Imagine Borat meets Walter Mitty with a dash of Seinfeld and Monty Python's Circus—this unique, unpredictable book is full of surprises! Each story offers a fresh perspective, creating an addictively gripping ensemble. Haas's collection seamlessly blends characters, emotions, and situations into a fast-paced, entertaining journey grounded in naturalism, realism, observational comedy, and new primitivism. Don't miss out on this must-read from a future bestselling author!Dive into Ti...

In the last few decades, many European and American cities and towns experienced economic, social and spatial structural change. Strategies for urban regeneration include investments in infrastructures for production, consumption and communication, as well as marketing and branding measures, and urban design schemes. Bringing together leading academics from across a range of disciplines, including Douglas Kelbaugh, Ali Madanipour, Saskia Sassen, Gregory Ashworth, Nan Elin, Emily Talen, and...

Somewhere, between character and caricature, there exists an authentic—a truly unique—urban place, that blends global and local, old and new. Yet, in a dramatically changing world dominated by crises of climate change, maintaining public health, and social justice, finding such places—and explaining their relevance—may be easier said than done.Sustaining a City’s Culture and Character accepts that challenge, and provides a comprehensive method for assessing how and why succ...

The originality of Women Reclaiming the City lies not only in the variety of themes being presented, but also in the variety of all these different highly respected women researchers. This book is the first in which current societal themes revolving around urbanism, architecture, and city planning are put forth solely through female perspectives. It reveals the importance of having female lenses on certain societal debates.Twenty-five leading female urban scholars draw on ...

Winner of the Regional Studies Association's Best Book Award 2018.In the last few decades, many global cities and towns have experienced unprecedented economic, social, and spatial structural change. Today, we find ourselves at the juncture between entering a post-urban and a post-political world, both presenting new challenges to our metropolitan regions, municipalities, and cities. Many megacities, declining regions and towns are experiencing an increase in the number of...

Städer präglas idag av starka krafter som globalisering, klimatförändringar, segregation och regionalisering. Över hela världen diskuteras hur dessa utmaningar ska mötas och lösningar formuleras i olika stadsbyggnadsideal – urbanismer. Dominerande i sådana diskussioner är ny-urbanism, post-urbanism, vardagsurbanism, grön urbanism och re-urbanism.I Urbanismer diskuterar etablerade svenska och internationella forskare, planerare och arkitekter vad som kännetecknar – eller bö...

Jane Jacobs blev känd över världen för sin bok The Death and Life of Great American Cities. Genom boken och sin aktivism på gatunivå i 1960-talets New York blev hon en centralfigur inom stadsplaneringsfrågor och hennes insatser har efter genombrottet ständigt tolkats och debatterats.Den tidiga berömmelsen verkar emellertid ha överskuggat hennes författarskap trots att det sträcker sig fram till 2004. Jacobs breddade sitt tänkande till att omfatta samhällsbyggandet i dess v...

Care and the City is a cross-disciplinary collection of chapters examining urban social spaces, in which caring and uncaring practices intersect and shape people’s everyday lives. While asking how care and uncare are embedded in the urban condition, the book focuses on inequalities in caring relations and the ways they are acknowledged, reproduced, and overcome in various spaces, discourses, and practices.This book provides a pathway for urban scholars to start engaging wi...