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Homeless: Policies, Strategies and Lives on the Streets
ISBN: 9780415120289 / Angielski / Twarda / 310 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The causes of homelessness are disputed by both Right and Left. But, few would argue that life on the streets is anything other than dangerous and debilitating.
Unemployment, deinstitutionalisation, abuse in the home are among the stories the homeless tell. Voluntary organisations point to the failure of emergency shelters and food banks, the cut-backs in social programmes and the severe shortage of affordable housing. On the international scale, the changing global system has placed new demands on the economies of Europe and north America which have impacted on resources, employment and... The causes of homelessness are disputed by both Right and Left. But, few would argue that life on the streets is anything other than dangerous and deb...
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787,03 zł |
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Homeless: Policies, Strategies and Lives on the Streets
ISBN: 9780415120296 / Angielski / Miękka / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The causes of homelessness are disputed by both Right and Left. But, few would argue that life on the streets is anything other than dangerous and debilitating.
Unemployment, deinstitutionalisation, abuse in the home are among the stories the homeless tell. Voluntary organisations point to the failure of emergency shelters and food banks, the cut-backs in social programmes and the severe shortage of affordable housing. On the international scale, the changing global system has placed new demands on the economies of Europe and north America which have impacted on resources, employment and... The causes of homelessness are disputed by both Right and Left. But, few would argue that life on the streets is anything other than dangerous and deb...
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288,53 zł |
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The German Urban Experience : Modernity and Crisis, 1900-1945
ISBN: 9780415121149 / Angielski / Twarda / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The period from the end of the 19th century to the mid-20th century saw urban growth, industrial development and the emergence of modern society in Germany. This book provides a study of the social and cultural history of Germany through written, visual and oral sources, during this period. The author discusses problems of interpretation and methodology and presents his own historical analysis of subjects such as politics, conflict and gender.
The period from the end of the 19th century to the mid-20th century saw urban growth, industrial development and the emergence of modern society in Ge...
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577,15 zł |
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The German Urban Experience: Modernity and Crisis, 1900-1945
ISBN: 9780415121156 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. By the 1930s over two-thirds of Germans lived in towns and cities, and those who did not found themselves inexorably affected by the ever-growing urban vortex. The German Urban Experience 1900 - 1945 surveys the social and cultural history of Germany in this crucial period through written, visual and oral sources. Focusing on urbanism as one of the major forces of change, this book presents a wide range of archive sources, many available for the first time, as well as film scenes, literature and art.
Exploring the German experience of 'urbanism as a way of life' in cities from... By the 1930s over two-thirds of Germans lived in towns and cities, and those who did not found themselves inexorably affected by the ever-growing urba...
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194,08 zł |
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Urban Transformations : Power, People and Urban Design
ISBN: 9780415128230 / Angielski / Twarda / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Cities undergo continual change, transforming their physical fabric and patterns of use. The transformation process has intensified globally and the speed of change increased, whilst its nature has grown ever more intense. This text introduces contemporary approaches to urban transformation, encompassing both production and consumption and exploring the links between social theory and built form. The text explores how the processes of urban transformation works, investigates why this process generates a particular urban product, and enquires into the human experience of this product, how...
Cities undergo continual change, transforming their physical fabric and patterns of use. The transformation process has intensified globally and the s...
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970,67 zł |
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Urban Transformations: Power, People and Urban Design
ISBN: 9780415128247 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Cities affect every person's life, yet across the traditional divides of class, age, gender and political affiliation, armies of people are united in their dislike of the transformations that cities have undergone in recent times. The physical form of the urban environment is not a designer add-on to 'real' social issues; it is a central aspect of the social world. Yet in many people's experience, the cumulative impacts of recent urban development have created widely un loved urban places. To work towards better-loved urban environments, we need to understand how current problems have arisen...
Cities affect every person's life, yet across the traditional divides of class, age, gender and political affiliation, armies of people are united in ...
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283,28 zł |
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Britain's Cities: Geographies of Division in Urban Britain
ISBN: 9780415137751 / Angielski / Miękka / 376 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Uneven distribution of life is a dominant feature of the city. Major social, economic and spatial divisions are apparent in terms of income and wealth, health, crime, housing, and employment. This text offers an introduction to current processes of urban restructuring, geographies of division and contemporary conditions within the city. The geography of Britain's cities is the outcome of interaction between a host of public and private economic, social and political forces operating at a variety of spatial scales from the global to the local. A deeper understanding of the nature of urban...
