Sociologia Urbana

COMPANION TO URBAN AND REGIONAL STUDIES Indispensable overview and timely coverage of the major issues, debates, and research topics in urban and regional studies Companion to Urban and Regional Stud …

This exciting collection of original essays provides students and professionals with an international and comparative examination of changes in global cities, revealing a growing pattern of social an …

The poor and working people in cities of the South find themselves in urban spaces that are conventionally construed as places to reside or inhabit. But what if we thought of popular districts in mor …

The urban century manifests itself at the peripheries. While the massive wave of present urbanization is often referred to as an ‘urban revolution’, most of this startling urban growth worldwide is h …

Breaking with the exoticizing cast of public discourse and conventional research, Urban Outcasts takes the reader inside the black ghetto of Chicago and the deindustrializing banlieue of Paris to dis …

Seeing like a city means recognizing that cities are living things made up of a tangle of networks, built up from the agency of countless actors. Cities must not be considered as expressions of large …

Essay from the year 2008 in the subject Sociology – Habitation and Urban Sociology, grade: 2.0, University of Westminster, language: English, abstract: In the last decade sustainability has become a …

Seminar paper from the year 2005 in the subject Sociology – Habitation and Urban Sociology, grade: A-, Yale University (school of management), course: management of global cities, language: English, …

Essay from the year 2008 in the subject Sociology – Habitation and Urban Sociology, grade: B, University of Birmingham (International Development Department), course: Urban Development, language: Eng …

Bachelor Thesis from the year 2006 in the subject Sociology – Habitation and Urban Sociology, grade: 1, 0, University of Bremen, language: English, abstract: This paper is in essence a work about rep …