Urban communities / city life Books

Book SynopsisOver half the world’s population lives in urban regions, and increasingly disasters are of great concern to city dwellers, policymakers, and builders. However, disaster risk is also of great interest to corporations, financiers, and investors. Risky Cities is a critical examination of global urban development, capitalism, and its relationship with environmental hazards. It is about how cities live and profit from the threat of sinkholes, garbage, and fire. Risky Cities is not simply about post-catastrophe profiteering. This book focuses on the way in which disaster capitalism has figured out ways to commodify environmental bads and manage risks. Notably, capitalist city-building results in the physical transformation of nature. This necessitates risk management strategies –such as insurance, environmental assessments, and technocratic mitigation plans. As such capitalists redistribute risk relying on short-term fixes to disaster risk rather than address long-term vulnerabilities. Trade Review"Fu offers a theoretically rich and empirically grounded analysis of how disaster capitalism and unsustainable urban development transforms environmental bads into economically valuable goods. These transformations have devastating consequences, further exacerbating social and environmental inequities in a highly urbanized and warming world. Risky Cities is essential reading for anyone with interests in urban political economy, environmental social science, and global studies." -- Andrew Jorgenson * Professor of Sociology, Boston College *"I see Risky Cities becoming the landmark work on how ‘everyday’ urban risks are produced and then commodified—and what we might do to arrest this process." -- Tim Haney * Board of Governors Research Chair in Resilience & Sustainability, Mount Royal University, Calgary *"Risky Cities is a critical examination of global urban development, capitalism, and its relationship with environmental hazards. It is about how cities live and profit from the threat of sinkholes, garbage, and fire. Risky Cities is not simply about post-catastrophe profiteering. This book focuses on the way in which disaster capitalism has figured out ways to commodify environmental bads and manage risks. Notably, capitalist city-building results in the physical transformation of nature." * ASA Environmental Sociology Section Newsletter *Table of ContentsList of Figures Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Introduction Chapter 1: Living with Disaster & Capitalism Chapter 2: Sinkholes and the Risky Foundations of Cities Chapter 3: The Logistical Nightmare of Trash & Urban Nature Chapter 4: Fire, the Wildland-Urban Interface, and Feedback Loops Chapter 5: Assessing and Managing Risk Conclusion: Regenerative Urbanism References Index

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Book SynopsisUrban Dwellings, Haitian Citizenships explores the failed international reconstruction of Port-au-Prince after the devastating 2010 earthquake. It describes the failures of international aid in Haiti while it analyzes examples of Haitian-based reconstruction and economic practices. By interrogating the relationship between indigenous uses of the cityscape and the urbanization of the countryside within a framework that centers on the violence of urban planning, the book shows that the forms of economic development promoted by international agencies institutionalize impermanence and instability. Conversely, it shows how everyday Haitians use and transform the city to create spaces of belonging and forms of citizenship anchored in a long history of resistance to extractive economies. Taking readers into the remnants of failed industrial projects in Haitian provinces and into the streets, rubble, and homes of Port-au-Prince, this book reflects on the possibilities and meanings of dwelling in post-disaster urban landscapes.Trade Review"Joos’ Urban Dwellings, Haitian Citizenships undertakes a monumental task—analyzing the failures of international aid and post-disaster reconstruction through the lens of urban housing. Arguing for embodied forms of dwelling, Joos compellingly argues for Haitian models of urban housing built upon communal living, vernacular architecture, and sustainable habitation. Through his intimate, empathic ethnography, Joos powerfully asserts a 'right to the city' (and the country) through spatial citizenship, a correlate to what Mimi Sheller (Island Futures) defines as mobile justice." -- Jana Evans Braziel * author of Riding with Death: Vodou Art and Urban Ecology in the Streets of Port-au-Prince *"Urban Dwellings, Haitian Citizenships is a tour de force, arguing for the importance of place in belonging and citizenship. Exceptionally well-researched, weaving a rich and diverse set of first-hand accounts with scholars from Haiti and elsewhere, Joos brings a critique of foreign disaster capitalism to the highest level, pushing hard against sensationalist narratives." -- Mark Schuller * author of Humanity's Last Stand: Confronting Global Catastrophe *New Books Network - New Books in Caribbean Studies interview with Vincent Joos * New Books Network - New Books in Caribbean Studies *"A Big Hole: Notes from Jovenel Moïse’s Hometown," by Vincent Joos * The Society for Cultural Anthropology *"Richly narrated ethnographies accompanied by well-documented urban projects convey Joos’ principal argument: that culturally anchored practices related to reciprocal networks, income-generation (ti komés), social organization, and vernacular dwelling typologies (structures that withstood the earthquake on most occasions), are socially, economically and ecologically sustainable forms of urbanism that may offer viable alternatives to conventional post-disaster rehabilitation trajectories and internationally sponsored urban planning that turn a blind eye to ‘what already is.’" * ERLACS *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Introduction 1 Developing Disasters: Dispossession and Industrialization in Northern Haiti 2 Industrial Futures: Abstract and Disciplinarian Landscapes in Post-Earthquake Haiti 3 State Interventions: Infrastructure and Citizenship 4 Inhabiting Port-au-Prince after 2010: Indigenous Urbanization, History, and Belonging 5 Daily Life in the Shotgun Neighborhoods of Downtown Port-au-Prince 6 Demolishing Shotgun Neighborhoods Conclusion: Peyi a Lok Acknowledgments Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisIn South Asian urban landscapes, men are everywhere. And yet we do not seem to know very much about precisely what men do in the city as men. How do men experience gender in city spaces? What are the interactional dynamics between different groups of men on city streets? How do men adjudicate between good and bad conduct in urban spaces? Through ethnographic descriptions of copresence on public transport in Kolkata, India, this book brings into sight the gendered logics of cooperation and everyday morality through which masculinities take up space in cities. It follows the labor geographies of auto-rickshaw and taxi operators and their interactions with traffic police and commuters to argue that the gendered fabric of urban life needs to be understood as a product of situational forms of cooperation between different social groups. Such an orientation sheds light on the part played by everyday morality and provisional support in upholding male privilege in the city.Trade Review"Romit Chowdhury's City of Men examines the ways men occupy public space in Kolkata in this important new study. Chowdhury analyzes the relationship between masculinity, heterosexuality, and mobility in Kolkata with rich accounts, painting a picture of the gendered nature of trust and mobility in public space in visceral detail."— Tristan Bridges, coauthor of Exploring Masculinities: Identity, Inequality, Continuity and Change “City Of Men offers a dazzling view of the social life of public transport in Kolkata. Combining conceptual flair with ethnographic luminosity, Chowdhury plunges us headlong into the city’s streets to explain how masculine subjectivities are made and unmade through the warp and weft of everyday encounters.” — David Bissell, author of Transit Life: How Commuting is Transforming Our Cities "Given the extent to which it is men that steer circulations through dense urban fabrics, how little we understand about what is on their minds, nor how their practices gender the city. Chowdhury brilliantly explores how male transport workers curate specific atmospheres of movement, responding to changing urban conditions and creating an often confounding politics of navigation."— AbdouMaliq Simone, author of The Surrounds: Urban Life Within and Beyond CaptureTable of ContentsIntroduction: City of Men 1. The Urban Landscape of Public Transport 2. Sociable Infrastructures: Autorickshaws 3. Unaccustomed Streets: Taxis 4. Homosocial Trust: Traffic Police 5. City Characters: Morality Conclusion: Urbanizing Masculinity Studies Acknowledgments References Index

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Book SynopsisIn South Asian urban landscapes, men are everywhere. And yet we do not seem to know very much about precisely what men do in the city as men. How do men experience gender in city spaces? What are the interactional dynamics between different groups of men on city streets? How do men adjudicate between good and bad conduct in urban spaces? Through ethnographic descriptions of copresence on public transport in Kolkata, India, this book brings into sight the gendered logics of cooperation and everyday morality through which masculinities take up space in cities. It follows the labor geographies of auto-rickshaw and taxi operators and their interactions with traffic police and commuters to argue that the gendered fabric of urban life needs to be understood as a product of situational forms of cooperation between different social groups. Such an orientation sheds light on the part played by everyday morality and provisional support in upholding male privilege in the city.Trade Review“City Of Men offers a dazzling view of the social life of public transport in Kolkata. Combining conceptual flair with ethnographic luminosity, Chowdhury plunges us headlong into the city’s streets to explain how masculine subjectivities are made and unmade through the warp and weft of everyday encounters.” -- David Bissell * author of Transit Life: How Commuting is Transforming Our Cities *"Romit Chowdhury's City of Men examines the ways men occupy public space in Kolkata in this important new study. Chowdhury analyzes the relationship between masculinity, heterosexuality, and mobility in Kolkata with rich accounts, painting a picture of the gendered nature of trust and mobility in public space in visceral detail." -- Tristan Bridges * coauthor of Exploring Masculinities: Identity, Inequality, Continuity and Change *"Given the extent to which it is men that steer circulations through dense urban fabrics, how little we understand about what is on their minds, nor how their practices gender the city. Chowdhury brilliantly explores how male transport workers curate specific atmospheres of movement, responding to changing urban conditions and creating an often confounding politics of navigation." -- AbdouMaliq Simone * author of The Surrounds: Urban Life Within and Beyond Capture *Table of ContentsIntroduction: City of Men 1. The Urban Landscape of Public Transport 2. Sociable Infrastructures: Autorickshaws 3. Unaccustomed Streets: Taxis 4. Homosocial Trust: Traffic Police 5. City Characters: Morality Conclusion: Urbanizing Masculinity Studies Acknowledgments References Index

