Urban and Regional Studies
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Public–Private Partnerships for Infrastructure Development
Edited by Raymond E. Levitt, W. R. Scott, Michael J. Garvin
Large infrastructure projects often face significant cost overruns and stakeholder fragmentation. Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) allow governments to procure long-term infrastructure services from private providers, rather than devel...eBook:Find out more£32.76
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A Research Agenda for New Urbanism
Edited by Emily Talen
New Urbanism, a movement devoted to building walkable, socially diversity cities, has garnered some successes and some failures over the past several decades. A Research Agenda for New Urbanism is a forward-looking book composed of chapt...eBook:Find out more£20.76
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Financialising City Statecraft and Infrastructure
Andy Pike, Peter O’Brien, Tom Strickland, Graham Thrower, John Tomaney
Financialising City Statecraft and Infrastructure addresses the struggles of national and local states to fund, finance and govern urban infrastructure. It develops fresh thinking on financialisation and city statecraft to explain the so...eBook:Find out more£27.16
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Handbook on the Geographies of Globalization
Edited by Robert C. Kloosterman, Virginie Mamadouh, Pieter Terhorst
Processes of globalization have changed the world in many, often fundamental, ways. Increasingly these processes are being debated and contested. This Handbook offers a timely, rich as well as critical panorama of these multifaceted proc...eBook:Find out more£41.56
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A Research Agenda for Regeneration Economies
Edited by John R. Bryson, Lauren Andres, Rachel Mulhall
This Research Agenda provides both a state-of-the-art review of existing research on city-regions, and expands on new research approaches. Expert contributors from across the globe explore key areas for reading city-regions, including: t...eBook:Find out more£23.16
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The Poverty of Territorialism
Andreas Faludi
Drawing on territorial ideas prevalent in the Medieval period, Andreas Faludi offers readers ways to rethink the current debates surrounding territorialism in the EU. Challenging contemporary European spatial planning, the author examine...eBook:Find out more£23.16
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Advanced Introduction to Planning Theory
Robert A. Beauregard
In this original approach to the world of planning theory, Robert A. Beauregard cuts across the many different ways to think about planning by organizing them around four core tasks: knowing, engaging, prescribing, and executing. In doin...eBook:Find out more£14.36
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Productivity Perspectives
Edited by Philip McCann, Tim Vorley
Productivity Perspectives offers a timely and stimulating social science view on the productivity debate, drawing on the work of the ESRC funded Productivity Insights Network. The book examines the drivers and inhibitors of UK productivi...eBook:Find out more£27.16
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Handbook on the Geographies of Regions and Territories
Edited by Anssi Paasi, John Harrison, Martin Jones
This new international Handbook provides the reader with the most up-to-date and original viewpoints on critical debates relating to the rapidly transforming geographies of regions and territories, as well as related key concepts such as...eBook:Find out more£41.56
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Advanced Introduction to the Creative City
Charles Landry
Written by the leading authority Charles Landry, inventor of the concept of the creative city, this timely book offers an insightful and engaging introduction to the field. Exploring the development of the concept, it discusses the chara...eBook:Find out more£15.96
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Handbook of Gentrification Studies
Edited by Loretta Lees, Martin Phillips
It is now over 50 years since the term ‘gentrification’ was first coined by the British urbanist Ruth Glass in 1964, in which time gentrification studies has become a subject in its own right. This Handbook, the first ever in gentrificat...eBook:Find out more£41.56
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Advanced Introduction to Social Innovation
Frank Moulaert, Diana MacCallum
Social innovation (SI) has, in the last decade or so, become an important idea and concept in policy, practice and scholarship surrounding human development. It is often seen as an antidote to narrowly defined technological and market-or...eBook:Find out more£14.36