This book examines how scholars and policymakers primarily characterize refugee resettlement as a humanitarian solution or a migration pathway. While these descriptions may be accurate, they are not comprehensive. This book examines how such framing influences understandings of resettlement's scope and impact, generating conceptual blind spots that limit critical inquiry.

By reframing resettlement as an institution embedded in a complex network of actors, relations, and practices, the chapters in this book reveal how resettlement is not a passive process. They explore historical and contemporary questions about how resettlement influences refugee hosting countries in the Global South and its political dimensions as a "humanitarian" program offered by countries in the Global North. By including the experiences of refugees at various points along the resettlement trajectory, such as those who may never be resettled, the book's chapters demonstrate how refugees actively strategize to become resettle-able, advocate for others within their networks, or even reject resettlement altogether. Contributions centering perspectives from the Global South expand the discourse around resettlement by examining how it operates from Southern host countries. These dynamics underscore how the specter of resettlement shapes refugee experiences in enduring ways, even when the prospect of being resettled is unattainable.

This book is invaluable for students, scholars, researchers, and practitioners in refugee studies, migration studies, human rights, development studies, international relations, humanitarian affairs, political science, and sociology.

The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Ethnic & Racial Studies.

During the colonization of Africa, European colonists set about creating game reserves in Africa, convinced that they would find in Africa a nature that no longer existed in Europe. After independence, and with the help of UNESCO and the WWF, African leaders continued to 'protect' the same nature, a nature that the whole world wanted to be pristine, wild and without humans - a timeless Garden of Eden. The consequences of this story are well known: millions of Africans were expelled from the land on which they had lived for generations.

But how did this happen? Who organized this continuity between the colonial era and the era of independence? Guillaume Blanc answers these questions by immersing himself at the heart of a strange global ecological mission, launched in 1961: the 'African Special Project'. He tells the story of this project by bringing to life four worlds: the world of gentleman experts who saw Africa as the world's last natural refuge; the world of East African colonists who were retraining as international experts; the world of African leaders who sought to control their peoples while satisfying the demands of their Western partners; and finally, the world of local farmers and their families living on the land who were forced to adapt or abandon their homes. These men do not speak of the same nature, but step by step, their worlds draw closer together until they meet - and this is where violence erupts.

This impressive book lays bare the violence inherent in the creation of African game reserves and national parks and documents a hidden dimension of colonialism and its legacies.

Why does injustice often deepen during moments of rapid urban growth? And what does the pursuit of more just urban futures look like when the realization of alternatives seems impossible?

African cities have boomed over the last two decades. Large-scale infrastructure projects, high-rises, and real estate ventures have transformed urban landscapes. While urban poverty levels have declined, rising housing costs, stagnant wages, and forced evictions - twinned with political authoritarianism - have intensified precarity and injustice.

Drawing on more than a decade of ethnographic research in construction sites, design offices, and new developments, anthropologist Marco Di Nunzio narrates the tensions animating the urban transformation that has reshaped Addis Ababa, Ethiopia's capital, beyond recognition.

Unjust Developments reminds us that city building in Addis Ababa, as elsewhere, is not only about economic accumulation. It is a moral project, rooted in the belief that modern infrastruc-ture will generate opportunity and uplift the poor. These promises have often failed the poor. Commitments to infrastructure have given political leaders, investors, planners, developers, and architects the leverage to prioritize their own visions of development and dismiss demands for better wages and affordable housing as politically irrelevant or economically unviable. Government and corporate investments in the built environment have helped entrench unequal hierarchies of entitlement and rights.

Yet city building remains a fragile achievement. It is marked by struggles not only between developers and displaced communities, or companies and workers, but also among the city build-ers themselves. Demands for a more just city and frictions within the building industry open space for rearticulating what counts as political necessity, moral action, expertise, and the future of development.

In conversation with critical urbanism, anthropology, and moral philosophy, Unjust Developments offers a powerful account of city building as both a site of injustice and a terrain of struggle - where justice is not guaranteed, but persistently demanded.

