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  • Transforming Asian Cities

    Intellectual impasse, Asianizing space, and emerging translocalities

    Edited by Nihal Perera, Wing-Shing Tang ...
    While there is no lack of studies on Asian cities, the majority focus on financial districts, poverty, the slum, tradition, tourism, and pollution, and use the modern, affluent, and transforming Western city as the reference point. This vast Asian empirical presence is not complemented by a theoretical presence; academic discourses overlook common and basic urban processes, particularly the ... Read more

    $101.68 CAD

  • Urban China Reframed

    A Critical Appreciation

    Edited by Wing-Shing Tang, Kam Wing Chan ...
    Given China’s rapid economic growth and massive urbanization, no one in the world can ignore what is happening in urban China. This book is a critical review of existing urban China research, which is found wanting due to the decontextualized use of theories and concepts developed in the West.Urban China Reframed: A Critical Appreciation consists of epistemological, theoretical and methodological ... Read more

    $86.56 CAD

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  • Welcome to the Urban Revolution

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  • The Social Roots of Risk

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  • The New Urban Question

    by Andy Merrifield ...
    The New Urban Question is an exuberant and illuminating adventure through our current global urban condition, tracing the connections between radical urban theory and political activism.From Haussmann's attempts to use urban planning to rid 19th-century Paris of workers revolution to the contemporary metropolis, including urban disaster-zones such as downtown Detroit, Merrifield reveals how the ... Read more

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  • Understanding China's Urbanization

    The Great Demographic, Spatial, Economic, and Social Transformation

    by Li Zhang, Richard LeGates, Min Zhao ...
    China's urbanization is one of the great earth-changing phenomena of recent times. The way in which China continues to urbanize will have a critical impact on the world economy, global climate change, international relations and a host of other critical issues. Understanding and responding to China's urbanization is of paramount importance to everyone. This book represents a unique exploration of ... Read more

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  • The Sociology of Space

    Materiality, Social Structures, and Action

    by Martina Löw ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    In this book, the author develops a relational concept of space that encompasses social structure, the material world of objects and bodies, and the symbolic dimension of the social world. Löw’s guiding principle is the assumption that space emerges in the interplay between objects, structures and actions. Based on a critical discussion of classic theories of space, Löw develops a new dynamic ... Read more

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  • The Vulnerability of Cities

    Natural Disasters and Social Resilience

    by Mark Pelling ...
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  • Municipalities and Community Participation

    A Sourcebook for Capacity Building

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  • Shaping Urban Infrastructures

    Intermediaries and the Governance of Socio-Technical Networks

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  • Landscape Balance and Landscape Assessment

    Edited by Rudolf Krönert, Uta Steinhardt, Martin Volk ...
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