The book India's Changing Villages explores the social, economic, and cultural transformations occurring in India's villages. S. C. Dube analyzes how modernization, industrialization, and urbanizat…
The book A Human Approach to Urban Planning emphasizes the importance of a human-centered approach in urban planning. Georges Meyer Heine argues that urban planning should consider the social, psyc…
The book Power, Poverty, and Urban Policy explores the relationship between power, poverty, and urban policy in the United States. It examines how local and national power structures influence the …
The book Rural Settlement and Land Use discusses the relationship between rural settlement and land use, as well as its impact on the environment and communities. Michael Chisholm explores settleme…
The book Whose City? and Further Essays on Urban Society explores various social dynamics shaping urban life. Pahl examines concepts of power, social class, and inequality within the context of urb…
The book Urban Health and Society: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Research and Practice edited by Nicholas Freudenberg, Susan Klitzman, and Susan Saegert explores urban public health through an in…
The book "Spaces of Hate: Geographies of Discrimination and Intolerance in the U.S.A." edited by Colin Flint explores the spatial dimensions of hate and intolerance in the United States. It examine…
"Currently an estimated one billion people around the world are inadequately housed: of these, more than 100 million are homeless. In most cities of the developing world, up to one half of the urba…
This dictionary contains the specialized terms connected with the extensive field of pubic sanitation: street cleaning, winter service, garbage collection and destruction, and its equipment, as wel…