Urban communities / city life Books
Transcript Verlag Southeast Asian Transformations – Urban and Rural
Book SynopsisSoutheast Asia is one of the most dynamic regions in the world. This volume offers a timely approach to Southeast Asian Studies, covering recent transitions in the realms of urbanism, rural development, politics, and media. While most of the contributions deal with the era of post-independence, some tackle the colonial period and the resulting developments. The volume also includes insights from Southern India. As a tribute to the interdisciplinary project of Southeast Asian Studies, this book brings together authors from disciplines as diverse as area studies, sociology, history, geography, and journalism.
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Transcript Verlag Zones of Tradition–Places of Identity – Cities
Book SynopsisWhat is the heritage of our cities? Which are the monuments, places, and spaces in which it accumulates, and by which practices is it formed, handed down, appropriated? Gerhard Vinken takes the readers to twelve cities on three continents and analyses the diverse and contradictory heritage formations that have had a lasting impact on urban life. The vitality of urban heritage, as these vivid and in-depth case studies show, lies in the dynamic and often conflictual processes of social appropriation and interpretation. Covering a diverse range of themes, the book familiarizes the reader with important questions and theories in urban research and heritage studies.Trade Review"Sophisticated and stimulating book." (translated from German) Klaus R. Kunzmann, Kulturpolitische Mitteilungen, 177/2 (2022)
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Transcript Verlag From Shelters to Dwellings – The Dismantling and
Book SynopsisIn Zaatari camp, Jordan, thousands of Syrian refugees were sheltered in tents and caravans, which they steadily appropriated and turned into dwellings that responded to their social and cultural needs. In this book, Ayham Dalal takes a closer look at this remarkable transformation. He draws on the tension between 'the shelter' and 'the dwelling' to unravel how new spaces unfold in between them, where refugees become architects and the camp is dismantled and reassembled. From Shelters to Dwellings is the first study to uniquely combine ethnographic observations with new architectural research methods, to illustrate in detail how refugees inhabit shelters. It is a must-read for anyone interested in understanding how camps and shelters are transformed by the powerful act of dwelling.
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Transcript Verlag Platformization of Urban Life: Towards a
Book SynopsisThe increasing platformisation of urban life needs critical perspectives to examine changing everyday practices and power shifts brought about by the expansion of digital platforms mediating care-services, housing, and mobility. This book addresses new modes of producing urban spaces and societies. It brings both platform researchers and activists from various fields related to critical urban studies and labour activism into dialogue. The contributors engage with the socio-spatial and normative implications of platform-mediated urban everyday life and urban futures, going beyond a rigid techno-dystopian stance in order to include an understanding of platforms as sites of social creativity and exchange.
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Transcript Verlag Shifts in Mapping: Maps as a Tool of Knowledge
Book SynopsisDepicting the world, territory, and geopolitical realities involves a high degree of interpretation and imagination. It is never neutral. Cartography originated in ancient times to represent the world and to enable circulation, communication, and economic exchange. Today, IT companies are a driving force in this field and change our view of the world; how we communicate, navigate, and consume globally. Questions of privacy, authorship, and economic interests are highly relevant to cartography's practices. So how to deal with such powers and what is the critical role of cartography in it? How might a bottom-up perspective (and actions) in map-making change the conception of a geopolitical space?Table of ContentsPreface; Research Interest; On the Symposium and Exhibition; Acknowledgments; Shifts in Mapping; Introduction to the essay section; Shifts in Mapping: Two Concepts which have Changed the World View; Atlas of Indexical Cities: A Personal Search Engine for the World; Reflections on the Cartographic Languages When collectively mapping possible worlds; Critical Map Visualizations; The Digital Memory of Palmyra: (How) can data images be critical?; Design through Graduation; Radical Cartography; Biographies; Introduction to the Exhibition: STRATEGIES OF NEOGEOGRAPHY IN RECENT MEDIA ART; Works/Artists in the Exhibition.
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Transcript Verlag Public Space in Transition: Co-production and
Book SynopsisTeheran-ro in Seoul and Mediaspree area in Berlin are pristine examples for public spaces with a history of rapid change in the context of broader political and economic transitions. Dahae Lee shows that in such a transitional context, the public sector alone is incapable to provide and manage public space. Hence, it engages private sector entities in the form of privately owned public space/s (POPS). By analysing the planning instruments used for POPS in both cases, their uniqueness as well as strengths and weaknesses are revealed. Based on the results this study offers a number of policy recommendations for cities that encounter similar problems.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements; Abstract; List of Figures and Tables; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; Public space in transition; Research design and methodology; Challenges of providing and managing public space in a transitional context; Planning instruments for POPS in Teheran-ro, Seoul; Planning instruments for POPS in Mediaspree area, Berlin; Outcomes of planning instruments for POPS; Conclusion; Glossary; Appendix; Bibliography.
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Transcript Verlag Informal Transactions of Low Income Houses in
Book SynopsisThrough a series of intricate informal processes and human-centric institutional arrangements, beneficiaries of South African government-subsidized housing force formally registered properties into informality. Sandile Mbatha explores the concept of informality in relation to how such beneficiaries challenge predominant understandings of property relations. These practices are embedded in complex urban tenure dynamics that prevail in post-colonial societies; societies, in which the state's imposition of predominantly western forms of tenure and property rights ignore the anthropological nature of housing.
