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  • Hub Cities in the Knowledge Economy

    Seaports, Airports, Brainports

    by Ben Derudder, Frank Witlox, Sven Conventz, Alain Thierstein ...
    The overarching research topic addressed in this book is the complex and multifaceted interaction between infrastructural accessibility/connectivity of city-regions on the one hand and knowledge generation in these city-regions on the other hand. To this end, the book brings together chapters analysing how infrastructural accessibility is related to changing patterns of business location of ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • World City Network

    A global urban analysis

    by Ben Derudder, Peter Taylor ...
    With the advent of multinational corporations, the traditional urban service function has 'gone global'. In order to provide services to globalizing corporate clients, the offices of major financial and business service firms across the world have generated networks of work. It is the myriad of flows between office towers in different metropolitan centres that has produced a world city network ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • Commodity Chains and World Cities

    Edited by Ben Derudder, Frank Witlox ...
    Transnational spatial relations offer a key point from which to study the geographies of contemporary globalization. This book assesses the possible cross-fertilization between two of the most notable analytical frameworks - the world city network framework and the global commodity chain framework.Transnational spatial relations have become a key analytical lens through which to study the ... Read more

    $29.00 USD

  • The City as a Global Political Actor

    Edited by Stijn Oosterlynck, Luce Beeckmans, David Bassens, Ben Derudder, Barbara Segaert, Luc Braeckmans ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Urbanism and the City
    This book engages with the thorny question of global urban political agency. It critically assesses the now popular statement that in the context of paralysed and failing nation state governments, cities can and will provide leadership in addressing global challenges.Cities can act politically on the global scale, but the analysis of global urban political agency needs to be firmly embedded in the ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • International Business Travel in the Global Economy

    by Ben Derudder, Frank Witlox ...
    Business travel has become indispensable to the global economy, not only due to its necessity in the maintaining of corporate networks, but also because of the associated economies that cater to the daily requirements of the business traveller. Underlying these developments are concerns over the environmental impact of increasing air travel, which are likely to generate new challenges for the ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • Global Urban Analysis

    A Survey of Cities in Globalization

    by Peter J Taylor, Pengfei Ni, Ben Derudder, Michael Hoyler, Jin Huang, Frank Witlox ...
    Global Urban Analysis provides a unique insight into the contemporary world economy through a focus on cities. It is based upon a large-scale customised data collection on how leading businesses use cities across the world: as headquarter locations, for finance, for professional and creative services, for media. These data - involving up to 2000 firms and over 500 cities - provide evidence for ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Cities in Globalization

    Practices, Policies and Theories

    Edited by Peter Taylor, Ben Derudder, Pieter Saey, Frank Witlox ...
    Series series Questioning Cities
    Despite traditionally being a strong research topic in urban studies, inter-city relations had become grossly neglected until recently, when it was placed back on the research agenda with the advent of studies of world/global cities. More recently the ‘external relations’ of cities have taken their place alongside ‘internal relations’ within cities to constitute the full nature of cities.This ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

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  • Walkable City

    How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time

    by Jeff Speck ...
    Jeff Speck has dedicated his career to determining what makes cities thrive. And he has boiled it down to one key factor: walkability.The very idea of a modern metropolis evokes visions of bustling sidewalks, vital mass transit, and a vibrant, pedestrian-friendly urban core. But in the typical American city, the car is still king, and downtown is a place that's easy to drive to but often not worth ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Research Design and Proposal Writing in Spatial Science

    Second Edition

    by Jay D. Gatrell, Gregory D. Bierly, Ryan R. Jensen ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    The complex interactions between human and physical systems confronting social scientists and policymakers pose unique conceptual, methodological, and practical complications when ‘doing research’. Graduate students in a broad range of related fields need to learn how to tackle the discipline-specific issues of space, place, and scale as they propose and perform research in the spatial sciences. ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • Local and Global

    The Management of Cities in the Information Age

    by Jordi Borja, Manuel Castells ...
    This text challenges the belief that cities will eventually disappear as territorial forms of social organization as new information technologies permit the articulation of social processes without regard for distance, arguing that the specific role of cities will become more important, and proposing that a dynamic and creative relationship be built up between the local and the global. In this way ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • City of Scoundrels

    The 12 Days of Disaster That Gave Birth to Modern Chicago

    by Gary Krist ...
    The masterfully told story of twelve volatile days in the life of Chicago, when an aviation disaster, a race riot, a crippling transit strike, and a sensational child murder transfixed and roiled a city already on the brink of collapse.When 1919 began, the city of Chicago seemed on the verge of transformation. Modernizers had an audacious, expensive plan to turn the city from a brawling, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • Gentrifier

    by John Joe Schlichtman, Jason Patch, Marc Lamont Hill ...
    Series series UTP Insights
    Gentrifier opens up a new conversation about gentrification, one that goes beyond the statistics and the clichés, and examines different sides of a controversial, deeply personal issue. In this lively yet rigorous book, John Joe Schlichtman, Jason Patch, and Marc Lamont Hill take a close look at the socioeconomic factors and individual decisions behind gentrification and their implications for the ... Read more

    $25.99 USD