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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Yes to the City: Millennials and the Fight for Affordable Housing focuses on the fascinating conflict between Yimbys and some more-progressive groups, including old-line environmentalists and community activists. . . . You don’t need to agree with all of Mr. Holleran’s policy perspectives to appreciate his keen grasp of the progressive forces aligned against the Yimby fight for affordable housing."---Edward Glaeser, Wall Street Journal"A compelling account of outcomes and consequences of activism. . . . Holleran’s analysis of how past activist struggles and successes laid out a foundation for future complications and new controversies is likely to provoke lively class discussions in courses on urban sociology and social movements."---Anna Zhelnina, Social Forces"Compelling narrative and accessible writing. . . . An important contribution because it describes the origin of this influential and growing global housing movement."---Gregg Colburn, Journal of the American Planning Association"The most authoritative study of the rise of YIMBYism and its spread throughout the United States and beyond."---Alistair Sisson, The Conversation"[A] well-documented discussion of the growing YIMBY movement and the issues that arise when it attempts to make an impact on local housing policy."---Jan Rouwendal, Journal of Housing and the Built Environment

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Book SynopsisIn Northwest of Boston, Stephen O''Connor''s characters live the human drama fully in stories that range from the humorous to the poignant. They go to the crossroads to face their demons, come to terms with the fleeting nature of life and love, and find the courage to follow their own compass. For some, that means an evolution; for others, a steadfast embrace of a world that is passing away.

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Book SynopsisThis book presents a modern, interdisciplinary perspective on cities and urban systems that combines new data with tools from statistical physics and urban economics. Analysis of mobility patterns and infrastructure networks, as well as spatial and social organization, provide a quantitative description of cities for scientists interested in modeling these complex systems.Trade Review'Every so often along comes a book that attempts a grand synthesis. Marc Barthelemy has put together many ideas from statistical physics with theory in urban economics, fashioning an approach that demonstrates its essential logic and empirical relevance. A book that must be absorbed by urbanists of every persuasion and used to advance our science of cities.' Michael Batty, University College London'Collective effects are often counterintuitive and defeat our imagination. We need specific models to anticipate financial crashes, traffic jams, mass panics. The spontaneous organization of cities falls in the same category of phenomena created by ourselves, humans, but that -- paradoxically – we struggle to understand. This wonderful book summarizes a large number of data and ideas about how cities grow and self-organize, sometimes not in the most efficient way. In his plea for a new science for cities, Marc Barthelemy musters methods from statistical physics for a problem that concerns an ever-growing fraction of humanity.' Jean-Philippe Bouchaud, Capital Fund Management, Paris'… a multi-disciplinary effort to describe and understand the numerous structural aspects of cities and their evolution … This book makes an effort to bring these different points of view together, to find a common scientific language, and to look at cities as systems that show typical features such as complexity, self-organisation and emergence which can be described in the language of statistical physics. …The whole text is a well-written scientific essay and fully referenced to scientific publications from a broad range of disciplines. The data and models are presented with mathematical rigour and illustrated by numerous black-and-white figures. The book is highly interesting for its multi-disciplinary approach as well as for the data presented, and can be recommended to a wide interested readership with a general understanding of mathematics and statistical physics.' Manuel Vogel, Contemporary Physics'Marc Barthelemy refreshes ideas and opens new avenues for further research in urban/economic quantitative geography. Without ignoring 'Founding Fathers' in geography, he suggests inspiring ideas anchored in physics for modelling urban realities. A path toward multidisciplinary analysis, which has still a long way to go before success.' Isabelle Thomas, Université catholique de LouvainTable of ContentsPreface; Acknowledgements; 1. Urban systems; 2. Models and methods; 3. The spatial organization of cities; 4. Infrastructure networks; 5. Mobility patterns; 6. Multimodality in cities; 7. Socio-economical aspects; 8. Systems of cities; 9. Towards a new science of cities; References; Index.

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Book SynopsisThis book challenges the conventional (modernist-inspired) understanding of urbanization as a universal process tied to the ideal-typical model of the modern metropolis with its origins in the grand Western experience of city-building. At the start of the twenty-first century, the familiar idea of the ''city'' - or ''urbanism'' as we know it - has experienced such profound mutations in both structure and form that the customary epistemological categories and prevailing conceptual frameworks that predominate in conventional urban theory are no longer capable of explaining the evolving patterns of city-making. Global urbanism has increasingly taken shape as vast, distended city-regions, where urbanizing landscapes are increasingly fragmented into discontinuous assemblages of enclosed enclaves characterized by global connectivity and concentrated wealth, on the one side, and distressed zones of neglect and impoverishment, on the other. These emergent patterns of what might be called enclave urbanism have gone hand-in-hand with the new modes of urban governance, where the crystallization of privatized regulatory regimes has effectively shielded wealthy enclaves from public oversight and interference.Table of ContentsPreface; Acknowledgements; Introduction: the eclipse of modernist city building and the modern metropolis; Part I. Setting the Stage: 1. Global urbanism at the start of the twenty-first century; 2 The shape of cities to come: distended urban form as the template for global urbanism; Part II. Aggregate Urbanism: 3. Spatial restructuring on a global scale: enclave urbanism and the fragmentation of urban space; 4. Cities as an assemblage of enclaves: realizing the expectations of Late Modernity; Part III. Zone Formats and the Urbanism of Exception: 5. Autonomous zones and the eclipse of territorial sovereignty; 6. Typologies of zones; 7. Hybrid zones and the breakdown of conventional modalities of urban governance; 8. Urbanism as exception; Bibliography; Index.

