Tag: Urban

Free Download Gail de Vos, "The Watkins Book of Urban Legends"
English | ISBN: 1786788551 | 2024 | 320 pages | EPUB | 3 MB
A comprehensive and entertaining collection of urban legends from around the world, with a history and analysis of the origin of each tale, compiled by a leading authority in the field.

Free Download The Routledge Handbook of Architecture, Urban Space and Politics, Volume II: Ecology, Social Participation and Marginalities
by Nikolina Bobic and Farzaneh Haghighi
English | 2024 | ISBN: 0367629186 | 726 Pages | True PDF | 99 MB

Free Download Duncan McDuie-Ra, "Skateboarding and Urban Landscapes in Asia: Endless Spots "
English | ISBN: 9463723137 | 2021 | 210 pages | PDF | 2 MB
As urban development in Asia has accelerated, cities in the region have become central to skateboarding culture, livelihoods, and consumption. Asia’s urban landscapes are desired for their endless supply of ‘spots’. Spots are not built for skateboarding; they are accidents of urban planning and commercial activity; glitches in the urban machine. Skateboarders and filmers chase these spots to make skate video, skateboarding’s primary cultural artefact. Once captured, skate video circulates rapidly through digital platforms to millions of viewers, enrolling spots from Shenzhen to Ramallah into an alternative cartography of Asia. This book explores this way of desiring and consuming urban Asia, and the implications for relational and comparative hierarchies of urban development.

Free Download Rita Padawangi, "River Cities in Asia: Waterways in Urban Development and History "
English | ISBN: 9463721851 | 2022 | 294 pages | PDF | 3 MB
River Cities in Asia uncovers the intimate relationship between rivers and cities in Asia from a multi-disciplinary perspective in the humanities and the social sciences. As rivers have shaped human settlement patterns, economies, culture and rituals, so too have humans impacted the flow and health of rivers. In Asia, the sheer scale of urbanization increases the urgency of addressing challenges facing urban rivers, leading to the importance of historically, socially, and culturally relevant solutions. However, cities are also uneven landscapes of power, affecting chances to achieve holistic ecological approaches. The central premise of River Cities in Asia is that a "river city" is one where proximity between a river and a city exists across time and space, natural and social dimensions. Recognition of these deep connections can help to better contextualize policy solutions aimed at rivers and their ecologies, including human life.

Free Download Andrea Scapolo, "Interpreting Urban Spaces in Italian Cultures "
English | ISBN: 9463724664 | 2022 | 272 pages | PDF | 2 MB
Made up of both material and symbolic elements, the urban space is always dynamic and transitional; it brings together or separates the past and the present, the public and the private, the center and the periphery. The present volume focuses on the interaction between the social processes and spatial forms that shape the identity of Italian cities. Using both canonical and less well-known texts along with cultural artifacts, the essays in the volume deprovincialize the Italian city, interpreting the material and symbolic practices that have made it into a unique entity whose enduring influence extends far outside Italy.

Free Download Rob Drummond, "Researching Urban Youth Language and Identity"
English | ISBN: 331973461X | 2018 | 303 pages | PDF | 4 MB
This book examines how urban adolescents attending a non-mainstream learning centre in the UK use language and other semiotic practices to enact identities in their day-to-day lives. Combining variationist sociolinguistics and ethnographically-informed interactional sociolinguistics, this detailed and highly reflexive account provides rich descriptions and discussions of the linguistic processes at work in a previously underexplored research environment. In doing so, it reveals fresh insights into the changes taking place in urban British English, and into the difficulties of undertaking ethnographic, sociolinguistic research in a challenging context using a combination of methods and approaches. This interdisciplinary work will appeal to students and scholars from across the fields of sociolinguistics, ethnography, and education; as well as providing a valuable resource for teachers and trainees.

Free Download Thomas J. Sugrue, "Neoliberal Cities: The Remaking of Postwar Urban America"
English | 2020 | ISBN: 1479828823, 1479832375 | PDF | pages: 224 | 1.3 mb
Traces decades of troubled attempts to find private answers to public urban problems

Free Download Hydrology and Urban Water Supply
English | 2024 | ISBN: 3031725883 | 620 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 54 MB
This book explores the intricate relationship between hydrology and urban water provision. Authored by experts in the field, this book offers a comprehensive exploration of the challenges and solutions associated with urban water supply management in the context of hydrology. It covers topics such as water sources, treatment technologies, distribution systems, and sustainable water management practices. With its meticulous analysis and practical insights, this book equips professionals, researchers, and policymakers with the knowledge necessary to address the growing demands of urban water supply in an era of climate change and urbanization.

Free Download Urban Transportation Systems: Sustainability and Future Development
English | 2024 | ISBN: 1394228244 | 407 Pages | PDF | 108 MB
This book will allow readers to readers to identify traffic and transport problems in cities and to study mass transportation systems, and modes of transportation and their characteristics, focusing on transportation infrastructure which includes green bays, control stations, mitigation buildings, separator lanes, and safety islands. From this, readers will be able to study urban public transport systems and gain some background into intelligent transportation and telemetric systems, including techniques for designing transport telemetric systems and applying them to urban transportation. Applications include advanced traffic management systems, advanced traveler information systems, advanced vehicle control systems, commercial vehicle operational management, advanced public transportation systems, electronic payment systems, advanced urban transportation, security and safety systems, and urban traffic control.

Free Download Russian Urban Legends: Uncover the Forgotten Tales Where Myth Meets Mystery by Chronicle Press
English | December 28, 2023 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0CR6GZHJY | 52 pages | EPUB | 0.53 Mb
"Russian Urban Legends" is an interesting collection of scary and mysterious stories that are woven into the fabric of Russia’s cities. It takes you into the strange world of Slavic folklore.