Worlding Cities is the first serious examination of Asian urbanism to highlight the connections between different Asian models and practices of urbanization. It includes important contributions from a respected group of scholars across a range of generations, disciplines, and sites of study.
Describes the new theoretical framework of 'worlding'
Substantially expands and updates the themes of capital and culture
Includes a unique collection of authors across generations, disciplines, and sites of study
Demonstrates how references to Asian power,...
Worlding Cities is the first serious examination of Asian urbanism to highlight the connections between different Asian models and practices of...
Subprime Cities: The Political Economy of Mortgage Markets presents a collection of works from social scientists that offer insights into mortgage markets and the causes, effects, and aftermath of the recent 'subprime' mortgage crisis.
Provides an even-handed and detailed analysis of mortgage markets and the recent housing crisis
Features contributions from various social scientists with expertise in critical social theories who have assembled and analyzed detailed empirical information
Offers a unique and powerful rebuttal to many of the misleading...
Subprime Cities: The Political Economy of Mortgage Markets presents a collection of works from social scientists that offer insights into mortg...
Iron Curtains has been awarded Honorable Mention for the 2013 ASEEES Harvard Davis Center Book Prize The prize is sponsored by Harvard University's Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies and is awarded annually by the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies, for an outstanding monograph published on Russia, Eurasia, or Eastern Europe in anthropology, political science, sociology, or geography.
Utilizing research conducted primarily with residents of Sofia, Bulgaria, Iron Curtains: Gates, Suburbs, and Privatization of Space in the...
Iron Curtains has been awarded Honorable Mention for the 2013 ASEEES Harvard Davis Center Book Prize The prize is sponsored by Harvard U...
Iron Curtains has been awarded Honorable Mention for the 2013 ASEEES Harvard Davis Center Book Prize The prize is sponsored by Harvard University's Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies and is awarded annually by the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies, for an outstanding monograph published on Russia, Eurasia, or Eastern Europe in anthropology, political science, sociology, or geography.
Utilizing research conducted primarily with residents of Sofia, Bulgaria, Iron Curtains: Gates, Suburbs, and Privatization of Space in the...
Iron Curtains has been awarded Honorable Mention for the 2013 ASEEES Harvard Davis Center Book Prize The prize is sponsored by Harvard U...
Globalised Minds, Roots in the City utilises empirical evidence from four European cities to explore the role of urban upper middle classes in the transformations experienced by contemporary European societies.
Presents new empirical evidence collected through an original comparative research about professionals and managers in four European cities in three countries
Features an innovative combination of approaches, methods, and techniques in its analyses of European post-national societies
Reveals how segments of Europe's urban population are...
Globalised Minds, Roots in the City utilises empirical evidence from four European cities to explore the role of urban upper middle classes ...
Globalised Minds, Roots in the City utilises empirical evidence from four European cities to explore the role of urban upper middle classes in the transformations experienced by contemporary European societies.
Presents new empirical evidence collected through an original comparative research about professionals and managers in four European cities in three countries
Features an innovative combination of approaches, methods, and techniques in its analyses of European post-national societies
Reveals how segments of Europe's urban population are...
Globalised Minds, Roots in the City utilises empirical evidence from four European cities to explore the role of urban upper middle classes ...
In Urban Land Rent, Anne Haila uses Singapore as a case study to develop an original theory of urban land rent with important implications for urban studies and urban theory.
Provides a comprehensive analysis of land, rent theory, and the modern city
Examines the question of land from a variety of perspectives: as a resource, ideologies, interventions in the land market, actors in the land market, the global scope of land markets, and investments in land
Details the Asian development state model, historical and contemporary land regimes, public...
In Urban Land Rent, Anne Haila uses Singapore as a case study to develop an original theory of urban land rent with important implications f...
From World City to the World in One City examines changing geographies of Liverpool through and across the lives of Malay seamen who arrived in the city during its final years as a major imperial port.
Draws upon life histories and memories of people who met at the Malay Club in Liverpool until its closure in 2007, to examine changing urban sites and landscapes as well as the city's historically shifting constitutive connections
In considering the historical presence of Malay seamen in Liverpool, draws attention to a group which has previously received...
From World City to the World in One City examines changing geographies of Liverpool through and across the lives of Malay seamen who arrived in...
Through historical and comparative research on the immigrant rights movements of the United States, France and the Netherlands, Cities and Social Movements examines how small resistances against restrictive immigration policies do - or don't - develop into large and sustained mobilizations.
Presents a comprehensive, comparative analysis of immigrant rights politics in three countries over a period of five decades, providing vivid accounts of the processes through which immigrants activists challenged or confirmed the status quo
Theorizes movements from the...
Through historical and comparative research on the immigrant rights movements of the United States, France and the Netherlands, Cities and Socia...
Through historical and comparative research on the immigrant rights movements of the United States, France and the Netherlands, Cities and Social Movements examines how small resistances against restrictive immigration policies do - or don't - develop into large and sustained mobilizations.
Presents a comprehensive, comparative analysis of immigrant rights politics in three countries over a period of five decades, providing vivid accounts of the processes through which immigrants activists challenged or confirmed the status quo
Theorizes movements from the...
Through historical and comparative research on the immigrant rights movements of the United States, France and the Netherlands, Cities and Socia...
