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Taylor & Francis Ltd History of Urban Form Before the Industrial
Book SynopsisProvides an international history of urban development, from its origins to the industrial revolution. This well established book maintains the high standard of information found in the previous two editions, describing the physical results of some 5000 years of urban activity. It explains and develops the concept of ''unplanned'' cities that grow organically, in contrast with ''planned'' cities that were shaped in response to urban form determinants. Spread throughout the texts are copious illustrations from a wealth of sources, including cartographic urban records, aerial and other photographs, original drawings and the author''s numerous analytical line drawings. Table of Contents1. The Early Cities 2. Greek City States 3. Rome and the Empire 4. Medieval Towns 5. The Renaissance: Italy Sets a Pattern 6. France: Sixteenth to 8. Britain: Sixteenth to Mid Nineteenth Centuries 9. Spain and her Empire 10. Urban USA 11. Islamic Cities of the Middle East 12. Appendix A: China 13. Appendix B: Japan 14. Appendix C: Indian Mandalas 15. Appendix D: Indonesia 16. Appendix E: Comparative Plans of Cities
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The City as Target
Book SynopsisBringing together scholars from a diverse range of disciplines, The City as Target provides a sustained and critical response to the relationship between the concept of targeting (in its many forms) and notions of understanding, imagining and shaping the urban. Among the many spatial and graphic terms used to describe cities in urban studies, the word target is rarely encountered. Though equally spatial, it differs from these others by implying some motive force, and, more than that, a force with some intentionality. To target is to aim, to project, and ultimately to impact. It suggests a space of violence, or at least action, or movement resulting in displacement, which most other terms do not. In that sense it is useful, underused, and perhaps revelatory. Rather than approach the city as simply a site of growth, processes, and developments, the contributors to this volume treat it as the recipient of attentions. The work draws on a wide variety of geographicTable of Contents1. Cities as Targets Ryan Bishop, Gregory Clancey, and John Phillips 2. ‘But with Malice Aforethought’: Cities and the Natural History of Hatred Nigel Thrift 3. Targeting the Imaginist City John Armitage 4. The Refugee War Eyal Weizman 5. Theme Park Archipelago: Convergences of War, Simulation and Entertainment in Urban Targeting Steve Graham 6. Empire or Imperialism: Implications for a "New" Politics of Resistance Pal Ahluwalia 7 . The City-as-Target: Targeting the City Verena Andermatt Conley 8. Tokyo: Water, Earthquake, and Island Universe Suzuki Hiroyuki 9. Vast Clearings: Emergency, Technology, and American De-Urbanization, 1930-1945 Gregory Clancey 10. Concealment and Exposure: Imagining London after the Great Fire Li Shiqiao 11. Moscow: Fortress City Irina Aristarkhova 12. Ars Memoria and Unbombing Tjebbe van Tijen 13. London: The Imperial Target Rajeev Patke 14. : Keizu to Nendaiki: Making and Erasing History in Tsukuba Science City at the Edge of Empire Sharon Traweek 15. The City and the Economy of "Losing": Targeting Competitive Bodies in an Era of Global Competition Robbie Goh 16. The Absorptive Assemblage Jordan Crandall 17. "The Target is the People": Representations of the Village in Modernization and National Security Doctrine Nick Cullather
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Routledge Handbook of Planning Theory
Book SynopsisThe Routledge Handbook of Planning Theory presents key contemporary themes in planning theory through the views of some of the most innovative thinkers in planning. They introduce and explore their own specialized areas of planning theory, to conceptualize their contemporary positions and to speculate how these positions are likely to evolve and change as new challenges emerge.In a changing and often unpredictable globalized world, planning theory is core to understanding how planning and its practices both function and evolve. As illustrated in this book, planning and its many roles have changed profoundly over the recent decades; so have the theories, both critical and explanatory, about its practices, values and knowledges. In the context of these changes, and to contribute to the development of planning research, this handbook identifies and introduces the cutting edge, and the new emerging trajectories, of contemporary planning theory. The aim is to Table of ContentsPlanning Theory: An IntroductionMichael Gunder, Ali Madanipour, Vanessa WatsonPart I: Contemporary Planning Practices Spatial Planning: The Promised Land or Rolled-Out Neoliberalism? Simin