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Teaching Urban and Regional Planning
Edited by Andrea I. Frank, Artur da Rosa Pires
This innovative book makes the case for training future planners in new and creative ways as coordinators, enablers and facilitators. An international range of teaching case studies offer distinctive ideas for the future of planning educ...eBook:Find out more$37.56
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Property Rights and Urban Transformation in China
Zhu Qian
Addressing fundamental questions surrounding the critical changes affecting China’s urban landscape, social organization and community governance, Property Rights and Urban Transformation in China thoroughly reviews the reform of propert...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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From Eco-Cities to Sustainable City-Regions
Ernest J. Yanarella, Richard S. Levine
A political scientist and an urban architect explore China’s odyssey to become an ecological civilization and transform its massive, unsustainable, urbanization process into one that creates hundreds of eco-cities. The resulting From Eco...eBook:Find out more$39.96
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City Preparedness for the Climate Crisis
Edited by Francisco J. Carrillo, Cathy Garner
Exploring the ways that contemporary urban life takes the Holocene for granted, this multidisciplinary book warns that anthropogenic environmental impacts are on course to challenge the viability of most human settlements. It highlights ...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Knowledge For The Anthropocene
Edited by Francisco J. Carrillo, Günter Koch
With human-induced environmental impacts disrupting human life in deeper ways and at a wider scale than anything previously experienced, this multidisciplinary book looks at the ways that current knowledge bases seem inadequate to help u...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Conducting and Financing Low-carbon Transitions in China
Le-Yin Zhang
Utilizing a governmentality lens, this timely book offers an explanation for China’s decarbonization performance in the early 21st century. Le-Yin Zhang investigates one of the most ambitious governing projects in history, analyzing the ...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Planned Urban Development
Chris Couch
Using case studies from the UK and Europe, Chris Couch examines the nature and achievements of the expanded towns programmes that emerged in the mid-20th century to accommodate population growth and overspill from densely populated urban...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Trophy Cities
Dorina Pojani
Offering a fresh perspective, this timely book analyzes the socio-cultural and physical production of planned capital cities through the theoretical lens of feminism. Dorina Pojani evaluates the historical, spatial and symbolic manifesta...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Ordinary Cities, Extraordinary Geographies
Edited by John R. Bryson, Ronald V. Kalafsky, Vida Vanchan
This insightful book explores smaller towns and cities, places in which the majority of people live, highlighting that these more ordinary places have extraordinary geographies. It focuses on the development of an alternative approach to...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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A Modern Guide to the Urban Sharing Economy
Edited by Thomas Sigler, Jonathan Corcoran
Providing a comprehensive overview of the urban sharing economy, this Modern Guide takes a forward-looking perspective on how sharing goods and services may facilitate future sustainability of consumption and production. It highlights re...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Transport in Human Scale Cities
Edited by Miloš N. Mladenović, Tuuli Toivonen, Elias Willberg, Karst T. Geurs
This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 License. It is free to read, download and share on Elgaronline.com. This timely book calls for a paradigm shift in urban transport, which remains one of the cri... -
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Predatory Urbanism
Agatino Rizzo, Anindita Mandal
Addressing the complex interrelationships between city making and the resources needed for its production, Predatory Urbanism explores the link between urbanization and resources in the global South. It particularly focuses on urban mega...eBook:Find out more$40.00