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Book SynopsisWriting the Black Diasporic City in the Age of Globalization theorizes the city as a generative, “semicircular” social space, where the changes of globalization are most profoundly experienced. The fictive accounts analyzed here configure cities as spaces where movement is simultaneously restrictive and liberating, and where life prospects are at once promising and daunting. In their depictions of the urban experiences of peoples of African descent, writers and other creative artists offer a complex set of renditions of twentieth- and twenty-first-century Black urban citizens’ experience in European or Euro-dominated cities such as Boston, London, New York, and Toronto, as well as Global South cities such as Accra, Kingston, and Lagos—that emerged out of colonial domination, and which have emerged as hubs of current globalization. Writing the Black Diasporic City draws on critical tools of classical postcolonial studies as well as those of globalization studies to read works by Ama Ata Aidoo, Amma Darko, Marlon James, Cecil Foster, Zadie Smith, Michael Thomas, Chika Unigwe, and other contemporary writers. The book also engages the television series Call the Midwife, the Canada carnival celebration Caribana, and the film series Small Axe to show how cities are characterized as open, complicated spaces that are constantly shifting. Cities collapse boundaries, allowing for both haunting and healing, and they can sever the connection from kin and community, or create new connections.Trade Review"Writing the Black Diasporic City in the Age of Globalization is a defining book for our times. Carol Bailey offers a fresh analysis of the ways the racist underpinnings of globalized capitalism work to systemize the erasure of black lives dispersed, corralled, and active within urban geographies. The book’s meticulous attention to particularity and difference in different locales and texts—a wide sweep from Kingston to Antwerp, Lagos to New York, London to Toronto—is what makes its argument most compelling. Writing the Back Diasporic City is a salutary antidote to prevailing activist discourses of black victimhood." -- Curdella Forbes * author of From Nation to Diaspora: Samuel Selvon, George Lamming and the Cultural Performance of Gender *"Carol Bailey’s Writing the Black Diasporic City in the Age of Globalization is a powerful, nuanced, and ground-breaking interrogation of the gendered experiences—challenges and triumphs—of people of African descent in global cities. It is a brilliant and indispensable addition to the literature of the Black diaspora. Bailey seamlessly merges history, theory, and close textual reading in an accessible way.""Writing the Black Diasporic City in the Age of Globalization is a defining book for our times. Carol Bailey offers a fresh analysis of the ways the racist underpinnings of globalized capitalism work to systemize the erasure of black lives dispersed, corralled, and active within urban geographies. The book’s meticulous attention to particularity and difference in different locales and texts—a wide sweep from Kingston to Antwerp, Lagos to New York, London to Toronto—is what makes its argument most compelling. Writing the Back Diasporic City is a salutary antidote to prevailing activist discourses of black victimhood." -- Curdella Forbes * author of From Nation to Diaspora: Samuel Selvon, George Lamming and the Cultural Performance of Gen *"Carol Bailey’s Writing the Black Diasporic City in the Age of Globalization is a powerful, nuanced, and ground-breaking interrogation of the gendered experiences—challenges and triumphs—of people of African descent in global cities. It is a brilliant and indispensable addition to the literature of the Black diaspora. Bailey seamlessly merges history, theory, and close textual reading in an accessible way." -- Katwiwa Mule * author of Women's Spaces, Women's Visions: Politics, Poetics, and Resistance in African Women's Dram *Table of Contents Introduction 1 “Natty Dread Rise Again”: The Haunting City and the Promise of Diaspora in Man Gone Down 2 “Putting the Best Outside”: A Genealogy of Self-Fashioning in Call the Midwife and NW 3 The Transnational Semicircle and the “Mobile” Female Subjectin Amma Darko’s Beyond the Horizon and Chika Unigwe’s On Black Sisters Street 4 “Writing the Sprawling City”: The Transatlantic Drug Trade in A Brief History of Seven Killings 5 A Door Ajar: Reading and Writing Toronto in Cecil Foster’s Sleep On, Beloved Conclusion Acknowledgments Notes Works Cited Index

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Book SynopsisWriting the Black Diasporic City in the Age of Globalization theorizes the city as a generative, “semicircular” social space, where the changes of globalization are most profoundly experienced. The fictive accounts analyzed here configure cities as spaces where movement is simultaneously restrictive and liberating, and where life prospects are at once promising and daunting. In their depictions of the urban experiences of peoples of African descent, writers and other creative artists offer a complex set of renditions of twentieth- and twenty-first-century Black urban citizens’ experience in European or Euro-dominated cities such as Boston, London, New York, and Toronto, as well as Global South cities such as Accra, Kingston, and Lagos—that emerged out of colonial domination, and which have emerged as hubs of current globalization. Writing the Black Diasporic City draws on critical tools of classical postcolonial studies as well as those of globalization studies to read works by Ama Ata Aidoo, Amma Darko, Marlon James, Cecil Foster, Zadie Smith, Michael Thomas, Chika Unigwe, and other contemporary writers. The book also engages the television series Call the Midwife, the Canada carnival celebration Caribana, and the film series Small Axe to show how cities are characterized as open, complicated spaces that are constantly shifting. Cities collapse boundaries, allowing for both haunting and healing, and they can sever the connection from kin and community, or create new connections.Trade Review"Writing the Black Diasporic City in the Age of Globalization is a defining book for our times. Carol Bailey offers a fresh analysis of the ways the racist underpinnings of globalized capitalism work to systemize the erasure of black lives dispersed, corralled, and active within urban geographies. The book’s meticulous attention to particularity and difference in different locales and texts—a wide sweep from Kingston to Antwerp, Lagos to New York, London to Toronto—is what makes its argument most compelling. Writing the Back Diasporic City is a salutary antidote to prevailing activist discourses of black victimhood." -- Curdella Forbes * author of From Nation to Diaspora: Samuel Selvon, George Lamming and the Cultural Performance of Gender *"Carol Bailey’s Writing the Black Diasporic City in the Age of Globalization is a powerful, nuanced, and ground-breaking interrogation of the gendered experiences—challenges and triumphs—of people of African descent in global cities. It is a brilliant and indispensable addition to the literature of the Black diaspora. Bailey seamlessly merges history, theory, and close textual reading in an accessible way.""Writing the Black Diasporic City in the Age of Globalization is a defining book for our times. Carol Bailey offers a fresh analysis of the ways the racist underpinnings of globalized capitalism work to systemize the erasure of black lives dispersed, corralled, and active within urban geographies. The book’s meticulous attention to particularity and difference in different locales and texts—a wide sweep from Kingston to Antwerp, Lagos to New York, London to Toronto—is what makes its argument most compelling. Writing the Back Diasporic City is a salutary antidote to prevailing activist discourses of black victimhood." -- Curdella Forbes * author of From Nation to Diaspora: Samuel Selvon, George Lamming and the Cultural Performance of Gen *"Carol Bailey’s Writing the Black Diasporic City in the Age of Globalization is a powerful, nuanced, and ground-breaking interrogation of the gendered experiences—challenges and triumphs—of people of African descent in global cities. It is a brilliant and indispensable addition to the literature of the Black diaspora. Bailey seamlessly merges history, theory, and close textual reading in an accessible way." -- Katwiwa Mule * author of Women's Spaces, Women's Visions: Politics, Poetics, and Resistance in African Women's Dram *Table of Contents Introduction 1 “Natty Dread Rise Again”: The Haunting City and the Promise of Diaspora in Man Gone Down 2 “Putting the Best Outside”: A Genealogy of Self-Fashioning in Call the Midwife and NW 3 The Transnational Semicircle and the “Mobile” Female Subjectin Amma Darko’s Beyond the Horizon and Chika Unigwe’s On Black Sisters Street 4 “Writing the Sprawling City”: The Transatlantic Drug Trade in A Brief History of Seven Killings 5 A Door Ajar: Reading and Writing Toronto in Cecil Foster’s Sleep On, Beloved Conclusion Acknowledgments Notes Works Cited Index

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Book SynopsisThis collection of urban studies research and interpretation crosses the country from Quebec to B.C., comparing trends and perspectives over the past decade and across and beyond disciplines. Core questions of research, policy and practice facing Montreal and Vancouver—those featuring housing and transportation, in particular—are featured in terms of new and innovative directions. Emerging questions—about urban indigeneity, food systems, climate action—are broached in challenging ways. The twenty authors whose original work is compiled here demonstrate the scope for continued, critical, comparative conversation across francophone and anglophone divides. The book offers a significant resource for understanding the intersecting field and practice of urban studies in Quebec and in B.C. and for spurring its further evolution. A French version of this book is also available.

