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  • Infrastructural Times

    Temporality and the Making of Global Urban Worlds

    by Lauren Marino, Timothy Moss, Olivier Coutard, AbdouMaliq Simone, Peter Ekman, Seth Schindler, Juan Miguel Kanai, Dalia Wahdan, Tamer Elshayal, Simon Marvin, Jonathan Rutherford, Jessica DiCarlo, Samantha Biglieri, Roger Keil, Amelia Thorpe ...
    Whether waiting for the train or planning the future city, infrastructure orders—and depends on—multiple urban temporalities.This agenda-setting volume disrupts conventional notions of time through a robust examination of the relations between temporality, infrastructure, and urban society. Conceptually rich and empirically detailed, its interdisciplinary dialogue encompasses infrastructural ... Read more

    $37.79 USD

  • A Quiet Evolution

    The Emergence of Indigenous-Local Intergovernmental Partnerships in Canada

    by Christopher Alcantara, Jen Nelles ...
    Series series IPAC Series in Public Management and Governance
    Much of the coverage surrounding the relationship between Indigenous communities and the Crown in Canada has focused on the federal, provincial, and territorial governments. Yet it is at the local level where some of the most important and significant partnerships are being made between Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples.In A Quiet Evolution, Christopher Alcantara and Jen Nelles look closely at ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Discovering American Regionalism

    An Introduction to Regional Intergovernmental Organizations

    by Jen Nelles, David Miller ...
    Regions are difficult to govern – coordinating policies across local jurisdictional boundaries in the absence of a formal regional government gives rise to enormous challenges. Yet some degree of coordination is almost always essential for local governments to effectively fulfill their responsibilities to their citizens. State and local governments have, over time, awkwardly, and with much ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Comparative Metropolitan Policy

    Governing Beyond Local Boundaries in the Imagined Metropolis

    by Jen Nelles ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Comparative Politics
    How are metropolitan regions governed? What makes some regions more effective than others in managing policies that cross local jurisdictional boundaries? Political coordination among municipal governments is necessary to attract investment, rapid and efficient public transit systems, and to sustain cultural infrastructure in metropolitan regions. In this era of fragmented authority, local ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • Healthy Ageing

    Social, Behavioural and Design Innovations in Research

    by George McGinnis, Cate Pemble, Helen Manchester, Sarah Kettley, Lucy Gresley, Huw Vasey, Ruth Hunter, Merryn Thomas, Ryan Woolrych, Lorna Xuan Wang, Ailsa Forbes, Alison Bowes, Emma Richards, Andrea Tales, Wendy Loretto, Linda McKie, Tot Foster, Alice Willatt, Linda Clare, Joanne Connell, Stephen Page, Catherine Hagan Hennessy, Jen Nelles, Lauren Tuckerman, Nadeen Purna ...
    Available open access digitally under CC-BY licence.This book shares insights from the Healthy Ageing Challenge, bringing research, business, policy and practice together to create age-friendly homes, workplaces and communities.Spanning co-design with older people, business collaboration and innovations in design, work, housing, culture and health, it explores the real-world impact of ageing ... Read more

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  • Infrastructuring Urban Futures

    The Politics of Remaking Cities

    by Mimi Sheller, Nate Millington, Kafui Attoh, Meredith Whitten, Mark Usher, Michael Glass, Prince Guma, Andres Luque Ayala, Patrick Bigger, Jonathan Rutherford, Jen Nelles, Jean-Paul Addie ...
    EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.Focusing on material and social forms of infrastructure, this edited collection draws on rich empirical details from cities across the global North and South. The book asks the reader to think through the different ways in which infrastructure comes to be present in cities and its co-constitutive relationships with urban inhabitants and ... Read more

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  • The Age of Sustainability

    Just Transitions in a Complex World

    by Mark Swilling ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Sustainable Development
    With transitions to more sustainable ways of living already underway, this book examines how we understand the underlying dynamics of the transitions that are unfolding. Without this understanding, we enter the future in a state of informed bewilderment.Every day we are bombarded by reports about ecosystem breakdown, social conflict, economic stagnation and a crisis of identity. There is mounting ... Read more

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  • The Urban Planning Imagination

    A Critical International Introduction

    by Nicholas A. Phelps ...
    Urban planning is not just about applying a suite of systematic principles or plotting out pragmatic designs to satisfy the briefs of private developers or public bodies. Planning is also an activity of imagination, with a stock of wisdom and an array of useful methods for making decisions and getting things done.This critical introduction uncovers and celebrates this imagination and its creative ... Read more

    $20.00 USD

  • New Urban Worlds

    Inhabiting Dissonant Times

    by AbdouMaliq Simone, Edgar Pieterse ...
    It is well known that the world is transitioning to an irrevocable urban future whose epicentre has moved into the cities of Asia and Africa. What is less clear is how this will be managed and deployed as a multi-polar world system is being born. The full implications of this challenge cry out to be understood because city building (and retrofitting) cannot but be an undertaking entangled in ... Read more

    $21.00 USD

  • The SAGE Handbook of the 21st Century City

    Edited by Suzanne Hall, Ricky Burdett ...
    The SAGE Handbook of the 21st Century City focuses on the dynamics and disruptions of the contemporary city in relation to capricious processes of global urbanisation, mutation and resistance. An international range of scholars engage with emerging urban conditions and inequalities in experimental ways, speaking to new ideas of what constitutes the urban, highlighting empirical explorations and ... Read more

    $118.79 USD

  • City Futures

    Confronting the Crisis of Urban Development

    by Doctor Edgar Pieterse ...
    Cities are the future. In the past two decades, a global urban revolution has taken place, mainly in the South. The 'mega-cities' of the developing world are home to over 10 million people each and even smaller cities are experiencing unprecedented population surges. The problems surrounding this influx of people - slums, poverty, unemployment and lack of governance - have been well-documented ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • The Routledge Handbook on Spaces of Urban Politics

    Edited by Kevin Ward, Andrew E. G. Jonas, Byron Miller, David Wilson ...
    Series series Routledge International Handbooks
    The Routledge Handbook on Spaces of Urban Politics provides a comprehensive statement and reference point for urban politics. The scope of this handbook’s coverage and contributions engages with and reflects upon the most important, innovative and recent critical developments to the interdisciplinary field of urban politics, drawing upon a range of examples from within and across the Global North ... Read more

    $65.99 USD