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Book SynopsisThis book is the first to explore the dramatic amplification of global warming underway in cities and the range of actions that individuals and governments can undertake to slow the pace of warming. A core thesis of the book is that the principal strategy currently advocated to mitigate climate change the reduction of greenhouse gases will not prove sufficient to measurably slow the rapid pace of warming in urban environments. Brian Stone explains the science of climate change in terms accessible to the non-scientist and with compelling anecdotes drawn from history and current events. The book is an ideal introduction to climate change and cities for students, policy makers and anyone who wishes to gain insight into an issue critical to the future of our cities and the people who live in them.Trade Review'Cities have begun to feel the sting of a changing climate already. This powerful volume reminds us what we can still do - globally and locally - by adapting to that which we can't prevent, and even more crucially, preventing that to which we can't adapt.' Bill McKibben, Schumann Distinguished Scholar, Middlebury College and author of The End of Nature'In this groundbreaking study, Stone provides the first systematic analysis of what a changing climate will mean for cities. [He] argues convincingly that we must be as concerned about urban warming as global warming … a clarion call for cities to begin to shape their climate destinies.' Timothy Beatley, Teresa Heinz Professor of Sustainable Communities, University of Virginia'… highly significant and unique because it fully bridges the study of cities, climate, and urban heat.' William D. Solecki, City University of New York, and Director, CUNY Institute for Sustainable Cities'A great introduction to how climate change will hit cities and what can be done about it … essential reading for urban planners, city officials, and the general public.' David W. Orr, Oberlin College and author of Down to the Wire: Confronting Climate Collapse'A riveting account.' London Review of Books'… begins with one of the most persuasive and surprising chapters that I have read … Stone's excellent book provides an important service in bringing urban heat island forward as a core and resolvable urban challenge … this is not just a book for climate enthusiasts. Rather, it will be a helpful book for anyone interested in improving human health and safety through better urban form.' Elisabeth Harmin, Journal of the American Planning AssociationTable of ContentsPrologue: la canicule; 1. Keeling's curve; 2. The climate barrier; 3. Islands of heat; 4. The green factor; 5. Leveraging canopy for carbon.

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Book SynopsisOur world is becoming more urban. More than fifty percent of the global population now lives in cities, which poses new challenges for sustainable development. This book integrates theory and methods of sustainability assessment with concepts from systems science to provide guidelines for assessing the sustainability of urban systems. It discusses different aspects of urban sustainability, from energy and housing, to mobility and health, covering social, economic and environmental factors, as well as the various stakeholders and actors involved. The book argues for the need to find models and solutions in order to design sustainable cities of the future in light of the complexity of urban social life. Including diverse case studies from the developed and developing world, this book provides a useful reference for researchers and students from a broad range of disciplines working in the field of sustainability, as well as for environmental consultants and policy makers.Trade Review'The volume will make a valuable reference for upper-division students and practitioners … Recommended.' R. E. O'Connor, ChoiceTable of ContentsPreface; General introduction; Part I. Theoretical Background: 1. Sustainability assessment: introduction and frameworks Pekka Halla and Claudia R. Binder; 2. Systems science and sustainability assessment Claudia R. Binder, Michael Hutter, Melissa Pang and Robert Webb; 3. How values play into sustainability assessments: challenges and a possible way forward Franziska Meinherz, Livia Fritz and Flurina Schneider; 4. The politics of participatory sustainability assessments: an analysis of power Livia Fritz and Franziska Meinherz; 5. A concept for Sustainability Transition Assessment (STA): a dynamic systems perspective informed by resilience thinking Thorsten Schilling, Susan Mühlemeier, Romano Wyss and Claudia R. Binder; Part II. Integrative Approaches for Sustainability Assessment: 6. A mixed-method, dialogue-based approach to sustainability assessments: fostering learning for sustainable development Flurina Schneider; 7. Sustainability assessment: integrative concept, methodology, and examples Volker Stelzer and Jürgen Kopfmüller; 8. Sustainability solution spaces Claudia R. Binder, Marta G. Baldi, Baptiste Gex and Emanuele Massaro; 9. Assessing urban sustainability through Participatory Multi-Criteria Approaches (PMCAs): an updated comparative analysis Albert Merino-Saum; Part III. Perspectives on Urban Sustainability: 10. Conceptualising urban systems for sustainability assessment: four powerful metaphors Pekka Halla, Romano Wyss and Claudia R. Binder; 11. Sustainability issues in urban systems from a metabolic perspective João Vitor Meirelles de Miranda, Anna Pagani, Aristide Athanassiadis and Claudia R. Binder; 12. Urban-industrial supply systems: from global challenges to strong urban sustainability Klaus Krumme; 13. Indicators for assessing the sustainability of cities Anne Bösch and André de Montmollin; 14. Ontology-based integration of urban sustainability indicators Emanuele Massaro, Aristide Athanassiadis, Achilleas Psyllidis and Claudia R. Binder; Part IV. Focal Points of Urban Sustainability: 15. Energy challenges in urban systems François Vuille and François Maréchal; 16. Sustainability assessment of the housing system: exploring the interplay between the material and social systems Anna Pagani, Rafael Laurenti and Claudia R. Binder; 17. Sustainability assessment of urban agriculture Giuseppe Feola, Marlyne Sahakian and Claudia R. Binder; 18. Cities and entropy: assessing urban sustainability as a problem of coordination of actions Vinicius M. Nett, João Meirelles and Fabiano L. Ribeiro; 19. Conceptualising urban systems for ecologic sustainability assessments: case study of the Stockholm Royal Seaport City District Ulf Ranhagen and Björn Frostell; 20. A study of ride-sharing opportunities in the City of Santiago de Chile Emanuele Massaro; 21. Mosquito-borne disease and human mobility in urban environments Emanuele Massaro, Damiao Pasetto, Andrea Rinaldo and Claudia R. Binder; Index.

