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Serie: Questioning cities
GebondenEngels9780367338404
29-7-2025
Why Transportation Fails offers an in-depth critique of transportation failures in South Africa and beyond. Meer
GebondenEngels9780415776134
27-5-2009
Cities are many things. Among their least appealing aspects, cities are frequently characterized by concentrations of insecurity and exploitation. Cities have also long represented promises of opportunity and liberation. Meer
GebondenEngels9780415816120
9-5-2014
This book will speak to the new human epoch, the Urban Age. A majority of humanity now lives for the first time in cities. The city, the highest invention of the modern age, is now the human heartland. Meer
GebondenEngels9780415368278
22-12-2005
The social and material production of urban nature has recently emerged as an important area in urban studies, human/environmental interactions and social studies. Meer
GebondenEngels9780415486620
30-9-2009
This book takes it as a given that the city is made of multiple partially localized assemblages built of heterogeneous networks, spaces, and practices. Meer
GebondenEngels9780415392716
25-10-2007
The modern metropolis has been called 'the symbol of our times', and life in it epitomizes, for many, modernity itself. But what to make of inherited ideas of modernity when faced with life in Mexico City and São Paulo, two of the largest metropolises in the world? Meer
PaperbackEngels9780415392723
25-10-2007
The modern metropolis has been called 'the symbol of our times', and life in it epitomizes, for many, modernity itself. But what to make of inherited ideas of modernity when faced with life in Mexico City and São Paulo, two of the largest metropolises in the world? Meer
GebondenEngels9780415419475
5-4-2007
Cities, Nationalism, and Democratization provides a theoretically informed, practice-oriented account of intercultural conflict and co-existence in cities. Meer
GebondenEngels9780415287661
16-12-2004
In the modernist city rationality ruled and subsumed difference in a logic of identity. In the postmodern city, reason is abandoned for an endless play of difference. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780415287678
9-12-2004
In the modernist city rationality ruled and subsumed difference in a logic of identity. In the postmodern city, reason is abandoned for an endless play of difference. Meer
GebondenEngels9780415305419
27-5-2004
Exploring the connections between globalization and urbanization, this notable book places particular emphasis on understanding the economic function of global cities, the political process of globalizing cities, and the cultural significance of cosmopolitan cities. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780415305426
27-5-2004
Exploring the connections between globalization and urbanization, this notable book places particular emphasis on understanding the economic function of global cities, the political process of globalizing cities, and the cultural significance of cosmopolitan cities. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780415312288
22-6-2006
Some cities have grown into mega cities and some into uncontrolled sprawl; others have seen their centres decline with populations moving to the suburbs. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780415512602
22-3-2012
Despite traditionally being a strong research topic in urban studies, inter-city relations had become grossly neglected until recently, when it was placed back on the research agenda with the advent of studies of world/global cities. Meer
GebondenEngels9780415304870
8-12-2005
With the urbanization of the world's population proceeding apace and the equally rapid urbanization of poverty, urban theory has an urgent challenge to meet if it is to remain relevant to the majority of cities and their populations, many of which are outside the West. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780415304887
8-12-2005
With the urbanization of the world's population proceeding apace and the equally rapid urbanization of poverty, urban theory has an urgent challenge to meet if it is to remain relevant to the majority of cities and their populations, many of which are outside the West. Meer
GebondenEngels9780415409841
23-11-2006
Despite traditionally being a strong research topic in urban studies, inter-city relations had become grossly neglected until recently, when it was placed back on the research agenda with the advent of studies of world/global cities. Meer
GebondenEngels9780415482141
29-7-2009
What connects garbage dumps in New York, bomb sites in Baghdad, and skyscrapers in São Paulo? How is contemporary visual culture – extending from art and architecture to film and digital media – responding to new forms of violence associated with global and globalizing cities? Meer
GebondenEngels9780415312271
22-6-2006
Some cities have grown into mega cities and some into uncontrolled sprawl; others have seen their centres decline with populations moving to the suburbs. Meer
GebondenEngels9780415366526
2-3-2006
From the verticals of New York, Hong Kong and Singapore to the sprawls of London, Paris and Jakarta, this interdisciplinary volume of new writing examines constructions, representations, imaginations and theorizations of 'cityscapes' in modern and contemporary culture. Meer