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“david mcevoy”

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  • Landscapes of the Ethnic Economy

    by Jock Collins, Felicitas Hillmann, Bessie House, Lucia Lo, David McEvoy, Pierpaolo Mudu, Alex Oberle, Giles A. Barrett, James M. Smith, Carlos Gustavo Poggio Teixeira, David H. Kaplan, Christopher A. Airriess, Heike Alberts, Wei Li ...
    Immigration has expanded dramatically in both traditional and emerging receiving nations. This worldwide boom has profoundly altered urban areas as new arrivals have transformed inner cities and suburbs alike into bastions of new ethnic economic activity. Examining the essential role of space in assisting and modifying ethnic business activity, this book considers how ethnic economies are ... Read more

    $44.59 USD

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  • The Failure of Global Capitalism

    From Cape Breton to Colombia andBeyond

    by Terry Gibbs, PhD, Garry Leech, MA ...
    What do Cape Breton and Colombia have in common? Coal, for one thing. Coal mining was the backbone of Cape Breton’s industrial economy for more than one hundred years, but the last mine was closed in 2001 when the province’s utility company took advantage of neoliberal globalization by importing coal—from Colombia. Colombia and Cape Breton represent the loss of well-paid, unionized industrial jobs ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • Millionaire Migrants

    Trans-Pacific Life Lines

    by David Ley ...
    Series Book 97 - RGS-IBG Book Series
    Based on extensive interviewing and access to a wide range of databases, this is an examination of the migration career of wealthy migrants who left East Asia and relocated to Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and the United States, in the 1980s and 1990s.An interdisciplinary project based on over 15 years of research in Vancouver, Toronto, and Hong Kong, with additional comparative visits and ... Read more

    $33.00 USD

  • Urban Sociology

    A Global Introduction

    by Mark Abrahamson ...
    This concise yet comprehensive overview of the political and economic development of the world's cities offers a unique emphasis on its cultural impacts. The book emphasizes the transition from modern (industrial) to post-modern (post-industrial) eras and its effect on established and developing global cities, and arguments are supported with case studies for each of the main concepts of urban ... Read more

    $47.59 USD

  • Cities and Economies

    by Yeong-Hyun Kim, John Rennie Short ...
    Series series Routledge Critical Introductions to Urbanism and the City
    Cities and Economies explores the complex and subtle connections between cities and economies. The rise of the merchant city, the development of the industrial city and the creation of the service-dominated urban economy are all explored, along with economic globalization and its effects on cities in both developed and developing economies. This book provides a thorough examination of the role of ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • The Human City

    Urbanism for the Rest of Us

    by Joel Kotkin ...
    The author of The Coming of Neo-Feudalism and The New Class Conflict challenges conventions of urban planning.Around the globe, most new urban development has adhered to similar tenets: tall structures, small units, and high density. In The Human City, Joel Kotkin―called "America's uber-geographer" by David Brooks of the New York Times―questions these nearly ubiquitous practices, suggesting that ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Historic Urban Landscape

    Managing Heritage in an Urban Century

    by Francesco Bandarin, Ron van Oers ...
    This book offers a comprehensive overview of the intellectual developments in urban conservation. The authors offer unique insights from UNESCO's World Heritage Centre and the book is richly illustrated with colour photographs. Examples are drawn from urban heritage sites worldwide from Timbuktu to Liverpool to demonstrate key issues and best practice in urban conservation today. The book offers ... Read more

    $62.00 USD

  • Encyclopedia of the City

    Edited by Roger W. Caves ...
    The Encyclopedia of the City focuses on the key topics encountered by undergraduates and scholars in urban studies and allied fields. Contributors include major theoreticians and practitioners, and on other individuals, groups, and organizations which study the city or practice in a field that directly or indirectly affects the city, the Encyclopedia necessarily adopts an interdisciplinary and ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • Key Concepts in Urban Studies

    by Leslie Budd, Panu Lehtovuori, Mark D. Gottdiener ...
    Series series SAGE Key Concepts series
    "Key Concepts in Urban Studies is written in an accessible, concise way and introduces students to the key topics in urban studies. Drawing examples from different parts of the world, this authoritative resource exposes students to the diverse forms that cities take, and the social, spatial and temporal dimensions of urban living. It is an essential resource for students across disciplines ... Read more

    $54.89 USD

  • Planetary Gentrification

    by Loretta Lees, Hyun Bang Shin, Ernesto López-Morales ...
    Series series Urban Futures
    This is the first book in Polity's new 'Urban Futures' series.At the beginning of the twenty-first century, proclamations rang out that gentrification had gone global. But what do we mean by 'gentrification' today? How can we compare 'gentrification' in New York and London with that in Shanghai, Johannesburg, Mumbai and Rio de Janeiro? This book argues that gentrification is one of the most ... Read more

    $23.00 USD

  • Slumming It

    The Tourist Valorization of Urban Poverty

    by Fabian Frenzel ...
    Have slums become 'cool'? More and more tourists from across the globe seem to think so as they discover favelas, ghettos, townships and barrios on leisurely visits. But while slum tourism often evokes moral outrage, critics rarely ask about what motivates this tourism, or what wider consequences and effects it initiates. In this provocative book, Fabian Frenzel investigates the lure that slums ... Read more

    $97.99 USD

  • Urban World/Global City

    by David Clark ...
    This book identifies and accounts for the characteristics of the contemporary city and of urban society. It analyzes the distribution and growth of settlements and explores the social and behavioral characteristics of urban living. The latest theoretical and empirical developments and insights are synthesized and presented in an accessible and engaging way. This second edition has been extensively ... Read more

    $70.99 USD