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Book SynopsisTwo aspects of contemporary urban life in Africa are often described as sources of political change: the emergence of a large urban middle class and high levels of ethnic diversity and inter-ethnic social contact. Many expected that these factors would help spark a transition away from ethnic competition and clientelism toward more programmatic elections. Focusing on urban Ghana, this book shows that the growing middle class and high levels of ethnic diversity are not having the anticipated political effects. Instead, urban Ghana is stuck in a trap: clientelism and ethnic voting persist in many urban neighborhoods despite changes to the socio-economic characteristics and policy preferences of voters. Through a unique examination of intra-urban variation in patterns of electoral competition, Nathan explains why this trap exists, demonstrates its effects on political behavior, and explores how new democracies like Ghana can move past it.Trade Review'Noah L. Nathan's book is certain to become a classic study. It represents the very best among a new generation of scholarship focused on Africa's major transformations - demographic, economic, and political. Drawing on empirically rich and methodologically sophisticated analyses, Nathan convincingly explains why ethnic voting and clientelistic politicking continue to thrive in Africa's rapidly growing cities. This is the go-to book for understanding politics in urban Africa.' Leonardo R. Arriola, Director of the Center for African Studies, University of California, Berkeley'In this incisive and important book, Nathan explains why vast changes in demographic and class distribution that accompany urbanization have not produced programmatic policies or improved resource allocation. This rigorous and theoretically rich study is a must-read for connecting the political behavior of politicians and voters in the context of urban Africa.' Rachel Beatty Riedl, Northwestern University'Urbanization is one of the most important trends in contemporary Africa, yet its implications for politics remain poorly understood. Noah L. Nathan's excellent and deeply illuminating book begins to fill this critical gap. Exploiting variation in outcomes across different parts of urban Ghana, Nathan shows that the rise of an urban middle class often fails to move politics away from clientelism and that the ethnic heterogeneity of urban spaces often does little to diminish the importance of ethnicity in electoral politics. For those wanting to understand the dynamics of politics in Africa today, Electoral Politics and Africa's Urban Transition is essential reading.' Daniel N. Posner, James S. Coleman Professor of International Development, University of California, Los Angeles'In an era of booming research on Sub-Saharan Africa, Nathan has marked himself as one of the truly outstanding young scholars of the region. In this book, he throws sand in the gears of the standard account linking the growth of the middle class to the shift from clientelistic to programmatic politics by developing a rich argument with important implications for local party strategies, voter turnout and voting behavior. Nathan skillfully tests those implications with an impressive mix of original quantitative and qualitative data that he gathers across neighborhoods and census tracts in Accra. The careful attention to electoral geography provides big analytical and empirical payoffs, and this book is sure to draw wide attention from scholars of clientelism, party competition, urban politics and Sub-Saharan Africa.' Erik Wibbels, Robert O. Keohane Professor of Political Science, Duke University'In recent years, as the urban population of Ghana has burgeoned, it has become more ethnically diverse, and its middle class has grown both in wealth and in size. Contrary to the expectations of many, its politicians continue to champion ethnic appeals and distribute private benefits. In this book, Noah L. Nathan asks why so little has changed. While addressing this question, he skillfully combines ethnographic and quantitative evidence and the studies of urban migration in the industrial west. Smart, honest, and learned: this is a deeply thoughtful book.' Robert H. Bates, Eaton Professor of the Science of Government, Harvard University'Most observers of electoral politics in poor countries argue that higher incomes would create an urban middle class that would then eschew the parochial considerations of poor rural voters and demand universalistic policies to improve the general welfare. Nathan's careful deconstruction of electoral politics in Accra, Ghana's increasingly prosperous capital, shows one instance in which the theory does not hold … He argues that the low capacity of the Ghanaian state, the huge unmet demand for state resources, and the presence in Accra of many poor recent migrants from the countryside all push politicians to continue their successful past strategies.' Foreign Affairs'Taken as a whole, Nathan's book makes important contributions to our understanding of the impact of one of the most important structural developments in the developing world.' Donghyun Danny Choi, GovernanceTable of ContentsPart I. Introduction: 1. Urban politics in a trap; 2. Urban Ghana in context; Part II. The Middle Class and Programmatic Politics: 3. Class and preferences; 4. Credibility, patronage, and participation; Part III. Neighborhoods and Ethnic Competition: 5. Ethnic competition across neighborhoods; 6. Distributive politics in urban areas; 7. Neighborhood context, expectations of favoritism, and voting; Part IV. Implications for Urban Governance; 8. Turnout inequality and capture in municipal elections; 9. Paths out of the trap?; Bibliography; Index.

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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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Book SynopsisWhy are some slums in India's cities able to demand development from the state while others fail? Drawing on two years of fieldwork, Auerbach explains this uneven success of slum residents. This book is aimed at researchers and students in comparative politics, political economy, development studies, urban studies, and South Asian studies.Trade Review'Millions of people across the world live in urban slums. In this important book, Auerbach asks why some slum communities feature better living conditions than others. Based on rigorous, multi-method research and deep contextual knowledge, he traces how party workers broker access to public services and, against conventional wisdom, shows that more diverse communities have superior public goods provision precisely because they feature multiple, competitive party worker networks.' Melani Cammett, Clarence Dillon Professor of International Affairs, Harvard University, Massachusetts'Auerbach's book takes us to the forefront of contemporary urbanization, examining how slum dwellers in India secure basic services and infrastructure. Combining extensive qualitative fieldwork with survey data, he finds that slums with dense networks of party workers obtain more paved roads, drainage, and other crucial infrastructure. This stellar example of multi-method scholarship will help cement the 'urban turn' in comparative politics.' Alison E. Post, University of California, Berkeley'With this book, Auerbach emerges as a leader among scholars who look at the urban poor from the inside out. His painstaking ethnographic work and impressive original statistics persuade us that without looking at slums' internal politics, little can be predicted about service levels and other outcomes. Laying bare these patterns of local politics, and explaining how they matter, will remain Auerbach's abiding contributions to the study of the poor in cities.' Anirudh Krishna, Edgar T. Thompson Professor of Public Policy, Duke University, North Carolina'Demanding Development significantly advances the literature on democracy. Drawing on a wealth of ethnographic and survey data, Auerbach paints a picture of Indian slums that sets a new standard for depth and rigor. He lays waste to the widespread view of slums as passive communities manipulated by politicians. In a magisterial portrait of how slum politics actually work, Auerbach shows us how slum dwellers mobilize to make claims, making the powerful case that for all their diversity and desperation, slums can be arenas of solidarity and political organization. Demanding Development will fundamentally change the debate on the politics of the urban poor.' Patrick Heller, Lyn Crost Professor of Social Sciences, Brown University, Rhode Island'The real merit of the book lies in explaining differentiated responses from the slums, linked both to the forms and nature of political mobilization, and its impact on the quality of public service delivery … This multilayered book challenges us to rethink our approach about the nature of political competition, party organization, party leadership, ethnic politics, and the quality of public service delivery.' Adnan Farooqui, The Book Review'… the book is an interesting analysis of how the poorest of the poor use democracy to 'demand development' in India while living in a settlement which tends to be ignored in developing countries. It is extremely well-written and it contains interesting qualitative interviews that not only help explain the mechanism behind the results, but also bring the slums to life for the reader.' Dr Mahvish Shami, The London School of Economics and Political Science'Demanding Development is an impressive account of the local political institutions that enable slum residents to demand public goods. It is a compelling and convincing work, and should be considered essential reading for anyone interested in distributive politics, urban politics, political parties, clientelism, brokers, and community-driven development. Highly recommended.' Sarah J. Lockwood, Democratization'Demanding Development is a pathbreaking book … The extensive, immersive fieldwork provides a level of richness and complexity to political brokerage that is rare and very welcome in the study of distributive politics…The book will appeal to political scientists, urban planners and development studies audiences who are interested in better understanding the relationship between politics and public services in Global South cities.' Veronica Herrera, Urban Affairs Review'The book makes an important contribution to understanding the vibrancy and forms of citizen claim-making; how political parties embed themselves in the social life of citizens; and how these processes combine to produce differentiated access to public services in urban India.' Anindita Adhikari, Economic and Political Weekly'Demanding Development represents a nuanced and authoritative account of the mechanics of electoral mobilization and patronage on the ground in slum settlements, highlighting brokers as the lynchpin that connects these two forms of political activity.' Adnan Naseemullah, Commonwealth and Comparative Politics'Demanding Development is an impressive work drawing on both ethnographic research and a quantitative dataset. It helps one understand the complex process of engagement of slum dwellers in India to demand and avail public services through the channel of local party leaders…We highly recommend this book to the social science community studying comparative politics in South Asia in the context of slum settlements' Environment and Urbanization Asia'Auerbach's book is filled with remarkable insights that emerge from attentive questions … It is counterintuitive at times and thoroughly thought-provoking.' Chinmay Tumbe, Urbanisation'… Demanding Development provides a groundbreaking perspective on how citizens build responsive state institutions from the bottom up.' Journal of Development StudiesTable of Contents1. Puzzling disparities at the margins of the city; 2. Setting the stage: governance and political parties in Urban India; 3. How party worker networks impact local development; 4. India's slum leaders; 5. Views from the ground: narratives from eight squatter settlements; 6. Party workers and public goods provision: evidence from 111 settlements; 7. Why party worker networks spread unevenly across settlements.

