Unhealthy Cities
Unhealthy Cities

Author: Kevin Fitzpatrick

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-06-17

Total Pages: 210

ISBN-13: 1136915281

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The purpose of this book is to show the important role that space and place plays in the health of urban residents, particularly those living in high poverty ghettos. The book brings together research and writing from a variety of disciplines to demonstrate the health costs of being poor in America’s cities. Both authors are committed to raising awareness of structural factors that promote poverty and injustice in a society that proclaims its commitment to equality of opportunity. Our health is often dramatically affected by where we live; some parts of the city seem to be designed to make people sick. The book is intended for students and professionals in urban sociology, medical sociology, public health, and community planning.

Unhealthy Cities
Unhealthy Cities

Author: Kevin M. Fitzpatrick

Publisher:

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 250

ISBN-13:

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First Published in 2011. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

The City Reader
The City Reader

Author: Richard T. LeGates

Publisher: Psychology Press

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 602

ISBN-13: 9780415271738

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This third edition juxtaposes the very best publications on the city. It reflects the latest thinking on globalization, information technology and urban theory. It is a comprehensive mapping of the terrain of urban studies: old and new.

Cities in the Third Wave
Cities in the Third Wave

Author: Leonard I. Ruchelman

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 182

ISBN-13: 9780742539099

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Cities in the Third Wave surveys the remarkable transformation that is taking place in urban America. In the belief that technology is the force that has created and recast cities throughout history, this book addresses the important question of how the modern-day technology affects cities today and how it will shape cities in the future.

The Hackable City
The Hackable City

Author: Michiel de Lange

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2018-12-05

Total Pages: 306

ISBN-13: 9811326940

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This open access book presents a selection of the best contributions to the Digital Cities 9 Workshop held in Limerick in 2015, combining a number of the latest academic insights into new collaborative modes of city making that are firmly rooted in empirical findings about the actual practices of citizens, designers and policy makers. It explores the affordances of new media technologies for empowering citizens in the process of city making, relating examples of bottom-up or participatory practices to reflections about the changing roles of professional practitioners in the processes, as well as issues of governance and institutional policymaking.

Images of the City
Images of the City

Author: Agnieszka Rasmus

Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Published: 2009-01-23

Total Pages: 370

ISBN-13: 1443804606

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Images of the City takes the reader on a fascinating journey through urban landscapes across centuries, literary periods, media, genres and borders. 27 essays gathered from Poland, UK, Romania, Italy, Hungary, and Portugal by researchers representing different academic environments and fields of speciality offer a truly interdisciplinary perspective on the issue of understanding, representing, and interpreting the city. In this respect, the volume complements other anthologies which discuss urban space without limiting itself to one unique theoretical perspective. Its neat division into chronological and thematic sections makes for easy yet informative and inclusive reading, encouraging cross-referencing and challenging interests and tastes of a wide array of readers. Images of the City provides essential reading for cityphiles everywhere.

The Russian City Between Tradition and Modernity, 1850-1900
The Russian City Between Tradition and Modernity, 1850-1900

Author: Daniel R. Brower

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2023-09-01

Total Pages: 278

ISBN-13: 0520337980

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This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1990.

Making Mobilities Matter
Making Mobilities Matter

Author: Malene Freudendal-Pedersen

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2022-04-30

Total Pages: 132

ISBN-13: 1000582701

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Making Mobilities Matter explores the interconnection between everyday practice and policy and planning in urban mobilities. It develops a theoretical framework for understanding everyday life and its mobilities in a mobile risk society and critiques the technocratic views that still dominate transport politics and research. Recognizing the importance of culture and everyday life in shaping urban mobilities, it examines how contemporary communities exist, expand, and are sustained through localized and virtual forms of sharing responsibility, exchanging life experiences, creating meaning, and giving ontological security to people’s lives. It also offers perspectives on the emotional aspect of mobilities in everyday life and how utopias can respond to these emotions. Making Mobilities Matter ends with a discussion of the prospects for urban mobilities in the future and how these issues are vital in battling climate change. Making Mobilities Matter is essential reading for students and researchers seeking to understand the importance of mobilities in sustainable urban development and tackling climate change.