Cities and Urban Geography
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![Urban Planning, Management and Governance in Emerging Economies]()
Urban Planning, Management and Governance in Emerging Economies
Edited by Jan Fransen, Meine P. van Dijk, Jurian Edelenbos
‘The authors argue that cities in emerging economies can increase their sustainable competitiveness by replacing their traditional system of urban planning and management with a modern system of urban governance. This is a must read for ... -
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The City and Quality of Life
Peter K. Kresl
‘Under the challenge of global and regional economic restructuring, cities have to achieve high quality of life to attract skilled people and companies in the evolving new economy. This book is a systematic study on the concept of qualit... -
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![A Modern Guide to National Urban Policies in Europe]()
A Modern Guide to National Urban Policies in Europe
Edited by Karsten Zimmermann, Valeria Fedeli
‘Karsten Zimmermann and Valeria Fedeli have co-created a landmark text on the changing role of national urban policies in Europe. Many leading scholars in the European Urban Research Association (EURA) contribute their insights and the b... -
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Teaching Urban and Regional Planning
Edited by Andrea I. Frank, Artur da Rosa Pires
‘This is a well-written international engagement with pedagogical innovation and change in planning education. I agree with the authors that right now, spatial planning is crucial to planetary survival but that there are profound challen... -
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A Research Agenda for Housing
Edited by Markus Moos
‘In A Research Agenda for Housing, editor Markus Moos bring together contributors to illustrate and examine the major theoretical, analytical and empirical developments in the housing field, showing housing to be a complex area and an es...eBook:Find out more$36.00
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![Cities and Regions in Crisis]()
Cities and Regions in Crisis
Martin Jones
Offering a geographical political economy analysis, this book explores the mechanisms, institutions, and spaces of subnational economic development. Martin Jones innovatively examines how policy-makers frame problems and offer interventi...eBook:Find out more$36.00
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![Towards a Competitive, Sustainable Modern City]()
Towards a Competitive, Sustainable Modern City
Edited by Peter K. Kresl
‘This book brings together contributors from several parts of the world, providing the reader with a large spectrum of approaches on the subject of urban competitiveness and sustainability. While some chapters consider a set of cities at...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Densifying the City?
Edited by Margot Rubin, Alison Todes, Philip Harrison, Alexandra Appelbaum
‘Densification is increasingly positioned as vital to cities and the global urban future. This collection of cases, from across the urban world, offers an invaluable critique of the politics and geographies of densification, and provides...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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![A Research Agenda for New Urbanism]()
A Research Agenda for New Urbanism
Edited by Emily Talen
‘The New Urbanism’s commitment to the simultaneity of theory and evidence in practice presents a rich agenda for research. Examining the movement’s intellectual foundations as well as its continuing evolution and capacity to stimulate po...eBook:Find out more$23.96
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Being a Planner in Society
Nicholas Low
‘This book provides a treasure chest of theoretical and political insights about what it means to be a planner and what is entailed in the planning process. Developed over a lifetime of research and teaching, Nick Low connects planning t...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Financialising City Statecraft and Infrastructure
Andy Pike, Peter O’Brien, Tom Strickland, Graham Thrower, John Tomaney
‘All in all, this is an insightful volume that makes substantial progress in scientific research into one of the most critical urban problems of present-day societies, and will be of interest to those engaged in the discussion and analys...eBook:Find out more$38.36
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![The Poverty of Territorialism]()
The Poverty of Territorialism
Andreas Faludi
‘A unique and fascinating read – it is not often the case that one feels the urge to read an academic book from cover to cover. . . . I hope that many will read and discuss this fascinating book, and by doing so further the debate on te...eBook:Find out more$31.96
