Book notes
For several decades now, Kenworthy and Newman have been examining the impact of transport on urban sustainability.
This book examines the theoretical evolution of the organic city in different time periods of post-war Europe, the United States and Latin America. The author also contrasts this with the practical experiences of seven case studies.
Kristin Szylvian’s research into the United States’ mutual housing associations draws on her dissertation study on Electric Heights – a housing development owned by a mutual housing association – in Turtle Creek, Pennsylvania.
Edited by Prof Jeff Waage and Christopher Yap from the London International Development Centre, Thinking Beyond Sectors for Sustainable Development stems from an interdisciplinary project that began in 2013.
This English/Portuguese book is an example of how participatory planning, which puts citizens at the heart of community improvement, can facilitate local responses to climate change challenges.
This book highlights the author’s decade-long, largely ethnographic research on securitization efforts in the two largest economies in Latin America, Brazil and Mexico.
This book describes some elements and purposes of French urban planning models in foreign territories. The author seeks to promote understanding of the channels or conduits employed in efforts to diffuse these models.
In The Pedestrian and the City Carmen Hass-Klau brings us a remarkable volume of content.
This book emerged from discussions during the 2011 World Water Week, which revealed a need to focus on a variety of issues surrounding water and Latin American cities from a development perspective.
In this second edition of Key Concepts in Urban Studies, Professor Panu Lehtovuori from Tampere University of Technology, Finland joins with the original authors, Mark Gottdiener and Leslie Budd, to “critically analyze the dynamic changes in the field of urban studies” (p.