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Transcript Verlag Wilhelmsburg is our home!: Racialized Residents
Book SynopsisIn a neighbourhood facing massive redevelopment, racialized residents speak about stigma, social mixing, and what the island community means to them. Based on rich interviews, photographs, and archival research, Julie Chamberlain rejects the usual silence in German urban studies around racialization and examines how constructing some groups as "not belonging" has shaped Hamburg-Wilhelmsburg's past and present. For racialized long-time residents, it is Heimat, a space of belonging in the context of exclusion. As social mix policy threatens that belonging, residents explore their hopes and their fears for the future of an urban space where gentrification looms.
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Transcript Verlag Norman M. Klein's »Bleeding Through: Layers of
Book SynopsisIn 2003, Norman M. Klein's docufable ?Bleeding Through? raised questions of urban aesthetics and memory as part of the multimedia documentary ?Bleeding Through: Layers of Los Angeles, 1920-1986.? Now, 20 years later, this important text is reissued along with several essays addressing its central themes, such as the aesthetics and politics of urban memory, the development of Los Angeles since the 20th century, the role of urban imaginaries in US politics, or media evolution in the 21st century. The volume also features a long interview with Klein and two docufables from Klein's celebrated study ?The History of Forgetting: Los Angeles and the Erasure of Memory?, one being the kernel of the novella, the other imagining Walter Benjamin in L.A. Finally, the book contains links to two films featuring much of the multimedia material contained in the first edition.
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Transcript Verlag Narrative in Urban Planning: A Practical Field
Book SynopsisWhat do planners need to know in order to use narrative approaches responsibly in their practice? This practical field guide makes insights from narrative research accessible to planners through a glossary of key concepts in the field of narrative in planning. What makes narratives coherent, probable, persuasive, even necessary - but also potentially harmful, manipulative and divisive? How can narratives help to build more sustainable, resilient, and inclusive communities? The authors are literary scholars who have extensive experience in planning practice, training planning scholars and practitioners or advising municipalities on how to harness the power of stories in urban development.
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Transcript Verlag Territorial Stigmatization: Urban Renewal and
Book SynopsisIn Tarlabasi, an Istanbul neighbourhood facing massive redevelopment and displacement, marginalized residents speak about belonging, stigma, and what their community means to them. Based on a long-term ethnographic study that includes interviews, photographs, and archival research, Constanze Letsch examines how territorial stigmatization is weaponized by the state and how differently stigmatized groups try to fight against the vilification of their mahalle. The contested plans of urban renewal threaten not only their homes and workplaces but a rapidly vanishing Istanbul: socio-demographic interdependencies and networks that have developed over decades.
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transcript Verlag Space Production by Migrants in Chinas Urban
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Transcript Publishing Urban Heritage Planning in Tehran and Beyond:
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transcript Verlag Envisaging Dataist Modernity
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DOM Publishers Berlin Urban Strategy: The Genius of
Book SynopsisThis book aims to explore Berlin's ability not to trivialise new ideas and thus remain a leader in innovation. Berlin is a city that continues to fascinate. It has a tormented history, is the capital of two reconciled Germanies, is an increasingly popular tourist destination, and has affordable living and workspaces for young people, artists, and other creative minds. The 3.7-million metropolis is also the scene for large-scale urban and architectural projects, bottom-up projects, and citizens' initiatives such as communal gardening, cooperative living and other urban innovations. Is the miracle of Berlin's success due to its genius of improvisation, that is to say its ability to adapt to a complex history, to invent specific courses of action, to negotiate? Since 2016, Berlin policy makers have developed an urban strategy to combat real estate price increases and gentrification. Another challenge for Berlin is to adapt to demographic change and the growing number of tourists. More participative, more equitable, and less favourable to automobiles, this city is looking to incorporate diverse methods: public/private partnership, citizen awareness initiatives, social and economic
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DOM Publishers Urban Activism in Eastern Europe and Eurasia:
Book SynopsisWith the rise of grassroots initiatives in urban spaces across Eastern Europe and Eurasia in recent decades, Urban Activism in Eurasia addresses three central questions: What are distinctive features and the dynamic of urban activism in contemporary post-Soviet cities? How urban civic engagement does evolve on a micro level and in larger-scale processes? How a variety of group and individuals who claim to the city space and its development find their own ways to initiate local urban change. The volume challenges the prevailing simplistic view of weak, passive and scared citizens in Eastern European and Eurasian cities, which are often seen to be predominantly shaped by neo-liberal and authoritarian structures. Instead, we argue for the vibrant diversity and dynamism in the contemporary urban civic activism in Eurasia. Employing diverse sources such as intriguing photographs, interviews with local activists and scholarly reports from the field of anthropology, urban planning, architecture, political sciences and sociology, the edited volume explores the creativity and novelty of Eurasian urban grass roots activism. Drawing on these multi-disciplinary perspectives, the volume hopes to overcome distances and trigger dialogues in several respects and realms: among the interested public, activists, ‘urban decision makers’ and scholars in East and West, North and South alike. With contributions by Andrei Semenov, Levon Abrahamian, Gayane Shagoyan, Nadia Douglas, Oleg Pachenkov, Lila Voronkova, Christian Frohlich, Lela Rekviashvili, Esma Berikishvili, David Sichinava, Alexander Formosov, Nazaket Azimli, Otto Habeck, Jonas Büchel, Carola S. Neugebauer, Olena Denysenko and Tsypylma Darieva.