DavoudiStrategic Planning: Ontological and Epistemological ChallengesLouis AlbrechtsGrowth Management Theory: From the Garden City to Smart Growth Jill L. GrantPlanning in the AnthropoceneWilliam E. ReesPart II: How Meaning/Values are Constructed in Planning The Public InterestStefano MoroniRethinking Scholarship on Planning Ethics Tanja Winkler Communicative Planning Tore Sager Neoliberal PlanningGuy BaetenNeo Pragmatist Planning TheoryCharles HochUrban Planning and Social Justice Susan S. FainsteinThe Grassroots of Planning: Poor People's Movements, Political Society, and the Question of RightsAnanya RoyThe Dilemmas of Diversity: Gender, Race and Ethnicity in Planning TheorySuzanne Speak and Ashok KumarPostcolonial Consequences and New MeaningsLibby PorterPostpolitics and PlanningJonathan Metzger‘Cultural Work’ And the Remaking of Planning’s ‘Apparatus of Truth’Andy InchCountering ‘The Dark Side’ of Planning: Power, Governmentality, Counter-ConductMargo HuxleyCo- Evolutionary Planning Theory: Evolutionary Governance Theory and Its RelativesKristof Van Assche, Raoul Beunen, Martijn DuineveldPart III: Networks, Flows, Relationships and Institutions Flexibly Networked, Yet Institutionally Grounded: The Governance of PlanningRaine Mäntysalo and Pia Bäcklund New Institutionalism and Planning TheoryAndré SorensenConflict and AgonismJohn PløgerInsurgent Practices and Decolonization of Future(s) Faranak MiraftabState Hegemonic Planning and the Marginalization and Oppression of PeopleYosef JabareenActor-Network TheoryYvonne RydinSpatial Planning and the Complexity of Turbulent, Open Environments: About Purposeful Interventions in a World of Non-Linear ChangeGert de RooAssemblage Thinking in Planning TheoryJoris Van WezemaelLines of BecomingJean Hillier
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Taylor & Francis Heterotopia and the City
Book SynopsisHeterotopia, literally meaning âother placeâ, is a rich concept in urban design that describes a space that is on the margins of ordered or civil society, and one that possesses multiple, fragmented or even incompatible meanings. The term has had an impact on architectural and urban theory since it was coined by Foucault in the late 1960s but it has remained a source of confusion and debate since. Heterotopia and the City seeks to clarify this concept and investigates the heterotopias which exist throughout our contemporary world: in museums, theme parks, malls, holiday resorts, gated communities, wellness hotels and festival markets. With theoretical contributions on the concept of heterotopia, including a new translation of Foucaultâs influential 1967 text, Of Other Space and essays by well-known scholars, the book comprises a series of critical case studies, from Beaubourg to Bilbao, which probe a range of (post)urban transformations and which redirect thTable of ContentsPart 1: Heterotopology: ‘A Science in the Making’ Part 2: Heterotopia Revisited Part 3: The Mall as Agora: The Agora as Mall Part 4: Dwelling in a Postcivil Society Part 5: Terrains Vagues: Transgression and Urban Activism Part 6: Heterotopia in the Splintering Metropolis Part 7: Heterotopia After the Polis
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Renewable Energy and the Public
Book SynopsisThroughout the world, the threat of climate change is pressing governments to accelerate the deployment of technologies to generate low carbon electricity or heat. But this is frequently leading to controversy, as energy and planning policies are revised to support new energy sources or technologies (e.g. offshore wind, tidal, bioenergy or hydrogen energy) and communities face the prospect of unfamiliar, often large-scale energy technologies being sited near to their homes. Policy makers in many countries face tensions between ''streamlining'' planning procedures, engaging with diverse publics to address what is commonly conceived as ''NIMBY'' (not in my back yard) opposition, and the need to maintain democratic, participatory values in planning systems. This volume provides a timely, international review of research on public engagement, in contexts of diverse, innovative energy technologies. Public engagement is conceived broadly - as the interaction between how developers Trade Review'Public acceptance is key to the development of the renewable energy we need to meet our climate goals. Simple stereotypes of NIMBY opposition may work in newspaper headlines, but developers and policymakers need a more sophisticated understanding of what makes people tick and how best to engage. This new volume meets a pressing need - both academics and practitioners will gain from it.' Prof Jim Skea, Research Director, UK Energy Research Centre 'This book provides a broad survey of public perceptions and community reactions to building new low-carbon energy facilities. The