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Advanced Introduction to Housing Studies
William A.V. Clark
This timely Advanced Introduction explores the links between housing and households, including the complex process of how people sort themselves into houses and neighborhoods. It covers the choices that households make, why these choices...eBook:Find out more$26.36
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Social Innovation as Political Transformation
Edited by Pieter Van den Broeck, Abid Mehmood, Angeliki Paidakaki, Constanza Parra
This book is an introduction to the works of a collective of academics on social innovation and socio-political transformation. It offers a critique of the dominance of market-based logics and extractivism in the age of neoliberalism. Ca...eBook:Find out more$35.96
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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$38.36
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A Research Agenda for Housing
Edited by Markus Moos
Housing is one of the most pertinent issues of our time. Shaped by rapid urbanization, financialization, and various changes in demography, technology, political ideology and public policy, the provision of affordable, adequate, and suit...eBook:Find out more$38.36
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A Research Agenda for New Urbanism
Edited by Emily Talen
New Urbanism, a movement devoted to building walkable, socially diversity cities, has garnered some successes and some failures over the past several decades. A Research Agenda for New Urbanism is a forward-looking book composed of chapt...eBook:Find out more$26.36
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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$42.36
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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$35.96
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Advanced Introduction to Planning Theory
Robert A. Beauregard
In this original approach to the world of planning theory, Robert A. Beauregard cuts across the many different ways to think about planning by organizing them around four core tasks: knowing, engaging, prescribing, and executing. In doin...eBook:Find out more$22.36
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Handbook on the Geographies of Regions and Territories
Edited by Anssi Paasi, John Harrison, Martin Jones
This new international Handbook provides the reader with the most up-to-date and original viewpoints on critical debates relating to the rapidly transforming geographies of regions and territories, as well as related key concepts such as...eBook:Find out more$57.56
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Advanced Introduction to the Creative City
Charles Landry
Written by the leading authority Charles Landry, inventor of the concept of the creative city, this timely book offers an insightful and engaging introduction to the field. Exploring the development of the concept, it discusses the chara...eBook:Find out more$24.76
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Handbook of Gentrification Studies
Edited by Loretta Lees, Martin Phillips
It is now over 50 years since the term ‘gentrification’ was first coined by the British urbanist Ruth Glass in 1964, in which time gentrification studies has become a subject in its own right. This Handbook, the first ever in gentrificat...eBook:Find out more$57.56
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Advanced Introduction to Social Innovation
Frank Moulaert, Diana MacCallum
Social innovation (SI) has, in the last decade or so, become an important idea and concept in policy, practice and scholarship surrounding human development. It is often seen as an antidote to narrowly defined technological and market-or...eBook:Find out more$22.36