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  • 1
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    The Rise in Vacant Housing in Post-growth Japan : Housing Market, Urban Policy, and Revitalizing Aging Cities (2020)
    Singapore :Springer Nature Singapore :
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    Keywords: Sociology, Urban. ; Human geography. ; Urban economics. ; Economic geography. ; Urban Sociology. ; Human Geography. ; Urban Economics. ; Economic Geography.
    Description / Table of Contents: Why the rise in urban housing vacancies oc-curred and matters in Japan -- Mapping the problems of housing vacancies in Japan -- Changes in essential facilities of housing estates in an aging society: the failure of city planning in Japan -- Geodemographic characteristics of vacant houses in the resale condominium market in the Kansai metropolitan area -- The decline in price of suburban secondhand hosuing in Hiroshima city -- Distribution of vacant homes in Tama city in the Tokyo metropolitan area: estimation using GIS and small area statistics -- Urban abandonment and housing vacancies in Japanese local cities: a case of Kyo-machiya, traditional wooden town houses -- A problem of vacant housing in local cities: Utsunomiya city, Tochigi prefecture case study -- Revitalizing old houses “Kominka” by private real estate agencies -- Local responses to a rise in housing vacancies in the Nagoya suburbs. .
    Abstract: This book explores how Japanese cities have transformed since the 1950s by describing housing and urban planning policies, urbanization processes, and maps with GIS analysis. It also discusses how housing vacancies have increased in shrinking Japanese cities, with case studies in Tokyo, Kyoto, Hiroshima, and Utsunomiya, and examines public–private partnerships and civil engagement to revitalize cities. Providing examples of how Japanese cities have addressed the issues of aging populations and urban shrinkage, it contributes to better decision-making by politicians, planners, local authorities, NPOs, and local communities in many rapidly urbanizing and potentially aging regions such as Asia. In the era of urban shrinkage, Japanese cities have struggled with aging populations, low fertility, population loss, and a decline in the economic base over decades. In particular, shrinkage in metropolitan suburbs and large cities (e.g., sites of prefectural government with 300 000–400 000 inhabitants) has caused serious social problems owing to the huge aging population and large areas covered. One typical problem that has emerged is an increase in vacancies in now empty and abandoned housing.
    Type of Medium: Online Resource
    Pages: XVI, 175 p. 53 illus., 24 illus. in color. , online resource.
    Edition: 1st ed. 2020.
    ISBN: 9789811379208
    Series Statement: Advances in Geographical and Environmental Sciences,
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-7920-8
    DOI: 10.1007/978-981-13-7920-8
    DDC: 307.76
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  • 2
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    Divided Tokyo : Disparities in Living Conditions in the City Center and the Shrinking Suburbs (2020)
    Singapore :Springer Nature Singapore :
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    Keywords: Sociology, Urban. ; Human geography. ; Sustainability. ; Economic geography. ; Urban Sociology. ; Human Geography. ; Sustainability. ; Economic Geography.
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction -- Divided Tokyo: Housing policy, the ideology of homeownership, and the growing contrast between the city center and the suburbs -- The rise of the condominium lifestyle in Japanese cities -- Homeownership by single women in central Tokyo -- New condominium town in the Tokyo Bay area: making “home” an antithesis to rootlessness in suburbia -- Shrinking suburbs in Tokyo -- The generative processes of vacant housing in the shrinking suburbs: The case of Ushiku in Tokyo’s 50-60-km Commuter Belt -- Policy response and civic engagement to address urban shrinkage -- Conclusions. .