chapters treat community resistance (and support) as systematic phenomena to be scientifically studied, opening possibilities for creative action. This is a welcome antidote to the typical reaction by engineers and project developers, treating public opinion as an immutable black box.' Prof. Willett Kempton, Center for Carbon-free Power Integration, University of Delaware, USA 'Extensive research has been done over the last decades on both mitigation and adaptation to climate change in the built environment, but the outputs of much of this research have failed to result in the wider uptake of effective greenhouse gas emission reduction solutions. This book introduces 'fresh thinking' on how this may be done- with chapters from leading experts in fields ranging from philosophy, the social, political and physical sciences, engineering, architecture, mathematics and complexity science.' Renew Magazine 'Patrick Devine-Wright's Renewable Energy and the Public: From NIMBY to Participation takes a broad, multidisciplinary approach to the issue of public engagement for renewable energy products. A multitude of contributors offer a variety of theoretical and empirical analyses of the issue, all of which support Devine-Wright's core argument that traditional means of conceptualizing public and stakeholder positions on renewable energy are overly simplistic, and public engagement processes based on these depictions are insufficient for pursuing the goal of increased renewable energy use in a fair and democratic way.' - Damian Pitt, Journal of Planning Education and ResearchTable of ContentsIntroduction (Patrick Devine-Wright, University of Exeter, UK) Section 1: Conceptual approaches 1. Symmetries, expectations, dynamics and contexts: a framework for understanding public engagement with renewable energy projects (Walker, University of Lancaster, UK, and colleagues) 2. The principles, procedures, and pitfalls of public engagement in decision-making about renewable energy (Haggett, University of Edinburgh, UK) 3. Beyond consensus? Agonism, republicanism and a low carbon future (Barry and Ellis, Queens' University, Belfast, N. Ireland) 4. Public roles and socio-technical configurations: diversity in renewable energy deployment in the UK and its implications (Walker and Cass, University of Lancaster, UK) 5. From Backyards to Places: Public engagement and the emplacement of renewable energy technologies (Patrick Devine-Wright, University of Exeter, UK) Section 2: Empirical studies of public engagement Part 1: Stakeholder and media representations of public engagement 6. Discourses on the implementation of wind power: Stakeholder views on public engagement (Wolsink, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands) 7. Governing the Reconfiguration of Energy in Greater London: Practical Public Engagement as 'Delivery' (Hodson and Marvin, University of Salford, UK) 8. Envisioning public engagement with renewable energy: an empirical analysis of images within the UK National Press 2006/7 (Hannah Devine-Wright, University of Manchester, UK) 9. NIMBYism and community consultation in electricity transmission network planning (Cotton and Patrick Devine-Wright, University of Exeter, UK) Part 2: Case studies of public beliefs and responses Future energy scenarios 10. Turning the heat on: Public engagement in Australia's energy future (Ashworth, Littleboy, Graham & Niemeyer, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Australia) Solar energy and microgeneration 11. Shaping people's engagement with microgeneration technology: the case of solar photovoltaics in UK homes (Abi-Ghanem, Imperial College London and Haggett, University of Edinburgh, UK) 12. Siting Solar Power in Arizona: A Public Value Failure? (Pasqualetti and Schwartz, Arizona State University, USA) 13. Socio-Environmental Research on Energy Sustainable Communities: Participation Experiences of Two Decades (Schweizer-Ries, University of Saarland, Germany) 14. Yes in my back yard: UK householders pioneering microgeneration heat (Roy and Caird and Roy, Open University, UK) Wind energy 15. Socio-environmental impacts of Brazil's first large-scale wind farm (Improta and Pinheiro, Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, Natal, Brazil) 16. Perceptions and Preferences Regarding Offshore Wind Power in the United States - The Leading Edge of a New Energy Source for the Americas (Firestone, University of Delaware, USA) Hydrogen energy: 17. The limits of upstream engagement in an emergent technology: lay perceptions of hydrogen energy technologies (Flynn, Bellaby and Ricci, University of Salford, UK) 18. Public engagement with wind-hydrogen energy technology: a comparative study (Sherry-Brennan, Devine-Wright and Devine-Wright, University of Exeter, UK) Marine energy 19. Symbolic interpretations of wave energy in the UK: surfers' perspectives (McLachlan, University of Manchester, UK) Bioenergy 20. Heat and light: understanding bioenergy siting controversy (Upham, University of Manchester, UK) Nuclear and low carbon energy 21. From the Material to the Imagined: Public Engagement with Low Carbon Technologies in a Nuclear Community (Butler, Parkhill and Pidgeon, Cardiff University, Wales, UK) Conclusions (Devine-Wright, University of Exeter, UK)