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Book SynopsisThis book discusses urban planning and regional development practices in the twentieth century, and ways in which they are currently being transformed. It addresses questions such as: What are the factors affecting planning dynamics at local, regional, national and global scales? With the push to adopt a market paradigm in land development and infrastructure, the relationship between resource management, sustainable development and the role of governance has been transformed. Centralized planning is giving way to privatization, not only in the traditional regions but also in newly emerging regions of Asia, Africa and Latin America. Further, attempts are being made to bring planning related decision-making closer to the people who are most affected by it. Presenting a collection of studies from scholars around the world and highlighting recent advances in the field, the book is a valuable reference guide for those engaged in urban transformations, whether as graduate students, researchers, practitioners or policymakers. Trade Review“The book will certainly be of great value to students, researchers, and policymakers, as claimed by its blurb. Herein, students will get conversant with the latest in the field of urban and regional planning as impacting on development, researchers will be enthused to pursue projects on all-inclusive transformation of cities and regions, and policymakers will be sensitised to finding answers to the dilemmas over what to do or not to do.” (Gopal Krishan, Economic & Political Weekly, Vol. 56 (28), July, 2021)“The editors have accomplished a great job and have done the discipline a great service by bringing together such a powerful collection of writings and by organizing them so meaningfully. The book certainly adds to the existing body of literatures in the subject of urban and regional planning and development. It will benefit students, scholars, and professionals.” (Srikumar Chattopadhyay, Transactions, Vol. 42 (2), 2020)Table of ContentsUrban and Regional Planning and Development: Introduction and Overview.- Frank J. Costa: Professional Career and Contributions.- Regional Development and Planning.- Forty Years of Urban and Regional Development and Planning in China.- Urban and Regional Development and Planning in India’s Five Year Plans: Patterns and Emerging Policy Issues.- South African Urban Planning in the 20th and 21st Centuries – Continuities between the Apartheid and Democratic eras?.- A Reappraisal of Spatial Planning in Botswana.- What and Where are We Tweeting about Black Friday?.- Remaking ‘Urban’ in 21st Century Neoliberal India.- Confronting Styles and Scales: Normative vs. Participative Planning in a Twentieth-Century Colonial Setting.- Structural Gaps within a Country: The Socio-Economic Development of Cities in Ecuador.- Exploring Urban Dynamics in the Network Space.- Spatiotemporal Analysis of Shooting-Arrest Interaction in Houston.- Ecological Regional Planning: An Approach of the Protected Areas and the Environmental Services in Costa Rica.- Remaking ‘Urban’ in 21st Century Neoliberal India.- Confronting Styles and Scales: Normative vs. Participative Planning in a Twentieth-Century Colonial Setting.- Structural Gaps within a Country: The Socio-Economic Development of Cities in Ecuador.- Exploring Urban Dynamics in the Network Space.- Spatiotemporal Analysis of Shooting-Arrest Interaction in Houston.- What and Where are We Tweeting about Black Friday?.- Geographies of Indian Women’s Everyday Public Safety.- Land Use Change Outside Dhaka Metropolitan Area: An Analysis of Factors from Physical, Socio-Economic and Institutional Perspectives.- Consequences of Unplanned Growth: A Case Study of Metropolitan Hyderabad.- Slum Upgradation and Improvement through Slums Vulnerability Assessment (SVA) in Delhi.- Remodelling Urban Villages in Delhi: The Overriding Role of Transportation Lines.- Regional Differentials in Transformation of Dalits in Northwestern India.- Land Use Planning Policies and Gentrification in U. 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Cities.- State-led Urbanity: Reexamining Modern Movement Servicescapes.- Urban Governance under Neoliberalism: Increasing Centralization vis-a-vis Participatory Decentralization.- Changing Trajectories of Urban Governance and Participatory Urban Development in India.- Politics and Ethics in the Process of Plan Preparation and Implementation.- Participatory Comprehensive Planning of Amphawa District, Thailand.- Infrastructure and Regional Development in India: Spatial Linkages and Policy Implications.- Tourism and Urban Development in Chennai, India: An Exploratory Spatial Data Analysis.- Knowledge and Skills for India's Urban Transformation-High Growth Period for Urban Planning.- Intermediary Cities of Refuge: From Istanbul to Kolkata.- Return Migrants as Force to Urban Transformation – A Case Study from Poznan, Poland.- Leveraging Brewing History: The Case of Cincinnati’s Over-the-Rhine Neighborhood.- Sustainable Cities in the Global South: Lessons from the African Continent.- Growing Sustainable Transportation in an Autocentric Community: Current Trends and Applications.- Sacred-Heritage City Development and Planning in India: A Study of Banaras and Ayodhya.- An Assessment of Preservation Planning Activities in Pennsylvania Municipalities Using the Historic District Act.

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Book SynopsisThis book conceptualises and illustrates temporary appropriation as an urban phenomenon, exploring its contributions to citizenship, urban social sustainability and urban health. It explains how some forms of appropriation can be subversive, existing in a grey area between legal and illegal activities in the city. The book explores the complex and the multi-scalar nature of temporary appropriation, and touches on its relationship to issues such as: sustainability and building re-use; culture; inclusivity, including socio-spatial inclusion; streetscape design; homelessness; and regulations controlling the use of public spaces. The book focuses on temporary appropriation as a necessity of adapting human needs in a city, highlighting the flexibility that is needed within urban planning and the further research that should be undertaken in this area. The book utilises case studies of Auckland, Algiers and Mexico City, and other cities with diverse cultural and historical backgrounds, to explore how planning, design and development can occur whilst maintaining community diversity and resilience. Since urban populations are certain to grow further, this is a key topic for understanding urban dynamics, and this book will be of interest to academics and practitioners alike.Table of ContentsChapter 1 General Introduction Chapter 2 Understanding the Temporary Appropriation in Relationship to Social Sustainability Chapter 3 Between Assemblages and Temporary Appropriation: The Case of Mexico City Chapter 4 Temporary Appropriation and Informality Chapter 5 Ongoing Appropriation: Invisible Seattle and Red May Chapter 6 Temporary Appropriation and Public Space: Assessing the CPTED Principle of Activity Support Chapter 7 Temporary Appropriation of Public Spaces: The Influence of Outdoor Comfort Chapter 8 Origins of Informality: Examining the Historical and Spatial Roots of Informal Day-Labor Hiring Sites Chapter 9 Unsheltered Homelessness and the Right to Metabolism: An Urban Political Ecology of Health and Sustainability Chapter 10 Temporary Appropriation in Shanghai and Hong Kong: Two Study Cases Assessing the Resilience of Women Faced With the Lack of Affordable Housing Chapter 11 (Temporary) Appropriation (Of Space), Makassar, and Urban Kampung Chapter 12 Extending Temporary Appropriation Through Architecture: The Role of Adaptive Reuse in Shaping New Zealand’s Built Environment Chapter 13 Using the Street in Mexico City Centre: Temporary Appropriation of Public Space Vs Legislation Governing Street Use Chapter 14 Transforming Everyday Public Space: Human Appropriations in Search for Citizenship and Urban Well-Being Chapter 15 General Conclusion

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Book SynopsisThis book explores climate change responsiveness policies for cities and discusses why they have been slow to gain traction despite having been on the international agenda for the last 30 years. The contributing role of cities in accentuating the effects of climate change is increasingly demonstrated in the literature, underscoring the unsustainable models on which urban life has been made to thrive. As these issues become increasingly apparent, there are global calls to adopt more sustainable and equitable models, however doing so will mean the disruption of economies that have historically relied upon pollution-generating industries. In order to address these issues the authors examine them from a cross-disciplinary perspective, bringing in regional, local and urban standpoints to subsequently propose an alternative short-term economic model that could accelerate the adoption of climate change mitigation infrastructures and urban sustainability in urban areas. This book will be of particular value to scholars and students alike in the field of urbanism, sustainability and resilience, as well as practitioners looking at avenues for economically incentivizing sustainable development in various geographical context. Table of ContentsChapter 1: Urban Resilience And Climate Change.- Chapter 2: Regional Decarbonisation And Urban Sustainability.- Chapter 3: Climate Change Mitigation And Urban Liveability.- Chapter 4: Economically Incentivising Urban Sustainability And Resilience.- Chapter 5: Achieving Resilience Within The Capitalist Movement

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Book SynopsisThis book offers an essential introduction to a new urban planning and design methodology called Data Augmented Design (DAD) and its evolution and progresses, highlighting data driven methods, urban planning and design applications and related theories. The authors draw on many kinds of data, including big, open, and conventional data, and discuss cutting-edge technologies that illustrate DAD as a future oriented design framework in terms of its focus on multi-data, multi-method, multi-stage and multi-scale sustainable urban planning. In four sections and ten chapters, the book presents case studies to address the core concepts of DAD, the first type of applications of DAD that emerged in redevelopment-oriented planning and design, the second type committed to the planning and design for urban expansion, and the future-oriented applications of DAD to advance sustainable technologies and the future structural form of the built environment. The book is geared towards a broad readership, ranging from researchers and students of urban planning, urban design, urban geography, urban economics, and urban sociology, to practitioners in the areas of urban planning and design.​ Table of ContentsChapter 1. Cities in Transition. - Chapter 2. Data Augmented Design (DAD): Definitions, Dimensions, Performance, and Applications. - Chapter 3. Human-scale Urban Form and its Application in DAD. - Chapter 4. Data Adaptive Urban Design: A Case Study of Shanghai Hengfu Historical District. - Chapter 5. Multidimensional Data-based City Images: Cultural Reactivation of Waterfront Industrial Heritage Design in Shanghai. - Chapter 6. Fine-Scale Recognition-based Design Guidelines for Dealing with Shrinking Cities: A Case Study of Hegang. - Chapter 7. Quantifying Urban Form as a Case Study in Expansion-oriented Design: Design Practices in the Tongzhou Subcenter. - Chapter 8. Defining the Density of the Xiong’an New Area based on Global Experience. - Chapter 9. The Next Form of Human Settlement: A Design for Future Yilong City. - Chapter 10. The Future of the Smart Island: A Design for a Natural and Technological Experience District on Huangguan Island.

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Book SynopsisThis book presents fundamental and applied research in developing geospatial modeling solutions to manage the challenges that urban areas are facing today. It aims to connect the academics, researchers, experts, town planners, investors and government officials to exchange ideas. The areas addressed include urban heat island analysis, urban flood vulnerability and risk mapping, green spaces, solar energy, infrastructure management, among others. The book suggests directions for smart city research and outlines practical propositions. As an emerging and critical area of research and development, much research is now being done with regard to cities. At the international level and in India alike, the “smart cities” concept is a vital topic for universities and research centers, and well as for civic bodies, town planners and policymakers. As such, the book offers a valuable resource for a broad readership.Table of ContentsAnalyzing the role of geospatial technology in smart city development .- Part II: Urban expansion and infrastructure.- The dark side of the earth: Benchmarking lighting access for all cities on Earth and the citynet dataset.- Object-oriented approach for urbanization growth by using remote sensing and Gis techniques: A case study in Hilla city, Babylon Governorate, Iraq.- Designing the streets for smart cities.- An automated approach to facilitate rooftop solar Pv installation in smart cities: Acomparative study between Bhopal, India and Trondheim, Norway.- Analyzing and predicting urban expansion and its effects on surface temperature for two Indian megacities: Bengaluru and Chennai.- Analyzing new frontiers in urban preference and perception research.- Land transformation and future projections of land consumption using high resolution remote sensing data for Allahabad, India.- The meta-analysis of studies on urban sprawl.- Four-dimensional slum urban simulation using hologram interferometry of Envisat satellite.- Geospatial technologies for public health management system.- Utilisation of geo spatial technology to study the variation in access of urban health care centres in Kamrup Metro, Assam.- Geo-spatial analysis of health care service centres for smart cities: A study of South East district, Delhi-India.- Usage of transport apps by Indian commuters: An empirical investigation.- Parking maximums and work place levies: Time to adopt new paradigms in India, the case of Kochi.- Assessing to append homeless people to plan smart regions to be more inclusive.- Part II: Urban ecology and disaster management.- Fire and flood vulnerability, and implications for evacuation.- An information and communication technology (ICT) driven disaster management system: A case of fire-fighting in Mumbai.- Selection of suitable site for biomedical waste disposal in Lucknow city, India using remote sensing data, GIS and AHP method.- How does tourism affect urban ecological standards? A geospatial analysis of wetland transformations in the coastal resort town of Digha, West Bengal, India.- Urban housing in Itanagar: Mountain geomorphology, hazard vulnerability vis-à-vis smart city framework.- Hydrogeological studies of urban-rural interface in the northwest part of Pune Metropolis, India.- Ground water analytics for measuring quality and quantity.- Status of ground water quality in Bhilwara district of Rajasthan: A geospatial approach.- Green infrastructure as a tool for improving livability of area based development projects under smart city mission.- Evaluating decadal change in green cover of Dehradun city.- Summary and way forward.