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Rawat Dimensions of Urban Poverty
Book SynopsisOver 30% of India's population lives in poverty, with urban areas facing severe challenges due to lack of employment and low income levels. Despite government efforts, urban poverty remains a major concern with inadequate living conditions in settlements like slums and pavements. Experts are sharing their insights to address this ongoing issue.
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Rawat Urban Geography
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Springer, India, Private Ltd Subaltern Urbanisation in India: An Introduction
Book SynopsisThis volume decentres the view of urbanisation in India from large agglomerations towards smaller urban settlements. It presents the outcomes of original research conducted over three years on subaltern processes of urbanization. The volume is organised in four sections. A first one deals with urbanisation dynamics and systems of cities with chapters on the new census towns, demographic and economic trajectories of cities and employment transformation. The interrelations of land transformation, social and cultural changes form the topic of the “land, society, belonging” section based on ethnographic work in various parts of India (Karnataka, Himachal Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh and Tamil Nadu). A third section focuses on public policies, governance and urban services with a set of macro-analysis based papers and specific case studies. Understanding the nature of production and innovation in non-metropolitan contexts closes this volume. Finally, though focused on India, this research raises larger questions with regard to the study of urbanisation and development worldwide.Table of ContentsChapter 1. Introduction: Reclaiming small towns Marie-Hélène Zérah & Eric Denis.- Part I Placing Small Towns: Dynamics of Urbanisation and Systems of cities.- Chapter 2. Unacknowledged Urbanisation: The New Census Towns in India Kanhu C. Pradhan.- Chapter 3. The substantial share of small towns in India's system of cities Elfie Swerts.- Chapter 4. The Income Ranking of Indian States and their Pattern of Urbanisation Basudeb Chaudhuri, Boishompayan Chatterjee, Mainak Mazumdar, Safayet Karim.- Chapter 5. Urbanisation in a decade of near jobless growth S. Chandrasekhar.- Chapter 6. Comparison of Peripheral Metropolitisation in Haryana and Rajasthan, India Milap Punia, Rajnish Kumar, Laxman Singh and Sandeep Kaushik.- Chapter 7. On global and Multiple Linkages in the making of an Ordinary place: Parangipettai-Porto Novo Eric Denis and Zarin Ahmed.- Part II Land, Society, Belonging.- Chapter 8. The multilayered urbanisation of the South Canara territory Solomon Benjamin.- Chapter 9. Practices of Territory in Small and Medium Cities of South India Bhuvaneswari Raman.- Chapter 10. Territorial legends: Politics of indigeneity, migration and urban citizenship in Pasighat Mythri Prasad-Aleyamma.- Chapter 11. Wealth, Mobility, Accretive Citizenship and Belonging: Why Everyone Comes to Kullu, and How they Remain Diya Mehra.- Chapter 12. Hindu temples and development of localities in Tamil Nadu (South India) Pierre-Yves Trouillet.- Part III. Small towns between rural and urban administration: Public Policies, Governance and Urban Services.- Chapter 13. The Other Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission: what does it mean for small town India? Sama Khan.- Chapter 14. Shedding light on social and economic changes in small towns through the prism of local governance: A case study of Haryana Marie-Hélène Zérah.- Chapter 15. Purdah and Politics: Women’s Participation in Local Governance Aditi Surie and Marie-Hélène Zérah.- Chapter 16. New Urban Territories in West Bengal: Transition, Transformation and Governance Gopa Samanta.- Chapter 17. Does administrative status matter for small towns in India? Partha Mukhopadhyay.- Part IV Producing and Innovating in non-metropolitan contexts.- Chapter 18. Development on the urban fringe: the prosperity of Kartarpur, a small town-cluster in Punjab Rémi de Bercegol and Shankare Gowda.- Chapter 19. From Ox-Carts to Borewell rigs: Maintenance, Manufacture and Innovation in Tiruchengode Yann Philippe Tastevin.- Chapter 20. Globalisation, Productive Spaces and Small Town Transformation: The case of Machlipatnam and Pedana in Coastal Andra Pradesh N. Sridharan.- Chapter 21. Mapping small towns’ productive and employment configurations Elfie Swerts and Eric Denis.- Chapter 22. Commuting Workers and the Integration of the Rural-Urban Economy Ajay Sharma.- Chapter 23. Non-Timber Forest Products and Small Town Economies Manoj Nadkarni.
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Deep & Deep Publications Urban Poverty and Urbanization
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Bookwell Publications Contemporary Indian Urban Society: Ethnicity,
Book SynopsisThis book explores urban sociology in Indian context, covering urbanization issues like planning, governance, women, poverty. Offers theoretical and empirical analyses on socio-cultural transformation in urbanizing societies.
