Visualizing the street:new practices of documenting, navigating and Imagining…

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Urban memory and visual culture in Berlin:framing the asynchronous city, 1957…

As sites of turbulence and transformation, cities are machines for forgetting. And yet archiving and exhibiting the presence of the past remains a key cultural, political and economic activity in many urban environments. This book takes the example of Berlin over the past four decades to chart how the memory culture of the city has responded to the challenges and transformations thrown up by th…

Designing urban food policies :concepts and approaches

This Open Access book is for scientists and experts who work on urban food policies. It provides a conceptual framework for understanding the urban food system sustainability and how it can be tackled by local governments. Written by a collective of researchers, this book describes the existing conceptual frameworks for an analysis of urban food policies, at the crossroads of the concepts of f…

Soundscapes of the urban past:staged sound as mediated cultural heritage

We cannot simply listen to our urban past. Yet we encounter a rich cultural heritage of city sounds presented in text, radio and film. How can such 'staged sounds' express the changing identities of cities? This volume presents a collection of studies on the staging of Amsterdam, Berlin and London soundscapes in historical documents, radio plays and films, and offers insights into themes such a…

Cars, conduits and kampongs:the modernization of the Indonesiaan city, 1920-1960

Cars, Conduits and Kampongs offers a wide panorama of the modernization of Indonesian cities between 1920 and 1960. In examining the multiple responses to innovations introduced by Western colonialism, the contributors demonstrate how modernization, urbanization, and decolonization were intrinsically linked. A full text Open Access version is also available.

Analysis and design of multiple element antennas for urban communication

This work focuses on the analysis and design of multiple element antennas (MEA) and their interaction with the propagation channel. In particular, attention is given to urban channels and how its information throughput, i.e. capacity, can be improved. With this in mind, this work extends an existing network model of the communication system in order to reduce computation time, investigates the …

Urban planning against poverty :how to think and do better cities in the glob…

This open access book revisits the theoretical foundations of urban planning and the application of these concepts and methods in the context of Southern countries by examining several case studies from different regions of the world. For instance, the case of Koudougou, a medium-sized city in one of the poorest countries in the world, Burkina Faso, with a population of 115.000 inhabitants, all…

Studying diversity, migration and urban multiculture

Anti-migrant populism is on the rise across Europe, and diversity and multiculturalism are increasingly presented as threats to social cohesion. Yet diversity is also a mundane social reality in urban neighbourhoods. With this in mind, Studying Diversity, Migration and Urban Multiculture explores how we can live together with and in difference. What is needed for conviviality to emerge and what…

Rural-urban interaction in the developing world

Sustaining the rural and urban populations of the developing world has been identified as a key global challenge for the twenty-first century. Rural-Urban Interaction in the Developing World is an introduction to the relationships between rural and urban places in the developing world and shows that not all their aspects are as obvious as migration from country to city. There is now a growing r…

Balanced urban development:options and strategies for liveable cities

This book provides a unique synthesis of concepts and tools to examine natural resource, socio-economic, legal, policy and institutional issues that are important for managing urban growth into the future. The book will particularly help the reader to understand the current issues and challenges and develop strategies and practices to cope with future pressures of urbanisation and peri-urban la…

Mapping urban spaces :designing the european city

"Mapping Urban Spaces focuses on medium-sized European cities and more specifically on their open spaces from psychological, sociological, and aesthetic points of view. The chapters illustrate how the characteristics that make life in medium-sized European cities pleasant and sustainable – accessibility, ease of travel, urban sustainability, social inclusiveness – can be traced back to the …

Urban transformations and public health in the emergent city

Urban transformations and public health in the emergent city examines how urban health and wellbeing are shaped by migration, mobility, racism, sanitation and gender. Adopting a global focus, spanning Africa, Asia, Europe and Latin America, the essays in this volume bring together a wide selection of voices that explore the interface between social, medical and natural sciences. This interdisci…

Ketahanan Sosial Keluarga Migran Miskin Perkotaan pada Era Pemberlakuan SJSN

Daerah perkotaan identik dengan kemajuan teknologi, industri, dan ekonomi. Bertolak belakang dengan hal tersebut, penduduk miskin masih menjadi permasalahan yang kerap ditemukan di daerah perkotaan. Sebagian besar penduduk miskin tersebut berasal dari kaum migran yang bekerja di sektor informal. Kaum ini sangat rentan mengalami proses marginalisasi yang berdampak pada rendahnya ketahanan sosial…

Tinjauan kritis ketahanan sosial masyarakat miskin perkotaan dan perdesaan:ru…

Kemiskinan masih menjadi salah satu permasalahan utama yang dialami Indonesia. Tak hanya di daerah perdesaan, permasalahan kemiskinan justru kerap ditemukan di area perkotaan yang identik dengan kemajuan teknologi, industri, dan ekonomi. Ruang sosial menjadi pembeda antara kemiskinan di pedesaan dan perkotaan. Namun, keduanya memiliki kesamaan. Sama-sama memiliki kesulitan dalam mengakses sumbe…

Introduction to space syntax in urban studies

This open access textbook is a comprehensive introduction to space syntax method and theory for graduate students and researchers. It provides a step-by-step approach for its application in urban planning and design. This textbook aims to increase the accessibility of the space syntax method for the first time to all graduate students and researchers who are dealing with the built environment, …

Urban socio-economic segregation and income inequality :a global perspective

This open access book investigates the link between income inequality and socio-economic residential segregation in 24 large urban regions in Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America, and South America. It offers a unique global overview of segregation trends based on case studies by local author teams. The book shows important global trends in segregation, and proposes a Global Segregati…

African cities and collaborative futures :urban platforms and metropolitan lo…

African cities and collaborative futures: Urban platforms and metropolitan logistics brings together scholars from across the globe to discuss the nature of African cities – the interactions of residents with infrastructure, energy, housing, safety and sustainability, seen through local narratives and theories. This groundbreaking collection, drawing on a variety of fields and extensive first…

Cities made of boundaries :mapping social life in urban form

Cities Made of Boundaries presents the theoretical foundation and concepts for a new social scientific urban morphological mapping method, Boundary Line Type (BLT) Mapping. Its vantage is a plea to establish a frame of reference for radically comparative urban studies positioned between geography and archaeology. Based in multidisciplinary social and spatial theory, a critical realist understan…

Negara di tengah kota :politik representasi dan simbolisme perkotaan (Surabay…

Setiap kekuasaan membutuhkan media untuk merepresentasi kekuasaannya dan simbol kota menjadi salah satu media yang banyak digunakan untuk kepentingan itu. Simbol kota juga menjadi alat untuk melihat relasi sosial dalam masyarakat. Secara umum simbol dapat dipahami sebagai sesuatu yang menceritakan tentang sesuatu. Freek Colombijn yang mengutip Schefold (1988: 36) mendefinisikan simbol sebagai s…

Ageing with Smartphones in Urban Italy :Care and community in Milan and beyond

‘Who am I at this (st)age? Where am I and where should I be, and how and where should I live?’ These questions, which individuals ask themselves throughout their lives, are among the central themes of this book, which presents an anthropological account of the everyday experiences of age and ageing in an inner-city neighbourhood in Milan, and in places and spaces beyond.Ageing with Smartpho…