This book examines the relationship between sport, the media, and national identities in Great Britain. It draws upon case studies of different sporting events and stories, looking at the ways in which the media (re)present different narratives of the nation(s).

It focuses on the intersections between different parts of Great Britain, such as matches between two British nations within international football competitions. It also explores contested claims for national sporting glory through the achievements of individual athletes and teams. From Andy Murray's success in tennis, to the portrayal of Team GB athletes born outside of the United Kingdom, the book shines new light on ongoing debates about the perceived fragility of the United Kingdom and the place of Great Britain and its constituent parts within a post-Brexit Europe. In looking at the prestigious Sports Personality of the Year award, it considers how and where discourses of the nation intersect and what this can tell us about the significance of social issues such as gender and racial equality in sport and in wider society.

This is fascinating reading for anybody with an interest in the sociology of sport, sport media, the politics of sport, cultural identities, nationalism, or media studies.

This edited collection examines how the film cultures of Belarus, Poland, and Ukraine have engaged with the built environment. Across political upheavals and shifting borders, filmmakers have documented, interpreted, and imagined
the evolution of urban life.

From Soviet-era planned cities to post-Socialist urban renewal, and from industrial decline to the impact of war on public space, the essays in this volume uncover the role of cinema in constructing-and contesting-visions of urban life. How have films documented social change and revolution, engaged with histories of migration and displacement, and dreamed up alternative urban futures?

This book explores sharenting-the widespread practice of parents or caregivers sharing information about their children online-and explores how this pervasive digital practice is reshaping childhood, parenting, and family life in a networked society.

Offering a transdisciplinary framework that integrates legal, sociological, psychological, and communication-based perspectives, the book examines sharenting from the micro-level of family life to the societal macro-level. It conceptualizes sharenting simultaneously as a communicative practice, a mode of identity construction, an evolving set of family rituals, a source of intergenerational conflict, and a regulatory challenge, among other dimensions. It also addresses emerging dynamics such as influencer parenting, datafication, children's vulnerability as data subjects, and the growing risks associated with technologies that enable synthetic media, including deepfakes.

With contributors from Central-Eastern Europe, the Baltic States, Tuerkiye, and the Global South alongside Western scholars, the volume provides a rare comparative view of the interaction between global platforms and locally situated forms of parenting and governance. The book will appeal to scholars and students interested in parenting in the digital world from a range of disciplines: sociology, media studies, psychology, law, socio-legal studies, communication studies, childhood and youth studies, and family studies.

This thought-provoking and innovative book argues for the importance of leisure studies as a lens through which to understand and interrogate our 'hypermodern' society.

In the book, leading leisure scholars describe the hypermodern moment, in which globalisation and technology have led to an acceleration of contemporary life, defined by constant experience, consumption, and pleasure-seeking, and driven by capitalist, neoliberal logics. They argue that leisure remains a reliable mirror of the evolution of our social world, and that certain forms of leisure challenge and disrupt the prevailing socio-economic structures. Presenting case studies of leisure worlds, including ultramarathon, lifestyle sports, and improv theatre, the book draws on concepts including free time, value, flow, and community that help us to better understand the position of leisure in a hypermodern world. It describes alternative social and commercial frameworks-including transmodernity and hypomodernity-that add a new dimension to contemporary leisure studies.

Exploring the cutting edge of social theory, this book is fascinating reading for anybody with an interest in the sociology or philosophy of leisure, cultural studies, or the sociology of sport.

Presents groundbreaking approaches for bridging engineering expertise and human-centered communication in infrastructure systems

Infrastructure systems sustain daily life yet are often overlooked until they fail, at which point communication gaps can hinder effective responses and solutions. The Handbook of Infrastructure Communication addresses this critical challenge by establishing "infrastructure communication" as a distinct interdisciplinary field. Bringing together insights from engineering, communication science, and social science, this handbook offers practical frameworks for translating complex technical information across disciplinary and stakeholder boundaries.