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Aarhus University Press Musings: An Urban Design Anthology
Book SynopsisOur century is the urban century -- a century in which the balance between urban and rural has been tipped with more than half of the world''s population now living in cities. It is also a century characterised by an unprecedented urbanisation that has affected both urban form and urban life, and a century where the role of Urban Design has never been so intensified - and so urgent. It is our endeavour with this book to explore emergent theories and practices relating to urban design in order to better understand current processes of urbanisation and to intervene in our built environments with a focus on the quality of life in them. Through a series of articles and projects, Musings -- an urban design anthology brings together researchers, practitioners and students from the Urban Design Programme at the Department of Architecture, Design and Media Technology, Aalborg University with the aim of providing a multilayered and nuanced perspective on the discipline of urban design -- one that explores a number of optics through which urban design can be reflected upon, and ways in which the contemporary built environment can be intervened with. In this way the book navigates new frontiers in search of a better understanding of emerging urban culture. This journey presents a varied account of the urban design field through four chapters that reveal core themes framing both the theoretical and practical challenges of contemporary urbanity: Performativity, Mobility, Transformation, and Design & Method. Illustrating the direct relationship between research and teaching in the Urban Design Programme, the book investigates the themes through research and through project work of students at the Bachelor and Masters level. It is also the aim of this book to encourage continued discussion in the field of urban design through this - a contribution of our musings - manifested here in the theory, practice and production generated in the Urban Design Programme at Aalborg University.
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ListLab Climatica: The Sustainability of Urban Form
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ListLab Land Stocks: New Operations Landscapes of City
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc The Reading List
Book SynopsisA BEST OF SUMMER READ ACCORDING TO NEWSWEEK, PARADE MAGAZINE, NBC NEWS, LITHUB, AND POPSUGAR!The most heartfelt read of the summer...a surprising delight of a novel.--ShondalandAn unforgettable and heartwarming debut about how a chance encounter with a list of library books helps forge an unlikely friendship between two very different people in a London suburb.Widower Mukesh lives a quiet life in Wembley, in West London after losing his beloved wife. He shops every Wednesday, goes to Temple, and worries about his granddaughter, Priya, who hides in her room reading while he spends his evenings watching nature documentaries.Aleisha is a bright but anxious teenager working at the local library for the summer when she discovers a crumpled-up piece of paper in the back of To Kill a Mockingbird. It’s a list of novels that she’s never heard of before. Intrigued, and a litt
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc V.
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Penguin Putnam Inc Scale
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Oxford University Press Violence at the Urban Margins
Book SynopsisIn the Americas, debates around issues of citizen''s public safety--from debates that erupt after highly publicized events, such as the shootings of Jordan Davis and Trayvon Martin, to those that recurrently dominate the airwaves in Latin America--are dominated by members of the middle and upper-middle classes. However, a cursory count of the victims of urban violence in the Americas reveals that the people suffering the most from violence live, and die, at the lowest of the socio-symbolic order, at the margins of urban societies. However, the inhabitants of the urban margins are hardly ever heard in discussions about public safety. They live in danger but the discourse about violence and risk belongs to, is manufactured and manipulated by, others--others who are prone to view violence at the urban margins as evidence of a cultural, or racial, defect, rather than question violence''s relationship to economic and political marginalization. As a result, the experience of interpersonal viTrade ReviewViolence at the Urban Margins is an excellent collection of cutting-edge ethnography on the brutality of everyday life in impoverished areas across the Americas. Auyero, Bourgois, and Scheper-Hughes are among the greatest contemporary scholars of violence, and here they've assembled work from the most important new voices in the field. It's an excellent resource for students, faculty, and anyone else interested in understanding the lived experience of urban outcasts in an increasingly unequal world * Eric Klinenberg, Professor of Sociology, New York University *This esteemed group of international scholars brings 'the margins' into the core of contemporary research. A compelling tour de force, Violence at the Margins takes us into the homes, streets, institutions and personal lives of those wielding, suffering, and combatting violence to shed light on power/lessness across global expressions. Weaving together multidisciplinary perspectives, this book adds compelling depth and dimensionality to the literature working to understand violence and its alternatives in the world today. * Carolyn Nordstrom, Professor of Anthropology, University of Notre Dame *Violence at the Margins sets the tone for powerful anthropological interpretations of brutality, fear, and suffering among the poor and marginalised populations of North and South America. * Howard Campbell, Anthropological Forum *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements ; Introduction ; Kristine Kilanski and Javier Auyero ; Section 1: Shared Understandings ; Chapter One: The Moral Economy of Murder: Violence, Death, and Social Order in Nicaragua ; Dennis Rodgers ; Chapter Two: The Moral Economy of Violence in the US Inner City ; George Karandinos, Laurie Hart, Fernando Montero Castrillo, and Philippe Bourgois ; Chapter Three: On the Importance of Having a Positive Attitude ; Kevin Lewis O'Neill and Benjamin Fogarty-Valenzuela ; Section 2: Gender and Masculinities ; Chapter Four: 'Es que para ellos el deporte es matar': Rethinking the scripts of violent men in El Salvador