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Cities And Cinema

by Barbara Mennel

51,66€ + 10% CARD

 The second edition of Cities and Cinema provides an updated survey of films about cities from their significance for modernity at the beginning of the twentieth century to contemporary relationship between virtual reality and urban space.
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Cities And Cinema

by Barbara Mennel

51,66€ + 10% CARD

 The second edition of Cities and Cinema provides an updated survey of films about cities from their significance for modernity at the beginning of the twentieth century to contemporary relationship between virtual reality and urban space.
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Cities And Literature

by Malcolm Miles

52,99€ + 10% CARD

 This book offers a critical introduction to the relation between cities and fiction, poetry and literary criticism from the late eighteenth to twenty-first centuries. It examines examples of writing from Europe, North America and post-colonial countries.
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Digital And Smart Cities

by Alessandro Aurigi e Katharine Willis

52,99€ + 10% CARD

 The book presents an overview of how technologies shape our cities. It aims to give an informative and definitive overview of the topic of digital and smart cities andÂ explores the topic from a range of different perspectives; both theoretical, historical and through a range of case studies of digital cities around the world.
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Cities And Consumption

by Mark Jayne

59,61€ + 10% CARD

 In investigating the mutual and dynamic relationship between urban development and consumption, this useful text for students asks: how are cities moulded by consumption, and how is consumption moulded by cities?
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Cities And The Cultural Economy

by Thomas A. Hutton

64,91€ + 10% CARD

 <p>The cultural economy forms a leading trajectory of urban development, and has emerged as a key facet of globalizing cities. Cultural industries include new media, digital arts, music and film, and the design industries and professions, as well as allied consumption and spectacle in the city. The cultural economy now represents the third-largest sector in many metropolitan cities of the West including London, Berlin, New York, San Francisco, and Melbourne, and is increasingly influential in the development of East Asian cities (Tokyo, Shanghai, Hong Kong and Singapore), as well as the mega-cities of the Global South (e.g. Mumbai, Capetown, and São Paulo). </p><p>Cities and the Cultural Economy provides a critical integration of the burgeoning research and policy literatures in one of the most prominent sub-fields of contemporary urban studies. Policies for cultural economy are increasingly evident within planning, development and place-marketing programs, requiring large resource commitments, but producing - on the evidence - highly uneven results. Accordingly the volume includes a critical review of how the new cultural economy is reshaping urban labour, housing and property markets, contributing to gentrification and to ‘precarious employment’ formation, as well as to broadly favorable outcomes, such as community regeneration and urban vitality. </p><p>The volume acknowledges the important growth dynamics and sustainability of key creative industries. Written primarily as a text for upper-level undergraduate and Masters students in urban, economic and social geography; sociology; cultural studies; and planning, this provocative and compelling text will also be of interest to those studying urban land economics, architecture, landscape architecture and the built environment.</p>
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Cities And The Cultural Economy

by Thomas A. Hutton

64,91€ + 10% CARD

 <p>The cultural economy forms a leading trajectory of urban development, and has emerged as a key facet of globalizing cities. Cultural industries include new media, digital arts, music and film, and the design industries and professions, as well as allied consumption and spectacle in the city. The cultural economy now represents the third-largest sector in many metropolitan cities of the West including London, Berlin, New York, San Francisco, and Melbourne, and is increasingly influential in the development of East Asian cities (Tokyo, Shanghai, Hong Kong and Singapore), as well as the mega-cities of the Global South (e.g. Mumbai, Capetown, and São Paulo). </p><p>Cities and the Cultural Economy provides a critical integration of the burgeoning research and policy literatures in one of the most prominent sub-fields of contemporary urban studies. Policies for cultural economy are increasingly evident within planning, development and place-marketing programs, requiring large resource commitments, but producing - on the evidence - highly uneven results. Accordingly the volume includes a critical review of how the new cultural economy is reshaping urban labour, housing and property markets, contributing to gentrification and to ‘precarious employment’ formation, as well as to broadly favorable outcomes, such as community regeneration and urban vitality. </p><p>The volume acknowledges the important growth dynamics and sustainability of key creative industries. Written primarily as a text for upper-level undergraduate and Masters students in urban, economic and social geography; sociology; cultural studies; and planning, this provocative and compelling text will also be of interest to those studying urban land economics, architecture, landscape architecture and the built environment.</p>
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Cities And Design

by Paul L. Knox

72,86€ + 10% CARD

 Cities, initially a product of the manufacturing era, have been thoroughly remade in the image of consumer society. This book explores the complex relationships between design and urban environments.
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Cities, Politics & Power

by Simon Parker

78,16€ + 10% CARD

 Presents an introduction into how, on whose behalf, and with what consequences the cities in which we live are run.
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Cities And Photography

by Jane Tormey

66,24€ + 10% CARD

 'Cities and Photography' discusses the relationship between people and the city, visualised in photographs. It explores how photographs display attitudes, agency and vision in the way a city is documented and imagined. It provides a visually focused examination of the city and urbanism for a range of different disciplines.
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Cities And Cultures

