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Volume 2: Housing and Home

de Alma Clavin, Niamh Moore-Cherry, Carla Maria Kayanan, Faryal Diwan, Samadrita Das, Kamalika Banerjee, Sher Afgan Tareen, Amanda Furiasse, Dennis Archambault, Claudia Sanford, Tam Perry, Rosalie Warnock, Julia de Kadt, Alexandra Parker, Brian Robson, Dillon Newton, Leanne Monchuk, Rachel Armitage, Philip Brown, Yu Wang, Guanyu Jason Ran, Liangni Sally Liu, Lukas Stevens, Wescley Xavier, Luca Maria Francesco Fabris, Federico Camerin, Yuvacan Atmaca, Zeynep Atas, Phil Hubbard, Loretta Lees, Derek Hyra, Rebecca Tunstall ...

Series series Global Reflections on COVID-19 and Urban Inequalities
The COVID-19 pandemic was not a great ‘equaliser’, but rather an event whose impact intersected with pre-existing inequalities affecting different people, places, and geographic scales. Nowhere is this more apparent than in housing.Written by an international group of experts, this book casts light on how the virus has impacted the experience of home and housing through the lens of wider urban ... Leer más

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The COVID-19 pandemic was not a great ‘equaliser’, but rather an event whose impact intersected with pre-existing inequalities affecting different people, places, and geographic scales. Nowhere is this more apparent than in housing.Written by an international group of experts, this book casts light on how the virus has impacted the experience of home and housing through the lens of wider urban
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Volume 4: Policy and Planning

de Richard Shearmur, Maurilio Pirone, Mattia Frapporti, Sandro Mezzadra, Rebecca Mayers, Manuel Garcia Ruiz, Rosa Danenberg, Oleg Golubchikov, Geoff Deverteuil, Christiane Stephan, Mario Schmidt, Eric Kioko, Mohamed Munas, Lothar Smith, Dilshani N. Ranawaka, Maxwell Hartt, Samantha J. Norberg, Julie Kearns, Maliha Majeed, Barry Pendergast, Özgür Sayın, Savaş Zafer Şahin, Claudia González-Muzzio, Vicente Sandoval, Carmen Paz Castro, Carlos Cadena-Gaitán, Alejandro Álvarez-Vanegas, María Flórez-Munoz, Jagath Munasinghe, Michael Martin, Julie Rudner, G.R. Ratnayake, Shauna Brail, Kerstin Stark, Julia Schuppan, Ariane Kehlbacher, Laura Gebhardt, Julia Jarass, Wojciech Kębłowski, Louise Sträuli, Tonio Weicker, Peter Timko, Wladimir Sgibnev, Marcus Finbom, Tauri Tuvikene, Jonathan Gross, Tamsyn Dent, Roberta Comunian, Per Gunnar Røe, Lars Böcker, Elling Oftedal, Paola Pucci, Giovanni Lanza, Bruna Vendemmia, Roger Keil, Samantha Biglieri, Lorenzo De Vidovich, Julian Iacobelli ...

Series series Global Reflections on COVID-19 and Urban Inequalities
Cities play a major role in tackling the COVID-19 pandemic as many measures are adopted at the scale of cities and involve adjustments to the way urban areas operate.Drawing from case studies across the globe, this book explores how the pandemic and the policies it has prompted have caused changes in the ways cities function. The contributors examine the advancing social inequality brought on by ... Leer más

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Cities play a major role in tackling the COVID-19 pandemic as many measures are adopted at the scale of cities and involve adjustments to the way urban areas operate.Drawing from case studies across the globe, this book explores how the pandemic and the policies it has prompted have caused changes in the ways cities function. The contributors examine the advancing social inequality brought on by
... Leer más
Streetcars and the Shifting Geographies of Toronto

A Visual Analysis of Change

de Brian Doucet, Michael Doucet ...