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Financing Urban Shelter: Global Report on Human
Book Synopsis'Achieving the goals set by world leaders in the United Nations Millennium Declaration will be difficult without a significant improvement in the lives of slum dwellers, and the lives of slum dwellers cannot be improved without the sound and sustainable economic development that is conducive to the establishment of a strong shelter sector. As Financing Urban Shelter: Global Report on Human Settlements 2005 emphasizes, one of the key challenges in meeting the Millennium Declaration Goal on slums is mobilization of the financial resources necessary for both slum upgrading and slum prevention by supplying new housing affordable to lower income groups on a large scale. . . . It is my hope that, by highlighting the impacts of current shelter financing systems on low-income households and by identifying the types of financing mechanisms that appear to have worked for them, this report will contribute to the efforts of the wide range of actors involved in improving the lives of slum dwellers, including governments at the central and local levels, as well as non-governmental and international organizations.' From the Foreword by KOFI ANNAN, Secretary-General, United Nations Financing Urban Shelter presents the first global assessment of housing finance systems, placing shelter and urban development challenges within the overall context of macroeconomic policies. The report describes and analyses housing finance conditions and trends in all regions of the world, including formal housing finance mechanisms, microfinance and community funding, highlighting their relevance to the upgrading of slums. Recent shelter finance policy development is discussed at the international and national levels, and the directions that could be taken to strengthen shelter finance systems are examined. The Global Report on Human Settlements is the most authoritative and up-to-date assessment of conditions and trends in the world's cities. It is an essential tool and reference for researchers, academics, public authorities and civil society organizations around the world. The preceding issues of the Global Report on Human Settlements have addressed such topics as An Urbanizing World, Cities in a Globalizing World and The Challenge of Slums. Published with UN-HABITATTable of ContentsPART I: ECONOMIC AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT CONTEXT * Challenges of Sustainable Shelter Development in Macroeconomic Context * Understanding Urban Shelter Development Challenges * The Macroeconomic Context of Urban Shelter Development * Shelter Policy and Finance: Retrospective Overview * Context to International Thoughts on Financing for Urban Development * Trends in Shelter and Municipal Finance Development: 1972 2004 * Globalization of Finance * The New Millennium: Policies and Organizations in Shelter and Urban Development * Financing Urban Development * Municipal Finance and Urban Development: The Main Issues * National Municipal Finance Systems * Sources of Municipal Finance * Municipal Spending Patterns * Privatization of Municipal Services * Summing Up: Assessing the Effectiveness and Impacts of Municipal Finance Systems * PART II: SHELTER FINANCE, ASSESSMENT OF TRENDS * Mortgage Finance: Institutions and Mechanisms * Highlights * Recent Trends * Regional Analysis * Terms and Conditions * Housing Finance, Affordability and Lower Income Households * Financing for Social and Rental Housing * Conditions and Trends * Challenges * Small Loans: Shelter Microfinance * The Growth of Microfinance for Shelter * Other Providers and Sources of * Community Funds * What Are Community Funds? * PART III: TOWARDS SUSTAINABLE SHELTER FINANCE SYSTEMS * Assessing Shelter Finance Systems * Affordability and the Difficulties of Reaching the Poor * The Role of Mortgage Finance: Access to Capital and the Lack of Loan Finance * The Bigger Picture and What the Market Cannot Manage * Connections and Diversity within Globalization * Policy Directions Towards Sustainable Urban Shelter Finance Systems * Towards Inclusive Urban Infrastructure and Services * Strengthening the Sustainability and Performance of Shelter Finance Systems * Epilogue: Towards Sustainable Urban Shelter * First Element: Abating Housing Costs * Second Element: Increasing Purchasing Power * Synergizing the Two: Lower Housing Prices and Higher Incomes * Formulating and Implementing Urban Shelter Policies: Sheltering the Poor from 'Market Poaching' * PART IV: STATISTICAL ANNEX *
