This book explores urban futures in the making, as seen through the lens of urban infrastructure. The book describes how
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Hatim El-Hibri explores how the creation and circulation of images has shaped the urban spaces and cultural imaginaries
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Cities are the future. In the past two decades, a global urban revolution has taken place, mainly in the South. The
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Urban problems are now a dominent social issue: the essays in this volume consider the direction some of these problems
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Increasingly, urban actors invoke human rights to address inequalities, combat privatisation, and underline common aspir
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Family life in areas of concentrated poverty and social problems is undermined by surrounding conditions. This timely bo
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Winner of the 2022 Urban Affairs Association Best Book Award. City visions represent shared, and often desirable, expect
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The time to come - as well as the exploration thereof - remains elusive for social actors and social scientists alike. T
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In this colorful depiction of daily political life in Baroque Rome, Laurie Nussdorfer argues that the lay persons manage
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An exploration of the political motivations behind China’s urban and regional development, and how they result in social
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