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Book SynopsisA journey into the extraordinary, vibrant world of Black African London which is shaping modern Britain. What makes a Londoner? What is it to be Black, African and British? And how can we understand the many tangled roots of our modern nation without knowing the story of how it came to be?This is a story that begins not with the Windrush Generation' of Caribbean immigrants to Britain, but with post-1960s arrivals from African countries like Nigeria, Ghana, Zimbabwe and Somalia. Some came from former British colonies in the wake of newfound independence; others arrived seeking prosperity and an English education for their children. Now, in the 2020s, their descendants have unleashed a tidal wave of creativity and cultural production stretching from Lambeth to Lagos, Islington to the Ivory Coast. Daniel Kaluuya and Skepta; John Boyega and Little Simz; Edward Enninful and Bukayo Saka everywhere you look, across the fields of sport, business, fashion, the arts and beyTrade ReviewAs thrilling as it is touching and revealing - this book is an indispensable map to London today. -- Ben Judah * Journalist and author of This is London: Life and Death in the World City *Illuminating and fascinating, with humour and some surprises, Jimi Famurewa examines Britain's African communities, past and present. -- Stephen Bourne * author of Black Poppies: Britain's Black Community and the Great War *Jimi brings modern black London alive like no other author. This feels like an important book that is also a total pleasure to read. -- Sathnam Sanghera * author of EmpireLand: How Modern Britain is Shaped by its Imperial Past *Settlers is the book I didn’t know I was waiting for. Jimi Famurewa approaches an incredibly complicated topic with a steady hand and fine precision that results in a book that is well researched, rich in nuance and handled with care. It was as enjoyable to read as it was enlightening. -- Jendella Benson * author of Hope & Glory *This is an extraordinary and beautifully written piece of work that deals with a deeply complex and rich history with a remarkable lightness of touch, sensitivity, warmth and insight. It is depressing to reflect on the reality that all too many people continue to question the benefits of immigration. This fine book shows beyond any doubt that London, and this country, is all the better for its Black African population. -- James RamsdenA spellbinding portrait of culture, talent, food and activism. * Stylist Magazine *Settlers is replete with revealing anecdotes… Famurewa’s writing is thoughtful, cogent and admirably even-handed. * theguardian.com *Dazzling. * Waitrose Food Magazine *[Jimi's] voice and the way he writes I just love. * Jamie Oliver *Settlers is a pleasure to read, by turns lyrical, approachable, funny, sensitive and always well-researched… [Famurewa] sweeps you along so thoroughly that you don’t realise until you close the book quite how much you have enjoyed it, how much you have learnt and how much it will stay with you. * The Spectator *Settlers is a testament to Jimi Famurewa's love not just for his lineage, but for the culture. An incisive, intimate and profound work. -- Candice Carty-Williams * author of Queenie and People Person *Table of ContentsPrologue: The Second Great Wave 1 Farm 2 Market 3 Boat 4 Cell 5 Worship House 6 Restaurant 7 Classroom 8 Suburb Conclusion: The Next Great Wave Further Reading Acknowledgements Index

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Book SynopsisIn this compilation, the authors analyze how urban sustainability characteristics influence tourists when choosing a destination. Using a survey-based comparative analysis between Québec City and Bordeaux, we assess tourists sensitivity to economic, environmental, social and cultural indicators of urban sustainability. The results suggest the relevance of using online and social media to improve tourists awareness of the multidimensional nature of urban sustainability, while attracting younger and well-informed visitors. The formation of the working class in Catalonia bears a clear migratory imprint. In the second half of the 20th century migrant workers came from the south of Spain, and in the last 15 years they have come from non-European countries. This compilation aims to determine to what extent older migrants identify with newer migrants by comparing two Catalan working-class areas with a markedly different politics of memory, and showing how this affects possibilities of identification between old and new migrants. The next chapter proposes the Country Reputation Kaleidoscope Model (CRepK Model) as a theoretic-methodological framework using the case of Brazil, based on empirical evidences. The purpose of this cross-disciplinary research is to advance into the evolution of country reputation theory. The Scandinavian Bronze Age started quite rapidly in around 1750 BC, and is marked by three simultaneous events: importation of bronze from the east Mediterranean region, export of amber from southeast Sweden to the eastern Mediterranean region, and the carving of pictures of big ships on bedrock and boulders in southern Scandinavia. In this collection, the authors summarize and update available data, especially the data from southern Sweden. Following this, a study describes the short-term mapping of urban areas in Prague and its closest surroundings from 1984 to 2017. Mapping was carried out using a number of Landsat images that employ spectral information from base bands and other information on vegetation indices, such as the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), Normalized Difference Moisture Index (NDMI) and Modified Soil-Adjusted Vegetation Index (MSAVI), and also land surface temperatures. Over the last few years, Tuscany has been strongly characterized by a number of economic events and operations where globalization has been one of the main drivers. Several local firms are attempting to survive in the global market, with the strategic plan to offer products and services that reinforce their specialization. They maintain a strong local identity with the history, tradition and local knowledge embedded in the Region while striving to gain an international relevance. The authors aim to address whether preserving the cultural heritage of the Tuscan Region as an outstanding resource for sustainable development could be the leading driver for the next future economic success. The authors go on to tell the story of the iconography of the Infant Jesus of Prague and the strong devotion that characterizes it and has changed the history of the city. In addition to the classical representation of the blessing Jesus, usually in the arms of the Virgin Mary and St. Joseph, there is that of the Infant Jesus of Prague, of which a strong devotion spread in Bohemia in 1600. The origin of this small, 45 cm-high wax statue and the name of the artist who created it is unknown. The closing article points out that the authors of the most comprehensive monographs on the prehistory of Cyprus almost completely ignored its northwestern part. However, this area, judging from the results of both earlier and recent research, cannot be considered terra inhabitata, since it was settled at least from the Late Neolithic period to the end of the Bronze Age. The authors suggest that these deficiencies mislead the potential reader, especially less familiar with archaeology of the island.