and Brazil ; Mo Hume and Polly Wilding ; Chapter Five: Duros and Gangland Girlfriends: Male Identity, Gang Socialisation and Rape in Medellin ; Adam Baird ; Section 3: Being in danger, what do people do? ; Chapter Six: Fear and Spectacular Drug Violence in Monterrey ; Ana Villarreal ; Chapter Seven: Chismosas and Alcahuetas: Being the mother of an empistolado within the everyday armed violence of a Caracas barrio ; Veronica Zubillaga, Manuel Llorens, and John Souto ; Chapter Eight: Managing in the Midst of Social Disaster: Poor People's Responses to Urban Violence ; Javier Auyero and Kristine Kilanski ; Chapter Nine: When the Police Knock Your Door In ; Alice Goffman ; Section 4: Ethnographic positions and the politics of violence ; Chapter Ten: Standpoint Purgatorio: Liminal Fear and Danger in Studying the "Black and Brown" Tension in Los Angeles ; Randol Contreras ; Chapter Eleven: When the Rule of Law is Irrelevant: Death Squads and Vigilante Politics in Democratic North East Brazil ; Nancy Scheper-Hughes ; Postface ; Philippe Bourgois ; Notes ; Bibliography ; Index
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Oxford University Press Neighborhood
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Oxford University Press, USA The Moral Order of a Suburb
Book SynopsisThis landmark study examines how the residents of an affluent suburb of New York City deal with conflict in their families, neighbourhoods, and community. Drawing on research, observation, and hundreds of in-depth interviews conducted over a twelve month period, the author provides a vivid portrait and atomized world in which open conflict is avoided and disputes are confined to families and, whenever possible, to individuals. This revealing portrait of an increasingly prevalent type of community is a disturbing insight that goes straight to the heart of modern America. The author looks at Hampton, a community where residents deal with family or communal stress primarily through resigned acceptance of short-term or permanent avoidance. Other responses include seeking professional help, anonymous complaints, mental illness, and suicide.Trade ReviewA very stimulating and well-written monography, which should be appreciated by many undergraduate and graduate students. * Contemporary Sociology *
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Oxford University Press Inc Norman Street
Book SynopsisNorman Street is the first serious examination of a scenario that appears likely to be played out again and again as federal budget policies result in reduced services for urban areas across the country. Based on a three-year study conducted in Brooklyn''s Greenpoint/Williamsburg section, the book is an in-depth, detailed description of life in a multi-ethnic working class neighborhood during New York City''s fiscal crisis of 1975-78. Now updated with a new introduction to address the changes and events of the thirty years since the book''s original publication, its lessons continue to demonstrate the impact of political and economic changes on everyday lives.Relating local events to national policy, Susser deals directly with issues and problems that face industrial cities nationwide: ethnic and race relations are analyzed within the context of community organization and local politics; the impact of landlord/tenant relations, housing discrimination, and red-lining are examined; and tTrade ReviewThe original edition of Norman Street painted a gripping and moving portrait of a mid-1970s NYC neighborhood under assault. At that time, neither Susser nor the residents of Greenpoint-Williamsburg could imagine that the combination of regulation and neglect they were enduring was a precursor of the much larger and more devastating global project of neoliberalism. This reissued and updated edition, with Susser's compelling new introduction, offers a moving and instructive time-trip, transporting us back to a key moment in the struggle for livable urban neighborhoods. * Jane Collins, University of Wisconsin-Madison *Blending fine-grain ethnography with superb political economic analysis, Susser's Norman Street is a classic of urban social science. It gives a vivid picture of the economic ingredients, social struggles, and demographic change that set the stage for a hipsterized Williamsburg and transformed Greenpoint. A paradigm of neighborhood ethnography in a global context. * Neil Smith, author of New Urban Frontier *Table of ContentsIntroduction to the Updated Edition ; 1. Introduction ; 2. A Changing Neighborhood ; 3. A Changing Workplace and Its Consequences ; 4. The Welfare System: Interaction Between Officials and Clients ; 5. The Welfare System: Regulations and the Life of a Welfare Recipient ; 6. Landlord-Tenant Relations ; 7. Cooperation and Conflict in a Block Association ; 8. Making Things Work ; 9. Kinship, Friendship, and Support ; 10. Save the Firehouse! ; 11. The Sources of Political Control ; 12. Conclusion ; Bibliography ; Index ; Index of Pseudonyms
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OUP Oxford The Oxford Handbook of Cities in World History
Book SynopsisIn 2008 for the first time the majority of the planet''s inhabitants lived in cities and towns. Becoming globally urban has been one of mankind''s greatest collective achievements over time, and raises many questions. How did global city systems evolve and interact in the past? How have historic urban patterns impacted on those of the contemporary world? And what were the key drivers in the roller-coaster of urban change over the millennia - market forces such as trade and industry, rulers and governments, competition and collaboration between cities, or the urban environment and demographic forces? This pioneering comparative work by leading scholars drawn from a range of disciplines offers the first detailed comparative study of urban development from ancient times to the present day. The Oxford Handbook of Cities in World History explores not only the main trends in the growth of cities and towns across the world - in Asia and the Middle East, Europe, Africa, and the Americas - and Trade ReviewThis is no mere handbook, but a most valuable addition to what is proving to be an impressive series. * Jeremy Black, History Today *A must acquisition by any college or university library ... Essential. * J.F.Bauman, CHOICE *Table of ContentsPART I: EARLY CITIES; PART II: PRE-MODERN CITIES; PART III: MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY CITIES
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Oxford University Press The Great Urban Transformation