    Abstract: This book explores how and why Tokyo has been divided over time in terms of living conditions. First, recent urban discourses that explain the transformation of Tokyo’s urban structure are examined, along with social changes and the expansion of unequal residential conditions within the metropolitan area. Chapter 1 reviews: 1) discussions on globalization, neo-liberalization, and changes in housing policies; 2) debates on the divided city; 3) debates on the shrinking city and the urban lifecycle; 4) discussion of the urban residential environment from a social justice perspective; and 5) family–housing relationships in the post-growth society. Based on the literature review, the rest of the book is structured as follows. Chapter 2 explains the changes in urban and housing policies, demography, and socio-economic conditions. In Chapters 3 to 5, the background and characteristics of the growth of condominium living in the city center are examined. The next three chapters analyze the reality of shrinking suburbs, using case studies to demonstrate the increase in vacant housing and local responses toward shrinkage. In Chapter 9, possible solutions are proposed for dealing with problems related to urban shrinkage and the expanding gap in terms of the availability of investments to stimulate urban development, the residential environment, and the population age structure in Japanese cities by comparing the author’s findings and the literature review. This book provides deep insights for urban and housing scholars, urban planners, policy decision-makers, and local communities that struggle with aging populations and urban shrinkage.
    Type of Medium: Online Resource
    Pages: XI, 174 p. 193 illus., 4 illus. in color. , online resource.
    Edition: 1st ed. 2020.
    ISBN: 9789811542022
    Series Statement: International Perspectives in Geography, AJG Library, 11
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-4202-2
    DOI: 10.1007/978-981-15-4202-2
    DDC: 307.76
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  • 3
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    Spatial Justice and Planning : Reshaping Social Housing Communities in a Changing Society (2023)
    Cham :Springer International Publishing :
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    Keywords: Urban policy. ; Human geography. ; Architecture. ; Social justice. ; Urban Policy. ; Human Geography. ; Cities, Countries, Regions. ; Social Justice.
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction -- An enquiry into planning for justice -- From aspirational to operational: Towards an integrated approach to spatial justice -- Urban regeneration and social housing redevelopment in Aotearoa New Zealand: Issues and challenges -- Historical-Geographical analysis of spatial differentiations -- Changing social housing policy in the context of neoliberalism -- People, place and policy -- Spatial justice and planning: Bridging the gap.
    Abstract: Despite the significance of urban justice in planning research and practice, how just societies and cities can be organised and achieved remains contested. Spatial justice provides an integrative and unifying theory concerning place, policies, people and their interplay, but ambiguities about its practical bases have undermined its application in planning. Through creating and substantiating a new conceptual framework comprising a morphological study, policy analysis and embodiment research, this book crystallises the spatiality of (in)justice and (in)justice of spatiality in the context of social housing redevelopment. Like many countries around the world, social housing in Aotearoa New Zealand is an area of contention, especially at the building and redevelopment stages. Protecting community character and human rights has been used by social housing tenants to resist changes, but the primary focus on material outcomes neglects broadening access to planning processes. Compact, mixed tenure and sustainable (re)developments are regarded as the just built environment, as they enable equal accessibility to all. But there are contradictions between the planned spatiality of justice and individuals’ socialised sensory space. Reconciliation of morphological differentiations in built forms and social cohesion remains a challenging task. This book focuses on the re-examination, integration and transferability of spatial justice. It makes a new contribution to urban justice theory by strengthening spatial justice and planning. Social housing areas are expected to adapt to changing social and economic demands while retaining much-valued established community character. This book also provides practical strategies for tackling complex planning problems in social housing redevelopment.
    Type of Medium: Online Resource
    Pages: XIX, 172 p. 40 illus., 27 illus. in color. , online resource.
    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
    ISBN: 9783031380709
    Series Statement: The Urban Book Series,
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-38070-9
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-38070-9
    DDC: 307.76
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  • 4
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    Participatory Research and Planning in Practice (2020)
    Cham :Springer International Publishing :
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    Keywords: Sociology, Urban. ; Human geography. ; Regionalism. ; Urban Sociology. ; Human Geography. ; Regionalism.