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Book SynopsisA comprehensive and contemporary view of Chicago, the quintessential American city, that documents its transformation into a postindustrial, global city.Trade Review"I don't know of any single work on another American city that undertakes quite the mission of this work in scope. If I were seeking a single volume that summed up life in a place, this might well be the best of them. For Chicago, there are a number of books that have similar tasks, but none approach the subject so fully." James Lewis, Roosevelt University "Of particular interest to planners are the essays on the city's physical change; sociologist Larry Bennett's careful analysis of the Metropolis 2002 plan; and sociologist Robert Garner's conclusion." Planning magazine "These 26 richly rewarding interdisciplinary essays with a strong sociological focus analyze the social, political, demographic, economic, and cultural changes in the world community since the early 1970s...this book will reward discerning readers." Choice "The editors firmly believe that Chicago, its postindustrial formation, and the struggles that have characterized its recent history must be placed in a global context... [A]nyone who wants to know what is happening in Chicago today does well to take a close look at this volume."Journal of Regional ScienceTable of ContentsPART I Introduction Chapter 1 An Overview and Point of View: John P. Koval PART II Converging Forces Chapter 2 Globalization and the Remaking of Chicago: Fassil Demissie Chapter 3 Economic Restructuring: Chicago's Precarious Balance: David Moberg Chapter 4 Chicago's New Politics of Growth: Larry Bennett Chapter 5.1 The Physical Transformation of Chicago's Central Area: Charles Suchar Chapter 5.2 The Emergent Suburban Landscape: Kenneth Fidel Chapter 6 Chicago's Race Relations: Past, Present, and Future: M. Bennett and R. Schaefer PART III The Immigrant Presence Chapter 7 Chicago: The Immigrant Capital of the Heartland: John P. Koval/Kenneth Fidel Chapter 8 Latinos of the New Chicago: Rob Paral Chapter 9 New Polonia: Ghetto Immigrants, Professional Suburbanites, And Urban Cultural Actors: Mary Patrice Erdmans Chapter 10 Asian Indians in Chicago: Padma Rangaswamy Chapter 11 Re-Visioning Filipino American Communities: Evolving Identities, Issues, and Organizations: Yvonne M. Lau Chapter 12 The Korean Presence in Chicago: Kiljoong Kim Chapter 13 Chicago's Chinese Americans: Chinatown and Beyond: Yvonne M. Lau Chapter 14 Immigrants From the Arab World: Louise Cainkar Chapter 15 Immigrants at Work: John P. Koval PART IV Introduction: Contested Reinvention and Civic Agency: Ten Case Studies Chapter 16 The Rebirth of Bronzeville: Contested Space and Contrasting Visions: Michael Bennett Chapter 17 Devon Avenue: A World Market: Padma Rangaswamy Chapter 18 The Affordable Housing Crisis: Complex Causes, Surprisingly Simple Solutions!: Aurie A. Pinneck Howard Stanback Chapter 19 Back To Its Roots: The Industrial Areas Foundation and United Power for Action and Justice: David Moberg Chapter 20 Chicago School Reform: Advancing the Global City Agenda: Pauline Lipman Chapter 21 The Chicago Police Evolution: Contested Reinvention and Managerial Outcomes: David Plebanski and Roberta Garner Chapter 22 Transforming Public Housing: Larry Bennett Chapter 23 Regionalism in A Historically Divided Metropolis: Larry Bennett Chapter 24 Coalition Politics At America's Premier Transportation Hub: Joseph Schwieterman Chapter 25: Urban Beautification: The Construction of A New Identity for Chicago: Costas Spirou PART V Conclusion Chapter 26 Learning From Chicago: Roberta Garner

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Book SynopsisLooking for regional solutions to local limitations of opportunity in education, jobs and housingTrade Review"By redefining what it means to be a city, this book takes urbanists well into the 21st century. Using the Philadelphia metropolis as an elaborate case study, the authors show us that cities cannot be fully understood apart from their regions, that regions unconsciously govern themselves, and that education, housing, and employment are vital for a region's future. With a keen eye and refreshing insights, the authors have brought the study of the metropolis to a new level and one which should serve as a model for other scholars."—Hank V. Savitch, Brown and Williamson Distinguished Research Professor, University of Louisville, Urban & Public AffairsTable of ContentsList of Figures and Tables Acknowledgements Introduction: Expanding the Focus 1. Expansion, Decline, and Geographies of Inequality 2. Employment Opportunity 3. Housing Opportunity 4. Educational Opportunity 5. The Region's Communities and the Value Proposition 6. Who Takes Responsibility for Addressing Inequality? Appendix 1: Constructing the Community Typology Appendix 2: NAICS Coding for Industrial Classification Appendix 3: Lowest- and Higest-Achieving Districts: Organizational and Housing Characteristics Notes Index

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Book SynopsisSeveral themes and perspectives are reunited under this collection of texts about urban developments in the Portuguese-speaking worlds of Brazil and Portugal. As each analyst tends to have a particular view on what the concept should refer to, the meaning attributed to the word ''development'' in this book is also diverse. This is one of the reasons why it is written in its plural form: ''developments''. The concept (or the word) is here used openly so that all efforts to define it are provisory, partial and elusive, considering the various national, regional, linguistic and scientific meanings pertaining to correlated facts and processes and according to the geo-historical context in which the term is used. In the title, the idea of urban developments'' is also used to indicate evolution or novelty. The book is dedicated to discussing state-of-the-art urban research in Brazil and Portugal.