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Book SynopsisThe ideas presented in this book are a conceptual leverage to correct the rigidity of top-down practices and bring the real city, or the city of everyday life, closer to the city of conventional planning. Considering self-organization as the starting point at the base of complex systems, this book tries to understand how specific qualities emerge and evolve from this behavior. For this, the book discusses new ways of looking at and understanding cities by applying holistic methods and approaches based on the conceptual grounds of quantum, fractal, and complexity theories. The book highlights the fact that the information on how to transform and build a city is contained within the city itself. In this regard, some methodological steps to unpack complexities and translate the essential qualities of space into potential generators for city design and planning are provided. The book urges courageous experimentation and proposes a methodology where the computational nature of urban phenomena goes along with historic anthropological ideas, thus emphasizing the characteristics of a specific reality in a model. They do not exclude each other; in fact, they are part of the unbroken web of wholeness. Importantly, the proposed methodology supports gradual and natural coevolution process in the city through combining planned and unplanned actions and the involving multiplicity of actors, impacting on Urban Planning and Design Practice.Table of ContentsIntroduction.- The natural city.- Additional theoretical lenses to understand the city.- Historical notes on Tirana.- Tirana patterns at a glance.- Holistic approach to Tirana pattern analysis.- Methodology for holistic understanding of the urban patterns.- Conclusions.

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Book SynopsisThe authors collected here address youth street cultures in different cities from the Ibero-American world, bringing together contributions on Brazil, Argentina, Mexico, Chile, Portugal, Spain, and beyond. This overseas approach bridging the European and American contexts is justified by the range of (complex) social, cultural and economic relationships that have shaped this transnational geographical space since the beginning of the colonial period. The chapters collected here focus on three key concepts—creativity, resistance and transgression—that form a threefold dispositive to locally and globally confront, contest and even fight against the hegemonic, punitive and oppressive powers (re)produced by (white, male) dominant classes of the city. The book ensures a high diversity of geographical and social/cultural research contexts by focusing on one, two or multiple spatial contexts (the public space, the street, the city) and, at the same time, by emphasizing the different economic, social, cultural, symbolic specificities of youth cultures (including gender, sexuality and race) in their particular urban contexts.Table of ContentsChapter 1. Ibero-American Youth Street Cultures in the 21st century: an introductionPART I – CITIZENSHIP AND ACTIVISMChapter 2. The urban youth actions for the peace in a connected worldChapter 3. Global Marijuana March: youth, justice and inequality in the city of São PauloChapter 4. LGBTQIA+ youth, families and street protests in Brazil: facing and fighting Chapter 5. When the zombies go marching in. Performances in public space, forms of youth organization and mimetic pleasures in Córdoba (Argentina)Chapter 6. The street as a youth recognition place to adult-centric expulsionsPART II – LIMINALITIES AND TRANSGRESSIONSChapter 7. Transnational gangs and their rituals of passage: inhabiting another worldChapter 8. Violence, urban art, and youth in the periphery of MedellínChapter 9. Making-city through corporalities: youth agencies and resistances in São PauloPART III – CONSUMPTION, SOCIABILITY AND LUDIC SPACESChapter 10. HEM 26: Youth representations and cultural productions against stigmatizationChapter 11. Between the street to the gallery. Trajectories of “pixadores” and graffiti writers in Lisbon and São PauloChapter 12. From El barrio to La Condesa and back again. Mexico City’s Bar staff as youth cultureChapter 13. Adolescents in Barcelona: exploring places, exploring nightlifePART IV – CREATIVITY AND CULTURAL PRODUCTIONChapter 14. ‘Not Just Holidays in the Sun’. Mapping, measuring and analysing DIY culture’s impact across cities in the Global South, by Paula Guerra & Carles FeixaChapter 15. K-Popping urban space. Or the uses of the public urban spaces in Santiago de Chile as a way of colonising, exploring and transgressing the cityChapter 16. Peripheral Urban Cultures in the City of Rio de Janeiro: Survival ArtsChapter 17. DJs from the Ghetto, Lisbon's “Batida Negra”: Music, Trajectories and Resistances Chapter 18. Epilogue

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Book SynopsisThis book explores a more human-centered development pathway associated with the ideological shift from "quantity" to "quality" growth in the new era of Chinese urbanization. Sustainable urban and rural planning should be “people-centered” and concerned about urban-rural coordination. The authors argue that successful urban and rural development in China should promote social equity, culture diversity, economic prosperity and sustainable built form. This book prompts Chinese urbanists to reconsider and explore a sustainable and people-first planning approach with Chinese characteristics. The breadth and depth of this book is of particular interest to the faculty members, students, practitioners and the general public who are interested in subjects like urban and regional planning, rural planning, housing and community development, infrastructure planning, climate change and ecological planning, environmental planning, social equity and beyond. This book dealing with human-centered urban planning and development, rural planning and urban-rural coordination in China is part of a 2 volume set. Volume II discusses human-centered urban design and placemaking, human activities and urban mobility.Table of ContentsPart I Urban planning and development 1. On Chinese Approach to Theoretical Study of Urban Growth Boundary (UGB)Hui Li, Yiling Hua, Yadong Li, Yu Zhang, Zhiying Li, Honghong Fan and Jiahao Ren 2. The Spatial Planning Technology Innovation of the Smart City under Knowledge Economy and Ecological SustainabilityLe Che, Yinquan Luo, Yangfang Hu and Sheng Yao 3. Chinese Traditional Ecological Wisdom and Contemporary Sustainable Landscape ArtYan Huang 4. Spatial-temporal Variations of Green Space in Metropolitan Area: The Case of Wuhan, ChinaChun Li, Zhiyong Wang and Tixing Yang 5. Relationship among Fractional Vegetation Cover, Land use and Urban Heat Island Using Landsat 8 in Taipei, TaiwanMu-En Chang, Zhi-Qing Zhao and Hsiao-Tung Chang 6. Ecological perspective of the evolution of urban spatial form and construction: case study of Hefei cityHuifen Huang and Dazhi Gu 7. Study of the Ecological Adaptive Mechanism of Traditional Human Settlements in Sichuan Tibetan Areas Based on a Cultural PerspectiveLinglan Bi, Xuejin Liu and Zhengjun Zhang 8. Study Analysis of The Influence of Tibetan Buddhism on The Formation and Development of Urban Areas in Mongolia Region in Qing DynastyChong Liu and Ying Han 9. A Method of Discovering Urban Functional Zones Based on Poi Feature Vector and Network Kernel DensityShiwei Shao, Hui Liu and Lin Lu 10. Evaluation Methodology on Industry-city Integration Degree of China National High-Tech Industrial Development Zones: A Case Study of Hubei ProvincePei Chen and Yaping Huang Part II Rural planning and urban-rural coordination 11. Urban-rural Coordination in Shaoxing: Small and Medium Towns Development during Urban-rural Relationship TransformationWenting Jiang, Jian Liu and Xiaoxuan Li 12. Spatial growth of urban and rural construction land and policy impact mechanism in HangzhouHaiyan Pang and Yonghua Li 13. Study on China’s Adaptation Policies to Climate Change from the View of Urban and Rural PlanningYuan Huang and Yanxiao Pan 14. Considerations on Urban-Rural Relationship and Planning Philosophy from the Perspective of Rural Planning in Contemporary China- Discussion on the Existing Problems in Rural Planning EducationFan Yang, Tianyang Zhou and Jiehao Zhu 15. Obstacles and Opportunities for Characteristic Town Development in Central China Area: Hubei Province Case StudyShuting Yan, Toshikazu Ishida, Mamiko Fujiyama and Xilin Zhou 16. Research on the Shaping of Landscape in Rural Cultural Heritage Based Areas Using the Optimal Solution ModelYu Guo, Zhenya Chen, Lingqing Zhang, Jing Yan, Wenfeng Fu, Ying Cao and Xiaohong Tang 17. An Argument Concerning Rural Planning in Contemporary China from the Perspectives of Law, Institutional Practice and Implementation Methods Jiehao Zhu, Fan Yang and Tianyang Zhhou

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Book SynopsisThrough a transdisciplinary perspective, this book examines the complex urban dimension, in front of increasing density, soil consumption, abandoned places, and the recent pandemic which proved megacities particularly inadequate to provide healthy psychophysical conditions. Assuming bodily and emotional comfort as a reference horizon, it tends to inspire the design research overcoming a paradoxical binary logic that separates public and private, outside and inside, culture and nature, mind and places. The first part of the work explores built spaces and addresses sustainable strategies not only to overcome an ecologic and systemic crisis but also to improve places liveability in our contemporary city. The second part deals with our perception of aesthetic spaces, welcoming the stimuli coming from neuro-aesthetics studies on affordances and atmosphere and encouraging the intersection between interior architecture and design culture and arts. The third part examines relational spaces and how they influence human behaviour, starting from psychological, anthropological, and philosophical perspectives. The book benefits scholars and practitioners interested in interior architecture and design, as well as researchers involved in the relationship between people and places. The new challenge posed by the recent pandemic requires more than ever to rely on consciousness, culture and creativity to increase the intelligence of our surroundings, allowing our sense of belonging and improving our personal and mutual well-being.Table of ContentsUrban open space design. What to do?.- The city around: for an urban space at a walking pace.- Design of the ephemeral in urban spaces.- Reading the current cities to anticipate their changes.- Reuse of contemporary city: experience and ecology.- Atmosphere design of urban places. A scientific phenomenological approach.- Nature and anti-nature: reflections on the contemporary cityscape.- Intangible heritage of Bedouins: habitat, habitus and representations of nomadic culture.- Mapping beauty: narrating relational crossroads and interior pictures.- Semantic and architectural sounds space. Musical creativity and performance.

