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Book SynopsisThis book provides practical tools for creating form-based rules that help facilitate effective communication and consensus building, which are essential to ensuring healthy democratic processes in a regulatory culture.Trade Review"Outdated regulatory regimes waste time, create uncertainty, and too often compromise design quality. With a keen anthropological lens, Onaran explains the evolution and limitations of conventional code practice and offers practical remedies built on the best attributes of form-based codes. This book argues the strongest case to date for form-based approaches and is a must-read for those who care about the design of authentic and resilient places and the processes involved in crafting them." – Peter Park, Director, Peter J. Park, LLC, City Planning and Design, USA"Onaran’s book offers a clear view of both the methods and potential of well-framed and well-applied form-based codes. He focuses less on deep theory and more on principles and practical applications as he invites designers, planners and regulators to become well acquainted with what will surely become the zoning tool of choice in the 21st century." – Stefanos Polyzoides, Partner, Moule & Polyzoides Architects and Urbanists, USATable of ContentsChapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: The traffic light versus the officer Chapter 3: Informalization and the intellectual forces behind it Chapter 4: Challenges of informalization and the Vivant Cycle Chapter 5: Effective communication in interactive review processes Chapter 6: Archetypes and typologies Chapter 7: Crafting of lot types Chapter 8: Transect-based organization of a code that uses lot types Chapter 9: Dynamic lot types and tools to craft them Chapter 10: Coding for resilience Chapter 11: Conclusion

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Book SynopsisThe second edition of Qualitative Research Methods for Community Development teaches the basic skills, tools, and methods of qualitative research with special attention to the needs of community practitioners. This book teaches students entering planning, community development, nonprofit management, social work, and similar applied fields the core skills necessary to conduct systematic research designed to empower communities and promote social change.Focusing on the basic elements of qualitative research, such as field observation, interviewing, focus groups, and content analysis, this second edition of this book provides an overview of core methods and theoretical underpinnings of successful research. It also includes two new chapters on qualitative data analysis software and techniques for conducting online qualitative interviews and focus groups.From housing, community organizing, neighborhood planning, and urban revitalization, this book gives students the Trade Review"Qualitative Research Methods for Community Development is an accessible text on qualitative methods suitable to undergraduates, master’s students, and even professionals. With a unique focus on community development, social work, and planning, the book makes qualitative research and data analysis techniques approachable. The discussion of online research tools and methods is a valuable addition to the new edition."Alessandro Rigolon, Department of City and Metropolitan Planning, the University of Utah"New content on online engagement techniques is a very useful addition to the second edition of Qualitative Research Methods for Community Development. This is increasingly forming the cornerstone of participation strategies in professional practice, so understanding its potential is essential for practitioners. The online approach is also now ever-present in students' projects and something that is integral to research."Nick Croft, charted town planner (MRTPI) with 19 years professional planning practice in the UK. He has worked as a university senior lecturer since 2006, leading online distance learning master's programs"Succinct, accessible, and full of good examples of how mixed methods for community research is actually done, Qualitative Research Methods for Community Development is useful to all students who want to take on a project that involves participatory research and/or civic engagement. With notes on participatory action research and ethics, and a particular emphasis on writing and presentations, community groups will also find the book helpful. A particular strength of the new edition is the added analysis of online tools, which are becoming increasingly important."Louise Jezierski, associate professor of social relations and policy and comparative cultures and politics, James Madison College, Michigan State UniversityTable of Contents1. Qualitative Research for Students and Professionals 2. Qualitative Analysis as an Iterative Process 3. An Introduction to Qualitative Data Analysis Software 4. Field Notes and Observations 5. Semi-Structured Interviewing 6. Focus Groups 7. Online Qualitative Interviewing and Focus Groups 8. Content Analysis 9. Dissemination of Qualitative Findings

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Book SynopsisUnmanned aircraft systems (UAS) are rapidly emerging as flexible platforms for capturing imagery and other data across the sciences. Many colleges and universities are developing courses on UAS-based data acquisition. Fundamentals of Capturing and Processing Drone Imagery and Data is a comprehensive, introductory text on how to use unmanned aircraft systems for data capture and analysis. It provides best practices for planning data capture missions and hands-on learning modules geared toward UAS data collection, processing, and applications.FEATURES Lays out a step-by-step approach to identify relevant tools and methods for UAS data/image acquisition and processing. Provides practical hands-on knowledge with visual interpretation, well-organized and designed for a typical 16-week UAS course offered on college and university campuses. Suitable for all levels of readers and does not require prior knowTable of ContentsPart I: Getting Started with Drone Imagery and Data 1. Introduction to Capturing and Processing Drone Imagery and Data 2. An Introduction to Drone Remote Sensing and Photogrammetry 3. Choosing a Sensor for UAS Imagery Collection 4. Mission Planning for Capturing UAS Imagery 5. Drone Regulations: What You Need to Know before You Fly 6. Structure from Motion (SfM) Workflow for Processing Drone Imagery 7. Aerial Cinematography with UAS Part II: Hands-On Applications Using Drone Imagery and Data 8. Planning Unoccupied Aircraft Systems (UAS) Missions 9. Aligning and Stitching Drone-Captured Images 10. Counting Wildlife from Drone-Captured Imagery Using Visual and Semi-Automated Techniques 11. Terrain and Surface Modeling of Vegetation Height Using Simple Linear Regression 12. Assessing the Accuracy of Digital Surface Models of an Earthen Dam Derived from SfM Techniques 13. Estimating Forage Mass from Unmanned Aircraft Systems in Rangelands 14. Applications of UAS-Derived Terrain Data for Hydrology and Flood Hazard Modeling 15. Comparing UAS and Terrestrial Laser Scanning Methods for Change Detection in Coastal Landscapes 16. Digital Preservation of Historical Heritage Using 3D Models and Augmented Reality 17. Identifying Burial Mounds and Enclosures Using RGB and Multispectral Indices Derived from UAS Imagery 18. Detecting Scales of Drone-Based Atmospheric Measurements Using Semivariograms 19. Assessing the Greenhouse Gas Carbon Dioxide in the Atmospheric Boundary Layer