Uneven distribution of life is a dominant feature of the city. Major social, economic and spatial divisions are apparent in terms of income and wealth...
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283,28 zł |
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Imagining Cities: Scripts, Signs and Memories
ISBN: 9780415144308 / Angielski / Miękka / 300 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The city has always been a locus of research and discussion within the debates of modernity and, more recently, postmodernity. This volume brings together work on the city from within sociology and cultural studies. The book is organized around five major themes: the theoretical imagination; ethnic diversity and the politics of difference; memory and nostalgia; and the complex and complimentary narrative of the city ways. While these representations bring the past and the present together, the final section of the book elaborates the present and future, in relation to the idea of the virtual...
The city has always been a locus of research and discussion within the debates of modernity and, more recently, postmodernity. This volume brings toge...
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251,80 zł |
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Transforming Cities: New Spatial Divisions and Social Tranformation
ISBN: 9780415146036 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This collection examines the transformations that have characterized cities of the advanced capitalist societies in the final decades of the 20th century. It analyzes ways in which relationships of contest, conflict and co-operation are realized in and through the social and spatial forms of contemporary urban life. In particular, the essays focus on the impact of economic restructuring and changing forms of urban governance on patterns of urban deprivation and social exclusion. These processes, they contend, are creating patterns of social division and new forms of regulation and control.
This collection examines the transformations that have characterized cities of the advanced capitalist societies in the final decades of the 20th cent...
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456,42 zł |
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Transforming Cities: New Spatial Divisions and Social Tranformation
ISBN: 9780415146043 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This collection examines the transformations that have characterized cities of the advanced capitalist societies in the final decades of the 20th century. It analyzes ways in which relationships of contest, conflict and co-operation are realized in and through the social and spatial forms of contemporary urban life. In particular, the essays focus on the impact of economic restructuring and changing forms of urban governance on patterns of urban deprivation and social exclusion. These processes, they contend, are creating patterns of social division and new forms of regulation and control.
This collection examines the transformations that have characterized cities of the advanced capitalist societies in the final decades of the 20th cent...
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173,09 zł |
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On the Margins of Japanese Society: Volunteers and the Welfare of the Urban Underclass
ISBN: 9780415146487 / Angielski / Twarda / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Japan is regarded as a society that provides cradle to grave security to those who conform to its standards. This ethnographic study of social life in Kotobuki, an inner city district of Yokohama, documents the lives of those on a low income who have missed the Japanese economic miracle. Kotobuki is the toughest neighbourhood in Yokohama and a traditional home to day labourers. The author has spent a number of years in the district and has closely examined the lives of those who live there, mostly the unemployed, elderly and disabled. Also she has sought to understand the small number of...
Japan is regarded as a society that provides cradle to grave security to those who conform to its standards. This ethnographic study of social life in...
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760,80 zł |
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Images of the Street : Planning, Identity and Control in Public Space
ISBN: 9780415154406 / Angielski / Twarda / 286 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This text aims to capture the vitality, excitement and tensions of the street. Drawing on historical and contemporary international research in cultural geography, cultural studies, sociology and planning, Nicholas Fyfe focuses contributions into three main sections. Planning and design examines how specific streetscapes are shaped by the interplay between dominant ideas in politics, planning, and local economic and political circumstances. The book draws on a seam of qualitative material, teasing out social differences of peoples' experiences of the street; to examine how social identities...
This text aims to capture the vitality, excitement and tensions of the street. Drawing on historical and contemporary international research in cultur...
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944,43 zł |
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Images of the Street: Planning, Identity and Control in Public Space
ISBN: 9780415154413 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Images of the Street captures the vitality, excitements and tensions of the street. Using examples from the U.K, India, Australia and North America the contributors draw on research in cultural geography, sociolgy, cultural studies and planning to explore the making and meaning of urban space.
Among the themes examined are:1.the way streetscapes are shaped by interplay between politics, planning and local political economy 2.social differences of individuals experiences' of the street 3.how social identities are shaped and represented in fiction and film 4.the meaning and... Images of the Street captures the vitality, excitements and tensions of the street. Using examples from the U.K, India, Australia and North A...
