Libros de SOCIOLOGÍA URBANA

STATE OF THE WORLD'S CITIES: THE MILLENIUM DEVELOPMENT GOALSAND URBAN SUSTAINABILITY

The year 2007 will mark a turning point in human history: the world's urban population will for the first time exceed the world's rural ...

HOME IN THE CITY

More than 900 million people currently live in urban slums and the number is growing as rapid urbanization continues in the developing world. A ...

INTERCULTURAL CITY, THE. PLANNING FOR DIVERSITY ADVANTAGE

This book reminds us - with both proof and passion - that there can be no truly creative or competitive cities without first having ...

PLANNING AND DECENTRALIZATION. CONTESTED SPACES FOR PUBLIC ACTION IN THE GLOBAL SOUTH

The first in-depth study of the impact of economic and political decentralization on planning practice in developing economies, this innovative volume, using original case ...

ARCHITECTURE ET COMPLEXITE: LE TROISIEME LABYRINTHE

De nombreuses disciplines ont contribué au développement d'une nouvelle forme de pensée apparue récemment qui conteste, critique, cherche à dépasser un rationalisme hérité du ...

CONCEVOIR DES ESPACES ACCESIBLES A TOUS

Qu'est-ce que la chaîne de déplacement ? Quelles sont les dates d'application et les échéances ? Grâce à ses 220 illustrations et nombreux tableaux ...

PUBLIC SPACE. THE MANAGEMENT DIMENSION

In both the UK and the US there is a sense of dissatisfaction and pessimism about the state of urban environments, particularly with the ...

BAREFOOT & PRADA. ARCHITECTS AND PLANNERS, THE URBAN POOR AND THE MILLENNIUM CITY

Come si può consentire ad aspiranti architetti ed urbanisti a piedi scalzi in ogni paese del mondo di lavorare con i poveri urbani, svolgere ...

CIUDADES

Ciudades nos abre los ojos sobre una realidad que no suele aparecer en los medios de comunicación: la momba de relojería en la que ...

POST-IT CITY. CIUDADES OCASIONALES

Las ciudades de la sociedad globalizada del siglo XXI son el paradigma de la interacción, de la multiplicidad de causas y de efectos, de ...

EXPANSION URBANA DESCONTROLADA EN EUROPA. UN DESAFIO OLVIDADO

CITY FUTURES. CONFRONTING THE CRISIS OF URBAN DEVELOPMENT

Cities are the future. In the past two decades, a global urban revolution has taken place, mainly in the South. The 'mega-cities' of the ...

DESIGNS ON THE PUBLIC. THE PRIVATE LIVES OF NEW YORK'S PUBLIC SPACES

Analyzes the significant role of designers in defining public spaces. New York City is home to some of the most recognizable places in the ...

THE NEOLIBERAL CITY. GOVERNANCE, IDEOLOGY AND DEVELOPMENT IN AMERICAN URBANISM

CIUDAD E HISTORIA: LA TEMPORALIDAD DE UN ESPACIO CONSTRUIDO Y VIVIDO

«El conjunto de estudios recogidos en este libro nos permite situarnos en una nueva manera de ver la ciudad. Ha sido un largo esfuerzo ...

TURISMO CULTURAL Y MEDIO AMBIENTE EN DESTINOS URBANOS

HABITAR LA TIERRA. MEDIO AMBIENTE, HUMANISMO, CIUDAD

Partiendo de Heidegger, mas para ir más allá de él y a veces contra él, se apunta aqui una posibilidad del habitar como construir, ...

CARTOGRAFIAS DISIDENTES

El proyecto 'Cartografías disidentes' pretende reunir a diferentes artistas para que desde sus planteamientos personales, parciales y subjetivos tracen mapas de diferentes ciudades españolas ...

TRACING MOBILITIES. TOWARDS A COSMOPOLITAN PERSPECTIVE

Mobility is a basic principle of modernity besides others like individuality, rationality, equality, and globality. Taking its cue from this concept, the book presents ...

BLUBBERLAND. THE DANGERS OF HAPPINESS

Examines the connections between obesity and architecture, unchecked sprawl and unchecked appetites, and other forms of insatiability that are hurting our planet and bodies. ...