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Book SynopsisThis book challenges current views that public life is in decline and that contemporary urban design trends reliant on privatisation, control, events, and thematic designs are to be blamed. Drawing on detailed and extensive analysis of a case study that illustrates well such urban design trends, it shows that informal social life and interaction occur more than its necessary in new master planned environments and new designed public settings, whether public or private owned and/or managed. Furthermore, it reveals the existence of a new category of informal public social settings which it calls fourth places because of their close relationship to Oldenburg’s third places in terms of social and behavioural characteristics – radical departure from the routines of home and work, inclusivity and social comfort – but distinct in terms of activities, locations and spatial conditions – being characterised by spatial, temporal and managerial in-betweenness, i.e. indeterminacy in form, function and times, and a great sense of publicness.The acceptance of these findings problematises well-established urban design theories about master planning, expands existing social theories about the optimal conditions for public social life by empirically and spatially elaborating on them and redefines several spatial concepts for designing public space in relation to the specific dynamics of informal social interaction. More importantly, it brings optimism to urban design practice, offering new insights into designing more lively and inclusive public spaces.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Is public social life in decline and are contemporary masterplanning And public space design practices to be blamed?- Theorisation of informal public social life and interaction in urban public space.- The sociality and spatiality of social encounters among strangers.- Observations on the theorized conditions that support informal social interactions in new designed public spaces.- Observations on the under-theorized conditions that support informal social.- Interactions in new designed public spaces.- ‘Fourth-places’: The contemporary public settings for informal social life and Interaction.

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Book SynopsisThe book explores approaches, methods and best practices related to health promotion in urban areas. Thanks to the increasingly tight connection among urbanism, architecture, bioethics, anthropology, sociology and medicine, we are now reaching an “ecological” health perspective. This new viewpoint has pushed the study of social health determinants and their unequal distribution in the population, resulting in the study of the generation of structurally-determined differences in health and healthcare. There is the need to make use of a unitary framework in order to understand the intertwining of multidimensional dynamics that define the urban context and the need to disseminate, enhance, and improve existing interventions in the field. This volume consequently results in the discussion and comparison of contents and methods to be implemented in multidisciplinary interventions related to the promotion of community-based healthcare and health in the urban setting. The book represents a useful opportunity for scientific growth and international sharing of methodologies that can help develop a common language and approach to be shared across different academic spheres. This is not only an exchange of knowledge among different fields of study, but also the creation of foundations for creating an increasingly complex network of scientific culture and operational collaborations to transfer knowledge and attract academic and public attention, influencing decision-makers and gaining advocacy accordingly.Table of ContentsUrban Regeneration Between Well-Being, Social Determinants and Sustainable Development Goals.- Public Health Approach to Outdoor Urban Health.- Security, Health and Social Exclusion In Urban Contexts. A Sociological Perspective.- From the Phenomenological Redefinition of Body to Inequalities in Health.- Pathways for Therapy and Urban Health in the Field of Mental Suffering. Illness Narratives from a Residential Complex for Public Housing Assistance in Rome, Italy.- Does Urbanization Correlate with Health Service Assistance? An Observational Study in Rome, Italy.- A Walkable Urban Environment to Prevent Chronic Diseases and Improve Wellbeing, an Experience of Urban Health in the Local Health Unit Roma.- Housing and Health in Urban Areas.- Health, Well-Being, Good Living. Architectural Attempts with Acupuncture-Type Regenerations for Quito, Cairo and the Baghère Region.- We For Us: Collective Action In The Favelas During The Pandemic.- Empower Shack Housing.- Measuring Disability Among Migrant People in Urban Area.- Conclusions. From a Multidisciplinary Cultural Approach to an Integrated Organization of the City, to Build Health Capabilities.

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Book SynopsisNeighborhood Technologies expands upon sociologist Thomas Schelling's well-known study of segregation in major American cities, using this classic work as the basis for a new way of researching social networks across disciplines. Up to now, research has focused on macro-level behaviors that, together, form rigid systems of neighborhood relations. But can neighborhoods, conversely, affect larger, global dynamics? This volume introduces the concept of "neighborhood technologies" as a model for intermediate, or meso-level, research into the links between local agents and neighborhood relations. Bridging the sciences and humanities, Tobias Harks and Sebastian Vehlken have assembled a group of contributors who are either natural scientists with an interest in interdisciplinary research or tech-savvy humanists. With insights into computer science, mathematics, sociology, media and cultural studies, theater studies, and architecture, the book will inform new research.

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Book SynopsisThis book is oriented on cities and their role in society, from the public places created in cities to the visionary and more abstract views on large scale developments. The chapter authors argue, each in their own way, how urban design can produce an answer to these questions. Furthermore, detailed insights are given into how current designers, architects, urbanists and landscape architects deal with the contemporary urban problems of our time: climate change, migration, resiliency, politics, environmental change This book includes chapters from leading thinkers in urban design, city development and landscape urbanism fields. The authors have included the most recent insights in urbanism ensuring that this book provides a state-of-the -art text which is both actual and timely. Table of ContentsIntroduction.- 1. Growth of Sydney Metropolitan Region Over Time and Current Urban Design Practices.- 2. The City as an Economic Driver.- 3. 20 Years of Spatial Growth and Planning in Sydney.- 4. The Role of Qualitative Public Spaces.- 5. The Need for Developing Sustainability in Urbanism.- 6. The Concept of the Resilient City.- 7. The Design of the Sydney Green Grid.- 8. Landscapes and a Driver for Urban Design.- 9. The Role of Mobility in Current and Future Cities.- 10. The Relationship between Urbanism and Politics.- 11. How Local Economics Play a Role in Community Driven Urban Design.- 12. Sustainable Urban Projects and Urban Architecture.- Conclusions.

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Book SynopsisHow spatial planning was transformed in Europe in the postwar period. Spatial planning is a typical European attempt to shape the development of societies by ordering their territory. It emerged in the nineteenth century from colonial settlement and conquest projections, urban reform, and conservative or even fascist fantasies of order. With this legacy, further burdened by the Soviet planned economy, spatial planning entered a new epoch after 1945. Since then, it has attempted to participate in the reconstruction of Europe and to accompany the path into modern society, mass democracy, and mass prosperity. Therefore, parallel to the social changes between 1945 and 1975, a reform of spatial planning began from Spain to Germany and from the Netherlands to Italy. However, these developments found themselves in competition with the specialized planning of the ministries, economic framework planning, and the market economy. In the process, spatial planning was transformed, becoming an institutional part of the European legal and social states. Table of ContentsPreface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Detlef Briesen and Wendelin Strubelt I Spatial planning in selected European countries Spatial planning in Switzerland from 1945 to 1975 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Martina Schretzenmayr The role of spatial planning in the organization of Poland’s space 1945-1975 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 Tadeusz Marszal Polish regional and spatial planning, a short account of 20thplus century . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65 Grzegorz Gorzelak A long path. Spatial planning and research in Austria from 1945 until 1975 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81 Gerhard Schimak Aménagement du territoire in France 1945–1975: a synchronic analysis . . . 105 Frédéric Santamaria 1945–1975: What if Italy had been reconstructed through spatial planning? . . . 123 Maria Prezioso The Spanish case: from integral to sectoral plans; from land use to building permits for economic growth and developers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157 Joaquín Farinós Dasí Barcelona 1950–1980 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179 Andreu Ulied 6 Contents Dutch spatial planning experience, the era of rebuilding 1950–1975 . . . 203 Len de Klerk and Ries van der Wouden Luxembourg-Kirchberg: heading towards the new European city . . . . . 217 Markus Hesse Land use, settlement, regional and territorial planning in the German Democratic Republic – on concepts and significance of spatial planning in Eastern Germany 1945–1975 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233 Wendelin Strubelt Spatial planning in Western Germany from 1945 to 1975 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251 Detlef Briesen II Reflexions Spatial planning in Switzerland and the Federal Republic of Germany. Approaches to a comparison for the period after 1945 – with a view to future perspectives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291 Martin Lendi Dutch planning: insider/outsider perspective . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307 Andreas Faludi FrenchAménagement du Territoire: roots and underlying narratives. New perspectives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327 Guy Baudelle and Jean Peyrony III European perspectives Spatial planning in Europe: from curiosity and engagement to scepticism and hope – a planner’s European journey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 353 Klaus R. Kunzmann In search of unknowable novelty – a challenge to European spatial planning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 383 Peter Ache A short history of European spatial policy since 1945 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 407 Karl Peter Schön Contents 7 What if there had been a spatial vision for Europe? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 441 Kai Böhme and Maria Toptsidou Appendix About the authors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 463

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Book SynopsisIn entlegenen, ländlichen Räumen ergeben sich komplexe Problemlagen, die eine interdisziplinäre Erforschung notwendig machen. Der vorliegende Band beleuchtet mit Hilfe unterschiedlichster Fachdisziplinen neue Ansätze für die Daseinsvorsorge und das Gemeinwesen. Beteiligt sind Sozial-/Wirtschaftsgeografie und Ökologie, Soziologie, Politikwissenschaft, Agrarwissenschaften, Gesundheitswissenschaften, Psychiatrie, Theologie, Kriminologie und Präventionswissenschaft. Trade Review“... Die Publikation richtet sich an alle an der Daseinsvorsorge im ländlichen Raum interessierten WissenschaftlerInnen und PraktikerInnen.” (in: BBE-Newsletter, Heft 19, 22. September 2016)Table of ContentsVorwort.- Geleitwort.- Gesundheitsversorgung im ländlichen Raum: Ziele und benötigte Indikatoren.- Gesundheitsberufe in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern – Angebot und Nachfrage von Qualifikationen und Qualifizierten.- Die Rolle der Krankenhäuser im ländlichen Raum.- Regional Governance und ländliche Räume.- Motivationale Aspekte ehrenamtlichen Engagements im Zivil- und Katastrophenschutz in ländlichen Regionen.- Peripher und engagiert: Kirchlich gebundenes Ehrenamt in peripheren, ländlichen Regionen.- „LehrerInnenbildung im ländlichen Raum – Potenziale unserer regionalen Bildungslandschaft“ am Beispiel des UNIDorfes Ducherow sowie der Forschungswerkstatt.- Beitrag der Landwirtschaft zur Sicherung der Daseinsvorsorge in ländlichen Räumen.- Einkaufsgewohnheiten und Versorgungszufriedenheit im ländlichen Raum.- Lokale Produktion auf dem Land durch das Neue Dorf im Gartenring.- Sicherheitsmentalitäten im ländlichen Raum.- Sicherheit in peripheren ländlichen Räumen: Zwischen sozialer Kohäsion und Desintegration - eine Forschungsskizze.- Nachwort.

