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In: Urban Studies
In: Urban Studies
Introduction -- Conceptual background: resilience and urban -- Empirical background: the causes, threats of, and responses to urban flooding in China and the world -- Research methodology -- Individual resilience to urban flooding of Gongming -- Factors influencing individual resilience to urban flooding: people-disaster-place-society -- Nurturing individual resilience through urban management -- Conclusion.
In: Urban studies
Was macht Gemeinschaft im Stadtleben aus? Gemeinschaft ist ein zentrales Konzept der Stadtforschung, aber begrifflich vage und empirisch schwer zu fassen. Zudem liegt der Fokus der wissenschaftlichen Erschließung zu oft einseitig auf stabilen Beziehungen zu Verwandten, Freunden oder Nachbarn. Talja Blokland leistet einen innovativen Beitrag zu Definition und Verständnis von Gemeinschaft und fasst diese gegen gängige Lehrmeinungen als gemeinsame urbane Praxis in einer globalisierten Welt auf. Damit bietet sie alternative Denkansätze für urbane Konfigurationen, die es uns ermöglichen, Gemeinschaft auf unterschiedliche Weise sowie als dynamischen Prozess zu begreifen.
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Figures and boxes -- Preface -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- Why Urban Anthropology? -- Situating Urban Anthropology -- Historical Developments -- Urban Anthropology's Predecessors -- Early Urban Anthropology -- Late Twentieth-Century 'Turns' -- Anthropologists and the Contemporary City -- Doing Urban Anthropology -- Not Your Usual Field? -- Urban Methods -- Studying Up and Studying Through -- Mobile Methods and Mental Mapping -- Structure of the Book -- Discussion Questions -- Further Reading -- References -- Part I At Home in the City? -- Chapter 2 Urban Places -- Place-making, Place Attachment and the Politics of Belonging -- Discursive Forms of Place-Making -- Sensory and Affective Forms of Place-Making -- Sacred Place-Making -- Buildings -- Architecture -- Domestic Space -- Neighborhoods -- Low-income and Marginalized Settlements -- Segregation and Displacement -- Transnational Urban Places -- Conclusion -- Discussion Questions -- Further Reading -- Further Viewing -- References -- Chapter 3 Urban Mobilities -- Mobility and Identities -- Walking the City -- Urban Automobility -- Mobility and Inequality -- Disability -- Traffic -- The Cultural Politics of Mobility -- Conclusion -- Discussion Questions -- Further Reading -- Further Viewing -- References -- Chapter 4 Social Life in Public Space -- Contextualizing Public Space -- Public Social Life in Context -- Intersectional Positioning -- Everyday Spatial Regimes -- The Micropolitics of Social Life in Public -- Conclusion -- Discussion Questions -- Further Reading -- Further Viewing -- References -- Part II Crafting Urban Lives and Lifestyles -- Chapter 5 Urban Economies -- From National Development to Neoliberal Restructuring -- Urban Industries, Labor and Class Formation -- Mining Towns -- Post-industrial Landscapes.
In: Urban Planning, Band 9
Cities around the world are developed through modern/colonial boundaries between the formal/informal, private/public, vehicular/pedestrian, secular/religious, human/nonhuman, or new/old. Postcolonial and decolonial theorists have demonstrated how borders have served the colonial control of the city through the state apparatus, where differences have reinforced inequalities rather than engendering an open city. While politics between the two sides of the border is often explored, this article draws attention to the rather underacknowledged role of material assemblages at urban borderlands in making room for subaltern agencies to come into being. To do so, I first demonstrate the bordering effects of modern planning practices through an example of real-estate advertisements. Later, I focus on four urban borderlands, namely walls, mandals (socio-religious organisations), hillslopes and rivulet banks, and alleyways. Through ethnographic research on two slum rehabilitation projects in Pune, India, I show that the spatiality and temporality produced by these borderlands transcend modern boundaries while making room for subaltern agencies. Walls are used for bending the fixed spatiality of modern apartment buildings; mandals engender a spatiotemporal structure that straddles the religious/secular boundary; hillslopes and rivulet banks support the permanent temporariness of the self-built neighbourhoods; and alleyways allow the public and the private to flow into one another. Here, subaltern agencies effectively transgress modern borders, not by rejecting them but by inhabiting them to make an alternative and open city possible. In effect, this article argues that urban borderlands make visible subaltern agencies that have the potential to dislodge urban theory and practice from their colonial modernist legacy.
