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  • Spatial Implications and Planning Criteria for High-Speed Rail Cities and Regions

    Edited by José Maria de Ureña, Chia-Lin Chen, Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris, Roger Vickerman ...
    Spatial Implications and Planning Criteria for High-speed Rail Cities and Regions evaluates the varied experiences that HSR systems have brought about to different station-cities and their regional territories around the world, with an eye towards better future planning and policy of such systems.This edited volume draws from examples of high-speed rail operations in different cities in Europe and ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Planning in a Failing State

    Reforming Spatial Governance in England

    by Tom Moore, Chia-Lin Chen, Manuela Madeddu, Phil O'Brien, Richard Dunning, Richard Cowell, Mark Smith, Sebastian Dembski, Alex Lord, Alexander Nurse, Thomas Fischer, Urmila Thakur ...
    This topical, edited collection analyses the state of the planning system in England and offers a robust, evidence-based review of over a decade of change since the Conservative-led coalition government came to power. With a critique of ongoing planning reforms by the UK government, the book argues that the planning system is often blamed for a range of issues caused by ineffective policy making ... Read more

    $41.39 USD

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    Edited by Juan Carlos Munoz, Laurel Paget-Seekins ...
    Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) is commonly discussed as an affordable way for cities to build sustainable rapid transport infrastructure. This book is the first to offer an in-depth analysis of BRT, examining the opportunities it presents along with the significant challenges cities face in its implementation. A wide range of contributors from both developed and developing countries bring expertise in ... Read more

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  • Integrated Transport

    From Policy to Practice

    Edited by Moshe Givoni, David Banister ...
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  • The New Working Class

    How to Win Hearts, Minds and Votes

    by Claire Ainsley ...
    Recent events such as the Brexit vote and the 2017 general election result highlight the erosion of traditional class identities and the decoupling of class from political identity. The majority of people in the UK still identify as working class, yet no political party today can confidently articulate their interests. So who is now working class and how do political parties gain their support ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Advances in Tourism Destination Marketing

    Managing Networks

    Edited by Metin Kozak, Juergen Gnoth, Luisa L.A Andreu ...
    Series series Advances in Tourism
    This volume provides original insight into the operational opportunities, challenges and constraints in managing Tourism Destination Marketing. It explores how the various tourist destination systems including tourist, places (as seen by the tourist), public and private tourism organisations and the social and physical environment can effectively communicate and co operate together at a profit for ... Read more

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  • Act now

    A vision for a better future and a new social contract

    by Common Sense Policy Group, Kate Pickett, Richard Wilkinson, Danny Dorling ...
    An inspiring manifesto offering a radical vision for our political future.We live in an age of crisis and decline. The right presents ‘solutions’ that only worsen the situation, driving a downward cycle in which desperation leads to despair. But the left is also to blame: progressive politicians have consistently failed to recognise both the urgency of people’s need and their receptiveness to new ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • In Good Company

    An Anatomy of Corporate Social Responsibility

    by Dinah Rajak ...
    Under the banner of corporate social responsibility (CSR), corporations have become increasingly important players in international development. These days, CSR's union of economics and ethics is virtually unquestioned as an antidote to harsh neoliberal reforms and the delinquency of the state, but nothing is straightforward about this apparently win-win formula. Chronicling transnational mining ... Read more

    $26.59 USD

  • The Culture of Science

    How the Public Relates to Science Across the Globe

    Edited by Martin W. Bauer, Rajesh Shukla, Nick Allum ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Science, Technology and Society
    This book offers the first comparative account of the changes and stabilities of public perceptions of science within the US, France, China, Japan, and across Europe over the past few decades. The contributors address the influence of cultural factors; the question of science and religion and its influence on particular developments (e.g. stem cell research); and the demarcation of science from ... Read more

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  • The Violence of Austerity

    Edited by Vickie Cooper, David Whyte ...
    Austerity, a response to the aftermath of the financial crisis, continues to devastate contemporary Britain.In The Violence of Austerity, Vickie Cooper and David Whyte bring together the voices of campaigners and academics including Danny Dorling, Mary O'Hara and Rizwaan Sabir to show that rather than stimulating economic growth, austerity policies have led to a dismantling of the social systems ... Read more

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  • Urban Transport Environment and Equity

    The Case for Developing Countries

    by Eduardo Alcantara Vasconcellos ...
    Traditional transport planning has generated transport systems that propagate an unfair distribution of accessibility and have environmental and safety issues. This book highlights the importance of social and political aspects of transport policy and provides a methodology to support this approach. It emphasizes the importance of co-ordinating urban, transport and traffic planning, and addresses ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • The Knowledge Corrupters

    Hidden Consequences of the Financial Takeover of Public Life

    by Colin Crouch ...
    In principle the advanced, market-driven world in which we now live is fuelled by knowledge, information and transparency, but in practice the processes that produce this world systematically corrupt and denigrate knowledge: this is the powerful and provocative argument advanced by Colin Crouch in his latest exploration of societies on the road to post-democracy.Crouch shows that executives in ... Read more

    $16.00 USD