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, and develops a new framework for distinguishing analytically and empirically the policy agendas city governments develop for reducing GHG emissions, the governing strategies they use to implement these agendas, and the direct and catalytic means by which they

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Arthurson, Kathy. Social Mix and the City. CSIRO Publishing, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/9780643104440.

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Concern about rising crime rates, high levels of unemployment and anti-social behaviour of youth gangs within particular urban neighbourhoods has reinvigorated public and community debate into just what makes a functional neighbourhood. The nub of the debate is whether concentrating disadvantaged people together doubly compounds their disadvantage and leads to 'problem neighbourhoods'. This debate has prompted interest by governments in Australia and internationally in 'social mix policies', to disperse the most disadvantaged members of neighbourhoods and create new communities with a blend of

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Roberts, Patrick. Tropical Forests in Prehistory, History, and Modernity. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198818496.001.0001.

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In popular discourse, tropical forests are synonymous with 'nature' and 'wilderness'; battlegrounds between apparently pristine floral, faunal, and human communities, and the unrelenting industrial and urban powers of the modern world. It is rarely publicly understood that the extent of human adaptation to, and alteration of, tropical forest environments extends across archaeological, historical, and anthropological timescales. This book is the first attempt to bring together evidence for the nature of human interactions with tropical forests on a global scale, from the emergence of hominins i

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Allen-Meares, Paula, Leslie Hollingsworth, and Patricia L. Miller. Lessons Learned. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190463311.003.0012.

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Abstract: Chapter 12 is organized very differently from earlier chapters in this volume. It contains a list of lessons learned from those associated with the University of Michigan School of Social Work/Technical Assistance Center (UMSSW/TAC) and includes observations from those deeply involved in the Good Neighborhoods project. These observations and insights are divided into topical areas, but the list does not reflect a rank order of lessons learned or priorities. They are instead reflections on a multiyear initiative to create better outcomes for children and youth living in an urban conte

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Irizarry, Ylce. Narratives of Fracture. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252039911.003.0004.

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This chapter illustrates how one's cultural identity is defined just as much by geographic location, gender, class, and political ideology than by perceived race or ethnic self-identification. It studies two texts by Puerto Rican authors to show how individuals challenge rigid notions of ethnonationalism: Judith Ortiz Cofer's The Latin Deli: Telling the Lives of Barrio Women (1993) and Ernesto Quiñonez's Bodega Dreams (2000). Set in the proximate urban Northeastern cities—Paterson, New Jersey, and New York City, respectively—with large populations of Puerto Ricans, other kinds of Latinas/os, a

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