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  • The Spatial Logic of Informal Urbanism

    Inventraset Assemblages

    by Kim Dovey, Redento B. Recio ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    Highly informalized cities of the global South are often portrayed as chaotic and out of control - this book reveals a spatial logic of informal urbanism that is central to the economic life and livelihoods of such cities. 'Inventraset' is a concept that shows how informal street vending, transport and settlement are fundamentally integrated with each other and the more formal city. Street vending ... Read more

    $57.69 CAD

  • COVID-19 and informal workers in Asian cities

    Impact, response, and implications for urban recovery

    Edited by Redento B. Recio, Kazi Nazrul Fattah, Nausheen H. Anwar, Noman Ahmed, Iderlina Mateo-Babiano, Michele Acuto, Ian Jayson Hecita, Shiva Nouri ...
    Series series Regional Studies Policy Impact Books
    As COVID-19 took hold across local and international borders in 2020 and 2021, over 1.6 billion informal workers were estimated to have been adversely impacted by mobility restrictions and other 'lockdown' measures to tackle the coronavirus crisis. In the Global South, the pandemic has severely affected the sprawling megacities in Southeast and South Asia that have been driving urbanisation, and ... Read more

    $27.47 CAD

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  • Future City

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  • The South Asia to Gulf Migration Governance Complex

    Edited by Crystal A. Ennis, Nicolas Blarel ...
    EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.The Gulf is a major global destination for migrant workers, with a majority of these workers coming from South Asia. In this book, a team of international contributors examine the often-overlooked complex governance of this migration corridor.Going beyond state-centric analysis, the contributors present a multi-layered account of the ... Read more

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  • Seductions of Place

    Geographical Perspectives on Globalization and Touristed Landscapes

    Edited by Carolyn Cartier, Alan A Lew ...
    Series series Critical Geographies
    The seductiveness of touristed landscapes is simultaneously local and global, as travelled places are formed and reworked by the activities of diverse, mobile people, in their desires to experience situated, sensuous qualities of difference. Cartier and Lew’s interesting and informative book explores contemporary issues in travel and tourism and human geography, and the complex cultural, political ... Read more

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  • Toronto

    Transformations in a City and Its Region

    by Edward Relph ...
    Series series Metropolitan Portraits
    Extending a hundred miles across south-central Ontario, Toronto is the fifth largest metropolitan area in North America, with the highest population density and the busiest expressway. At its core old Toronto consists of walkable neighborhoods and a financial district deeply connected to the global economy. Newer parts of the region have downtown centers linked by networks of arterial roads and ... Read more

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  • Museum Frictions

    Public Cultures/Global Transformations

    Edited by Ivan Karp, Corinne A. Kratz, Lynn Szwaja, Tomas Ybarra-Frausto ...
    Museum Frictions is the third volume in a bestselling series on culture, society, and museums. The first two volumes in the series, Exhibiting Cultures and Museums and Communities, have become defining books for those interested in the politics of museum display and heritage sites. Another classic in the making, Museum Frictions is a lavishly illustrated examination of the significant and varied ... Read more

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  • Publicity and the Canadian State

    Critical Communications Perspectives

    Edited by Kirsten Kozolanka ...
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  • Sidewalk City

    Remapping Public Space in Ho Chi Minh City

    by Annette Miae Kim ...
    For most, the term "public space" conjures up images of large, open areas: community centers for meetings and social events; the ancient Greek agora for political debates; green parks for festivals and recreation. In many of the world's major cities, however, public spaces like these are not a part of the everyday lives of the public. Rather, business and social lives have always been conducted ... Read more

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    Spaces of Solidarity and Spaces of Exception

    Edited by Anna Triandafyllidou ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This open access book discusses the socio-political context of the COVID-19 crisis and questions the management of the pandemic emergency with special reference to how this affected the governance of migration and asylum. The book offers critical insights on the impact of the pandemic on migrant workers in different world regions including North America, Europe and Asia.The book addresses several ... Read more

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  • Urban Design Thinking

    A Conceptual Toolkit

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