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This work contains a selection of papers from the International Conference on Urban Studies (ICUS 2017) and is a bi-annual periodical publication containing articles on urban cultural studies based on the international conference organized by the Faculty of Humanities at the Universitas Airlangga, Indonesia. This publication contains studies on issues that become phenomena in urban life, including linguistics, literary, identity, gender, architecture, media, locality, globalization, the dynamics of urban society and culture, and urban history.

Urban Criminology offers an accessible analysis of our urban condition, viewed through the prism of crime, disorder and social harm. This book gathers cutting-edge treatments, research field reports and critical examinations of crime and harm in cities, from the disciplines of urban studies and criminology. The social, economic and political composition of cities and the various inequalities that mark out and drive the problem of crime in many cities today are foregrounded. Readers follow a series of thematic engagements, generating a deeper understanding of a range of key areas that include problems of violence, social and spatial divisions, housing, policing and the role of the urban economy in issues of financial crime. This book comes at a time of rising crime in many cities and complex responses by city administrations and communities. It presents a critical, political thesis - that crime in cities must be understood with reference to the varying social structures, political forces and economic opportunities of cities. These influences intersect to produce dramatic variations in victimisation and attempts at social control, often felt most strongly around class and gender divisions. To understand crime, we must better understand the life of the city. Urban Criminology seeks to present an integrated framework that brings to life these key issues and seeks to enthuse students of our urban condition - to locate the harms within it and to identify ways of reducing the risk of crime. This book is ideal reading for all students with an interest in cities, crime, community life, urban sociology and urban cultures.

This textbook offers a rigorous, calculus based presentation of the complexities of urban economics, which is suitable for students who are new to the subject. It focuses on structural details and explains the elements that make cities such highly productive entities, and also explores explores the mechanisms of labour productivity enhancement that are unique to cities.Written with a focus on location theory, key topics include:How cities are arranged;Housing prices;Urban transportation;Why some cities grow rapidly whilst others decline;How wages adjust to local costs of living;How suburbs function in relationship to the urban core;Public finance.This book will be essential reading for Urban Economics courses at both undergraduate and postgraduate level.

This book studies the production of urban culture in Tehran after 1979. It analyzes urban resistance and urban processes in underground cultural spaces: bookshops, cafes and art galleries. The intended audience is architects and urban planners interested in socio-political aspects of bottom-up space formation, but also those in humanities and particularly cultural studies. The idea of the book reflects architectural criticism and bottom-up processes of space formation. It analyzes alternative, non-official ways of forming cultural spaces in Tehran and the way they resist formally endorsed culture. Cafés, bookshops and galleries, each take various and different sets of strategies to constitute their territory and their communities within the city. From temporarily occupying street corners (booksellers) to constitution of an underground network of unfixed meeting points, to using the modern paradigms of ownership and the idea of private property, primarily as a political tool for management, to claim a safe alternative sphere of art, and finally to semiotic spatial codifications of spaces to make them as a safe gathering places taking food as a means. All these three cultural spaces deal with various conditions to form specific forms of resistance practices, throughout processes that leave their spatial traces on the city.

