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 --
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…
Chapter 1. Introduction (Cristián Henríquez and Hugo Romero) -- Part I: Urban Heat Island, Local Climate Zone and Thermal Comfort -- Chapter 2. Urban Climates of Large Cities: Comparison of Urban Heat Island Effect in Latin American (Pablo Sarricolea and Oliver Meseguer-Ruiz) -- Chapter 3. Urban Climate in the South-American Coastal Cities of Guayaquil, Lima, Antofagasta and Valparaiso and it…
Introduction: Gender in the post-Fordist Urban -- 1. Urban theory: Feminist Urban Studies and the Urban Gender Revolution -- 2. Imagineering: Social Engineering through Gendered Mythmaking -- 3. Planning: Attracting Women and Children as New Urbanites -- 4. Social Policy: Targeting Women in Urban Policies – Producing Subject-Positions -- Conclusions: the City as a Potent Muscleman in Pink Sti…
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¿Dónde Está Highland? .- Public Space and the Rights-Rift .- Rights to Public Space .- Vacant Space -- Temporary Space .- Sidewalk Space -- Street Space -- Park Space -- Coda: Now what?.This book examines the roles that public space plays in gentrification. Considering both cultural norms of public behavior and the municipal regulation of behavior in public, it shows how commonplace …
1. City and Society -- 2. In Search of the City -- 3. Industrialization and Urbanization of Early Capitalism -- 4. Triumph and Tribulations of the Mass-Production Metropolis -- 5. Cities in a Globalizing World -- 6. The Third Wave -- 7. Mainsprings of Resurgence -- 8. Social Differentiation and Forms of Life -- 9. Through the Kaleidoscope -- 10. The Urban Commonwealth.This book presents an expl…
1.Complexity and consequence in coupled natural urban systems -- Section 1.The Galapagos as a living laboratory -- 2.The Galapagos Urban Context -- 3.Understanding Coupled Urban-Natural Dynamics as the Key to Sustainability: The Example of the Galapagos -- 4.Scales and Transformative Change: Transitions in the Galápagos -- Section 2.Socio-ecological models -- 5.Demographics of Change: Modellin…
How Should We Think About Race? A Conversation on Equity, Inclusion, and Integration -- We Did This? An Acknowledgment of the Causes of Segregation -- What Have We Wrought? An Explication of the Consequences of Segregation -- Are We Really Doing Something? An Examination of Mitigation Strategies by Policy -- What Would the Beloved Community Look Like? An Examination of Mitigation Strategies by …
1. Theories of Urban Growth, Sustainability, and Transparent Development -- 2. The Speculative Growth Paradigm in the History of Phoenix -- 3. A History of Property Development and Ownership in Downtown Phoenix -- 4. The Political Economy of Land Speculation in Downtown Phoenix -- 5. Policy Approaches to Transparent Urban Development in Phoenix.This book studies both the tangible benefits and s…