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The city in comparative perspective : cross-national research and new directions in theory
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ISBN: 0470152176 9780470152171 Year: 1976 Publisher: New York (N.Y.): Wiley


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The ordinary : recordings
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ISBN: 9781941332061 1941332064 Year: 2018 Publisher: New York : Columbia Books on Architecture and the City,

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Since the beginning of the century, the field of architecture has fervently turned its attention to documenting the contemporary urban condition. Every city has been examined as a repository of architectural concepts, scrutinized as an urban manifesto, and recorded as a series of found objects. The Ordinary articulates a potential genealogy for this practice and for the genre of books that derived from it. Organized around conversations with the authors of three seminal texts that document the city-Rem Koolhaas on Delirious New York, Denise Scott Brown on Learning from Las Vegas, and Yoshiharu Tsukamoto on Made in Tokyo-this volume traces the history of these "books on cities" by examining the material they recorded, the findings they established, the arguments they advanced, and the projects they promoted. These conversations also question the assumptions underlying this practice and whether in its ubiquity it still remains a space of opportunity.

Cities in transformation : class, capital and the state.
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ISBN: 0803920652 0803920660 9780803920651 Year: 1984 Volume: 26 Publisher: Beverly Hills Sage


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Studying Diversity, Migration and Urban Multiculture : Convivial Tools for Research and Practice
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ISBN: 1787354814 1787354806 1787354792 Year: 2019 Publisher: London UCL Press

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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 role can research play? This volume demonstrates how collaboration between scholars, civil society and practitioners can help to answer these questions.


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Urban Social Listening : Potential and Pitfalls for Using Microblogging Data in Studying Cities
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ISBN: 113759490X 1137594918 Year: 2016 Publisher: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,

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This book analyses new software tools and social media data that can be used to explore the attitudes of people in urban places. It reports on the findings of several research projects that have have experimented with using microblogging data in conjunction with diverse quantitative and qualitative methods, including content analysis and advanced multivariate statistics. Applied researchers, planners and policy makers have only recently begun to explore the potential of Big Data to help understand social attitudes and to potentially inform local policy and development decisions. This book provides an original analysis into how Twitter can be used to describe the urban experience and people's perception of place, as well as offering significant implications for public policy. It will be of great interest to researchers in human geography, social media, cultural studies and public policy. Justin B. Hollander is Associate Professor of Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning, Tufts University, USA. Erin Graves is Senior Policy Analyst at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, USA. Henry Renski is Associate Professor, Department of Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA. Cara Foster-Karim is a graduate of the Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning Program, Tufts University, USA.


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The voucher promise : "Section 8" and the fate of an American neighborhood
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ISBN: 0691189501 Year: 2020 Publisher: Princeton ; Oxford : Princeton University Press,

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An in-depth look at America’s largest rental assistance program and how it shapes the lives of residents in one low-income Baltimore neighborhoodHousing vouchers are a cornerstone of US federal housing policy, offering aid to more than two million households. Vouchers are meant to provide the poor with increased choice in the private rental marketplace, enabling access to safe neighborhoods with good schools and higher-paying jobs. But do they?The Voucher Promise examines the Housing Choice Voucher Program, colloquially known as “Section 8,” and how it shapes the lives of families living in a Baltimore neighborhood called Park Heights. Eva Rosen tells stories about the daily lives of homeowners, voucher holders, renters who receive no housing assistance, and the landlords who provide housing. While vouchers are a powerful tool with great promise, she demonstrates how the housing policy can replicate the very inequalities it has the power to solve.Rosen spent more than a year living in Park Heights, sitting on front stoops, getting to know families, accompanying them on housing searches, speaking to landlords, and learning about the neighborhood’s history. Voucher holders disproportionately end up in this area despite rampant unemployment, drugs, crime, and abandoned housing. Exploring why they are unable to relocate to other neighborhoods, Rosen illustrates the challenges in obtaining vouchers and the difficulties faced by recipients in using them when and where they want to. Yet, despite the program’s real shortcomings, she argues that vouchers offer basic stability for families and should remain integral to solutions for the nation’s housing crisis.Delving into the connections between safe, affordable housing and social mobility, The Voucher Promise investigates the profound benefits and formidable obstacles involved in housing America’s poor.


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Computational Approaches for Urban Environments
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ISBN: 9783319114699 3319114689 9783319114682 3319114697 Year: 2015 Publisher: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer,

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This book aims to promote the synergistic usage of advanced computational methodologies in close relationship to geospatial information across cities of different scales. A rich collection of chapters subsumes current research frontiers originating from disciplines such as geography, urban planning, computer science, statistics, geographic information science, and remote sensing. The topics covered in the book are of interest to researchers, postgraduates, practitioners, and professionals. The editors hope that the scientific outcome of this book will stimulate future urban-related international and interdisciplinary research, bringing us closer to the vision of a “new science of cities.”.

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