Das urbane Phänomen ist im Wandel. In den vergangenen Jahren tauchten neue Modelle und Formen von Urbanität auf. Die Einführung neoliberaler Politik als auch eine etablierte Globalisierung in Lateinamerika wirken sich nicht nur auf die Ausdehnung des Kommunikations- und Informationsflusses, sondern auch, auf Formen sozialer Kohäsion aus, die seit Mitte des XX. Jahrhunderts entstanden sind. Dieser neue Kontext verändert bedeutsam die Art und Weise, in der die Menschen ihre Identitäten und Zugehörigkeitsgefühle in der urbanen Gesellschaft entwickeln. Seit den 1990er Jahren ist Ethnizität eine wichtige Ressource geworden, um dem zunehmendem Anteil der urbanen lateinamerikanischen Bevölkerung Identitätsquellen zu liefern. Aus der Perspektive der Städter dienen ethnische Wurzeln als Ressourcen für soziale Kohäsion und zur Anerkennung als soziale Akteure. Die Absicht der vorliegenden Arbeit ist die Erkundung des Bildungsprozesses einer urbanen Ethnizität in Santiago de Chile. Mapuche bilden die zahlenmäßig stärkste ethnische Gruppe in Chile, ca. die Hälfte von ihnen wohnt in Santiago. Obwohl Mapuche die größte indigene Gruppe in Santiago sind, wenn man den urbanen Raum betrachtet, sind Mapuche relativ unsichtbar. Die Entstehung der Kategorien von 'urbanem Mapuche' und 'Mapuche-Warriache' in den letzten Jahrzehnten weisen allerdings auf die zunehmende Relevanz der Ethnizität, als Identitätsquelle in Santiago de Chile, hin. Ethnizität bezieht sich hierbei auf kollektive Identitäten. In dieser Hinsicht ist Ethnizität die Art und Weise mit der sich ein Kollektiv vom Anderen unterscheidet. Ethnizität ist ein breites Konzept, das einen Differenzierungsprozess beschreibt. Das Hauptziel der vorliegenden Dissertation ist die Erforschung der Strategien, mit denen die Mapuche Gesellschaft in Santiago Differenzen - bezogen auf den Rest der sowohl urbanen Gesellschaft als auch der traditionellen Mapuche Gesellschaft – aufbaut, als auch ethnische Identitätsbildungs-Prozesse zu erkennen. Die Arbeit baut auf der Hypothese, dass die heutigen urbanen Mapuche-Migranten und ihre zweite Generation hybride Identitäten bilden. Statt einer Art von Re-Territorialisierung oder Reproduktion ihrer originellen auf dem Lande liegenden Gesellschaft sollte sich Identitätsbildung vielmehr auf den Rest der urbanen Gesellschaft orientieren. Der lateinamerikanische Diskurs über ethnische Identitäten wird derzeit von einer essentialistischen Perspektive beherrscht. Die Arbeit argumentiert, dass die Mapuche weder im sozialen Raum der traditionellen Gemeinschaft noch im kulturellen Raum der Gastgesellschaft eingesperrt sind und Strategien entwickeln könnten, in denen ethnische Identitäten ein Teil eines Systems von Identitäten sind. Dementsprechend sind solche Strategien sehr dynamische Formen von Kommunikation und Differenzierung. Der erste Teil der Dissertation setzt sich im ersten Kapitel in kritischer Weise mit der ethnographischen Methode und ihrer Anwendung im urbanen Raum auseinander. Das zweite Kapital fokussiert auf die Geschichte der modernen Mapuche Gesellschaft. Die durch ethnographische Methodik erarbeiteten experimentellen Studienfälle werden im zweiten Teil erörtert. ; The urban phenomenon is changing. The social and political transformations of recent decades have created new forms and models of inhabiting in the city. In Latin America, phenomena of globalization and the implementation of liberal policies have, on the one hand, expanded flows of information and communication and, on the other hand, affected forms of social cohesion which were developed from the modern urbanization process of the mid-20th Century. This new context has transformed the ways in which the people build identity and a sense of belonging inside the urban society. Since the 1990s ethnicity has become an important source of identity construction for a growing percentage of city dwellers in Latin America. The ethnic roots of its inhabitants are turned into resources for social cohesion and recognition as social actors. The purpose of this study is to explore the process of formation of an urban ethnicity in Santiago de Chile. The Mapuches are the largest ethnic group in Chile and about half of their total population resides in the city of Santiago. However, despite being the largest ethnic group in Santiago, the Mapuche do not have a visible presence in the city. The emergence over the last decade of the political and social category of urban Mapuche and Mapuche-warriache describes the growing importance of ethnicity as a source of identity in Santiago. Ethnicity is related to the notion of collective identities. In this sense, it is a process whereby a group of people are collectively different from "others," ethnicity is a broad concept which describes a process of differentiation. The objective of this research is to investigate the strategies through which Mapuche society in Santiago establishes differences, both in relation to the remaining urban society, and to "traditional" Mapuche society. Accordingly, this work aims to identify processes through which an urban ethnic identity is constructed. The working hypothesis is that the Mapuche currently in the city - first and second generation migrants - build hybrid forms with the remaining urban society more than they reproduce or reterritorialize their society of origin. The Mapuches in the city are not trapped between their societies of origin and the host urban society, but are, in turn, building strategies in which ethnic identity is part of a system of identities in which they participate. The work has two parts. The first part presents two critical reviews: a chapter on the method of ethnographic research and its application to urban space, and another chapter which focuses on the history of modern Mapuche society. The second part is experimental and composed of three case studies. Each experimental case is presented and analyzed through ethnographic methodology. This work explores the urban ethnicity as a contemporary form of building identity and sense of belonging. Currently, in Latin America an essentialist perspective prevails to deal the indigenous identities. This paper argues that the Mapuches in the city are not trapped between their societies of origin and the host urban society, but are, in turn, building strategies in which ethnic identity is part of a system of identities in which they participate. These strategies are a very dynamic form of communication and differentiation.