When looking at old pictures of Toronto, it is clear that the city’s urban, economic, and social geography has changed dramatically over the generations. Historic photos of Toronto’s streetcar network offer a unique opportunity to examine how the city has been transformed from a provincial, industrial city into one of North America’s largest and most diverse regions.Streetcars and the Shifting ... Leer más

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When looking at old pictures of Toronto, it is clear that the city’s urban, economic, and social geography has changed dramatically over the generations. Historic photos of Toronto’s streetcar network offer a unique opportunity to examine how the city has been transformed from a provincial, industrial city into one of North America’s largest and most diverse regions.Streetcars and the Shifting
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Volume 1: Community and Society

de Sarah Turner, Nguyen N. Binh, Abdellatif Qamhaieh, Carolina Sternberg, Sheere Kadez Brooks, Ferhan Gezici, Cansu İlhan, Prajwal Nagesh, Ajay Bailey, Sobin George, Lekha Subaiya, Hanna A. Ruszczyk, M. Feisal Rahman, Olga Matveieva, Vasil Navumau, Charlotte Lemanski, Jiska de Groot, Jeremy Auerbach, Jordin Clark, Solange Muñoz, Roberto Rocco, Higor Carvalho, Luciana Royer, Beatriz Kara-José, Ellen Bal, Lorraine Nencel, Hosna J. Shewly, Sanjeeb Drong, Nurul Azreen Azlan, Diotima Chattoraj, AKM Ahsan Ullah, Mallik Akram Hossain, Sallie Yea, Robin Mazumder, Richardson Dilworth, Timothy P.R. Weaver, Jolanda Lindenberg, Paul van de Vijver, Lieke de Kock, David van Bodegom, Niels Bartels, Magdalena Svetlana Rodekirchen, Sawyer Phinney, Rebekah Graham, Bridgette Masters-Awatere, Chrissie Cowan, Rose Wilkinson, Amanda Stevens ...

Series series Global Reflections on COVID-19 and Urban Inequalities
Our experiences of the city are dependent on our gender, race, class, age, ability, and sexual orientation. It was already clear before the pandemic that cities around the world were divided and becoming increasingly unequal. The pandemic has torn back the curtain on many of these pre-existing inequalities.Contributions to this volume engage directly with different urban communities around the ... Leer más

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Our experiences of the city are dependent on our gender, race, class, age, ability, and sexual orientation. It was already clear before the pandemic that cities around the world were divided and becoming increasingly unequal. The pandemic has torn back the curtain on many of these pre-existing inequalities.Contributions to this volume engage directly with different urban communities around the
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Volume 3: Public Space and Mobility

de Neluka Leanage, Deden Rukmana, Harya S Dillon, Nicholas Scott, Quoc Dinh Phuong, Lakshmi Priyara Jendran, Eunice Castro Seixas, João Teixeira Lopes, Lígia Ferro, Alice Corble, Louise Meijering, Arlinde Dul, Tess Osborne, Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris, Setha Low, Peter Massini, Meredith Whitten, Rubén Casas, Anaid Yerena, Conor Wilson, Julian Dobson, Lucas Melgaço, Mattias de Backer, Stijn Oosterlynck, Luce Beeckmans, Amelia Thorpe, Alexandra Flynn, Ute Lehrer, Loren March ...

Series series Global Reflections on COVID-19 and Urban Inequalities
COVID-19 is an invisible threat that has hugely impacted cities and their inhabitants. Yet its impact is very visible, perhaps most so in urban public spaces and spaces of mobility.This international volume explores the transformations of public space and public transport in response to COVID-19 across the world, both those resulting from official governmental regulations and from everyday ... Leer más

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COVID-19 is an invisible threat that has hugely impacted cities and their inhabitants. Yet its impact is very visible, perhaps most so in urban public spaces and spaces of mobility.This international volume explores the transformations of public space and public transport in response to COVID-19 across the world, both those resulting from official governmental regulations and from everyday
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Why Detroit Matters

Decline, Renewal and Hope in a Divided City

de Tyree Guyton, Friso Wiersum, Drew Philp, Jessica Brooke Williams, Khalil Ligon, Dan Kinkead, Jessica Care Moore, Julia Sattler, Jason Roche, Kimberley Kinder, Joshua Akers, Rene Kreichauf, Reynolds Farley, George Galster ...

Detroit has come to symbolise deindustrialization and the challenges, and opportunities, it presents. As many cities struggle with urban decline, racial and ethnic tensions and the consequences of neoliberal governance and political fragmentation, Detroit’s relevance grows stronger.Why Detroit Matters bridges academic and non-academic responses to this extreme example of a fractured and divided, ... Leer más

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Detroit has come to symbolise deindustrialization and the challenges, and opportunities, it presents. As many cities struggle with urban decline, racial and ethnic tensions and the consequences of neoliberal governance and political fragmentation, Detroit’s relevance grows stronger.Why Detroit Matters bridges academic and non-academic responses to this extreme example of a fractured and divided,
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Social Work and the COVID-19 Pandemic

International Insights

de Sarah Banks, Nicos Trimikliniotis, Lindsey German, Lee Humber, Teloni Dimitra-Dora, Sug Pyo Kim, Linda Harms Smith, Yasmin Jessie Turton, Raed Amira, Roberta Uchoa, Gianinna Muñoz Arce, Dawn Belkin Martinez, Rory Truell, Silvana Martinez ...

