Urban Studies Books and Journals

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Springer’s publications in Urban Studies include high impact books, leading journals, monographs, edited volumes, book series, and reference works. Browse our products, join the open access movement, learn more about our unique multi-format publishing model, and benefit from our services.

• Urban Planning against Poverty
• Housing Estates in Europe
• Innovation Capacity and the City
• Nature-Based Solutions to Climate Change Adaptation in Urban Areas
• Balanced Urban Development: Options and Strategies for Liveable Cities
• Social Innovations in the Urban Context
• Inter-group Relations and Migrant Integration in European Cities
• Working, Housing: Urbanizing
• AiREAS: Sustainocracy for a Healthy City
• New Methods for Measuring and Analyzing Segregation
• Counteracting Urban Heat Island Effects in a Global Climate Change Scenario
• Housing Market Dynamics in Africa
• New Vision 2050
• New Methods for Measuring and Analyzing Segregation
• Inter-group Relations and Migrant Integration in European Cities​​​​​​​

• Assessing the quality of the indoor environment of senior housing for a better mobility: a Swedish case study

• Why women own less housing assets in China? The role of intergenerational transfers

• The effect of earthquakes on the housing market and the quality of life in the province of Groningen, the Netherlands

• Risks and interrelationships of subdistrict house prices: the case of Amsterdam

• Assessing social quality of sheltered independent housing: challenges of scale and group mix

• A place of many names: how three generations of Bedouin women express the meaning of home​​​​​​​

• An exploration of concepts and polices on ‘affordable housing’ in England, Italy, Poland and The Netherlands 

• Vacancy in shrinking downtowns: a comparative study of Québec, Ontario, and New England

• Environmental considerations in the Swedish building and construction industry: the role of costs, institutional setting, and information

• Service planning and delivery outcomes of home adaptations for ageing in the UK

• The unraveling of Amsterdam's unitary rental system

• An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of Nigeria’s Rapid Urban Transition

• Peri-Urban Land Governance in Developing Countries: Understanding the Role, Interaction and Power Relation Among Actors in Tanzania

• Efficacy in Action: Mobilising Community Participation for Inclusive Urban Development

• On the Question of Using the Concept ‘Slum Tourism’ for Urban Tourism in Stigmatised Neighbourhoods in Inner City Johannesburg

• Urban Health in Johannesburg: Migration, Exclusion and Inequality

• Giving Birth in a Foreign Land: Exploring the Maternal Healthcare Experiences of Zimbabwean Migrant Women Living in Johannesburg, South Africa

• Buzzing on top: Linking wild bee diversity, abundance and traits with green roof qualities

• The state and use of municipal tree inventories in Swedish municipalities – results from a national survey

• Does urbanization explain differences in interactions between an insect herbivore and its natural enemies and mutualists?

• The application of graph theory and percolation analysis for assessing change in the spatial configuration of pond networks

• Habitat selection by an avian top predator in the tropical megacity of Delhi: human activities and socio-religious practices as prey-facilitating tools​​​​​​​

• Effects of ground surface permeability on the growth of linden trees

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Juliana Pitanguy

Publishing Editor

juliana.pitanguy@springer.com

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