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This is a place of spectacle and ruin, Mumbai exemplifies the cosmopolitan metropolis. It is not just a big city but also a soaring vision of modern urban life. Millions from India and beyond, of different ethnicities, languages, and religions, have washed up on its shores, bringing with them their desires and ambitions. "Mumbai Fables" explores the mythic inner life of this legendary city as seen by its inhabitants, journalists, planners, writers, artists, filmmakers, and political activists. I...

To accompany a series of Thomas Davis lectures on RTE radio, this publication draws on contributions in history, archaeology and historical geography to examine in detail the development of Belfast, Cork, Derry, Galway, Kilkenny, Limerick, Waterford and Dublin. The 15 essays discuss the early and later periods of development of these cities. Contributors include Louis Cullen, Jacinta Prunty, Avril Thomas, Gearoid MacNiocaill and Howard Clarke. Howard Clarke is a co-editor of "The Irish Historic...

Since the 1920s, the United States has seen a dramatic reversal in living patterns, with a majority of Americans now residing in suburbs. This mass emigration from cities is one of the most fundamental social and geographical transformations in recent US history. Suburbanization has not only produced a distinct physical environment-it has become a major defining force in the construction of twentieth-century American culture. Employing over 200 primary sources, illustrations, and critical essa...

From the INTERNATIONALLY RENOWNED author of the modern classic The Death and Life of Great American CitiesNo one did more to change how we look at cities than Jane Jacobs, the visionary urbanist and economic thinker whose 1961 book The Death and Life of Great American Cities started a global conversation that remains profoundly relevant more than half a century later.Vital Little Plans is an essential companion to Death and Life and Jacobs' other books on urbanism, economics, politics, and ethic...

If we are becoming increasingly disconnected from our local communities, are there implications for health, well being and happiness, particularly for people on low incomes? This book looks at the interplay between poor people, poor communities and poor health, with a particular focus on social networks as key linkages.

Today at least twenty-five major U.S. cities have pursued some form of sustainability initiative. Although many case studies and "how-to" manuals have been published, there has been little systematic comparison of these cities' programs and initiatives. In this book Kent Portney lays the theoretical groundwork for research on what works and what does not, and why. Distinguishing cities on the basis of population characteristics and region for his analysis, Portney shows how cities use the broad...

This book presents an exploratory account of the origins and dynamics of cities. The author recounts how the essential foundations of the urbanization process reside in two interrelated forces. These are the tendency for many different kinds of human activity to gather together to form functional complexes on the landscape, and the multifaceted intra-urban space-sorting crosscurrents set in motion by this primary urge. From these basic points of departure, the city in all its fullness emerges as...

The city is widely regarded as the most characteristic expression of the social, cultural and economic formations of the Roman Empire. This was especially true in the Latin-speaking West, where urbanism was much less deeply ingrained than in the Greek-speaking East but where networks of cities grew up during the centuries following conquest and occupation. This well-illustrated synthesis provides students and specialists with an overview of the development of the city in Italy, Gaul, Britain, Ge...

This book provides a comprehensive view of the quality of life of older people from culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) backgrounds living in Australia. The book is unique and significant because the descriptions and arguments presented are based on the lived experience and hence provide deep insights into the complexity and dynamics of CALD older migrants. Key areas of exploration include social connectedness and inclusion, post-retirement economic activities, living arrangement and ho...

Die raumlichen Auswirkungen der europaischen Integration sind sehr vielfaltig und zeigen sich gerade auch in unerwarteten Bereichen. Tobias Chilla reflektiert dies in konzeptioneller Hinsicht und bezieht sich dabei auf drei Fallbeispiele, die der Logik "Punkt-Linie-Flache" folgen. Punkt: Die Suche nach einer "Hauptstadt der EU" hat Brussel und andere Stadte gepragt, ohne dass bis heute offiziell eine EU-Hauptstadt benannt worden ware. Linie: Die Neuausrichtung der sogenannten "Grossregion" um Lu...

Im ersten Teil dieser Untersuchung konfrontiert Theodor Geiger die Klassentheorie des Marxismus mit der Gesellschaftswirklichkeit der industriell-kapitalistischen Gesellschaft: Inwieweit gibt die Lehre des Marxismus ein wirklichkeitsgetreues Bild von der zeitgenoessischen Gesellschaft? In welchen Hinsichten bedarf sie der Korrektur? In welchen Punkten hat sie sich selbst uberlebt, oder ist sie immer fehlerhaft gewesen? Im zweiten Teil unternimmt der Autor eine eigene Deutung der Dynamik der Gese...

There is endless talk about the need for an urban renaissance; can it happen in the real world? In this broad, challenging and highly engaging book, Nicholas Schoon argues that the foremost priority for regeneration is to make neighbourhoods and cities places where people with choices choose to live. The author surveys the last two centuries of metropolitan growth and decay, analyzes the successes and failures of recent changes in urban policy and proposes a wide range of radical measures to mak...

Lauenburg tanzt aus der Reihe. Als Territorium und als Ort. Seinen alten Namen Niedersachsen ubernahm ein Bundesland, dem es nicht angehoert. Einst kannten seine Nachbarherzogtumer Leibeigenschaft, spater starken Nationalsozialismus. Beides war ihm fremd. Frauen standen wichtige Sonderrechte zu. Durch viele Jahrhunderte hindurch hatte der kleine Ort nur eine Kirche, aber funf Burgermeister zugleich. UEber 10.000 Daten zum alten Baubestand durften eine europaische Raritat sein. Familienforschern...

Green infrastructure integrates human and natural systems through a network of corridors and spaces in mixed-use and urban settings. Austin takes a broad look at green infrastructure concepts, research and case studies to provide the student and professional with processes, criteria and data to support planning, design and implementation. Key topics of the book include:The benefits of green infrastructure as a conservation and planning toolRequirements of ecosystem healthGreen infrastructure ec...

This book provides a broad survey of Chinese rural households at a time of rapid change in China's rural economy, examining the dual identity of households as consumers as well as producers of goods in terms of supply and demand. Based on the results of the China Rural Household Panel Survey (CRHPS) by Zhejiang University, this book analyzes four types of economic activities of rural households in China, particularly considering changes at the micro level. It examines how households striv...

For many years, the interrelated histories of prostitution and cities have perked the ears of urban scholars, but until now the history of urban sex work has dealt only in passing with questions of race. In I've Got to Make My Livin', Cynthia Blair explores African American women's sex work in Chicago during the decades of some of the city's most explosive growth, expanding not just our view of prostitution, but also of black women's labor, the Great Migration, black and white reform movements,...