    Description / Table of Contents: Co-production, Participatory Planning and Resilient Cities to Climate Change -- Participatory Transport Planning: the Experience of Eight Euro-pean Metropolitan Regions -- Participatory Planning in a Post-socialist Ur-ban Context: Experience From Five Cities in Central and Eastern Europe -- Governance and Management Systems in Mediterranean Marine and Coastal Biosphere Reserves -- Promises and Limits of Participatory Urban Greens Development: Experience from Maribor, Budapest, and Krakow.
    Abstract: This open access book provides in-depth insights into participatory research and planning by presenting practical examples of its use. In particular, it describes theoretical and methodological aspects of participatory research and planning, as well as the implementation of participatory processes in fields such as transport planning, cultural heritage management, environmental planning and post-earthquake recovery. Further, it compares participatory planning experiences from different territorial levels – from the macro-regional, e.g. Southeastern Europe, Mediterranean or European metropolitan regions, to national, regional and local levels. The book will help researchers, planners, public administration officials, decision-makers and the general public to understand the advantages, disadvantages and constraints of participatory planning and research. Using various examples, it will guide readers through the theory of participatory planning and research, its methods, and different perspectives on how to use it in practice.
    Type of Medium: Online Resource
    Pages: XI, 227 p. 26 illus., 22 illus. in color. , online resource.
    Edition: 1st ed. 2020.
    ISBN: 9783030280147
    Series Statement: The Urban Book Series,
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-28014-7
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-28014-7
    DDC: 307.76
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  • 5
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    The Co-Housing Phenomenon : Environmental Alliance in Times of Changes (2020)
    Cham :Springer International Publishing :
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    Keywords: Sociology, Urban. ; Human geography. ; Urban Sociology. ; Human Geography.
    Description / Table of Contents: 1. Technocene,- 2. Sharing as cultural revolution -- 3. Sharing as cultural pre-existence -- 4. Co-housing -- 5. Co-housing cases -- 6. Hopes.
    Abstract: This book presents 50 case studies of contemporary co-housing projects spread all over the world to show how communities of shared living have become a global phenomenon that can serve as a tool to promote social and urban sustainability. By presenting evidence that shared housing experiences are capable of revitalizing sterile urban fabrics and promoting social sustainable practices, the volume situates co-housing experiences as microscale responses to the macroscale challenges posed by environmental degradation and the decline of communitarian ways of living. The volume also reviews the most famous typologies of shared living in different parts of the world across human history. By analyzing historical experiences in different regions of Africa, Americas, Asia, Europe and Oceania, the author shows that living together is part of a historical culture of sharing that is being rediscovered all over the world by people who activate public spaces, work in shared offices or live in contractual communities. The Co-Housing Phenomenon – Environmental Alliance in Times of Changes will be of interest to both professionals and scholars involved in urban design, urban planning and architecture, especially those in the field of sustainable urbanism. It will also be a valuable resource for public agents and civil society organizations dealing with housing, social, environmental and sustainability policies.
    Type of Medium: Online Resource
    Pages: XVI, 269 p. 195 illus., 188 illus. in color. , online resource.
    Edition: 1st ed. 2020.
    ISBN: 9783030370978
    Series Statement: The Urban Book Series,
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-37097-8
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-37097-8
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  • 6
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    Tourism, Cultural Heritage and Urban Regeneration : Changing Spaces in Historical Places (2020)
    Cham :Springer International Publishing :
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    Keywords: Sociology, Urban. ; Human geography. ; Cultural geography. ; Tourism. ; Management. ; Urban Sociology. ; Social and Cultural Geography. ; Tourism Management.
    Description / Table of Contents: Changing spaces in historical places -- Clarksdale, Mississippi: Downtown regeneration, cultural heritage, tourism and blues music -- Beer as cultural lubricant: Brewing Tsingtao, regenerating Qingdao -- Sporting heritage and touristic transformation: Pacaembu stadium and the football museum in São Paulo, Brazil -- Old town Tallinn: Medieval built heritage amid transformation.