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Book SynopsisKarin Cudak untersucht in diesem Buch die unterschiedlichen Strategien von Schulen und Kommunen in ihrem Umgang mit Mobilität und Diversität, welche sie am Beispiel zweier postindustrieller Regionen in Deutschland und Großbritannien aufgreift. Entlang eines aktuellen Mobilitätsphänomens, nämlich der Einwanderung aus Südosteuropa sowie der mit ihr verknüpften Debatte um ‚Armutsflucht‘, wird die Eigenlogik lokaler Bildungskulturen im Kontext von Quartier und Stadtgesellschaft deutlich: Während die einen auf eine längst überholte ‚Ausländerpädagogik‘ rekurrieren, stellen sich die anderen bereits inklusionsorientiert auf. Table of ContentsVon der Mobilität zur Diversität in der Stadtgesellschaft.- Diversität und Inklusion in der Bildung.- Zur gesellschaftlichen Konstruktion der Einwanderung aus Südosteuropa.- Ausblick: Inclusive Education und Inclusive Cities.

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Book SynopsisDas Buch greift die Diskussion um Inklusion in den letzten Jahren in den unterschiedlichsten gesellschaftlichen Zusammenhängen kritisch auf. Ausgangspunkt der Betrachtung ist die Stadt und das urbane Zusammenleben. Denn insbesondere Städte und hier kompakte, also dichte und gemischte Quartiere bieten sich für die Inklusionsforschung und -praxis an, da sie adäquate Sozialräume darstellen, die das heute immer stärker urban geprägte Zusammenleben reflektieren und neu durchbuchstabieren. Vor diesem Hintergrund setzen sich die Autorinnen und Autoren empirisch und theoretisch mit der Frage nach der Gestaltung eines zukunftsorientierten und professionellen Referenzrahmens für eine inklusive und nachhaltige Stadtentwicklung auseinander, die auch einer weiter zunehmenden Mobilität und Diversität gerecht wird.Trade Review“... Das Buch richtet sich sowohl an Studierende und Lehrende der Soziologie als auch an alle, die sich für kritische Stadt- und Regionalentwicklung interessieren, an Mobilität und Diversität arbeitende Forschung, Interessierte aus Kommunalpolitik und Verwaltung sowie an Experten und Expertinnen aus Initiativen und Zivilgesellschaft ... Dieses Stadtgesellschafts-Handbuch ist für eine europäisch-urbane Zukunft ausgerüstet und für jeden Interessierten und Beteiligten unentbehrlich ...” (Kultur Punkt, kultur-punkt.ch, Dezember 2017)Table of ContentsRegional- und Quartiersentwicklung.- Diversität im Bildungs- und den kommunalen Dienstleistungssystemen.- Neue Einwanderung, neue Minderheiten als Modernisierungspioniere in der Kommune.- Leben und Arbeit im Wandel.- Quartiere als Laboratorien für die Inclusive City.

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Book SynopsisSowohl auf globaler als auch auf lokaler Ebene kennzeichnen ambivalente Entwicklungen zurzeit den Umgang mit den neuen Mobilitäts- und Migrationsprozessen in Deutschland. Die aktuellen restriktiven politischen und rechtlichen Strukturen fördern neue sozialräumliche Segregations-, Diskriminierungs- und Ausgrenzungsprozesse der Geflüchteten. Die lokale Praxis, insbesondere in Form der Maßnahmen des Arbeitsmarkt-, des Bildungs- und des Hilfesystems versucht, diesen Segregationsprozessen entgegen zu treten bzw. Maßnahmen zur Kompensation dieser Tendenzen zu entwickeln. Neben den Segregationstendenzen und den Beiträgen der lokalen Praxis zur Kompensation der sozialräumlichen Segregation der Geflüchteten sind aus politischer, sozialwissenschaftlicher und pädagogischer Sicht die subjektiven Umgangsformen der Geflüchteten mit den strukturellen Barrieren von Interesse. Im vorliegenden Band wird versucht, sich allen vier Ebenen zu nähern.Table of ContentsNeue Mobilitäts- und Migrationsprozesse als Herausforderung und Chance.- Sozialräumliche Segregation auf lokaler Ebene.- Der Beitrag der lokalen Praxis zur Kompensation sozialräumlicher Segregation.- Der subjektive Umgang der neuen Einwanderinnen und Einwanderer mit den strukturellen Rahmenbedingungen.

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Book SynopsisIm Zentrum des Buches steht der sinnhafte Aufbau von Städten. Es zielt darauf ab, die Konstruktionsprinzipien und Sinnzuschreibungen, mit denen städtische Wirklichkeit hergestellt wird, zu erfassen. Hierfür wird interdisziplinär an die Forschung zur Eigenlogik von Städten angeknüpft und Wissenssoziologie mit psychologischer Konstruktionstheorie verbunden. Aus rund 350 Interviews werden allgemeine Prinzipien zur gesellschaftlichen Konstruktion der Stadt herausgearbeitet. Ein Kernergebnis ist der ‚soziale Sinnraum städtischer Wirklichkeit’, der die Bezogenheiten der Konstruktionsprinzipien zueinander erörtert, und damit eine Theorie zur Soziologie der Städte aufstellt. Anhand einzelner Städte wird gezeigt, wie spezifische Sinnzuschreibungen das relationale Feld städtischer Wirklichkeiten ausdifferenzieren. Der Autor zeigt, dass Stadt nicht nur über die Eigenschaften Größe, Dichte und Heterogenität zu einem gefühlten Gegenstand des Alltags wird, sondern vor allem in ihren qualitativen Effekten. Das Buch liefert damit ebenso grundlegende Erkenntnisse für die stadtsoziologische Empirie und Theoriebildung wie auch für die praxisorientierte Stadtplanung und -entwicklung.Table of ContentsTheorie zum sinnhaften Aufbau städtischer Wirklichkeit.- Prinzipien zur gesellschaftlichen Konstruktion der Stadt.

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Book SynopsisDas Buch befasst sich mit Fragen der Operationalisierung des Lebenschancen-Ansatzes von Ralf Dahrendorf in Bezug auf räumliche Entwicklungen. Dabei wird untersucht, welche Raumentwicklungen zu einer Maximierung von Lebenschancen beitragen können und welche Raumentwicklungen mit dem Ziel der Maximierung von Lebenschancen zu erstreben sind. Die auf der Idee der Maximierung von Lebenschancen ausgerichtete Raumentwicklung wird dabei an alternativen Weltanschauungen – wie dem klassischen Liberalismus, dem Konservatismus und dem Sozialismus – reflektiert. Der auf die Maximierung von Lebenschancen gerichtete Ansatz der Raumentwicklung wird anhand unterschiedlicher aktueller Herausforderungen exemplarisch dargestellt, etwa der Moralisierung von räumlichen Entwicklungen, der Energiewende, der Kommunikation von Räumen im Internet, Klimawandel und Protesten. Abschließend wird ein Ansatz eines Umgangs mit Raum aus der Perspektive eines Lebenschancen maximierenden Liberalismus erarbeitet.Table of ContentsEinleitung.- Bevor es richtig losgeht: Einige begriffliche Vorklärungen – von drei Welten, Räumen und Landschaften.- Von Differenzierungen und Kontextualisierungen: Liberale Weltanschauungen im aktuellen raumwissenschaftlichen Mainstream und im politisch-philosophischen Vergleich.- Aktuelle gesellschaftliche und raumbezogene Entwicklungen.- Die Rückkehr des Utopischen und die Restriktionen von Landschaft 1 – eine kritische Auseinandersetzung.- Konturierungen eines Umgangs mit Raum aus der Perspektive eines Lebenschancen maximierenden Liberalismus.- Resümee.

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Book SynopsisJürgen Friedrichs, Felix Leßke und Vera Schwarzenberg untersuchen die Integration von Flüchtlingen in Hamburg, Köln und Mülheim an der Ruhr. Hierzu arbeiten sie mit einem komplexen Forschungsdesign: 88 Experteninterviews geben Aufschluss über die Integrationsmaßnahmen der Städte und Freiwilligen-Organisationen; 57 Interviews mit Flüchtlingen informieren über deren Probleme vom Sprachkurs bis zur Wohnungssuche; und schließlich zeigen 1.700 Interviews mit Anwohnerinnen und Anwohnern von Gebieten mit einer Flüchtlingsunterkunft die Einstellungen zu Flüchtlingen und deren Unterkunft sowie zum Islam. Dabei wird das Ausmaß von Ängsten und Bedrohungen deutlich, aber auch die Bereitschaft, Flüchtlinge im Wohngebiet zu akzeptieren. ​Table of ContentsFlüchtlinge und Flüchtlingspolitik in Deutschland.- Beschreibung der Untersuchungsgebiete und des Forschungsdesigns.- Theorien zur ethnischen Bedrohung, zu Kontakten und zum Abbau von Vorurteilen.- Ausführliche Analysen der Experten-, Anwohner- und Flüchtlingsbefragung.- Akzeptanz von Flüchtlingen​.

