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72 results in Planning and urban geography

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Planning for Water Security in Southeast Asia
  • Community-Based Infrastructure During the Urban Transition
  • James Nguyen H. Spencer
  • Published by:
    Anthem Press
    Published online:
    10 January 2023
    Print publication:
    13 September 2022
  • The central premise of the book, as well as the key lesson for readers is that infrastructure is the backbone of democracy. Without it, the process of collective governance fades beyond the immediacy of daily life. Using this premise, the book describes several case studies from Southeast Asia - rapidly urbanizing communities in Gresik, Indonesia; Can Tho, Viet Nam; Phnom Penh, Cambodia; and Ha Noi, Viet Nam - that illustrate the embeddedness of highly localized governance structures in the built infrastructure. These four case studies illustrating similar community phenomena across differing social, political, and cultural context will encourage readers to consider the material, built environment stakes undelying participatory democracy as well as the importance of democratic participation in the visioning, building, and management of large-scale urban projects.

Fundamentals of Planning Cities for Healthy Living
  • Avi Friedman, Alexandra Pollock
  • Published by:
    Anthem Press
    Published online:
    10 January 2023
    Print publication:
    06 September 2022
  • The obesity crisis has affected many nations. It is also one of the factors listed as contributing cause to the COVID-19 fatalities. The common tendency is to blame people's dietary choices and sedentary habits. Yet, it can also be argued that social inequity and poor urban planning practices have largely contributed to a lack of active lifestyles. Low-density suburban sprawl, long commutes, food deserts, diminishing green areas are some aspects that have led to reduced physical activity, among residents of all ages.

    The proposed book illustrates the decline of community planning for healthy living and outline measures that can be reintroduced to foster active lifestyles. Each chapter stands for another subject that merit intervention and illustrates strategic approaches. Its uniqueness lies in its comprehensiveness. It covers the key principles of residential planning and offers principles of neighbourhoods' design along sustainable strategies, as well as their applications. The text is not limited to a theoretical aspect but offers contemporary well-designed and illustrated examples of communities and first-hand information about them that was obtained through site visits and interviews with their designers.

Subaltern Frontiers
  • Agrarian City-Making in Gurgaon
  • Thomas Cowan
  • Published online:
    12 August 2022
    Print publication:
    05 January 2023
  • In urban and peri-urban areas across the Global South, politicians, planners and developers are engaged in a voracious scramble to refashion land for global real estate investment, and transfer state power to private sector actors. Much of this development has taken place on the outskirts of the traditional metropoles, in the territorially flexible urban frontier. At the forefront of these processes in India, is Gurgaon, a privately developed metropolis on the south-western hinterlands of New Delhi, that has long been touted as India's flagship neoliberal city. Subaltern Frontiers tells a story of India's remarkable urban transformation by examining the politics of land and labour that have shaped the city of Gurgaon. The book examines how the country's flagship post-liberalisation urban project has been shaped and filtered through agrarian and subaltern histories, logics, and subjects. In doing so, the book explores how the production of globalised property and labour in contemporary urban India is filtered through colonial instruments of land governance, living histories of uneven agrarian development, material geographies of labour migration, and the worldly aspirations of peasant-agriculturalists.

Squatting and the State
  • Resilient Property in an Age of Crisis
  • Lorna Fox O'Mahony, Marc L. Roark
  • Published online:
    11 August 2022
    Print publication:
    25 August 2022
  • Squatting and the State offers a new theoretical and methodological approach for analyzing state response to squatting, homelessness, empty land, and housing. Embedded in local, national, and transnational contexts, and reaching beyond conventional property theories, this important work sets out a fresh analytical paradigm for understanding the deep, interlocking problems facing not just the traditional 'victims' of narratives about homelessness and squatting but also a variety of other participants in these conflicts. Against the backdrop of economic, social, and political crises, Squatting and the State offers readers important insights about the changing natures of property, investment, housing, communities, and the multi-level state, and describes the implications of these changes for how we think and talk about property in law.

