Acknowledgments -- Preface -- List of images -- Introduction -- New urban politics -- Accumulation, estrangement, and displacement -- Resettlement and the territorialization of exploitation -- Of unruly practices and resistance -- Reversing the arrow? : theory transfer and theor…
The site -- Developers -- Image and precedent -- Public urban planning -- Housing shortage and national priority -- Public/private partnership -- Buyers and villagers -- Capital and the shared ideological landscape -- Settlers and the land -- The state, mirroring, and shared leg…
Introduction: development and transforming societies -- Theories and approaches to development -- Colonialism and history of developing countries -- Developing countries and the global economy -- Domestic strategies : obstacles and opportunities -- Armed conflicts, violence and …
China's reform and new urbanization
China's reform and new urbanization
Introduction : placing dreams and building homes -- The business of building a nation -- Return, reside, reinvest : mapping the real estate boom -- Neoliberalizing Manila's peri-urban fringe -- Gated dreams and communities -- Everyday life inside the gates : resistance, loss and…
Introduction -- The importance of warfare -- Europe's urban rise -- Evaluating the safe harbor effect -- Evaluating the warfare-to-wealth effect -- Warfare to wealth in comparative perspective -- Epilogue.
Urban sprawl in Europe
by Europäische Kommission, Gemeinsame Forschungsstelle
fromEEA report
This book brings together the necessary research and interdisciplinary discussion to address dilemmas created by population growth and the expansion of urban environments for those interested in the urban planning and technological advancements necessary for the creation of smar…
