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China’s Urban Century
Edited by François Gipouloux
‘Overall, this is an admirable group effort by Chinese and European scholars and institutions to jointly study Chinese urbanism. It offers useful narratives that map the macro trends of Chinese urbanization.’ – Xuefei Ren, Paciffic AffairseBook:Find out more$40.00
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Healthy Cities
Chinmoy Sarkar, Chris Webster, John Gallacher
‘Our cities’ built environments shape our health and well-being, and Sarkar, Webster and Gallacher conceptualize the “urban health niche” as an approach to public health and healthy-city planning. The book is of practical use for those i...eBook:Find out more$48.76
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The Rise of the City
Edited by Karima Kourtit, Peter Nijkamp, Roger R. Stough
‘Overall, this book is a valuable resource towards understanding the impact of urban growth on geography, spatial dynamics and public policies, which can collectively provide insightful perspectives and methodological tools of the changi...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Changing Urban and Regional Relations in a Globalizing World
Edited by Kathy Pain, Gilles Van Hamme
In this important book, Kathy Pain and Gilles Van Hamme bring together a prestigious group of contributors to provide a systematic assessment of the dynamic, multi-scale network restructuring and spaces of flows associated with globaliza...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Cities and Partnerships for Sustainable Urban Development
Edited by Peter Karl Kresl
‘As recently as 1960, the world was only one-third urbanized. Today it is 54% urbanized and by mid-century should be almost two-thirds urbanized. This edited volume featuring authors from around the globe offers valuable insights concern...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Cities and the Urban Land Premium
Henri L.F. de Groot, Gerard Marlet, Coen Teulings, Wouter Vermeulen
‘This is an excellent book built around an analysis of uniquely detailed datasets and providing very clear empirical insights to a range of important analytical questions in urban economics. The relevance of the book goes well beyond Eur...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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International Handbook of Globalization and World Cities
Edited by Ben Derudder, Michael Hoyler, Peter J. Taylor, Frank Witlox
‘This book offers an extremely rich variety of (short) chapters on aspects of flows in network and knowledge societies, highlighting the evolutionary shift in focus from cities and states to places in urban networks and mosaics, in which...eBook:Find out more$57.56
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Interculturalism in Cities
Edited by Ricard Zapata-Barrero
‘This is a fascinating book that opens the door to a theoretical and practical understanding of interculturalism in cities. . .a fine, cogent resource for anyone who wants to understand interculturalism in cities at this particularly ten...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Arts, Culture and the Making of Global Cities
Lily Kong, Ching Chia-ho, Chou Tsu-Lung
‘Cultural elements, particularly in terms of consumption, are less tangible and difficult to study quantitatively or even qualitatively, making research along these lines especially challenging. Arts, Culture and the Making of Global Cit...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Cities and Private Planning
Edited by David Emanuel Andersson, Stefano Moroni
‘Not so very long ago the notion of private city planning would have been of interest to only a few die-hard libertarians. This book shows why no serious analysis of the forces shaping cities across the world today can neglect the role o...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Handbook of Research Methods and Applications in Urban Economies
Edited by Peter Karl Kresl, Jaime Sobrino
‘It is obvious that cities have long been the focus of analysis by the scholars and practitioners whose writings published in the Kresl–Sobrino Handbook of Research Methods and Applications in Urban Economies. The depth and excellence of...eBook:Find out more$57.56
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A World in Emergence
Allen J. Scott
‘This is vintage Allen Scott, but also a tour d’horizon of the state of urban studies, 2012, by one of its foremost global practitioners: compulsory reading.’ – Peter Hall, University College London, UK ‘In this book, Allen Scott enrich...eBook:Find out more$27.20