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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “maria kapsali”
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  • Performer Training and Technology

    Preparing Our Selves

    by Maria Kapsali ...
    Series series Perspectives on Performer Training
    Performer Training and Technology employs philosophical approaches to technology, including postphenomenology and Heidegger’s thinking, to examine the way technology manifests, influences and becomes used in performer training discourse and practice.The book offers in-depth discussions of present and past performer training practices through a lens that has never been applied before; considers the ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Urban Strategies for Culture-Driven Growth

    Co-Creating a European Capital of Culture

    by Maria Kapsali, Malin H. Näsholm, Nils Wåhlin, Tomas Blomquist ...
    Over the past three decades, the European Capital of Culture has grown into one of the most ambitious cultural programs in the world. Through the promotion of cultural diversity across the continent, the program fosters mutual understanding and intercultural dialogue among citizens, thereby increasing their sense of belonging to a community. This insightful book outlines potential avenues through ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

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  • The Good Food Revolution

    Growing Healthy Food, People, and Communities

    by Will Allen ...
    A pioneering urban farmer and MacArthur “Genius Award” winner points the way to building a new food system that can feed—and heal—broken communities.The son of a sharecropper, Will Allen had no intention of ever becoming a farmer himself. But after years in professional basketball and as an executive for Kentucky Fried Chicken and Procter & Gamble, Allen cashed in his retirement fund for a two ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

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  • The Rise and Fall of Urban Economies

    Lessons from San Francisco and Los Angeles

    by Michael Storper, Thomas Kemeny, Naji Makarem, Taner Osman ...
    Series series Innovation and Technology in the World Economy
    Today, the Bay Area is home to the most successful knowledge economy in America, while Los Angeles has fallen progressively further behind its neighbor to the north and a number of other American metropolises. Yet, in 1970, experts would have predicted that L.A. would outpace San Francisco in population, income, economic power, and influence. The usual factors used to explain urban growth—luck, ... Read more

    $34.19 USD

  • Open Borders and International Migration Policy

    The Effects of Unrestricted Immigration in the United States, France, and Ireland

    by J. Fetzer ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    Although philosophers debate the morality of open borders, few social scientists have explored what would happen if immigration were no longer limited. This book looks at three examples of temporarily unrestricted migration in Miami, Marseille, and Dublin and finds that the effects were much less catastrophic than opponents of immigration claim. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Planning, Connecting, and Financing Cities — Now

    Priorities for City Leaders

    by The World Bank ...
    This report provides Mayors and other policymakers with a policy framework and diagnostic tools to anticipate and implement strategies that can avoid their cities from locking into irreversible physical and social structures. At the core of the policy framework are the three main dimensions of urban development. • Planning— where the focus is on making land transactions easier, and making land use ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Global Shipping in Small Nations

    Nordic Experiences after 1960

    Edited by S. Tenold, M. Jes Iversen, E. Lange ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This anthology aims to explain why some Nordic shipping companies became world leaders while others failed to respond effectively to the challenges and opportunities of globalization. The authors analyse political and institutional patterns alongside the various corporate responses to the many upheavals of global shipping. ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Cities and the Super-Rich

    Real Estate, Elite Practices and Urban Political Economies

    Edited by Ray Forrest, Sin Yee Koh, Bart Wissink ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    With the rise of wealth inequalities, our cities are changing dramatically. This collection critically engages with and advances existing debates on the super-rich and their roles in these transformations. An interdisciplinary range of contributions from international experts including sociologists, geographers, historians, discourse analysts, and urban studies specialists reveal crucial aspects ... Read more

    $116.09 USD

  • East Asia and Pacific Cities

    Expanding Opportunities for the Urban Poor

    Edited by Judy L. Baker, Gauri U. Gadgil ...
    Series series Urban Development
    Urbanization in East Asia and the Pacific has created enormous opportunity for many. Yet the rapid growth of cities can also create challenges as national and local governments try to keep up with the needs of their growing populations. Among these challenges is a lack of affordable housing, resulting in increasing slums, deficits in basic service provision, and widening inequality for urban ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • The Global Political Economy of the Environment and Tourism

    by G. Kütting ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book examines how local and global environment-society relations play out in coastal communities dependent on tourism for economic survival. It analyzes the consequences of social and economic policies on remote areas and makes a case for studying the role of environmental values in global environmental governance. ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Special Economic Zones in India

    Status, Issues and Potential

    by Arpita Mukherjee, Parthapratim Pal, Saubhik Deb, Subhobrota Ray, Tanu M Goyal ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This book examines India’s ten years of experience developing Special Economic Zones (SEZs) and the performance of SEZs in the context of India’s growing international engagement, its endeavours to attract domestic and foreign investment in manufacturing and services and its aim to increase and diversify exports of goods and services. SEZs are industrial enclaves/clusters within a country that ... Read more

    $116.09 USD

  • Co-design for a New East Asia After the Crisis

    Edited by H. Hirakawa, Y.-H. Kim ...
    East Asia enjoyed a role as a growth center of the world economy from the 1960s until the currency and economic crisis of 1997. In 1993, the World Bank issued a report entitled "The East Asian Miracle: Economic Growth and Public Policy," in which the bank expressed its admiration for the region 's rapid economic develop ment. However, within only four years the region had fallen prey to the ... Read more

    $89.99 USD