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Unsettled urban space : routines, temporalities and contestations
While urban life can be characterized by endeavors to settle stable and safe environments, for many people, urban space is rarely stable or safe; it is uncertain, troubled, imbued with challenges and perpetually under pressure. As the concept of unsettled appears to define the contemporary urban experience, this multidisciplinary book investigates the conflicts and possibilities of settling and…
- Edition
- 3
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780367258610
- Collation
- xix, 313p.
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 307.1216 UNS v
Mapping society : the spatial dimensions of social cartography
From a rare map of yellow fever in eighteenth-century New York, to Charles Booth’s famous maps of poverty in nineteenth-century London, an Italian racial zoning map of early twentieth-century Asmara, to a map of wealth disparities in the banlieues of twenty-first-century Paris, Mapping Society traces the evolution of social cartography over the past two centuries. In this richly illustrated b…
- Edition
- 25
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781787353053
- Collation
- xix, 268p.; ill.
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 526 MAP v
Imagining the Future City : London 2062
London is one of the world’s leading cities. It is home to an extraordinary concentration and diversity of people, industries, politics, religions and ideas, and plays an important role in our highly globalised and tightly networked modern world. What does the future hold for London? Investigating any aspect of the city’s future reveals a complex picture of interrelations and dependencies. …
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781909188198
- Collation
- vi, 194 p.
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 303.49421 IMA S
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