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Book SynopsisUrbanität ist längst zu einem weltweiten Narrativ geworden und motiviert die Menschen mehr und mehr, auf urbanes Zusammenleben und die damit erhofften neuen Möglichkeiten zu setzen. Das Narrativ verspricht die Verknüpfung von Arbeiten, Wohnen und Versorgung in einem praktikablen, alltagstauglichen und überschaubaren Lebensumfeld. Das vorliegende Buch bietet kurze Beiträge von Praktiker*innen und Wissenschaftler*innen aus den Disziplinen der Stadtforschung und Stadtentwicklung zu den Forderungen, die aus der jeweiligen individuell-fachlichen Sicht heraus zu stellen sind, damit das Konzept einer Stadt der kurzen Wege und damit eine verbesserte und zukunftsfestere Lebensqualität im urbanen Quartier umgesetzt werden kann.Table of ContentsDie Zukunft gehört dem urbanen Quartier.- Zukunftsorientierte Stadtentwicklung basiert heute auf dem Quartier.- Perspektiven des Urbanen Quartiers.- Stadtquartiere bauen - aus Erfahrungen lernen.- Das Geh-Quartier – Urbanität pur.- Mischen! Aber was?- Soziale Mischung im Quartier – 12 Thesen.- Open City – Der öffentliche Raum in der Stadt der kurzen Wege.- Alltag im urbanen Quartier.- Öffentliches Leben im Quartier – oder: Die Späti-Moderne.- Quartier als Markt. Mehrheimische Ökonomien bewegen und bilden das Stadtleben.- Von einer synchronen Quartierentwicklung zur Mobilitätswende.- Verkehrspolitik für urbane Quartiere in einer Stadt der kurzen Wege, abschließende Überlegungen.

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Book SynopsisLisa Ruhrort untersucht die Akzeptanz für Maßnahmen, die dem Autoverkehr Raum und Privilegien entziehen. Aus techniksoziologischer Sicht identifiziert sie diese Maßnahmen als Schlüsselmaßnahmen einer Verkehrswende und entwickelt die These, dass die Entstehung einer „multioptionalen“ Mobilitätskultur in den urbanen Zentren zu einer steigenden Akzeptanz für diese Maßnahmen führen wird. Um die Klimaschutzziele im Verkehr zu erreichen, müssen auch die bisherigen Privilegien des Autoverkehrs bei der Nutzung öffentlicher Räume abgebaut werden. Bislang galten Maßnahmen, die das Auto weniger attraktiv machen als politisch kaum durchsetzbar. Doch könnte sich der gesellschaftliche Diskurs um die Rolle des Autos verändern? Lisa Ruhrort stellt die Prognose auf, dass eine zunehmend multimodale Bevölkerung vor allem in den Städten eine „multioptionale“ Verkehrspolitik fordern wird.Table of ContentsGesellschaftliche Voraussetzungen für einen Modal Shift.- Privilegien des privaten PKW bei der Nutzung öffentlicher Räume.- Zusammenhänge zwischen multioptionaler Mobilitätskultur und verkehrspolitischen Einstellungen.

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Book SynopsisUm den aktuellen Stand des Wissens und der Anwendung von Methoden visueller Kommunikation aus unterschiedlichen Blickwinkeln zu beleuchten, steuern Autoren aus Wissenschaft und Praxis Beiträge zu diesem Sammelband bei. Sie arbeiten dabei aktuelle Herausforderungen in Bezug auf die visuelle Kommunikation und dazu einschlägige Methoden heraus, um entsprechende Zukunftsperspektiven der räumlichen Planung und insbesondere der Landschaftsplanung bzw. Landschaftsarchitektur aufzuzeigen. Ein solcher Überblick über die visuellen Methoden in der räumlichen Planung ist bisher einzigartig. Neben den eher traditionellen Methoden wie z.B. Modellen und Zeichnungen liegt ein Schwerpunkt in der Betrachtung des Umbruchs der Medienlandschaft, der auch der räumlichen Planung völlig neue Möglichkeiten der Kommunikation eröffnet. So wird die visuelle Kommunikation der Disziplin auch verstärkt Gegenstand einer eigenständigen Forschung, die sich vielfach auf Methoden angrenzender Disziplinen stützt und damit interdisziplinär agiert.Table of ContentsSchlaglichter aus der Geschichte visueller Kommunikation.- Die Macht der Bilder.- Orte und Soziale Medien.- Skizzen, Zeichnungen und Karten.- Computergenerierte Darstellungen und Virtuelle Welten.- Raumbezogene Empfindungen und Orientierung.- Ausblick.

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Book SynopsisDiese ethnographische Studie von Daniel Ganzert untersucht Erfahrungen und informelle Bildungspraktiken männlicher Jugendlicher in marginalisierten Großstadtquartieren in Italien und Deutschland. Der Autor zeigt auf, wie junge Männer in Kontexten dauerhafter Prekarität, geringer Institutionalisierung und in Auseinandersetzung mit organisierter Kriminalität kreative Praktiken der Lebensbewältigung, der Mobilität, des Wissenserwerbs und -transfers sowie der Erwerbstätigkeit entwickeln. Hierfür wurden lange Feldbeobachtungen, Gruppendiskussionen und biographische Interviews realisiert, die dokumentarisch ausgewertet wurden.Table of ContentsJunge Männer und Formen der Vergemeinschaftung.- Marginalisierte Jugend im Kontext von Bewältigung: Informelles Lernen und Sozialisation.- Sozialer Raum im Kontext von Marginalisierung.- Raumhandeln und Lebensbewältigungspraktiken in marginalisierten Stadtteilen.- Hustling.- Interaktionspraktiken.

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Book SynopsisDiese Studie liefert eine differenzierte Analyse der Dynamiken, die dazu führen, dass junge Erwachsene wohnungslos werden. Sie gewährt einen Einblick in die Komplexität dieses sozialpolitisch brisanten und sozialpädagogisch herausfordernden sozialen Problems. Die Wegemetapher im Untertitel verweist dabei auf das zentrale Anliegen der Studie: Mittels eines qualitativen Forschungsdesigns sowie eines biografie- wie agencytheoretischen Zugangs werden die den biografischen Verläufen der jungen Erwachsenen immanenten Prozessstrukturen rekonstruiert. Auf der Basis von Fallanalysen wird die Verwobenheit und das Zusammenspiel von strukturellen wie individuellen Ursachen der Wohnungslosigkeit herausgearbeitet.Table of Contents1. Einleitung.- 2. Annäherung an den Untersuchungsgegenstand: Wohnungslosigkeit in Deutschland.- 3. Biografie- und agencytheoretischer Zugang.- 4. Wege beforschen und rekonstruieren.- 5. Fallanalysen.- 6. Idealtypen.- 7. Die Untersuchungsergebnisse im Diskurs.- 8. Was hilft? Folgerungen und Vorschläge für Sozialpolitik sowie sozialpädagogische Praxis.- 9. Fazit und Ausblick.- Literatur

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Book Synopsis,Landschaft‘ gehört in Deutschland zu einem vielgenutzten und in unterschiedlichen Kontexten eingesetzten Begriff – sowohl alltagsweltlich als auch wissenschaftlich. Die Veränderlichkeit von Landschaft wird häufig als Wandel verstanden. Im Verhältnis dazu wird deren Prozesshaftigkeit in diesem Sammelband als ein Spezialfall von Wandel gedeutet. Dieser Spezialfall ist in von Menschen geprägten Landschaften zielgerichteter und aktiver als der passive und auch ungerichtete Wandel. Der Begriff des Prozesses fokussiert zudem stärker die Kontextabhängigkeit von Veränderungen. Die Vielfalt der über 30 versammelten Beiträge zeigt, dass der Wandelbarkeit und konkret der Prozesshaftigkeit von Landschaft je nach Perspektive und Zielsetzung auf unterschiedliche Art und Weise nachgegangen werden kann. Es ist nicht die eine Grundkonzeption, die Erkenntnisgewinn verspricht, sondern mitunter je nach Zielsetzung eine spezifische Wahl oder eine neopragmatische Triangulation. In unterschiedlicher Ausprägung werden sowohl ,Landschaft’ als auch ,Prozess‘ einer Einordnung und Systematisierung zugeführt – durchaus auch je nach disziplinärem Hintergrund, womit sich eine Perspektivenvielfalt ergibt – als Grundlage für weitergehende Auseinandersetzungen mit dem Themenfeld ,Landschaft als Prozess‘.Table of ContentsEinführung.- Theoretisch-konzeptionelle und praktische Überlegungen zur Prozesshaftigkeit von Landschaft.- Darstellung von Landschaft und Landschaftsprozessen.- Landschaft im Wandel – Bedeutungszuschreibungen im Wandel.- Stadtlandhybride Landschaftsprozesse.- Konflikthaftigkeiten um Landschaftsprozesshaftigkeiten.

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Book SynopsisAn Wälder herangetragene Funktionen werden in einer sich weiter ausdifferenzierenden Gesellschaft immer komplexer und führen in der Folge häufig auch zu zunehmend dichotomisierenden und gewaltsamen Konflikten um Wald bzw. waldbezogene Maßnahmen. Beispielsweise sind die physischen Grundlagen zentraler Bestandteil bei der Deckung bestehender Bedarfe nachwachsender Rohstoffe sowie Arbeitsplatz und Existenzgrundlage für mehr als eine Million Menschen im Cluster Forst und Holz in Deutschland. Ökologisch sind sie von zentraler Bedeutung als CO2- und Wasserspeicher, das Ökosystem Wald ist bedeutender Klimafaktor, sozial als Topos der Naherholung, symbolischer Einschreibungen, therapeutischer Maßnahmen, Kulisse für Fitness oder Freizeit und vieles mehr.Bestehende waldbezogene Literatur fokussiert – häufig dem Umstand der Spezialisierung geschuldet – vielfach jeweils nur einen der genannten Bereiche und Aspekte, in deren Kontext weitere ergänzende Aspekte zu Wald in den Hintergrund rücken. Der vorliegende Band versteht sich als Versuch, diese Fokussierungen zu überwinden und multiperspektivische Sichtweisen zu Wald zusammenzutragen, um auf die Vielfalt der möglichen Perspektiven und thematischen Aspekte zu Wald zu verweisen und einer Verhärtung von Fronten entgegenzuwirken.Table of ContentsHistorische Hintergründe und theoretische Rahmungen.- Sozio-ökologische Kontexte.- Tourismus und Erholung.- Repräsentanzen von Wald.- Junges Forum.

