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Seeing the city digitally
This book explores what's happening to ways of seeing urban spaces in the contemporary moment, when so many of the technologies through which cities are visualised are digital. Cities have always been pictured, in many media and for many different purposes. This edited collection explores how that picturing is changing in an era of digital visual culture. Analogue visual technologies like film …
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- 9789048551927
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- 307.76 SEE
Care and the city : encounters with urban studies
Care and the City is a cross-disciplinary collection of chapters examining urban social spaces, in which caring and uncaring practices intersect and shape people’s everyday lives. While asking how care and uncare are embedded in the urban condition, the book focuses on inequalities in caring relations and the ways they are acknowledged, reproduced, and overcome in various spaces, discourses, …
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- 10
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- 9781003031536
- Collation
- 254p
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- 307.76 CAR A
Unsettled urban space : routines, temporalities and contestations
While urban life can be characterized by endeavors to settle stable and safe environments, for many people, urban space is rarely stable or safe; it is uncertain, troubled, imbued with challenges and perpetually under pressure. As the concept of unsettled appears to define the contemporary urban experience, this multidisciplinary book investigates the conflicts and possibilities of settling and…
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- 3
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- 9780367258610
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- xix, 313p.
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- 307.1216 UNS v
Shaping urban futures in Mongolia : Ulaanbaatar, dynamic ownership and econom…
What can the generative processes of dynamic ownership reveal about how the urban is experienced, understood and made in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia? Shaping Urban Futures in Mongolia provides an ethnography of actions, strategies and techniques that form part of how residents precede and underwrite the owning of real estate property – including apartments and land – in a rapidly changing city. I…
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- 9781787351523
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- xv, 167 p. ill;
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- 307.7609517 SHA R
New Islamic urbanism : the architecture of public and private space in Jeddah…
Since the dawn of the oil era, cities in Saudi Arabia have witnessed rapid growth and profound societal changes. As a response to foreign architectural solutions and the increasing popularity of Western lifestyles, a distinct style of architecture and urban planning has emerged. Characterised by an emphasis on privacy, expressed through high enclosures, gates, blinds, and tinted windows, ‘New…
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- 9781787356429
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- xvii, 239 p. ill;
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- 720.9538 NEW S
Smart Cities in Asia: regulations, problems, and development
This open access book examines different aspects of smart cities, including technology, urban development, sustainable development, finance, and privacy and data protection. It also covers a wide range of jurisdictions in Asia-Pacific: Hong Kong, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam. The book consists of two main parts. The first part includes general chapters that conceptualiz…
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- 3
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9789811917011
- Collation
- ix; 124p; ill.
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- -
- Call Number
- 307.12160951 SMA T
Leading cities : a global review of city leadership
Leading Cities is a global review of the state of city leadership and urban governance today. Drawing on research into 202 cities in 100 countries, the book provides a broad, international evidence base grounded in the experiences of all types of cities. It offers a scholarly but also practical assessment of how cities are led, what challenges their leaders face, and the ways in which this lead…
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- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781787355453
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- xiii, 119p. ill;
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- 320.85 LEA E
CONTEMPORARY ARCHAEOLOGY OF LONDONS MEGA EVENTS : from the great exhibition t…
A Contemporary Archaeology of London’s Mega Events explores the traces of London’s most significant modern ‘mega events’. Though only open for a few weeks or months, mega events permanently and disruptively reshape their host cities and societies: they demolish and rebuild whole districts, they draw in materials and participants from around the globe and their organisers self-consciousl…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781787358447
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- xiii, 279 p. ill;
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- 942.100909 CON J
Contemporary Housing Struggles : A Structural Field of Contention Approach
This Open Access book provides a comparative study of housing contention in Budapest and Bucharest in 2008-2021. The financialization of housing and the resulting inequalities, expulsions and social contention are a central characteristic of today’s capitalist crisis. These two East European cities that fall outside the usual focus of urban movements research provide an illuminating case of s…
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- -
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- 9783030974053
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- ix, 243 p.
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- -
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- 361.61 CON L
Creative spaces urban culture and marginality in latin america
Creative Spaces: Urban Culture and Marginality is an interdisciplinary exploration of the different ways in which marginal urban spaces have become privileged locations for creativity in Latin America. The essays within the collection reassess dominant theoretical notions of ‘marginality’ in the region and argue that, in contemporary society, it invariably allows for (if not leads to) the p…
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- edision 11
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- 9781908857699
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- vii. ;ill. ;280 p.
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- -
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- 307.76098. CRE n
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