Wiley-Blackwell, 2015. — 260 p. Series Editors’ Preface Introduction: Globalisation and the Coming Age of New Barbarians? Upper-Middle Classes in European Cities Globalisation, Transnationalism and Mobility in European Cities Does Globalisation Induce ‘Exit’ Strategies? Mobility and the Weakening of Local Ties in the Urban Context Upper-Middle Classes: ‘Exit’ and Urban...
A Multidisciplinary Italian–Pakistani Project. Springer International Publishing, Switzerland, 2014. — 301 p. — ISBN 978-3-319-02116-4. Sustainable social, economic and environmental revitalization in the city of Multan. This publication concerns studies, programmes and designs for the project Sustainable Social Economic and Environmental Revitalization in the historic core of...
Baltimore, Maryland, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2020. 184p. ISBN: 9781421438436. We have been taught to think of ruins as historical artifacts, relegated to the past by a catastrophic event. Instead, Martin Devecka argues that we should see them as processes taking place over a long present. In Broken Cities, Devecka offers a wide-ranging comparative study of ruination,...
Routledge, 2004. — 208 p. In his compelling follow-up to The Rise of the Creative Class, Richard Florida outlines how certain cities succeed in attracting members of the 'creative class' - the millions of people who work in information-age economic sectors and in industries driven by innovation and talent.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2014. — 292 p. — ISBN10: 022627540X; ISBN13: 978-0226275406 Forty years in, the War on Drugs has done almost nothing to prevent drugs from being sold or used, but it has nonetheless created a little-known surveillance state in America’s most disadvantaged neighborhoods. Arrest quotas and high-tech surveillance techniques criminalize entire...
An imprint of Elsevier Science, 2001. — 230 p. — (Research in Urban Sociology). — ISBN: 076230541X. The purpose of this volume to help clarify conceptual and theoretical issues, furnish relevant empirical data, and illuminate empirical relationships between the phenomenon of redevelopment and broader process of urban and global change. In the first section of this introduction,...
Routledge, 2012. — 886 p. List of case studies Introducing cities and sexualities The moral geographies of sex Domesticating sex Public sex On the town: pleasure and leisure in the nocturnal city Consuming sex: pornographies and adult entertainment World cities of sex
Routledge, 2019. — 322 p. — ISBN: 0815348681. The era of the smart city has arrived. Only a decade ago, the promise of optimising urban services through the widespread application of information and communication technologies was largely a techno-utopian fantasy. Today, smart urbanisation is occurring via urban projects, policies and visions in hundreds of cities around the...
Blackwell Publishing, 2005. - 354 p. Introduction: Contemporary Issues in Urban Sociology Part one: Recent Theoretical Perspectives on Cities and Society The City as a Growth Machine: Toward a Political Economy of Place Harvey Molotch Urban Restructuring: A Critical View John R. Logan and Todd Swanstrom Space and Status Daphne Spain Los Angeles and the Chicago School:...
Basic Books, 1973. — 223 p. — ISBN10: 046509242X; ISBN13: 978-0465092420. In traditional human societies, the stranger was a threat, to be disarmed at once by an act of force or by a ritual of hospitality. Under no conditions could a stranger be ignored or taken for granted. Yet in all great cities today, human beings seem to live out their entire lives in "a world of...
Palgrave, 2006. — xi, 259 p. Neighbourhoods of Poverty is concerned with the spatial dimension of urban social exclusion and integration. It draws on research from twenty-two neighbourhoods in eleven European cities: Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Brussels, Antwerp, London, Birmingham, Berlin, Hamburg, Milan, Naples and Paris and addresses two questions: - How do different...
SAGE Publications, 1978. — 207 p. Urbanization and underdevelopment Urbanization and development Dependent development Urbanization in the advanced capitalist countries Urbanization and underdevelopment before the modern period The colonial period Increasing integration into the European economy Divergent trends in national and regional development Urbanization and...
SAGE Publications, 1978. — 207 p. Urbanization and underdevelopment Urbanization and development Dependent development Urbanization in the advanced capitalist countries Urbanization and underdevelopment before the modern period The colonial period Increasing integration into the European economy Divergent trends in national and regional development Urbanization and...
Thousand Oaks, London, New Delhi: Pine Forge Press. 2000. 200 p. ISBN: 0-7619-8696-0 (cloth: a l k . paper); ISBN: 0-761-9-8666-9 (pbk.: alk. paper). Cities in a World Economy presents sociologists with a new perspective on the study of urban sociology. The decentralization and privatization of the world's economies has radically altered such things as the organization of...
Cheltenham, UK, Northampton, MA, USA. Edward Elgar Publishing, 2021. 162p. ISBN: 978 1 78897 957 3. Leading mobilities theorist Mimi Sheller offers an up-to-date, comprehensive analysis of the complex mobility disruptions of the COVID-19 pandemic and its aftermath in this timely Advanced Introduction. It outlines the formation of the interdisciplinary field of mobility studies,...
Wiley-Blackwell, 2010. — 318 p. List of Plates, Figures and Tables Series Editor’s Preface Preface and Acknowledgements Domesticating Neo-Liberalism and the Spaces of Post-Socialism Neo-Liberalism and Post-Socialist Transformations Domesticating Economies: Diverse Economic Practices, Households and Social Reproduction Work: Employment, Unemployment and the Negotiation of Labour...
Routledge, 2007. — 238 p. This international and illustrated work challenges current writings focussing on the problems of urban public space to present a more nuanced and dialectical conception of urban life. Detailed and extensive international urban case studies show how urban open spaces are used for play, which is defined and discussed using Caillois' four-part definition...
Johns Hopkins University Press, 1982. — 212 p. Since its initial publication, Loft Living has become the classic analysis of the emergence of artists as a force of gentrification and the related rise of “creative city” policies around the world. Sharon Zukin reveals the economic shifts and cultural transformations that brought widespread attention to artists as lifestyle models...
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