The present paper addresses the issue of urban sprawl in Europe from a multidimensional
point of view, identifying the most sprawled areas and characterizing them in terms of …

In his foreword to “Living with Risk,” the United Nations' Secretary General, Kofi Annan
raised awareness to human-induced conditions that increase vulnerability to natural …

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The interdisciplinary field of migration studies is split into internal and international
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A multi-criteria approach based on descriptive, correlation and multivariate statistics and
mathematical morphology was proposed to investigate long-term morphological changes in …

Widely recognized as a groundbreaking text, The New Urban Sociology is a broad and
expert introduction to urban sociology that is both relevant and accessible to students …

A radical history of squatting and the struggle for the right to remake the city The
Autonomous City is the first popular history of squatting as practised in Europe and North …

Grassroots responses and alternatives to austerity that have emerged in Athens and Greece
call for a re-thinking of the recent neoliberal crisis through articulations of contestation 'from …

Europe became a land of cities during the last millennium. The story told in this book begins
with North Sea and Mediterranean traders sailing away from Dorestad and Amalfi, and with …

The publisher's policy is to use permanent paper from mills that operate a sustainable
forestry policy, and which has been manufactured from pulp processed using acid-free and …