The Handbook is organized into six parts, covering foundations of infrastructure communication, physical systems such as water, transportation, and energy, digital communication ecosystems, social networks, cross-cultural strategies, and crisis communication during disasters. Each section combines theoretical analysis with applied examples, including discussions of underserved communities, the integration of AI in infrastructure, and the unique vulnerabilities exposed during extreme weather events. The contributors-engineers, communication researchers, social justice experts, and practitioners-offer diverse perspectives while embedding human-centered approaches within infrastructure planning and management. Throughout the book, in-depth yet accessible chapters demonstrate how effective communication can secure investments, enhance resilience, and ensure infrastructure meets the needs of society at large.

Equipping readers to foster collaboration and create infrastructure that is technically sound and socially supported, this reference work:

• Examines social and cultural contexts that shape public acceptance and equitable access to infrastructure
• Provides frameworks for engaging communities in decision-making and addressing systemic inequities
• Offers practical strategies for communicating numeric complexity and visualizing technical information effectively
• Highlights resilience strategies for crises, including wildfires, floods, and severe weather events
• Reviews funding mechanisms and interdisciplinary approaches relevant to current U.S. and global initiatives

The Handbook of Infrastructure Communication is ideal for advanced undergraduates, graduate students, and scholars in engineering, communication, and urban planning, as well as professionals in infrastructure policy and management. It is particularly well-suited for courses in systems engineering, organizational communication, environmental communication, and urban design, and serves as an essential reference for engineers, planners, policymakers, and crisis communicators.

Modern life is speeding up, constantly. While the art of saving time reaches unprecedented heights through the introduction of ever-new technologies of communication and production, it nevertheless feels as though we are running out of time. In all Western societies, time scarcity is increasing and individuals report the impression of having to run faster and faster every year - not in order to get somewhere, but just to stay where they are.

In this short book Hartmut Rosa outlines his theory of social acceleration and uses it to analyze the causes and consequences of the temporal processes that characterize modern societies. He shows that modern temporal structures are governed by the logic of an acceleration process that defines the essence of modernity. He also develops a critical theory of social acceleration, arguing that acceleration leads to severe forms of alienation from time and space, from things and actions and from self and others, thus constituting a key obstacle to the realization of a 'good life' in late-modern society.

Most of South Asia's tourism is based upon the region's pervasive religious heritage. This book provides a descriptive and conceptual examination of religious heritage in South Asia and how this tangible and intangible heritage is utilized as one of the region's most significant tourism assets.

The book covers the living and built cultural heritage of South Asia's main religions, both those that originated in the region and those introduced from outside. In particular, it focuses on the cultural past and present of Hinduism, Islam, Buddhism, Sikhism, Jainism, and Christianity, as well as other spiritualities and faith traditions that combine to create a unique and engaging religious heritagescape, which is a crucial part of the tourism product in all seven countries of the region. Pilgrimage mobilities, religious tourism, spiritual architecture and built environments, tantric practices, marketing and management principles and challenges, heritage development, market demand, conservation, death and dying, sacred geographies, and many other principles form the core of the book.

This collection of essays and cases aims to provide native perspectives on the challenges and opportunities of religious tourism in South Asia. As such, it appeals to researchers and upper-level students of tourism, geography, religious and heritage studies, anthropology, and South Asian studies.

This book examines the paradoxical collapse of privacy in contemporary society. The text analyses how personal boundaries are increasingly dissolved through digital technologies and how social networks and new media technologies encourage individuals to publicly expose their most intimate thoughts and experiences in search for recognition and connection in a fragmented, liquid modern world.

Throughout eight focused chapters, this book explores the transformation of community bonds, the exhibition of intimacy online and the rise of emotion- driven politics. It reveals how the constant sharing of private life creates a society dominated by the present moment, where fleeting connections replace deeper relationships and reason is subordinated to emotional impulses, leading to populist and sovereigntist tendencies. Drawing on lucid analysis of the dialectics of the state, the community, machine- based interaction and the loss of intimacy, it thus offers valuable and timely insights into the changing nature of social relationships in late modernity.