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1 -- Urban Substructures as a Way to Build a Balanced Spatial and Functional Structure of Cities -- Abstract -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Methodology -- 3. Basic Research Premises -- 3.1. A City as a System -- 3.2. Urban Spatial Structure -- 3.3. Characteristic Features of Nodal Regions -- 3.4. Urban Spatial Structure in the Light of Sustainable Development -- 3.5. Compact vs Dispersed Urban Spatial Structure -- 3.6. Polycentricity as a Feature of 21st Century Cities -- 3.7. Advantages of Polycentricity -- 4. Conception of Urban Substructures -- 4.1. The Understanding of Substructures, their Main Aspects and Features -- 4.1.1. Morphological Aspect -- 4.1.2. Functional Aspect -- 4.1.3. Systemic Aspect -- 4.1.4. Relations of Inhabitants to the Area of Residence (Substructure) -- 4.1.5. Dynamic Character -- 4.2. Ways of Establishing Substructures -- 4.3. Factors behind the Formation of Substructures -- 4.4. Delimitation of the Boundaries of Substructures -- 4.5. Examples of Substructures -- 4.5.1. Jurydyki -- 4.5.2. Beguinages -- 4.5.3. Workers' Colonies -- 4.6. Benefits from the Functioning of Substructures -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 2 -- Footbridge Network: Walkability and Street Life in a Hong Kong New Town -- Abstract -- Introduction -- Street and Jane Jacobs -- Footbridge Networks at Tseung Kwan O -- Walkability and the Social Impact of the Footbridge Network -- Safety and Level of Comfort -- A Boring Space -- Social Interactions -- Conclusion -- References -- Biographical Sketch -- Chapter 3 -- Risk Accumulation Processes in Urban Built Environment: A Case of Central Market Fire Disasters in Kumasi, Ghana -- Abstract -- Introduction -- Fire Disasters in Ghana: Literature Perspective -- Research Approach -- The Central Market in Perspective -- Data Collection.

This text introduces both traditional and contemporary approaches and perspectives in urban geography. It explores the roles played by global cities, governments and institutions in forming and changing urban landscapes. This third edition has a new concluding chapter giving students' ideas for their dissertations

This Element explores the history of urban disasters around the globe over the last three-hundred years. It introduces the reader to central concepts that help define the study of disasters, then moves on to explore the relationship between cities and disasters including earthquakes, hurricanes, fires, and epidemics. It asks, for example: How have cities responded in times of crisis, and what practices, infrastructures, and/or institutions have they introduced to prevent disasters from reoccurring? Who suffers most when urban disasters strike, and why? In what ways do catastrophes change cities? How, if at all, are cities unique from the countryside? To answer these questions and more, this concise history looks at a series of case studies from the eighteenth century through to COVID-19. The Element concludes with a brief look at the ongoing effects of climate change and the future of cities

Es wird der Frage nachgegangen, ob es heute noch Sinn macht von Stadtkultur zu sprechen, wenn man an die gesellschaftlich innovativen oder revolutionären Traditionen dieses Begriffs anknüpfen will. Insbesondere wird danach gefragt, ob sich aus einer solchen Vergegenwärtigung ein kritischer Diskurs entwickeln kann, der die Sphäre architektonischer Inszenierung bzw. des kulturellen Show-Business überschreitet. Gegenstand im ersten Teil des Beitrages ist die scheinbare Paradoxie von soziologischer Verfallstheorie in bezug auf die Stadtkultur (spätestens seit Simmel) und tatsächlicher politischer Lebendigkeit von Stadtkultur heute. Im zweiten Teil wird untersucht, ob die gesellschaftliche Entwicklung Stadtkultur als emanzipatorische Kultur ein für alle mal ad acta gelegt hat. Es werden Argumente dafür genannt, daß städtische Kultur wieder eine Rolle als Kristallisationspunkt gesellschaftlicher Emanzipation spielen kann. (GF)

"Providing students and practitioners with a detailed overview of the key theoretical and applied issues, this book is a comprehensive and integrated primer on regeneration. The various chapters: review the history and context of urban regeneration; consider funding implications; look at environmental, social and community issues, as well as employment, education and training; focus on managing urban regeneration; consider land use issues; and discuss monitoring and evaluation. The book concludes with a comparative analysis, with examples from America and Europe, and a discussion of future trends. The book represents the first systematic overview of urban regeneration in one volume and is set to become the standard reference."--Publisher.

"Urban Geography offers a comprehensive treatment of urban geography, fully exploring the origins and development of cities. It focuses on uncovering the excitement and richness found in cities, while tackling a wide variety of urban challenges. The text covers the Urban Geography field, both as it has evolved and as it exists today. Kaplan includes the most current research in urban studies, introducing elements of urban theory and methodology, and addresses the urban experience as a global one. Urban Geography presents key concepts in a straightforward structure, creating a user-friendly experience for all readers"--