Urban Jungle: The History and Future of Nature in the City 0385548117, 9780385548113

History and Leadership: The Nature and Role of the Past in Navigating the Future 0367569787, 9780367569785

Leaders and managers are rightly tasked to take their organizations and communities to a desired future. They are expect

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Women and the City, Women in the City: A Gendered Perspective on Ottoman Urban History 9781782384120

An attempt to reveal, recover and reconsider the roles, positions, and actions of Ottoman women, this volume reconsiders

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'City of the Future': Built Space, Modernity and Urban Change in Astana 9781785332579

Astana, the capital city of the post-Soviet Kazakhstan, has often been admired for the design and planning of its futuri

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City of Flows : Modernity, Nature, and the City

Typically, cities and nature are perceived as geographic opposites, cities being manufactured social creations, and natu

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City, Urban Transformation and the Right to the City

This article investigates the relationship between transformation of cities and the right to the city. To be able to do this, the problems that are created by contemporary urbanization such as social exclusion, poverty and environmental degradation are discussed in the first part. After that, with a special focus on the period starting with industrial revolution up until today, the article explains economic and political motivations behind urban transformation. This part emphasizes how urban change under different forms of capitalism creates and deepens social inequalities in cities. Final part of this article will be a discussion on the right to the city, and its relation to these urban issues. JOURNAL OF CONTEMPORARY URBAN AFFAIRS (2020), 4(1), 1-10. https://doi.org/10.25034/ijcua.2020.v4n1-1

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Canadian City: Essays in Urban and Social History 9780773584853

The emphasis is on urban society, with new essays on social structure, the family, ethnicity and immigration, and religi

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Ruderal City: Ecologies of Migration, Race, and Urban Nature in Berlin 1478015969, 9781478015963

In Ruderal City Bettina Stoetzer traces relationships among people, plants, and animals in contemporary Berlin as they m

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Architecture and the Turkish City: An Urban History of Istanbul since the Ottomans 9781784531058, 9781350985353, 9781786732309

Architecture and urban planning have always been used by political regimes to stamp their ideologies upon cities, and th

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Jerusalem Unbound: Geography, History, and the Future of the Holy City 9780231537353

Jerusalem's formal political borders reveal neither the dynamics of power in the city nor the underlying factors th

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The Nature of Future Conflict 9781473816633

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