Book SynopsisAs China is transformed, relations between society, the state, and the city have become central. The Great Urban Transformation investigates what is happening in cities, the urban edges, and the rural fringe in order to explain these relations. In the inner city of major metropolitan centers, municipal governments battle high-ranking state agencies to secure land rents from redevelopment projects, while residents mobilize to assert property and residential rights. At the urban edge, as metropolitan governments seek to extend control over their rural hinterland through massive-scale development projects, villagers strategize to profit from the encroaching property market. At the rural fringe, township leaders become brokers of power and property between the state bureaucracy and villages, while large numbers of peasants are dispossessed, dispersed, and deterritorialized, and their mobilizational capacity is consequently undermined. The Great Urban Transformation explores these issues, aTrade ReviewReview from previous edition excellent guide to understanding the ongoing boom in China ... Fascinating examples of urban development, mostly from Beijing, Shanghai, and Guangzhou, accompany incisive conceptualization and analysis. Summing up: Recommended. * K.E. Stapleton, CHOICE *Its highly readable narrative style alone makes this an important book: through diverse case studies, Hsing explains complicated development scenarios with clarity and insight ... refreshing and challenging * Carolyn Cartier, China Quarterly *In this landmark book, Hsing captures the complex and contingent nature of property-making and property-ownership in rapidly-urbanizing China... This ambitious book should be read by everyone interested in the contemporary politics in China, and the ways state and society are co-produced and co-constitutive of the expanding urban landscape. * Aihwa Ong, University of California at Berkeley, Author of Flexible Citizenship: The Cultural logic of Transnationality and Buddha in Hiding: Refugees, Citizenship, the New America *A path-breaking book that brings to light one of Chinas most opaque yet profound developments -- the momentous contestations over land. Professor Hsing unravels the complex struggles over land use rights, housing entitlement and property ownership that have embroiled ordinary citizens and state officials at different levels of the Chinese government. It is an epic story told with analytical clarity, theoretical insights and deeply engaging human dramas. * Ching Kwan Lee, University of California at Berkeley *This book is a masterful piece of scholarship and meaningful analysis. It is a most innovative contribution to the understanding of the transformation of China. It shows how the politics of land development is at the same time the key source of capital accumulation and class formation, and the trigger of social conflicts that may threaten the new Chinese order. Professor Hsing is one of the leading researchers on the study of capitalism in China, and her new book will change our way of thinking about one of the most important processes that are remaking our world. * Manuel Castells, University of Southern California *Cities are the pivot of China's economy, as it resumes its place on the world stage. Shooting skyward, exploding outward, China's great cities seem to consume all in their path. Resistance is hard, and even the Chinese state has been reshaped to serve the urban juggernaut. No one captures this better than Professor Hsing. The Great Urban Transformation is essential reading for every student of Chinese development and global cities. * Richard A. Walker, University of California *Table of ContentsPROLOGUE ; PART I: REDEVELOPMENT OF THE URBAN CORE ; PART II: EXPANSION OF THE METROPOLITAN REGION ; PART III: URBANIZATION OF THE RURAL FRINGE
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Oxford University Press Dancing with Broken Bones
Book SynopsisDancing with Broken Bones gives voice and face to a vulnerable and disempowered population whose stories often remain untold: the urban dying poor. Drawing on complex issues surrounding poverty, class, and race, Moller illuminates the unique sufferings that often remain unknown and hidden within a culture of broad invisibility. He demonstrates how a complex array of factors, such as mistrust of physicians, regrettable indignities in care, and inadequate communication among providers, patients, and families, shape the experience of the dying poor in the inner city. This book challenges readers to look at reality in a different way. Demystifying stereotypes that surround poverty, Moller illuminates how faith, remarkable optimism, and an unassailable spirit provide strength and courage to the dying poor. Dancing with Broken Bones serves as a rallying call for compassionate individuals everywhere to understand and respond to the needs of the especially vulnerable, yet inspiring, people who comprise the world of the inner city dying poor.Trade ReviewRead this book. It will remind you why you became a physician. * The Lancet *Moller has produced a profound literary work. * Journal of Social Work in End-of-Life & Palliative Care *...stories of courage, faith, suffering, and neglect are interwoven in a remarkable book for anyone with an interest in end-of-life care. * Journal of Palliative Medicine *Moller takes us through doors that we otherwise would not cross. He introduces us to people who are authentically themselves, fully alive, despite dismal circumstances. We hear their anger as well as their humor, see their suffering as well as their joy. They teach us the importance of feeling connected to others and the critical value of forgiveness, gratitude, and love at the end of life. Suffering misfortune that few of us can imagine, the people whose stories Moller tells reveal the inherent dignity and the indomitable nature of the human spirit. * - Ira Byock, MD, author of Dying Well, and co-founder of Life's End Institute: Missoula Demonstration Project *For most of us, the lives and deaths of the urban homeless remain invisible and largely unfathomable. Dr. Moller and his colleagues have had the courage to enter this world, and to even take medical students with them! In Dancing with Broken Bones, we too are invited along to witness its tragedies and its humanity. In these remarkable real-life narratives, we can contemplate what a dignified death might look like in the face of extreme poverty and homelessness. In doing so, we are invited to consider what is important in our own privileged lives and deaths, and how we should be