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Book SynopsisCreative Resilience and COVID-19 examines arts, culture, and everyday life as a way of navigating through and past COVID-19. Drawing together the voices of international experts and emerging scholars, this volume explores themes of creativity and resilience in relation to the crisis, trauma, cultural alterity, and social change wrought by the pandemic.The cultural, social, and political concerns that have arisen due to COVID-19 are inextricably intertwined with the ways the pandemic has been discussed, represented, and visualized in global media. The essays included in this volume are concerned with how artists, writers, and advocates uncover the hope, plasticity, and empowerment evident in periods of worldwide loss and strugglefactors which are critical to both overcoming the COVID-19 pandemic and fashioning the post-COVID-19 era. Elaborating on concepts of the everyday and the outbreak narrative, Creative Resilience and COVID-19 explores diverse themes incluTrade Review'Irene Gammel and Jason Wang have put together an intellectual's guide to the COVID-19 pandemic's effects on our everyday lives. From labor struggles to "Netflix and chill," this edited volume explores how the pandemic rearranged everyday life, and it connects those changes to the medical, political, and social struggles that have defined this moment. Reading these essays, I remembered things from the pandemic that I had already forgotten, and I am glad to have this book as a way to keep that time with me.'Daniel Worden, Associate Professor of Art, Rochester Institute of Technology, USA'In this time of crisis, never had there been a better time to spotlight the cultures and practices of everyday life. The contributions to this wonderful book show in compelling and often heart-breaking ways just what it has been like to live with fear, grief and loss in pandemic conditions. But there is also an abundance of hope and meaning making emerging across these essays, captured in ways that invite the reader to enter into the worlds of people enduring these COVID times.'Deborah Lupton, SHARP Professor in the Faculty of Arts, Design & Architecture, University of New South Wales (UNSW) Sydney, Australia'Creative Resilience and COVID-19 offers a vital record of these times, tracing how, amid the vast scale of a global pandemic, the patterns and details of daily life profoundly change. The collection’s scope stretches across continents and cultural mediums and draws on a rich set of creative responses—from music, theatre, film, photography, diaries, graphic memoirs, and social media, to architecture, city planning, and public life and health. The essays illuminate the overt and subtle shifts the pandemic has brought to individuals and communities, asking central questions about survival, resilience, and recovery. An invaluable, timely volume for the COVID era.' Elizabeth Outka, Professor of English, University of Richmond. USA'A thoughtful and timely book on the unprecedented non-medical effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the intersections of media and communication. This book raises important questions on the new veracities of life during the pandemic and helps us to understand present-day realities. The clarity of authors’ writings on various topics dealing with media and communication makes the book accessible to students, academics as well as anyone who would like to make sense of the impact of the pandemic on everyday life.'Valerie Visanich, Senior Lecturer in Sociology, University of Malta, MaltaTable of ContentsList of figures List of contributors Acknowledgments Introduction 1Irene Gammel and Jason WangPART ICrisis space and time1 The deadly air we breathe: how infectious illness built the modern cityMitchell Hammond2 “Why has the outbreak turned so deadly?”: diary from a quarantined cityIrene Gammel and Jason Wang3 Listening through a pandemic: silence, noisemaking, and musicDavid Cecchetto and Cameron MacDonald4 Netflix and chills: on digital distraction during the global lockdownDominic PettmanPART 2Vulnerability and resilience5 Killing swiftly: the effects of COVID-19 on the experience of the elderlyGeoffrey Scarre6 “He’s thinking about sex, I’m thinking about survival”: women’s sexual, domestic, and emotional labor during the COVID-19 pandemic Breanne Fahs7 “It’s like not a very Marshallese way of life”: marshallese cultural resilience during COVID-19Ramey Moore, Pearl A. McElfish, and Sheldon Riklon8 Sweden, COVID-19, and invisible immigrants 92Christian ChristensenPART 3Memory, visuality, and creativity 9 Threshold spaces: visualizing COVID-19 and the resilient power of the city Irene Gammel and Natalie Ilsley10 How drawing can help us see one another: from graphic medicine to diary comicsEmmy Waldman11 Going digital in a small city hub: community theater and dog performance events during lockdownKarin Beeler and Stan Beeler12 Becoming Host: zooming in on the pandemic horror filmSimon Turner and Stuart J. MurrayPART 4Adaptation, hope, and social change 13 Playing with the city: leisure, public health, and placemaking during COVID-19 and beyondTroy D. Glover14 Rethinking the spaces of night-time sociability Will Straw15 The end of Kino as we know it? Reflecting on the future of cinemas in Germany and beyondClaudia Kotte16 What COVID-19 has taught academics: historical arguments for the future of in-person teaching Kai BremerCoda by J. 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Book SynopsisThis book explores the concept of cultural spaces, their production and how they are experienced by different users. It explores this concept and practice from formal and informal arts and heritage sites, festivals and cultural quarters - to the production of digital, fashion and street art, and social engagement through cultural mapping and site-based artist collaborations with local communities.It offers a unique take on the relationship between cultural production and consumption through an eclectic range of cultural space types, featuring examples and case studies across cultural venues, events and festivals, and cultural heritage and their usage. Cultural production is also considered in terms of the transformation of cultural and digital-creative quarters and their convergence as visitor destinations in city fringe areas, to fashion spaces, manifested through museumification and fashion districts. The approach taken is highly empirical supported by a wide range of visuTable of Contents1. Introduction2. A Place for the Arts3. Events and Festivals4. Cultural Heritage5. Cultural and Creative Quarters6. Digital Cultural Space7. Fashion Spaces8. Graffiti and Street Art9. Socially Engaged Practice and Cultural Mapping

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Book SynopsisThis book provides an overview and assessment of infrastructure's legal and governance underpinnings. Infrastructure is often thought of as a term referring only to the physical entities pipes, cables, utility poles, highways, airports that facilitate the transmission of water, gas, telecommunications and electricity, as well as enabling both private and public transportation, and serving to house more or less public services such as health care and schools. However, infrastructure planning and implementation are not reducible to bricks and mortar. The complex process requires drawing from and sometimes re-inventing or recycling legal tools, from construction contracts to financing deals', which are often taken for granted by both practitioners and urban studies scholars. These are as important today as they were when the first railway lines were built, and to a large extent they remain just as invisible: the avalanche of drawings and photographs of planned or in-process faTable of Contents1. Audit, 2. Bonds, 3. Community consultations, 4. Credit ratings, 5. ‘The deal’, 6. High-speed rail, 7. Public-private partnerships, 8. Smart cities, 9. "Value for money" assessments, 10. Conclusion

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Book SynopsisThis book presents a methodology for the design, construction, monitoring, optimization, and post-occupancy evaluation of net-zero and positive-energy communities based on the experiences gained in the EU Horizon 2020 ZERO-PLUS project. It describes the steps, tools, and methods developed during the project, providing practical information for the energy and construction sector that will be of interest to students, engineers, architects, developers, and professionals working around high performance architecture and sustainable communities.Through the ZERO-PLUS project, a consortium of 32 partners from eight countries, including academic institutions, technology providers, architects, and construction companies, designed four communities covering completely different geo-climatic regions, construction practices, and cultural backgrounds in Cyprus, Italy, France, and the UK. The communities were designed, optimized, constructed, monitored, handed over to tenants, post-occuTable of ContentsForeword, 1. Introduction to net-zero and positive-energy communities, 2. Background: the current energy community implementation state in the EU, 3. Methodology: the ZERO-PLUS approach, 4. Part 1: UK case study, Part 2: Energy modeling of positive-energy dwellings, 5. Part 1: Italian case study, Part 2: Community-level strategies for microclimate mitigation and energy efficiency improvement, 6. Part 1: Cypriot case study, Part 2: Production and installation planning, 7. Part 1: French case study, Part 2: Project and design management – best practices and tools, 8. Part 1: Concentrating solar energy – the FAE system, Part 2: Bot-based building design, Part 3: Solar air-conditioning – the Freescoo system, 9. Monitoring and evaluation of the performance of positive-energy communities, 10. Post-occupancy evaluation: the missing link, Conclusions, or a more critical rethinking of the project, Index

