This book investigates the social, economic, environmental and formal characteristics of today's built environment, providing a better understanding of this new type of urban form and argues for a change in planning sytems.
This is the first English-language survey of Pakistan's socio-economic evolution. Mohammad Qadeer gives an essential overview of social and cultural t..
Introducing readers to the far-reaching global orientation that is now taking place in urban China, an international team of contributors examine the ..
First published in 1985, this book reconsiders the whole question of urbanisation and planning in the Third World. It argues that public involvement, ..
One in seven of the world’s population live in poverty in urban areas, and the vast majority of these live in the Global South – mostly in overcrowded..
Initially published in 1987, this work deals with crucial aspects of development, including disparities in global patterns of production and consumpti..
Data and the City looks at the creation of real-time cities and data-driven urbanism and considers the relationships at play. By taking an ontological..
This book focuses on the creative application and management of information technologies in urban environments, with an emphasis on the intersection b..
Published in 1997, the authors have carried out investigations into eight European cities to increase the insight into the practice of organizing capa..
The collection captures the methodological and conceptual range of migration research in the discipline of Geography today. This volume also covers a ..
This book is the first comprehensive, in-depth systematic analysis of the meaning, nature, and effects of ‘urban governance’ in theory and in practice..
This title aims to use social science research to contribute towards solving policy problems raised by the rural to urban land conversion process and ..
First published in 1965, this reissue is a report on the Second Rehovoth Conference of August 1963, convened by the then Deputy Prime Minister of Isra..