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Book SynopsisIn this book, the authors present current research in the study of the strategies, management and impacts of urban development. Topics included in this compilation include public housing strategies in Ogun State, Nigeria; the major sport events strategy environment in Shanghai, China; strategic environmental assessment of two urban plans in Italy and the United Kingdom; assessing the growth pole phenomenon in Venezuela; geoprocessing technologies in the evaluation of sustainable urban development in Parnamirim, Brazil; and the globalisation and urban development of Harlem in New York City, USA.

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Book SynopsisSeveral themes and perspectives are reunited under this collection of texts about urban developments in the Portuguese-speaking worlds of Brazil and Portugal. As each analyst tends to have a particular view on what the concept should refer to, the meaning attributed to the word ''development'' in this book is also diverse. This is one of the reasons why it is written in its plural form: ''developments''. The concept (or the word) is here used openly so that all efforts to define it are provisory, partial and elusive, considering the various national, regional, linguistic and scientific meanings pertaining to correlated facts and processes and according to the geo-historical context in which the term is used. In the title, the idea of urban developments'' is also used to indicate evolution or novelty. The book is dedicated to discussing state-of-the-art urban research in Brazil and Portugal.

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Book SynopsisRights and the City takes stock of rights struggles and progress in cities by exploring the tensions that exist between different concepts of rights. Sandeep Agrawal and the volume’s contributors expose the paradoxes that planners and municipal governments face when attempting not only to combat discriminatory practices, but also advance a human rights agenda. The authors examine the legal, conceptual, and philosophical aspects of rights, including its various forms—human, Indigenous, housing, property rights, and various other forms of rights. Using empirical evidence and examples, they translate the philosophical and legal aspects of rights into more practical terms and applications. Regionally, the book draws on municipalities from across Canada while also making broad international comparisons. Scholars, policy makers, and activists with an interest in urban studies, planning, and law will find much of value throughout this volume. Afterword by Benjamin Davy. Contributors: Sandeep Agrawal, Rachelle Alterman, Sasha Best, Alexandra Flynn, Eran S. Kaplinsky, Ola P. Malik, Jennifer A. Orange, Michelle L. Oren, Renée Vaugeois. Afterword by Benjamin DavyTrade Review"This book is a collection of essays on the subject of human rights and cities with an emphasis on Canadian cities. ...this collection is worth reading." W. Dennis Keating, Journal of Urban Affairs, May 17, 2023 (Full review at: https://doi.org/10.1080/07352166.2023.2195779)“In Rights and the City, editor Sandeep Agrawal, professor of urban planning at the University of Alberta, uses the influential theories of Henri Lefebvre, a French philosopher and sociologist, to organize this collection and to illustrate the way ahead in order for our rights to and in cities to become truly entrenched.” Ximena Gonzales, Alberta Views, April 26, 2023 [Full review at https://albertaviews.ca/rights-and-the-city/]“In my view, the main contribution of the volume … is to bring renewed attention to the relevance of legal rights in the realm of urban planning and politics, as well as to illustrate how they can serve to disadvantage or push for the protection of already marginalized groups in society in practical terms. To do this, the book offers well-researched examples, most of which show how these debates unfold at the municipal level. This approach will be especially useful for readers and practitioners whose work lies at the intersection of policy analysis, program design, and planning through a rights-based lens.” Magdelana Ugarte, Canadian Planning and Policy, Volume 2023Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction | Sandeep Agrawal I THE RIGHT TO THE CITY 1 | Whose Right to What City? Indigenous Rights amidst Claims for Constitutionally Empowered Cities | Alexandra Flynn 2 | The Right to the City as an Emerging Norm: Codification and Cultural Institutions | Jennifer A. Orange II RIGHTS IN THE CITY 3 | Human Rights and the City in the Pre-Charter Era | Sandeep Agrawal 4 | Group Rights and Collective Rights: What Are They and How Do They Affect Urban Issues? | Sandeep Agrawal & Eran S. Kaplinsky 5 | Human Rights and Canadian Municipalities | Sandeep Agrawal 6 | Becoming a Human Rights City: Lessons from Edmonton | Renée Vaugeois III OTHER RIGHTS IN THE CITY 7 | The Right to Adequate Housing Around the Globe: Analysis and Evaluation of National Constitutions | Michelle L. Oren & Rachelle Alterman 8 | Property Rights and the Canadian City | Eran S. Kaplinsky 9 | The Dangers of Allowing “Othering” Speech in a City’s Public Spaces | Ola P. Malik & Sasha Best Afterword: After Rights? | Benjamin Davy Contributors

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Book SynopsisThis volume envisions social practices surrounding mosques, shrines and public spaces in urban contexts as a window on the diverse ways in which Muslims in different regional and historical settings imagine, experience, and inhabit places and spaces as "sacred". Unlike most studies on Muslim communities, this volume focuses on cultural, material and sensuous practices and urban everyday experience. Drawing on a range of analytical perspectives, the contributions examine spatial practices in Muslim societies from an interdisciplinary perspective, an approach which has been widely neglected both in Islamic studies and social sciences.