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Book SynopsisUrban Informatics: Using Big Data to Understand and Serve Communities introduces the reader to the tools of data management, analysis, and manipulation using R statistical software. Designed for undergraduate and above level courses, this book is an ideal onramp for the study of urban informatics and how to translate novel data sets into new insights and practical tools.The book follows a unique pedagogical approach developed by the author to enable students to build skills by pursuing projects that inspire and motivate them. Each chapter has an Exploratory Data Assignment that prompts readers to practice their new skills on a data set of their choice. These assignments guide readers through the process of becoming familiar with the contents of a novel data set and communicating meaningful insights from the data to others.Key Features: The technical curriculum consists of both data management and analytics, including both as needed to become acquainted with and reveal the content of a new data set. Content that is contextualized in real-world applications relevant to community concerns. Unit-level assignments that educators might use as midterms or otherwise. These include Community Experience assignments that prompt students to evaluate the assumptions they have made about their data against real world information. All data sets are publicly available through the Boston Data Portal. Table of Contents1 Introduction 2 Welcome to R 3 Telling a Data Story: Examining Individual Records 4 The Pulse of the City: Observing Variable Patterns 5 Uncovering Information: Making and Creating Variables 6 Measuring with Big Data 7 Making Measures from Records: Aggregating and Merging Data 8 Mapping Communities 9 Advanced Visual Techniques 10 Beyond Measurement: Inferential Statistics (and Correlations) 11 Identifying Inequities across Groups: ANOVA and t-Test 12 Unpacking Mechanisms Driving Inequities: Multivariate Regression 13 Advanced Analytic Techniques 14 Emergent Technologies

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Book SynopsisUnderstanding that the natural world beneath our feet is the point at which civilization meets the natural world is critical to the success of restoration and prevention efforts to reduce contaminant impacts and improve the global environment because of one simple fact contaminants do not respect country borders. Contaminants often begin their destructive journey immediately after being released and can affect the entire planet if the release is in just the right amount, at just the right location, and at just the right time. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, Urban Watersheds, Geology, Contamination, Environmental Regulations, and Sustainability, Second Edition presents more than 30 years of research and professional practice on urban watersheds from the fields of environmental geology, geochemistry, risk analysis, hydrology, and urban planning. The geological characteristics of urbanized watersheds along with the physical and chemical properties of theiTable of ContentsIntroduction to Urban Watersheds. Geology of Urban Areas. Water and the Hydrogeology of Urban Areas. Conducting Subsurface Environmental Investigations in Urban Areas. Geologic Vulnerability. Common Contaminants in Urban Watersheds. Contaminant Fate and Transport. Heavy Metal Contamination in Urban Watersheds. Contaminant Risk Factors. Remediation: Techniques and Cost. Urbanization and the Disruption of Matter and Energy Flows in Urban Watersheds. Pollution Prevention and Sustainability. Success and Failure of Environmental Regulations in Urban. Case Studies. Science-Based Landscape Planning in Urban Regions. A Model for Attaining Sustainable Urban Regions.

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Book SynopsisThe Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of the City is an outstanding reference source to this exciting subject and the first collection of its kind. Comprising 40 chapters by a team of international contributors, the Handbook is divided into clear sections addressing the following central topics:â Historical Philosophical Engagements with Citiesâ Modern and Contemporary Philosophical Theories of the Cityâ Urban Aestheticsâ Urban Politicsâ Citizenshipâ Urban Environments and the Creation/Destruction of Place.The concluding section, Urban Engagements, contains interviews with philosophers discussing their engagement with students and the wider public on issues and initiatives including experiential learning, civic and community engagement, disability rights and access, environmental degradation, professional diversity, social justice, and globalization. Essen

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Book Synopsis(Sub)Urban Sexscapes brings together a collection of theoretically-informed and empirically rich case studies from internationally renowned and emerging scholars highlighting the contemporary and historical geographies and regulation of the commercial sex industry. Contributions in this edited volume examine the spatial and regulatory contours of the sex industry from a range of disciplinary perspectivesâurban planning, urban geography, urban sociology, and, cultural and media studiesâand geographical contextsâAustralia, the UK, US and North Africa. In overall terms, (Sub)urban Sexscapes highlights the mainstreaming of commercial sex premisesâsex shops, brothels, strip clubs and queer spacesâand productsâsex toys, erotic literature and pornographyânow being commonplace in night time economy spaces, the high street, suburban shopping centres and the home. In addition, the aesthetics of commercial and alternative sexual practicesâBDSM and pornographyâpermeate Trade ReviewThis book is an impressive collection of studies of the geographical and regulatory dimensions of commercial sex. The breadth of the book is reflected in both the various kinds of sexual commerce examined and in its coverage of different nations. The tension between mainstreaming the sex industry and resistance to its growth, is a theme highlighted in several chapters and the book should be of interest to policy makers as well as scholars. Highly recommended. Ronald Weitzer, George Washington University, USAThis book opens up a series of windows on the sex industry. Readers can dip in and out or read as a whole. Either way(Sub)Urban Sexscapes successfully highlights the importance of spatiality in commercialising sex. It is a must read for anyone interested in issues of sex, sexuality and space.Robyn Longhurst, University of Waikato, New ZealandThis book is a valuable resource that prompts rethinking sex, work, sexuality, policies, bodies, place and space. Original and empirically rich, the collection advances theorising of commercial sex, adult entertainment, and subcultural sexual practices. Authors draw on contemporary themes and debates in geography, sociology, policy studies, planning, media studies, feminist and queer theories in order to engage with (sub)urban landscapes of sex work. Crucially, at the heart of the book is the critique of heteronormativity and an exposure of the regulation of bodies and places. This book is essential reading for anyone interested in understanding the complexities of agency and processes of regulation by which (im)moral geographies are constituted. Lynda Johnston, Professor in Geography, University of Waikato One of the most interesting developments in the recent study of sexuality has been an increasing focus on its spatial dimensions. Suburban Sexscapes ranges across the spaces and places of commercial sex, in private, public and virtual worlds and in mainstream and alternative spheres. This is a fascinating, thorough and comprehensive collection which will inspire and stimulate the future study of sexscapes.Feona Attwood, Middlesex University, UK(Sub)Urban Sexscapes... is a timely reminder of the value of a diverse range of international perspectives on a topic that has become increasingly contentious for policy-makers and communities... This collection is a very vigourous contribution to the field with chapters presenting both theoretical and empirically original work.Paul Ryan, Maynooth University, Ireland, Built EnvironmentTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. Spatial and Regulatory Contours of the (Sub)Urban Sexscape Part I: Geographies of the Sex Industry 2. Cosmo-Sexual Sydney: Global city status, urban cosmopolitanism and the (sub)urban sexscape 3. Sex Shops in England’s Cities: From the backstreets to the high streets. 4. Conflict and Coexistence? Strip Clubs and Neighbors in ‘Pornland’, Oregon 5. Telecommunications Impacts on the Structure and Organisation of the Male Sex Industry 6. Housing Sex within the City: The placement of sex services beyond respectable domesticity? 7. The Landscape of BDSM Venues: A view from down under Part II: Regulation of the Sex Industry 8. Sexual Entertainment, Dread Risks and the Heterosexualization of Community Space 9. Sex and the Virtual Suburbs: The pornosphere and community standards. 10. Planning prostitution in colonial Morocco: Bousbir, Casablanca’s Quartier reserve 11. Regulating Adult Business to Make Spaces Safe for Heterosexual Families in Atlanta 12. Legal Landscapes of Erotic Cities: Comparing legal ‘prostitution’ in New South Wales and Nevada 13. From Perception to Reality: Negative secondary effects and effective regulation of sex businesses in the US Conclusions 14. Conclusion: Towards pragmatic regulation of the sex industry

