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Urban Warfare
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 418

Urban Warfare

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2019-03-26
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  • Publisher: Verso Books

In Urban Warfare, Rolnik charts how the financialisation of housing has become a global crisis, as models of home ownership, originating in the US and UK, are being exported around the world. These developments were largely organised by htosw who benefit the most: construction companies and banks, supported by government-facilitated schemes, such as 'the right to buy', subsidies, and micro-financing. Using examples ranging from Kazakhstan, Indonesia, Chile, Israel, Haiti, the UK and especially Brazil, Rolnik shows how our homes and neighbourhoods have effectively become the "last subprime frontiers of capitalism". This neoliberal colonialism is experienced on the scale of the city but also w...

Volume 1: Community and Society
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 284

Volume 1: Community and Society

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2021-07-22
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  • Publisher: Policy Press

Our experiences of the city are dependent on our gender, race, class, age, ability, and sexual orientation. It was already clear before the pandemic that cities around the world were divided and becoming increasingly unequal. The pandemic has torn back the curtain on many of these pre-existing inequalities. Contributions to this volume engage directly with different urban communities around the world. They give voice to those who experience poverty, discrimination and marginalisation in order to put them in the front and center of planning, policy, and political debates that make and shape cities. Offering crucial insights for reforming cities to be more resilient to future crises, this is an invaluable resource for scholars and policy makers alike.

Espaço intra-urbano no Brasil
  • Language: pt-BR
  • Pages: 384

Espaço intra-urbano no Brasil

Espaço Intra-urbano no Brasil é essencialmente um estudo da localização intra-urbana. Todas as idéias defendidas neste livro são desenvolvidas a partir da análise empírica da formação histórica do espaço intra-urbano de seis metrópoles brasileiras: São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Belo Horizonte, Recife, Salvador e Porto Alegre. Essa análise mostra como a segregação urbana se desenvolveu nessas metrópoles por um período de mais de um século e como ela permitiu que a classe dominante controlasse o processo de produção e consumo das localizações intra-urbanas - logo, os tempos de deslocamentos dos seres humanos. Dentre as localizações, especial destaque é dado ao Centro Principal daquelas metrópoles e às transformações que eles vêm experimentando nas décadas recentes.

Contemporary Popular Music Studies
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 282

Contemporary Popular Music Studies

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2019-02-20
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  • Publisher: Springer

This is the second volume in the series that documents the 19th edition of the biennial conference of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music. The volume contains contributions on the variety of musical genres from all over the world. Authors engage with the role of popular music in contemporary music education, as well as definitions and conceptualizations of the notion of ‘popular’ in different contexts. Other issues discussed in this volume include methodologies, the structure and interpretations of popular music scenes, genres and repertoires, approaches to education in this area, popular music studies outside the Anglophone world, as well as examinations of discursive and technological aspects of numerous popular music phenomena.

Autos and Progress
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 283

Autos and Progress

Autos and Progress reinterprets twentieth-century Brazilian history through automobiles, using them as a window for understanding the nation's struggle for modernity in the face of its massive geographical size, weak central government, and dependence on agricultural exports. Among the topics Wolfe touches upon are the first sports cars and elite consumerism; intellectuals' embrace of cars as the key for transformation and unification of Brazil; Henry Ford's building of a company town in the Brazilian jungle; the creation of a transportation infrastructure; democratization and consumer culture; auto workers and their creation of a national political party; and the economic and environmental ...

Housing in the Third World
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 348

Housing in the Third World

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Brazil's Early Urban Transition
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 78

Brazil's Early Urban Transition

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2010
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  • Publisher: IIED

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Urban Brazil
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 244

Urban Brazil

Many urban areas around the world suffer from similar problems: heavily congested traffic, lack of effective public transportation, exploding populations, insufficient housing, overwhelming pollution, rampant corruption, and other issues. Ineffective government exacerbates these problems. The city of Curitiba, in the Parana State of Brazil, found creative ways to transform a small town into a thriving metropolis. Exactly how did Curibita achieve this success? Which policies and programs were effective and which ones weren't? What roles did the public play in the transformation process? Using interviews with urban planners, politicians, scholars, and residents, and analyzing hundreds of polic...

Emerging Perspectives on Teaching Architecture and Urbanism
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 350

Emerging Perspectives on Teaching Architecture and Urbanism

This book contains a set of essays on the teaching of Architecture and Urbanism, written by university professors and researchers from several countries. It argues that the teaching of architecture and urbanism is in a state of crisis; architecture seems unable to respond to current problems, and urbanism seems incapable of fulfilling the needs of a more balanced society and its built environment, including the human right to housing. The book comprises historical analyses, systematization of concepts, manifestos, and social evaluations, and, above all, an alignment of new objectives, curricular plans, and pedagogical methodologies.

Environmental Governance of the São Paulo Macrometropolis
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 405

Environmental Governance of the São Paulo Macrometropolis

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