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Towards Sustainable Aviation
Book SynopsisAviation is integral to the global economy but it is also one of the main obstacles to environmentally sustainable development. It is one of the world's fastest growing - and most polluting - industries. What can be done to retain the economic and other benefits it brings, without the associated pollution, noise, congestion and loss of countryside? In this volume, industry, policy and research experts examine how to address the problems, and what it would take to achieve genuinely sustainable aviation - looking at technological, policy and demand-management options. Without far-reaching changes the problems caused by aviation can only multiply and worsen. This work seeks to take an important step in diagnosing the problems and in pointing towards their solutions.Trade Review'Wide-ranging and thorough.' Future Survey 'A very comprehensive book which contains vital industry intelligence and foresight, making it an essential information source and analysis for managers, consultants, regulators, researchers, students and especially environmental and government policy-makers.' International Journal of Environmental Studies '... This is a significant and timely book that sets out the challenges presented by aviation in a comprehensive manner.' Local Transport Today 'Without far-reaching changes, the problems associated with aviation can only multiply and worsen. This book takes an important step in accurately diagnosing these problems and pointing towards their solutions.' Sustain 'This comprehensive collection contains vital industry intelligence and foresight, making it an essential source of information and analysis for managers, consultants, regulators, planners, and policymakers'. Book notes. Business Horizons 4 July-August 2004Table of ContentsPreface * Part 1: Trends and Issues � Introduction: Perspectives on Sustainability and Aviation * Organizational and Growth Trends in Air Transport * the Social and Economic Benefits of Aviation * Aircraft Noise, Community Relations and Stakeholder Involvement * Part 2: Mitigations and Potential Solutions - Environmental Management and the Aviation Industry * The Potential for Modal Substitution * Air Freight and Global Supply Chains: the Environmental Dimension * The Potential Offered by Aircraft and Engine Technologies * Climate Policy for Civil Aviation: Actors, Policy Instruments and the Potential for Emissions Reductions * Part 3: Multisector Commentaries -Multisector Commentaries on Sustainability and Aviation * Economic Aspects of Sustainability and UK Aviation Sustainable Aviation: Implications for Economies in Transition * Key Issues in Aviation Environmental Policy-Making * Towards Sustainable Aviation? * Aircraft Noise: The NGO Perspective * Environmental and Economic Factors in Airport Capacity * Potential Improvements to Air Traffic Management * Making Aviation Less Unsustainable: Some Pointers to the Way Ahead * Sustainable Aviation: What do you Mean? * Sustainability and Aviation: Problems and Solutions * Airlines and Sustainable Development * the Case for 'No growth' * Conclusion * Index
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Cambridge University Press Economics in Urban Conservation
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Cambridge University Press Undermining the Japanese Miracle
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Cambridge University Press Urban Sociology
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Cambridge University Press Urban Sociology
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Cambridge University Press Contemporary Urban Sociology Contemporary Sociology S
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Cambridge University Press The Politics of the Urban Poor in Early TwentiethCentury India 8 Cambridge Studies in Indian History and Society Series Number 8
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Urban History of Britain Volume 1
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Cambridge University Press Undermining the Japanese Miracle
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Cambridge University Press Small Towns in Early Modern Europe Themes in International Urban History Series Number 3
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Cambridge University Press The Rise of Cities in NorthWest Europe 4 Themes in International Urban History Series Number 4
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Cambridge University Press The Rise of Cities in NorthWest Europe 4 Themes in International Urban History Series Number 4