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Inhabitable Infrastructures: Science fiction or urban future?, the follow up to Food City and Smartcities and Eco-Warriors, from one of the worldâs leading urban design and architectural thinkers, explores the potential of climate change-related multi-use infrastructures that address the fundamental human requirements to protect, to provide and to participate. The stimulus for the infrastructures derives from postulated scenarios and processes gleaned from science fiction and futurology as well as the current body of scientific knowledge regarding changing environmental impacts on cities. Science fiction is interdisciplinary by nature, aggregates the past and present, and evaluates both lay opinions and professional strategies in an attempt to develop foresight and to map possible futures. The research culminates in the creation of innovative multi-use infrastructures and integrated self-sustaining support systems that meet the challenges posed through climate c

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Book SynopsisThrough interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary perspectives, and with an emphasis on exploring patterns as well as distinct and unique conditions across the globe, this collection examines advanced and cutting-edge theoretical and methodological approaches to the study of the health of urban populations. Despite the growing interest in global urban health, there are limited resources available that provide an extensive and advanced exploration into the health of urban populations in a transnational context. This volume offers a high-quality and comprehensive examination of global urban health issues by leading urban health scholars from around the world. The book brings together a multi-disciplinary perspective on urban health, with chapter contributions emphasizing disciplines in the social sciences, construction sciences and medical sciences. The co-editors of the collection come from a number of different disciplinary backgrounds that have been at the forefront of urban hTrade Review"This handbook will make a significant contribution to the public health literature; it stitches together the writings of leading researchers from multiple disciplines that make up the interdisciplinary field of global urban health in a very readable and easy to follow manner."Ayaz Hyder, review in Journal of Urban AffairsTable of ContentsContentsAcknowledgmentsI) Urban Health: an introduction and overview 1) Introduction (Editors)2) Urban health: A history Susan Craddock (Professor and Interim Director, Center for Bioethics / Institute for Global Studies / Department of Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies, University of Minnesota) and Tim Brown (Senior Lecturer, Department of Geography, Queen Mary, University of London)3) Sin in the city: An urban history of medicine and modern morality in TurkeyEmine Ö. Evered (Department of History, Michigan State University) and Kyle Evered (Department of Geography, Environment, and Spatial Sciences, Michigan State University) 4) Healthcare and the city: A North American perspectiveMark Rosenberg (Department of Geography, Queen’s University)5) Delivering urban health through urban planning and designLaurence Carmichael (Architecture and the Built Environment, University of the West of England)2) HEALTHCARE POLICY AND URBAN HEALTH SERVICES6) Cities, immigration, and the Patient Protection and Affordable Care ActMichael K. Gusmano (School of Public Health, Rutgers University)7) Voluntary sector and urban health systemsAndrew Power (Department of Geography, University of Southampton) and Mark Skinner (Professor of Geography, Trent University)8) Urban policies and health in Latin America and the CaribbeanS. Claire Slesinski (Drexel Urban Health Collaborative), Adriana C. Lein (Drexel Urban Health Collaborative), Ana V. Diez Roux (Drexel Urban Health Collaborative), and Waleska T. Caiaffa (Epidemiology and Public Health, School of Medicine, Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), Belo Horizonte City, Brazil)9) Access to healthcare for the urban poor in Nairobi, Kenya: Harnessing the role of the private sector in informal settlements and a human rights-based approach to health policy Pauline Bakibinga (African Population and Health Research Center, Nairobi, Kenya) and Elizabeth Bakibinga-Gaswaga (Law Development at the Commonwealth Secretariat Headquarters, London)10) Medical travel/tourism and the cityMeghann Ormond (Cultural Geography, Wageningen University, Netherlands) and Heidi Kaspar (Careum Research, Kalaidos University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland)11) Health system and immigrants: A focus on urban FranceAnne-Cécile Hoyez (CNRS Research Officer, UMR ESO, Université Rennes 2, France), Clélia Gasquet-Blanchard (Geography, the French School of Public Health, EHESP) and Céline Bergeon (Geography, University of Poitiers, France)3) MENTAL hEALTH AND WELLBEING: AN URBAN CONTEXT12) Urban mental healthJames Lowe (Geography, University of Southampton)13) Children’s resilience and mental health in the urban context Maureen Mooney (School of Psychology, Massey University)14) Welfare facilities and happiness of the elderly in urban KoreaDanya Kim (Research Fellow Korean Culture & Tourism Institute) and Jangik Jin (Department of Real Estate, Graduate School of Tourism, Kyung Hee University)15) Public space and pedestrian stress perception: Insights from Darmstadt, GermanyMartin Knöll (Department of Architecture, Technical University of Darmstadt), Marianne Halblaub Miranda (Department of Architecture, Technical University of Darmstadt), Thomas Cleff (Economics of Innovation and Industrial Dynamics, Pforzheim University), and Annette Rudolph-Cleff (Department of Architecture, Technical University of Darmstadt)16) Cities and indigenous communitites: The health and wellbeing of urban Māori in Aotearoa, New Zealand John Ryks (Director, Aria Research), Naomi Simmonds and Jesse Whitehead (University of Waikato)17) Landscape restructuring in the shrinking city and implications for mental healthJared Olsen, Lora Daskalska, Kelly Hoorman, Kirsten Beyer (Public and Community Health, Medical College of Wisconsin)4) vulnerable URBAN populations 18) Challenges to public health in the favelas of metropolitan Rio de Janeiro, BrazilAlon Unger (School of Medicine, University of California San Francisco), Lee W. Riley (Division of Epidemiology and Infectious Diseases, University of California, Berkeley), Robert E. Snyder (Division of Epidemiology and Infectious Diseases, University of California, Berkeley), and Claudete Araújo Cardoso (Infectious Diseases, Universidade Federal Fluminense)19) Taking action to improve Indigenous health in the cities of Québec and elsewhere in Canada: the example of the Minowé Clinic at the Val-d'Or Native Friendship CentreCarole Lévesque (Institut national de la recherche scientifique, Université du Québec), Édith Cloutier (Val-d’Or Native Friendship Centre), Ioana Radu (Institut national de la recherche scientifique, Université du Québec), Dominique Parent-Manseau (Val-d’Or Native Friendship Centre), Stéphane Laroche (Val-d’Or Native Friendship Centre), Natasha Blanchet-Cohen (Department of Applied Human Sciences, Concordia University)20) Refugees and health: A European urban contextGordana Rabrenovic (Director of Brudnick Center on Violence, Northeastern University), Danijela V. Spasic (Academy of Criminalistic and Police Studies, University of Belgrade) and Tibrine da Fonseca (Department of Anthropology & Sociology, Northeastern