Asian Geography
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From Eco-Cities to Sustainable City-Regions
Ernest J. Yanarella, Richard S. Levine
‘This remarkable book brings a bold new vision to achieve highly-integrative systemic performance at the scale of the City-as-a-Hill and its surrounding rural partner land. No less, it provides the means for the ambitious sustainability ...eBook:Find out more$36.00
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Global Production Networks and Rural Development
Edited by Bill Pritchard
‘This edited volume brings together a set of timely and much needed research contributions on the pattern, nature and dynamics of the exports of fresh fruit from Southeast Asian countries to China. A palette of detailed case studies join...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Ageing in Place
Edited by Bruce Judd, Kenichi Tanoue, Edgar Liu
‘This comprehensive book provides a unique offering to our understandings of ageing in place. It is particularly valuable in highlighting the differences and similarities in supporting and assisting ageing in place across countries with ...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Smart Cities in Asia
Edited by Yu-Min Joo, Teck-Boon Tan
‘This book is a timely and welcome addition to the growing body of knowledge on smart cities in Asia. Covering major smart cities in East, Southeast and South Asia, it thoughtfully examines the reasons why these conurbations are eagerly ...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Common Grasslands in Asia
Edited by Colin G. Brown
‘This well-organized and clearly written edited volume is a pleasure to read. If you could have but one book on your shelf regarding steppe grassland environments and use, this should be it. The comparative approach is most effective, of...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Water Supply in a Mega-City
Michael Webber, Jon Barnett, Brian Finlayson, Mark Wang
‘A very well documented, clearly written and intellectually stimulating account of how, despite sitting at the mouth of one of the world largest rivers, Shanghai has become a place in which you cannot drink the tap water. The book pieces...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Making Hong Kong
Pui-yin Ho
‘As this book makes clear, Hong Kong has successfully thrived against all odds to develop into a world city of fame and substance. Town planning certainly has its role and major political turning points have been capitalised on to the ci...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Innovation Networks and the New Asian Regionalism
Hans-Peter Brunner
‘Hans-Peter Brunner has produced here a very thoughtful piece of scholarship. This important book is genuinely innovative and very well executed. It addresses a very significant problem – how the integration and inter-linkage of national... -
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Understanding China's Urbanization
Li Zhang, Richard LeGates, Min Zhao
‘. . . this book does an excellent job of distilling huge amounts of information on the last four decades of China’s great economic and urban transformations into a highly readable text and gets across very clearly its central message of...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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China’s Urban Century
Edited by François Gipouloux
‘Overall, this is an admirable group effort by Chinese and European scholars and institutions to jointly study Chinese urbanism. It offers useful narratives that map the macro trends of Chinese urbanization.’ – Xuefei Ren, Paciffic AffairseBook:Find out more$40.00
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Neighbourhood Governance in Urban China
Edited by Ngai-Ming Yip
As the economy and society of China has become more diversified, so have its urban neighbourhoods. The last decade has witnessed a surge in collective action by homeowners in China against the infringement of their rights. Research on ne...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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China’s Urbanization and the World Economy
Fan Zhang
‘This is an original reading by a Chinese economist on the grand topic of China’s urbanisation. Through gathering a vast amount of raw materials available in Chinese, the book deliberately maintains its indigenous flavour and introduces ...eBook:Find out more$40.00