by Malcolm Miles

78,16€ + 10% CARD

 A critical account of the relations between contemporary cities and the cultures they produce (and which in turn shape them) this book questions received ideas of what constitutes a city's culture through case studies
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Cities And Cultures

by Malcolm Miles

78,16€ + 10% CARD

 A critical account of the relations between contemporary cities and the cultures they produce (and which in turn shape them) this book questions received ideas of what constitutes a city's culture through case studies
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Cities, Disaster Risk And Adaptation

by Christine Wamsler

70,21€ + 10% CARD

 <P>Worldwide, disasters and climate change pose a serious risk to sustainable urban development, resulting in escalating human and economic costs. Consequently, city authorities and other urban actors face the challenge of integrating risk reduction and adaptation strategies into their work. However, related knowledge and expertise are still scarce and fragmented.</P><P><I>Cities, Disaster Risk and Adaptation </I>explores ways in which resilient cities can be ‘built’ and sustainable urban transformations achieved. The book provides a comprehensive understanding of urban risk reduction and adaptation planning, exploring key theoretical concepts and analysing the complex interrelations between cities, disasters and climate change. Furthermore, it provides an overview of current risk reduction and adaptation approaches taken by both city authorities and city dwellers from diverse contexts in low, middle and high income nations. Finally, the book offers a planning framework for reducing and adapting to risk in urban areas by expanding on pre-existing positive actions and addressing current shortfalls in theory and practice. The importance of a distributed urban governance system, in which institutions’ and citizens’ adaptive capacities can support and complement each other, is highlighted.</P><P>This book takes a holistic approach; it integrates perspectives and practice from risk reduction and climate change adaptation based on a specific urban viewpoint. The text is richly supplemented with boxed case studies written by renowned academics and practitioners in the field and ‘test yourself’ scenarios that integrate theory into practice. Each chapter contains learning objectives, end of chapter questions, suggested further reading and web resources, as well as a wealth of tables and figures. This book is essential reading for undergraduate and postgraduate students of geography, urban studies and planning, architecture, environmental studies, international development, sociology and sustainability studies.</P>
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Cities, Disaster Risk And Adaptation

by Christine Wamsler

70,21€ + 10% CARD

 <P>Worldwide, disasters and climate change pose a serious risk to sustainable urban development, resulting in escalating human and economic costs. Consequently, city authorities and other urban actors face the challenge of integrating risk reduction and adaptation strategies into their work. However, related knowledge and expertise are still scarce and fragmented.</P><P><I>Cities, Disaster Risk and Adaptation </I>explores ways in which resilient cities can be ‘built’ and sustainable urban transformations achieved. The book provides a comprehensive understanding of urban risk reduction and adaptation planning, exploring key theoretical concepts and analysing the complex interrelations between cities, disasters and climate change. Furthermore, it provides an overview of current risk reduction and adaptation approaches taken by both city authorities and city dwellers from diverse contexts in low, middle and high income nations. Finally, the book offers a planning framework for reducing and adapting to risk in urban areas by expanding on pre-existing positive actions and addressing current shortfalls in theory and practice. The importance of a distributed urban governance system, in which institutions’ and citizens’ adaptive capacities can support and complement each other, is highlighted.</P><P>This book takes a holistic approach; it integrates perspectives and practice from risk reduction and climate change adaptation based on a specific urban viewpoint. The text is richly supplemented with boxed case studies written by renowned academics and practitioners in the field and ‘test yourself’ scenarios that integrate theory into practice. Each chapter contains learning objectives, end of chapter questions, suggested further reading and web resources, as well as a wealth of tables and figures. This book is essential reading for undergraduate and postgraduate students of geography, urban studies and planning, architecture, environmental studies, international development, sociology and sustainability studies.</P>
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Cities And Nature

by John Rennie Short e Lisa Benton-Short

70,21€ + 10% CARD

 <p><em>Cities and Nature</em> connects environmental processes with social and political actions. The book reconnects science and social science to demonstrate how the city is part of the environment and how it is subject to environmental constraints and opportunities. This second edition has been extensively revised and updated with in-depth examination of theory and critical themes. Greater discussion is given to urbanization trends and megacities; the post-industrial city and global economic changes; developing cities and slums; urban political ecology; the role of the city in climate change; and sustainability. </p><p>The book explores the historical relationship between cities and nature, contemporary challenges to this relationship, and attempts taken to create more sustainable cities. The historical context situates urban development and its impact on the environment, and in turn the environmental impact on people in cities. This provides a foundation from which to understand contemporary issues, such as urban political ecology, hazards and disasters, water quality and supply, air pollution and climate change. The book then considers sustainability and how it has been informed by different theoretical approaches. Issues of environmental justice and the role of gender and race are explored. The final chapter examines the ways in which cities are practicing sustainability, from light "greening" efforts such as planting trees, to more comprehensive sustainability plans that integrate the multiple dimensions of sustainability.</p><p>The text contains case studies from around the globe, with many drawn from cities in the developing world, as well as reviews of recent research, updated and expanded further reading to highlight relevant films, websites and journal articles. This book is an asset to students and researchers in geography, environmental studies, urban studies and planning and sustainability.</p>
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Cities And Nature