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Book Synopsis​Die Stadtkerne gehören zu den Identitätsträgern vieler Städte, sie sind aber auch von Abrissen und Umbauten bedroht. Diskutiert werden Strategien und Instrumente der Baukultur, um das bauliche Erbe behutsam zu erhalten, zu sanieren oder umzubauen. Dazu gehören auch Bauten aus der städtebaulichen Moderne – hier werden teilweise frühere Eingriffe in die Stadtstruktur „korrigiert“. Dies führt zu kontroversen Debatten, inwiefern gestalterische Rückgriffe auf historische Gestaltmerkmale angemessen sind oder welche spezifischen Qualitäten die Nachkriegsmoderne einbringt. Die Frage des Nebeneinanders von Alt und Neu, von Stadterhaltung und Stadtumbau stellt sich immer wieder neu.Table of ContentsInstrumente der Qualitätssicherung im Städtebaulichen Denkmalschutz.- Baukultur und nachhaltige Stadtentwicklung - Agenda und Beispiele aus Baden-Württemberg.- Baukultur als Teil der integrierten Stadtentwicklung im Saarland.- Erforschung des baukulturellen Erbes als Beitrag zur Lebensqualität von Klein‐ und Mittelstädten.- Unkritische Rekonstruktion am Beispiel der neuen Altstadt Frankfurt.- Das historische Zentrum im Wandel.- Die Schönheit des Alltäglichen.- Zwischen Nachverdichtung und Abriss.- Die Gestaltung von Neubauvorhaben im Bestand am Beispiel Weimar.- Die Erhaltung der 50er Jahre Moderne in Saarbrücken.- Stadterneuerung und Stadtumbau in Berlin – Hellersdorf nach 20 Jahren.- Großsiedlungen.- Hinter dem Horizont geht´s weiter – Das Zentrum Baukultur Rheinland-Pfalz.- Boden hat immer Konjunktur .- Die Weiterentwicklung des Quartiersmanagements.- Paul-Bode-Preis.- Stadtumbau im Bahnhofsumfeld Lampertheim.- Grenzüberschreitungen - Chancen interkommunal gedachter Stadterneuerung.

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Book SynopsisDie Bedeutung von Nachbarschaft für das alltägliche Zusammenleben ist bis heute ungebrochen. Jedoch muss das Phänomen einer aktualisierten Betrachtung unterzogen werden, weil sich die nachbarschaftlichen Verhältnisse analog zum sozialen Wandel erneuern. Die in diesem Buch zusammengefassten Nachbarschaftsstudien verändern den Blick auf das Quartier als Bezugspunkt für soziale Kohäsion, lokale Demokratie und eine resiliente, transformative Stadtentwicklung. Sie leisten einen Beitrag dazu, Nachbarschaft als Prozess und Nachbar*innen in ihrem alltäglichen Handeln besser zu verstehen.Table of ContentsVorwort-.Nachbarschaft als Perspektive für Forschung und Praxis – eine Einführung.- dealisierungen von Nachbarschaft – eine kommentierte Literatursichtung.- Urbane Nachbarschaft - Raum des Alltäglichen, Ressource und Interventionsebene.-Nachbarschaften als „postmoderne“ Phänomene – Perspektiven und Zugänge von Fachpersonen aus der Stadt Berlin.- FAZIT.

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Book SynopsisGesellschaftliche Vielfalt wird in der Regel mit Metropolen assoziiert und in der Wissenschaft primär als Phänomen großstädtischen Lebens reflektiert. Anhand ausgewählter Fallbeispiele aus Landau in der Pfalz zeigt der Sammelband jedoch auf, dass Heterogenität und Diversität auch in Mittelstädten gesellschaftliche Normalität war und ist. Auf der Basis empirischer Befunde formuliert der Band zudem theoretische Überlegungen zu Heterogenität und Diversität in Städten mittlerer Größe, wodurch er einen Beitrag zur Überwindung eines wichtigen Forschungsdesiderats – der wissenschaftlichen Reflexion gesellschaftlicher Vielfalt jenseits großstädtischer Metropolen – leistet.Table of ContentsHeterogenität und Diversität in Städten mittlerer Größe.- Landau in Zahlen.- Selbstvertretung behinderter Menschen in Landau und der Südpfalz.- Friedenspädagogische Perspektiven auf Heterogenität als Potential für Konfliktbearbeitung in Landau.- Sinti und Roma.- Integration im Tod. - Zur LSBTI-Geschichte Landaus.- Zwei trans* Personen in Landau.- Wer lehrt in Landau? - Studentische Heterogenität an der Universität in Landau.- Kulturelle Heterogenität als Lernchance.- Zur Sprache kommen.- Geistliche Ordensgemeinschaften in Landau.- Jüd:innen in Landau.- Abwanderung aus der Pfalz.

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Book SynopsisDie städtische Lebensweise ist für unseren Alltag längst selbstverständlich. Und sie ist – weltweit – hoch attraktiv. Studierende, Singles, junge Familien, Geflüchtete, Menschen jeder Altersgruppe und jeglicher Herkunft wollen urban leben. Die städtische Lebensweise hat sich zu einer Lebenskonstruktion, zu einem Urbanitätsnarrativ entwickelt, aufgeladen mit Erwartungen für ein besseres Leben, mehr Anerkennung und neue gesellschaftliche Möglichkeiten. Gleichzeitig steht der urbane Raum aber auch für Segregations‑ und Homogenisierungstendenzen, für überteuerte Mieten und investoren­gesteuerte Gentrifizierung. Beklagt wird ein Mangel an wohnortnahen Arbeitsmöglich­keiten, das Verschwinden von lokalen Geschäften und Dienstleistungen. Es ist ein massives Konfliktpotential, das jetzt durch die Auswirkungen des Klimawandels zusätzlich forciert wird. Statt endlich den bislang wie selbstverständlich gelebten Alltag zu hinterfragen, werden rein technologische Maßnahmen zeitgeistkonform propagiert oder es wird alles gleich rein profitorientierten Investoren überlassen. Oder man beschwört einfach den status ante und sucht sich Sündenböcke für Fehlentwicklungen. In dieser zunehmend brisanten Situation wäre es entscheidend, sich Klarheit zu verschaffen über das, was eine Stadtgesellschaft mitbringt, was sie ausmacht und worin ihr nachhaltiges Potential besteht, und dann die zunehmenden gesellschaftlichen Herausforderungen gemeinsam kreativ anzugehen. Die (Re-)Konstruktion von lokaler Urbanität kann dazu ein erster Schritt sein.Table of ContentsWege zur (Re‑)Konstruktion von Urbanität.- Urbanität als Möglichkeitsraum.- Die Stadtgesellschaft als Referenzrahmen für eine urbane Konstruktion von Wirklichkeit.- Die quartierbasierte Stadtgesellschaft als Labor.- Bausteine für nachhaltige lokal verdichtete Urbanitätsentwicklung.

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Book SynopsisDas Konzept der Smart City wird in wissenschaftlicher, politischer, medialer und projektpraktischer Hinsicht bislang überwiegend in großen Städten bearbeitet. Demgegenüber empfinden kleine, ländlich geprägte Gemeinden den Smart-City-Diskurs überwiegend als fremd. Es mangelt an inhaltlichen Modellentwürfen, Vorgehensmodellen und an kommunale Entscheidungsträger gerichtete Handlungsempfehlungen, die sich am Aufgabenportfolio, den speziellen Rahmenbedingungen und Herausforderungen kreisangehöriger Gemeinden in einer Größenklasse bis 20.000 Einwohner orientieren. Dieses Buch widmet sich diesen Aufgabenstellungen und entwirft erstens ein inhaltliches Modell einer smarten Kommune als Spiegelbild zur smarten Stadt. Zweitens wird in dieser Analyse auf der Grundlage von Erfahrungen baden-württembergischer Pilotkommunen ein schrittweises Vorgehen zur Entwicklung eines individuellen Modells der smarten Kommune für kleine Gemeinden aufgezeigt.Table of ContentsGegenstandsbereich der empirischen Untersuchung.- Basisinterviewleitfaden der Expertengruppe Bürgermeister.- Basisinterviewleitfaden der Expertengruppe Verwaltungsmitarbeiterinnen.- Anonymisiertes Rekrutierungsschreiben.- Hierarchisches Kategoriensystem.- Thesen der Gruppendiskussion.- Anonymisierte Protokolle und Berichte zu Gemeinderatssitzungen.- Anonymisiertes Fotoprotokoll zum Zukunftsforum der mittelgroßen Gemeinde E.- Post-Interview-Memo zum Interview mit BGMI.- Kategorienlandkarte.- Häufigkeitsanalyse: Kodierungen aller Kategorien über alle Dokumente.- Häufigkeitsanalyse: kodierte Kategorien pro Dokument.- Durchschnitt von Kodierungen.

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Book SynopsisWhat does the single life look like and does it have anything in common with what the media show? This question has caused much discussion on the Internet, in TV debates, in the press and on the radio. This book explores the issue of singles in big cities, their lifestyle and reasons for "flying solo". Singles talk about their expectations towards their potential partners and their idea of a great love. They share their thoughts on relationships. They also talk about the importance of having a professional career in their life, their passions, and about the advantages and disadvantages of being single. The book presents the similarities and differences between the singles, and explains why some of them are called "all-or-nothing" while others are called "accustomed" or "romantic".Trade ReviewAlmost everyone is intrigued why some people remain single. The author has tried to find reasons for this. One can see three reasons from the collected data: professional life, family background with good and bad role models, and personal experience. This research material is very rich, and was given deep consideration in line with the previously chosen groups of reasons (…). The presented work is valuable and is an important input in the sociological debate on changes in social life. This analysis of life of singles (…) does not close the issue but rather gives food for thought. From the review of prof. Anna Kwak, Warsaw UniversityYou will finally learn whether "Sex and the city" was about you. And you will understand if you want to or have to be single. And then you will write a scenario of your own life. Single or… ;-) Julita Czernecka debunks the stereotype. Absorbing. Not only for singles or sociologists. -- Agnieszka Sztyler, head of editorial coverage, Elle Poland

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