Product Description: This book is a study of basic themes such as demographic history, religion, official documents, folk memory and the concept of space to investigate the special features that fashioned the urban identities at each end of what was to be known as the Blue Banana of Europe...read more

Product Description: This is the first volume in a series of settlement studies which aims to document all the visible memorials above ground in Herakleia at Latmos and the attendant area from pre-historic times up to the Osmanian era. Peschlow-Bindokat presents the results of her field studies in the Carian city of Latmos...read more

Product Description: This book is the first full-length study of a key security issue confronting the west in the twenty-first century, urban military operations - as currently being undertaken by US and UK forces in Iraq. It relates military operations in cities to the wider study of conflict and security in an era of urbanisation, expeditionary warfare and new power conflicts; its central process is urban operations, but its context is the changing security environment, whose features are revealed in conflicts within cities...read more

Product Description: This collection of essays offers an authoritative and up-to-date textbook overview of the urban experience in Asia, Africa, and Latin America. The twenty-nine contributors, leading experts across the social sciences, provide twenty-four case studies grouped around six main issues: development theory and policy as they pertain to urbanization, rural-urban migration, urban employment structures, forms of social integration and control, the housing question, and urban politics...read more

Articles reprinted from newspapers and periodicals examine urban housing problems, Nixon administration policies, current housing projects and trends, and the future of America's cities