University)21) Refugees and health in urban AfricaSheru Wanyua Muuo (African Population and Health Research Center, APHRC, Nairobi, Kenya)22) A statewide comparison of Florida urban cancer ratesMonghyeon Lee, Daniel Griffith and Yongwan Chun (School of Economic, Political and Policy Sciences, University of Texas, Dallas)23) African cities and Ebola Zacchaeus Anywaine and Ggayi Abubaker Mustapher (Medical Research Council/Uganda Virus Research Institute [MRC/UVRI] and London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine [LSHTM] Uganda Research Unit, Entebbe, Uganda)5) VIOLENCE AND INJURIES24) Injuries in the city: A global perspective Marie-Soleil Cloutier (INRS-Montreal) and Andrew Howard (Professor, Departments of Surgery and Health Policy, Management, and Evaluation, University of Toronto)25) Alcohol availability and crime in post-disaster Christchurch, New Zealand: Implications for health in citiesGregory Breetzke (University of Pretoria, Department of Geography) and Amber L. Pearson (Department of Geography, Environment and Spatial Sciences, Michigan State University)26) Urban gun violenceJack McDevitt (Associate Dean of Research, Director, Institute of Race and Justice, Northeastern University) and Janice Iwama (Department of Sociology, University of Massachusetts Boston) 27) European street gangs and urban violenceKeir Irwin-Rogers (Criminology, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, The Open University), Scott H. Decker (School of Criminology and Criminal Justice, Arizona State University), Amir Rostami (Department of Sociology, Stockholm University), Svetlana Stephenson (Sociology, London Metropolitan University) and Elke Van Hellemont (Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research, University of Kent)28) Neighborhood recovery and community wellbeing in cities following natural disasters: Findings from Christchurch, New ZealandVivienne Ivory, Chris Bowie, Clare Robertson (Opus International, New Zealand) and Amber L. Pearson (Department of Geography, Environment and Spatial Sciences, Michigan State University)6) POLLUTANTS, ENVIRONMENTAL CONTAMINATION AND URBAN HEALTH29) Urban slums, drinking water and health: Trends and lessons from Sub-Saharan AfricaEllis Adjei Adams (Georgia State University, Global Studies Institute), Heather Price (Stirling University) and Justin Stoler (University of Miami, Department of Geography)30) Environmental exposure disparities and gentrified inequities: A Seattle, Washington context Jonah White (Michigan State University) and Troy Abel (Western Washington University) 31) Accessing air quality risk in an urban minority community: Williamsburg, BrooklynIvan Ramirez (Department of Geography and Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado Denver), Ana Baptista (Milano School of International Affairs, The New School), Jieun Lee (Department of Geography and GIS, University of Northern Colorado), Ana Traverso-Krejcarek (El Puente) and Andreah Santos (Eugene Lang College, The New School)32) Ambient air pollution, urbanization, and population health in Shanghai Wei Tu (Department of Geology and Geography, Georgia Southern University), Zhijing Lin (School of Public Health, Fudan University), Haidong Kan (School of Public Health, Shanghai Medical College, Fudan University) and Weichun Ma (Department of Environmental Science and Engineering, Fudan University) 7) PUBLIC HEALTH AND THE ROLE OF the built environment33) Transport, urban regeneration and health: An issue across scale Angela Curl (Canterbury University) and Julie Clark (University of Liverpool)34) Rice, men, and other everyday anxieties: Navigating obesogenic urban food environments in Osaka, JapanCindi SturtzSreetharan (School of Human Evolution and Social Change, Arizona State University) and Alexandra Brewis (School of Human Evolution and Social Change, Arizona State University)35) The built environment, physical activity, and obesity: Exploring burdens on vulnerable U.S. populations Igor Vojnovic, Zeenat Kotval-K (Department of Geography, Environment and Spatial Sciences, Michigan State University), Jieun Lee (Department of Geography and GIS, University of Northern Colorado), Jeanette Eckert (Office of Research Compliance, University of Toledo), Jiang Chang, Wei Liu, Xiaomeng Li and Arika Ligmann-Zielinska (Department of Geography, Environment and Spatial Sciences, Michigan State University)36) Public health challenges with Sub-Saharan African informal settlements: A case study of Malaria in YaoundéRoland Ngom (University of Calgary, Department of Geography, and Geoimpacts Consulting)37) Health oriented city development in Germany: Urban planning and design approaches going beyond professional boundaries Angela Million (Department for City and Regional Planning, Technical University of Berlin, Chair for Urban Design and Urban Development) and Andrea Ruediger (School of Spatial Planning, Department of City Planning, TU Dortmund)38) Flint, Michigan’s food crisis: Retail abandonment, social and economic burdens, and local food-oriented solutionsRick Sadler (Michigan State University, Division of Public Health, College of Human Medicine)39) Urban housing and public health: A Los Angeles study Victoria Basolo and Edith Medina Huarita (Department of Policy, Planning and Design, University of California, Irvine)

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Book SynopsisThe Routledge Companion to the Suburbs provides one of the most comprehensive examinations available to date of the suburbs around the world. International in scope and interdisciplinary in nature, this volume will serve as the definitive reference for scholars and students of the suburbs. This volume brings together the leading scholars of the suburbs researching in different parts of the world to better understand how and why suburbs and their communities grow, decline, and regenerate. The volume sets out four goals: 1) to provide a synthesis and critical appraisal of the historical and current state of understanding about the development of suburbs in the world; 2) to provide a forum for a comprehensive examination into the conceptual, theoretical, spatial, and empirical discontents of suburbanization; 3) to engage in a scholarly conversation about the transformation of suburbs that is interdisciplinary in nature and bridges the divide between the Global North andTrade Review"Hanlon and Vicino have produced a sorely-needed collection of essays on the definition, composition, and evolution of the wide variety of settlements collectively known as the suburbs. Notable both for its interdisciplinary methods and global scope, this volume includes an excellent and well-balanced selection of articles by leading urban and suburban scholars. I recommend this book to policymakers, researchers, and students concerned with metropolitan growth and the spatial dimensions of poverty and inequality." - Paul A. Jargowsky, Rutgers University, U.S.A."The Routledge Companion to the Suburbs brings together key contemporary urban scholars to systematically challenge the ways in which we understand and describe the suburbs. Crossing national and disciplinary boundaries, this collection expands our knowledge of urbanism and the forms it assumes across the globe." - Ali Modarres, Professor and Director, Urban Studies, University of Washington Tacoma, USATable of ContentsIntroduction Part I: Suburban Definitions and Descriptions Part II: Global Perspectives on the Suburbs Part III: Diversity, Exclusion, and Poverty in the Suburbs Part IV: Planning, Public Policy, and Reshaping the Suburbs Part V: Conclusion and Future Prospects Index

