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Mapping Legalities Urbanisation, Law and Informal Work

Mapping Legalities: Urbanisation, Law and Informal Work

1st Edition

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Edited By Thomas Coggin, Roopa Madhav
July 19, 2024

This book maps the interactions between informal workers and the law within the urban and spatial environment. It focuses on access to physical space, revealing the punitive ways in which globally law regulates space and informal work which relies on space. Across various cities worldwide, the ...

Imagining Urban Complexity A Humanities Approach in Tropes, Media, and Genres

Imagining Urban Complexity: A Humanities Approach in Tropes, Media, and Genres

1st Edition

Forthcoming

By Frans-Willem Korsten, Anthony T. Albright
July 12, 2024

Imagining Urban Complexity introduces passionate and critical perspectives on the link between humanities and urban studies. It emphasizes tropes, media, and genres as cultural techniques that shape complexity in urban environments by distributing affordances, modes of sensing, and modes of ...

Designing Healthy and Liveable Cities Creating Sustainable Urban Regeneration

Designing Healthy and Liveable Cities: Creating Sustainable Urban Regeneration

1st Edition

Forthcoming

By Marichela Sepe
May 27, 2024

In the last ten years, concepts such as urban health and liveability have become ever more present in urban planning studies. Many companies rank the most liveable city in the world or in a nation, and many indicators are used to try to measure factors which can report the health of a place by ...

Marketplaces Movements, Representations and Practices

Marketplaces: Movements, Representations and Practices

1st Edition

Edited By Ceren Sezer, Rianne van Melik
January 29, 2024

This edited volume portrays marketplaces from a mobility perspective as dynamic and open entities consisting of flows of people, goods and ideas. There is a renewed interest in research and policy arenas in marketplaces as the core of cities’ spatial and economic development and sociocultural life,...

Overlooked Cities Power, Politics and Knowledge Beyond the Urban South

Overlooked Cities: Power, Politics and Knowledge Beyond the Urban South

1st Edition

Edited By Hanna A. Ruszczyk, Erwin Nugraha, Isolde de Villiers
January 29, 2024

Overlooked Cities reflects and impacts the changing landscape of urban studies and geography from the perspective of smaller and more regional cities in the urban South. It critically examines the ways in which cities are uniquely positioned within different urban and knowledge hierarchies. The ...

Visual Participatory Arts Based Research in the City Ontology, Aesthetics and Ethics

Visual Participatory Arts Based Research in the City: Ontology, Aesthetics and Ethics

1st Edition

Edited By Laura Trafí-Prats, Aurelio Castro-Varela
January 29, 2024

Visual Participatory Arts Based Research in the Cities maps ontological, aesthetic and ethic differences between humanist and posthumanist arts-based research, while providing insight on methodological orientations to develop arts-based research with frameworks based on process-philosophies. It is...

Reflecting on the City Through Literature Urban Spaces, Differences and Embodiments

Reflecting on the City Through Literature: Urban Spaces, Differences and Embodiments

1st Edition

By Daan Wesselman
October 16, 2023

This book develops and demonstrates an interdisciplinary method that reads literary works as a way of thinking about the city. Literary works do not only provide reflections of the city – depictions of the city as an aesthetically compelling setting – but the literary reflection of the city also ...

Heritage, Crafting Communities and Urban Transformation Durga Puja Festival, Kolkata

Heritage, Crafting Communities and Urban Transformation: Durga Puja Festival, Kolkata

1st Edition

By Debapriya Chakrabarti
October 06, 2023

This book emphasises the need to empower marginalised communities to contribute to decision-making processes within policy realms. It contributes to ongoing debates in the social sciences about infrastructure rights and citizenship, and it throws insight on human–infrastructure interactions in the ...

Counter Revanchist Art in the Global City Walls, Blockades, and Barricades as Repertoires of Creative Action

Counter Revanchist Art in the Global City: Walls, Blockades, and Barricades as Repertoires of Creative Action

1st Edition

By Leah Modigliani
August 31, 2023

Through analyses of public artworks that have taken the form of blockades and barricades since the 1990s, this book theorises artists’ responses to global inequities as cultural manifestations of counter-revanchism in diverse urban centres. This book is the first to analyse artworks as forms of ...

Splintering Towers of Babel Paradoxical Architectures and Urban Infrastructures

Splintering Towers of Babel: Paradoxical Architectures and Urban Infrastructures

1st Edition

By Liora Bigon, Edna Langenthal
July 21, 2023

Splintering Towers of Babel focuses on and redefines soft infrastructures and critical infrastructure projects. It explores key issues in contemporary urban studies including town planning histories, architecture, heritage, colonialism and postcolonialism, philosophy, and ethics. The book combines...

Urban Ethics as Research Agenda Outlooks and Tensions on Multidisciplinary Debates

Urban Ethics as Research Agenda: Outlooks and Tensions on Multidisciplinary Debates

1st Edition

Edited By Raúl Acosta, Eveline Dürr, Moritz Ege, Ursula Prutsch, Clemens van Loyen, Gordon M. Winder
July 13, 2023

This book provides an outline for a multidisciplinary research agenda into urban ethics and offers insights into the various ways urban ethics can be configured. It explores practices and discourses through which individuals, collectives and institutions determine which developments and projects ...

Cities Without Capitalism

Cities Without Capitalism

1st Edition

Edited By Hossein Sadri, Senem Zeybekoglu
May 31, 2023

This book explores the interconnections between urbanization and capitalism to examine the current condition of cities due to capitalism. It brings together interdisciplinary insights from leading academics, activists and researchers to envision progressive, anti-capitalist changes for the future ...

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