This analysis would serve as a key reading for readers and students of sociology and philosophy, as well as researchers interested in understanding the social implications of digital culture.

This book offers an in-depth examination of the ways in which artificial intelligence (AI) is reshaping urban landscapes to address the demands of sustainable development. It positions AI as an essential instrument for creating more intelligent, resilient cities that meet the requirements of contemporary urban living and environmental sustainability.

It emphasizes AI-driven advancements in urban management, including the optimization of transportation, the administration of energy-efficient infrastructure, and the enhancement of public safety using predictive analytics. The examination of AI's role in critical services such as water and waste management, along with personalized public services, illustrates how data-driven insights improve citizens' quality of life. This book also examines AI applications in urban planning, modifying cities in response to climate and population changes. The authors present case studies of successful smart cities globally, providing practical insights and addressing legislative hurdles, privacy issues, and future trends influencing urban AI integration.

This book is a valuable resource for academics across the fields of urban studies, technology and innovation management, transport studies, and public policy.

A comprehensive blueprint for fixing America's cities and towns, updated and expanded

"This book should be required reading in schools of urban design, architecture, and landscape architecture, and an understanding of it should be part of the licensing requirements for civil, traffic, and transportation engineers." - Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, DPZ coDESIGN, former Dean of the School of Architecture at the University of Miami.

"I am delighted by the eloquence, knowledge, thoroughness, and basic common sense of Street Design, which is at once a how-to book and an ode to the beauty and wonder of cities. Much more than a formula for how to design streets, this book helps us understand that there are no simple answers or all-purpose solutions to the challenge of city-building." - Paul Goldberger, Pulitzer-Prize-winning Contributing Editor at Vanity Fair, formerly at the New Yorker and the New York Times.

John Massengale and Victor Dover know how to fix America's neighborhoods, cities, and towns: make them walkable again. That begins with great streets where people want to be, streets that are comfortable, safe, interesting, and beautiful. Street Design, Second Edition looks at hundreds of streets old and new, shows us what works and what doesn't, and reveals the secrets behind designing great streets and walkable places.

Revised and expanded, now with full-color images throughout, this indispensable and transformative guide, the only book of its kind:

• Shows examples of over 150 excellent streets and explains why they are successful and how they were designed and created
• Reveals crucial elements that many modern street designs lack
• Offers step-by-step instruction on how to design new streets and improve existing ones to create more walkable cities and towns
• Highlights common street-design challenges and ways they can be addressed through placemaking
• Features more than 600 color and black-and-white photos
• Includes contributions from twenty of the leading design experts in the field, including Andres Duany, Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, Leon Krier, Nicholas Boys Smith, Jeff Speck, Stefanos Polyzoides, and John Norquist, the former mayor of Milwaukee.

Street Design, Second Edition is the indispensable handbook for urban designers, civic leaders, architects, city planners, engineers, and landscape architects, and essential reading for any person who wants to make their community walkable and create memorable streets that are not mere routes to someplace else, but the great places to which other routes lead.

Explores how spatial justice shapes equitable, empowering, and inclusive experiences

In an era increasingly defined by questions of equity and inclusion, Spatial (In) Justice: How Does It Manifest in the Built Environment? offers a vital, global interrogation of how architecture and planning impact the lived experiences of marginalized communities. Edited by Adnan Zillur Morshed, this timely volume brings together contributions from 33 leading thinkers and practitioners-architects, planners, scholars, and academics-who reflect on the ethical and philosophical responsibilities of those who shape space.

Rather than offering simplistic answers or prescriptive solutions, this book explores the complex and often contradictory ways justice is interpreted and enacted through space. The essays examine built projects from around the world to ask whether design can foster dignity, hope, and community empowerment-and how design education must evolve to foreground these values. The contributing authors grapple with the mechanisms through which spatial practices can exclude, disempower, or uplift, addressing topics ranging from justice in the city to the politics of community engagement. Throughout the book, the essays advance a critical pedagogy of design-one that scrutinizes how space organizes power and shapes human possibility.

