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Stavros Stavrides

The Politics of Urban Potentiality

This volume examines how urban potentiality emerges in performances that reclaim the city, acting as an emancipatory force when dominant patterns of urban behaviour are thrown into crisis. It can result i…

Tom Goodfellow

Politics and the Urban Frontier

This book offers the first full-length comparative analysis of urban development trajectories in Eastern Africa and the political dynamics that underpin them. It offers a multi-scalar, historically-ground…

Rawan Asali Nuseibeh

Urban Youth Unemployment, Marginalization and Politics in MENA

This book focuses on Arab youth marginalization along intersectional lines of gender, ethnicity and social class in four cities: Jerusalem, Amman, Cairo, and Tunis. The author explores how the political a…

Amy Zhang

Circular Ecologies

"After four decades of reform and development, China is confronting a domestic waste crisis. As the world's largest waste-generating nation, the World Economic Forum projects that by 2030, the volume of h…

Amy Zhang

Circular Ecologies

"After four decades of reform and development, China is confronting a domestic waste crisis. As the world's largest waste-generating nation, the World Economic Forum projects that by 2030, the volume of h…

Giulia C. Romano

Veränderte Stadterneuerungspolitiken in China

"Dies ist eine sehr reichhaltige Monografie, die auf einer beeindruckenden Feldforschung in China basiert und die ausgezeichnete qualitative und ethnografische Forschungsfähigkeiten, Forschungsintegrität …

Mette Gabler

Creating Slogans for Social Change

What role media content and technologies play in processes of change is an ongoing and multi-layered discussion. Therein, advertising and gender have an extraordinary position. In the context of adverti…

Simon Escoffier

Mobilizing at the Urban Margins

"This book uses the case of Chile to study how social mobilization endures in marginalized urban contexts, allowing activists to engage in large-scale democratizing processes. It develops a novel analytic…

Action Time Vision: A Story Of Independent UK Punk

Auf Cherry Red erscheint nun das 4CD-Boxset »Action Time Vision - A Story Of Independent UK Punk 1976 - 1979«. Die Zusammenstellung dokumentiert die Entwicklung der britischen Punk-Bewegung von 1976 bis 1…

Questioning Proximity - Opportunities and Challenges for Urban Planning and Mobility Policies

The book discusses some of the issues related to proximity, challenges an acritical use of the concept and highlights several dimensions that may better frame the actual contribution of proximity to urban…

The Politics of Housing in (Post-)Colonial Africa

Housing matters, no matter when or where. This volume of collected essays on housing in colonial and postcolonial Africa seeks to elaborate the how and the why. It concentrates on analyzing housing in its…

Riot City: Complete Singles Collection - The Sound Of UK 82

Simon Rattle - Musik im 20.Jahrhundert

Felicity Palmer, Anne Sofie von Otter, Amanda Roocroft, Peter Donohoe, Anthony Rolfe Johnson, Wayne Marshall, Jeanne Loriod, Rex Lawson, Willard White, Lydia Ariken, Gidon Kremer, London Sinfonietta Voic…

Hans-Jürgen Urban

Gute Arbeit gegen Rechts

Die Bände der Reihe »Arbeitspolitik: Theorie, Praxis, Strategie« werden sich den Fragen zuwenden, wie verhindert werden kann, dass die aggressiven Weltverhältnisse im Zeitalter der Transformationen in agg…

Sara Martucci

There Was Nothing There

"There Was Nothing There: Williamsburg, The Gentrification of a Brooklyn Neighborhood explores the daily, lived-effects of gentrification for neighborhood residents- those who are newcomers and those who …

Canadian Urban Governance in Comparative Perspective

Bringing together leading subject experts, this book compares and situates Canadian municipal institutions, urban governance systems, and policy-making in global debates about democratic governance.

Patrick Condon

Broken City

Broken City argues that skyrocketing urban land prices drive our global housing market failure - so, how did we get here, and what can be done about it?

Soul Of A Nation: Afro-Centric Visions In The Age Of Black Power - Underground Jazz, Street Funk & The Roots Of Rap 1968-79

Diese Zusammenstellung ist gewissermaßen der Soundtrack zur Ausstellung »Soul Of A Nation: Art In The The Age Of Black Power«, die 2017 sowohl in der Londoner Tate Gallery als auch im New Yorker Brooklyn …

Emily Talen

What Cities Say

In What Cities Say, Emily Talen provides a wide-ranging yet concise synthesis of the fundamental drivers of built form, its social and cultural meaning, and how we should interpret it. Including thirty-fi…