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Book SynopsisBy drawing together widely dispersed yet central writings, the Berlin Reader is an essential resource for everyone interested in urban development in one of the most interesting and important metropolises in Europe. It provides scholars as well as students, journalists and visitors with an overview of the most central discussions on the tremendous changes Berlin experienced since the fall of the wall. It covers a wide range of issues, including inner city renewal, housing and the local economy, gentrification and other urban conflicts. The book breaks ground in two dimensions: first, by offering also non-German speakers an insight into the very controversial debates after reunification, and, second, by highlighting the ambivalent consequences of Berlin's urban transformation in the past decades.Trade Review"As a profound introduction, the 'Berlin Reader' [provides] a critical overview of urban development, its accompanying debates, and activism in Berlin since the 1990s." Elke Krasny, dérive [Austrian quarterly academic journal for urbanism], 55 (2014)

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Book SynopsisThe Egyptian revolution of 2011 has significantly changed the relationship between citizens, public space, and visual expression. "Cairo: Images of Transition" traces these developments and their effects on political communication, urban space, and cultural production. The book is the first publication to offer a deep view on the relationship between aesthetics and politics in the wake of the Egyptian revolution 2011. Renowned Egyptian and international writers, artists and activists trace the shifting status of the image as a communicative tool, a witness to history, and an active agent for change.Trade Review"This edited volume provides a unique look at theEgyptian revolution by granting agency to activists anddescribing how art continually serves as a language ofcontestation. The book, however, lacks a solid theo-retical basis that situates this specific case study in thewider literature on social movements and feminist lit-erature on gender and nationalism." Anwar Mhajne, H-Net-Reviews, 3 (2016) "These texts are at once inspiring, critical and reflexive." Wasafiri Issue, 81 (2015) "Sehr zu empfehlen." Sebastian Gerth, MEDIENwissenschaft, 2 (2015) "[The book] provides an innovative and nuanced account of the significance of images during this exceptional period. Rather than a monument to a past moment, [the book] should be seen as an effort to sustain this revolutionary opening in its various iterations, thus harnessing the generativity of these exceptional events." Mark R. Westmoreland, Journal of the Society for Contemporary Thought and the Islamicate World, 4 (2015)

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Book SynopsisThe ongoing crisis in Europe has dramatic impact on the life in many Southern European cities: Unemployment, social deprivation, poverty, political instability, severe cuts in the welfare state budgets and a wide spread feeling of despair have eroded much of the social foundation of the cities. In this book, contributors from Spain, Greece, Portugal and Italy provide an insight into the complex interference between the different aspects of the crisis. They show that the recent urban crisis is not purely a result of the budgetary problems of the nation state ("austerity urbanism") but needs to be seen as multiple contestations. The Crisis of the City is therefore understood as a result of a changing nation state, cultural diversity, challenged urban planning and politics and a globalized economy.Trade Review"This book discovered [...] some new aspects of the theoretical discussion in urban sociology, which are interesting for European comparison studies." Detlef Baum, www.socialnet.de, 21.03.2016

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Book SynopsisHow did American cities change throughout the 20th and early 21st century? This timely publication integrates research from American Literary and Cultural Studies, Urban Studies and History. The essays range from negotiations of the "ethnic city" in US literature and media, to studies of recent urban phenomena and their representations: gentrification, re-appropriation and conversion of urban spaces in the USA. These interdisciplinary and intercultural perspectives on American cities provide unique points of access for studying the complex narratives of urban transformation.Trade Review"The volume features different case studies and combines essays that both thematically and methodologically make for a very valuable and readable contribution to the field of urban studies." Nico Völker, KULT_online, 48 (2016)

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Book SynopsisThis book takes a close look at the interrelated phenomena of international business migrants and rural migrant workers in Shanghai. Through separate case studies it observes them in parallel and sheds light on the spatial implications of both groups' migrant status. The authors' uncovering of harsh and inadequate living and working conditions affecting rural migrant workers in the construction industry in Shanghai leads to the development of a concept of "Fair Building", a socially-conscious architecture that calls for accountability in ensuring that stakeholders involved in the construction process contribute to a sustainable urbanization.

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Book SynopsisEveryday articulations of music, place, urban politics, and inclusion/exclusion are powerfully present in Istanbul. This volume analyzes landscapes of music, community, and exclusion across a century and a half.An interdisciplinary group of scholars and artists presents four case studies: the rembetika, the music of the Asiks, the Zakir/Alevi tradition, and hip-hop, in Beyoglu, Üsküdar, the gentrifying Sulukule neighborhood, and across the metropolis.Trade Review"A significant contribution to the literature of music in and from Istanbul, which will show readers from different disciplines, social, and musical contexts the four important musical cornerstones of this landscape." -- Hande Saglam, Anthropos, 114 (2019)

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Book SynopsisThe Brazilian Constitution provides a remarkable set of social rights, including the right to housing. Despite this fact, struggles for decent living conditions have become key issues in the daily urban lives of many people in Brazil. Contesting the differentiated access to housing, social movements occupy empty buildings in the cities to challenge historically-rooted and excluding urban politics. Exploring the occupants' agency, Bea Wittger draws attention to the important role of female actors within the buildings. Through oral histories of participants of two squats in Rio de Janeiro, the book delivers a deep insight "from below" into their own perspectives on citizenship and gender.

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Book SynopsisThis book is based on almost five years of fieldwork with street-related communities in the city of Yogyakarta, Indonesia, between 2001 and 2015. The author inquires into children's and adolescents' coming of age on the streets and their remarkable social and emotional competences, instead of resorting to a dreadful discourse of pity and despair. The ethnography's multi-vocal narrative couples vivid accounts of ethnographic case studies and life stories with current theory on affect, emotion, empathy, structural violence or social interaction in the context of marginality, stigma and chronic illness.Trade Review"It is an important contribution tostreet-related children, anthropology of emotions, anthropology of urban poverty, anthropology of HIV and AIDS, Indonesian/Java studies, and ethnographic fieldwork." Nathan Porath, Anthropos, 113 (2018)

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Book SynopsisUrbanisation in Bahir Dar, Ethiopia, poses challenges to urban living conditions. Despite large scale housing programmes from the side of the government, construction and settling processes have largely remained incremental. Nadine Appelhans focuses on the relation between statutory planning and practices of everyday urbanisation. The findings from Bahir Dar suggest that some mundane regimes of building the city are patronised, while others are considered undesired by policy makers. Based on this insight, the author argues that urban development in Bahir Dar needs to be locally grounded, differentiated and inclusive to avoid further tendencies of segregation.

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Book SynopsisBrooklyn has all the features of a "global borough": It is a base of immigrant labor and ethnically diverse communities, of social and cultural capital, of global transportation, cultural production, and policy innovation. At once a model of sustainable urbanization and overdevelopment, the question is now: What will become of Global Brooklyn? Tracing the emergence of Brooklyn from village outpost to global borough, Brooklyn Tides investigates the nature and consequences of global forces that have crossed the East River and identifies alternative models for urban development in global capitalism. Benjamin Shepard and Mark Noonan provide a unique ethnographic reading of the literature, social activism, and changing tides impacting this ever-transforming space. Cover and interior images of a rapidly transforming global borough by photographer Caroline Shepard.

