Cities and Nature illustrates how the city is part of the environment, and how it is subject to environmental constraints and opportunities. The city has been treated in geographical writings as only a social phenomena, and at the same time, environmental scientists have tended to ignore the urban. This book reconnects the science and social science through the examination of t...(展开全部)

丽莎·本顿-肖特（Lisa Benton-Short），华盛顿特区乔治华盛顿大学地理学副教授、可持续性课题的主持人。作为一名城市地理学家，她的研究兴趣包括城市、公园、公共空间、纪念碑和纪念馆等场所的环境问题。 约翰·雷尼-肖特（John Rennie Short），巴尔的摩郡马里兰大学地理学和公共政策教授。他已出版了35本专著和许多论文。

丽莎·本顿-肖特（Lisa Benton-Short），华盛顿特区乔治华盛顿大学地理学副教授、可持续性课题的主持人。作为一名城市地理学家，她的研究兴趣包括城市、公园、公共空间、纪念碑和纪念馆等场所的环境问题。 约翰·雷尼-肖特（John Rennie Short），巴尔的摩郡马里兰大学地理学和公共政策教授。他已出版了35本专著和许多论文。

The worldwide financial crisis has sent shock-waves of accelerated economic restructuring, regulatory reorganization and sociopolitical conflict through cities around the world. It has also given new impetus to the struggles of urban social movements emphasizing the injustice, destructiveness and unsustainability of capitalist forms of urbanization. This book contributes analys...(展开全部)

[英]艾伦·哈丁（Alan Harding），目前是英国利物浦大学管理学院Heseltine公共政策与实践研究所所长和公共政策教授。此前，他曾任职于曼彻斯特大学、索尔福德大学和利物浦约翰摩尔大学。他的研究兴趣集中在城市和区域发展、治理和政策领域，此外，他还在很多顶 级研究机构从事相关研究，并担任顾问。 (英)泰尔加·布劳克兰德(Talja Blokland)（1971），是一位城市社会学家，曾任职于耶鲁大学、曼彻斯特大学和荷兰的一些大学。2009年以来任柏林洪堡大学城市与区域社会学系系主任。她的著作包括《城市纽带》（Urban Bonds）（Polity 2003）、《网络化的城市生活》（Networked Urbanism，与Mike Savage合编，Ashgate 2008）以及各类论文，研究主题集中在城市中的种族和族群、贫民区、城市暴力、中产...(展开全部)

New York Times bestselling author China Miéville delivers his most accomplished novel yet, an existential thriller set in a city unlike any other-real or imagined. When a murdered woman is found in the city of Beszel, somewhere at the edge of Europe, it looks to be a routine case for Inspector Tyador Borlu of the Extreme Crime Squad. But as he investigates, the evidence points ...(展开全部)

New York Times bestselling author China Miéville delivers his most accomplished novel yet, an existential thriller set in a city unlike any other-real or imagined. When a murdered woman is found in the city of Beszel, somewhere at the edge of Europe, it looks to be a routine case for Inspector Tyador Borlu of the Extreme Crime Squad. But as he investigates, the evidence points ...(展开全部)

This completes Ed Soja's trilogy on urban studies, which began with Postmodern Geographies and continued with Thirdspace. It is the first comprehensive text in the growing field of critical urban studies to deal with the dramatically restructured megacities that have emerged world-wide over the last half of the twentieth-century.

In cities around the world, individuals and groups are reclaiming and creating urban sites, temporary spaces and informal gathering places. These ‘insurgent public spaces’ challenge conventional views of how urban areas are defined and used, and how they can transform the city environment. No longer confined to traditional public areas like neighbourhood parks and public plazas...(展开全部)

In cities around the world, individuals and groups are reclaiming and creating urban sites, temporary spaces and informal gathering places. These ‘insurgent public spaces’ challenge conventional views of how urban areas are defined and used, and how they can transform the city environment. No longer confined to traditional public areas like neighbourhood parks and public plazas...(展开全部)