Contributors (in alphabetical order):

Annmarie Adams
Esra Akcan
Glenn Albrecht
Thomas Barrie
Tom Beaudoin
Bryan Bell
Julio Bermudez
Prem Chandavarkar
Howard Davis
Kim Dovey
Andrew Freear
Tammy Gaber
Megan Gee
Iqbal Habib
Adam Hart
Aseem Inam
Kathleen James-Chakraborty
Mark Jarzombek
Khondaker Hasibul Kabir
Pamela Karimi
Fernando Lara
Yasmeen Lari
Paco Mejias Villatoro
Jason Montgomery
Donghwan Moon
Adnan Zillur Morshed
Dahlia Nduom
Susan Piedmont-Palladino
Sharon Prince
Katie Swenson
Marina Tabassum
Diane Rhyu Taylor
Junjie Xi

Designing Multispecies Neighbourhoods in Urban Seascapes offers a unique practice-led investigation into the complexities of multispecies placemaking, design, and storytelling in urban seascapes-drawing on experiences from the Oslofjord, the Skagerrak, Muolkkut in Finnmarku County (Northern Norway), and the Atlantic coast of California.

Taking a cross-disciplinary approach, the book provides a nuanced account of the ecological and social functions of urban rewilding, and of how interspecies perspectives inform art, community building, and urban and societal planning. Opening with a prologue, it invites the reader into multispecies worlds, setting the stage for the conceptual terrain and approach taken. Divided into three parts, the first addresses topics that seek to connect knowledge between land and sea, and the development of viable marine neighbourhoods. The second critically engages with the practice of interspecies relations through four stories-two authored by invited contributors-offering reflections on practical experiences of more-than-human care and place-stories. The third brings together applied perspectives on rewilding, including multispecies user surveys, a new vocabulary for living shorelines, and other tools for navigating multispecies futures in urban seascapes. Taking an environmental humanities approach, the book builds a bridge between knowledge from marine science and ecological engineering, landscape architecture and art, and nature-based co-learning to open new and productive ways of thinking about the interspecies perspective in urban seascapes.

This will be a fascinating read for scholars, researchers and upper-level students in landscape architecture, marine science and ecology, societal planning, urban development, environmental design, art, and environmental humanities.

Placemaking is a popular approach to creating or fostering appealing, livable communities. This book addresses the critical gap in placemaking evaluation by providing methodologies and practical tools for developing holistic and consistent approaches to measuring the impacts of placemaking projects. The authors integrate history and theory of placemaking and evaluation with the practice of reporting the impacts of unique and individual placemaking projects to stakeholders, enhancing public accountability and transparency. Chapters provide a comprehensive framework for designing evaluation systems tailored to various placemaking projects, integrating both qualitative and quantitative research methods. This book is essential for scholars, practitioners, and stakeholders of placemaking projects, and students in urban planning, urban design, and public administration courses.

This book considers how the African philosophy of Ubuntu can contribute to the study of the youth in Africa.

Reports from the United Nations indicate that by 2050, more than a third of young people in the world will be in or from Africa. However, most existing youth studies remain framed by Global North paradigms, creating a risk of generalising or globally universalizing the stage of life between childhood and adulthood. This book challenges this imbalance by proposing an approach to youth studies that is grounded in Ubuntu, the philosophy that a person is a person through other persons. The book proposes an Ubuntu conception of youth as becoming: a relational and self-realizing approach to the stage of transition from childhood to morally fit personhood or adulthood. Moreover, the book seeks to imagine and engage issues affecting young people in Africa, covering topics ranging from education, development, migration, work, crime, politics, leadership, gangs, wars, technology, entrepreneurship, among many others.

This incisive and expansive African perspective on youth studies expands our metaphysical, epistemological, and axiological understanding of the field. It will be an important read for researchers across the fields of philosophy, youth studies, sociology, and African studies.

This book examines how catastrophes-natural, technological, ideological, biological and socioeconomic-transform urban design and planning, potentially creating "turning points" in a city's development trajectory.