As the world grapples with the complex impacts of COVID-19, this book provides an urgent critical exploration of how Social Work can and should respond to this global crisis.The book considers the ecological, epidemiological, ideological and political conditions which gave rise to the pandemic, before examining the ways that social work has responded in different nations across the Global North ... Leer más

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As the world grapples with the complex impacts of COVID-19, this book provides an urgent critical exploration of how Social Work can and should respond to this global crisis.The book considers the ecological, epidemiological, ideological and political conditions which gave rise to the pandemic, before examining the ways that social work has responded in different nations across the Global North
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Political Philosophy in a Pandemic

Routes to a More Just Future

Edición de Fay Niker, Aveek Bhattacharya ...

Government lockdowns, school closures, mass unemployment, health and wealth inequality.Political Philosophy in a Pandemic asks us, where do we go from here? What are the ethics of our response to a radically changed, even more unequal society, and how do we seize the moment for enduring change?Addressing the moral and political implications of pandemic response from states and societies worldwide, ... Leer más

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Government lockdowns, school closures, mass unemployment, health and wealth inequality.Political Philosophy in a Pandemic asks us, where do we go from here? What are the ethics of our response to a radically changed, even more unequal society, and how do we seize the moment for enduring change?Addressing the moral and political implications of pandemic response from states and societies worldwide,
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Urban Mobilities in the Global South

Edición de Tanu Priya Uteng, Karen Lucas ...

Series series Transport and Mobility
The book considers urban mobilities and immobilities in the Global South through an exploration of the theoretical and methodological entry points that can be used to further the agenda of transport planning. Transport system improvements can (and do) have complex and unequal impacts on different sectors of society. Conventional approaches to analysing travel demand and transport system ... Leer más

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The book considers urban mobilities and immobilities in the Global South through an exploration of the theoretical and methodological entry points that can be used to further the agenda of transport planning. Transport system improvements can (and do) have complex and unequal impacts on different sectors of society. Conventional approaches to analysing travel demand and transport system
... Leer más
Education Policies in the 21st Century

Comparative Perspectives

Edición de Birol Akgün, Yusuf Alpaydın ...

Series series Maarif Global Education Series
This open access book explores the agenda of education policies in the 21st century. In the first part of the book, education is handled from a historical and political framework, and the effects of the change of states and policies on education are examined. In the second part, the effects of changes in the economy on education policies and economies’ demands from educational institutions are ... Leer más

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This open access book explores the agenda of education policies in the 21st century. In the first part of the book, education is handled from a historical and political framework, and the effects of the change of states and policies on education are examined. In the second part, the effects of changes in the economy on education policies and economies’ demands from educational institutions are
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Health Crises and Media Discourses in Sub-Saharan Africa

Edición de Carol Azungi Dralega, Angella Napakol ...

Series series Social Sciences (R0)
This is an open access book which brings together leading scholars and critical discourses on political, economic, legal, technological, socio-cultural and systemic changes and continuities intersecting media and health crises in Sub-Saharan Africa. The volume extensively discusses COVID-19 but it also covers other epidemics, such as malaria, HIV/AIDS as well as “silent” health crises such as ... Leer más

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This is an open access book which brings together leading scholars and critical discourses on political, economic, legal, technological, socio-cultural and systemic changes and continuities intersecting media and health crises in Sub-Saharan Africa. The volume extensively discusses COVID-19 but it also covers other epidemics, such as malaria, HIV/AIDS as well as “silent” health crises such as
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Urban Governance in the Realm of Complexity

Edición de Meine Pieter van Dijk ...

The challenge in the face of growing urban complexity is to foster new forms of urban governance through collective action, urban governance networks, and new forms of multi-level governance. New approaches to urban governance are arising to stand alongside technical or management solutions. Governance structures based around interest groups and issues are important new players in the urban ... Leer más

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The challenge in the face of growing urban complexity is to foster new forms of urban governance through collective action, urban governance networks, and new forms of multi-level governance. New approaches to urban governance are arising to stand alongside technical or management solutions. Governance structures based around interest groups and issues are important new players in the urban
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