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288,53 zł |
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Urban Planning and the British New Right
ISBN: 9780415154628 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Nearly 20 years after Mrs Thatcher first came to power the debate over the significance of what has been termed the New Right continues. Did the 1980s and 1990s see the death of planning and other areas of the public sector as some have claimed or were reports of their demise premature? This book tackles this and other questions. Experts in a wide range of land use policy areas examine the changes that were brought about during the 1980s and 1990s in planning and the environment, and argue that much less was achieved than expected. There is little doubt that New Right policy has had a major...
Nearly 20 years after Mrs Thatcher first came to power the debate over the significance of what has been termed the New Right continues. Did the 1980s...
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708,33 zł |
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Urban Planning and the British New Right
ISBN: 9780415154635 / Angielski / Miękka / 298 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Did the 1980s and 1990s see the death of planning?
Exposing the myth that has grown up around Thatcherism, leading experts from a wide range of land-use policy areas examine the changes that were brought about in planning and the environment during the 1980s and 1990s, and argue that much less was achieved than expected. Urban Planning and the British New Right questions common assumptions about planning practices under Thatcherism, concluding that the complex relationship of power between central, local and national government requires a sensitivity to change that is inclusive... Did the 1980s and 1990s see the death of planning?
Exposing the myth that has grown up around Thatcherism, leading experts from a wide range of lan... |
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283,28 zł |
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Youth, the `Underclass' and Social Exclusion
ISBN: 9780415158305 / Angielski / Miękka / 244 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The idea that Britain, the US and other western societies are witnessing the rise of an underclass of people at the bottom of the social heap, structurally and culturally distinct from traditional patterns of decent' working-class life, has become increasingly popular in the 1990s. Anti-work, anti-social, and welfare dependent cultures are said to typify this new dangerous class' and dangerous youth' are taken as the prime subjects of underclass theories. Debates about the family and single-parenthood, about crime and about unemployment and welfare reforms have all become embroiled in...
The idea that Britain, the US and other western societies are witnessing the rise of an underclass of people at the bottom of the social heap, structu...
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246,55 zł |
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Queer Sites: Gay Urban Histories Since 1600
ISBN: 9780415158978 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. There are areas which can be described as gay space in that they have many lesbians and gays in the population. Queerspace: A History of Urban Sexuality, edited by David Higgs, offers a history of gay space in the major cities form the early modern period to the present. The book focuses on the changing nature of queer experience in London, Amsterdam, Rio de Janiero, San Francisco, Paris, Lisbon and Moscow.
This book provides an interdisciplinary analysis of extensive source material, including diaries, poems, legal accounts and journalism. By concentrating the importance of the... There are areas which can be described as gay space in that they have many lesbians and gays in the population. Queerspace: A History of Urban Sex...
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708,33 zł |
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Housing: The Essential Foundations
ISBN: 9780415160070 / Angielski / Twarda / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This work provides a comprehensive introduction to housing studies. Integrating contributions from across the spectrum of areas connected with housing, this multi-disciplinary, topical book is designed for students embarking on degree and diploma courses in housing, surveying, town planning and other related subjects. Professionals within these fields should also find the book useful as a source of up-to-date information and data. Multi-disciplinary and including many illustrations and examples, this book focuses on key topics which include: equal opportunities and housing organizations; town...
This work provides a comprehensive introduction to housing studies. Integrating contributions from across the spectrum of areas connected with housing...
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970,67 zł |
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Housing: The Essential Foundations
ISBN: 9780415160087 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This work provides a comprehensive introduction to housing studies. Integrating contributions from across the spectrum of areas connected with housing, this multi-disciplinary, topical book is designed for students embarking on degree and diploma courses in housing, surveying, town planning and other related subjects. Professionals within these fields should also find the book useful as a source ofup-to-date information and data. Multi-disciplinary and including many illustrations and examples, this book focuses on key topics which include: equal opportunities and housing organizations; town...
This work provides a comprehensive introduction to housing studies. Integrating contributions from across the spectrum of areas connected with housing...
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325,25 zł |
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Early Urban Planning: 1870-1940
ISBN: 9780415160858 / Angielski / Twarda / 410 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This collection, taken from the period of 1870-1940, focuses on multiple aspects of city and regional planning. Themes such as planning for parks, housing, transportation systems, municipal art and public health are detailed.
This collection, taken from the period of 1870-1940, focuses on multiple aspects of city and regional planning. Themes such as planning for parks, hou...
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12067,76 zł |
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