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Handbook on City and Regional Leadership
Edited by Markku Sotarauta, Andrew Beer
In this timely Handbook, people emerge at the centre of city and regional development debates from the perspective of leadership. It explores individuals and communities, not only as units that underpin aggregate measures or elements wit...eBook:Find out more$65.00
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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
Edited by Peter K. Kresl
This original book examines the experiences cities and urban areas have had with two principal concerns that confront them today: sustainability and competitiveness. Featuring a wide-ranging set of contributions from top researchers, thi...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Densifying the City?
Edited by Margot Rubin, Alison Todes, Philip Harrison, Alexandra Appelbaum
Providing an in-depth exploration of the complexities of densification policy and processes, this book brings the important experiences of densification in Johannesburg into conversation with a range of cities in Africa, the BRICS countr...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Being a Planner in Society
Nicholas Low
This timely book addresses what it is to be a planner in a changing world: a world in need of transformation in the way planning is done in order to tackle social problems and ecological crises. Nicholas Low argues for the need to revalu...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
Financialising City Statecraft and Infrastructure addresses the struggles of national and local states to fund, finance and govern urban infrastructure. It develops fresh thinking on financialisation and city statecraft to explain the so...eBook:Find out more$39.96
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A Research Agenda for Regeneration Economies
Edited by John R. Bryson, Lauren Andres, Rachel Mulhall
This Research Agenda provides both a state-of-the-art review of existing research on city-regions, and expands on new research approaches. Expert contributors from across the globe explore key areas for reading city-regions, including: t...eBook:Find out more$33.60
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Handbook on Planning and Complexity
Edited by Gert de Roo, Claudia Yamu, Christian Zuidema
This Handbook shows the enormous impetus given to the scientific debate by linking planning as a science of purposeful interventions and complexity as a science of spontaneous change and non-linear development. Emphasising the importance...eBook:Find out more$65.00
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Social Innovation and Urban Governance
Edited by Marc Pradel-Miquel, Ana B. Cano-Hila, Marisol García Cabeza
Presenting social innovation initiatives that emerged from organized citizenry in Southern European cities, this book explores the response to austerity policies implemented after the 2008 economic crisis. Chapters look at the common aim...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Smart Cities in Asia
Edited by Yu-Min Joo, Teck-Boon Tan
At a time when Asia is rapidly growing in global influence, this much-needed and insightful book bridges two major current policy topics in order to offer a unique study of the latest smart city archetypes emerging throughout Asia. Highl...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Smart Cities in the Post-algorithmic Era
Edited by Nicos Komninos, Christina Kakderi
Examining the changing nature of cities in the face of smart technology, this book studies key new challenges and capabilities defined by the Internet of Things, data science, blockchain and artificial intelligence. It argues that using ...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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A Companion to Transport, Space and Equity
Edited by Robin Hickman, Beatriz Mella Lira, Moshe Givoni, Karst Geurs
With social inequity in urban spaces becoming an increasing concern in our modern world, The Elgar Companion to Transport, Space and Equity explores the relationships between transport and social equity. Transport systems and infrastruct...eBook:Find out more$65.00