Resisting Olympic evictions

Resisting Olympic evictionsResisting Olympic evictions explores how one favela mobilised urban space to contest the logic underpinning removals in the glare of the mega events spotlight. Based on 14 months of ethnographic fieldwork in Brazil, it provides instructive lessons on building democratic and just cities across the Global South.

The book shows that some kinds of flexible generic frameworks or emergent common metaphors can be employed to sustain group dynamism in design through a project's lifetime

An extraordinarily beautiful city that has been celebrated

Synthesizing the science of nutrition

and identifies four key areas of South Asian impact – minority rights

it makes a new and original contribution to the fields of labour

Through contextual analysis and by reassessing the chronicle evidence

journalists—which attempt to come to terms with the history of colonial violence and dispossession of Indigenous people

This book is a collection of essays exploring different aspects of health and wellbeing in cities today

examining how Jung’s theories can heighten our understanding of everything from Chinatown and Star Trek to advertisements

Community and Networks – how individuals were bound into communities by religious

This title represents the most forward thinking and comprehensive review of development economics currently available

Far more than a simple collection of movie locations