caring for those who are far less fortunate. * Timothy E. Quill, MD, University of Rochester School of Medicine *Dr. Moller has shed light on the forgotten world of illness and dying in the urban poor. Through eloquence, grace, and wit, he makes us face what to many is too painful to contemplate - death that is painful, lonely, and unwanted. This book will serve as a landmark in the death and dying literature, forcing health professionals and society at large to work harder toward an equitable system of healthcare for the living and the dying. * David E. Weissman, MD, Palliative Care Center, Medical College of Wisconsin *This book moved me to tears, to anger, to repeated shocks of recognition, as well as to joy and to pride at being part of a human race whose members are capable of such remarkable love and care for one another. * Diane E. Meier, MD, Mount Sinai School of Medicine *The grace and dignity of humanity is pervasive and memorable in these stories of living with poverty and fatal illness; but I hope that we are also profoundly moved to relieve the tragic circumstances that poverty and inept healthcare arrangements inflicted upon the people whose stories David Moller tells. * Joanne Lynn, MD, The Washington Home Center for Palliative Care Studies *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Revisiting Dancing with Broken Bones ; Chapter 1. Crossing the Tracks ; Chapter 2. Dying Poor: An Invisible World ; Chapter 3. Dying the Public Hospital System: Institutional Arrangements and Provider Perspectives ; Chapter 4. Courage Through Suffering: Snapshots of the Dying Poor ; Chapter 5. Triumph and Faith Through Harsh Reality and Personal Tragedy: Lucille Angel ; Chapter 6. Life on the Brink: Mr. and Mrs. Wheeler ; Chapter 7. A Conclusion: Conscious Listening, Mindful Presence-A Lesson Learned ; Epilogue. An Urban Thoreau
£58.00
Oxford University Press, USA Favela Four Decades of Living on the Edge in Rio de Janeiro
Book SynopsisJanice Perlman wrote the first in-depth account of life in the favelas, a book hailed as one of the most important works in global urban studies in the last 30 years. Now, in Favela, Perlman carries that story forward to the present. Re-interviewing many longtime favela residents whom she had first met in 1969--as well as their children and grandchildren--Perlman offers the only long-term perspective available on the favelados as they struggle for a better life. Perlman discovers that while educational levels have risen, democracy has replaced dictatorship, and material conditions have improved, many residents feel more marginalized than ever. The greatest change is the explosion of drug and arms trade and the high incidence of fatal violence that has resulted. Yet the greatest challenge of all is job creation--decent work for decent pay. If unemployment and under-paid employment are not addressed, she argues, all other efforts will fail to resolve the fundamental issues. Foreign Affairs praised Perlman for writing with compassion, artistry, and intelligence, using stirring personal stories to illustrate larger points substantiated with statistical analysis.Trade ReviewThis book deserves its broad public reception. No work on informal settlements can compare with the longitudinal breadth of Favela, and in this respect the work is an invaluable achievement. * Alessandro Angelini, CUNY Graduate Center, Social Forces Journal *A valuable and vivid study of life as it has been lived by the poor in one of Latin America's biggest cities. * Michael Reid, Times Literary Supplement *Table of ContentsPreface ; 1: Deep Roots in Shallow Soil ; 2: Favela Chic, Favela Chique ; 3: Returning to Rio ; Four Decades, Three Communities ; 4: Catacumba ; 5: Nova Brasilia ; 6: Duque de Caxias: 3 favelas, 5 loteamentos ; 7: The World Goes to the City ; 8: The Metamorphosis of Marginality ; 9: The Meanings of Mobility ; 10: Disillusionment with Democracy
£29.92
MIT Press Ltd The Power of Place
Book SynopsisBased on her extensive experience in the urban communities of Los Angeles, historian and architect Dolores Hayden proposes new perspectives on gender, race, and ethnicity to broaden the practice of public history and public art, enlarge urban preservation, and reorient the writing of urban history to spatial struggles.In the first part of The Power of Place, Hayden outlines the elements of a social history of urban space to connect people''s lives and livelihoods to the urban landscape as it changes over time. She then explores how communities and professionals can tap the power of historic urban landscapes to nurture public memory.The second part documents a decade of research and practice by The Power of Place, a nonprofit organization Hayden founded in downtown Los Angeles. Through public meetings, walking tours, artists''s books, and permanent public sculpture, as well as architectural preservation, teams of historians, designers, planners, and artists worked together to understand, preserve, and commemorate urban landscape history as African American, Latina, and Asian American families have experienced it.One project celebrates the urban homestead of Biddy Mason, an African American ex-slave and midwife active betwen 1856 and 1891. Another reinterprets the Embassy Theater where Rose Pesotta, Luisa Moreno, and Josefina Fierro de Bright organized Latina dressmakers and cannery workers in the 1930s and 1940s. A third chapter tells the story of a historic district where Japanese American family businesses flourished from the 1890s to the 1940s. Each project deals with bitter memories—slavery, repatriation, internment—but shows how citizens survived and persevered to build an urban life for themselves, their families, and their communities.Drawing on many similar efforts around the United States, from New York to Charleston, Seattle to Cincinnati, Hayden finds a broad new movement across urban preservation, public history, and public art to accept American diversity at the heart of the vernacular urban landscape. She provides dozens of models for creative urban history projects in cities and towns across the country.
£38.78
Yale University Press Invented Cities The Creation of Landscape in NineteenthCentury New York Boston Paper The Creation of Landscape in NineteenthCentury New York and Boston Revised
Book SynopsisInvestigating why cities look the way they do, this book compares the strikingly different landscapes of Boston and New York. It explores the physical differences between the two, comparing building patterns and architectural styles to show how a society's vision creates its own urban form.