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Book SynopsisWhere the Everyday Begins is a study of environment and everyday life. It uses innovative research methods to bear witness to the ways by which environment defines everyday life. And its lively narrative pulls together a multitude of observations that reveal incredible details about the social and material ecologies that bind the world.

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Book SynopsisIn the past years, the transiency of European city-making and dwelling has become increasingly hard to disregard. This urban flux calls for a methodological rethinking for those professionals, social and natural scientists, artists, and activists, with an interest in the processes of remaking and reclaiming urban space. With a practical and empirical emphasis, this anthology brings forth a variety of perspectives on urban appropriation strategies, their relation to public space-making, and their implications for future city development, exploring how ideas and practices of appropriation inform and relate to cultural narratives, politico-historical occasions as well as socio-ecological expressions.

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Book SynopsisIn history, cities and nature are often treated as two separate fields of research. "Concepts of Urban-Environmental History" aims to bridge this gap. The contributions to this volume survey major concepts and key issues which have shaped recent debates in the field. They address unresolved questions and future challenges. As a handbook, the collection offers a comprehensive overview for researchers and students, both from a historical and an interdisciplinary background.Trade Review"It is very welcome that this field of historical studies, which has recently become increasingly important, is now being made accessible in compact form by this 'reader'." Andreas Weigl, Wiener Geschichtsblätter, 2 (2020), translated from German

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Book SynopsisWho wins and who loses in urban regeneration? What are the mechanisms at play?Francesca Weber-Newth looks at two neighbourhoods that are adjacent to large-scale regeneration schemes: the 2012 Olympic park in London and the Mediaspree waterside development in Berlin. By analysing how urban regeneration is experienced on the ground, her study counters the notion that Olympic-led regeneration is any different from other forms of neoliberal urban development. Adopting Pierre Bourdieu's view of the social world as made up of competitive "games", an analysis of the two neighbourhoods reveals how the concepts of "culture" and "community" are strategically employed in the "game" of urban regeneration - to the benefit of some and the detriment of others.Trade Review"A book worth reading, which shows the changes in regeneration practices over the last three decades in an exemplary manner and makes it clear that what is considered attractive in the city today has a long history." Felicitas Hillmann, Soziopolis, 23.09.2020, translated from German

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Book SynopsisHow do people live together in cities shaped by inequality? This comparative ethnography of two African cities, Maputo and Johannesburg, presents a new narrative about social life in cities often described as sharply divided. Based on the ethnography of entangled lives unfolding in a township and in a suburb in Johannesburg, in a bairro and in an elite neighborhood in Maputo, the book includes case studies of relations between domestic workers and their employers, failed attempts by urban elites to close off their neighborhoods, and entanglements emerging in religious spaces and in shopping malls. Systematizing comparison as an experience-based method, the book makes an important contribution to urban anthropology, comparative urbanism and urban studies.Trade Review"This very well-written book [...] addresses a number of critical questions to both urban studies and anthropology in doing so. This capacity and willingness to engage conventions within the two disciplines makes the book important, highly readable, and valuable to scholars well beyond those interested in the cities of Maputo and Johannesburg." -- Bjorn Enge Bertelsen, Anthropos, 115 (2020)Table of ContentsAcknowledgements; Introduction; Navigating Belonging?; Intimate Encounters?; A Politics of Loss?; A Politics of Proximity?; Building Communities?; Spaces of Freedom?; Closing Remarks; Postscript: Entangled Comparers; Bibliography.

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Book SynopsisThe challenge of housing is increasingly recognised in international policy discussions in connection to the processes of migration, climate change, and economic globalisation. This book addresses the challenges of housing and emerging solutions along the lines of three major dynamics: migration, climate change, and neo-liberalism. It explores the outcomes of neo-liberal "enabling" ideas, responses to extreme climate events with different housing approaches, and how the dynamics of migration reshape the urban housing provision in a changing world. The aim is to contextualise the theoretical discourses by reflecting on the case study context of the eleven papers published in this book. With forewords by Raquel Rolnik (University Sao Paulo) and Mohammed El Sioufi (UN-Habitat).

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Book SynopsisUrban Resilience is seen by many as a tool to mitigate harm in times of extreme social, political, financial, and environmental stress. Despite its widespread usage, however, resilience is used in different ways by policy makers, activists, academics, and practitioners. Some see it as a key to unlocking a more stable and secure urban future in times of extreme global insecurity; for others, it is a neoliberal technology that marginalizes the voices of already marginal peoples. This volume moves beyond praise and critique by focusing on the actors, narratives and temporalities that define urban resilience in a global context. By exploring the past, present, and future of urban resilience, this volume unlocks the potential of this concept to build more sustainable, inclusive, and secure cities in the 21st century.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements; Contesting Resilience; A Historical Perspective on Resilient Urbanism; North of the Arctic Circle; Growing Resilient Cities; Before 'Resilience'; Building Resilience through Commercial Relations; Enhancing Urban Resilience After the 1995 Kobe Earthquake; Transportation as a Resilience Enhancing Tool; Urban Resilience Has a History: And a Future; Author Bios.

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Book SynopsisIn the past fifty years, port cities around the world have experienced considerable changes to their morphologies and their identities. The increasing intensification of global networks and logistics, and the resulting pressure on human societies and earthly environments have been characteristic of the rise of a "planetary age". This volume engages with contemporary artistic practices and critical poetics that trace an alternate construction of the imaginaries and aspirations of our present societies at the crossroads of sea and land - taking into account complex pasts and interconnected histories, transnational flux, as well as material and immaterial borders.

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Book SynopsisDynamic processes and conflicts are at the core of the urban condition. Against the background of continuous change in cities, concepts and assumptions about spatial transformations have to be constantly re-examined and revised. Norbert Kling explores the rich body of narrative knowledge in architecture and urbanism and confronts this knowledge with an empirically grounded situational analysis of a large housing estate. The outcome of this twofold research approach is the sensitising concept of the Redundant City. It describes a specific form of collectively negotiated urban change.Table of ContentsIntroduction; Research as Situated and Critical Project; Domain-Specific Narratives of Conflict; Domain-Specific Narratives of Change; Intersecting Conflict and Change; Constructing a New Concept of Change; Connecting and Releasing; Appendix.

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