Chapter 1. Introduction: Understanding the changing urban space in India -- Chapter 2. From theory to practice: Field research in four small municipalities in eastern Uttar Pradesh -- Chapter 3. From local to regional challenges: The political profile of the small towns’ municipal councils -- Chapter 4. Between urban imbalances and technical constraints: The challenges of managing local publi…
PART I: EDUCATION AND THE REGION -- Chapter 1: Geography of Education; Chris Taylor -- Chapter 2: Regionalisation and Education; Marcus Emmerich -- Chapter 3: Education as Component of Integrated Regional Planning; Iris Reuther -- Chapter 4: Learning Opportunities, Competencies Development and Equal Opportunities; Wilfried Bos -- PART II: EDUCATION AND THE CITY -- Chapter 5: Educational (In)Equ…
Chapter 1: The Framing of African Immigrants as the Problematic Aliens -- Chapter 2: Migration Context and Contestations -- Chapter 3: Global Contexts, African Immigrants, Traders and the Johannesburg Inner City Milieu -- Chapter 4: Historical Perspectives on Migration and the Xenophobia Discourse -- Chapter 5: African Immigrant Traders in Johannesburg Inner City -- Chapter 6: African Immigrant…
1. Introduction: Behind the Scenes in One of the Most Miserable Cities in America -- 2. Detroit Metropolitan Area and Warren -- 3. Warren as a Case Study -- 4. The Shrinking Context of Warren -- 5. Challenges of shrinkage in Warren as a Midwestern First Suburb -- 6. Current Efforts in Warren -- 7. Conclusion: Lessons from Warren.This book examines Warren, a suburb of Detroit, Michigan, as a shr…
Introduction: Inequalities in the Creative City: a New Perspective on an Old Phenomenon -- The cultural economy of the city. Entrees to theory and understanding inequality -- Urban inequality: approaches and narrative -- The ideal worker: inclusion and exclusion in a knowledge-based city - the case of Oxford, UK -- Making creative cities in the global West: The new polarization and ghettoiz…
1. Introduction: Writing and Un-writing Asian Architecture.- Part One: Theorised Asia -- 2. The Past in the Present: The Immediate Historicity of Asia -- 3. Trans-boundary Methodologies: Cultural Appropriation and Heteroglossia -- 4. Bracketing Before Framing: The Grounding of Colony Architecture.- Part Two: Asianised Theory -- 5. The Tenryuubito and the Resistance to it: Exemplifying Cul…
1. Imagining a Future of Crisis, Terror and Anxiety -- 2. Anxiety, Violence and the Social World -- 3. Precarious Futures: Young People and the Global Financial Crisis -- 4. Guerrilla Selfhood: Imagining Entrepreneurial Futures -- 5. Responsiveness and Re-imagining the Future with Occupy and Black Lives Matter -- 6. The Global Financial Crisis in Pop-culture -- 7. Iraqi Women’s Stories of Anx…
Chapter 1. Mega-Events and Mega-Ambitions -- Chapter 2. 1988 Summer Olympics and the Rise of South Korea and Seoul -- Chapter 3. Daejeon Expo '93 and Paving the Way for Future Development Aspirations -- Chapter 4. 2002 FIFA World Cup and Rebranding of South Korea -- Chapter 5. Pyeong Chang 2018 Winter Olympics -- Chapter 6. Conclusions – the Art of Using Mega-Events for Development.This book …