Properties of Rent
  • Community, Capital and Politics in Globalising Delhi
  • Sushmita Pati
  • Published online:
    31 March 2022
    Print publication:
    25 August 2022
  • We live in cities whose borders have always been subject to expansion. What does such transformation of rural spaces mean for cities and vice-versa? This book looks at the spatial transformation of villages brought into the Delhi's urban fray in the 1950s. As these villages transform physically; their residents, an agrarian-pastoralist community - the Jats - also transform into dabblers in real estate. A study of two villages - Munirka and Shahpur Jat - both in the heart of bustling urban economies of Delhi, reveal that it is 'rent' that could define this suburbanisation. 'Bhaichara', once a form of land ownership in colonial times, transforms into an affective claim of belonging, and managing urban property in the face of a steady onslaught from the 'city'. Properties of Rent is a study of how vernacular form of capitalism and its various affects shape up in opposition to both state, finance capital and the city in contemporary urban Delhi.

The Environments of Ageing
  • Space, Place and Materiality
  • Sheila Peace
  • Published by:
    Bristol University Press
    Published online:
    15 September 2022
    Print publication:
    24 February 2022
  • Providing the first UK assessment of environmental gerontology, this book enriches current understanding of the spatiality of ageing. It contextualises personal experience in national and local spaces and places, considers the value of intergenerational and age-related living and global to local concerns for population ageing in light of COVID-19.

Colossus
  • The Anatomy of Delhi
  • Edited by Sanjoy Chakravorty, Neelanjan Sircar
  • Published online:
    31 July 2021
    Print publication:
    09 December 2021
  • The National Capital Region of Delhi is a diverse and unequal space. Its more than 30 million people are sharply differentiated by economic class, religion and caste, education, language, and migration status. Its 45,000 square kilometres is a tapestry of spaces - ghettoes, slums, enclaves, institutional areas, planned and unplanned and authorized and unauthorized colonies, forests and agricultural fields. In some ways it is a dynamic society aspiring to global city grandeur; in other ways it is a bastion of tradition, sectarianism and hierarchy. Colossus details these realities and paradoxes under three themes: social change, community and state, and inequality. From the material condition of the metropolis - its housing, services, crime and pollution - to its social organization - of who marries whom, who eats with whom, and who votes for whom - this book unpacks the complex reality of a metropolitan region that is emblematic of India's aspirations and contradictions.

Secondary Cities
  • Edited by Mark Pendras, Charles Williams
  • Published by:
    Bristol University Press
    Published online:
    05 January 2022
    Print publication:
    03 June 2021
  • This book explores cities and intra-regional relational dynamics to challenge common representations of urban development 'success' and 'failure'. It provides innovative alternative relations and development strategies that reimagine the subordinate status of secondary cities.

Climate Change and the Future of Seattle
  • Yonn Dierwechter
  • Published by:
    Anthem Press
    Published online:
    22 February 2022
    Print publication:
    25 March 2021
  • Seattle is one of the most politically progressive and economically dynamic cities in the contemporary United States, popularly known as the 'Emerald City' for its natural setting and environmental politics. This book explores a range of political, policy, and project efforts in Seattle and the wider region to mitigate and adapt to the formidable reality of global climate change. Developing a framework suggested originally by the Urban Climate Change Research Network, the book's core analysis considers both tantalizing progress and tangible problems in Seattle's climate action initiatives so far. The narrative explores how Seattle is integrating carbon mitigation with adaptation; advancing climate action networks; co-generating risk information; coordinating disaster risk reduction with climate change adaptation; and, most importantly, focusing on historically and geographically disadvantaged populations.

    Linking together past, present, and future, this book argues that Seattle in the 2020s is less an 'Emerald City' than an 'Elite Emerald'. Income inequalities have grown while gentrification pressures have increased. Class structures have steadily shifted upwards, leaving the working poor and homeless especially vulnerable to climate change. Profoundly uncomfortable with this contradiction, local climate change efforts are shaped by mounting political concerns not only with mitigation-adaptation commitments and risk aversion policies to manage rising sea levels, warmer temperatures and more variable rainfall patterns, but also with reshaping a metropolitan space-economy that too often favors and consistently rewards the high-tech 'cognitariat' over middle- and low-income households and communities of color.

