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Book SynopsisConceived as a practical manual of morphological analysis, The Handbook of Urban Morphology focuses on the form, structure and evolution of human settlements from villages to metropolitan regions.Table of ContentsIntroduction 2 Slowing down the normative impulse Part 1 – Principles 12 1 Core Concepts 14 2 Origins and Approaches 16 3 Aspects of Urban Form 20 4 Minimum Elements 38 Part 2 – Methods 48 5 The General Process of Analysis 50 6 Desktop Analysis 58 7 Field Survey 116 8 Synthesis 132 Part 3 – Applications 174 9 Case Studies 176 Conclusion 230 Appendix 232 Further Reading 234 Illustration Credits 236 Index 237

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Book SynopsisThe 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 of Labour''s urban legacy and puts political ideas at the heart of twentieth-century change.Utilising a breadth and range of material, including two distinct sets of archival sources, published secondary material, national legislation and Housing Acts, and various case studies, Child moves seamlessly between the national picture and its local impacts. It also draws from sources which had a crucial influence on political thinking throughout the mid-twentieth century to understand how urban transformation represented for Labour a political vision of the future. A timely contribution both to urban history and to the history of post-war Britain, it challenges existing interpretations of modernism, connects urban change to the political ideas that drove it, and allows us to comprehend the state of urban Britain today.

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Book SynopsisIn this major open access contribution to Global South urban studies, Tanzil Shafique offers a new way of knowing and engaging with the most common urban environment in the Global South informal settlements, or slums.Informal settlements house more than a billion people now and will house three billion people by 2050. Yet they remain marginalised in urban theory and practice, and most projects to improve them fail due to a lack of knowledge of the ongoing processes that build them.Through a detailed case study of Karail, the largest informal settlement in Bangladesh, Shafique offers ground-breaking insights into the production of informal urbanism through a brand-new approach rooted in deep ethnography and spatial mapping. Shafique explores, for the first time, the many different desires of settlement-dwellers and how these drive everyday urban change. He also offers brilliantly innovative recommendations for the policy-making, upgrading and management

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Book SynopsisRichard Bohannon teaches at the College of St. Benedict & St. John's University, in central Minnesota, USA.Trade ReviewThe author's examination of the religious images and narratives at work through out and after the disaster of the river flooding in Grand Forks reveals astonishing experiences of the both separate and interwoven views of the natural and the urban, the human and the divine. Inspiringly, the book explores in depth the role and significance of Christian narratives and images as normative tools in disaster management and urban ecological restoration. -- Sigurd Bergmann, Professor of Religious Studies at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim and former chair of the European Forum on the Study of Religion and the Environment.As we face increasing climate instability, this stunning study of the pressured relation between urban and nonhuman nature offers a non-apocalyptic prescience to ecological studies across the disciplines.Raising fresh questions about the role of religion in the interpretation of disaster,reconstruction, and human control, Bohannon's gripping narrative flows with the power of the river it follows. -- Catherine Keller, Professor of Constructive Theology, Graduate Division of Religion, Drew University, USA, and author of On the Mystery.Bohannonskillfully brings together the interdisciplinary conversations regardingreligion and cities, cities and nature, and religion and ecology as he tracesthe often mixed religious imagery regarding both cities and nature. Indeed, foranyone interested in these fields, as well as the cultural response to naturaldisasters, this book raises important questions as it explores expanding thesediscourses in a more complex direction. A well-written and fascinating study ofthe cultural perceptions that shape our sense of "acts of God" and "naturaldisasters", and what they reveal about our larger understanding of cities andnature and the desire to control nature. -- Laurel Kearns, Associate Professor of Sociology and Religion and Environmental Studies, Drew University, USA.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements \ 1. Urban Nature, Disasterand Religion \ 2. Religious Meaning-Makingand the Urban Environment \ 3. Urban Development in theRed River Valley \ 4. A Hard Land: The Cityagainst the River \ 5. Living in a River Town:The Control and Celebration of Nature \ 6. Religion, Cities and theControl of Nature \ Bibliography \ Index

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Book SynopsisThis clear text provides a broad introduction to transportation geography. With an emphasis on the social and political aspects of transport, Julie Cidell takes a multi-scalar approach across multiple modes and places. She covers waterborne transport, starting with logistics systems; aviation and air travel; railroads; roads (including bicycles and pedestrians as well as cars); and public transit. Each mode covers global systems of transportation, how national identities or landscapes are shaped by transport, the impact of regional governance, the local scale and how it integrates with each of these systems, and how individuals and bodies are part of these systems as well. Throughout, Cidell considers the concepts of equity and sustainability in terms of past, present, and possible future transportation systems. She provides historical and current perspectives to help us think about our present situation and how we might work toward more sustainable transport futures.

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