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Cambridge University Press Urban Spaces in Contemporary China
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Cambridge University Press Urban Spaces in Contemporary China
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Cambridge University Press English and French Towns in Feudal Society
Book SynopsisIn this comparative study of the role of English and French towns in feudal society in the middle ages Professor Hilton provides a new perspective on medieval society and argues that medieval towns were not, as is often thought, harbingers of capitalism. He emphasises how urban societies fitted into, rather than challenged, feudalism.Trade Review'This book pulls off a double: specialists will enjoy and be inspired by it, while novices will appreciate its clarity and terseness … It deserves the widest possible audience.' Julia Barrow, History Workshop Journal'A useful summary with some profound insights.' David Nicholas, The Economic History Review'This synthesis, presented with talent by R. H. Hilton, must take a very honourable place among the few comparative studies of medieval urban history.' Cahiers de Civilisation MédiévaleTable of ContentsPreface; Introduction; 1. The town and feudalism: preliminary definitions; 2. The feudal presence in towns; 3. Urban social structures; 4. Urban rulers; 5. How urban society was imagined; 6. Urban communities and conflict; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.
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Cambridge University Press World Cities in a WorldSystem
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Cambridge University Press World Cities beyond the West Globalization Development and Inequality
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Cambridge University Press Cities and the Making of Modern Europe 17501914 39 New Approaches to European History
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Cambridge University Press Tales of the City
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Cambridge University Press Tales of the City
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Cambridge University Press Governing from Below Urban Regions and the Global Economy Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics
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Cambridge University Press Governing from Below
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Cambridge University Press Cities in Contemporary Europe
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Cambridge University Press Cities in Contemporary Europe
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Cambridge University Press Urban Ecosystems
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Cambridge University Press Urban Ecology
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Cambridge University Press Urban Ecosystems Ecological Principles for the Built Environment
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Cambridge University Press The City in Time and Space
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Cambridge University Press Second Metropolis
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Cambridge University Press Twins and Higher Multiple Births A Guide to Their Nature and Nurture
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Cambridge University Press World Cities Beyond the West
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Cambridge University Press Incivility
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Cambridge University Press City and Community in Norman Italy 72 Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought Fourth Series Series Number 72
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Cambridge University Press Africa in Urban History
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Cambridge University Press A Womans Job
Book SynopsisAgainst the backdrop of rapid socio-economic change in post-1990 India, scholars and policy makers have expressed surprise at the low rate of women''s participation in the workforce, particularly in urban areas. A Woman''s Job presents a unique urban ethnography of young lower middle class women''s lives in Delhi as they weave in and out of service employment, education, and domestic contracts. Urban, educated, and skilled, these young women seek employment in cafes, malls, call centres, and offices in the globalising landscape of Delhi. Their participation in work enables access to ''things'', such as, jeans, smartphones, English language, and the metro, that symbolise global modernity. However, caught in a web of gender, class, and caste inequalities, their identification as ''working'' women also generates social anxieties. The book shows how women adopt ''middle-ness'' as a strategy of life-making at the multiple sites of work, home, and leisure.
