Cities

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...

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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 ...

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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...

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Advanced Introduction to Gentrification

Chris Hamnett

Analysing the causes and effects of widespread gentrification, this Advanced Introduction provides an innovative insight into the global debate instigated by this process. Examining the impact of gentrification on lower income groups and...

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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 ...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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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Handbook of Cities and Networks

Edited by Zachary P. Neal, Céline Rozenblat

This Handbook of Cities and Networks provides a cutting-edge overview of research on how economic, social and transportation networks affect processes both in and between cities. Exploring the ways in which cities connect and intertwine,...

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