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Series: Routledge Advances in Sociology
This volume brings together ethnographers conducting research on children living in crisis situations in both developing and developed regions, taking a cross-cultural approach that spans different cities in the global North and South to provide insight and analyses into the lifeworlds of their...
To Be Published May 30th 2013 by Routledge
This book was first published in 1980....
To Be Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
Caught between the twin pressures of rising public expectations and falling resources, public services have become the subject of intense academic scrutiny and public debate. Much of this controversy has been fuelled by a growing realisation that where people live has an important influence upon...
To Be Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
Cities, Capitalism and Civilization looks at the character and distinctiveness of Western Civilization. R.J. Holton sets out to challenge the belief that cities and urban social classes have formed the main component of the advance of civilization, and the principle dynamic of Western capitalism....
To Be Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Advances in Geography
This book explores and critiques the process of spatial regulation in post-war New York, focusing on the period after the fiscal crisis of the 1970s, examining the ideological underpinnings and practical applications of urban renewal, exclusionary zoning, anti-vagrancy laws, and...
To Be Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
Facing economic upheaval and growing inequality, people in local communities are fighting for economic justice. Coalitions from labor, grassroots community organizations, the faith community, immigrant communities and other progressive forces are emerging across the U.S. and Canada and winning...
To Be Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
This book was first published in 1980....
To Be Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
Series: Building Research and Information
Current expectations and standards of comfort are almost certainly unsustainable and new methods and ideas will be required if there is to be any prospect of a significantly lower carbon society. This collection reassesses relationships between people and the multitude of environments they inhabit...
To Be Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
Series: Routledge/ECPR Studies in European Political Science
Given the recent focus on the challenges to representative democracy, and the search for new institutions and procedures that can help to channel increasing participation, this book offers empirical insights on alternative conceptions of democracy and the actors that promote them. With a...
To Be Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
This book applies the historical materialist, or Marxist view of urban sociology and collates some fundamental sources of this perspective available. This book was first published in 1976....
To Be Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