    Ultimately, Seattle cannot become post-carbon if it is not also post-polarized, resilient if not also just. The lessons that Seattle learns in pursuit of more inclusive climate action will thus be of abiding interest to cities and metropolitan regions across the United States and all around the world.

Reviving Local Authority Housing Delivery
  • Challenging Austerity Through Municipal Entrepreneurialism
  • Janice Morphet, Ben Clifford
  • Published by:
    Bristol University Press
    Published online:
    18 March 2021
    Print publication:
    18 November 2020
  • This book provides crucial insight into the fight back against austerity by local authorities through emerging forms of municipal entrepreneurialism in housing delivery. Capturing this moment within its live context, the authors examine the ways that local authorities are moving towards increased financial independence based on their own activities to implement new forms and means of housebuilding activity. They assess these changes in the context of the long-term relationship between local and central government and argue that contemporary local authority housing initiatives represent a critical turning point, whilst also providing new ways of thinking about meting housing need.

Housing and Politics in Urban India
  • Opportunities and Contention
  • Swetha Rao Dhananka
  • Published online:
    30 April 2020
    Print publication:
    03 December 2020
  • Providing adequate housing in an increasingly urbanised world is a major challenge of current times. This book puts together a compelling story based on fine-grained analysis of housing processes, as lived by slum-dwellers and their voice-bearers. It situates the lived experience of claiming adequate housing within informal transactions and negotiations of patronage networks vis-à-vis the formal institutional opportunities and closures of Indian democracy. In doing so, this research extends an innovative array of conceptual and methodological tools to grasp the context in which housing claims succeed and fail. This book contributes by responding to critical areas of social movement scholarship and by displaying community engagements and tactical strategies to bring about transformative change to claim adequate housing and resist co-opting forces for socially sustainable housing futures.

Transport Matters
  • Edited by Iain Docherty, Jon Shaw
  • Published by:
    Bristol University Press
    Published online:
    03 March 2021
    Print publication:
    16 October 2019
  • This book shows that transport matters. Comprising a series of highly accessible chapters written by respected experts, it reviews key transport issues and explains how and why effective and efficient transport is fundamental to successfully addressing all manner of public policy goals. Contributors explore how we 'do' transport, as a result of the technologies available to us and the cultures surrounding how we use them, and examine how this has significant social, economic and environmental consequences. They also provide key recommendations for how we could do things differently to bring about a happier, healthier and more economically secure future for all of us.

Liverpool Beyond the Brink
  • The Remaking of a Post Imperial City
  • Michael Parkinson
  • Published by:
    Liverpool University Press
    Published online:
    08 July 2020
    Print publication:
    31 May 2019
  • Liverpool Beyond the Brink is a fascinating commentary on the economic decline that caused the physical, social and political fragmentation of the imperial city during the1970s and the efforts since then to revive and reconnect it. It charts Liverpool's fall in the 1980s, its gradual normalisation in the 1990s, its staggering achievements and, as a European city in the first part of this century, its efforts to be ambitious in an age of austerity. This thought-provoking work asks: how far has Liverpool come and where does it now stand in comparison with thirty years ago and alongside other cities in the UK? What were the most important forces driving change? Who helped the most and who helped the least? Who and where gained the most and who and where gained the least? Finally, the author asks what is next for Liverpool: what are the current challenges for the city? Liverpool Beyond the Brink identifies the key economic, social and political challenges facing the city today to ensure there is increased productivity, future development is high quality and that the benefits of the city's renaissance are experienced by all the people in Liverpool in all parts of the city. [Cover image: Liverpool Waterfront 2017? McCoy Wynne (mccoywynne.co.uk)]

How to Build Houses and Save the Countryside
  • Shaun Spiers
  • Published by:
    Bristol University Press
    Published online:
    21 April 2023
    Print publication:
    14 March 2018
  • Focusing on house building and conservation politics in England, Spiers uses his considerable experience and extensive research to demonstrate why the current model doesn't work, and why there needs to be both planning reform and a more active role for the state, including local government.