by John Rennie Short e Lisa Benton-Short

70,21€ + 10% CARD

 <p><em>Cities and Nature</em> connects environmental processes with social and political actions. The book reconnects science and social science to demonstrate how the city is part of the environment and how it is subject to environmental constraints and opportunities. This second edition has been extensively revised and updated with in-depth examination of theory and critical themes. Greater discussion is given to urbanization trends and megacities; the post-industrial city and global economic changes; developing cities and slums; urban political ecology; the role of the city in climate change; and sustainability. </p><p>The book explores the historical relationship between cities and nature, contemporary challenges to this relationship, and attempts taken to create more sustainable cities. The historical context situates urban development and its impact on the environment, and in turn the environmental impact on people in cities. This provides a foundation from which to understand contemporary issues, such as urban political ecology, hazards and disasters, water quality and supply, air pollution and climate change. The book then considers sustainability and how it has been informed by different theoretical approaches. Issues of environmental justice and the role of gender and race are explored. The final chapter examines the ways in which cities are practicing sustainability, from light "greening" efforts such as planting trees, to more comprehensive sustainability plans that integrate the multiple dimensions of sustainability.</p><p>The text contains case studies from around the globe, with many drawn from cities in the developing world, as well as reviews of recent research, updated and expanded further reading to highlight relevant films, websites and journal articles. This book is an asset to students and researchers in geography, environmental studies, urban studies and planning and sustainability.</p>
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Cities And Climate Change

by Harriet Bulkeley

64,91€ + 10% CARD

 'Cities and Climate Change' gives an in-depth and interdisciplinary analysis of the role of cities in addressing climate change.
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Cities And Economies

by John Rennie Short e Yeong-Hyun Kim

64,91€ + 10% CARD

 This outstanding text provides a clear introduction to the relationships between cities and economies in bothÂ historical and global contexts.
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Cities And Gender

by Helen Jarvis, Jonathan Cloke e Paula Kantor

72,86€ + 10% CARD

 Offers a systematic treatment of urban and gender studies combined. This book presents both a feminist critique of mainstream urban policy and planning and a gendered reorientation of key urban social, environmental and city-regional debates. It looks behind the 'headlines' on issues of transport, housing, uneven development, and regeneration.
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Children, Youth And The City

by Kathrin Horschelmann e Lorraine Van Blerk

59,61€ + 10% CARD

 Painting a vivid picture of children and youths in the city, the authors analyze theoretical arguments and international case studies to explore how they make sense of city life, and how they appropriate it through their social actions.
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Cities And Sexualities

by Phil Hubbard

72,86€ + 10% CARD

 <p>From the hotspots of commercial sex through to the suburbia of twitching curtains, urban life and sexualities appear inseparable. Cities are the source of our most familiar images of sexual practice, and are the spaces where new understandings of sexuality take shape. In an era of global business and tourism, cities are also the hubs around which a global sex trade is organised and where virtual sex content is obsessively produced and consumed.</p><p>Detailing the relationships between sexed bodies, sexual subjectivities and forms of intimacy, <em>Cities and Sexualities</em> explores the role of the city in shaping our sexual lives. At the same time, it describes how the actions of urban governors, city planners, the police and judiciary combine to produce cities in which some sexual proclivities and tastes are normalised and others excluded. In so doing, it maps out the diverse sexual landscapes of the city - from spaces of courtship, coupling and cohabitation through to sites of adult entertainment, prostitution, and pornography. Considering both the normative geographies of heterosexuality and monogamy, as well as urban geographies of radical/queer sex, this book provides a unique perspective on the relationship between sex and the city.</p><p><em>Cities and Sexualities</em> offers a wide overview of the state-of-the-art in geographies and sociologies of sexuality, as well as an empirically-grounded account of the forms of desire that animate the erotic city. It describes the diverse sexual landscapes that characterise both the contemporary Western city as well as cities in the global South. The book features a wide range of boxed case studies as well as suggestions for further reading at the end each chapter. It will appeal to undergraduate students studying Geography, Urban Studies, Gender Studies and Sociology.</p>
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Cities And The Cultural Economy

by Thomas A. Hutton

66,23€ + 10% CARD

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Cities And The Cultural Economy

by Thomas A. Hutton

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Cities And Consumption

by Mark (University Of Manchester) Jayne

270,38€

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 In investigating the mutual and dynamic relationship between urban development and consumption, this useful text for students asks: how are cities moulded by consumption, and how is consumption moulded by cities?

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