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  • Cities and the Urban Land Premium

    by Gerard Marlet, Coen Teulings, Henri L.F. de Groot, Wouter Vermeulen ...
    After a long period of suburbanization, cities have been in vogue again since the 1980s. But why are people prepared to spend far more money on a small house in the city centre than on a large house in the countryside - and why doesn't this apply to all cities? The authors of this book argue that the appeal of the city in the 21st century is not only determined by the production side of the ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

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  • Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design

    by Charles Montgomery ...
    A globe-trotting, eye-opening exploration of how cities can—and do—make us happier peopleCharles Montgomery's Happy City will revolutionize the way we think about urban life.After decades of unchecked sprawl, more people than ever are moving back to the city. Dense urban living has been prescribed as a panacea for the environmental and resource crises of our time. But is it better or worse for our ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Metropolitan Revolution

    How Cities and Metros Are Fixing Our Broken Politics and Fragile Economy

    by Bruce Katz, Jennifer Bradley ...
    Across the US, cities and metropolitan areas are facing huge economic and competitive challenges that Washington won't, or can't, solve. The good news is that networks of metropolitan leaders mayors, business and labor leaders, educators, and philanthropists are stepping up and powering the nation forward. These state and local leaders are doing the hard work to grow more jobs and make their ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Building the Future

    Big Teaming for Audacious Innovation

    by Amy C Edmondson, Susan Salter Reynolds ...
    A case study of how an award-winning start-up used a large-scale collaboration to achieve a bold objective, and what it shows us about leadership.Machiavelli famously wrote, "There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things."That's what this book is about—innovation far ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • 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

  • Rethinking Place Branding

    Comprehensive Brand Development for Cities and Regions

    Edited by Mihalis Kavaratzis, Gary Warnaby, Gregory J. Ashworth ...
    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    As Place Branding has become a widely established but contested practice, there is a dire need to rethink its theoretical foundations and its contribution to development and to re-assert its future. This important new book advances understanding of place branding through its holistic, critical and evidence-based approach. Contributions by world-leading specialists explore a series of crucially ... Read more

    $152.09 USD

  • Small Business and the City

    The Transformative Potential of Small Scale Entrepreneurship

    by Rafael Gomez, Andre Isakov, Matthew Semansky ...
    In Small Business and the City, Rafael Gomez, Andre Isakov, and Matt Semansky highlight the power of small-scale entrepreneurship to transform local neighbourhoods and the cities they inhabit. Studying the factors which enable small businesses to survive and thrive, they highlight the success of a Canadian concept which has spread worldwide: the Business Improvement Area (BIA). BIAs allow small ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • Boomburbs

    The Rise of America's Accidental Cities

    by Robert E. Lang, Jennifer B. LeFurgy ...
    Series series Insights: Critical Thinking on International Affairs
    A glance at a list of America's fastest growing ""cities"" reveals quite a surprise: most are really overgrown suburbs. Places such as Anaheim, California, Coral Springs, Florida, Naperville, Illinois, North Las Vegas, Nevada, and Plano, Texas, have swelled to big-city size with few people really noticing-including many of their ten million residents. These ""boomburbs"" are large, rapidly growing ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • Fear, Space and Urban Planning

    A Critical Perspective from Southern Europe

    by Simone Tulumello ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book examines the phenomenon of urban fear – the increasing anxiety over crime and violence in Western cities despite their high safety – with a view to developing a comprehensive, critical, exploratory theory of fear, space, and urban planning that unravels the paradoxes of their mutual relations. By focusing especially on the southern European cities of Palermo and Lisbon, the book also ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Risk and Interdependencies in Critical Infrastructures

    A Guideline for Analysis

    Edited by Per Hokstad, Ingrid B. Utne, Jørn Vatn ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    Today’s society is completely dependent on critical networks such as water supply, sewage, electricity, ICT and transportation. Risk and vulnerability analyses are needed to grasp the impact of threats and hazards. However, these become quite complex as there are strong interdependencies both within and between infrastructure systems. Risk and Interdependencies in Critical Infrastructures: A ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Creative Industry Districts

    An Analysis of Dynamics, Networks and Implications on Creative Clusters in Shanghai

    by Jinliao He ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    Since the late 1990s, there have been broad discussions concerning the rapid rise of the creative economy. Creative or cultural industry is seen as the new engine of the regional growth for both developed economies and emerging nations. At the point of transition in economy and society, China is recently striving to transform its economy from “made in China” towards “created in China”. This book ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Global Geographies of the Internet

    by Barney Warf ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    Today, roughly 2 billion people use the internet, and its applications have flourished in number and importance. This volume will examine the growth and geography of the internet from a political economy perspective. Its central motivation is to illustrate that cyberspace does not exist in some aspatial void, but is deeply rooted in national and local political and cultural contexts. Toward that ... Read more

    $40.49 USD