In: Studies in Jewish civilization volume 33
"Jews and Urban Life recognizes that throughout their long history, Jews have often inhabited cities. The reality of this urban experience ranged from ghetto restrictions to robust participation in a range of civic and social activities. Essays in this collection present relevant examples from within the Jewish community itself, moving historically from the biblical period to the modern-day State of Israel. Taking a comparative approach while recognizing the particulars of individual instances, authors examine these phenomena from a wide variety of approaches, genres, and media. Interdisciplinary and accessibly written, the articles display a multitude of instances throughout history showing the range of Jewish life in urban settings"--
In: Routledge environment and sustainability handbooks
"This handbook provides a state-of-the-art, comprehensive overview of the expanding field of urban biodiversity. The field of urban biodiversity has emerged from within the broad discipline of urban ecology in the past two decades and is now a significant field in its own right. In view of this, the Routledge Handbook of Urban Biodiversity presents a thorough treatment of this field detailing the history of urban biodiversity, theoretical foundations, current state of knowledge, and application of that knowledge. The handbook is split into four parts: Part I: Setting the Stage for Urban Biodiversity Research and Practice Part II: Foundational Concepts and Theory in Urban Biodiversity Research Part III: Population and Community Ecology of Key Urban Taxa Part IV: Urban Biodiversity Practice: Management, Planning and Design for Healthy Communities This volume contains interdisciplinary and global contributions from established and early career academics as well as professionals and practitioners, addressing two key fields in urban biodiversity: fundamental research focused on answering questions about the mechanisms explaining the distribution of species among and within cities; and applied research and work by practitioners to address concerns about urban biodiversity conservation, restoration, planning, design, and public involvement. This handbook is essential reading for students, academics and professionals interested and working in the fields of urban biodiversity, ecology, nature conservation, urban planning, and landscape architecture"--
In: Land use policy: the international journal covering all aspects of land use, Band 139, S. 107074
ISSN: 0264-8377
In: GIScience and Geo-environmental Modelling
According to UN estimates, approximately nearly half of the world's population now lives in cities and that figure is expected to rise to almost 70% by 2050. Cities now account for around 70% of worldwide greenhouse gas emissions, and this percentage is predicted to rise in the near future as a result of projected increases in global urbanization patterns. It is widely acknowledged that irrational urban planning and design can increase emissions while also exacerbating threats and risks, resulting in a slew of environmental issues such as urban heat islands, air pollution, flooding, amongst other issues, as well as environmental, social, and economic losses. Therefore, these concerns must be addressed promptly in order to cope up with these rising difficulties and make urban environments safer for residents. With the advancement of remote sensing technology and the use of current remote observation systems, urban data science, remote sensing, and artificialintelligence (AI), modeling and quantifying emergent difficulties in urban regions and urban systems have become easy. They aid in the quantitative analysis of urban shape, functions, and human behavior in cities. Harvesting data, developing models, and suggesting new methodologies will be aided by combining urban ecology with new breakthroughs in data science. This book is of great value to a diverse group of academicians, scientists, students, environmentalists, meteorologists, urban planners, remote sensing and GIS experts with a common interest in geospatial sciences within the earth environmental sciences, as well as human and social sciences
In: Computers, environment and urban systems, Band 109, S. 102092
"This book contextualises major urban challenges such as climate change, rapid urbanisation, urban informality, and migration within the evolving planning systems of Anglophone, Francophone, and Lusophone Africa. It argues for the reimagination of urban planning, debating new institutionalism, gated communities, and smart mobility"--
In: Geopolitics, S. 1-24
ISSN: 1557-3028
In: Public Economy and Urban Governance in China
Introduction -- Brief History and Basic Concepts of Infrastructure -- Origin and Development of Infrastructure Economics -- A Review of Infrastructure Economic Growth Models.-Achievements and Challenges of China's Infrastructure Development (1949-2019) -- Infrastructure and Market Integration: A Case Study on High-Speed Rail Accessibility -- Infrastructure and Open Development: A Case Study on Foreign Direct Investment.