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Cambridge University Press Making Identity on the Swahili Coast
Book SynopsisSituated at a crossroads of trade in the late nineteenth century, and later the economic capital of German East Africa, the thriving caravan and port town of Bagamoyo, Tanzania is one of many diverse communities on the East African coast which has been characterized as ''Swahili''. Seeking an alternate framework for understanding community and identity, Steven Fabian combines extensive archival sources from African and European archives alongside fieldwork in Bagamoyo to move beyond the category of ''Swahili'' as it has been traditionally understood. Revealing how townspeople - Africans, Arabs, Indians, and Europeans alike - created a local vocabulary which referenced aspects of everyday town life and bound them together as members of a shared community, this first extensive examination of Bagamoyo''s history from the pre-colonial era to independence uses a new lens of historical analysis to emphasize the importance of place in creating local, urban identities and suggests a broader unTrade Review'By taking seriously the roles of spatial identity and local attachment, Fabian has pried open a new window on Swahili culture and African urban history. Understood in these new terms, Bagamoyo's political and social history becomes a story of re-conceptualizing tradition, belonging, and urban citizenship in territorial terms as a means to confront external encroachments and displacements.' James R. Brennan, University of Illinois at Urbana, Champaign'Meticulously researched and a delight to read, Fabian reminds us that studies of small places have big things to say. His ability to foreground the importance of people on the margins of scholarship to the creation of spatially grounded Swahili urban publics, is an exemplary achievement.' Laura Fair, Michigan State University'This history of one of East Africa's most important nineteenth-century urban centers has been worth the wait. Fabian offers a nuanced study that links the emergence of the 'local' in Bagamoyo to the everyday interactions of residents and itinerants from both of its hinterlands: the Indian Ocean world and the East African interior. This is a much-needed corrective to the overburdening of 'Swahili' identity found in many previous studies of the East African coast.' Stephen Rockel, University of Toronto, ScarboroughTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Owners of the town: Shomvi, Zaramo, Nyamwezi, and Indians; 2. Owners of the town: Baluchis, Omanis, and Spiritans; 3. Becoming Wabagamoyo: a local vocabulary for a Swahili town; 4. The particularities of place: space, identity, and the Coastal Rebellion of 1888–1890; 5. Colonial power, community identity, and consultation; 6. 'Curing the cancer of the colony': undermining local attachments.
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Cambridge University Press Reading Medieval Ruins
Book SynopsisThe Japanese provincial city of Ichijodani was destroyed in the civil wars of the late sixteenth century but never rebuilt. Archaeological excavations have since uncovered the most detailed late medieval urban site in the country. Drawing on analysis of specific excavated objects and decades of archaeological evidence to study daily life in Ichijodani, Reading Medieval Ruins in Sixteenth-Century Japan illuminates the city''s layout, the possessions and houses of its residents, its politics and experience of war, and religious and cultural networks. Morgan Pitelka demonstrates how provincial centers could be dynamic and vibrant nodes of industrial, cultural, economic, and political entrepreneurship and sophistication. In this study a new and vital understanding of late medieval society is revealed, one in which Ichijôdani played a central role in the vibrant age of Japan''s sixteenth century.Trade Review'Detailing the establishment, occupation, brutal destruction, and subsequent recreation of a nationally important heritage site, Morgan Pitelka invites us to join the 'dance of agency' at Ichijodani, seat of the powerful Asakura clan. Through detailed and painstaking reconstruction of the quotidian experiences of this provincial city, Pitelka eloquently demonstrates how investigations here both defined medieval archaeology in Japan, and demand a fundamental re-evaluation of the dominant historical narratives around the unification of Japan in the late sixteenth century.' Simon Kaner, Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures and the University of East Anglia'Reading Medieval Ruins invites us into the heart of a destroyed sixteenth-century city and resurrects the people who made their lives and livelihoods in the shadow of a fortified castle. It is both a beautifully rendered argument for the vitality of provincial urban spaces and a moving meditation on what was lost when these thriving communities were destroyed by war. By illuminating the ordinary lives and mundane objects that are too often obscured by tales of samurai generals and their conquests, this book makes a groundbreaking contribution to the history of Japan's medieval era.' Amy Stanley, Northwestern University'A wonderful and intellectual read, this book is an engaging look at medieval Japan through the eyes of both a modern historian and a common citizen living in the city of Ichijōdani before its destruction. This book balances enjoyability and history education without, at any point, being dry or dull. One can confidently recommend this book to both refined scholars and history enthusiasts.' Fin Davey, World History EncyclopediaTable of ContentsAcknowledgements; Prologue; 1. A provincial palace city as an urban space; 2. The material culture of urban life; 3. Late medieval warlords and the agglomeration of power; 4. The material foundations of faith; 5. Culture and sociability in the provinces; 6. Urban destruction in late medieval japan; Epilogue: The excavated nation on display; Bibliography; Index.
