1. Introduction -- 2. Mainstream Actors -- 3. Non-Mainstream Actors -- 4. Films (and Plays) -- 5. Comedians -- 6. Conclusion.This book focuses on New York City-based actors and comedians who are self-acknowledged heroin users. Barry Spunt examines a number of hypotheses about the reasons why actors and comedians use heroin as well as the impact of heroin on performance, creativity, and career t…
Part 1: The overall picture of shrinking cities in China Shrinking cities in China: the overall profile and paradox in planning Part 2: Looking into shrinking cities from regional perspective A multi-scaled analysis of the shrinking population in a region with out-migration: A case study of Hunan Province -- Urban shrinkage in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Region and Yangtze River Delta: Pattern, t…
CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION: The Complex Process of City Regeneration -- CHAPTER II: Reconnecting Cities with Nature, Building Resilience at the Urban Scale -- CHAPTER III: Understanding the Benefits of Urban Density -- CHAPTER IV: Activating the Food-Water-Energy Nexus -- CHAPTER V: The Ten Strategies for an Urban Regeneration -- CHAPTER VI: Examples of the Ten Urban Regeneration Strategies in Prac…
Introduction -- Part 1 The Theoretical Critique of the Sustainable Urbanism Narrative -- Of Tesla and Eco-City: Urban Sustainability as Territorial Local Trap? -- Making an Urban Ecotopia in China: Knowledge, Power, and Governmentality -- Political Ecology of Chinese Smart Eco-Cities -- Part 2 The Dynamics of “Glocal” Governance and Policy Mobility of Sustainable Urbanism -- City Branding i…
This book examines the reciprocity that exists between the body and the urban built environment. It will draw on archival and ethnographic research as well as an interdisciplinary literature on cultural materialism, semiotics, and aesthetics to challenge dualist interpretations of four different points of historical-material contact in Cape Town, South Africa. Each chapter attends to different …
Acknowledgements -- Introduction; Gülçin Erdi & Yıldırım Şentürk -- Chapter 1: Facing Commodification: Subaltern Tactics In A Working-Class Tokyo Neighbourhood; Nicolas Pinet -- Chapter 2: Coping With The Threat Of Evictions: Commercialisation Of Slum Development And Local Power Play In Ahmedabad, India; Yutaka Sato -- Chapter 3: Refounded Neighbourhoods And Spatial Justice: The Inhabita…
1. Struggling for the Right to be Recognized -- 2. The Right to Adequate Housing Following Forced Evictions in Post-Conflict Colombo, Sri Lanka -- 3. Unsettling Resettlements -- 4. “It Felt Like You Were at a War” -- 5. Domicide and the Coalition --
Chapter 1. The Case for a Criminology of Disaster -- Chapter 2. Conceptualizing Fear in the Disaster Context -- Chapter 3. Property Crime in Disaster -- Chapter 4. Interpersonal Violence in Disaster -- Chapter 5. Fraud in Disaster -- Chapter 6. The Resilience of Crime< -- Chapter 7. The Resilience of Communities -- Chapter 8. Culture and a Criminology of Disaster.This book puts forward a compre…
Introduction -- Section I:Documenting Police Misconduct,- 1.Introduction -- 2.What is Police Misconduct -- 3.Police Misconduct in Brooklyn, New York.- Section II:Understanding Police Misconduct -- 4.What the data shows -- 5.Understanding the findings.- Section: III.Preventing Police Misconduct -- 6.Regulatory, Legislative and Judicial Measures -- 7.Recruitment, Training, Accountability and Tr…
Introduction -- What Is Sprawl And Why Should We Care About It? -- Sprawl as Where We Grow: Or, How Government Spreads Suburbia -- Sprawl as Where We Grow, Part 2: How Government Prices Americans Out of Cities -- Sprawl As How We Grow, Or, How Government Makes Suburbia Sprawling -- The Criminalization of Walking -- Policy Conclusions: Or, A Short Guide to Market Urbanism.This book shows how sub…