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Creative Placemaking: Leading Social Change with the Arts
Creative placemaking uses the imaginative power of artists to solve community issues, bringing together partners from different sectors of the...
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Introduction: Racialized Labour of the Dispossessed as an Endemic Feature of Capitalism
The book is based on an ethnographic journey through five cities from various regions of Romania and their deprived areas recorded in local...
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Community Well-Being in Neighbourhoods: Achieving Community and Open-Minded Space through Engagement in Neighbourhoods
This article identifies an opportunity to reinvigorate our theoretical understanding of community well-being at the neighbourhood scale as increasing...
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Reflexive Mobilitäten
Moderne Gesellschaften durchlaufen aktuell rasante Wandlungsprozesse, die mit den Schlagworten Digitalisierung, Miniaturisierung und Automatisierung...
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Introduction: Locating the Political in Late Neoliberalism
This introductory chapter takes as its starting point two pathbreaking moments: the financial collapse of 2008 and the urban protests and...
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Entering a Knowledge Pearl in Times of Creative Cities Policy and Strategy. The Case of Groningen, Netherlands
This chapter argues that: (1) urban inequalities and injustices associated with creative urbanism, for example in terms of employment, income, or...
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Planning for the Balance of Danger and Delight
As a species, we are drawn to water and to marine edges and we gain many benefits from the blue, including wonder, enjoyment, stress reduction and...
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Theoretische Diskurslinien
Um die Verortungsprozesse der mobilen Mittelschicht zu untersuchen, stelle ich anhand der soziologischen und humangeographischen Zeitdiagnosen...
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Restorative Environments and Promoting Physical Activity Among Older People
This chapter provides an overview of what is known about restorative environments (REs) for older adults. The chapter begins by setting out what...
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Introduction: The Aim of Study of Ancient West Asian Civilization
This book is the first step towards creating a new discipline, the “Study of West Asian Civilization”. The term “West Asia” is used for the study...
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The Past in the Present: The Immediate Historicity of Asia
This chapter examines the philosophy of history and the awkwardness of its fit with Asia and its architecture. It elaborates architectural...
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Rem Koolhaas: Delirious New York
Dichte und Urbanitat werden als zentrale Eigenschaften der Metropole angesehen. In dem Buch Delirious New York, A retroactive Manifesto for Manhatten...
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No Right to the Street: Motorcycle Taxi, Discourse Production and the Regulation of Unruly Mobility
In the city of Guangzhou, taxi service provided by motorcycles accomplishes a unique form of short-distance, flexible transport mobility bridging...
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Manifesting Sri Lankan Megalomania: The Rajapakses’ Vision of Empire and of a Clean Colombo
Fuglerud situates the ongoing urban renewal in Colombo within the wider economic and political context of President Mahinda Rajapakse’s rule in Sri...
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Evaluating the Model of Causal Relations Between Sense of Place and Residential Satisfaction in Iranian Public Housing (The Case of Mehr Housing in Pardis, Tehran)
In recent years, Mehr public housing project has been operating in different Iranian cities, aiming at providing shelter for low-income households....
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Ökonomie, das Bewegungsproblem und der Wandel von Mobilitätsdispositiven
Automobilität erscheintseit der zweitenHälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts konstitutiv für moderne Gesellschaften zu sein. Gleichzeitig stellt der...
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Remap** Taiwan: Space as a Time Monument
Hou Hsiao-hsien’s films dispel some of the uncertainties of the present, and establish a sense of continuity with a more localised past. But, given...
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Ningbo’s Historic North Bank
This chapter conducts a retrospective study of the Laowaitan’s history since the 1840s. The Laowaitan became a major dockland and commercial and...