Anywhere: urbanization (Keywords)

Patrick Manning refuses to divide the African diaspora into the experiences of separate regions and nations. Instead, he follows the multiple routes that brought Africans and people of African descent into contact with one another and with Europe, Asia, and the Americas. In weaving these stories ...

In Africa, the twenty-first century began with new challenges surrounding and regarding philosophicaldiscourses. Questions of economic and political liberation, the displacement of populations and the process of urbanization present ongoing challenges, linked to problems such as endemic disease...

Abstract: "The Arabesk Debate" describes the way in which Turkish musicians discuss, dispute, and attribute meaning to their music. Martin Stokes examines the debate over "Arabesk", a musical genre popular throughout Turkey. His book is an ethnographic study of urban music-making in Istanbul, foc...

Throughout today's postcolonial world, buildings, monuments, parks, streets, avenues, entire cities even, remain as witness to Britain's once impressive if troubled imperial past. These structures are a conspicuous and near inescapable reminder of that past, and therefore, the built heritage of B...

More than half the world's population now lives in cities, with most of these cities in Asia. This text describes the resulting challenges - population explosion, pollution, destruction of eco-systems, water shortages, sanitation, inhuman social environments and the solutions provided by visionar...

This volume investigates China's railway transformation through history, along with culture changes and urban development. It begins by looking at the background of China and the history and growth of railway development in China through five key phases, followed by assessing the cultural changes...

For the first time in the history of the planet, more than half the population are now living in cities. 'City' provides the history of urban culture worldwide, from the city builders 7000 years ago, to today's sprawling megacities, using the form of a guidebook to get to the heart of what makes ...

Civil engineering produces the structures of all human settlements worldwide and is a vital discipline for many aspects modern life, underlying housing, transport, and our major areas and buildings related to work, study, and leisure. In this Very Short Introduction, David Muir Wood demonstrates ...

Modern dating methods have revolutionized the placing in time of prehistoric events, and many earlier estimates have been completely revised: 'the end of the Ice Age has been brought forward in time, the beginning of urbanization has been pushed back'. Yet there are still uncertainties and cont...