Speculating on World-Class Transportation Infrastructure in Ho Chi Minh City
  • Hun Kee Kim
  • Published by:
    ISEAS–Yusof Ishak Institute
    Published online:
    12 March 2019
    Print publication:
    18 September 2017
  • Population, cars and motorbikes have increased at higher than expected rates in Ho Chi Minh City, leading to increased congestion and strain on existing transportation infrastructure. While the city has a transportation infrastructure plan, it lacks adequate funds and is reliant on official development assistance (ODA) and foreign direct investment (FDI) to finance it. Amidst the backdrop of an opaque regulatory environment and intense competition among global ODA institutions, city officials speculate on multiple and contradictory transportation projects simultaneously. Conflicting interests between Bus Rapid Transit and Metro projects in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City exemplify the state's speculative forms of governance in capturing transnational flows of ODA capital to finance infrastructure and call into question dominant framings of infrastructure as rational processes and technologies that work against the so-called irrational and unplanned structure of the city.

Johor's Forest City Faces Critical Challenges
  • Serina Rahman
  • Published by:
    ISEAS–Yusof Ishak Institute
    Published online:
    09 March 2019
    Print publication:
    16 May 2017
  • The Forest City project in Johor, Malaysia is part of a larger plan to elevate Johor to development success, similar to Shenzhen's evolution from Hong Kong's backwaters to being a modern metropolis. However the project was embroiled in controversy from the beginning. The mixed development was meant to create sustainable homes, recreational areas, schools and business infrastructure that would house about 700,000 people, generate annual revenues of about RM30 million for the state, and create more than 60,000 jobs, including a substantial number for locals through a quota. Sudden capital controls imposed by China on its citizens in early 2017 put a spanner in the works. Middle-class Chinese struggling to afford homes in China's big cities were Forest City's prime clientele and the new regulations preventing the transfer of funds for property purchase and the use of credit cards for investment transactions have brought future sales and the completion of signed commitments into question. Forest City will now have to focus on other markets in order to meet its sales targets. While the project has its merits, the economic benefits might be overstated as a number of socio-economic and environmental impacts have not been fully taken into account.

The Urbanism of Exception
  • The Dynamics of Global City Building in the Twenty-First Century
  • Martin J. Murray
  • Published online:
    06 April 2017
    Print publication:
    10 March 2017
  • This book challenges the conventional (modernist-inspired) understanding of urbanization as a universal process tied to the ideal-typical model of the modern metropolis with its origins in the grand Western experience of city-building. At the start of the twenty-first century, the familiar idea of the 'city' - or 'urbanism' as we know it - has experienced such profound mutations in both structure and form that the customary epistemological categories and prevailing conceptual frameworks that predominate in conventional urban theory are no longer capable of explaining the evolving patterns of city-making. Global urbanism has increasingly taken shape as vast, distended city-regions, where urbanizing landscapes are increasingly fragmented into discontinuous assemblages of enclosed enclaves characterized by global connectivity and concentrated wealth, on the one side, and distressed zones of neglect and impoverishment, on the other. These emergent patterns of what might be called enclave urbanism have gone hand-in-hand with the new modes of urban governance, where the crystallization of privatized regulatory regimes has effectively shielded wealthy enclaves from public oversight and interference.

Who Stole the Town Hall?
  • The End of Local Government as We Know It
  • Peter Latham
  • Published by:
    Bristol University Press
    Published online:
    05 April 2022
    Print publication:
    08 March 2017
  • Arguing that the UK government intends to privatise all local services through its devolution agenda, Peter Latham proposes a new basis for federal, regional and local democracy, including land value taxation and a wealth tax.

Radical Solutions to the Housing Supply Crisis
  • Duncan Bowie
  • Published by:
    Bristol University Press
    Published online:
    05 April 2022
    Print publication:
    25 January 2017
  • This book analyses the roots of the current housing crisis in England, critically reviewing the development of policy under successive UK governments and presenting a specific critique of the current Conservative government’s housing and planning reforms.

Cities for a Small Continent
  • International Handbook of City Recovery
  • Anne Power
  • Published by:
    Bristol University Press
    Published online:
    01 September 2022
    Print publication:
    25 May 2016
  • Through varied case studies, this original book compares changes between Northern and Southern European countries, and bigger and smaller cities, over ten years to present a compelling framework showing how Europe’s post-industrial cities are striving to combat environmental and social unravelling.

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