Urbana samhällen

Vad är det som förenar näbbmusens hjärtfrekvens med utvecklingen av New Yorks tunnelbana? Varför går alla företag förr eller senare i konkurs? Och hur kan vi använda dessa insikter för att förutse framtiden? När Geoffrey West gav sig ut på jakt ef...

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Situationen i landets förorter och särskilt för unga förortsbor har under det senaste decenniet blivit allt mer prekär. Från att ha beskrivits som en internationell förebild när det gäller välfärds- och integrationspolitik så har Sverige allt mer ...

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Alla har åsikter om förorten: hur stora problemen är, vad de beror på och hur de ska hanteras. I den polariserade debatten ges dock sällan utrymme för förortsbornas egna tankar och erfarenheter. Statsvetaren Peter Esaiasson har inom ramen för ett ...

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"Det är inte betongen som gör oss till dom vi e, det är vi som gör betongen till mer än sten. När vi talar om Orten syftar vi mer på gemensamma erfarenheter än på ett geografiskt område - vår gemensamma erfarenhet av att befinna oss långt frå...

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Dagens snabba urbanisering och omvandlingen av urbana miljöer är en global trend, och det pågår en förändring av storstäderna även i Sverige. Men storstäderna är inte enbart möjligheternas domän; här finns också en koncentration och en mångfald av...

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In Search of Respect, Philippe Bourgois's now-classic, ethnographic study of social marginalization in inner-city America, won critical acclaim after it was first published in 1995 and in 1997 was awarded the Margaret Mead Award. For the first tim...

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Bilden av miljonprogramsområden tecknas ofta i ensidigt dystra färger. Men exemplet Gårdsten i Göteborg visar att det går vända en till synes hopplös situation i ett eftersatt bostadsområde. Det visar att det krävs en uthållighet som varar i årtio...

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I över 5 000 år var trygghetsfrågor en viktig del av stadsbyggandet runt om i världen. Städerna bestod av en mix av bostäder, arbetsplatser och näringsverksamheter med naturliga mötesplatser, vilket medförde att människor genom sin närvaro skapade...

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Inner-city black America is often stereotyped as a place of random violence, but in fact, violence in the inner city is regulated through an informal but well-known code of the street. This unwritten set of rules-based largely on an individual's a...

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Urban Ecology: An Introduction seeks to open the reader's mind and eyes to the way in which nature permeates everyday urban living, and how it has to be understood, cared for, and managed in order to make our towns and cities healthier places to v...

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-A simple clear structure based on urban design course structures -A comprehensive discussion of the field -Well illustrated throughout with examples, tables and images that explain and illuminate the text

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From the Sunday Times bestselling author, a dazzling, globe-spanning history of humankind's greatest invention: the city. 'Brilliant...enchanting' Evening Standard 'Exhilarating' New York Times The story of the city is the story of civilisation. F...

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Staden har blivit het. Vi lever nu i en stadsrenässansens era. Därmed inte sagt att de urbana kvaliteterna blivit fler i våra städer, utan s narare att sensibiliteten för staden och dess möjligheter går att finn a hos allt fler. Jane Jacobs klassi...

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Malmoe, Sweden. A cellist meets a spun-out junkie. That could have been me. His mind starts to glitch between his memories and the avant-garde music he loves, and he descends into his past, hearing all over again the chaotic song of his youth. He ...

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Urban Geography a comprehensive introduction to a variety of issues relating to contemporary urban geography, including patterns and processes of urbanization, urban development, urban planning, and life experiences in modern cities. * Reveals bot...

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In 2005 Waverly Duck was called to a town he calls Bristol Hill to serve as an expert witness in the sentencing of drug dealer Jonathan Wilson. Convicted as an accessory to the murder of a federal witness and that of a fellow drug dealer, Jonathan...

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The USDA Manual of Canning, Preserving, Fermenting, and Pickling Vegetables, Fruits, and Meats This deluxe unabridged reprint Legacy Edition of The USDA Complete Guide To Home Canning is a richly illustrated and info-packed instruction manual and ...

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As the glittering skyline in Shanghai seemingly attests, China has quickly transformed itself from a place of stark poverty into a modern, urban, technologically savvy economic powerhouse. But as Scott Rozelle and Natalie Hell show in Invisible Ch...

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Following the Second World War, modern systems of urban and regional planning were established in Britain and most other developed countries. In this book, Nigel Taylor describes the changes in planning thought which have taken place since then. H...

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Street Corner Society is one of a handful of works that can justifiably be called classics of sociological research. William Foote Whyte's account of the Italian American slum he called "Cornerville"-Boston's North End-has been the model...

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Suburbia. Tupperware, television, bungalows and respectable front lawns. Always instantly recognisable though never entirely familiar. The tight semi-detached estates of thirties Britain and the infenced and functional tract housing of middle Amer...

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Building on three decades of comparative research on marginality, ethnicity, and penality in the postindustrial metropolis, Loic Wacquant offers a novel interpretation of Pierre Bourdieu as urban theorist. He invites us to explore the city through...

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Today, for the first time in the history of Humankind urban dwellers outnumber rural residents. Urban places, towns and cities, are of fundamental importance - for the distribution of population within countries; in the organization of economic pr...

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'Warm, funny, biting and essential reading.' Adam Rutherford, author of Control Africa Is Not A Country is a bright portrait of modern Africa that pushes back against harmful stereotypes to tell a more comprehensive story. You already know these s...

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The world is getting faster. This sentiment is proclaimed so often that it is taken for granted, rarely questioned or examined by those who celebrate the notion of an accelerated culture or by those who decry it. Sarah Sharma engages with that ass...

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The revised and updated second edition of Introduction to Cities explores why cities are such a vital part of the human experience and how they shape our everyday lives. Written in engaging and accessible terms, Introduction to Cities examines the...

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The contributors to Grammars of the Urban Ground develop a new conceptual framework and vocabulary for capturing the complex, ever-shifting, and interactive processes that shape contemporary cities. Building on Marxist, feminist, queer, and critic...

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'Thank god for Richard Sennett ... essential reading for all students of the city' Anna Minton, Prospect 'Constantly stimulating ideas from a veteran of urban thinking' Jonathan Meades, Guardian In Building and Dwelling, Richard Sennett distils a ...

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At century's close, American social scientists, policy analysts, philanthropists and politicians became obsessed with a fearsome and mysterious new group said to be ravaging the ghetto: the urban "underclass." Soon the scarecrow category...

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Long before Occupy, cities were the subject of much utopian thinking. They are the centers of capital accumulation as well as of revolutionary politics, where deeper currents of social and political change rise to the surface. Do the financiers an...

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