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Book SynopsisThis book lays out the different and complex dimensions of urbanisation in India. It brings together contributors with expertise in fields as varied as demography, geography, economics, political science, sociology, anthropology, architecture, planning and land use, environmental sciences, creative writing, filmmaking and grassroots activism to reflect on and examine India's urban experience. It discusses various dimensions of city lifehow to define the urban; the conditions generating work, living and (in)security; the nature of contemporary cities; the dilemmas of creating and executing urban policy, planning and governance; and the issues concerning ecology and environment. The volume also articulates and evaluates the way Indian urbanism promotes and organises aspirations and utopias of the people, whilst simultaneously endorsing disparities, depravities and conflicts.The volume includes interventions that shape contemporary debates. Comprehensive, accessible and tTable of ContentsForeword Preface Introduction: Revisiting Urban India I Debate on Defining the Urban Rurbanisation: An Alternate Development Paradigm Subaltern Urbanisation Revisited II Conditions Generating Work, Living and (In)Security Only ‘Good People’, Please: Residential Segregation in Urbanising India Inclusive Urbanisation: Informal Employment and Gender Resettlement, Mobility and Women’s Safety in Cities Cities for Healthy People III Cities of Contemporary India The Planned and the Unplanned: Company Towns in India The Logistical City Cities and Smartness Public Spaces and Places: Gendered Intersectionalities in Indian Cities Reading the City through Art IV Urban Policy, Planning and Governance India’s ‘Urban’ and the Policy Disconnect Changing Trajectories of Urban Local Governance Urban Development, Housing and ‘Slums’ Engine Urbanism Post-national Urbanism: ‘Ordinary’ People, Capital and the State V Ecology, Environment and Well-Being The Art of Evolution Nurturing Urban Commons for Sustainable Urbanisation The Unsustainable Urban Waste Economy: What is to be Done? The Canal and the City: An Urban–Ecological Lens on Chennai’s Growth Cities: Changing the Metaphor to Quality of Life

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Book SynopsisThe Spatial Fiscal Impact Analysis Method is an innovative approach to measure fiscal impact and project the future costs of a proposed development, recognizing that all revenues and expenditures are spatially related. The Spatial Method focuses on estimating existing fiscal impacts of detailed land use categories by their location. It takes advantage of readily available data that reflect the flows of revenues and expenditures in a city, using the tools of Geographic Information Systems (GIS). The result is a comprehensive yet transparent database for measuring existing fiscal impacts and projecting the impacts of future development or redevelopment. This book will provide readers with guidance as to how to conduct the Spatial Method in their own cities. The book will provide an overview of the history of fiscal analysis, and demonstrate the advantages of the Spatial Method to other methods, taking the reader step by step through the process, from analyzing city financial reports, determining and developing the factors that are needed to model the flows of revenues and expenditures, and then estimating fiscal impact at the parcel level. The result is a summary of detailed land use categories and neighborhoods that will be invaluable to city planners and public administration officials everywhere.Table of ContentsChapter 1 Spatial Planning and Fiscal Impact Analysis Method Chapter 2 A Survey of Fiscal Impact Analysis Methods Chapter 3 A Comparison of the Spatial Fiscal Impact Method to Other Methods Chapter 4 Preliminary Financial Analysis Chapter 5 Compiling the Parcel_Factor Shapefile Attributes Chapter 6 Determining Fiscal Allocation Multipliers Chapter 7 Calculating Existing Fiscal Impact Chapter 8 Analyzing School Fiscal Impact Chapter 9 Projecting Fiscal Impact Chapter 10 Marginal Impacts and Sprawl Chapter 11 Working Toward an Enterprise Spatial Planning and Fiscal Impact Analysis System Chapter 12 Summary of the Spatial Planning and Fiscal Impact Analysis Method Appendix A Creating Address-Matching File for Parcels Appendix B Allocating Public Safety Data to Parcels Appendix C Determining Local Road Frontage for Parcels Appendix D Reconciling Census Blocks with Parcels Appendix E Using Census Data to Estimate Adult and School-Age Population by Parcel Appendix F Modeling Fiscal Impact Using ArcGIS Model Builder

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Book SynopsisWithin the spatial design disciplines, research through design as a tool and practice has often been neglected. This book provides a much-needed companion to the theories, methods and processes involved in using design-based research in landscape, architecture and urban design. Aimed specifically at researchers completing PhD projects, supervisors and designers working in practice, it covers applied approaches to help you to use design research in your work. With fully illustrated examples of original international design research PhDs from a variety of programme types, such as individual, structured and practice-based, Design Research for Urban Landscapes offers PhD candidates and supervisors a clear foundational pathway. Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Crossing fields: Designing and Researching Raumgeschehen 2. Design Research as a Non-Linear Interplay of Five Moments 3. Navigating in Urban Landscapes – Mapping as a Navigational Strategy in Designing Landscapes 4. Walk with Me! How Walking Inspires Designing 5. Design Comments – A Dialogue-Based Approach to Using Designerly Knowledge in Transdisciplinary Contexts 6. On Playing and Designing. Gaining Knowledge and Finding Ideas through Play during the Process of Designing Urban Landscapes Chapter 7. Holding onto the land 8. Urban Landscape Stories – Narratives as a Design Research Tool 9. Creating Future Research Platforms 10. Setting Out. Creative Strategies for the Beginning Phase in Large-Scale Landscape Design 11. Conclusion

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Book SynopsisThe second edition of Cities and Cinema provides an updated survey of films about cities, from their significance for modernity at the beginning of the twentieth century to the contemporary relationship between virtual reality and urban space. The book demonstrates the importance of the filmic depiction of capitals for national cinemas in the twentieth century and analyzes the transnational transfer of cinematic images surrounding global cities in the twenty-first century.Cities and Cinema covers the different facets of the cinematic depiction of cities. It rehearses distinct methodologies and offers a survey of the history of the cinematic city. The book also deepens our understanding of tropes and narrative conventions that shape films about urban settings and that reflect the transformation of cities throughout the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Beginning with a discussion of the Weimar street film, it analyzes how the city film defined modernitTable of ContentsList of figures. Acknowledgments for the first edition. Acknowledgments for the second and revised edition.Introduction.Part I. 1 Modernity and the city film: Berlin. 2 The dark city and film noir: Los Angeles. 3 Mobility in the city of love: Paris.Part II. 4 City film industry: Hong Kong. 5 The city in ruins and the divided city. 6 Utopia and dystopia: fantastic and virtual cities.Part III. 7 Ghetto film. 8 The queer city. 9 Cities in global cinema.Conclusion.Bibliography. Filmography. Index.

