Creativity and Time: A Sociological Exploration
This book defends that the pursuit of originality constitutes one of the most important characteristics of creativity, but that originality refers, etymologically, to both origin and originary. Hen…
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- 978-3-030-84838-5
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- viii, 221p.:ill
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- -
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- 301 Car c
History and Regional Area Studies of Hachioji
This book looks at the case study of Hachioji as a major transit hub with a world-class public transportation system in Japan. It tracks how Tokyo slowly expands into its suburban, rural or sub-rur…
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- 978-981-16-6178-5
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- xiii, 109p.:ill
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- -
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- 307.7 Lim h
Governing Cities
In our urban world, cities are where most of us experience how our economies and societies are organised and the inequalities which result. This textbook introduces ideas, theories, concepts …
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- 978-3-030-72621-8
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- xi, 183p.:ill
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- -
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- 307.76 Pil g
Housing Movements in Rome
This book explores contemporary challenges of housing movement organizations, looking specifically at the case of Rome, Italy. The work identifies conditions that allow the re-composition of a clas…
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- 978-981-16-2738-5
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- Palgrave Macmillan Singapore
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- Alternatives and Futures: Cultures, Practices, Activism and Utopias
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- 307.7 Cac h
Critical Landscape Planning during the Belt and Road Initiative
This open access book traces the development of landscapes along the 414-kilometer China–Laos Railway, one of the first infrastructure projects implemented under China’s Belt and Road Initiativ…
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- 1
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- 978-981-16-4067-4
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- xii, 249p.:ill
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- -
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- 307.7 Kel c
Gentrification
This essential presents the state of urban research on gentrification in a condensed form. This term, which has been used in the scientific community since the 1960s, has now also become establishe…
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- 1
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- 978-3-658-32406-3
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- ix, 37p.:ill
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- essentials
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- 307.76 Eck g
A Social History of Sheffield Boxing, Volume I
A Social History of Sheffield Boxing combines urban ethnography and anthropology, sociological theory and place and life histories to explore the global phenomenon of boxing. Raising many issues pe…
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- 1
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- 978-3-030-63545-9
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- xv, 397p.:ill
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- Palgrave Studies in Urban Anthropology
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- 307.76 Bel a
Urban Memory in City Transitions
As a continuation of ‘Identity of Cities and City of Identities’, this book covers the arguments around the memory-experience-cognition nexus concerning palimpsests and urban places. As cities …
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- 978-981-16-1003-5
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- xviii, 310p.:ill
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- -
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- 307.76 Che u
From Polarisation to Multispecies Relationships
This book explores the concept of multi-species relationships and suggests critical systemic pathways to protect shared habitats. This book discusses how the eradication of species as a result …
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- 978-981-33-6884-2
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- xli, 777p.:ill
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- -
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- 339.5 Fro
The Rise of Autonomous Smart Cities
This book introduces the concept of the ‘autonomous city’- a concept that has been developed from the ‘smart cities’ model that is based on a city’s ability to gather data and taking i…
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- 1
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- 978-3-030-59448-0
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- ix, 90p.:ill
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- -
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- 307.76 All t
Resilience of Informal Areas in Megacities – Magnitude, Challenges, and Pol…
This book focuses on the socio-economic and sustainability challenges facing megacities in dealing with the dramatic population increases of informal areas and settlements (or slums), especially wh…
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- 978-3-030-87794-1
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- xli, 327p.:ill
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- -
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- 307.76 Abo r
Emergent Spaces
This book explores different emergent spaces where diverse urbanites spontaneously negotiate, make and remake urban spaces, create opportunities, produce social change, challenge urban life, cultur…
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- 978-3-030-84379-3
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- xiv, 282p.:ill
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- -
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- 307.76 Eme
A Theory and History of Rural–urban Governance in China
This book divides the history of China's rural-urban relations into three stages: antagonism, integration and re-antagonism, and demonstrates that the two coupled variables i.e., policy-culture and…
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- 978-981-16-1201-5
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- xix, 220p.:ill
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- -
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- 307.76 Cha a
Urban Inequalities
This collection brings together leading thinkers on human beings in urban spaces and inequalities therein. The contributors eschew conceptual confusion between equality — of opportunity, of acces…
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- 978-3-030-51724-3
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- xiii, 311p.:ill
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- -
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- 307.76 Urb
Property Price Impacts of Environment-Friendly Transport Accessibility in Chi…
This book seeks to shed light on the role of environment-friendly transport accessibility in determining property prices in Chinese cities. Many environment-friendly transport modes, including walk…
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- 978-981-16-8833-1
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- xii, 182p.:ill
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- -
