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Mapping society : the spatial dimensions of social cartography
From a rare map of yellow fever in eighteenth-century New York, to Charles Booth’s famous maps of poverty in nineteenth-century London, an Italian racial zoning map of early twentieth-century Asmara, to a map of wealth disparities in the banlieues of twenty-first-century Paris, Mapping Society traces the evolution of social cartography over the past two centuries. In this richly illustrated b…
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- 25
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781787353053
- Collation
- xix, 268p.; ill.
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 526 MAP v
The life and afterlife of gay neighborhoods : renaissance and resurgence
This open access book examines the significance of gay neighborhoods (or ‘gayborhoods’) from critical periods of formation during the gay liberation and freedom movements of the 1960s and 1970s, to proven durability through the HIV/AIDS pandemic during the 1980s and 1990s, to a mature plateau since 2000. The book provides a framework for contemplating the future form and function of gay nei…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783030660734
- Collation
- 427 p ; ill
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 306.766 LIF
Citizenship, democracy and belonging in suburban Britain : making the local
A study of the conditions of being a citizen, belonging and democracy in suburban Britain, this book focuses on understanding how a community takes on the social responsibility and pressures of being a good citizen through what they call ‘stupid’ events, festivals and parades. Building a community is perceived to be an important and necessary act to enable resilience against the perceived t…
- Edition
- 9
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781800080539
- Collation
- xvii, 210p.
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 323.60941 CIT j
Imagining the Future City : London 2062
London is one of the world’s leading cities. It is home to an extraordinary concentration and diversity of people, industries, politics, religions and ideas, and plays an important role in our highly globalised and tightly networked modern world. What does the future hold for London? Investigating any aspect of the city’s future reveals a complex picture of interrelations and dependencies. …
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781909188198
- Collation
- vi, 194 p.
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 303.49421 IMA S
Housing Estates in the Baltic Countries : The Legacy of Central Planning in E…
This open access book focuses on the formation and later socio-spatial trajectories of large housing estates in the Baltic countries—Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. It also explores claims that a distinctly “westward-looking orientation” in their design produced housing estates that were superior in design to those produced elsewhere in the Soviet Union (between 1944 and 1991, Estonia was…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783030233921
- Collation
- xviii, 383 p.
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 307.76809479 HOU D
Platformisation of Urban Life : Towards a Technocapitalist Transformation of …
The increasing platformization of urban life needs critical perspectives to examine changing everyday practices and power shifts brought about by the expansion of digital platforms mediating care-services, housing, and mobility. This book addresses new modes of producing urban spaces and societies. It brings both platform researchers and activists from various fields related to critical urban s…
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- 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783837659641
- Collation
- 304p.
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 300 PLA s
The Berlin Reader; A Compendium On Urban Change And Activism
By drawing together widely dispersed yet central writings, the Berlin Reader is an essential resource for everyone interested in urban development in one of the most interesting and important metropolises in Europe. It provides scholars as well as students, journalists and visitors with an overview of the most central discussions on the tremendous changes Berlin experienced since the fall of th…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783839424780
- Collation
- -
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- -
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Paris-Amsterdam underground : essays on cultural resistance, subversion, and …
The postwar histories of Paris and Amsterdam have been significantly defined by the notion of the “underground” as both a material and metaphorical space. Examining the underground traffic between the two cities, this book interrogates the countercultural histories of Paris and Amsterdam in the mid to late-twentieth century. Shuttling between Paris and Amsterdam, as well as between postwar …
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9789048518203
- Collation
- 196 p. : ill.
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 307.760944361 LIN p
City of crisis : the multiple contestation of southern European cities
The ongoing crisis in Europe has dramatic impact on the life in many Southern European cities: Unemployment, social deprivation, poverty, political instability, severe cuts in the welfare state budgets and a wide spread feeling of despair have eroded much of the social foundation of the cities. In this book, contributors from Spain, Greece, Portugal and Italy provide an insight into the complex…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783839428429
- Collation
- 249 p. : ill.
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 337.142 ECK c
Neighbourhoods in transition : brownfield regeneration in European metropolit…
This open access book is focused on the intersection between urban brownfields and the sustainability transitions of metropolitan areas, cities and neighbourhoods. It provides both a theoretical and practical approach to the topic, offering a thorough introduction to urban brownfields and regeneration projects as well as an operational monitoring tool. Neighbourhoods in Transition begins with a…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783030822088
- Collation
- xxi, 248p. : ill.
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 307.3416094 REY n
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