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc The Reading List
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc The Real Mrs. Tobias
Book Synopsis“Sally Koslow channels Nora Ephron in this lively tale of obligation versus desire and the politics of family power. Deftly written with equal parts intelligence, pathos, and humor, The Real Mrs. Tobias is a pure pleasure to read.”—Therese Anne Fowler, New York Times bestselling author of It All Comes Down to ThisA sharply funny and big-hearted multi-generational story about the deeply complicated relationships between mothers- and daughters-in-law, told through three women who marry into the same family, a treat for fans of The Nest and Fleischmann Is in Trouble. It’s 2015 in New York City, and three women all known as Mrs. Tobias—Veronika, the matriarch, her daughter-in-law Mel, and Mel’s daughter-in-law Birdie—are trying to navigate personal difficulties, some of which are with one another.Veronika and Mel, despi
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Penguin Books Ltd The Classic Slum Salford Life in the First
Book SynopsisA study which combines personal reminiscences with careful historical research, the myth of the ''good old days'' is summarily dispensed with; Robert Roberts describes the period of his childhood, when the main affect of poverty in Edwardian Salford was degredation, and, despite great resources of human courage, few could escape such a prison.Table of Contents1 Class Structure2 Possessions3 Manners and Morals4 Governors, Pastors and Masters5 The Common Scene6 Food, Drink and Physic7 Alma Mater8 Culture9 The Great Release10 High Days and AfterAppendices1 Conducted Tour2 Snuffy3 Bronze MushroomsSelect BibliographyIndexIllustrationsThe photographs, which have not been published before, were taken around the early 1900s by a Worsley man, Samuel Coulthurst, who went about Salford dressed as a rag and bone merchant with his camera concealed on a handcart.1. Corner shop2. A muffler–white, if possible, for the Lord's day3. Some were too poor to buy at the old clothes shops4. General dealer5. The clothiers6. Women of the time I7. Women of the time II8. Water for the wheel: a knife and scissors grinder9. Hawkers at rest10. 'The short way out of Manchester'11. A barrel organ called Tuesdays and Saturdays12. Theatre by the market13. Boys haggling at the hen market
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Penguin Publishing Group London Labour and the London Poor Penguin
Book SynopsisUnflinching reports of London’s poor from a prolific and influential English writerLondon Labour and the London Poor originated in a series of articles, later published in four volumes, written for the Morning Chronicle in 1849 and 1850 when journalist Henry Mayhew was at the height of his career. Mayhew aimed simply to report the realities of the poor from a compassionate and practical outlook. This penetrating selection shows how well he succeeded: the underprivileged of London become extraordinarily and often shockingly alive.For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-
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Penguin Books Ltd How the Other Half Lives
Book SynopsisFirst published in 1890, Jacob Riis''s remarkable study of the horrendous living conditions of the poor in New York City had an immediate and extraordinary impact on society, inspiring reforms that affected the lives of millions of people.For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.Table of ContentsList of IllustrationsIntroduction by Luc SanteSuggestions for Further ReadingA Note on the TextHow the Other Half LivesPrefaceIntroduction1 Genesis of the Tenement2 The Awakening3 The Mixed Crowd4 The Down Town Back-alleys5 The Italian in New York6 The Bend7 A Raid on the Stale-beer Dives8 The Cheap Lodging-houses9 Chinatown10 Jewtown11 The Sweaters of Jewtown12 The Bohemians–Tenement-house Cigarmaking13 The Color Line in New York14 The Common Herd15 The Problem of the Children16 Waifs of the City's Slums17 The Street Arab18 The Reign of Rum19 The Harvest of Tares20 The Working Girls of New York21 Pauperism in the Tenements22 The Wrecks and the Waste23 The Man with the Knife24 What Has Been Done25 How the Case StandsAppendixExplanatory Notes
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