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- 307.76 Yan p
Electronic Cities
This book examines Electronic Dance Music (EDM) scenes in 18 cities across Africa, the Middle East, Europe, Asia, North America and Australia. It focuses on the historical development of these scen…
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- 1
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- 978-981-33-4741-0
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- xx, 303p.:ill
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- -
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- 307.76 Ele
Digital Social Innovation
This book engages the reader in exploring the relationships between digital social innovation initiatives and the city. It delivers a fresh, accessible and case-based discussion on the emergence of…
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- 978-3-030-80451-0
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- xiii, 169p.:ill
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- -
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- 307.76 Cer d
Spatial Tensions in Urban Design
This book provides an original research perspective to the field of contemporary urban conflicts. Even though violent conflicts have transformed cities during the XX century, it is nowadays possibl…
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- 978-3-030-84083-9
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- vi, 229p.:ill
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- -
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- 307.76 Spa
Biophilic Cities for an Urban Century
This book argues that, paradoxically, at their moment of triumph and fastest growth, cities need nature more than ever. Only if our urban world is full of biophilic cities will the coming urban …
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- 978-3-030-51665-9
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- xi, 124p.:ill
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- -
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- 307.76 Mcd b
Urban Growth and Environmental Issues in India
This book examines the interplay between urban growth and the environmental issues in India. The contributors, who are coming from diverse disciplines, examine socioeconomic, administrative, and en…
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- 978-981-16-4273-9
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- xxii, 337p.:ill
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- -
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- 307.76 Urb
Housing, Urban Commons and the Right to the City in Post-Crisis Rome
This book tells the story of Metropoliz, a vacant salami factory located in the Eastern periphery of Rome (Italy) that was squatted in 2009 by homeless households with the cooperation of the Housin…
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- 1
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- 978-3-030-70849-8
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- XIV, 166p.:ill
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- -
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- 307.76 Gra h
African Cities Through Local Eyes
This book provides readers with a wide overview of place-based planning and design experiments addressing such powerful transformations in the African built environment. This continent is currently…
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- 978-3-030-84906-1
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- xix, 320p.:ill
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- -
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- 307.76 Afr
Urban Climate Science for Planning Healthy Cities
This volume demonstrates how urban climate science can provide valuable information for planning healthy cities. The book illustrates the idea of "Science in Time, Science in Place" by providing wo…
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- 978-3-030-87598-5
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- LIV, 406p.:ill
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- -
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- 307.76 Urb
Theory in Planning Research
Doing research is an essential element of almost all programmes in planning studies as well as related areas such as geography and urban studies, from undergraduate, through Masters to doctoral pro…
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- 978-981-33-6568-1
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- XI, 216p.:ill
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- -
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- 307.76 Ryd t
Hillsong Church
This book highlights the expansion of the influential Pentecostal Hillsong Church global megachurch network from Australia across global cities. Ethnographic research in Amsterdam and New York City…
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- 978-3-030-74299-7
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- ix, 236p.:ill
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- -
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- 307.76 Kla h
Contesting the Olympics in American Cities
This book examines the changing nature of opposition to bidding for and hosting the Olympic Games in contemporary American cities. It explores and critiques the process by which cities bid for the …
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- 978-981-16-5094-9
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- IX, 113p.:ill
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- -
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- 307.76 And c
The Private Rental Sector in Australia
This book explores the decline and growth of the private rental sector in Australia delving into the changing dynamics of landlord investment and tenant profile over the course of the twentieth cen…
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- 1
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- 978-981-33-6672-5
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- xvii, 169p.:ill
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- -
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- 307.76 Mor t
Street-Level Bureaucrats' Impact on the Emergence of Local Governance Networks
This book focusses on the emergence of local governance networks and examines the role of street-level bureaucrats during this process. It aims to identify whether some organizations are favored as…
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- 978-3-658-36153-2
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- xiii, 146p.:ill
- Series Title
- -
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- 307.76 Fis s
The Role of the State in China’s Urban System Development
This book investigates how the state intervenes in the urban system in China in the post-reform period. To do so, it constructs a conceptual framework based on the perspective of political hierarch…
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- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-981-33-6362-5
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- xvi, 213p.:ill
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- -
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- 307.76 Wan t
Settlement Spaces: Urban Survival Prospects of China’s Special Communities
This book examines the settlement space of special communities in China on the community scale from an interdisciplinary approach that combines perspectives from urban planning and sociology. Using…
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- 978-981-16-4892-2
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- xxiii, 677p.:ill
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 307.76 Xia s
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