Cities and Urban Geography
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A Research Agenda for Cities
Edited by John R. Short
This book provides a critical assessment of key areas of urban scholarship. In twelve stimulating chapters, expert contributors examine a range of important pressing topics from sustainability and gentrification to feminist interventions...eBook:Find out more$43.96
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The Water-Sustainable City
David L. Feldman
Cities place enormous pressures on freshwater quality and availability because they are often located some distance from the water sources needed by their populations. This fact compels planners to build infrastructure to divert water fr...eBook:Find out more$39.16
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Governing Compact Cities
Philipp Rode
Governing Compact Cities investigates how governments and other critical actors organise to enable compact urban growth, combining higher urban densities, mixed use and urban design quality with more walkable and public transport-oriente...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Creating Cities/Building Cities
Peter K. Kresl, Daniele Ietri
For the past 150 years, architecture has been a significant tool in the hands of city planners and leaders. In Creating Cities/Building Cities, Peter Karl Kresl and Daniele Ietri illustrate how these planners and leaders have utilized ar...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Megaregions
Edited by John Harrison, Michael Hoyler
By critically assessing the opportunities and challenges posed by planning and governing at the megaregional scale, this innovative book examines the latest conceptualizations of trans-metropolitan landscapes. In doing so, it seeks to un...eBook:Find out more$39.16
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Entrepreneurial Neighbourhoods
Edited by Maarten van Ham, Darja Reuschke, Reinout Kleinhans, Colin Mason, Stephen Syrett
Despite the growing evidence on the importance of the neighbourhood, entrepreneurship studies have largely neglected the role of neighbourhoods. This book addresses the nexus between entrepreneurship, neighbourhoods and communities, conf...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Cities as Political Objects
Edited by Alistair Cole, Renaud Payre
Focusing on the city’s role as the nexus for new forms of relationships between politics, economics and society, this fascinating book views the city as a political phenomena. Its chapters unravel the city’s plural histories, contested p...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Handbook of Cities and the Environment
Edited by Kevin Archer, Kris Bezdecny
With an ever-growing majority of the world''s human population living in city spaces, the relationship between cities and nature will be one of the key environmental issues of the 21st Century. This book brings together a diverse set of ...eBook:Find out more$65.00
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Urban Strategies for Culture-Driven Growth
Nils Wåhlin, Maria Kapsali, Malin H. Näsholm, Tomas Blomquist
Over the past three decades, the European Capital of Culture has grown into one of the most ambitious cultural programs in the world. Through the promotion of cultural diversity across the continent, the program fosters mutual understand...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Handbook on Transport and Urban Planning in the Developed World
Edited by Michiel Bliemer, Corinne Mulley, Claudine J. Moutou
This Handbook provides comprehensive coverage of all of the major factors that underpin our understanding of urban and transport planning in the developed world. Combining urban and transport planning in one volume, the chapters present ...eBook:Find out more$65.00
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Understanding China''s Urbanization
Li Zhang, Richard LeGates, Min Zhao
China’s urbanization is one of the great earth-changing phenomena of recent times. The way in which China continues to urbanize will have a critical impact on the world economy, global climate change, international relations and a host o...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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The Regional and Urban Policy of the European Union
Philip McCann
The regional and urban development policy of the European Union, or more precisely, EU Cohesion Policy, is undergoing change. This development is driven by the enormous transformations in European regions and by shifts in thinking and an...eBook:Find out more$43.96