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Book SynopsisThis book explores residential satisfaction and housing policy trends in developing nations by using subsidised low-income housing examples in South Africa, Ghana and Nigeria as case studies. While there has been much documentation on the formation of residential satisfaction and the evolution of housing policy in developed nations, relatively little has been written about these topics in developing nations. This book provides readers with two major practical insights: The first is focused on the theoretical underpinning of residential satisfaction and the formation of residential satisfaction in subsidised low-income housing through the development of a conceptual framework, while the second is focused on housing policy evolution and its trends in South Africa. In this section of the book, comparative overviews of public housing in two West African countries are provided with an emphasis on the philosophical basis for its development in these countries. The centralTable of ContentsPart I The Fundamentals Chapter One: Introduction Part II Housing Theories and Policy Development Chapter Two: Theoretical Perspectives of Housing Studies Research Chapter Three: Housing Policy Evolution and Development Part III Housing Policy and Development in Africa Chapter Four: Housing Development in Ghana Chapter Five: Housing Development in Nigeria Chapter Six: Housing Development in South AfricaPart IV Residential Satisfaction Theories and Research Chapter Seven: Residential Satisfaction Theories Chapter Eight: Conceptual Perspective of Residential Satisfaction Formation

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Book SynopsisThe future of humanity is urban, and knowledge of urbanism's deep past is critical for us all to navigate that future. The time has come for archaeologists to rethink this global phenomenon by asking what urbanism is and, more to the point, was. Can we truly understand ancient urbanism by only asking after the human element, or are the properties and qualities of landscapes, materials, and atmospheres equally causal? The nine authors of New Materialisms Ancient Urbanisms seek less anthropocentric answers to questions about the historical relationships between urbanism and humanity in Africa, Asia, and the Americas. They analyze the movements and flows of materials, things, phenomena, and beingshuman and otherwiseas these were assembled to produce the kinds of complex, dense, and stratified relationships that we today label urban. In so doing, the book emerges as a work of both theory and historical anthropology. It breaks new ground in the archaeology of urbanisTrade Review"The writers have produced an outstanding overview of the flow of antiquities, moving from the source of the looting or excavation, through transit states, and culminating in museums, showrooms, and private collections. This book stands as an excellent summary of the work being done on this illicit trade, and will be an invaluable resource for those familiar with the subject, and for those new to it." - Prof. Derek Fincham, South Texas College of Law Houston, USA"This fascinating book will become the go-to resource on the global market in illicit antiquities. The authors’ in-depth investigations into this devastating global crime problem highlight the importance of collecting and analysing evidence to counter the justifications that can exist in the often grey worlds that thrive around illicit antiquities. Highly accessible, the book engages with theory, research methods and international policy in a manner that provides a valuable counterpoint to much work on the area that is based on conjecture. In presenting their hugely significant Trafficking Culture research, the authors also promote an important future policy approach. The book will inspire future research into the global market in illicit antiquities and serve as an example of how it should be undertaken." - John Kerr, University of Roehampton, UK"Inspired by Deleuzian and other realist philosophies, this provocative book synthesizes New Materialist theories and relational approaches to tackle a mainstay of traditional archaeological research, urbanism and city life in ancient societies. The authors demonstrate that cities defy reduction to essentialized types but must be understood as dense but fluid assemblages of peoples, infrastructures, substances, formless matter, phenomena and objects. The case studies, ranging from across the globe, reveal the fundamental importance of ontology and religion to urban historical process, one mediated by diverse assemblages of non-human entities. The edited volume presents a radically new approach to the analysis of urbanism that stands to revolutionize archaeological approaches to ancient landscapes." - Edward Swenson, University of Toronto, CanadaTable of Contents1. Introducing New Materialisms, Rethinking Ancient Urbanisms; 2. From Weeping Hills to Lost Caves: A Search for Vibrant Matter in Greater Cahokia; 3. Chaco Gathers: Experience and Assemblage in the Ancient Southwest; 4. Assembling the City: Monte Albán as a Mountain of Creation and Sustenance; 5. Assembling Tiwanaku: Water and Stone, Humans and Monoliths; 6. Immanence and the Spirit of Ancient Urbanism at Paquimé and Liangzhu; 7. The Gathering of Swahili Religious Practice: Mosques-as-Assemblages at 1000 CE Swahili Towns; 8. Urbanism and the Temporality of Materiality on the Medieval Deccan: Beyond the Cosmograms of Social and Political Space; 9. Cities, the Underworld, and the Infrastructure: The Ecology of Water in the Hittite World; 10. Commentary: The City and the City

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Book SynopsisShaping Jerusalem: Spatial planning, politics and the conflict focuses on a hidden facet of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict; the relentless reshaping of the Holy City by the Israeli authorities through urban policies, spatial plans, infrastructural and architectural projects, land use and building regulations. From a political point of view, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict may appear to be at an impasse; however, it is precisely by looking at the city's physical space that one can perceive that a war of cement and stone is under way. Many books have been written on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict over Jerusalem; some of them have focused on the urban fabric; Shaping Jerusalem uniquely discusses the role of Israeli spatial actions within the conflict. It argues that Israel's main political objective control over the whole city is ordinarily and silently pursued through physical devices which permanently modify the territory and the urban fabric. RTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsPreface1. The spatial dimension of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict over Jerusalem2. The occupied city: planning the occupation of East Jerusalem3. The illegal city: urban policies for Arab neighbourhoods in East Jerusalem4. The locked city: the separation Barrier as territorial strategy5. The lesson of Jerusalem