Through historical case studies, the book traces urban responses to catastrophe: the 1755 Lisbon Earthquake that accelerated European Enlightenment; Haussmann's Paris redesign addressing cholera and social unrest; Chicago's reinvention following the 1871 fire and economic depression; and New York's expressway developments that sparked community activism. Each case reveals significant shifts in urban planning theory and practice. The book explores how urban planning often begins with promising visions that ultimately betray their original intent. Drawing on Plato's Republic and the myth of Atlantis, urban development is framed as a cycle where destruction is inevitable, yet contains seeds of renewal and innovation. This examination of catastrophe's role in urban transformation offers critical insights for understanding contemporary cities and planning for their futures.

The book will be of interest to researchers and students of architecture, urban design, planning history, and planning theory.

The Art of Sustainable Stormwater: Designing Blue-Green Cities explores the needs and possibilities for transforming stormwater engineering into design for ecological and multi-functional urban spaces. With climate change and rapid urbanization causing rainfall runoff to present increasingly severe problems in cities and metropolitan regions, this book shows how stormwater can become an amenity when designers artfully capture, detain, treat and re-use rainwater, using it to generate more habitable and environmentally and socially sustainable cities. Taking a global approach, it provides useful planning and design principles and tools and illustrates inspiring case studies demonstrating how stormwater can contribute positively to natural systems, urban infrastructure, neighborhoods, parks, plazas, streets, and buildings. This book is essential for practitioners and students of landscape architecture and related environmental design fields.

• What are humans doing to our one and only planet?
• In an age of scepticism, division and rancour, whose claims and counter-claims about human impacts should we believe?
• What questions do we need to ask about global environmental change?
• How do we grope towards actionable answers in a disunited world?

The scale, scope and magnitude of human impacts on the Earth are unprecedented. Geoscientists warn of a perilous future in which the Earth System has been forced out its interglacial Holocene state. But geoscience can't tell us what the root causes of anthropogenic planetary change are, nor how humanity should best respond to it. It's for others to do this analytical and normative work.

What Future for the Earth? examines a growing landscape of thought ranged across the social sciences, humanities and the arts. Setting geoscience in its wider institutional and epistemological context, this multidisciplinary book addresses a set of key societal questions arising from escalating Earth System change. It offers an advanced introduction to concepts, arguments and propositions ventured by environmentally minded historians, geographers, anthropologists, sociologists, political theorists and many others. Placing capitalism and 'strong anthropocentrism' at the centre of analysis, What Future for the Earth? tackles a set of big issues, such as how we should think about time and future, about 'environmental crisis' and the moral status of the non-human world. The book lends shape to an urgent debate about the many profound implications of what people are doing to our one and only planet. Who gets to speak for the Earth and its inhabitants, how and to what ends? Who gets to identify causes, propose solutions and enact them? As the technological power of certain private firms and many national governments grows prodigiously, these questions focus our attention on how influential actors can be held accountable and a more just world be created.

University students and instructors across a wide range of disciplines will find this book of interest, as will general readers concerned about climate change, biodiversity loss and related problems. This book identifies issues of common concern and outlines ways of addressing them in a world riven by conflict and dissent yet in need of urgent, cooperative action among otherwise different peoples.

Is photography a Eurocentric practice that others its subjects? In Exposing the Nation, Matthias Pfaller makes the case with a review of a national historiography of photography and images produced in Chile over the course of a century. There are multiple photographies, and they have a variety of uses: science, politics, tourism, family traditions, ethnology, art. They appear in a diverse array of media: government albums, family albums, mass-produced postcards, exhibition prints, scientific records, and published books. Pfaller demonstrates the versatility of photography on the one hand, and the ways in which the national paradigm and modern historiography influenced the production and reception of photographic images on the other. It becomes clear that "national photography" is not a genre of its own, manifest solely in specific discourses. Rather, the nation, photography, and history are meta-discourses that pervade the very idea of Chile as represented through photography and the photographic image.