    Abstract: Urban regeneration is often regarded as the process of renewal or redevelopment of spaces and places. There is a need to look at tourism and urban regeneration with a particular focus on cultural heritage. Cultural heritage consists of tangible heritage (such as historic buildings) and intangible heritage (such as events). The wider need and impact for such work is that places plan for change to keep up with the shifts in demand in the global economy in order for places to maintain a competitive advantage. Moreover, places need to keep up with the pace of global change or they risk stagnation and decline as increased competition is resulting in increased opportunities and choice for consumers. Each chapter in this book explores a specific form of cultural heritage that is driving change in urban spaces. Intended for a wide readership, the book will appeal to students of urban studies, human geography, heritage studies and international tourism management, as well as experts conducting research in and across these areas.
    Type of Medium: Online Resource
    Pages: XI, 213 p. 31 illus., 29 illus. in color. , online resource.
    Edition: 1st ed. 2020.
    ISBN: 9783030419059
    Series Statement: The Urban Book Series,
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-41905-9
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-41905-9
    DDC: 307.76
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  • 7
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    Urban Morphology : An Introduction to the Study of the Physical Form of Cities (2022)
    Cham :Springer International Publishing :
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    Keywords: Urban policy. ; Sociology, Urban. ; Geography. ; Human geography. ; Urban Policy. ; Urban Sociology. ; Regional Geography. ; Human Geography.
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction -- The elements of urban form -- The agents and processes of urban transformation -- Cities in history -- Contemporary cities -- The study of urban form: Different approaches -- From theory to practice -- Relationships with other fields of knowledge -- Conclusions.
    Abstract: 'This is a textbook about cities or, more precisely, about the physical form of cities. It provides an overview of the main elements of urban form—streets, street blocks, plots and buildings—structuring our cities and the fundamental agents and processes of transformation shaping these elements. It applies this analytical framework to describe the evolution of cities over history as well as to explain the functioning of contemporary cities. After the initial focus on the 'object' (cities), the book introduces how different schools of thought have been dealing with this object since the emergence of Urban Morphology, as the science of urban form, in the turning to the twentieth century. Finally, the book identifies the main contributions of urban morphology to cities, societies and economies. This second edition of the book offers updated and more accurate knowledge on several morphological issues, presents expanded contents, and it has a more explicit didactic nature, including a set of exercises in the end of each chapter, that will help teachers and students (in architecture, geography, planning, history, sociology and urban studies) in acquiring and consolidating their urban morphological knowledge.
    Type of Medium: Online Resource
    Pages: XXV, 240 p. 95 illus., 70 illus. in color. , online resource.
    Edition: 2nd ed. 2022.
    ISBN: 9783030924546
    Series Statement: The Urban Book Series,
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-92454-6
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-92454-6
    DDC: 307.76
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  • 8
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    Fourth Places : Informal Social Life and Interaction in New Designed Public Spaces (2022)
    Cham :Springer International Publishing :
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    Keywords: Sociology, Urban. ; Human geography. ; Design. ; Urban Sociology. ; Human Geography. ; Design.
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction: Is public social life in decline and are contemporary masterplanning And public space design practices to be blamed?- Theorisation of informal public social life and interaction in urban public space -- The sociality and spatiality of social encounters among strangers -- Observations on the theorized conditions that support informal social interactions in new designed public spaces -- Observations on the under-theorized conditions that support informal social -- Interactions in new designed public spaces -- ‘Fourth-places’: The contemporary public settings for informal social life and Interaction.
    Abstract: This book challenges current views that public life is in decline and that contemporary urban design trends reliant on privatisation, control, events, and thematic designs are to be blamed. Drawing on detailed and extensive analysis of a case study that illustrates well such urban design trends, it shows that informal social life and interaction occur more than its necessary in new master planned environments and new designed public settings, whether public or private owned and/or managed. Furthermore, it reveals the existence of a new category of informal public social settings which it calls fourth places because of their close relationship to Oldenburg’s third places in terms of social and behavioural characteristics – radical departure from the routines of home and work, inclusivity and social comfort – but distinct in terms of activities, locations and spatial conditions – being characterised by spatial, temporal and managerial in-betweenness, i.e. indeterminacy in form, function and times, and a great sense of publicness. The acceptance of these findings problematises well-established urban design theories about master planning, expands existing social theories about the optimal conditions for public social life by empirically and spatially elaborating on them and redefines several spatial concepts for designing public space in relation to the specific dynamics of informal social interaction. More importantly, it brings optimism to urban design practice, offering new insights into designing more lively and inclusive public spaces.