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Book SynopsisUrban Heritage in Divided Cities explores the role of contested urban heritage in mediating, subverting and overcoming sociopolitical conflict in divided cities. Investigating various examples of transformations of urban heritage around the world, the book analyses the spatial, social and political causes behind them, as well as the consequences for the division and reunification of cities during both wartime and peacetime conflicts.Contributors to the volume define urban heritage in a broad sense, as tangible elements of the city, such as ruins, remains of border architecture, traces of violence in public space and memorials, as well as intangible elements like urban voids, everyday rituals, place names and other forms of spatial discourse. Addressing both historic and contemporary cases from a wide range of academic disciplines, contributors to the book investigate the role of urban heritage in divided cities in Africa, Asia, the Americas, Europe and the Middle EasTable of Contents1. CONTESTED PASTS IN DIVIDED CITIES: INTRODUCTION; Part I: TRANSFORMATIONS OF HERITAGE AS ‘CONFLICT BY OTHER MEANS’; 2. HERITAGE NECROPOLITICS AND THE CAPTURE OF HEBRON: THE LOGIC OF CLOSURE, FEAR, HUMILIATION AND ELIMINATION; 3. CONTESTED HERITAGE-MAKING AS AN INSTRUMENT OF ETHNIC DIVISION: MITROVICA, KOSOVO; 4. NICOSIA HOTSPOT: VISUALITIES OF MEMORY AND HERITAGE IN THE GREEK CYPRIOT URBAN SPACE; 5. LEFKOSA VS. LEFKOSIA: THE HERITAGE OF CONFLICT; 6. THE DIVISION OF ALEPPO CITY: HERITAGE AND URBAN SPACE; Part II: SEGREGATED HERITAGE; 7. DIVIDED HISTORIES OF THE PACIFIC WAR: REVISITING "CHANGI’S" (POST)COLONIAL HERITAGE; 8. HERITAGE OF INCLUSION OR EXCLUSION? CONTESTED CLAIMS AND ACCESS TO HOUSING IN AMRITSAR, INDIA; 9. SEGREGATION, GENTRIFICATION AND HERITAGE IN FREDERICKSBURG, VIRGINIA: A PRESERVATION PERSPECTIVE; 10. HERITAGE AS A MEDIATOR OF SOCIO-SPATIAL SEGREGATION: CARTAGENA DE INDIAS, COLOMBIA; Part III: DEALING WITH CONTESTED HERITAGE; 11. AN ISLAND IN SECTARIAN SEAS? HERITAGE, MEMORY AND IDENTITY IN POST-WAR REDEVELOPMENT OF BEIRUT’S CENTRAL DISTRICT; 12. ENTREPRENEURIAL HERITAGE-MAKING IN POST-WALL BERLIN: THE CASE OF NEW POTSDAMER PLATZ; 13. DEALING WITH THE SPATIAL REMNANTS OF CONFLICT IN BELFAST: THE ANDERSONSTOWN BARRACKS SITE IN WEST BELFAST; 14. PERFORMING IMAGINARY HEALINGS: THE POST-CONFLICT HERITAGE OF EBRINGTON BARRACKS; 15. CONTESTED COLLECTIVE MEMORY IN THE SEGREGATED CITY OF CAPE TOWN

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Book SynopsisThe book explores the unique contribution that geographers make to the concept of place attachment, and related ideas of place identity and sense of place. It presents six types of places to which people become attached, and provides a global range of empirical case studies to illustrate the theoretical foundations. The book reveals that the types of places to which people bond is not discrete. Rather, a holistic approach, one that seeks to understand the interactive and reinforcing qualities between people and places, is most effective in advancing our understanding of place attachment.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Putting PLACE Back in Place Attachment Research. Jeffrey S. Smith.Part I. Secure Places. 1. Influence of Memory on Post-Resettlement Place Attachment. Michael Strong. 2. Hazardscapes: Perceptions of Tornado Risk and the Role of Place Attachment in Central Oklahoma. Randy A. Peppler, Kimberly E. Klockow, and Richard D. Smith Part II. Socializing Places. 3. Constructing Sense of Place through Place-Labelization in Rural France. Hélène B. Ducros. 4. Exploring Place Attachment and a Sense of Community in the Chacarita of Asuncion, Paraguay. Jeffrey S. Smith Part III. Transformative Places 5. Making Place through the Memorial Landscape. Chris W. Post. 6. Exploring Place Attachment and the Immigrant Experience in Comics and Graphic Novels: Shaun Tan’s The Arrival. Steven M. Schnell Part IV. Restorative Places 7. Constructing Place Attachment in Grand Teton National Park. Yolonda Youngs. 8. Visitor Perception, Place Attachment, and Wilderness Management in the Adirondack High Peaks Tyra A. Olstad Part V. Validating Places 9. Baseball Stadiums and Urban Reimaging in St. Louis: Shaping Place and Placelessness Douglas A. Hurt. 10. Avant-Garde, Wannabe Cowboys: Place Attachment among Bohemians, Beatniks, and Hippies in Virginia City, Nevada Engrid Barnett. 11. Lost in Time and Space: The Impact of Place Image on Pitcairn Island Christine K. Johnson Part VI. Vanishing Places12. Rethinking Fountainbridge: Honoring the Past and Greening the Future Geoffrey L. Buckley. 13. Landscapes of Recovery: Shifting Sense of Place Attachment in Kesennuma, Japan Rex "RJ" Rowley. Epilogue Methodologies of Place Attachment Research Paul C. Adams

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Book SynopsisCity greening has been heralded for contributing to environmental governance and critiqued for exacerbating displacement and inequality. Bringing these two disparate analyses into conversation, this book offers a comparative understanding of how tensions between growth, environmental protection, and social equity are playing out in practice. Examining Chicago, USA, Birmingham, UK, and Vancouver, Canada, McKendry argues that city greening efforts were closely connected to processes of post-industrial branding in the neoliberal economy. While this brought some benefits, concerns about the unequal distribution of these benefits and greening's limited environmental impact challenged its legitimacy. In response, city leaders have moved toward initiatives that strive to better address environmental effectiveness and social equity while still spurring growth. Through an analysis that highlights how different varieties of liberal environmentalism are manifested in each case, this booTrade Review'Can the world’s cities save Earth’s environment? As international environmentalism becomes ever more sclerotic, growing numbers of cities across the world are proclaiming their sustainability bona fides through programs and projects rooted in what Corina McKendry calls "green urban entrepreneurialism." But are these programs any more than green window dressing, designed to attract trendy, upscale people? Dr McKendry looks closely into three world cities—Chicago, Vancouver and Birmingham, UK—to assess whether Being Green is more than just another cliché and finds that it does mean something. This extraordinary book should be read widely by students, scholars and citizens who want to make a difference within their cities as well as across the world as a whole.'—Ronnie D. Lipschutz, Professor of Politics, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA'By using comparative methodology, McKendry sets this book apart from most books on cities, which tend to be monographs. With rich, comparative data this book illuminates the similarities and differences of efforts to green cities in a multinational context. Moreover, McKendry produces a highly productive typology of "liberal environmentalisms" that give us a new conceptual tool to understand the contested political project of urban sustainability.'—Nik Janos, Assistant Professor, California State University, Chico, USA'Greening Post-Industrial Cities advances our understanding of cities in global environmental governance by placing the urban greening and environmental justice literatures into conversation and exploring how "varieties of liberal environmentalism" have played out in different urban contexts. With healthy skepticism and hopeful pragmatism, McKendry helps us imagine cities as sites for creating a more equitable and sustainable future.'—Michele M. Betsill, Department of Political Science, Colorado State University, USA'Analysts and practitioners alike have long recognized that cities are major actors in, and arenas of, global governance. By their nature they are internally complex, diverse and contested. In order to better understand them, therefore, we need theoretically informed empirical studies that capture city dynamics across time rather than at any one turning point. Corina McKendry’s book contributes profoundly to the study of cities by providing an empirically fine-grained comparison of the greening of three important cities, based on a compelling theoretical scheme that will inform and influence future research on urban politics and global governance.'—Dimitris Stevis, Department of Political Science, Colorado State University, USATable of Contents1. Local Politics of Global Environmental Governance2. From Keynesianism to Liberal Environmentalism3. Greening the Post-Industrial City4. Beyond Green Urban Entrepreneurialism 5. Energy and Climate Justice 6. Green Urban Development7. Environmental Amenities 8. Conclusion – Cities and the Challenge of Environmental GovernancePostface: Green Cities in an Uncertain MomentReferences

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