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Yale University Press Downtown
Book SynopsisA history of what was once viewed as the heart of the American city. Urban historian Robert Fogelson gives an account of how downtown - and the way Americans thought about it - changed between 1880 and 1950, offering a perspective on downtown's rise and fall.Trade Review"A thorough and accomplished history." Samuel Zipp, Washington Post Book World "Superlative... exceedingly provocative as well as informative... makes a vital contribution to the study of American life." Publishers Weekly "A stimulating new history of a long-neglected subject." Witold Rybczynski, Wilson Quarterly
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ABC-CLIO Urban Mass Transit
Book SynopsisThis volume in the Greenwood Technographies series covers urban mass transit - that is, the technologies that allow cities to move large numbers of people around.Trade Review"Post offers Urban Mass Transit--The Life Story of Technology, a well-written book that traces the development of the trolley and streetcar to today's light rail transit (LRT). The book includes material on urbanization and transit via horsepower; introduction of mechanical means to run cable railways; electrification and the rise of the trolley; motor vehicle developments and trolley use decline; and rapid transit expansion and the revival of mass transit. The book includes a time line, glossary, and list of resources. Post has done an excellent job, using stories, photographs, sketches, and facts to construct a fascinating historical account of innovation. An appealing work for the general public as well as students and others with interests in public transit. Recommended. General readers; lower-division undergraduates through professionals." - Choice"Narrating the life story of urban mass transit in the United States, Post focuses on streetcars, trolleys, light rail, and similar transport and pays significantly less attention to buses and subways. His primary theme as he explores the mass transit developments in the 20th century concerns the ways public and decision makers evaluated the costs and benefits of various transit choices, both in strictly economic terms and in terms of wider societal concerns, including noise, pollution, and even aesthetics." - SciTech Book News
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Palgrave MacMillan UK Global Crime Connections
Book SynopsisThis volume examines the dynamics and control of organized and corporate crime in their national and international contexts. These articles challenge the simplistic assumption that crime is caused by bad individuals, acting alone or conspiring together, and that crime can be adequately dealt with by increasing conventional police activity.Table of ContentsPreface - Acknowledgements - Notes on the Contributors - Introduction - Crime's Global Reach; M.Woodiwiss - All About Eve: The Many Faces of US Drug Policy; B.Bullington - After Mr Bennett and Mr Bush: US Foreign Policy and the Prospects for Drug Control; N.Dorn & N.South - Defending the Mountaintop: Organized Crime and the Disposal of Toxic Waste; A.Block - The Camorra: 'Clean' Capital and Organized Crime; V.Ruggiero - EEC Fraud: A Suitable Case for Treatment; M.Clarke - US Capital versus the Third World: Union Carbide and Bhopal; F.Pearce & S.Tombs - The Politics of Corporate Crime Control; L.Snider - Index
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Harper Perennial Yes Daddy
Book SynopsisA gut-churning, heart-wrenching, blockbuster of a first novel . . . Parks-Ramage is an extraordinary new talent and Yes, Daddy is truly something special. —Kristen Arnett, author of Mostly Dead ThingsA propulsive, scorching modern gothic, Yes, Daddy follows an ambitious young man who is lured by an older, successful playwright into a dizzying world of wealth and an idyllic Hamptons home where things take a nightmarish turn.Jonah Keller moved to New York City with dreams of becoming a successful playwright, but, for the time being, lives in a rundown sublet in Bushwick, working extra hours at a restaurant only to barely make rent. When he stumbles upon a photo of Richard Shriver—the glamorous Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and quite possibly the stepping stone to the fame he craves—Jonah orchestrates their meeting. The two begin a hungry, passionate affair.When summer arrives, Richa
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux Sidewalk
Book SynopsisAn exceptional ethnography marked by clarity and candor, Sidewalk takes us into the socio-cultural environment of those who, though often seen as threatening or unseemly, work day after day on the blocks of one of New York''s most diverse neighborhoods. Sociologist Duneier, author of Slim''s Table, offers an accessible and compelling group portrait of several poor black men who make their livelihoods on the sidewalks of Greenwich Village selling secondhand goods, panhandling, and scavenging books and magazines. Duneier spent five years with these individuals, and in Sidewalk he argues that, contrary to the opinion of various city officials, they actually contribute significantly to the order and well-being of the Village. An important study of the heart and mind of the street, Sidewalk also features an insightful afterword by longtime book vendor Hakim Hasan. This fascinating study reveals today''s urban life in all its complexity: its vitality, i
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Random House Publishing Group The City
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Inclusion in the City Selection Schooling and
Book SynopsisInclusion in the City explores inclusion and exclusion in the context of policy and practice in one English city - Birmingham. Here, a commitment to redressing the inequalities experienced by many learners has been inhibited by difficulty in securing agreement to a definite policy for inclusion and, consequently, in sustaining initiatives for strengthening participation in community comprehensive education.Grounded in an understanding of inclusion as a political and moral project, the book presents a range of perspectives from policymakers and practitioners. Detailed case studies, based on research specially undertaken for this book, relate inclusion to key issues in contemporary education such as; the effects of selection by attainment; faith schools and their communities; single sex education and inclusive schools; participation in further education; and social mobility.Insightful, thought provoking and original, Inclusion in the City detaches processes of iTable of Contents1. Understanding Inclusion in the City 2. "A Great Learning City" 3. Perspectives on Inclusion/Exclusion in Birmingham 4. Selection by Attainment 5. Embracing the Faith, Including the Community? 6. Single-sex Education and Inclusive School Communities 7. Student Choice and Participation in Further Education 8. A 'Turbulent' City: Mobility and Social Inclusion 9. Moving Towards Inclusion?
£61.58
Taylor & Francis Ltd Consuming the Entrepreneurial City Image Memory Spectacle
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£192.85
Random House USA Inc Metropolis
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