    Type of Medium: Online Resource
    Pages: XVII, 237 p. 135 illus., 1 illus. in color. , online resource.
    Edition: 1st ed. 2022.
    ISBN: 9783031079467
    Series Statement: The Urban Book Series,
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-07946-7
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-07946-7
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    Beyond the Informal : Understanding Self-Organized Kampungs in Indonesia (2023)
    Cham :Springer International Publishing :
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    Keywords: Urban policy. ; Human geography. ; Urban Policy. ; Human Geography.
    Description / Table of Contents: Inquiring into self-organization and the self-organized city -- Informality and responding to the challenges of informal settlements -- Key concepts in understanding self-organization and the self-organized city -- Urbanization and the development of the Kampung in Indonesia -- Kampung Marlina, Jakarta -- Kampung Pakualaman, Yogyakarta -- Kampungs Lebak Siliwangi and Tamansari, Bandung -- Beyond the informal – Better understanding self-organization and the self-organized city.
    Abstract: This book provides a much-needed analysis of the pivotal role of the urban kampung in Indonesia’s urbanization process and importantly, provides a deeper understanding of how these communities create their complex socio-physical environments through self-organization. The book challenges the current formal approaches and practices to modern planning in Indonesia where many kampungs are classed as illegal and excluded from city plans. Beyond informality unpacks via 3 case studies the self-generated planning and development arrangements and mechanisms which occur parallel to processes of formal exclusion, adaptation, negotiation and modification. Kampungs are posited as inseparable urban entities contributing to the complex assemblage of the city and the dynamics of contemporary urban planning and design. In the context of planning and design practice, this book provides a better understanding on how one needs to consider human-scale urbanism to achieve more effective and efficient planning plans and policies in the self-organized city. Even though self-organization by residents comes with its challenges as outlined in the book, formal planning in both Indonesia and other developing countries has much to learn from understanding self-organized settlements (kampung) and informal settlements ‘as they are’.
    Type of Medium: Online Resource
    Pages: XXIX, 161 p. 109 illus., 106 illus. in color. , online resource.
    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
    ISBN: 9783031222399
    Series Statement: The Urban Book Series,
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-22239-9
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-22239-9
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  • 10
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    Lived Experiences of Borderland Communities in Zimbabwe : Livelihoods, Conservation, War and Covid-19 (2023)
    Cham :Springer International Publishing :
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    Keywords: Urban policy. ; Human geography. ; Cultural geography. ; Cultural property. ; Urban Policy. ; Social and Cultural Geography. ; Cultural Heritage.
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1: The Lived Experiences of Zimbabwean Borderlands -- Chapter 2: Peasant Accumulation and Livelihoods Strategies in Zimbabwe’s Mozambican Borderlands -- Chapter 3: Slippery Bananas? Environmental Conflicts, Banana Production and Entangled Livelihoods along the Zimbabwe-Mozambican border with specific reference to Honde Valley, 1992 – 2020 -- Chapter 4: Land Rights, Displacements and Rural Livelihoods in Zimbabwe’s South-Eastern Borderlands -- Chapter 5: Borders, Boundaries, and Livelihoods in Western and North-Western Zimbabwe, 1890 – 2021 -- Chapter 6: Local Community Perceptions on Wildlife Conservation and Park-People Relationships in the Sengwe Area, Chiredzi District, Southeast Zimbabwe -- Chapter 7: Understanding the Complexities of Human Conflict Over Wildlife in the Border Town of Kariba, Zimbabwe -- Chapter 8: The Nexus between the Zimbabwe’s Borderlands, Marginalised Peoples, Community Archiving and Archival Activism 4 -- Chapter 9: Entangled Borderlands: Effects of the 1978-1992 Mozambican Civil War on Border Communities in Zimbabwe -- Chapter 10: “Across the border, you are treated well, they care:” Patients, Travels and Therapeutic Mobilities in Honde Valley and Kariba Borderlands -- Chapter 11: The Covid-19 Pandemic and Tourism in Kariba Border Town -- Chapter 12: The Health Seeking Behaviour of Borderline Communities: The Status of the San People of Tsholotsho, Zimbabwe -- Chapter 13: Unfolding Realities of Urbanism at the Margins: Beitbridge (Zimbabwe) and Musina (South Africa) Border Towns as a Single Urban Frontier.
