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Making Capitalism in Rural China
Michael Webber
This stimulating and challenging book explores the duplicitous nature of development in China. On the positive side, it brings longer and healthier lives; fewer children dead before they are five years old; more comfort and security from...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Building Prosperous Knowledge Cities
Edited by Tan Yigitcanlar, Kostas Metaxiotis, Francisco Javier Carrillo
This unique book reveals the procedural aspects of knowledge-based urban planning, development and assessment. Concentrating on major knowledge city building processes, and providing state-of-the-art experiences and perspectives, this im...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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![International Handbook of Urban Policy, Volume 3]()
International Handbook of Urban Policy, Volume 3
Edited by H. S. Geyer
This important Handbook reveals that most urban growth takes place in the less developed world and much of it represents over-urbanization – that is, urbanization in which most migrants cannot effectively compete for employment, cannot f...eBook:Find out more$65.00
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![City Distribution and Urban Freight Transport]()
City Distribution and Urban Freight Transport
Edited by Cathy Macharis, Sandra Melo
City distribution plays a key role in supporting urban lifestyles, helping to serve and retain industrial and trading activities, and contributing to the competitiveness of regional industry. Despite these positive effects, it also gener...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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![Climate Change and Human Security]()
Climate Change and Human Security
Michael R. Redclift, David Manuel-Navarette, Mark Pelling
The challenge presented by climate change is, by its nature, global. The populations of the Mexican Caribbean, the focus of this book, are faced by everyday decisions not unlike those in the urban North. The difference is that for the pe...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Academic Entrepreneurship and Community Engagement
Edited by Bruce Kingma
This poignant study presents a collection of research on entrepreneurship and community engagement. The context of this book is Syracuse University’s award winning model of Scholarship in Action with its emphasis on sustainable campus–co...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Systems Thinking and Decision Making in Urban and Environmental Planning
Anastássios Perdicoúlis
In this path-breaking book, Anastássios Perdicoúlis progresses the conception and expression of the planning problem as an ‘extended mental model’. In doing so he concisely expresses the essential elements of strategic planning (conditio... -
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![The Sustainability of Cultural Diversity]()
The Sustainability of Cultural Diversity
Edited by Maddy Janssens, Myriam Bechtoldt, Arie de Ruijter, Dino Pinelli, Giovanni Prarolo, Vanja M.K. Stenius
This engaging book addresses the question of how diverse communities, whether in a nation, city or organization, can live together and prosper whilst retaining and enjoying their cultural differences. This is a particularly pertinent iss...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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![Towards Effective Place Brand Management]()
Towards Effective Place Brand Management
Edited by Gregory Ashworth, Mihalis Kavaratzis
Many facets of place branding, such as identities, image, promotion or sense of place, have been around for a long time. However, the need to analyse their nature in the context of branding and to examine their relationships in detail ha...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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The Great Migration
Edited by Xin Meng, Chris Manning, Li Shi, Tadjuddin Nur Effendi
This fascinating study compares and contrasts the immense internal migration movements in China and Indonesia. Over the next two decades, approximately two-thirds of the rural labour force is expected to migrate, transforming their respe... -
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The Global Urban Competitiveness Report – 2010
Pengfei Ni, Peter Karl Kresl
The Global Urban Competitiveness Report – 2010 is an empirical study of the competitiveness of 500 cities around the world. This one-of-a-kind annual resource draws on a wealth of data sources, all of which are described and assessed. Us...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Urban Poverty in China
Fulong Wu, Chris Webster, Shenijing He, Yuting Liu
Urban poverty is an emerging problem. This book explores the household and neighbourhood factors that lead to both the generation and continuance of urban poverty in China. It is argued that the urban Chinese are not a homogenous social ...eBook:Find out more$40.00
