A Home in the City

A Home in the City
Author: UN Millennium Project
Publisher: Earthscan
Total Pages: 179
Release: 2005
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1844072304

First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

At Home in the City

At Home in the City
Author: Elizabeth Klimasmith
Publisher: UPNE
Total Pages: 318
Release: 2005
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781584654971

A lucidly written analysis of urban literature and evolving residential architecture.

Home in the City

Home in the City
Author: Alan B. Anderson
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Total Pages: 473
Release: 2013-09-20
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1442662247

During the past several decades, the Aboriginal population of Canada has become so urbanized that today, the majority of First Nations and Métis people live in cities. Home in the City provides an in-depth analysis of urban Aboriginal housing, living conditions, issues, and trends. Based on extensive research, including interviews with more than three thousand residents, it allows for the emergence of a new, contemporary, and more realistic portrait of Aboriginal people in Canada’s urban centres. Home in the City focuses on Saskatoon, which has both one of the highest proportions of Aboriginal residents in the country and the highest percentage of Aboriginal people living below the poverty line. While the book details negative aspects of urban Aboriginal life (such as persistent poverty, health problems, and racism), it also highlights many positive developments: the emergence of an Aboriginal middle class, inner-city renewal, innovative collaboration with municipal and community organizations, and more. Alan B. Anderson and the volume’s contributors provide an important resource for understanding contemporary Aboriginal life in Canada.

UN Millennium Development Library: A Home in The City

UN Millennium Development Library: A Home in The City
Author: UN Millennium Project
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 180
Release: 2012-05-16
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1136550763

More than 900 million people currently live in urban slums and the number is growing as rapid urbanization continues in the developing world. A Home in the City urges countries to strengthen their focus on the growing urban crisis and improving the lives of slum dwellers. Proposed are specific investments and policy changes required at local and national levels to create a vibrant, equitable and productive urban environment. It underscores the need for close strategic partnerships between local authorities and organizations of the urban poor for slum upgrading and improved urban management. From adopting citywide strategies and establishing adequate and affordable infrastructure and services, to building effective public transport and constructing low-income housing, it offers valuable methods to prevent future slum formation and to improve the lives of at least 100 million slum dwellers by 2020.

At Home in the City

At Home in the City
Author: Stacy Torres
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 366
Release: 2025
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 0520288696

Uncovers how people aged 60 and older struggle, survive, and thrive in twenty-first-century urban America. To understand elders' experiences of aging in place, sociologist Stacy Torres spent five years with longtime New York City residents as they coped with health setbacks, depression, gentrification, financial struggles, the accumulated losses of neighbors, friends, and family, and other everyday challenges. The sensitive portrait Torres paints in At Home in the City moves us beyond stereotypes of older people as either rich and pampered or downtrodden and frail to capture the multilayered complexity of late life. These pages chronicle how a nondescript bakery in Manhattan served as a public living room, providing company to ease loneliness and a sympathetic ear to witness the monumental and mundane struggles of late life. Through years of careful observation, Torres peels away the layers of this oft-neglected social world and explores the constellation of relationships and experiences that Western culture often renders invisible or frames as a problem. At Home in the City strikes a realistic balance as it highlights how people find support, flex their resilience, and assert their importance in their communities in old age.

Our House in the City

Our House in the City
Author: Sven Ehmann (edt)
Publisher: Die Gestalten Verlag-DGV
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2014
Genre: Architect-designed houses
ISBN: 9783899555189

Original solutions and unusual locations for contemporary single-family homes in urban areas.

Designing for Health & Wellbeing: Home, City, Society

Designing for Health & Wellbeing: Home, City, Society
Author: Matthew Jones
Publisher: Vernon Press
Total Pages: 290
Release: 2019-12-03
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 1622737318

Rapid urbanization represents major threats and challenges to personal and public health. The World Health Organisation identifies the ‘urban health threat’ as three-fold: infectious diseases, non-communicable diseases; and violence and injury from, amongst other things, road traffic. Within this tripartite structure of health issues in the built environment, there are multiple individual issues affecting both the developed and the developing worlds and the global north and south. Reflecting on a broad set of interrelated concerns about health and the design of the places we inhabit, this book seeks to better understand the interconnectedness and potential solutions to the problems associated with health and the built environment. Divided into three key themes: home, city, and society, each section presents a number of research chapters that explore global processes, transformative praxis and emergent trends in architecture, urban design and healthy city research. Drawing together practicing architects, academics, scholars, public health professional and activists from around the world to provide perspectives on design for health, this book includes emerging research on: healthy homes, walkable cities, design for ageing, dementia and the built environment, health equality and urban poverty, community health services, neighbourhood support and wellbeing, urban sanitation and communicable disease, the role of transport infrastructures and government policy, and the cost implications of ‘unhealthy’ cities etc. To that end, this book examines alternative and radical ways of practicing architecture and the re-imagining of the profession of architecture through a lens of human health.

The New City Home

The New City Home
Author: Leslie Plummer Clagett
Publisher: Taunton Press
Total Pages: 220
Release: 2003
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9781561586486

This illustrated guide to making the most of an urban living space profiles 25 homes in major metropolitan areas. 35 illustrations. 240 color photos.

Migration, Work and Home-Making in the City

Migration, Work and Home-Making in the City
Author: Annabelle Wilkins
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 202
Release: 2019-04-30
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1351267663

This book explores the relationships between home, work and migration among Vietnamese people in East London, demonstrating the diversity of home-making practices and forms of belonging in relation to the dwelling, workplace and wider city. Engaging with wider scholarship on transnationalism, urban mobilities and the geopolitical dimensions of home among migrants and diasporic communities, the author draws on ethnographic work to examine the experiences of people who migrated from Vietnam to London at different times and in diverse circumstances, including individuals who arrived as refugees in the 1970s, as well as those who have migrated for work or education in recent years. Migration, Work and Home-Making in the City thus sheds new light on the social, material and spiritual practices through which people create senses of home that connect them with their country of origin, and reveals how home-making is constrained by immigration policies, insecure housing and precarious work, thus highlighting the barriers to belonging in the city.