    Abstract: This book examines the national borders and borderlands of Zimbabwe through the presentation of empirically rich case studies. It delves into the lived experiences, both past and present, of populations residing along the borders between Zimbabwe and its neighbours, i.e., Zambia, Botswana, South Africa and Mozambique. It locates these lived experiences within the political economy of Zimbabwe, and highlights a wide range of themes pertinent to borders, including health, COVID-19, marginalisation, resource access, conservation, human-wildlife conflicts, civil wars, politico-economic crises, border jumping and cross border trade. The borderland communities discussed also include ethnic minorities such as the Tonga, San, Ndau, Shangane, and Kalanga. Overall, the book demonstrates the centrality of borders to the Zimbabwean nation-state and the importance of reading history, politics and society from the borderlands. The book fits into the wider prevailing literature of border and borderlands in Africa and beyond and thus has appeal far beyond Zimbabwe. Its diverse themes also relate to topics covered in multiple disciplines, including history, anthropology, and sociology. Academics, development specialists and policy makers will benefit in different ways from the depth and breadth of the analysis in the book.
    Type of Medium: Online Resource
    Pages: XI, 214 p. 1 illus. , online resource.
    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
    ISBN: 9783031321955
    Series Statement: Springer Geography,
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-32195-5
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-32195-5
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    Urbicide : The Death of the City (2023)
    Cham :Springer International Publishing :
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    Keywords: Sociology, Urban. ; Human geography. ; Urban policy. ; Geography. ; Urban Sociology. ; Human Geography. ; Urban Policy. ; Regional Geography.
    Description / Table of Contents: Part 1: Introduction -- Introduction. Urbicidio: An unprecedented methodological entry in urban studies?- Part 2: Urbicidio. The death of the city -- Urbicide. The liturgical murder of the city -- Death by theory and the power of ideas: From theories of cities to “Smart” Cities -- Urbicide: Towards a conceptualization -- Urban order and disorder. Genealogy of urbicide -- Imaginaries and archetypes on the death of the city -- Covid 19 and the city: Reframing our Understanding of Urbicide by Learning from the Pandemic -- Part 3: Aniquilation: The end of the public space -- The ideology of public space and the new urban hygienism: Tactical urbanism in times of pandemic -- The transformation of urban and digital spaces from a democratic perspective -- Streets, avenues and highways -- The post-automobile city. From deterritorialization to the proximity city: The case of Madrid -- Mobility as an expression of the Urbicide: The risks of transport modernization in Latin American metropolises -- Part 4: Deterioration of the building environment -- The urbanization of risk -- Urbicide or suicide? Shaping environmental risk in an urban growth context: The example of Quito city (Ecuador) -- Between greens and grays: Urbanization and territorial destruction in the Sabana de Bogotá -- Overregulation, corruption and Urbicide -- Obsolescence of the building environment -- Part 5: Dissolution of social interaction -- The (un)made city: Spatial fragmentation, social inequalities and (de)compositions of urban life -- The city and the abandonment of public space. Between neoliberal urbanism and citizen urbanism -- A “New” urban colonialism? North-South migration and racially structured gentrification in Latin America -- Urban frontiers in the fracturing city: Heritage, tourism and immigration -- The production of emptied places in the borderlands of the metropolitan area of Buenos Aires -- Part 6: Degradation and abandonment -- Reconstructing cultural paradigms. Experiences in East Europe: The historical memory of the historical centers in Lithuania -- Lose the memory, lose