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Rethinking Smart Cities
Zaheer Allam, Yusra Raisah Takun
'Rethinking Smart Cities offers a refreshing and insightful survey of the increasingly popular concept of “Smart Cities” It surveys the concept’s evolution before critiquing the scope and offering contemporary warnings about the biases ... -
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A Modern Guide to Knowledge
Francisco J. Carrillo
‘Francisco Javier Carrillo tackles the most existential challenge of our time, the need for an environmentally viable economic system. He provides a sound and hopeful answer based on unlocking the potential and value of knowledge. Carril... -
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Megaprojects for Megacities
Edited by John Landis
Megaprojects for Megacities is a collection of 14 international case studies of transportation, urban development, and environmental megaprojects completed during the last ten years in North America, Asia and Europe. It goes beyond the p... -
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Property Rights and Urban Transformation in China
Zhu Qian
‘Zhu Qian provides an incredibly thorough treatment of property rights in China. Most importantly, this remarkable book investigates China’s urban transformation corresponding to changing property regimes. His explanations of the pivotal... -
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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...eBook:Find out more$36.00
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A Research Agenda for Urban Tourism
Edited by Jan van der Borg
‘This book stands out in what is a rapidly growing field by balancing the two main discourses in urban tourism in recent decades: the opportunity for economic and social development vs. the devastating forces of overtourism for urban eco...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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City Preparedness for the Climate Crisis
Edited by Francisco J. Carrillo, Cathy Garner
‘The breadth of concepts, cases, and data outlined in this book provide critical insights into climate change adaptation. Collectively, they serve as a call to action with a clear message: “business as usual” will be insufficient to meet...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Knowledge For The Anthropocene
Edited by Francisco J. Carrillo, Günter Koch
‘What does it mean to live in the Anthropocene? While a growing number of edited collections and monographs have approached this question by gathering knowledge of the Anthropocene, Francisco Javier Carrillo and Günter Koch choose a diff...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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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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A Research Agenda for Heritage Planning
Edited by Eva Stegmeijer, Loes Veldpaus
‘This edited volume by Stegmeijer and Veldpaus provides a ground-breaking Research Agenda for heritage planning and would be useful not only for practitioners, but also for academics, students and politicians.’ – Sophia Labadi, Universit... -
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Planned Urban Development
Chris Couch
‘Chris Couch provides a detailed overview of the modern history of urban extension schemes in Britain. Discussions of broader trends are combined with in-depth chapters on individual localities, including international comparative case s...eBook:Find out more$40.00