the history, lose the city -- Revolt and destruction. The public and monument landscape in Latin American cities -- Trends of urban and territorial reconfiguration in metropolitan Buenos Aires -- Anatomy of an Urbicide. Social housing in Santiago 1980-2006 -- Urbicide. A look through the mirror -- Part 7: Destruction of common life: Violence -- The besieged city: Geographies of crime -- Urbicide, violence and destruction against cities by criminal organizations -- Discursive understandings of the city and the persistence of gender inequality -- Border cities between life and death: Ciudad Juárez and El Paso -- Part 8: Contraction of public management: Privatization -- The metamorphosis of infrastructure in Latin American urbanization: From insufficiency to presence as fictitious capital -- Public policies (or their absence) as part of urban destruction -- Metropolitanicide? Urbs, polis and civitas revisited -- International tourism, urban rehabilitation and the destruction of informal income-earning opportunities -- De-urbanization: From the shock to the revolution of a new urban logic -- Part 9: Urbicide: Cities cases -- Grassroots spaces make London exciting: The relationship between the civitas and the urbs -- Rio de Janeiro: The trajectory of the wonderful city, violence, and urban disenchantment -- The implosion of memory. City and drug trafficking in Medellín and the Aburrá Valley -- Caracas. Urbicide and precariousness of urban life at the beginning of the Venezuelan 21st century. The worst of capitalism and savage populism -- Santiago, the non-city? Destruction, creation, and precariousness of verticalized space -- Neoliberal urbicide in Barcelona. The case of Ciutat Vella -- Part 10: Epilogue -- Epilogue. Remake us from Ruins, collective memories and dreams -- Epilogue. The power of urban destruction.
    Abstract: This book uses the reflection of academics specialized in the urban area of Latin America, Europe and the United States, to initiate a comparative debate of the different dynamics in which Urbicidio expresses itself.The field or focal point of analysis that this publication approaches is the city, but under a new critical perspective of inverse methodology to that has been traditional used. It is about understanding the structural causes of self-destruction to finally thinking better and then going from pessimism to optimism. It is a deep look at the city from an unconventional entrance, because it is about knowing and analyzing what the city loses by the action deployed by own urbanites, both in the field of its production and in the field of its consumption. This suppose that the city does not have an ascending linear sequential evolution in its development but neither in each of its parts in the improvement process, showing the face that commonly not seen but others live. The category used for this purpose is that of Urbicidio or the death of the city, which contributes theoretically and methodologically to the knowledge of the city, as well as to the design of urban policies that neutralize it. In addition, it is worth mentioning that the book has an inclusive view of the authors. For this reason, gender parity, territorial representation and the presence of age groups have been sought.
    Type of Medium: Online Resource
    Pages: XV, 945 p. 107 illus., 80 illus. in color. , online resource.
    Edition: 1st ed. 2023.
    ISBN: 9783031253041
    Series Statement: The Urban Book Series,
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-25304-1
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-25304-1
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    Urban Heritage Along the Silk Roads : A Contemporary Reading of Urban Transformation of Historic Cities in the Middle East and Beyond (2020)
    Cham :Springer International Publishing :
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    Keywords: Sociology, Urban. ; Cultural property. ; Natural disasters. ; Political sociology. ; Human geography. ; Cultural geography. ; Urban Sociology. ; Cultural Heritage. ; Natural Hazards. ; Political Sociology. ; Social and Cultural Geography.
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction -- Part I: Urban Heritage and Cultural Identity -- Public Open Spaces in Bahrain: Connecting Migrants and Urban Heritage in a Transcultural City -- Paradise Extended; Re-examining the Cultural Anchors of the Historic Pleasure Avenues -- Landscape Architecture Significance in Restoration Historical Areas, Old “Muharak” City, Bahrain -- Part II: Governing Urban Heritage -- The Rise of the Facilitation Approach in Tackling Neighbourhood Decline in Tehran.
    Abstract: This book examines examples of contemporary situation of historic regions in the Middle East and its broader geographic context connected to the historic trade routes, offering cross-disciplinary and cross-sectoral perspectives. The region is home to ancient settlements and early human endeavors to form cities, and across the region historic urban historic features, such as ancient city centers, still exist alongside contemporary ones. Many of those historic regions are along the Silk Roads. However, the urban continuity that once existed over generations in the physical and social paradigm have been interrupted by rapid urbanization, globalization and urban economic pressures, in addition to conflicts and frequent destructive natural hazards. It is often the case that dealing with such pressing issues in a historic city is more complex than dealing with those in newly built cities and urban areas. Based on carefully selected and updated papers from the Silk Cities 2017 International Conference, this book appeals to researches, practitioners and policy makers.
    Type of Medium: Online Resource
    Pages: XIII, 268 p. 129 illus., 107 illus. in color. , online resource.
    Edition: 1st ed. 2020.
    ISBN: 9783030227623
    Series Statement: The Urban Book Series,
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-22762-3
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-22762-3
    DDC: 307.76
    Language: English
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    Pathways to Demographic Adaptation : Perspectives on Policy and Planning in Depopulating Areas in Northern Europe (2020)
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    Keywords: Sociology, Urban. ; Demography. ; Population. ; Human geography. ; Economic geography. ; Social policy. ; Urban Sociology. ; Population and Demography. ; Human Geography. ; Economic Geography. ; Social Policy.
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter1. Introduction -- Chapter2. A Policy Perspective on Shrinkage -- Chapter3. Rural shrinkage in a Nordic Welfare State -- Chapter4. Policy implications of rural depopulation -- Chapter5. Why do they fail? -- Chapter6. Arguments for a local adaptation policy.
    Abstract: This book builds on case studies in depopulating and shrinking areas in Northern Europe. While most contemporary literature on shrinkage focuses on these issues from a planning standpoint, this book uniquely applies a policy perspective when approaching the material. The book assesses the potential of demographic adaptation policies to manage depopulation, that is, policy programs aiming at managing depopulation through adaptation, rather than through growth policies intended to foster population growth. In 6 chapters, the book acts as an up-to-date resource on demographic adaptation for master and Ph.D. students, researchers, and practitioners working in local and regional development, governance, and planning. Chapter 1 gives an overview of recent demographic trends in Northern Europe and introduces the theoretical differences between growth policy and adaptation policy. Chapter 2 accounts for the policy concept and introduces a framework for how local adaptation policies could be systematically analysed. Chapter 3 suggests that the Nordic welfare states exhibit two characteristics that prove to be relevant when discussing the consequences and policy implications of demographic decline, i.e. an extremely sparse population structure and an ambitious welfare assignment that in many respects has been devolved to the local level of government. Chapter 4 suggests that whether shrinkage constitutes a problem or not depends upon the interpretations of those in power, but also upon political, economic and geographic conditions Chapter 5 seeks to understand why local level policymakers avoid developing strategies for how to handle long-term population decline. Chapter 6 summarizes the points of the previous chapters, and concludes that local governments in shrinking areas ought to develop local adaptation policies. These policies, however, also need to be subjected to critical analysis, and the chapter introduces a model for how local adaptation policy priorities could be assessed in a more structured manner. .
    Type of Medium: Online Resource
    Pages: X, 93 p. 6 illus., 5 illus. in color. , online resource.
    Edition: 1st ed. 2020.
    ISBN: 9783030340469
    Series Statement: SpringerBriefs in Geography,
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-34046-9
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-34046-9
    DDC: 307.76
    Language: English
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